2011年1月9日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

At least 70 killed in Iranian passenger plane crash (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jan 2011 02:19 PM PST

The wreckage of the Iranian Boeing 727 airplane is pictured after it crashed near Urumiyeh in East Azermaijan province about 946 km (588 miles) northwest of Tehran January 9, 2011. REUTERS/IRNA/Aliasqar ShadjooReuters - At least 70 people were killed and 35 injured when an Iranian Boeing 727 passenger plane crashed in bad weather in northwestern Iran on Sunday, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent said.

U.S. criticizes Israel over Jerusalem settlement (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jan 2011 05:00 PM PST

A construction vehicle works on a construction site in a Jewish settlement near Jerusalem known to Israelis as Har Homa and to Palestinians as Jabal Abu Ghneim December 14, 2010. REUTERS/Ammar AwadReuters - Israeli bulldozers cleared the way for 20 new homes for Jews in East Jerusalem by demolishing a derelict hotel Sunday, in a settlement project that angered Palestinians and drew criticism from the United States.

A year on, hubris and debris clog Haiti quake recovery (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jan 2011 07:54 AM PST

A Haitian man builds a wooden house next to houses destroyed by the January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 8, 2011. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozReuters - When the ground shook Haiti on a Caribbean winter afternoon a year ago, toppling homes like cards and killing around 250,000 people, world leaders promised quick action to ease the human tragedy and rebuild the country.

Flash floods hit Australia's third largest city (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:43 PM PST

A general view of Depot Hill affected by flooded waters in Rockhampton, Queensland, January 6, 2011. Australia's record floods are causing catastrophic damage to infrastructure in the state of Queensland and have forced 75 percent of its coal mines, which fuel Asia's steel mills, to grind to a halt, Queensland's premier said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Daniel MunozReuters - Residents of low-lying parts of Australia's third largest city, Brisbane, sandbagged their homes against rising waters Monday as torrential rain exacerbated record floods that have paralyzed the coal industry in the northeast and now threaten tourism.

As Sudan Prepares to Split, Border Tensions Rise in Abyei (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 11:00 PM PST

Time.com - Fighting between southern police and a northern militia resulted in the deaths of as many as nine people, according to reports from southern officials.

Plane with 106 people crashes in Iran; 35 survive (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2011 01:28 PM PST

In this image made from TV rescue workers attend the scene after an IranAir passenger jet carrying around 100 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing Sunday Jan 9 2011 in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing 70 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries. It was not clear what caused the Boeing-727, operated by Iran's national airline, to attempt an emergency landing in the city of Orumiyeh, 460 miles (700 kilometers) northwest of the capital, Tehran. (AP Photo / Al Alam) NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN NO ACCESS VOA PERSIAN IRAN OUTAP - An IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing Sunday in a snowstorm in the country's northwest and broke into several pieces, killing 71 of those on board, Iranian media reported. The others survived with light injuries.

Chavez calls burning of gov't building terrorism (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2011 03:09 PM PST

AP - Venezuelan authorities have evidence of arson in a fire that badly damaged a government building used by officials carrying out farm seizures, President Hugo Chavez said Sunday, calling it an act of terrorism.

Sudanese refugees in the US vote on independence (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:18 PM PST

Chicago Bulls' Luol Deng, of Sudan, holds a Sudanese flag as he waits to cast his vote for the Southern Sudan Referendum at polling center in Chicago, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. Southern Sudanese living in the U.S., travel to eight polling sites from Phoenix to Boston to cast their votes. This morning marks the first opportunity for southerners to cast ballots in an independence referendum, the outcome of which will determine if the south secedes from the north to form an independent country. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP - Thousands of jubilant Sudanese refugees living in the United States turned polling places into victory parties Sunday with chanting, singing and flag-waving as they voted on a historic referendum that could separate their homeland, Southern Sudan, from the north and create the world's newest country.

'Dramatic' rain warning for flood-soaked Australia (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2011 03:39 PM PST

An Australian army helicopter carries the country's Prime Minister Julia Gillard over the flooded Fitzroy River in Rockhampton. Heavy rains falling on Australia's flooded north-east could have a AFP - Heavy rains falling on Australia's flooded north-east could have a "dramatic" impact, officials warned Sunday, stretching already swollen rivers and creeks to their limit across the devastated region.

TSX marks 4th straight loss as resources drag (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 03:59 PM PST

Reuters - Toronto's main stock index fell for a fourth straight session on Friday, extending its 2011 losses as lower commodity prices and a fire in the Alberta oil sands pulled down oil and other resource shares.

Driving rain brings new flood woes to Australia (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2011 01:55 AM PST

Mud-caked debris is piled in front of a house at Condamine, Australia, after floodwater washed away or ruined household items from hundreds of homes, Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. Some victims of Australia's worst floods in decades returned to their homes to find them caked in sludge as others nervously watched the skies for more rain and waited for swollen rivers to recede. (AP Photo/Dean Saffron) AUSTRALIA OUTAP - A swollen river submerged bridges and inundated homes and stores Sunday in Australia's already sodden Queensland state as more heavy rain added to the country's worst flooding in decades.

Pakistan's Police and Army: How Many Enemies Within? (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Jan 2011 11:00 PM PST

Time.com - After the assassination of the governor of Punjab, the question has arisen: how much of the country's security apparatus has been compromised by radicals?

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