2011年1月1日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

U.N. peacekeepers focus on reported Ivory Coast abuses (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 04:53 PM PST

Reuters - U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast are doing everything possible to gain access to areas of the country where human rights abuses are alleged to have occurred, the United Nations said on Saturday.

Rousseff becomes first woman to lead Brazil (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 11:15 AM PST

Shamans hold a photograph of Brazil's President-elect Dilma Rousseff as they perform a ritual for new year wishes in Lima December 29, 2010 . REUTERS/Mariana BazoReuters - Dilma Rousseff became Brazil's first female president on Saturday and promised to build on an unprecedented run of economic success achieved by her popular predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Iraqi civilian deaths down in 2010 (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 12:36 PM PST

A resident cleans the site of a bomb attack that targeted Christians in Baghdad December 31, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammed AmeenReuters - The number of civilians killed in violence in Iraq fell last year and December was the least deadly month of 2010, official figures showed on Saturday.

A Brief History of Anarchism: The European Tradition (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 04:05 AM PST

Time.com - Anarchists have claimed to be behind recent bombs in Rome -- but the political ideology they espouse had its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Russian passenger jet explodes; 3 dead, 43 injured (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 04:21 PM PST

In this image taken from Russia 24 television channel TV, showing a tail part of the Russian passenger Tu-154 aircraft seen after an explosion in Surgut, about 2200 kilometers (1,350 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. The Russian passenger jet carrying 128 people caught fire and later exploded at a Siberian airport on Saturday, killing one person and injuring several others, officials said. The rest of the passengers and crew were safely evacuated before the explosion in the Western Siberian oil town of Surgut. (AP Photo/Rossia 24 Television Channel) TV OUTAP - A Russian passenger jet carrying 124 people caught fire as it taxied down a snowy runway in Siberia and then exploded Saturday, killing three people and injuring 43, including six who were badly burned, officials said.

Christians, police clash after Egypt church bomb (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 04:11 PM PST

An Egyptian Copt observes the scene, wrapped in a sheet on which a Christian cross has been painted in blood, outside the Coptic Christian Saints Church in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. A car exploded in front of the church early Saturday as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Mass, killing at least 21 people according to officials, and sparking clashes between Christians and Muslims, a sign of the sectarian anger that has been arising with greater frequency in Egypt. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Christians clashed with Egyptian police in the northern city of Alexandria on Saturday, furious over an apparent suicide bombing against worshippers leaving a New Year's Mass at a church that killed at least 21 people. It was the worst violence against the country's Christian minority in a decade.

Rousseff sworn in as Brazil's new president (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 02:01 PM PST

Brazil´s outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, raises the arm of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff after placing the presidential sash on her at the Planalto palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. Rousseff, a former rebel who was imprisoned and tortured during the nation's 21-year military dictatorship, was sworn in as Brazil's first female president Saturday.(AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - From torture in a dictatorship-era jail cell to the helm of Latin America's largest nation, it's been an unlikely political rise for President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist rebel turned career technocrat who claimed Brazil's seat of power Saturday.

Ivory Coast: Ouattara ally calls for force (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 04:09 PM PST

A UN soldier stands guard inside the UN Headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Cost, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. The United Nations is warning supporters of incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo that an attack on the hotel where the internationally recognized winner of last month's election is based could re-ignite civil war. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP - A top ally of the man widely recognized as Ivory Coast's president said incumbent Laurent Gbagbo is using stalling tactics to stay in power and urged the international community on Saturday to intervene with "legitimate force" to remove him.

Woman missing in Australian floodwaters (AP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 03:54 PM PST

A wallaby stands on a large round hay bail trapped by rising flood waters outside the town of Dalby in Queensland, Australia Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Days of torrential downpours have left parts of central and southern Queensland state inundated, flooding thousands of homes and businesses, cutting off roads and forcing the entire populations of two towns to evacuate. (AP Photo/Anthony Skerman)AP - Australian officials were searching on Sunday for a woman swept into a swollen river, with fears growing she may be the first victim of relentless flooding that one official has described as reaching "biblical proportions."

Fears for missing in 'biblical' Australian floods (AFP)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 02:27 PM PST

A submerged vehicle reappears, covered in mud, in the centre of Bundaberg as flood waters begin to recede. Australian emergency services were battling floods Sunday in the rural northeast that have affected up to 200,000 people, as fears grew the murky waters may have claimed their first victim.(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Australian emergency services were battling floods Sunday in the rural northeast that have affected up to 200,000 people, as fears grew the murky waters may have claimed their first victim.

How Property Rights Might End Colombia's Guerrilla War (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 03:45 AM PST

Time.com - The Latin American nation has the second largest population of internally displaced people in the world. How the new president intends to change that.

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