2010年9月18日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Afghans vote despite attacks, turnout appears low (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 02:33 PM PDT

An Afghan woman shows her inked finger at a polling station in Kabul, Afghanistan, after casting her ballot in parliamentary elections on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Ahmad Massoud)AP - Despite Taliban rocket strikes and bombings, Afghans voted for a new parliament Saturday, the first election since a fraud-marred presidential ballot last year cast doubt on the legitimacy of the embattled government.

Pope meets with abuse victims as thousands protest (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 01:23 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI wipes his face as he conducts a mass in Westminster Cathedral in London, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day visit, the first ever state visit by a Pope to Britain. Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday he was ashamed of the 'unspeakable' sexual abuse of children by priests, telling the British faithful during Mass in Westminster Cathedral that he was deeply sorry and hoped the church's humiliation would help victims heal. Benedict also said he hoped the church would be able to use its contrition to purify itself from the 'sins' of its ministers and be able to renew its commitment to educating the young. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)AP - Pope Benedict XVI apologized Saturday to five people who were molested by priests as children in his latest effort to defuse the sex abuse crisis shaking his church, as thousands of people angered at the Vatican's response marched in central London in the biggest protest of his 5-year papacy.

Bermuda braces for Hurricane Igor; Karl dissipates (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 04:49 PM PDT

Waves crash onto the beach at John Smith's Bay in Smith's Parish as Hurricane Igor approaches in Bermuda, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said tropical storm winds will start battering Bermuda Saturday night, with the hurricane expected to pass near Bermuda early Monday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Tourists lined up to catch the last flights off Bermuda and locals stocked up on emergency supplies Saturday preparing for approaching Hurricane Igor, while Mexicans mourned at least seven killed by Hurricane Karl.

American freed from Iran begins trip back to US (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 01:37 PM PDT

American Sarah Shourd, makes statements at the VIP Lounge of Muscat airport before she flies out of Muscat, Oman, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. Shourd, who was released from Iran after more than 13 months in custody, began her journey back to the United States on Saturday after asking her supporters to 'extend your prayers' to her fiance and another American man who remain in Tehran accused of spying. (AP Photo / Kamran Jebreili)AP - An American woman released from Iran after more than 13 months in custody began her journey back to the United States on Saturday after asking her supporters to "extend your prayers" to her fiance and another American man who remain in Tehran accused of spying.

Gunmen kidnap 9 Mexican state lawmen, 2 found dead (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 02:50 PM PDT

Paramedics carry an injured woman outside a bar where a man was killed three people were injured when gunmen opened fire in downtown Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Gunmen kidnapped nine police officers investigating a death in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, and the bodies of two of the lawmen were found later, authorities said Saturday.

Could Local Militias Shape the Afghan Elections? (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 08:40 AM PDT

Time.com - A U.S.-backed strategy to counter the Taliban raises the danger of empowering warlords

New rules to force German banks to raise 50 bln: report (AFP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 02:55 PM PDT

Skyline of the banking district in the city of Frankfurt am Main, central Germany. Germany's top 10 banks will need to raise 50 billion euros in new capital to meet proposed new global banking rules due to go into effect in 2019, the weekly Der Spiegel reports in its Monday issue.(AFP/File/Daniel Roland)AFP - Germany's top 10 banks will need to raise 50 billion euros in new capital to meet proposed new global banking rules due to go into effect in 2019, the weekly Der Spiegel reports in its Monday issue.

How goes Iraq? View from a bookstore is revealing (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 01:49 PM PDT

In this Aug. 8, 2010 photo, Mohammed Hanash Abbas, a book dealer, right, helps clients at his shop in Baghdad. The 'Iqra'a' bookstore on Mutanabi street has more than tripled in size in the last two years, and business has grown 50 percent since 2003. But the store's owners say the future is uncertain as long as they can't count on safe streets, stable government and reliable electricity supplies. The future also depends on how the Iraqi police and military manage without the Americans, all of whom will be gone by the end of next year. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - The Iqraa bookstore on Mutanabi street has more than tripled in size in the last two years. Business is up 50 percent since 2003.

Trapped miners force Chileans to re-examine image (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 04:34 PM PDT

Ruben Naveas, better known as the walking 'Huaso', left, holds a Chilean flag as he walks towards the San Jose mine along the Atacama dessert accompanied by Jose Sanchez, cousin of Pablo and Esteban Rojas, two of the trapped miners at the mine in Copiapo, Chile, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. Thirty-three miners have been trapped deep underground in the copper and gold mine since it collapsed on Aug. 5. A 'Huaso' is a Chilean traditional character. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)AP - The survival of 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground and the government's unblinking effort to pull them out alive gave Chileans reason to be proud as they celebrated their nation's bicentennial Saturday.

Iranian, Algerian presidents meet for talks in Algiers (AFP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 12:17 PM PDT

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (R) speaks during a discussion with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) during a brief meeting held at Houari Boumedienne International Airport in Algiers. Ahmadinejad held two hours of talks with Bouteflika Saturday during a stopover in Algiers on route to New York for the UN General Assembly.(AFP/Fayez Nureldine)AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held two hours of talks with his Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika Saturday during a stopover in Algiers on route to New York for the UN General Assembly.

Aquino sells Philippine appeal to the US (AFP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT

Philippine President Benigno Aquino, pictured on September 17, flies to the United States on Monday seeking money and jobs for his country in the wake of a bloody hostage fiasco that has tainted his leadership.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)AFP - Philippine President Benigno Aquino flies to the United States on Monday seeking money and jobs for his country in the wake of a bloody hostage fiasco that has tainted his leadership.

Canadian convicted of lying in Air India bomb case (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 02:55 PM PDT

Reuters - A Canadian man who admitted helping make the bomb that destroyed Air India Flight 182 was found guilty of perjury on Saturday during the trial of two other men accused of history's deadliest airline bombing.

In West Bank, corruption-busting teenagers shake up local government (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 10:26 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Fatmeh Abu Afifeh doesn't look like someone who could intimidate tough bureaucrats. Demure and only 17, she had never even spent a night away from her family until now.

U.N.-Backed Tribunal Indicts Four of Khmer Rouge in Genocide (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 07:40 AM PDT

Time.com - Thirty-one years after the darkest era in Cambodian history, the survivingleaders of the communist Khmer Rouge movement were indicted on Thursdayfor the deaths of nearly 2 million people

Ballot-stuffing witnessed amid troubled Afghanistan vote (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Sep 2010 10:25 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - When campaign aide Qais showed up at a polling center in the troubled province of Wardak Saturday morning, he found that guards would not allow him to enter. When he tried to peer through the windows, he found that workers had erected huge cardboard sheets to block the view.

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