2011年10月7日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


Nobel honors African, Arab women for peace (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 02:27 PM PDT

Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee poses in New York, October 7, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonReuters - Declaring women's rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize Friday to three indomitable female campaigners against war and oppression -- a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country's president.


Libya forces in coordinated assault on Gaddafi hometown (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 12:55 PM PDT

Anti-Gaddafi fighters take cover as they cross between buildings during clashes with pro-Gaddafi forces in Sirte, October 6, 2011. REUTERS/Asmaa WaguihReuters - Libyan transitional government forces launched their biggest assault yet on Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte on Friday, firing heavy artillery at the last major bastion of support for the deposed leader.


Ten years on, Taliban says "victory is with us" (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 12:43 PM PDT

Reuters - The Taliban vowed to keep fighting until all foreign forces left Afghanistan in a statement on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the U.S. military campaign in the country.

Syrian forces kill eight protesters: activists (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 04:25 PM PDT

Demonstrators protesting against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad march through the streets in Homs, Syria, October 4, 2011. The signs read: Reuters - Syrian forces killed at least eight people when they opened fire to disperse protests against President Bashar al-Assad after Friday prayers in Damascus and Homs, activists said, and Russia's president urged him to undertake reforms or step down.


Rapping Chavez launches coalition year before vote (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 12:45 PM PDT

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez smiles after a meeting with Belarus' government representative Viktor Sheiman at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas October 3, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia RawlinsReuters - Jiving to rap music and vowing a "thrashing" in Venezuela's vote exactly a year away, President Hugo Chavez resuscitated a left-wing political coalition on Friday that he hopes will propel him to re-election.


Abbas Takes Palestinian Statehood on the Road (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Time.com - The President of the Palestinian Authority starts a tour to drum up support for U.N. membership among countries critical to the Security Council vote

Moody's warns Belgium it risks credit rating cut (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 03:52 PM PDT

Reuters - Moody's warned Belgium on Friday its credit rating could fall due to the burden of bailing out Dexia , the French-Belgian financial group, and the prospect of higher funding costs and weak economic growth.

Arab uprisings' women celebrate Nobel recognition (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 02:55 PM PDT

Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman laughs as she speaks on the telephone after the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Oct. 7, 2011. The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women's rights. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)AP - As demonstrations first swelled in Yemen, regime supporters distributed a photo showing Tawakkul Karman at a protest with a male colleague — cutting out others around them — to taint her for being alone with a man.


Puerto Rico governor officially seeks second term (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 04:25 PM PDT

AP - Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno has formally submitted his bid for a second term.

Liberian Nobel winners confronted thugs, killers (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 01:30 PM PDT

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf waves at her home in the city of  Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Oct 7, 2011. Africa's first democratically elected female president, a Liberian campaigner against rape and a woman who stood up to Yemen's autocratic regime won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of the importance of women's rights in the spread of global peace. The 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award was split three ways between Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, women's rights activist Leymah Gbowee from the same African country and democracy activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen - the first Arab woman to win the prize. (AP/Photo Abbas Dulleh)AP - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee used different tactics to confront thugs and killers in war-ravaged Liberia, with one challenging a feared warlord for the presidency and the other taking to the streets to denounce armed rapists who were preying on women.


Clapper: US, Pakistan spies rebuild ties (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 01:29 PM PDT

AP - After a troubled period in U.S.-Pakistani relations, Pakistani forces have arrested five key al-Qaida suspects at the CIA's request, including a senior operative whose name has not been made public, and also allowed U.S. intelligence officers to question those detainees, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials.

Canada says law to end grain monopoly coming soon (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 01:52 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada's Conservative government will pass legislation "very soon" to end the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly on milling and exports of western wheat and barley, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday, strongly warning the board to get out of the way.

Australia wants boy drug suspect in Bali back home (AP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 04:08 AM PDT

AP - Australia's foreign minister said Friday that he will do everything possible to secure the return of a 14-year-old boy arrested for alleged marijuana possession while on a family vacation in Indonesia.

Israel celebrates Nobel Prize, but worries about declining prowess (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 01:46 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Israel has celebrated this week's announcement of Israeli professor Dan Shechtman’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry as if he won Olympic Gold.

Libyan Rebels Push into Sirt, Muammar Gaddafi's Hometown (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Time.com - As they promised, the rebels press hard against the last big town loyal to the dictator, suffering a large number of casualties but, at the end of the first real day, strangely optimistic

European Central Bank offers lifeline to ailing eurozone lenders (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 12:13 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Jean-Claude Trichet, outgoing president of the European Central Bank (ECB), brought good news and bad news to Berlin.

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