2010年3月24日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News


Obama adds 54 alleged traffickers to kingpin list (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:11 PM PDT

Seized drugs and packages of marijuana and crystal meth are displayed during a presentation to the press in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, March 24, 2010.  According to the State Police working with the army, six suspects busted, allegedly related to the Arellano`s Felix drug cartel, were nabbed with guns and drugs.(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - President Barack Obama's administration named 54 alleged Mexican drug cartel lieutenants and enforcers as drug kingpins Wednesday under a law that allows the U.S. government to freeze their bank accounts and penalize their business associates.


Meeting of Shiite rivals in Iraq may signal shift (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 02:30 PM PDT

Supporters of Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki chant anti-Baathist slogans at a protest in Basra, Iraq, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Hundreds of residents protested outside the local government office demanding a manual recount of the elections. The banner in Arabic reads, 'Fraud of election's results demolishes the political process and democracy.'(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP - The Iraqi prime minister held talks with a radical Shiite group he once tried to destroy in bloody street battles, both sides said Wednesday, showing his willingness to put aside animosities with some of his fiercest enemies to ensure a second term in office after a divisive election.


'Netanyahu decided to spit into Obama's eye, this time from up close' (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 12:23 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 19, 2009 file photo, a Palestinian woman walks outside the Shepherd Hotel in East Jerusalem. The Jerusalem municipality has approved a new building plan for an east Jerusalem apartment complex that threatens to stir a new diplomatic crisis. The new project calls for tearing down the hotel and building 20 apartments plus a three-level underground parking lot instead. The Jerusalem municipality said Wednesday, March 24, 2010, that the final go ahead was given a week ago. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)AP - The Jerusalem municipality has approved 20 new apartments for Jews in an Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem, the city said Wednesday, in a move that could stir a new diplomatic crisis with the United States just as Israel's leader is in Washington on a fence-mending visit.


Ex-drug lords' property used by Haiti government (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 01:42 PM PDT

People pass by the former Gold Gym shopping,  which was expropriated by the Haitian government from a major cocaine trafficker and is now the new headquarters of the Provisional Electoral Council, in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. New cooperation between Haitian authorities and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration,  DEA,  before the earthquake has brought an unexpected yield to a country whose infrastructure is now in ruins: confiscated properties that are spacious, opulent and free.(AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)AP - Election workers scurry across the airy courtyard of their lavish new headquarters, a three-story building that hardly suffered a crack in Haiti's earthquake.


Runaway train cars crash in Norway, 3 dead (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 01:50 PM PDT

AP - Sixteen runaway train cars careened downhill for three miles (five kilometers) and crashed into a port building Wednesday, killing three workers, before two of the cars plunged into the water.

Greece, Germany Bailout: Merkel Balks at IMF-Aid Threat (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Time.com - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, says he will go to the IMF for emergency loans if the E.U. can't agree on a bailout for his country. But German Chancellor Angela Merkel seems prepared to call his bluff

Britain hits rich in pre-election budget (AFP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:53 PM PDT

Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling poses for pictures with a briefcase containing the 2010 Budget Report outside 11 Downing Street in London. Darling cut his borrowing and growth forecasts in a pre-election budget that he said would help secure the nation's recovery from a record recession.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - The British government vowed Wednesday to hike taxes on the rich to help the poor hit by the global downturn and cut borrowing targets in a budget unveiled weeks before a knife-edge election.


Several attacks foiled, 113 terror suspects arrested, Saudis say (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 11:23 AM PDT

Undated picture of the head of the al-Qaeda terror network, Osama bin Laden. American military forces still have the goal of bringing bin Laden to justice, the NATO commander in Afghanistan said on Wednesday, contradicting comments by the US attorney general.(AFP/File)AP - Saudi Arabia said Wednesday it has foiled several planned attacks on oil installations with the arrests of 113 suspected al-Qaida militants in a months-long sweep.


Salvadoran leader apologizes for bishop's killing (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:06 PM PDT

People carry posters with the image of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo  Romero while participating in a rally to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero's death , San Salvador Wednesday  March 24, 2010. Archbishop Romero was shot to death in 1980 by a sniper as he celebrated Mass in San Salvador after he had urged the Salvadoran military to halt death squads that had killed thousands of suspected guerrillas and leftist opponents of the government.(AP Photo/Luis Romero)AP - El Salvador's first leftist president publicly apologized on behalf of the state Wednesday for the assassination of a Roman Catholic archbishop 30 years ago at the outset of the country's civil war.


Libya releases 214 Islamic militants (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 02:26 PM PDT

AP - Libya has released 214 Islamic militants, including senior members of a group accused of plotting to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi, after they renounced violence.

Another US Internet company pulls back in China (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 05:20 PM PDT

AP - Two U.S. companies that sell Internet addresses to Web sites said Wednesday they had stopped registering new domain names in China because the Chinese government has begun demanding pictures and other identification documents from their customers.

Canadians fret about rising mortgage rates, prices (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 08:15 AM PDT

Reuters - More Canadians are looking to enter the housing market ahead of higher interest rates and home prices that are expected to arrive later this year, two surveys showed on Wednesday.

Aust. police face discipline over racist e-mail (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:38 PM PDT

AP - Up to 100 police officers in the Australian state of Victoria are under investigation over racist e-mails that have been circulated in the internal police e-mail system, a top official said Thursday.

Distrust lingers over U.S., Pakistan effort to expand relations (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 04:23 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The U.S. opened high-level talks Wednesday with Pakistan on expanding the two country's close but often stormy relations and winning Islamabad's help in extricating U.S. forces from the nearly nine-year-old war in neighboring Afghanistan.

European leaders spar over Greece bailout ahead of EU summit (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:31 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Greece debt crisis continues to bring out public and not always amicable efforts among European nations to compromise on a Greece bailout plan, ahead of what was to be a routine EU summit this Thursday â€" with Germany seeming to hold out on even discussing a crisis that other nations say could harm the euro.

Would U.S.-Led Sanctions Stop Iran's Nuclear Program? (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 03:00 PM PDT

Time.com - Obama Administration officials are promising Israel that they will "prevent" Iran from going nuclear, but the sanctions strategy may not deliver the desired outcome

Uganda: "Side dishes" Campaign Gets People Talking (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 10:12 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - KAMPALA/NAIROBI, 24 March 2010 (PlusNews) - A national campaign to encourage sexual fidelity in Uganda has achieved something few recent campaigns have ever done - got the country talking.
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