2010年4月28日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News

Greek debt crisis shows Europe's clash of cultures (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 12:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 23, 2010 file photo, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou announces Greece's decision to request activation of a joint eurozone-International Monetary Fund financial rescue plan, from the main port of the remote southeast Greek Aegean island of Kastellorizo. (AP Photo/Tatiana Bolari) GREECE OUTAP - It's known as the cradle of Western civilization, but these days cash-starved Greece is viewed as more of a miscreant.

Thai authorities, protesters clash; 1 soldier dies (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 12:10 PM PDT

** CAPTION ADDITION TO CLARIFY THAT THE EVENT PICTURED WAS THE AFTERMATH OF THE FRIENDLY FIRE INCIDENT BETWEEN THAI TROOPS AND SECURITY FORCES ** A wounded Thai soldier, who later succumbed to his injuries and died, is carried on a stretcher after he and fellow soldiers on motorbikes approaching a security checkpoint were fired on by Thai security forces on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. The shooting appeared to be an accident, although some members of the security forces have been accused of siding with the protesters. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)AP - Thai troops fired rifles and threw tear gas at a crowd of anti-government protesters riding motorbikes down a busy expressway Wednesday, blocking their effort to take the demonstrations that have paralyzed central Bangkok into the suburbs.

2 dead in attack on rights caravan in south Mexico (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:56 PM PDT

A bullet-riddled vehicle is parked along a highway near the town of San Juan Copala, Mexico, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Mexican officials say a Finnish man and a local political activist were killed when their humanitarian caravan was ambushed in a remote, restive area of Oaxaca state. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Hernandez)AP - Gunmen ambushed a caravan of rights observers and leftist political activists in a remote, restive area of southern Mexico, killing a Finnish man and a Mexican woman, and dozens from the group remained missing, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Spain downgraded as Europe debt crisis widens (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 02:40 PM PDT

German Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, talk at the beginning of a meeting of the cabinet at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)AP - Europe's debt crisis spread its contagion to another country Wednesday when a major agency downgraded Spain's credit rating, even as Germany grudgingly moved closer to bailing out Greece from imminent collapse.

Hamas says Egypt kills 4 tunnel smugglers with gas (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 06:27 PM PDT

The bodies of Palestinian tunnel workers Muhammad Ali Abu Jamous, age 25, top left, Osama Abu Jamous Jamaan, age 20, bottom left, Nadal Jeda, age 25, bottom right, and Khaled Ramlawi, age 20, in the morgue in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Palestinian officials in Gaza say Egyptian forces have pumped gas into a cross-border smuggling tunnel, killing four Palestinians. A Hamas security official in charge of the tunnel area says the Egyptians filled the passage with gas Wednesday. Gaza doctor Hamdan Abu Latifa said the smugglers suffocated. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)AP - Egyptian forces pumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians, Hamas officials said.

What will it take to save Greece? (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:25 PM PDT

Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou delivers a speech during an economic conference in Athens April 28, 2010. Papandreou said the euro zone member state was ready to make the changes needed to emerge from its debt crisis. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)Time.com - With Greece's debt crisis spreading to other parts of Europe, economists warn that the $60 billion rescue package already isn't enough

UK campaign gaffe: Brown calls voter a bigot (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 06:27 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, wearing a Sky News microphone, speaks to local resident Gillian Duffy, 65, while campaigning for Britain's May 6 General Election in Rochdale, England, Wednesday April 28, 2010. Brown was caught on microphone describing a voter he had just spoken to - apparently Duffy - as a 'bigoted woman'. The comments were made as he got into his car, not realising that he had the microphone pinned to his jacket. He told an aide: 'That was a disaster - they should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? It's just ridiculous...' Asked what she had said, he replied: 'Everything, she was just a bigoted woman.'(AP Photo< Lewis Whyld-pa) **UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES: NO ARCHIVE:**AP - Britain's Prime Minister blundered into the first major gaffe in his country's short campaign season Wednesday when an open microphone captured him slamming a voter he'd just been trying to win over.

No fines now for Palestinian settlement workers (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 11:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2010 file photo Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, throws a package into a fire set up to burn products from Jewish settlements, in the West Bank town of Salfit. Palestinians who violate a new ban on working in Israeli settlements will be given time to find other employment before facing punishment, a top official said Tuesday, April 27, 2010, a sign of just of how hard it will be to enforce the ban in the job-poor West Bank. The law, which also prohibits the sale of Israeli settlement products in the West Bank, was signed this week by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh, File)AP - Palestinians who violate a ban by their government on working in Israeli settlements will be given time to find other employment before facing punishment, a senior official said Wednesday, reflecting the difficulty of enforcing the measure in the job-strapped West Bank.

Mexico acknowledges migrant abuse, pledges changes (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 05:04 PM PDT

AP - Amnesty International called the abuse of migrants in Mexico a major human rights crisis Wednesday, and accused some officials of turning a blind eye or even participating in the kidnapping, rape and murder of migrants.

World Cup hosts S.Africa back on winning trail (AFP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 01:45 PM PDT

World Cup hosts South Africa got back on the winning trail by defeating non-qualifers Jamaica 2-0 in a friendly at Kickers Offenbach Stadium. Veteran striker Surprise Moriri, pictured in action in 2008, punished sloppy defending off a cross to drive a low shot into the corner of the net on 51 minutes and set up Bafana Bafana (The Boys) for a first success in four international outings.(AFP/File/Joe Klamar)AFP - World Cup hosts South Africa got back on the winning trail by defeating non-qualifers Jamaica 2-0 in a friendly at Kickers Offenbach Stadium Wednesday.

South Korea bids final farewell to 46 navy sailors (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 06:21 PM PDT

An unidentified family member of a victim of the sunken South Korean naval ship Cheonan weeps during a memorial service for the deceased sailors held at the Second Fleet Command of Navy in Pyeongtaek in South Korea, Wednesday, April 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Korea Pool) ** KOREA OUT **AP - South Korea honored 46 sailors Thursday with a solemn military funeral a month after their warship sank near waters disputed with rival North Korea.

Pentagon issues downbeat assessment on Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 04:28 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Wednesday issued a downbeat assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, saying that only one in four Afghans in strategically important areas currently back President Hamid Karzai's government even as the Taliban expand their insurgency and install shadow local governments.

Mexicans slam Arizona immigration law, but how do they treat their migrants? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:50 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - As Mexicans decry the Arizona immigration law and launch boycotts of Arizona, Amnesty International released a scathing new report urging Mexicans to look in the mirror.

Arizona Immigration Law Angers Mexico, Felipe Calderon (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 03:25 PM PDT

Time.com - Most Mexicans agree that Arizona's tough new anti-immigration law will create an apartheid situation. But will the Mexican government do anything about it?

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