2010年5月25日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

NKorea cuts ties with South, raises war rhetoric (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 12:45 PM PDT

South Korean Navy patrol boats dropped anchors at a naval base in Incheon, South Korea, Tuesday, May 25, 2010. South Korea resumed propaganda broadcasts into North Korea in response to a deadly torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship, officials said Tuesday, amid a report that North Korea's leader ordered troops to be ready for combat.(AP Photo/Ha Sa-hun) ** KOREA OUT **AP - Relations on the divided Korean peninsula plunged to their lowest point in a decade Tuesday when the North declared it was cutting all ties to Seoul as punishment for blaming the communists for the sinking of a South Korean warship.

30 killed in gunbattles in Jamaican slums (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 04:24 PM PDT

This frame grab from video provided by APTN shows soldiers on guard in Kingston, Jamaica, Monday, May 24, 2010. Thousands of armed police and soldiers barged past barricades into the capital's most violent slums, clashing with defenders of a gang leader sought by the United States. At least 30 people have died, officials said. (AP Photo/APTN)AP - Thousands of police and soldiers stormed the Jamaican ghettos where reggae was born Tuesday in search of a reputed drug kingpin wanted by the United States, intensifying a third day of street battles that have killed at least 30 people.

Europe faces an era of government spending cuts (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 01:13 PM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II returns to Buckingham Palace in a carriage after attending the Houses of Parliament in London for the official State Opening of Parliament, Tuesday, May 25, 2010. Queen Elizabeth II has opened Parliament nearly 60 times, but she will have an unfamiliar task Tuesday as she sets out the legislative program of a coalition government, the country's first since World War II. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - Wearing her diamond-studded crown, Queen Elizabeth II arrived at Parliament in a gleaming horse-drawn carriage to deliver a message of austerity and making do with less in troubled economic times.

Bishop: 100 cases in 10 yrs for Italy priest abuse (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 02:40 PM PDT

AP - Italy's bishops' conference provided the first ever statistics of clerical sex abuse in the country Tuesday, saying there had been about 100 cases over the past 10 years that warranted church trials or other canonical procedures.

Polish priest seeks release in Brazil abuse case (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 04:48 PM PDT

In this photo taken May 21, 2010, priest Marcin Michal Strachanowski, left, from Poland, is escorted by a police officer at a police station in Rio de Janeiro, May 21, 2010. Rio's state prosecutors accused Strachanowski of handcuffing a 16-year-old former altar boy to a bed three years ago in the parish house where the priest lived and threatening to kill the youth if he spoke of the abuse. (AP Phhoto/Andre Luiz Mello, Agencia O Dia) BRAZIL OUT - NAO PUBLICAR NO BRASILAP - Lawyers for a Polish priest accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy in Brazil and maintaining an "erotic dungeon" in a parish house requested Tuesday that he be freed pending trial.

Queen Opens Parliament, and Reform Meets Royal Tradition (Time.com)

Posted: 25 May 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Time.com - With the opening of its first session, Britain's new Parliament proposed wide-ranging reforms meant to restore faith in government. But the symbolic ceremonies suggest change may not be easy

Watchdog raps Eurotunnel for advert weather claim (AFP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 04:27 PM PDT

An Eurostar train from London arrives at Paris Gare du Nord northbound railway station in 2009. Eurotunnel, which manages the tunnel link between Britain and France, was criticised Wednesday for an advert claiming its services ran in any weather, after delays caused by heavy snow last year.(AFP/File/Fred Dufour)AFP - Eurotunnel, which manages the tunnel link between Britain and France, was criticised Wednesday for an advert claiming its services ran in any weather, after delays caused by heavy snow last year.

Hezbollah says it will hit Israel ships in new war (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 02:03 PM PDT

AP - The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group warned Tuesday that his fighters would attack Israeli ships in the Mediterranean if the Jewish state imposes a sea blockade on Lebanon in any future war.

Peru judge paroles New York woman (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 04:09 PM PDT

Lori Berenson, left, from New York, is escorted by police officers as she arrives for an audience at a courthouse in Lima, Tuesday, May 25, 2010. A Peruvian judge granted house arrest to Berenson after 15 years in prison for aiding leftist rebels. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)AP - A judge granted parole Tuesday to Lori Berenson, a 40-year-old New York activist who has spent 15 years in Peruvian prisons for aiding leftist rebels.

UN agrees to pull UN peacekeeping force from Chad (AP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 03:36 PM PDT

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the students at the Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 21, 2010. Ban Ki-moon on Friday praised Turkey's contributions to world peace but encouraged it to be more active in solving its own conflicts with Armenia and Cyprus. Turkey said Monday it would not ratify a deal to normalize ties with Armenia until Armenian forces were withdrawn from the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave in Azerbaijan.(AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP - Chad's government succeeded Tuesday in forcing a 3,300-strong U.N. peacekeeping force operating in Chad and the Central African Republic to pull out by the end of this year.

US soldier beaten after reporting crimes: officials (AFP)

Posted: 25 May 2010 04:39 PM PDT

US soldiers walk through a field of poppies as they prepare to search a house for Taliban insurgents in the village of Biabanak in Kandahar province, some 400 kms south west of Kabul. A US soldier who blew the whistle on his comrades over possible drug use and the deaths of three civilians in southern Afghanistan suffered a severe beating in retaliation, officials said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)AFP - A US soldier who blew the whistle on his comrades over possible drug use and the deaths of three civilians in southern Afghanistan suffered a severe beating in retaliation, officials said Tuesday.

Canada home prices expected to drop, costs to rise (Reuters)

Posted: 25 May 2010 10:42 AM PDT

Reuters - Canadian home ownership costs are rising and affordability is eroding, while overvalued house prices are due for a correction in the coming year or two, a pair of reports by banks said on Tuesday.

Australia minister attacks 'creepy' Google in Web row (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 10:48 PM PDT

Australia's communications minister has called Google's privacy policy AFP - Australia's communications minister has called Google's privacy policy "a bit creepy" in personal attacks against the head of the company and fellow Web giant Facebook in an Internet filtering row.

Cheated, denied justice, Chinese farmer takes his life (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 25 May 2010 01:09 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - DENG ZHUANG, China — Peng Gonglin wasn't an important man. He lived in a bare concrete house in a small village where women stoop beside ponds to scrub clothes in buckets and the men often harvest crops by hand.

Colombia's Antanas Mockus Emerges in Tight Election Race (Time.com)

Posted: 25 May 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Time.com - With Uribe disallowed another term, the eccentric but popular mayor of BogotÁ is suddenly neck and neck with the establishment presidential candidate

In Liberia, A Village Comes Back to Life (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 25 May 2010 10:56 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - NYEWOLIHUN, May 25 (IRIN) - The inhabitants of Nyewolihun village in northern Liberia almost escaped the civil war unscathed, but as the conflict entered its final phase, their village was attacked.

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