2010年10月15日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

UN envoy says over 15,000 raped in eastern Congo (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 04:39 PM PDT

AP - More than 15,000 people were raped in the volatile eastern region of Congo last year, according to the best data available, the top U.N. envoy in the African nation said Friday.

Straight-talking engineer was behind Chile rescue (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 04:25 PM PDT

Andres Sougarret, center, the chief engineer in charge of the rescue mission of 33 trapped miners, right, and Chile's Mining Minister Laurence Golborne smiles during a joint press conference at the San Jose Mine near Copiapo, Chile, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010. Sougarret, a 46-year-old mining engineer, was in charge of digging the miners out. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Three days after 33 men were sealed deep within a gold mine, Andre Sougarret was summoned by Chile's president.

France responds to EU complaints after Gypsy spat (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 04:08 PM PDT

AP - France is willing to alter some of its laws in response to European Commission complaints that followed the government's expulsions of Gypsies, or Roma, to countries in Eastern Europe, officials said Friday.

Petraeus: NATO has facilitated Taliban movement (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:49 PM PDT

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S and NATO commander addresses RUSI members on ‘The International Mission in Afghanistan', at the United Services Institute in central London, Friday Oct. 15, 2010. Petraeus has confirmed that NATO has provided safe passage for top Taliban leaders to travel to Kabul for face-to-face negotiations with the American-backed Afghan government. (AP Photo/Dan Kitwood, Pool)AP - Commanding Gen. David Petraeus confirmed Friday that coalition forces have allowed Taliban representatives to travel to Kabul for peace discussions with the Afghan government, but a Taliban spokesman said all such talk is only propaganda, designed to lower the morale of the movement's fighters.

Somalia surprise: Working gov't, no gunfire (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:18 PM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct ,13. 2010, gymnasts perform at a trade fair in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Somaliland officials say the U.S. and the international community have wasted too much time and money on Mogadishu instead of supporting a struggling but democratically elected government in Somaliland in northern Somalia.(AP Photo/Jason Straziuso)AP - A new six-story office building will soon house a $1 billion-a-year business. The recently elected president has appointed smart people and won the admiration of the international community. Gunfire is nowhere to be heard.

Lessons from the Chile Mine Rescue: What Underdogs Can Teach Us (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:40 PM PDT

Time.com - As Camp Hope is dismantled, TIME's correspondent on the scene contemplates the "heroism" of the 33 -- and why it means so much to the rest of the world

Swiss celebrate digging world's longest tunnel (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 05:09 PM PDT

A miner stands in front of the drill machine 'Sissi' after it broke through the rock at the final section Faido-Sedrun, at the construction site of the NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel Friday Oct. 15, 2010. With a length of 57 km (35 miles) crossing the Alps, the world's longest train tunnel should become operational at the end of 2017. (AP Photo/Christian Hartmann,Pool)AP - Workers hugged, cheered and set off fireworks as the huge drill broke through the last stretch of rock deep in the Swiss Alps. There was delight at the end of the tunnel — the world's longest — when it was completed Friday.

East Jerusalem housing approval irks Palestinians (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 11:58 AM PDT

Bulldozers work at a construction site in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev, Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. Israel's government says it has approved the construction of 238 homes in Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem, ending an unofficial freeze on new building there for nearly a year. An Israeli settlement slowdown imposed last November in the West Bank did not officially include east Jerusalem, which Israel considers part of its capital. The issue of Israeli settlement building is threatening to derail recently renewed Mideast peace talks. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP - Israel has ended its unofficial building freeze in east Jerusalem, giving the green light for hundreds of new homes in Jewish neighborhoods of the traditionally Arab sector of the city — and dealing another potential blow to U.S.-led efforts to salvage peace negotiations.

Ecuador: 4 miners trapped after tunnel collapses (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:15 PM PDT

AP - A tunnel collapsed in a gold mine in southern Ecuador on Friday, trapping four miners 490 feet (150 meters) underground. Authorities said rescue efforts were under way.

Obama's half brother in Kenya says he married teen (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 05:09 PM PDT

FILE - This Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2004 file photo shows Malik Obama, the older brother of US President Barack Obama, who holds an undated picture of Barak, left, and himself, center, and an unidentified friend in his shop in Siaya, eastern Kenya. President Barack Obama's polygamist half brother in Kenya has married a woman who is more than 30 years younger than him. The 19-year-old's mother told The Associated Press on Friday Oct. 15, 2010 she is furious that her daughter quit high school and married the 52-year-old. Malik Obama, who is Muslim, has two other wives. Polygamy is legal in Kenya if it falls under religious or cultural traditions. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)AP - President Barack Obama's polygamist half brother in Kenya has married a 19-year-old woman more than 30 years his junior. Malik Obama, 52, told a Kenya news station that the teen quit school and wanted to get married. He appeared on video taken by a hidden camera, although he knew he was talking to journalists.

FBI was warned about key figure in Mumbai attacks: report (AFP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 04:43 PM PDT

In this courtroom drawing, David Coleman Headley faces US District Court Judge Harry Leinenweber on March 2010 in Chicago. The wife of Headley warned FBI agents in August 2005 that her husband had undergone intensive training with Lashkar-e-Taiba and was in contact with extremists.(AFP/File/Carol Renaud)AFP - The wife of a key figure in the 2008 Mumbai attacks warned US federal agents three years beforehand that her husband was training with a Pakistani militant group, the Washington Post reported Friday.

Australia's first saint overcame excommunication (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:03 AM PDT

This undated hand out photo provided by Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, shows Sister Mary MacKillop. MacKillop's path to sainthood included an unlikely hurdle: excommunication. As a young nun, MacKillop, who will be canonized as Australia's first saint in a ceremony Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010, at the Vatican, was briefly dismissed from the Roman Catholic Church in a clash with high clergy in 1871. One of the catalysts for the censure strikes a note familiar to the present-day church: her order of nuns had exposed a pedophile priest. (AP Photo/Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES **AP - Mary MacKillop's path to sainthood included an unlikely hurdle: excommunication.

Nobel prize sparks Norway-China row, petitions for reform in Beijing (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 08:11 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Norway has been hit with the first wave of diplomatic backlash after awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo.

Resurgence of Rabies Threatens Asia's Young and Poor (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:40 PM PDT

Time.com - What some Asian countries are doing to humanely fight the growing threat of rabies

Can Wen Jiabao reform the Communist Party of China? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 07:38 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A new surge of demands for liberal political reform added an unexpected twist to deliberations at today's annual policy making meeting for leaders from the ruling Communist Party of China.

To Feed the World, Govts Sit Down with Civil Society (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 09:14 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - BANGKOK, Oct 15 (IPS) - For over a decade, seasoned activist Sarojini Rengam’s efforts to storm the bureaucratic barricades at global food security meetings in Rome hardly produced any cracks. The tightly structured agenda at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) gatherings she went to were unequivocal about where activists stood â€" in the margins.

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