2010年4月18日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

Flood of aid reaches China's remote quake zone (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 05:23 PM PDT

An injured Tibetan woman is carried into a temporary hospital set to treat quake victims in earthquake-hit Yushu county in west China's Qinghai province, Sunday, April 18, 2010. Chinese President Hu Jintao flew to the remote, mountainous Tibetan region devastated by an earthquake as the flow of rescue supplies picked up pace Sunday. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Badly needed aid finally is arriving in a remote western China town shattered by an earthquake, including enough food and shelter for tens of thousands of suddenly homeless, though some complained it wasn't reaching everyone in need.

Armed Thai troops block Bangkok business district (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 05:54 PM PDT

A Thai soldier stands outside a go-go bar on Patpong Road Monday, April 19, 2010, in the business district of downtown Bangkok, Thailand. Thai troops armed with assault rifles have moved to block Bangkok's prime business district not far from thousands of anti-government protesters. The government already declared Silom Road, often called Bangkok's Wall Street, off-limits to the protesters who have occupied the main shopping district nearby for weeks. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)AP - Thai troops armed with assault rifles moved into positions early Monday to block Bangkok's prime business district from thousands of anti-government protesters who have threatened to enter.

European airlines test skies, press to end ban (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 05:17 PM PDT

The volcano in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier sends ash into the air Saturday, April 17, 2010. The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe land-bound is far from finished spitting out its grit, and offered up new mini-eruptions Saturday that raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti)AP - Major airlines that sent test flights into European air space found no damage Sunday from the volcanic ash that has paralyzed aviation over the continent, raising pressure on governments to ease restrictions that have thrown global travel and commerce into chaos.

Police: Boxer Valero suspected of killing wife (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 05:52 PM PDT

Venezuela's former lightweight boxing champion Edwin Valero, left, is escorted by a police officer to a police station in Valencia, some 150 kms (some 93 miles) west of Caracas, Sunday, April 18, 2010. Venezuelan police said they detained the suspended WBC lightweight champion Valero on suspicion of killing his 20-year-old wife Jennifer Vieira, whose body was found in a hotel in Valencia. (AP Photo/Edsau Olivares /Notitarde)AP - Former lightweight champion Edwin Valero was detained Sunday on suspicion of killing his wife, the gravest in a string of problems that have threatened to derail his career.

AP Exclusive: Taliban say buildup under way (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 05:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 15, 2010 file photo, U.S. soldiers arrive at the scene after a car bomb exploded outside a hotel in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. The Taliban are moving fighters into Kandahar, planting bombs and plotting attacks as NATO and Afghan forces prepare for a summer showdown with insurgents, according to a Taliban commander with close ties to senior insurgent leaders. NATO and Afghan forces are stepping up operations to push Taliban fighters out of the city, which was the Islamist movement's headquarters during the years it ruled most of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)AP - The Taliban are moving fighters into Kandahar, planting bombs and plotting attacks as NATO and Afghan forces prepare for a summer showdown with insurgents, according to a Taliban commander with close ties to senior insurgent leaders.

Thailand Tourism Devastated by Political Unrest (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 10:00 AM PDT

Time.com - The country's key foreign exchange earner faces massive losses as the battle between the authorities and protestors show no sign of abating

Goldman Sachs faces questions in Europe (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 05:21 PM PDT

As security looks on, people enter the Goldman Sachs headquarters in the Lower Manhattan area of New York, Friday, April 16, 2010. The government has accused Goldman Sachs & Co. of defrauding investors by failing to disclose conflicts of interest in mortgage investments it sold as the housing market was faltering. (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)AP - Goldman Sachs is facing a potential backlash in Europe over the fraud case brought against it in the United States, with Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling for authorities there to investigate and accusing the investment bank of "moral bankruptcy."

2 al-Qaida members killed in clash with Yemen army (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 01:44 PM PDT

A lone Yemeni man stands outside closed shops in the southern city of Daleh, 280 kms (170 miles) from Sanaa, on April 5. Eighteen people were killed and 120 wounded in south Yemen violence during the first quarter of 2010, according to a report presented to parliament on Saturday by the deputy interior minister.(AFP/File)AP - A security official in Yemen says soldiers killed two suspected members of al-Qaida wanted by police and arrested a third in an exchange of fire at a highway checkpoint near the country's Red Sea coast.

Hundreds bid Cuban cigar legend Robaina farewell (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 04:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2002 file photo, Cuba's tobacco producer Alejandro Robaina, 83, smokes near new tobacco plants in San Luis, near Pinar del Rio, Cuba. According to Cuban state television, Robaina died on Saturday, April 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia, File)AP - Hundreds of friends and relatives bid farewell to the godfather of Cuban tobacco, who was buried Sunday in a casket adorned with a half-smoked cigar bearing his name and a yellow tobacco flower.

Two Germans kidnapped in southeastern Nigeria: source (AFP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 02:57 PM PDT

Port Harcourt in River State, the commercial capital of the Niger Delta. Two German men, aged 45 and 55, were kidnapped Sunday from a beach in Nigeria's oil-producing southeast, a security source said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Two German men, aged 45 and 55, were kidnapped Sunday from a beach in Nigeria's oil-producing southeast, a security source said.

Embattled Japan PM's support rate slips further (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 05:17 PM PDT

Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama deplanes as he arrives in advance of his participation in the nuclear security summit in Washington, called by President Barack Obama, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, April 12, 2010. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - Only a quarter of voters support Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's government, a newspaper poll showed on Monday, as his troubles mount before a mid-year election his party must win to avoid policy deadlock.

Cookbook pulped over 'ground black people' typo (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 08:54 PM PDT

AP - An Australian publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks over a recipe for pasta with "salt and freshly ground black people."

As Iceland volcano ash lingers over Europe, stranded travelers' patience wanes (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 10:08 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The massive, meandering clouds of ash from last week's Iceland volcano continued to blanket wide swaths of Europe's air space for a fourth day Sunday, bringing the total number of flights canceled since Thursday to well over 63,000.

Pakistan's Military Holds Back in North Waziristan (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 10:00 AM PDT

Time.com - Islamabad's forces aren't pursuing the Taliban in North Waziristan, despite American pleas, because it says it is heeding the lessons of Iraq

All Eyes on Cochabamba Climate Meet (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 07:04 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - BONN, Apr 16 (IPS) - International negotiations towards a new regime on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, responsible for global warming, are as deadlocked today as they were last December at the Copenhagen climate summit.

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