2010年10月14日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News

US, reversing course, backs Afghan peace effort (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:21 PM PDT

Former Afghan President and chief of a new peace council Burhanuddin Rabbani holds a press conference, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Rabbani says he's convinced the Taliban are ready to negotiate peace. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - The Obama administration on Thursday endorsed fragile Afghan efforts to negotiate peace with the Taliban, backing off its prior stance that talks with the Taliban were premature until the war is all but won.

Chile miners start new lives, adjust to freedom (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:41 PM PDT

FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY - In this photo released by the Chilean Government, the last miner to be rescued, Luis Urzua, left, shakes hands with Chile's President Sebastian Pinera after being freed from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine where he had been trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday Oct. 13, 2010. The 69-day underground ordeal reached its end Wednesday night after 33 trapped miners were hauled up in a cage through a narrow hole drilled through 2,000 feet (700 meters) of rock. (AP Photo/Chilean Government, Hugo Infante)AP - The Chilean miners began their unfamiliar new lives as national heroes Thursday and got a taste of what awaits them outside the hospital doors — a deluge of TV producers, writers and even soccer teams all desperate for a piece of their story.

Mexico: Alleged chat between lawmaker, capo leaked (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:19 PM PDT

Forensic police officers work at the crime scene where a body of a woman was found inside a car in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010. Ciudad Juarez has become one of Mexico's deadliest cities as drug gangs continue to battle for control of smuggling routes. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)AP - A radio station broadcast what it described as a telephone conversation in which a federal lawmaker and one of Mexico's biggest drug lords express support for each other.

UN envoy says gov't troops continue Congo rapes (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:13 PM PDT

AP - Congolese government troops are raping, killing and looting civilians in the same area of eastern Congo where militias carried out mass rapes just weeks ago, a top U.N. envoy said Thursday.

Ahmadinejad taunts Israel from border with Lebanon (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:06 PM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, gestures to the crowds, with Hezbollah's commander in south Lebanon Sheik Nabil Kaouk, at right, during a rally organized by Hezbollah in the southern border town of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, on Thursday Oct. 14, 2010. Thousands of Hezbollah supporters jammed a stadium in southern Lebanon Thursday ahead of a visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that will take him to within a couple miles of the Israeli border â€AP - Iran's president taunted archenemy Israel on Thursday from just across the tense border in Lebanon, rallying tens of thousands of Hezbollah supporters as Israeli attack helicopters buzzed in the skies nearby.

The Israeli Loyalty Oath: What is Netanyahu Up To? (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:35 PM PDT

Time.com - Israel's Prime Minister is backing a controversial loyalty oath. But what has it got to do with the peace talks?

Austria accused of violating child rights (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 02:52 PM PDT

AP - Austria should stop detaining children and halt the deportations of well-integrated foreign families that are denied asylum, Amnesty International and three other groups urged Thursday.

Militants kill local Yemeni security chief (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 01:54 PM PDT

AP - An attack by suspected al-Qaida militants early Thursday killed a security chief of a southern Yemeni town and triggered a series of clashes between soldiers and militants that killed eight people, mostly government troops, security officials said.

Brazilian opposition candidate tightens race (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:59 PM PDT

Jose Serra, presidential candidate for the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), applies an ice pack on his forehead after accidentally hitting himself in an elevator, as he campaigns in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010. Serra will face Dilma Rousseff of the ruling Workers Party in a presidential runoff on Oct. 31. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)AP - The opposition candidate in Brazil's presidential election is narrowing the gap with his once heavily favored rival thanks to growing confidence after surviving a first-round ballot and barbs over abortion, analysts said Thursday.

Sudan Abyei vote deadline "impossible": north (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:40 PM PDT

Reuters - North Sudanese leaders said on Thursday it was impossible to hold a referendum on the future of the country's disputed, oil-rich Abyei region on time and that the poll could be delayed or settled without a vote.

Attacks kill 8 foreign troops in Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:45 PM PDT

Reuters - Eight foreign troops from NATO-led forces were killed in five separate insurgent attacks in Afghanistan on Thursday, NATO said, bringing to 14 the number of troops killed in the last two days.

Canadian's Guantanamo trial delayed amid talks (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 01:41 PM PDT

Reuters - A U.S. military judge on Thursday postponed the Guantanamo war crimes trial of a Canadian prisoner captured in Afghanistan at age 15 while his lawyers tried to reach a deal for him to plead guilty in exchange for leniency.

Australian accused of taking bribes in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 03:20 AM PDT

AP - An Australian construction manager has been detained in India for allegedly taking a $190,000 bribe to allow a subcontractor to build a hospital and college in Afghanistan.

Top North Korea defector Hwang Jang-yop eulogized as a hero in South Korea (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 10:16 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The highest-ranking North Korean official ever to defect was eulogized Thursday as a hero by South Korean conservatives at his funeral here.

The Rescued Miners: Winning Respect for Chile's Working Class (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:35 PM PDT

Time.com - Chile likes to celebrate its billionaires, but the San JosÉ rescue saga displayed the dignity and leadership of its underserved laborers

Centuries-old ties anchor Ahmadinejad tour of south Lebanon (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 06:43 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tours Lebanon’s border with Israel today, he may pause a moment to consider that Iran owes its existence as a Shiite nation to the ancestors of those living in these rural hilltop villages.

New Global Plan Aims to Wipe Out TB (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:22 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - JOHANNESBURG, Oct 14 (IRIN/PlusNews) - A new roadmap for curbing the global epidemic of tuberculosis aims to save five million lives between 2011 and 2015 and eliminate TB as a public health problem by 2050 but comes with a price tag of US$47 billion, nearly half of which must still be found.

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