2011年8月20日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News


More than 50 rockets fired from Gaza, Israeli killed (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2011 02:11 PM PDT

A municipality worker inspects a damaged house hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. Israel's rescue service says one Israeli was killed and about a dozen injured in barrage of Palestinian rockets from Gaza on southern Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)Reuters - An Israeli man was killed on Saturday in a rocket strike launched from Gaza, medics said, the latest death in a three-day spasm of violence that has killed more than 30 people.


Egypt recalls envoy from Israel over deaths (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2011 02:30 PM PDT

Reuters - Egypt said Saturday it would withdraw its ambassador from Israel, insisting the killing of five Egyptian security personnel while Israeli forces pursued gunmen across the border was a breach of its 1979 peace treaty with the Jewish state.

Iran jails U.S. "hikers" as spies for 8 years (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2011 10:10 AM PDT

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Detained Americans Shane Bauer (L) and Joshua Fattal smile as they wait to meet their mothers at the Esteghlal hotel in Tehran, in this May 21, 2010 file picture. Bauer and Fattal, detained in Iran for more than two years, have been found guilty of spying and given sentences of eight years each, Iranian state TV reported on August 20, 2011. REUTERS/PressTv/FilesReuters - Two Americans held in Iran for more than two years have been convicted as spies and sentenced to eight years' jail, Iranian TV reported on Saturday, a verdict that will further strain already very poor relations with Washington.


Yemen opposition figures quit National Council (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2011 10:50 AM PDT

Reuters - A group of Yemeni politicians left a newly formed opposition council Saturday, exposing divisions in the anti-government movement in a country convulsed by months of violent protests.

Heading for the Hills: Spanish Winemakers Adapt to Global Warming (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Aug 2011 07:20 AM PDT

Time.com - Heading for the Hills: Spanish Winemakers Adapt to Global Warming

Bad weather interrupts pope's speech in Spain (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2011 02:49 PM PDT

Priests shelter themselves from the rain underneath umbrellas as they leave after a prayer vigil at the Cuatro Vientos aerodrome as part of World Youth Day festivities in Madrid, August 20, 2011. REUTERS/Susana VeraReuters - A torrential rainstorm forced Pope Benedict to abandon a speech to hundreds of thousands of young people gathered at an aerodrome outside Madrid on Saturday.


Cross-border attack tests Israel-Egypt treaty (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2011 04:24 PM PDT

Egyptians chant anti-Israeli slogans as they hold Egyptian and Palestinian flags to protest the death of Egyptian security forces killed in a shootout between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants on Thursday in the Sinai, in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. Egypt said Saturday it would recall its ambassador from Israel to protest the deaths, sharply escalating tensions between the neighboring countries, whose 1979 peace treaty is being tested by the fall of Egypt's longtime autocratic leader, Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - Israel's landmark 1979 peace treaty with Egypt is being tested by a cross-border attack blamed on Palestinian militants. Israel made a rare apology Saturday for the deaths of three Egyptian soldiers after Cairo threatened to withdraw its ambassador.


Colossal statue in Puerto Rico could find new home (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2011 02:52 PM PDT

AP - A proposal to erect a colossal statue of Christopher Columbus on an uninhabited island near Puerto Rico has revived a debate about the fate of a bronze work that has been shunned by many and loved by few.

Tripoli fighting is "zero hour": rebel official (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2011 04:09 PM PDT

A building Libyan officials described as a civil engineering office lies flattened after being bombed overnight by NATO in Tripoli, August 20, 2011. REUTERS/Paul HackettReuters - Opponents of Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli have risen up in coordination with rebels encircling the capital, a senior official in the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Sunday.


Biden seeks to reassure China on U.S. debt (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2011 09:08 AM PDT

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama attends an event during his visit in Espoo August 20, 2011. REUTERS/Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva (FINLAND - Tags: RELIGION) NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORS. FINLAND OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN FINLANDReuters - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Friday said China had "nothing to worry about" concerning the safety of its vast holdings of Treasury debt, while China's Premier Wen Jiabao gave a ringing endorsement of the resilience of the debt-ridden U.S. economy.


Pakistan mosque bombing: one of country's worst attacks (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 01:38 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In one of Pakistan's deadliest attacks in recent years, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a packed mosque Friday, killing at least 50 worshipers and injuring more than 100 in Pakistan’s tribal belt of Khyber.

Hanging With Hackers: Inside Germany's Great 'Geek' Convention (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Aug 2011 12:25 AM PDT

Time.com - The Chaos Computer Club is hosting a summer camp for 3,000 hackers fromaround the world in Brandenburg, formerly in East Germany

Bahrain government fires hundreds of employees for political views (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 11:24 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - More than 100 Bahraini government employees have been fired in recent weeks for their political views, signaling an ongoing campaign to crush dissent in the wake of a pro-democracy uprising this spring.

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