2010年8月22日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

Joy in Chile: 33 miners trapped 17 days are alive (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:23 PM PDT

** ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XRC105 ** Chile's President Sebastian Pinera holds up a plastic bag containing a message, from miners trapped in a collapsed mine, that reads in Spanish 'We are ok in the refuge, the 33 miners' in Copiapo, Chile, Sunday Aug. 22, 2010. The miners have been trapped below the surface of the mine since the main access collapsed on Aug. 5 due to tons of falling rock. (AP Photo/Hector Retamal)AP - Chile's president euphorically waved the note, written deep inside a collapsed mine, that his country waited 17 agonizing days to see: "All 33 of us are fine in the shelter," one of the trapped miners wrote in red letters.

Wyclef Jean: I'm not giving up my bid for prez yet (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 03:27 PM PDT

** CORRECTS SPELLING OF WYCLEF ** Haitian-born singer and presidential candidate Wyclef Jean, second left, walks surrounded by security after Haiti's Electoral Council rejected his candidacy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. The council's spokesman Richard Dumel announced Friday that it has accepted 19 candidacies and has rejected 15 others for the upcoming Nov. 28 presidential election, including Jean's because he did not meet the residency requirement of having lived in Haiti for five years before election. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - Hip-hop singer Wyclef Jean said Sunday he is not abandoning his presidential bid just yet and will try to get the courts to overturn a decision disqualifying him from the race.

Faulty alarms blamed for van Gogh theft in Egypt (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 03:02 PM PDT

An Egyptian policeman guards the main gate of the Mahmud Khalil Modern Art Museum, main building is seen at the background, in Cairo, Egypt Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. Egypt's culture minister on Saturday retracted his claim that police had recovered a van Gogh painting stolen from a Cairo museum, saying it was based on inaccurate information and that the search for the canvas continues. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - None of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras were working at a Cairo museum where a Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen, Egypt's top prosecutor said Sunday.

4 US troops killed in eastern Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 01:43 PM PDT

An Afghan policeman stands guard on a military vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Four U.S. troops were killed in fighting in eastern and southern Afghanistan on Sunday, and a former guerrilla leader who battled Soviet invaders decades ago was killed by a roadside bomb in the country's north.

Brazil: Venture Capital's New Hot Spot (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 11:25 AM PDT

Time.com - Brazil: Venture Capital's New Hot Spot

Most prefer French left to Sarkozy for 2012: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 12:19 PM PDT

Reuters - More than half of France's voters would prefer a candidate from the political left to conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy for the 2012 election, a survey said on Sunday.

Iraq acknowledges Briton's killer escaped (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:09 PM PDT

U.S. Army soldiers with Company F, AP - Iraq's deputy justice minister acknowledged Sunday that a man convicted of killing a British aid worker in 2004 escaped from prison 11 months ago and that the government only learned of the breakout last month.

Mexican Catholics, gay rights protesters face off (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 04:51 PM PDT

AP - Gay rights activists and a group of Roman Catholics in Mexico have yelled insults at each other during dueling demonstrations over same-sex marriage.

Kigali -- from sleepy backwater to Africa's Singapore (AFP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 03:42 PM PDT

People on motorcycles ride past a poster for Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Timichanga road in Kigali on August 7. Rwanda's capital is changing from a sleepy backwater where most things closed at 9:00 pm to a future Singapore with gleaming office blocks and all-night shopping.(AFP/File/Simon Maina)AFP - Rwanda's capital is changing from a sleepy backwater where most things closed at 9:00 pm to a future Singapore with gleaming office blocks and all-night shopping.

Next US target: The birthplace of the Taliban (AP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 05:09 PM PDT

Afghan Army soldiers, pictured at Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, operated jointly by the Afghan Army's 1st Battalion of the 3rd Brigade and the U.S. Army 2- 502 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. The 101st Airborne's 2-502 and their Afghan Army partners operate in a district which, as the birthplace of the Taliban movement, continues to hold many well-armed fighters, and a support network which provides the fighters with improvised explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - As Lt. Col. Peter N. Benchoff prepares for an assault next month into the birthplace of the Taliban, he doesn't sugarcoat the hurdles his troops face in this crucial swath of southern Afghanistan.

Australian dollar falls 0.44 percent after unclear polls (AFP)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 04:15 PM PDT

The Australian dollar fell 0.44 percent in early trade on Monday on political uncertainty after weekend elections failed to produce a clear winner.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - The Australian dollar fell 0.44 percent in early trade on Monday on political uncertainty after weekend elections failed to produce a clear winner.

As floodwaters recede, anger grows in northwest Pakistan (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 12:29 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - CHARSADDA, Pakistan — In the village of Drab Korona in northwest Pakistan, Sirajuddin returned to where his house had stood to salvage what he could. What he found was just a shallow muddy pool.

Israel's Netanyahu scores big victory with direct peace talks – for now (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 09:52 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Savoring the diplomatic victory of renewed direct peace talks announced last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet today that a peace treaty with the Palestinians would be "a difficult thing, but it is possible."

Israeli-Palestinian Talks Face a Big "So What?" (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Aug 2010 10:20 AM PDT

Time.com - Wide, long and not very satisfying was the yawn that greeted news that Israel and the Palestinian Authority will resume direct peace talks in Washington next month.

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