2010年10月6日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News

ATF: New accord with Mexico will boost gun traces (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:38 PM PDT

AP - U.S. and Mexican officials are just now fully employing a gun-tracing program touted as a key deterrent to weapons-smuggling, nearly three years after it was first announced in Mexico and weeks after an inspector general's preliminary report called it underused and unsuccessful.

Uncertainty over US plans as war enters 10th year (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 4, 2006 file picture, a woman looks out through a destroyed window after a bomb exploded in Kabul, Afghanistan in front of a cinema near the presidential palace, wounding at least four people, police said. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) PHOTO PACKAGE FOR USE WITH AFGHANISTAN ANNIVERSARY STORIESAP - It's make-or-break time in Afghanistan.

Surprise tiger born in Frankfurt zoo (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:36 PM PDT

AP - Surprise! A Sumatra tiger cub born to a mother previously thought to be infertile is in good health at the Frankfurt Zoo in Germany.

US apologizes for attack on Pakistani soldiers (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 01:30 PM PDT

Drivers of Afghanistan-bound NATO vehicles are parked at Pakistani border town of Torkham wait on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The U.S. apologized Wednesday for a recent helicopter attack that killed two Pakistani soldiers at an outpost near the Afghan border, saying American pilots mistook the soldiers for insurgents they were pursuing.

Iraq's Unformed Government: What Do the Kurds Want? (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:35 PM PDT

Time.com - The Kurds are key to Maliki's ability to form his ruling coalition. TIME asks the head of Iraq's Kurdish regional government for his assessment

Zimbabwean TV talent show star faces UK deportation (AFP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 03:14 PM PDT

A Zimbabwean singer who won the hearts of Britons with her performance on TV talent show AFP - A Zimbabwean singer who won the hearts of Britons with her performance on a TV talent show faces being deported from Scotland after her visa expired, immigration officials said Wednesday.

Israeli premier weighing new settlement curbs (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:40 PM PDT

A Palestinian man carries broken branches of an olive tree which farmers say was cut overnight by Jewish settlers, in the northern West Bank village of Hawara, near Nablus, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. Palestinian farmers say Jewish settlers from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar cut more than 50 olive trees overnight. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - Israel's prime minister has been sounding out key Cabinet members on extending a freeze on new construction in West Bank settlements in hopes of keeping peace talks with the Palestinians alive, but he is encountering stiff resistance, Israeli officials said Wednesday.

Castro: US ignored its offers on counterterrorism (AP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 03:12 PM PDT

AP - Raul Castro says the U.S. has ignored Cuban overtures to cooperate on counterterrorism.

Egyptian dissident editor says sacked over policy (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:13 PM PDT

Reuters - The editor of an Egyptian opposition newspaper has said he was sacked for refusing to bring the paper more into line with government policy, prompting a small protest Wednesday at the offices of the party which owns the daily.

S.Korea's Samsung tips 4.29 bn dollar Q3 operating profit (AFP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:54 PM PDT

South Korean men walk past a Samsung logo in Seoul. South Korea's Samsung Electronics on Thursday estimated its third-quarter operating profit at 4.8 trillion won (4.29 billion dollars), a rise of almost 14 percent from a year earlier.(AFP/Park Ji-Hwan)AFP - South Korea's Samsung Electronics on Thursday estimated its third-quarter operating profit at 4.8 trillion won (4.29 billion dollars), a rise of almost 14 percent from a year earlier.

Scientists find 200 new species in Papua New Guinea (AFP)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 02:33 AM PDT

A species of montane mouse documented during the Rapid Assessment Program biodiversity survey in the Nakanai Mountains, Papua New Guinea in April 2009. The beautiful long-tailed mouse was captured at a high elevation site (1,590m above sea level). Scientists on October 6, 2010 unveiled a spectacular array of more than 200 new species discovered in the Pacific highlands of Papua New Guinea(AFP/Conservation International /Ho/Stephen Richards)AFP - Scientists on Wednesday unveiled a spectacular array of more than 200 new species discovered in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, including a white-tailed mouse and a tiny, long-snouted frog.

Why Russia's Medvedev is lashing out at Belarus's Lukashenko (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 08:59 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A vitriolic and very public war of words between Belarus and Russia has observers wondering whether the Kremlin is finally preparing to abandon its long time support for Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko, who is usually remarked of in the East as "Russia's only ally" and in the West as "Europe's last dictator."

Will Britain's Conservatives Ever Escape Thatcher's Legacy? (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:35 PM PDT

Time.com - The Tories have worked hard to convince voters of their compassion but welfare cuts, announced at their annual conference, bring echoes of the party's bracing past

Why Mahmoud Abbas is so committed to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Oct 2010 08:21 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is now in political limbo after having staked his career on the questionable proposition that a viable Palestinian state can be achieved through negotiations with Israel.

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