2011年6月9日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News


Syrians flee as troops mass, West concern grows (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:30 PM PDT

Syrian refugees are seen at a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Yayladagi in Hatay province, June 9, 2011. REUTERS/Osman OrsalReuters - Thousands of Syrians fled into Turkey fearing a military assault, officials said, as the country braced for the prospect of more violent protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad on Friday.


Libyan rebels get aid, blast heard in capital (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:53 PM PDT

Smoke rises after a grad rocket exploded near a rebel fighter position on the outskirts of Zlitan near Misrata's western front line, some 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) from the city centre June 8, 2011. REUTERS/Zohra BensemraReuters - NATO warplanes pummeled a town west of Libya's capital, state media said soon after Western and Arab powers promised more than $1 billion to help rebels fighting to end Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule.


Yemen awaits possible Saleh return after surgery (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 12:04 PM PDT

Military police secure the Ministry of Trade and Industry building after recent clashes between police and tribesmen loyal to the tribal leader Sadiq al-Ahmar in Sanaa, June 8, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled AbdullahReuters - Loyalists to wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh celebrated reports that he would soon return to Yemen, but opponents said they were working to ensure that, even if he does, he will no longer be in power.


Barefoot college helps Venezuela Indians fight back (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 05:10 PM PDT

Reuters - Every morning, groups of tribespeople cross a jungle creek from their adobe student homes and wander barefoot through savanna inhabited by boa constrictors to reach class at Venezuela's first indigenous university.

Over 10,000 flee clashes in Sudan border state: U.N. (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 12:46 PM PDT

Reuters - More than 10,000 people displaced by fighting in Sudan's Southern Kordofan were staying near a U.N. compound on Thursday, the country mission spokesman said, after nearly a week of clashes in the tense border state.

The U.S. and Bahrain: How to Talk Just Tough Enough with an Ally (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:30 PM PDT

Time.com - After some blunt language in May, the President and the Secretary of State issue more conciliatory words to Bahrain's visiting Crown Prince. Will that help ease the repression?

German MPs agree resolution on Greek aid (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Reuters - German members of parliament late on Thursday agreed a joint motion for a resolution demanding the fair participation of private creditors in future aid to Greece, several participants said.

New round of NATO strikes hits Tripoli outskirts (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:35 PM PDT

A Libyan rebel fighter looks through the telescopic sight of his weapon at the southern front line of the city of Misrata, Libya Thursday, June 9, 2011. On Wednesday pro-Gadhafi forces renewed their shelling near the western city of Misrata, killing 10 rebel fighters and on Thursday NATO airstrikes rattled the Libyan capital with clusters of bombing runs believed to have targeted the outskirts of Tripoli. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)AP - NATO airstrikes rattled the Libyan capital Thursday with clusters of bombing runs believed to have targeted the outskirts of Tripoli.


Ex-Guatemala top cop arrested in civil-war case (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 04:16 PM PDT

AP - Authorities in Guatemala say they have arrested a former national police chief for his alleged involvement in the civil war-era disappearance of a union activist in 1984.

Darfur tribesmen executed, possible war crime: rights group (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:02 PM PDT

Sudanese forces show support to President Omar al-Beshir during a rally by thousands of soldiers in the capital Khartoum in 2009. Militiamen backed by the Sudanese army executed 16 members of the Zaghawa tribe in North Darfur after they tried to rescue their stolen livestock, in what could amount to a war crime, a rights groups said on Thursday.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)AFP - Militiamen backed by the Sudanese army executed 16 members of the Zaghawa tribe in North Darfur after they tried to rescue their stolen livestock, in what could amount to a war crime, a rights groups said on Thursday.


US man guilty in Danish plot, cleared of Mumbai role (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 04:22 PM PDT

Sketch drawing of Tahawwur Hussain Rana (R) and Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan in Chicago. A US jury Thursday found the Chicago businessman not guilty of aiding the 2008 Mumbai siege, but guilty of supporting the banned Pakistan militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and helping an aborted attack on a Danish newspaper.(AFP/File/Vera Sadock)AFP - A US jury cleared a Pakistan-born businessman of any role in the 2008 Mumbai siege Thursday, but found him guilty of aiding an aborted plot on a Danish newspaper and supporting a banned militant group.


Accident kills 2 at Vale's Sudbury mine (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 10:59 AM PDT

Reuters - Two workers died after they were hit by waste debris being removed from Brazilian miner Vale's Stobie underground copper-nickel mine in Sudbury, Ontario, officials said on Thursday.

Dalai Lama: China not enemy, some hard-liners are (AP)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 06:09 AM PDT

The Dalai Lama speaks during a press conference at the Hilton Hotel in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, June 9, 2011. The Dalai Lama, who has pushed without success for more autonomy for his native Tibet for decades, told reporters on Thursday that China is not his enemy but some hardline Communists are. (AP Photo/Julian Smith) AUSTRALIA OUT, NO ARCHIVEAP - The Dalai Lama, who has pushed without success for more autonomy for his native Tibet for decades, said Thursday that China is not his enemy but that some hard-line Communists are.


How Estonians became pioneering cyberdefenders (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:12 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Ahead of spring elections, Agu Kivimägi was tasked with trying to ensure that online voting in Estonia wasn't vulnerable to attack. Its pioneering system of casting national ballots via the Internet would be a hacker's prize target.

Rape in Libya: The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:30 PM PDT

Time.com - The International Criminal Court may add rape to the war crimes being levied against Gaddafi. But on the ground, except for one famous story, there are very few documented cases.

Leaked document casts doubt on impartiality of Khmer Rouge judges (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:27 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - As an international tribunal prepares to bring former Khmer Rouge leaders to trial beginning June 27, a confidential document obtained by The Christian Science Monitor raises questions about the UN-backed court’s ability to independently prosecute members of the brutal regime.

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