2010年7月3日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Congo: UN says at least 220 dead in oil explosion (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 12:41 PM PDT

Map locates Sange, Dem. Rep. Congo where a tanker carrying oil explodedAP - A tanker truck hauling fuel on a rural eastern Congo highway overturned, gushing oil and exploding in a massive fireball that killed about 220 bystanders, including many who had been watching the World Cup in flimsy roadside shacks, officials and witnesses said Saturday.

Gen. Petraeus: US civilian-military team must mesh (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 09:20 AM PDT

Gen. David Petraeus, the new commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, shows his U.S. Embassy ID card during the Independence Day celebrations Saturday, July 3, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Petraeus arrived Friday night to assume command of the troubled international military mission in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - America's top diplomat in Kabul jokingly handed NATO's new commander Gen. David Petraeus an access badge to the U.S. Embassy on Saturday, a symbolic gesture of a new partnership in the troubled U.S. management of the Afghan war.

Drug war fears cast pall across Mexican elections (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 09:56 AM PDT

A soldier, top left, stands guard inside the headquarters of the Tamaulipas state government in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, Friday July 2, 2010. Mexico will hold local elections Sunday after the assassination of a gubernatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre, the Institutional Revolutionary Party's candidate for governor of Tamaulipas state. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - A common theme haunts Sunday's state and local elections across Mexico: drugs.

Nigeria: 12 foreign sailors kidnapped by pirates (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 06:41 AM PDT

AP - Pirates kidnapped 12 foreign sailors off the coast of Nigeria's restive and oil-rich southern delta during an attack that left one crew member injured, a naval spokesman said Saturday.

VP Biden visits Iraq amid political impasse (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 01:57 PM PDT

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, and his wife, Jill Biden arrive in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 3, 2010. Vice President Joe Biden landed Saturday in Baghdad to coax Iraqi leaders into ending their government impasse as vying political factions remain deadlocked over which political bloc should pick its new leaders, including prime minister. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Vice President Joe Biden returned Saturday to Iraq to coax its government into picking a new prime minister, months after elections left the nascent democracy in a state of gridlock as the U.S. prepares to pull out its troops.

Israel: Doing the Math for Gilad Shalit's Freedom (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 04:50 PM PDT

Time.com - The flotilla fiasco may embody the Gaza debacle for non-Israelis but the heart of the crisis for the Jewish state is the continuing detention of one of its soldiers

Reprieved Capello ready to swing the axe (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Fabio Capello, who has been spared the chop as England manager despite his team's early exit from the World Cup, pictured here in June 2010, has indicated that the axe will fall instead on some of his most famous players.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Fabio Capello, who has been spared the chop as England manager despite his team's early exit from the World Cup, has indicated that the axe will fall instead on some of his most famous players.

Iran remembers victims of airliner shot down by US (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 09:23 AM PDT

An Iranian girl scatters flower into the Persian Gulf, Saturday, July 3, 2010, during a ceremony remembering the 290 passengers killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner 22 years ago. About 250 relatives of victims and officials sailed from the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday to the spot where the airliner was downed. The USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air A300 Airbus on July 3, 1988 shortly after it took off from Bandar Abbas for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.(AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Abdolhossein Rezvani)AP - Iranian helicopters scattered flowers into the Persian Gulf waters on Saturday as family members and relatives remembered the 290 passengers killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner 22 years ago.

Tour boat capsizes off Galapagos; Dane, 61, dies (AP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 03:00 PM PDT

AP - Ecuadorean officials say a tour boat has capsized off the Galapagos Islands, killing a Danish man on board.

Fuel tanker explosion kills over 230 in Congo (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 11:49 AM PDT

UN Peacekeepers and medics stand beside the bagged bodies of victims of an oil tanker explosion in Sange, Democratic Republic of Congo. A fuel truck exploded and set fire to a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing more than 230 people and injuring scores, officials and local residents said Saturday.(AFP)Reuters - At least 230 people were killed when a fuel tanker overturned and exploded in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, unleashing a fire ball that tore through homes and cinemas packed with people watching World Cup soccer.

Hole in one keeps Choi in front (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jul 2010 03:36 PM PDT

Na Yeon Choi of South Korea hits her tee shot on the eighth hole during the third round of the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic at Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania, Ohio. Choi had a hole-in-one on the eighth hole in her three-under 68 Saturday as she clung to a one-shot lead over late-charging American Christina Kim at the LPGA Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic.(AFP/Getty Images/Gregory Shamus)AFP - South Korea's Na Yeon Choi had a hole-in-one in her three-under 68 Saturday as she clung to a one-shot lead over late-charging American Christina Kim at the LPGA Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic.

New Australia PM says boatpeople next priority (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 11:38 PM PDT

New Australian leader Julia Gillard vowed Saturday to provide AFP - New Australian leader Julia Gillard vowed Saturday to provide "solutions not slogans" on the sensitive issue of boatpeople as she works to shore up her position ahead of looming elections.

General Petraeus takes command of the Afghanistan war (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 12:59 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - With the US-led Afghanistan war in its most precarious position since it began nearly nine years ago, Gen. David Petraeus arrived in Kabul today to implement a strategy similar to the one he successfully pioneered in Iraq.

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