2011年6月5日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News


Yemen's Saleh comes out of surgery, future unclear (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 05:06 PM PDT

Anti-government protesters spray foam and wave the national flag to celebrate Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's departure to Saudi Arabia in Sanaa June 5, 2011. REUTERS/Ammar AwadReuters - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was recovering from an operation in Saudi Arabia to remove shrapnel from his chest while a truce between his troops and a tribal federation appeared to be holding.


Britain says rebels must plan for post-Gaddafi Libya (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 12:11 PM PDT

Rebel fighters patrol in the desert south of the Libyan rebel-held town of Chakchuk in the Western Mountains, some 160 km (99.4 miles) southwest of Tripoli, June 4, 2011. REUTERS/Youssef BoudlalReuters - Libya's rebel leaders must plan in detail how they would run the country if Muammar Gaddafi stood down and should learn from Iraq after the 2003 invasion, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Sunday.


Bahrain police clash with Shi'ite religious marchers (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 03:33 PM PDT

Reuters - Bahraini police clashed with Shi'ite marchers in a religious festival late on Sunday, less than a week after the Gulf kingdom repealed an emergency law that quashed weeks of protests.

One killed in Kenya blast, over 30 injured (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 12:56 PM PDT

Reuters - One person died and more than 30 others were injured in the Kenyan capital Sunday when an explosion in a hardware shop sparked a blaze at a neighboring petrol station, police said.

Left-winger Humala leads Peru election: quick count (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:25 PM PDT

Peru's presidential candidates Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori (L) wave at the end of a debate in Lima, in this May 29, 2011 file photograph. Polls leading up to Sunday's runoff election gave different results but showed a technical tie between the two. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares/FilesReuters - Left-wing former army commander Ollanta Humala had a narrow lead over right-wing lawmaker Keiko Fujimori in Peru's presidential election on Sunday, pollsters said.


The Shadow of Saleh: Spoiling the Party in Yemen (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 08:00 AM PDT

Time.com - The celebration among the protesters may be premature. Saleh loyalists still patrol the streets and the president's spokesmen insist he will return from Saudi Arabia

Conservative leader claims 3rd term in Macedonia (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:51 PM PDT

Macedonia's Conservative Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski talks to the media after casting his ballot, outside a polling station in Macedonia's capital Skopje, Sunday, June 5, 2011. Macedonians were voting Sunday in snap general elections called after months of bitter acrimony that has seen the opposition boycott parliament since the start of the year.  (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)AP - Macedonia's conservative coalition government claimed victory in Sunday's early general elections, and the opposition conceded defeat.


Moroccans march to protest death of demonstrator (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:22 PM PDT

Aniti- government protesters shout as they hold a poster of Kamal Al-Amri, pictured, a member of Morocco's main opposition Islamist group who died Thursday from wounds sustained during a pro-reform demonstration several days earlier, during a rally organized by the 20th February, the Moroccan Arab Spring movement iin Rabat, Morocco, Sunday June 5, 2011, in a mass popular call to bring more democracy into this North African kingdom. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)AP - Protesters have marched in Morocco's capital in anger at the death of a member of Morocco's main opposition Islamist group.


Unofficial count gives Humala narrow win in Peru (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:54 PM PDT

AP - Unofficial results are giving leftist military man Ollanta Humala a narrow win in Peru's tightly contested presidential runoff against the daughter of imprisoned ex-President Alberto Fujimori.

WWF says Madagascar's unique creatures threatened (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 05:01 PM PDT

AP - From giant palms to mouse-sized lemurs, unique plants and animals are threatened on Madagascar as political deadlock drags on following a 2009 coup.

Gates says US support troops should go home first (AP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:07 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, centre, thanks troops at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Walton in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 5, 2011. Gates is beginning two days of farewell visits to remote U.S. troop bases in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, pool)AP - A soon-to-begin U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan should leave combat power intact as long as possible to press an anti-Taliban offensive, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday. He said support troops should go first.


Burrows pounces in OT as Canucks go 2-0 up (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 08:28 AM PDT

Reuters - Alexandre Burrows struck 11 seconds into overtime to lift the Vancouver Canucks to a 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins on Saturday, moving them into a 2-0 series lead and halfway to their first Stanley Cup.

Australia flood costs soar to Aus$7bn (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 02:15 AM PDT

People evacuate their flooded homes in a boat in Chinchilla, Queensland last December.(AFP/Jeff Camden)AFP - The damage bill from massive floods which hit northeastern Australia a few months ago will likely be Aus$6.8 billion (US$7.3 billion) -- $1 billion more than previously thought -- an official said Sunday.


The Trouble with Non-Violence: A Tale of Two Palestinian Marches (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Jun 2011 08:00 AM PDT

Time.com - In the Golan Heights and the West Bank, Palestinian marches are met with force.
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