2010年8月27日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


NKorean leader's trip spurs succession speculation (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 12:20 PM PDT

A Chinese paramilitary police man gestures for a photographer to stop shooting pictures outside the Nan Hu hotel where North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is believed to be staying after he arrived at Changchun in northeastern China's Jilin province on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il was said to be traveling with his youngest son on a rare trip to China on Friday, re-igniting speculation the younger Kim will take over the reigns of the reclusive communist nation in coming years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il reportedly met top Chinese leaders on Friday in an apparent bid for Beijing's diplomatic and financial support for a succession plan involving his third and youngest son, who is said to be traveling with him.


Cuba embraces 2 surprising free-market reforms (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 04:18 PM PDT

A fruit vendor sits by his goods at a popular market in Havana, Cuba, Friday Aug. 27, 2010.  Cuba's official Gazette published Friday announced two decrees that loosen state controls on commerce, enough to let Cubans sell agricultural products from their homes, and allows foreign investors to lease government land for up to 99 years. They are key first steps of President Raul Castro's promise to reduce the communist state's control of the economy while attempting to generate new revenues for a government short on cash.  (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)AP - Cuba has issued a pair of surprising free-market decrees, allowing foreign investors to lease government land for up to 99 years — potentially touching off a golf-course building boom — and loosening state controls on commerce to let islanders grow and sell their own fruit and vegetables.


PR police arrest runaway Russian in homicide case (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 03:37 PM PDT

AP - A Russian man who walked out of a Puerto Rico courtroom before a judge could consider a negligent homicide charge against him has been detained at the airport.

Chilean family survives quake, faces mine collapse (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 11:27 AM PDT

Carola Narvaez, wife of Raul Bustos, one of 33 miners trapped in the collapsed San Jose mine, stands in a shelter for relatives outside the mine in Copiapo, Chile, Thursday Aug. 26, 2010.  Narvaez and her husband survived Chile's massive February earthquake. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Carola Narvaez breathed in the Atacama Desert's cold dawn air and slowly began to exhale the story of how her family survived a devastating earthquake and worked to rebuild their lives — only for her husband to end up trapped deep inside a Chilean mine.


Sudan leader defies arrest warrant, visits Kenya (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:26 PM PDT

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, left, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, second from left, Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, third from right, and Sudan President Omar Al Bashir, second from right, attend the signing into law of the new Kenyan constitution, at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. African leaders including indicted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir joined tens of thousands of Kenyans Friday as a new constitution was signed into law that institutes an American-style system of checks and balances on power. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)AP - Sudan's president defied an international arrest warrant by visiting Kenya on Friday, causing an outcry from the International Criminal Court which fruitlessly pressured authorities here into arresting the man accused of masterminding the genocide in Darfur.


Lebanon's Hizballah Museum: A Theme Park for Martyrdom (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:30 PM PDT

Time.com - The Shi'ite political party and guerrilla movement has built a $20 million wonderland to commemorate its battles and ambitions.

UN panel tells France to avoid mass Roma deportations (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 01:13 PM PDT

Roma Gypsies eat food received from volonteers at a new camp of Roma people after being resettled by an association a day after their deportation from another camp in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, northern France. The UN anti-racism panel on Friday called on France to avoid the collective expulsion of Roma Gypsies, but Paris dismissed its concerns and insisted its policy of repatriation was legal.(AFP/Philippe Huguen)AFP - The UN anti-racism panel on Friday called on France to avoid the collective expulsion of Roma Gypsies, but Paris dismissed its concerns and insisted its policy of repatriation was legal.


Moderate quake hits remote area in northeast Iran (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 01:58 PM PDT

AP - Iranian state TV says a magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook a remote area in northeastern Iran.

Kenya gets new American-style constitution (AP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:21 PM PDT

A young boy reacts as Kenyans watch the signing of the new constitution into law, at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010.  African leaders including indicted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir joined tens of thousands of Kenyans Friday as a new constitution was signed into law that institutes an American-style system of checks and balances on power. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)AP - Kenya's president signed a new constitution into law Friday that institutes a U.S.-style system of checks and balances and has been hailed as the most significant political event since Kenya's independence nearly a half century ago.


Carter brings American home from North Korea (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 04:18 PM PDT

Former US President Jimmy Carter (R) walks with Aijalon Mahli Gomes (L) at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. Former US president Jimmy Carter returned Friday to a hero's welcome after bringing home safely an American national sentenced to eight years hard labor in North Korea.(AFP/John Mottern)AFP - Former US president Jimmy Carter returned Friday to a hero's welcome as he brought home safely an American national sentenced to eight years hard labor in North Korea.


Ford recalls 575,000 Windstar vans in U.S., Canada (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 12:31 PM PDT

Reuters - Ford Motor Co> is recalling about 575,000 Windstar vans in 21 cold-weather U.S. states and Canada from model years 1998 to 2003 because of the possibility that the rear axle may fracture due to corrosion, federal regulators reported on Friday.

Canadian teacher arrested in Facebook child porn case (AFP)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:59 PM PDT

A police officer carries a computer seized during a raid on child porn. One of two Canadians arrested after police in Australia cracked an alleged pedophile porn ring operating on Facebook was a teacher at a prestigious school in Vancouver, police said Friday.(AFP/DDP/File/Kai-Uwe Knoth)AFP - One of two Canadians arrested after police in Australia cracked an alleged pedophile porn ring operating on Facebook was a teacher at a prestigious school in Vancouver, police said Friday.


What's behind Mexican migrant killings still unclear (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 03:40 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon on Friday accused the gunmen who killed 72 illegal migrants in northern Mexico this week of "incalculable savagery" as his government attempted to depict the major drug gang implicated in the slaughter as weakened and desperate.

Iraq road map: the new US ambassador explains hurdles (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 11:46 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Despite progress, Iraq still faces extraordinary problems with continued risks to US strategic interests as the county grapples with forming a new government, the new US ambassador said in his first public remarks since arriving here.

Secrets and Lies: Kim Jong Il's Shadowy Visit to China (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:30 PM PDT

Time.com - The international man of mystery boarded the midnight train from Pyongyang, headed (for reasons known only to him and his unforthcoming hosts) to China

How U.S. Fears Over Flood Play Into Pakistan Army's Hands (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 03:09 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 27 (New America Media) - Nothing sums up the plight of Pakistan like what happenedâ€"or did not happenâ€"at the Shahbaz military base in Jacobabad.
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