2011年6月28日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

Greek police clash with austerity protesters (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 12:29 PM PDT

Demonstrators march in protest against austerity measures in front of the Greek parliament in Athens, June 28, 2011. With Greece teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, parliament is due to vote this week on a package of spending cuts, tax increases and privatisations agreed as part of a massive bailout aimed at averting the euro zone's first default. REUTERS/John KolesidisReuters - Greek riot police with teargas and batons fought hooded youths near parliament on Tuesday as violence broke out at a rally against anti-austerity measures international lenders have demanded from the Athens government.

Suicide bombers attack landmark hotel in Afghan capital (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:54 PM PDT

The Inter-Continental hotel in seen in the dark as tracer bullets are shot during an attack in Kabul. An attack against a top hotel in Kabul has ended with the killing of six suicide bombers by security forces, an interior ministry spokesman said Wednesday.(AFP/Massoud Hossaini)Reuters - At least five Taliban suicide bombers attacked a major hotel frequented by Westerners in Afghanistan's capital late on Tuesday, Afghan officials said, leading to a battle that drew in helicopters from the NATO-led force.

"Game over" for Gaddafi in months: prosecutor (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:43 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2010 file photo, Harold Koh, the U.S. State Department legal adviser, speaks in Geneva, Switzerland. President Barack Obama is acting within the law in ordering U.S. military attacks against Libya, a top State Department lawyer told a Senate panel sharply divided over the commander in chief's authority in the 3-month-old conflict. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)Reuters - Libya's Muammar Gaddafi could fall within two to three months, the International Criminal Court's prosecutor said on Tuesday, as rebels sought to build on a gradual advance toward Tripoli.

Yemen may retake oil pipeline, crisis persists (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 08:46 AM PDT

A school door is painted with the colours of Yemen's national flag, as a soldier stands guard, on the first day of the General Secondary Examinations in Sanaa June 26, 2011. REUTERS/Suhaib SalemReuters - Yemen is considering using force to secure and repair its main oil pipeline, blown up in an attack by angry tribesmen in mid-March, a senior Yemeni official told Reuters on Tuesday.

Syrian tanks shell villages in Idlib region-residents (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:20 PM PDT

Reuters - Syrian tanks shelled a hill region in the northwestern province of Idlib, residents and activists said on Tuesday, in a widening military assault to suppress protests in rural regions that have already driven thousands of refugees to Turkey.

A Lose-Lose for Greeks Facing Austerity Measures (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Time.com - On the eve of an austerity vote that could earn Greece a financial lifeline or doom it to sink, many Greeks feel caught in a lose-lose crisis

Dutch approve ban on religious animal slaughter (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:59 PM PDT

AP - The Dutch parliament has passed a bill banning the slaughter of livestock without stunning it first, removing an exemption that has allowed Jews and Muslims to butcher animals according to their centuries-old dietary rules.

Egyptian protesters, police clash in Cairo (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:46 PM PDT

AP - Egyptian security forces firing tear gas clashed with around 3,000 rock-throwing protesters in central Cairo late Tuesday, leaving dozens injured, witnesses and medical officials said.

US agents seize cocaine haul in US Virgin Islands (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:01 PM PDT

AP - Federal agents and police in the U.S. Virgin Islands have seized a haul of cocaine worth about $16 million at a house on St. Thomas.

Police clash with protesters in Cairo (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:17 PM PDT

Egyptian military police stand guard in Tahrir Square in April 2011. Egyptian security forces on Tuesday fired tear gas on protesters in central Cairo after violent clashes that left several injured, a security official told AFP.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)AFP - Egyptian security forces on Tuesday fired tear gas on protesters in central Cairo after violent clashes that left several injured, a security official told AFP.

NATO helicopters kill gunmen at Kabul hotel siege (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:41 PM PDT

Afghan police officers travel in the back of a truck towards the road leading to the Inter Continental hotel, which is under attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Back-to-back explosions have rocked the Inter-Continental hotel, where Afghan police are battling insurgents who attacked with suicide bombers, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)AP - Two NATO helicopters fired rockets that killed three gunmen on the rooftop of a besieged Kabul hotel early Wednesday after Afghan police battled insurgents who attacked with suicide bombers, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

Ontario government spending plans optimistic: auditor (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 01:09 PM PDT

Reuters - Ontario's latest spending forecasts are optimistic and aggressive, the province's auditor general said on Tuesday, which may make it difficult for the government to meet its fiscal targets.

Aborigine crisis: Some see 'no other way but jail' (AP)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 06:52 AM PDT

Fabian Brown, an Aborigine with a long criminal record, stands outside an Aboriginal land administration building decorated with indigenous art in his home town of Tennant Creek in central Australia, Friday, June 24, 2011. Brown, known among Aborigines by his tribal name Jabangardi, is usually jobless, addicted to alcohol and has been in and out of prison since he was 17 for crimes of violence and theft. (AP Photo)AP - Fabian Brown, known among Aborigines by his tribal name Jabangardi, is usually jobless, addicted to alcohol and has been in and out of prison since he was 17.

Egypt's budding entrepreneurs get boost from US (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 12:36 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Sitting in the banquet hall of a luxurious hotel on the banks of the Nile, Mohammed Kamal rattles off his ideas for new mobile phone applications. Among them: an app that will diminish Cairo’s suffocating traffic and reduce government spending on fuel in the post-Mubarak Egypt.

Stranger Than Fiction: Kate Middleton and Jane Austen Are Distant Cousins (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Time.com - Ancestry.com has done some digging and revealed that the newest member of the royal family, Catherine Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the legendary author, Jane Austen, are related

Is the Taliban using girls in suicide bombings? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 11:25 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A 9-year-old girl who was drugged, abducted, and strapped into a suicide vest by militants last week in Pakistan returned home safely to her family last night. But the scene was darker yesterday in Afghanistan where insurgents apparently tricked an 8-year-old girl into carrying a bomb and blew her up near a police checkpost.

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