2010年7月2日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

USAID compound attacked in Afghanistan; 4 killed (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 11:26 AM PDT

File photo shows Afghan police preparing to go on patrol in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Suspected Taliban militants stormed the compound of a US aid organisation in Afghanistan Friday, killing three people including at least one foreigner, a senior Afghan official said.(AFP/File/Michael Kappeler)AP - Taliban suicide attackers stormed a four-story house used by an American aid organization in north Afghanistan on Friday, killing four people before dying in a fierce, five-hour gunbattle with Afghan security forces.

Cyprus official: Russian spy has fled island (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 12:38 PM PDT

Cyprus justice minister Lucas Louca is seen at his office before an interview in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, July 2, 2010. Louca said in an interview with the Associated Press that it is unlikely that 54-year-old Christopher Metsos will be caught in Cyprus because, Louca believes, he is no longer on the eastern Mediterranean island. Metsos is wanted in the United States on charges that he supplied money to a spy ring that allegedly operated under deep cover in America's suburbs. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)AP - After eluding a dragnet extending from airports to yacht marinas, the suspected paymaster for a Russian spy ring nabbed in America has likely fled this Mediterranean resort island, the Cypriot justice minister said on Friday.

Mexican murder suspect: US consulate infiltrated (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:23 PM PDT

Jesus Ernesto Chavez, known as 'El Camello' stands as he is guarded by federal police officers during a presentation to the press, in Mexico City, Friday, July 2, 2010. According to the federal police Chavez ordered the March 13 attack that killed a U.S. consulate employee and her husband as they drove in the violent border city. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)AP - The drug-cartel enforcer told an unsettling story: A woman who worked in the Mexican border's biggest U.S. consulate had helped a rival gang obtain American visas. And for that, the enforcer said, he ordered her killed.

Guinea election to go to second round (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:24 PM PDT

AP - Electoral officials in junta-ruled Guinea announced late Friday that a runoff vote would be needed to determine who wins the mineral-rich West African nation's first free election since independence.

Chavez: Detained Salvadoran wanted in Cuba (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:21 PM PDT

AP - A Salvadoran man wanted by Cuba as a suspect in a series of bombings was arrested carrying a false passport at Caracas' airport, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday.

Britain's Referendum on Voting Method: No More Coalition? (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:25 PM PDT

Time.com - Less than two months into Britain's coalition government, it seems the Liberal Democrats are getting their way: next year the nation will hold a referendum on its voting system. But no matter which option Britons choose, it's the government that loses

Put on at the Ritz: Brit conman convicted of scam (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 05:15 PM PDT

Undated North Yorkshire Police handout photo of Anthony Lee, 49, who faces a substantial jail sentence after being convicted Friday July 2 2010 of an ambitious scam to sell London's Ritz hotel for 250 million pounds ($380 million). Jobless truck driver Lee was at the heart of a con based on 'one great big lie', convincing potential buyer Terence Collins that he was a 'close friend and associate' of the reclusive billionaire Barclay brothers, owners of the prestigious hotel in Piccadilly, Southwark Crown Court in central London heard. (AP Photo/North Yorkshire Police via PA)AP - An unemployed British truck driver was convicted Friday of trying to sell the world famous Ritz Hotel for 250 million pounds ($380 million) to a duped investor.

US military: 2 American soldiers die in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 02:13 AM PDT

Oil clean-up workers pick up oily globs as they remove residue washing ashore in Pascagoula, Mississippi. A supertanker began skimming oil in the Gulf of Mexico Friday as the disaster became the worst accidental spill on record, surpassed only by the deliberate release by Iraqi troops during the 1991 Gulf War.(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)AP - The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in Iraq.

6 dead in Mexico in floods caused by Alex (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:56 PM PDT

AP - Authorities say the death toll in Mexico from flooding caused by former Hurricane Alex has risen to six.

Kenya outraged over parliament's $175K pay vote (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:58 PM PDT

Charles Nzioka, 38, stands outside Parliament trying to sell small food items to passers-by in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, July 2, 2010. Nzioka and many Kenyans are angry over a pay proposal by parliament to give members a pay package worth nearly $175,000, compensation decried as overly exorbitant in a country where day laborers earn $40 a month. The packages include pay for housing, entertainment expenses, transportation, a constituency allowance and an extraneous allowance. The politicians will even be paid for attending parliament meetings. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi).AP - Kenyans expressed outrage Friday after members of parliament this week recommended giving themselves a $175,000 annual pay package, compensation decried as overly exorbitant in a country where farm workers earn only $40 a month.

GOP chairman: Afghan 'war of Obama's choosing' (AP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele speaks at the Rhode Island Republican Party Convention on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 in Cranston, R.I. (AP Photo/Joe Giblin)AP - Republican chairman Michael Steele drew criticism from within his own party Friday, including calls to resign, after saying the 9-year-old commitment of U.S. troops to Afghanistan was a mistaken "war of Obama's choosing."

Canadians upbeat on economy but edgy on finances: RBC (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 03:49 AM PDT

Reuters - Canadians became slightly more positive about the economy in June, but were worried about personal savings and rising interest rates, a consumer confidence survey released by Royal Bank of Canada on Friday showed.

Australia strikes compromise tax deal with miners (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 07:26 AM PDT

Reuters - Australia ended a damaging dispute with global miners on Friday by dumping its planned "super profits" tax for a lower resources rent tax backed by big miners, clearing a major hurdle to calling an early election.

Government loses appeal in Guantanamo habeas case (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:22 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — An appeals court put government prosecutors on notice that they must show evidence that an Algerian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for more than eight years is actually "part of" al Qaida, or set him free.

Attack on Lahore shrine raises concern about sectarian violence in Pakistan (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 11:02 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Thousands of Pakistanis took to the streets on Friday demanding better security for places of worship and a crackdown on extremists following a twin-suicide bomb attack at the country’s most famous Sufi shrine that has raised concerns about an increasingly sectarian cast to the country's violence.

Sentenced to Serving the Good Life in Norway (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:25 PM PDT

Time.com - Sentenced to Serving the Good Life in Norway

New Somaliland President Sets Sights on Corruption (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 08:18 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - HARGEISA, Jul 2 (IRIN) - Opposition leader Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud “Siilanyo” of the Peace, Unity and Development Party (Kulmiye), has been elected president of the self-declared republic of Somaliland, after he won just under 50 percent of votes cast on 26 June, in the first democratic handover in the Horn of Africa. He will be inaugurated next month.

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