2010年6月1日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

Israel, Egypt ease Gaza blockade after deadly raid (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:59 PM PDT

Hamas security officers patrol on Gaza's seaport, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Palestinians in Gaza declared a general strike and a day of wrath following Israel's deadly naval raid on an aid flotilla bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP - Israel and Egypt signaled a temporary easing of the Gaza Strip blockade Tuesday following harsh international condemnation of the deadly Israeli raid on an aid flotilla en route to the sealed-off Palestinian territory.

Ties with Israel may outlast Turkish anger at raid (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 04:28 PM PDT

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his lawmakers at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, June 1, 2010, a day after Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday, killing nine passengers in a botched raid that provoked international outrage and a diplomatic crisis. Erdogan accused israel of using state terrorism.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship has ignited unprecedented anger in Turkey and driven the Jewish state's relations with its most important Muslim ally to their lowest point in six decades.

PM: Jamaica plans island-wide assault on gangs (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:53 PM PDT

Cedaine Morris waits as a soldier inspects her school bag at a military checkpoint in the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood, Kingston, Monday, May 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Jamaica will launch a sustained assault on gangs that control poor communities across the island and fuel one of the world's highest murder rates, the prime minister said Tuesday.

Cuba moving 7 political prisoners nearer homes (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:36 PM PDT

People sit as members of Ladies in White opposition group, mostly relatives of imprisoned dissidents, march after in Havana, Sunday, May 30, 2010. Nine days after Cuba's Roman Catholic Church announced an agreement with the government pledging improved conditions and medical care for the island's 200 political prisoners, dissidents interviewed by The Associated Press said Monday they had still not seen any change. (AP Photo/Frankiln Reyes)AP - Cuba has begun transferring some of the country's 200 political prisoners to jails closer to home, the first sign the government is making good on a deal with the Roman Catholic Church to improve conditions behind bars.

Agatha deaths rise to 179 in Central America (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:03 PM PDT

In this photo released by Guatemala's Presidency on Monday May 31, 2010, a sinkhole covers a street intersection in downtown Guatemala City, Monday May 31, 2010. A day earlier authorities blamed the heavy rains caused by tropical storm Agatha as the cause of the crater that swallowed a a three-story building but now say they will be conducting further studies to determine the cause. Last April 2007, another giant sinkhole in the same area killed 3 people.(AP Photo/Guatemala's Presidency, Luis Echeverria)AP - Villagers used hoes and pick axes to hunt for victims of landslides that have killed at least 179 people in Central America while officials in Guatemala's capital tried to cope with a vast sinkhole that swallowed a clothing factory.

A Surprising Consensus on Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 04:25 PM PDT

Time.com - Even though some expected a repeat of the acrimonious 2005 conference, the latest Non-Proliferation Treaty summit proved to be fruitful

BA holds fresh talks over cabin crew strikes (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 04:32 PM PDT

Demonstrators from the Unite Union protest in favour of striking British Airways cabin crew on the fifth day of a five-day strike, in London on May 28. Fresh talks between British Airways and unions over ongoing cabin crew strikes broke up late Tuesday without any indication of whether any progress had been made.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Fresh talks between British Airways and unions over ongoing cabin crew strikes broke up late Tuesday without any indication of whether any progress had been made.

American hit in anti-Israeli protest loses eye (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:56 PM PDT

A Palestinian woman reacts as she holds a cloth to the bleeding face of an American activist who was wounded during clashes with Israeli troops at the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, Monday, May 31, 2010. The clashes erupted during a protest against Israeli naval commandos on Monday storming a Gaza-bound flotilla of ships, that left at least 10 passengers dead, and dozens of activists and at least 10 Israeli soldiers wounded. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)AP - An American woman has lost her eye during a demonstration in Jerusalem against Israel's naval raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, a hospital official said Tuesday.

Brazil will oppose, but respect, Iran sanctions (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 02:59 PM PDT

Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim speaks on the terms of the agreement on the nuclear program between Brazil, Turkey and Iran, during a meeting of the Commission of External Relationships and National Defense of the Brazilian Senate in Brasilia, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Brazil's foreign minister said Tuesday that despite the nation's strong opposition to any new sanctions on Iran, it would respect them if they are approved.

Liberian president's son helps in NY drug probe (AP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 02:03 PM PDT

AP - The son of Liberia's president worked undercover with U.S. drug agents investigating a conspiracy to distribute more than $100 million in South American cocaine in Europe and Africa, authorities announced Tuesday.

US expects base deal upheld despite Japan political crisis (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 04:23 PM PDT

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama leaves the National Diet in Tokyo. The Pentagon said Tuesday it expects a recent accord that keeps a controversial US military base on Okinawa to be honored even if Hatoyama resigns.(AFP/JIJI PRESS)AFP - The Pentagon said Tuesday it expects a recent accord that keeps a controversial US military base on Okinawa to be honored even if Japan's unpopular Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns.

Bank of Canada first in G7 to hike rates (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 12:11 PM PDT

Reuters - The Bank of Canada raised its key interest rate on Tuesday, the first G7 industrialized economy to do so after the global recession, but said the European debt crisis made its next move highly unpredictable.

Man sets woman on fire in Australia (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:23 AM PDT

Police interview witnesses near the scene of a crime in Melbourne during rush-hour, in 2007. A woman has died from horrific burns after a man set her alight at an Australian petrol station, in a gruesome scene that prompted police to urge witnesses to seek counselling.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - A woman died from horrific burns after a man set her alight at an Australian petrol station on Tuesday, in a gruesome scene that prompted police to urge witnesses to seek counselling.

Israeli raid on aid flotilla traps U.S. between two close allies (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 04:15 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The U.S., hoping to avert an armed clash between two close allies, Israel and Turkey, and the collapse of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Tuesday urged caution on the international community as it endorsed a U.N. condemnation of "acts" that led to the deaths of nine international activists on an aid flotilla that was attempting to break Israel's blockade of Gaza.

Targeted by Israeli raid: Who is the IHH? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 03:23 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A Turkish charity known IHH has found itself at the center of an international controversy over a fatal Israeli raid on a Turkish ship carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Takeover of Turkish Aid Ship 'Marmara' Decried (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 04:25 PM PDT

Time.com - The public has gathered around the military, but the country finds itself in the brunt of both moral and political castigation on a global scale

Malawian Gay Couple Pardoned (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 02:57 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - JOHANNESBURG, May 31 (IPS) - Five months and a day after their arrest, the gay Malawian couple who dared to publicly declare their union with a traditional engagement party were pardoned by the president and released without conditions.

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