2010年8月24日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

UN says 800,000 cut off by Pakistan floods (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:36 PM PDT

Pakistani flood-affected survivors stand in a queue to get relief food, at a makeshift camp, in Sukkur, on August 23. Pakistan faces a critical risk of yet more flooding in the next three days in its fertile southern plains, officials warned on Tuesday, as a major river threatened to burst its banks.(AFP/Asif Hassan)AP - Floods have isolated about 800,000 people in Pakistan who are now only reachable by air and aid workers need at least 40 more helicopters to ferry lifesaving aid to the increasingly desperate people, the United Nations said.

China's massive traffic jam could last for weeks (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:37 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Monday Aug. 23, 2010 and shot through a fence, trucks can be seen lining up on a highway in Wanquan county in north China's Hebei province The traffic jam that has stretched as long as 60 miles (100 kilometers) in northern China and continues into its tenth day on Tuesday stems from road construction in Beijing that won't be finished until the middle of next month, an official said. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - China has just been declared the world's second biggest economy, and now it has a monster traffic jam to match.

Experts spot smallest planet outside solar system (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:37 PM PDT

This artist’s impression made available by the European Southern Observatory Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, shows the remarkable planetary system around the Sun-like star HD 10180. Observations with the HARPS spectrograph, attached to ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla, Chile, have revealed the definite presence of five planets and evidence for two more in orbit around this star. This system is similar to the Solar System in terms of number of planets and the presence of a regular pattern in the sizes of the orbits. If confirmed the closest planet detected would be the lightest yet known outside the Solar System, with a mass that could be only about 1.4 times that of the Earth. (AP Photo/ESO, L. Calcada) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - Scientists say they've identified a sun-like star with as many as seven different planets — including one that might be the smallest ever found outside the solar system.

Jet misses runway and crashes in China, killing 43 (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:36 PM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, rescuers work at the site of a reported plane crash at an airport in northeast China's Heilongjiang province on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. According to Xinhua, the plane overshot the runway in Yichun city and burst into flames. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Guangfu) NO SALESAP - A Chinese passenger jet broke apart as it approached a fog-shrouded runway in the country's northeast and burst into flames as it hit the ground Tuesday, killing 43 people and injuring 53 others, state media said.

Argentine president moves to control newsprint (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:38 PM PDT

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez delivers a speech during a national address in Buenos Aires, Argentina Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Fernandez said leading newspapers, Clarin and La Nacion, used the newsprint company, Papel Prensa SA, to impose media monopolies on Argentina, stifling other viewpoints by refusing to sell paper at fair prices to competitors. (AP Photo/ Eduardo Di Baia)AP - Argentina's president moved Tuesday to take over the nation's only newsprint maker, saying two leading newspapers illegally conspired with dictators to control the company three decades ago and then used it to drive competing media out of business.

Are the French Taking Secularism Too Far? (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:30 PM PDT

Time.com - France's secularists are passionate about the separation of church and state -- but is their defense of laÏcitÉ turning into a state-sanctioned form of anti-Islam?

French synagogue receives death threats (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:37 PM PDT

This picture shows the AFP - A letter containing bullets and death threats to Jews was sent to a synagogue in a northern Paris suburb, where an infamous transit camp for Jews was set up during World War II, sources said.

Hezbollah, Sunni group clash in Beirut, killing 3 (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:11 PM PDT

A gunman carries an RPG during clashes between supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah and a Sunni conservative group in the mixed residential area of Bourj Abu Haidar near central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Lebanese Shiite and Sunni groups traded machine gun fire and grenades in Beirut on Tuesday, killing two people and wounding several others just blocks from a busy downtown packed with tourists at this time of year. (AP Photo)AP - Lebanese Shiite and Sunni groups fought street battles using machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades for more than four hours Tuesday, killing three people and wounding several others just blocks from a busy downtown packed with summer tourists.

Parents demand justice for Finn killed in Mexico (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 04:32 PM PDT

Raimo Jaakkola, father of human rights activist Jyri Jaakkola, from Finland, pauses during a press conference in Mexico City, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. On April 27, gunmen ambushed a caravan of rights observers and leftist political activists in Mexico's southern Oaxaca state, killing Finnish human rights worker Jyri Jaakkola. During the press conference, the parents of Jaakkola asked Mexico's President Felipe Calderon for help with the investigation of the murder and demanded justice for their son. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - The parents of a Finnish activist killed when a humanitarian caravan was ambushed in a remote Indian region of Mexico pleaded on Tuesday for justice in the case.

U.N.'s Ban sends top aide to Congo after mass rape (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:02 PM PDT

Reuters - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sent a top official to Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday after a mass rape of women by rebels in the east that U.N. peacekeepers say they only heard about over a week later.

China plane crashes after overshooting runway (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:42 PM PDT

Rescuers work at the site of a plane crash in Yichun, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province August 24, 2010 in this photo taken by mobile phone and distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency. REUTERS/Xinhua/Li GuangfuReuters - A passenger plane overshot a runway on landing at a new airport in northeast China late on Tuesday, bursting into flames and killing 43 people in the nation's worst air disaster in years.

BHP profit jump could dampen rivals in Potash bid (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:48 PM PDT

Reuters - BHP Billiton's monster earnings expected this week could strengthen its hand in its $39 billion bid for fertilizer group Potash Corp and intimidate any rival bidders.

Australia's "kingmakers" meet to discuss next govt (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:55 AM PDT

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks at a news conference in Melbourne August 22, 2010. REUTERS/Mick TsikasReuters - Three independent MPs who will decide the shape of Australia's minority government met on Tuesday to forge a united front, but ruled out any quick fix to a political impasse that has unsettled financial markets.

Task force: Military suicide prevention efforts inadequate (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:08 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A Defense Department task force devoted to preventing suicide in the military presented a grim picture of the trend Tuesday, with suicides rising at a near steady pace even as commanders apply various balms to soothe a stressed, exhausted fighting force.

Jimmy Carter's North Korea visit: Can he repeat Bill Clinton's success? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 10:20 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly poised to fly to North Korea on a rescue mission this week that carries what analysts see as tremendous diplomatic significance amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.

The Chilean Miners: How They Survived the First 17 Days (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:30 PM PDT

Time.com - Though the size of the shelter may have given the men a leg up, stretching emergency supplies that were intended to last just 48 to 96 hours is a feat credited entirely to the resourcefulness of the miners

Explorer-Journalist Franz Schurmann Dies (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:58 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 23 (New America Media) - Franz Schurmann, the foremost scholar of communist China during the Cold War, an early opponent of the U.S. war in Indochina, and the co-founder of Pacific News Service, died at his home in San Francisco on Aug. 20. The cause was advanced Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84.

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