2010年7月1日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News

35 die in bomb blasts at Pakistan shrine (AP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 04:32 PM PDT

Family members of victims comfort each others after suicide bombers attacked a popular Muslim shrine in the Pakistan city of Lahore late Thursday night July 1, 2010, killing more than 30 people and wounding 175 others, the city's top official said. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)AP - Two suicide bombers struck a popular Muslim shrine in Pakistan's second largest city late Thursday night, killing 35 people and wounding 175 others in the second major attack in Lahore in a month, the city's top official said.

Cyprus hunts for alleged Russian spy paymaster (AP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 03:53 PM PDT

Undated handout photo released from the Cyprus police on Thursday, July 1, 2010, showing alleged Russian spy Christopher Robert Metsos, 54, who they are looking for after he skipped bail and vanished. Metsos, who identified himself as a Canadian citizen, is wanted in the US on charges that he supplied money to a spy ring that authorities say operated under deep cover in America's suburbs. Metsos was arrested Tuesday in Cyprus as he tried to board a flight for Budapest, Hungary, but a Cypriot judge freed him on euro27,000 (US$33,000) bail, and he has now gone missing but is thought to still be on the Mediterranean island. (AP Photo/Cyprus Police, HO)AP - Russian money and influence have long made a splash on this Mediterranean resort island where a suspected spy paymaster vanished after being allowed to walk free on bail.

Remnants of Alex drench northern Mexico, 2 die (AP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 02:47 PM PDT

A man works in front of a damaged house after Hurricane Alex hit the area in what is known as Playa Bagdad, about 22 miles (37 km.) east of Matamoros, northeastern Mexico, on the border with Texas,Thursday, July 1, 2010. Hurricane Alex ripped off roofs, caused severe flooding and forced thousands of people to flee coastal fishing villages.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - The sprawling remains of Hurricane Alex drenched much of northern Mexico on Thursday, paralyzing the major city of Monterrey. At least two people were killed when dry rivers roared to life and highways turned into rushing streams.

Naomi Campbell subpoenaed in war crimes case (AP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 01:16 PM PDT

File - In this Thursday, May 20, 2010 file photo, British model Naomi Campbell arrives for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit, during the 63rd Cannes international film festival, in Cap d'Antibes, southern France. Supermodel Naomi Campbell, who has been avoiding international prosecutors for the past year, will be forced to appear on the witness stand in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. In a ruling published Thursday, July 1, 2010, judges of the Special Court for Sierra Leone ordered a subpoena served on Campbell and if necessary to enlist the help of law enforcement agencies wherever she is found to make sure she gets to court. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)AP - An international court Thursday subpoenaed reluctant supermodel Naomi Campbell to testify this month in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor about a rough diamond Taylor allegedly gave her in 1997.

NATO intensifies attacks on Taliban leaders (AP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 12:45 PM PDT

Newly appointed U.S. and NATO forces commander in Afghanistan U.S. Army General David Petraeus speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday, July 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)AP - U.S. and Afghan troops seized a key Taliban figure after a four-hour gunbattle — part of a strategy that NATO officials said Thursday had eliminated more than 100 insurgent leaders in the past four months.

On the Ground: The Taliban's Changing, and Deadly, Tactics (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Time.com - TIME's Jason Motlagh reports alongside U.S. Marines as they deal with enemy guerrillas who continue to adjust to shifts in American strategy

Mideast envoy Blair eyes Gaza supplies deal (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 03:48 PM PDT

Israel will likely agree in the coming days to develop the range of supplies flowing into the blockaded Gaza strip, the special envoy for Middle East peace Tony Blair, pictured in May 2010, said on Thursday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AFP - Israel will likely agree in the coming days to develop the range of supplies flowing into the blockaded Gaza strip, the special envoy for Middle East peace Tony Blair said on Thursday.

Iraq: Key figures since the war began (AP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 01:00 PM PDT

AP - October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.

Guatemalan gov't warns of conspiracy against it (AP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 04:04 PM PDT

AP - Guatemala's government says opponents are conspiring against it and could be preparing to oust President Alvaro Colom.

Iran leader to visit Nigeria as it takes UN post (AP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 04:28 PM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to the media as he sits at the start of his press conference at the presidency, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 28, 2010. Ahmadinejad said Iran will postpone any talks with the West over its nuclear program until late August to 'punish' world powers for imposing tougher sanctions against Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Nigeria this weekend as the West African nation assumes the rotating presidency of the United Nations' security council, an Iranian diplomat said Thursday.

Australia strikes deal with miners on super tax: PM (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 04:16 PM PDT

New Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, pictured in June 2010, on Friday announced a compromise deal with major mining companies over a 40 percent super tax on resource profits that helped topple her predecessor.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - New Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Friday announced a compromise deal with major mining companies over a 40 percent super tax on resource profits that helped topple her predecessor.

Teachers rejects Maple Leaf Foods rights plan (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 02:03 PM PDT

Reuters - Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, the largest stakeholder of Maple Leaf Foods, said on Wednesday it would oppose the Canadian food processor's adoption of a shareholder rights plan, used by companies to protect against takeovers.

ICC asks Australia to drop Howard as candidate (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 05:12 AM PDT

Sharad Pawar, newly elected president of the International Cricket Council, speaks to the media in Singapore. The International Cricket Council Thursday urged Australia to find another candidate for its presidency, as former premier John Howard vowed to fight on after his bid to lead the sport was rejected.(AFP/Roslan Rahman)AFP - The International Cricket Council Thursday urged Australia to find another candidate for its presidency, as former premier John Howard vowed to fight on after his bid to lead the sport was rejected.

L'Oréal trial: heiress Bettencourt's tax shelters, gifts alienate belt-tightening French (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 01:15 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - French celebrity scandals like the one now enveloping Liliane Bettencourt, heir of the L’Oréal fortune and the world’s third-richest woman â€" are typically arcane soap operas of power, family, politics, sex, and money. Even by the standards of France, though, the Bettencourt affair is maxing the genre.

Spy Ring: Why Moscow Admit the Suspects Were Russian? (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Jul 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Sketch shows five of the 10 detained alleged spy suspects in a New York courtroom on June 28. A suspect in the Russia spy saga cracked after his arrest, confessing he was a Russian agent and pledging greater loyalty to the Kremlin than to his own son, US prosecutors said Thursday.(AFP/File/Shirley Shepard)Time.com - When U.S. authorities arrested 10 people accused of spying for Russia, Moscow denied any knowledge of them. But now Russia is claiming the suspects as its own

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