2010年5月6日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News

UK's top 2 parties locked in election standoff (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 08:28 PM PDT

The leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown, left, and his wife Sarah, right, are seen arriving to the count at Kirkcaldy, Scotland, in the early hours of Friday, May 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)AP - Britain's two main parties were locked in a power struggle Friday after an inconclusive election — with Labour's Gordon Brown suggesting he would try to form a coalition and Conservative leader David Cameron insisting the prime minister no longer had a mandate to govern.

China says Kim reaffirms nuke talks during visit (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 08:29 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 and released by China's Xinhua News Agency on Friday May 7, 2010, Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Lan Hongguang) ** NO SALES **AP - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reaffirmed the importance of nuclear disarmament talks during his visit to China this week, Chinese state media reported Friday, in Beijing's first official confirmation of the secretive but widely reported trip.

Iranians host dinner seeking to avert UN sanctions (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:23 PM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, confers with his foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, at a United Nations conference to review the workings of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Monday, May 3, 2010, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - Iran's foreign minister invited the United States and other members of the U.N. Security Council to dinner Thursday night, his nation's latest high-profile attempt to avert more economic sanctions over its nuclear program.

'Massive' ash cloud closing western Irish airports (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:04 PM PDT

A plume of ash rises from a volcano erupting under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, Hvolsvollur, Iceland, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. A new wave of dense volcanic ash from Iceland snarled air traffic Wednesday in Ireland and Scotland and threatened to spill into the air space of England. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti)AP - Iceland's volcano has produced a 1,000-mile-wide (1,600 kilometer-wide) ash cloud off the west coast of Ireland that will force western Irish airports to shut down again Friday, the Irish Aviation Authority announced.

Umaru Yar'Adua: Nigeria's Patient President Dies at 58 (Time.com)

Posted: 06 May 2010 05:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Upon his death on May 5, Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, 58, left a legacy of patient rule and realistic reform. Will acting President Goodluck Jonathan follow his predecessor's lead?

Britain votes 2010 - The Results Live (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 08:32 PM PDT

The front door of 10 Downing Street in London. Election Day has arrived. Election Day has arrived. Voters across Britain are heading to the polls Thursday in what is expected to be the closest election contest in decades.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - 0430: That's life, as they say. Veteran TV presenter Esther Rantzen has failed in her bid for election in Luton South. Rantzen, who stood as an independent on the issue of MP expenses won only 1872 votes. The Labour candidate won with a comfortable majority.

Sunni-backed party in Iraq warns of sectarianism (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 12:18 PM PDT

An Iraqi Army soldier inspects a destroyed house which was used by insurgents as a workshop to manufacture bombs, and was destroyed yesterday while they were preparing a bomb in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib suburb, Iraq, Thursday, May 6, 2010. The explosion killed two. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The Sunni-backed alliance that got the most votes in Iraq's election warned Thursday against the rise of sectarian politics after two religious Shiite blocs joined together to try to form a government.

Pentagon bans 4 Gitmo reporters for naming witness (AP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 07:49 PM PDT

AP - The Pentagon on Thursday barred four journalists from military commissions at Guantanamo Bay because they published the name of a witness after being told not to.

Albie Morkel inspires South Africa win over Kiwis (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 02:23 PM PDT

South African batsman Albie Morkel plays a shot against New Zealand during their ICC World Twenty20 Super Eight match in Bridgetown, Barbados. Morkel's quickfire 40 helped take South Africa to a 13 run win in their opening Super Eights match against New Zealand at the World Twenty20 here on Thursday.(AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - Albie Morkel's quickfire 40 helped take South Africa to a comfortable 13 run win in their opening Super Eights match against New Zealand at the World Twenty20 here on Thursday.

Myanmar democracy leader Suu Kyi's party dissolved (AFP)

Posted: 06 May 2010 08:33 PM PDT

Members of the Free Burma Coalition display a poster of detained Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest in Manila, capital of the Philippines. Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, has been dissolved under laws enacted for elections scheduled for this year, an official said Friday.(AFP/File/Ted Aljibe)AFP - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, has been dissolved under laws enacted for elections scheduled for this year, a government official said Friday.

Canada's ruling Conservatives extend lead - polls (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 08:39 AM PDT

Reuters - Canada's ruling Conservatives appear to be unaffected by a political scandal and have extended their lead over the main opposition Liberal Party, according to two polls released on Thursday.

Oops, wrong house: Workmen dig up trees, then flee (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2010 09:58 PM PDT

Peter Collard poses for a photo in his damaged yard in Brisbane, Australia Thursday, May 6, 2010. Two workmen who excavated the wrong front yard in Australia's eastern city of Brisbane fled after realizing their error, Collard said. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)AP - Two workmen used a backhoe to dig up grass, topsoil and 10 palm trees from an Australian front yard before realizing they were at the wrong address and fleeing, a homeowner said Thursday.

Pentagon bans McClatchy reporter from Guantanamo hearings (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 06 May 2010 05:59 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Thursday banned four reporters, including one from McClatchy Newspapers, from covering future military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, charging that they'd violated ground rules by publishing the name of a former Army interrogator who was a witness at a hearing there this week.

UK election results: Exit polls indicate Conservative win, but hung parliament (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:16 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Britain faces the prospect of days of political turmoil at a time of major economic challenges after UK election results, based on exit polls, suggested that no party will emerge with overall control of parliament.

Beyond Times Square: Pakistani Terrorism Targets U.S. (Time.com)

Posted: 06 May 2010 05:10 PM PDT

A surveillance photo captured in Times Square shows a Nissan Pathfinder sports utility vehicle (R) containing a bomb in this New York Police Department image released to Reuters on May 2, 2010. REUTERS/New York Police Department/HandoutTime.com - No longer satisfied with targeting India, Pakistan's extremist groups are taking direct aim at the U.S. and its allies

Training Young Mapuche Filmmakers in Chile (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 06 May 2010 05:09 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - SANTIAGO, May 6 (IPS) - "I want to film the few untouched natural resources we have left and show the injustices that have been committed against our communities," Claura Anchio, who took part in an innovative free filmmaking course for young Mapuche Indians in Chile, told IPS.

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