2011年12月3日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News


Russians vote in election test for Vladimir Putin (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 12:52 PM PST

Reuters - Vladimir Putin's ruling party could see its vast parliamentary majority cut back in elections that began Sunday in the icy tundra and sparsely-populated swathes of Russia's far east.

Egypt's Brotherhood leads on eve of run-off vote (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 03:54 PM PST

Reuters - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has called on its rivals to accept the will of the people after a first-round vote set its party on course to take the most seats in the country's first freely elected parliament in six decades.

At least 23 dead in intensifying Syria violence (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 02:36 PM PST

Reuters - At least 23 people were reported killed in Syria Saturday as violence intensified in the eighth month of an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, pushing the death toll close to 4,600, an activist group said.

Peru anti-mine roadblocks lifted, government calls talks (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 01:36 PM PST

Reuters - Peruvian protesters opposed to a $4.8 billion gold mine project abandoned roadblocks on Saturday as government officials called weekend talks with regional leaders to try to resolve the conflict.

Israel's Barak plays down "shadow war" against Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 12:12 PM PST

Reuters - Defense Minister Ehud Barak played down speculation on Saturday that Israel and U.S.-led allies were waging clandestine war on Iran, saying sanctions and the threat of military strikes were still the way to curb its nuclear program.

'Organic' Mineral Water? German Court Allows Statement of the Obvious (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 09:45 PM PST

Time.com - A German court has ruled in favor of a mineral water company hawking theirH2O as "bio," or organic

Russia's ruling party wary as nation votes (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 04:00 PM PST

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, signs autographs while visiting a shipbuilding plant in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011.  (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Yana Lapikova, Pool)AP - Russia's long dominant party appeared likely to lose its edge as voters across the sprawling country cast ballots for Parliament on Sunday, many of them frustrated over corruption and the gap between ordinary Russians and the super-rich.


AP Interview: Iraq PM confident in post-US future (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 03:23 PM PST

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Iraq's prime minister says a bombing in the Green Zone earlier this week was an assassination attempt against him. During an interview with The Associated Press Saturday, Nouri al-Maliki said the parliament building or speaker also could have been targets but preliminary information suggests the bombers were trying to get him. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Weeks before the U.S. pullout, Iraq's prime minister confidently predicted Saturday that his country will achieve stability and remain independent of its giant neighbor Iran even without an American troop presence.


Brazil: 33 dead in truck-bus crash (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 02:45 PM PST

Workers check the rubble of a bus after an accident in Milagres, Brazil's Bahia state, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. Brazilian authorities said a tractor-trailer slammed into the bus carrying sugarcane cutters, killing at least 33 people and injuring 13 after the truck driver lost control as he was rounding a corner and heading down a hill early Saturday. (AP Photo/Ag. A Tarde/Agencia O Globo,Zenilton Meira) DO NOT PUBLISH IN BRAZIL - NAO PUBLICAR NO BRASILAP - Brazilian authorities say a tractor-trailor has slammed into a bus carrying sugarcane cutters, killing at least 33 people and injuring 13 others.


Congo's Kabila leads election in early results (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 03:16 PM PST

Election volunteers sit on bags containing ballots as they wait for tally sheets to be computed at the Fikin compilation center in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. With voting finally wrapping up Thursday, the election is now moving into the next phase. Like the process of voting, the process of counting the ballots that were cast is plagued by massive logistical challenges. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - Congo's president, seeking a second term in a nation reeling from poverty and pummeled by war, was leading Saturday in early results, but his opponents insisted he step aside and accused him of trying to engineer "carnage."


Clinton speaks with Pakistan PM on NATO strikes (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 02:41 PM PST

Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday, again offering U.S. condolences over the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in NATO air strikes last week, the State Department said in a statement.

Australia's ruling party endorses gay marriage (AP)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 10:35 PM PST

A hand-made placard is held up as gay rights demonstrators gather for a rally at the Convention Centre in Sydney, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, where the Labor party are holding their annual conference. Australia's ruling center-left party voted to endorse same-sex marriage, a reversal of its long-standing position that has little practical effect on the chance of gay marriage being legalized in the country. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - Australia's ruling party voted Saturday to endorse same-sex marriage, a reversal of its long-standing position that has little practical effect on the chance of gay marriage being legalized in the country.


Mexico drug war casualty: Citizenry suffers post-traumatic stress (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:31 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - It was not a stifling evening, so Carolina Gomez, a pretty and petite kindergarten teacher in this Gulf coast city, turned off her air-conditioning unit and slid open the window over her bed. The tropical breeze lulled her to sleep by 11 p.m.

George Clooney's Satellites Build a Case Against an Alleged War Criminal (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 09:45 PM PST

Time.com - Exclusive: According to documents obtained by TIME, the ICC is building a case against Sudanese Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein with the help of information gathered by George Clooney and John Prendergast's Satellite Sentinel Project

Pervasive insecurity in Mexico: If this isn't 'terror,' what is? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Dec 2011 09:31 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Across the country bombs packed with unsophisticated explosives have gone off, killing bystanders and targets alike; gory videos documenting the torture and beheadings of countless people are disseminated on the Internet; dismembered bodies are disposed of in public spaces with threatening messages penned as warnings to others.

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