2011年8月10日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News


UK streets calmer after nights of riots and chaos (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 02:32 PM PDT

Hundreds of messages of support from the community of Peckham are seen posted on a looted storefront in south London August 10, 2011. REUTERS/Chris HelgrenReuters - Days of rioting and looting across Britain looked to be cooling Wednesday after Prime Minister David Cameron's promised a fightback and flooded city streets with police to try to restore order.


Syrian forces kill 15 as U.S. imposes sanctions (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 01:19 PM PDT

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad meets with new Defense Minister, General Daoud Rajha, in Damascus, August 9, 2011. REUTERS/SanaReuters - Syrian forces killed 15 civilians in the city of Homs on Wednesday, an activists' group said, despite international calls for President Bashar al-Assad to end a bloody crackdown on protests against his rule.


Aid officials: not the time to cut U.S. food aid (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 03:38 PM PDT

Reuters - Aid officials warned on Wednesday that the famine in the Horn of Africa would escalate significantly if October rains fail to materialize, and cautioned U.S. lawmakers this was not the time to cut funding.

Ai Weiwei endured "immense pressure" in detention: source (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:16 AM PDT

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei closes the door to his studio after speaking to the media in Beijing June 23, 2011. REUTERS/David GrayReuters - Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, whose disappearance in April caused an international outcry, endured intense psychological pressure during 81 days in secretive detention and still faces the threat of prison for alleged subversion, a source familiar with the events told Reuters.


In Egypt's Bedouin Badlands: No Police Allowed (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 12:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Egyptian police can no longer patrol the security zone that is Cairo's last bit of territory before Israel and the Gaza Strip begin

Vietnam jails French-Vietnamese teacher over blogs (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 04:32 PM PDT

Police officers escort French-Vietnamese math professor Pham Minh Hoang out of a courthouse in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011. Hoang was sentenced to three years in Vietnamese prison for belonging to a banned pro-democracy group and publishing an anti-communist blog online, his lawyer said. (AP Photo/Vietnam News Agency, Hoang Hai)AP - A French-Vietnamese math professor was sentenced Wednesday to three years in a Vietnamese prison for belonging to a banned pro-democracy group and publishing an anti-Communist blog, his lawyer said.


Syria claims 'conspiracy' to justify crackdown (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 02:22 PM PDT

In this image made from amateur video released by  DPN (Deir el-Zour Press news)  and accessed via The Associated Press Television News on Wednesday Aug. 10, 2011,  shows  Syria tanks on the street in  Deir el-Zour  Syria on Tuesday  Aug. 9. 2011.  Syrian troops seized control of the eastern flashpoint city of Deir el-Zour Wednesday following intense shelling and gunfire, an activist said, as the international community intensified its pressure on the country's president to end the deadly crackdown. (AP Photo/DPN via APTN) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIALAP - Residents of Hama told of indiscriminate shelling by the army, snipers aiming at civilians and corpses piling up in the streets in the wake of a weeklong military siege of the defiant city.


Haiti mayor says he plans to clear huge quake camp (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 04:53 PM PDT

AP - Thousands of Haitians living in one of the biggest tent camps created after last year's earthquake could soon have a new home: the mountains north of Port-au-Prince.

UN: Hundreds of thousands face starvation (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 02:45 PM PDT

AP - The United Nations warned Wednesday that the famine in East Africa hasn't peaked and hundreds of thousands of people face imminent starvation and death without a massive global response.

NKorea disputes SKorea's artillery claim (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 04:38 PM PDT

A woman takes pictures of children for souvenir by the monument in remembrance of the Korean War at the Korean War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011. South Korean marines returned fire Wednesday after North Korea launched artillery shells into waters near the disputed maritime line that separates the two rivals, South Korean defense officials said. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - North Korea says South Korea mistook "normal blasting" from a construction project for artillery shelling when it accused Pyongyang of opening fire near the rivals' disputed maritime line in the Yellow Sea.


Flaherty pledges to cut budget gap, urges G20 to do same (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 01:51 PM PDT

Reuters - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty pledged on Wednesday to stick to his strict budget deficit reduction plans and urged other major countries to do the same, saying the current market turmoil was caused by excess debt.

Australia takes more Chinese migrants than British (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 10:40 PM PDT

Reuters - Australia welcomed more migrants from China than any other country in the year to June, passing the UK for the first time and underlining the increasing importance of the regional giant to its resource-rich economy.

Atwitter over a Tweeted call: Pray for London (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 03:10 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Pray for London.

London Riots: Cameron Okays Water Cannons, Plastic Bullets (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 12:55 PM PDT

Time.com - With his leadership in question after the unrest, the British Prime Minister comes out talking tough ahead of a self-imposed deadline

London riots caught on CCTV camera: 'We will pursue you,' say police [VIDEO] (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 10:26 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - One of the hallmark images of the TV footage of the London riot has been the scenes of gangs of youths roaming the streets but protecting their identities with scarves, bandannas, and hooded sweatshirts.

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