2010年9月15日星期三

Yahoo! News: World News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World News

Oman in rare spotlight after bail deal with Iran (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 02:04 PM PDT

** RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP OF CAI103 ** Sarah Shourd, 32, of the U.S., right, embraces her mother Nora Shourd, left, on Sarah Shourd's arrival at the royal airport in Muscat, Oman, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, after leaving Tehran, Iran. The American woman released by Iran on Tuesday after more than a year in prison said she was grateful to Iran's president for her freedom shortly before she boarded a flight to the Gulf sultanate of Oman where her mother greeted her with a warm embrace. (AP Photo/Sultan al-Hasani)AP - Oman's royal leaders have long preferred the understated approach: No high-rises like their Gulf neighbors and policies that quietly balance close ties with both Washington and Tehran.

Tropical storm Karl hits Mexico's Yucatan (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 02:41 PM PDT

Fishermen try to secure their boats as tropical storm Karl arrives in the town of Mahahual, southern Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Karl is expected to quickly weaken into a tropical depression as it slogs across the flat peninsula before heading back out over the Gulf of Mexico, where it could turn into a hurricane by the end of the week and threaten the central Mexican coast. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)AP - A strong Tropical Storm Karl made landfall on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday, hitting a sparsely populated stretch of Caribbean coast, while two powerful hurricanes roared further out in the Atlantic.

France hits back at criticism on Gypsy roundups (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 03:17 PM PDT

Romanian Roma women look at journalists after they and more than 200 others arrived on two special flights from France, in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010. France's deportations of Gypsies are 'a disgrace' and probably break EU law, the European Union's executive body declared Tuesday in a stinging rebuke that set up a showdown with French President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy's government fired back Wednesday at European Commission criticism of France's crackdown on Gypsies, or Roma, saying some of the complaints are unacceptable.

DomRep probes 16 baby deaths at public hospital (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 02:44 PM PDT

AP - Health officials are investigating the recent deaths of 16 newborns in the capital's largest maternity hospital, hinting that unhygienic conditions are to blame.

US forces advance in Taliban green belt stronghold (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 10:14 AM PDT

Map locates the Zhari District in the Kandahar province in AfghanistanAP - U.S. Army Capt. Brant Auge swept his hand across a satellite map of southern Afghanistan and pointed to a dark band of river-fed vineyards, pomegranate groves and marijuana fields arcing through an otherwise barren valley.

Amid a Drug War, Mexico Marks a Muted Bicentennial (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 04:40 PM PDT

Time.com - Transformation seems to come in hundred year increments for the country. The narco crisis may signal much-needed reforms to enhance the rule of law

Anelka grabs double as Chelsea breeze past Zilina (AFP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 06:00 PM PDT

Chelsea's Nicolas Anelka and teammate Michael Essien celebrate their goal to take the lead during the UEFA Champions League group F football match against MSK Zilina, in Zilina. Chelsea won 4-1.(AFP/Joe Klamar)AFP - Nicolas Anelka scored twice for Chelsea to help the English champions breeze past MSK Zilina 4-1 on Wednesday in their Champions League opener.

Mideast peace talks round concludes with no deal (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 02:20 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, right, shake hands as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands in the center, at his residence in Jerusalem, Israel, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Clinton is in the region for Mideast peace talks.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)AP - Palestinian militants and Israeli forces attacked each other Wednesday, forming a grim backdrop for the latest round of U.S.-driven peace negotiations. The talks ended with no agreement on the most pressing issue: Jewish settlements.

Fiesta! Mexico wants violence-free 200th birthday (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 06:10 PM PDT

An person dressed in the likeness of the Angel of Independence, left, floats by the Angel of Independence monument during a bicentennial parade in Mexico City, Wednesday Sept. 15, 2010. Mexico celebrates the 200th anniversary of its 1810 independence uprising. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)AP - Just one day without massacres, beheadings or shootouts.

Guinea postpones presidential poll (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 03:56 PM PDT

Pedestrians walk past a poster for Guinea presidential candidate Alpha Conde in Conakry, September 13, 2010. REUTERS/Joseph PenneyReuters - Guinean authorities postponed on Wednesday a presidential election run-off due in four days, casting doubt on the minerals-producing West African state's bid to return to civilian rule.

N.Zealand lifts emergency in quake-hit Christchurch (AFP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 06:04 PM PDT

Workmen help to demolish the walls of a building damaged by an earthquake in Christchurch on September 6. A state of emergency was lifted in Christchurch Thursday, almost two weeks after a 7.0-magnitude tremor struck the New Zealand city, officials said.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - A state of emergency was lifted in earthquake-hit Christchurch Thursday, almost two weeks after a 7.0-magnitude tremor struck the New Zealand city, officials said.

Canada home resales rise for first time since March (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 07:30 AM PDT

Reuters - Sales of existing homes in Canada in August rose 4.1 percent from July, the first monthly increase since March, the Canadian Real Estate Association said on Wednesday.

Conservatives threaten to shatter Australia PM's rule (AFP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 01:00 AM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (L) joins other ministers in the new cabinet for the swearing-in ceremony at Government House in Canberra on September 14, 2010. Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott Wednesday threatened to bring down Gillard's fragile minority government, one day after it was sworn in, by persuading independent MPs to support him.(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott Wednesday threatened to bring down Julia Gillard's fragile minority government, one day after it was sworn in, by persuading independent MPs to support him.

U.S.-led forces meet little resistance in Kandahar operation (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 03:31 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — U.S.-led forces began a key operation Wednesday in the nine-year-old war in Afghanistan, meeting surprisingly little initial resistance in the district in the south of the country that gave birth to the Taliban.

How Israeli-Palestinian battle for Jerusalem plays out in one neighborhood (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 09:35 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The second round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks under way culminates tonight at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem, where Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to arrive for further face-to-face negotiations on core issues.

The Pope's U.K. Visit: Rude Welcome from Protesters? (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 04:40 PM PDT

Time.com - With anti-Catholic feelings still deeply rooted, the increasingly secular U.K. prepares for what may be the rudest overseas welcome yet for Pope Benedict XVI

Los Angeles Company Indicted for Human Trafficking (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 05:55 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Sep 15 (IPS) - Mordechai Orian, president of Global Horizons, a Los Angeles-based labour recruiter, has been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for "engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labour and document servitude" of approximately 400 Thai citizens who were brought to work on farms in the U.S. between May 2004 and September 2005.

发贴者：iwvck10 时间 18:31 0 条评论

bnzv