2011年4月25日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News


Syria sends tanks into Deraa where uprising began (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 12:45 PM PDT

Reuters - Syrian troops and tanks poured into Deraa on Monday, seeking to crush resistance in the city where a month-long uprising against the autocratic 11-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad first erupted.

Heavy fighting in Misrata and Libyan mountains (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 03:41 PM PDT

Reuters - Libya's rebel-held city of Misrata won no respite from two months of bitter siege as Muammar Gaddafi's forces bombarded the city and battled rebel fighters, despite pulling out of the city center.

U.S. charges Pakistanis in 2008 Mumbai attack plot (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 04:51 PM PDT

A frame grab from CCTV footage, released December 7, 2008, taken inside the Taj Mahal Hotel shows security personnel (bottom left) walking along a corridor of the hotel in Mumbai on November 26, 2008. REUTERS/via REUTERS TVReuters - Four Pakistanis have been charged as co-conspirators in the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including six Americans, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday.


India arrests ex-games chief as telecoms case widens (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 10:52 AM PDT

Suresh Kalmadi (L), the chief organiser of the Delhi Commonwealth Games, arrives at India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) headquarters in New Delhi April 25, 2011. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Indian police arrested the former chief organizer of the Delhi Commonwealth Games on Monday as part of a crackdown on corruption, embarrassing the government as it fights major state polls.


U.N. chief says can't order probe into Sri Lanka war (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 05:20 PM PDT

Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he lacks the authority to personally order a probe into the mass killings of civilians in the final months of Sri Lanka's civil war, as a report recommended on Monday.

Kate Middleton's Coat of Arms: What Do Those Acorns Actually Mean? (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:15 PM PDT

Time.com - Michael and Carole Middleton, Kate's parents, commissioned a family crest to mark their daughter's April 29 nuptials

Comeback king Ding reaches last eight at snooker Worlds (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 05:33 PM PDT

China's Ding Junhui, pictured in January, staged a dramatic comeback from 9-12 down to defeat England's Stuart Bingham 13-12 on Monday and reach the world championship quarter-finals for the first time.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - China's Ding Junhui staged a dramatic comeback from 9-12 down to defeat England's Stuart Bingham 13-12 and reach the world championship quarter-finals for the first time.


Thousands of Syrian troops raid rebellious city (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 04:59 PM PDT

This video image taken from amateur video released by Sham News Network, a Syrian Freedom group, shows a man throwing an object at a tank in Daraa, Syria Sunday April 24, 2011. An eyewitness says at least five people have been killed in the southern Syrian city of Daraa during a security crackdown.  Syrian troops in armored vehicles and tanks stormed the southern  town of Daraa early Monday April 25, 2011 and opened fire. It was the latest bloodshed in a five-week uprising against President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime. (AP Photo/Sham News Network via APTN)   AP HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE AUTHENTICITY OF THIS VIDEOAP - Thousands of soldiers backed by tanks and snipers moved in before dawn to the city where Syria's anti-government uprising began, causing panic in the streets when they opened fire indiscriminately on civilians and went house-to-house rounding up suspected protesters. At least 11 people were killed and 14 others lay in the streets — either dead or gravely wounded, witnesses said.


Royal wedding: Mexican hunger striker turned back (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 05:33 PM PDT

AP - British authorities have turned away a Mexican teenager who spent 16 days without eating while pleading for an invite to the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Peace threatened by feuding Ivory Coast warlords (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 05:19 PM PDT

A soldier of Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara's Republican Forces (FRCI) stands behind a machine gun during a patrol in Abidjan on April 17. Heavy gunfire rocked a neighbourhood of Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan on Monday where militia loyal to the country's toppled president Laurent Gbagbo were holed up, residents said.(AFP/File/Sia Kambou)AP - Volleys of gunshots erupted again in Abidjan Monday as a years-old feud between rival warlords came to a head, threatening Ivory Coast's fragile peace.


Mass deaths in Sri Lanka may be 'war crimes': UN (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 04:19 PM PDT

Sri Lankan army soldiers stand guard behind weapons captured by the army during an offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during a visit of journalists to Kilinochchi in 2009. The Sri Lankan army killed most of the tens of thousands of civilian victims of a final offensive against Tamil separatists in 2009 but both sides may be guilty of war crimes, a UN panel said Monday.(AFP/File/Pedro Ugarte)AFP - The Sri Lankan army killed most of the tens of thousands of civilian victims of a final offensive against Tamil separatists in 2009 but both sides may be guilty of war crimes, a UN panel said Monday.


NDP surges to strong second place in poll (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 04:54 PM PDT

Reuters - Support for Canada's leftist New Democratic Party surged to within 6 points of the ruling Conservatives in an opinion poll on Monday that showed Prime Minister Stephen Harper with a tenuous hold on power.

Australian support for republic slumps: poll (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 02:01 AM PDT

Britain's Prince William (right) greets the crowd with his new Akubra hat as Australian country singer Troy Cassar-Daley looks during the Pribce's visit to Queensland last month. Support for Australia becoming a republic has fallen to a 17-year low, according to a poll published on Monday, just days ahead of Britain's royal wedding.(AFP/File/Eddie Safarik)AFP - Support for Australia becoming a republic has fallen to a 17-year low, according to a poll published on Monday, just days ahead of Britain's royal wedding.


War veterans get help from Rick Iannucci's 'therapeutic riding' program (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 06:52 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Rick Iannucci, director of Cowboy Up!, a horse therapy program for combat veterans, keeps a little notebook with quotations in the back pocket of his jeans.

Arab Spring: Syrian President Assad Sends Military into Dara'a (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 01:15 PM PDT

Time.com - Tanks have rolled into the city where the Syrian uprising began five weeks ago. Is an even bigger bloodbath about to ensue?

Taliban tunnel frees Kandahar prisoners, in blow to NATO and Afghan forces (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 06:07 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In one of the most elaborate prison breaks in recent Afghan history, the Taliban managed to free hundreds of inmates from Kandahar’s central prison in the early hours of Monday morning through a 1,180-foot tunnel.

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