2010年9月30日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News


Protesting police throw Ecuador into chaos (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 05:12 PM PDT

Protesting police burn tires at the entrance of their police base in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday Sept. 30, 2010.  The government declared a state of siege Thursday after rebellious police, angered by a law that cuts their benefits, shut down airports and blocked highways in a nationwide strike. (AP Photo/Patricio Realpe)AP - Hundreds of police angry over a law that would cut their benefits plunged this small South American nation into chaos Thursday, roughing up and tear-gassing the president, shutting down airports and blocking highways in a nationwide strike.


Argentina gives asylum to alleged Chilean assassin (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 05:25 PM PDT

AP - Argentina granted asylum Thursday to a former leftist guerrilla charged in his native Chile with assassinating a senator and kidnapping a businessman, a decision sure to sour relations between the neighboring countries.

Official: Germans, Brits behind Europe terror plot (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:20 PM PDT

AP - Eight Germans and two British brothers are at the heart of an al-Qaida-linked terror plot against European cities, but the plan is still in its early stages, with the suspects calling acquaintances in Europe to plan logistics, a Pakistani intelligence official said Thursday. One of the Britons died in a recent CIA missile strike, he said.

WikiLeaks chief lashes out at media during debate (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:10 PM PDT

AP - WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange lashed out at the mainstream media during a debate at a London university Thursday, fighting back at a string of unfavorable stories that have appeared since his organization's publication of a cache of U.S. intelligence documents.

Problem at Hovensa refinery triggers oil burnoff (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:46 PM PDT

AP - A problem at the Hovensa LLC oil refinery triggered a burnoff of heavy oil Thursday that sent up a plume of black smoke, a spokesman said.

An Indian Court Tries to Impose Peace on a Sacred but Bloody Space (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 04:45 PM PDT

Time.com - The site of the Babri mosque has been the focus of violent controversy for centuries. Now, a court has tried to impose an evenhanded solution. Will it hold?

Whale snot, bat sex win 2010 IgNobel spoof prizes (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 04:36 PM PDT

Reuters - Researchers who used a remote-controlled helicopter to collect whale snot, documented bats having oral sex and showed that swearing makes you feel better when you stub a toe were among the winners of spoof IgNobel prizes on Thursday.

Hezbollah bars members from Hariri court interview (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 02:04 PM PDT

In this photo taken Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, Hezbollah fighters stand guard as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks through a video link in the occasion of Jerusalem Day in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. 'Justice' was the rallying cry for tens of thousands of angry Lebanese who took to the streets of Beirut five years ago after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and drove a movement that reshaped Lebanon's politics. But now the quest to uncover and prosecute his killers threatens to tear the country apart. The U.N. tribunal investigating Hariri's killing has not yet named any individuals or countries as suspects. But suspicion also has fallen on Syria's main ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)AP - Hezbollah has denied a request from the international tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister to interview some of its members, the group's deputy leader said Thursday.


PR police: 6 siblings raped, forced into orgies (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 04:45 PM PDT

AP - Puerto Rico police have charged a couple with repeatedly raping their six children and forcing them to participate in drug-fueled orgies.

UN tones down Congo 'genocide' report (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:03 PM PDT

AP - The United Nations has toned down a report detailing hundreds of gruesome attacks against civilians in Congo over a 10-year period but left intact the suggestion that Rwanda's army may have committed genocide there in the 1990s.

Japan jobless rate falls to 5.1 percent in August (AP)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 05:30 PM PDT

AP - Japan's jobless rate improved in August, but prices fell for the 18th straight month as deflation kept its hold on the country's economy.

Canada ruling Conservatives narrowly ahead: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 06:36 AM PDT

Reuters - As speculation about a Canadian election grows, a new poll on Thursday showed the ruling Conservatives are only narrowly ahead of their main rivals and would lose seats if a vote were held now.

Alberto Contador, on the verge of tears, denies doping allegations (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 09:54 AM PDT

Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador at a news conference in Pinto. The cycling superstar, who won his third yellow jersey at the end of July's three-week epic, announced that he had tested positive for clenbuterol, a banned substance, but blamed it on food contamination.(AFP/Pedro Armestre)The Christian Science Monitor - The three-time winner of the Tour de France, Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador, is sure the minute traces of a performance-enhancing drug found in his urine came from a steak that a friend gave him during this year's race.


Berlusconi Keeps Government Afloat -- for Now (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 04:45 PM PDT

Time.com - Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won a vote of confidence on Wednesday. But instead of proving his popularity as a leader, it showed that without the support of a group of rebels, he likely can't lead at all

In shift, Kremlin reopens cases of Russian reporters' unsolved murders (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 09:30 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Kremlin said this week it is reopening several unsolved murders of journalists, showing a change in tone from years of official inactivity and stymied justice. But some human rights activists are skeptical that a genuine shift is under way, evidenced in part by the lack of progress in determining who killed internationally acclaimed reporter Anna Politkovskaya in 2006.
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