2011年7月10日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News


France tells Libya rebels to seek peace with Gaddafi (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jul 2011 02:24 PM PDT

Rebels sit at the back of a truck in the village of Al-Qawalish July 10, 2011. Rebel fighters in western Libya faced sustained artillery and rocket bombardment by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi for the fifth straight day on Saturday. REUTERS/Anis MiliReuters - A French minister said on Sunday it was time for Libya's rebels to negotiate with Muammar Gaddafi's government, but Washington said it stood firm in its belief that the Libyan leader cannot stay in power.


Gaddafi government in talks with France: report (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jul 2011 05:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Saif al-Islam, a son of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, said his father's administration was in talks with the French government, according to an interview published on Monday in an Algerian newspaper.

Analysis: Sudan's smooth separation masks messy divorce (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jul 2011 11:23 AM PDT

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir (L) and Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir attend the Independence Day ceremony in South Sudan's capital Juba July 9, 2011. REUTERS/Thomas MukoyaReuters - North and South Sudanese awoke in separate nations Sunday, relieved at the ease of the split but no closer to solving rows over borders, oil sharing and other issues that may yet spark conflict.


Interpol issues warrants for Hariri killing suspects (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jul 2011 11:47 AM PDT

Reuters - Interpol has circulated arrest warrants for four suspects in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese statesman Rafik al-Hariri, U.N.-backed tribunal said on Sunday.

Over 100 missing after boat sinks in Russia's Volga (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jul 2011 03:16 PM PDT

Russian Emergencies Ministry members work on the bank of the Volga river to start the search for the missing people from a tourist boat in the Tatarstan region July 10, 2011. REUTERS/Yegor AleevReuters - More than 100 people were missing and feared drowned after a tourist boat sank in Russia's Volga river on Sunday, emergency services officials and survivors said.


Jubilation in Juba: What Does Freedom Mean for South Sudan (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 10:30 PM PDT

Time.com - The world's newest country may have oil to fuel its future but there is a mess of unresolved issues with Khartoum that may violently complicate the days and months ahead

UK government lawyers in plan to block BSkyB bid: paper (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jul 2011 04:17 PM PDT

Reuters - British government lawyers are drawing up a plan to block Rupert Murdoch's bid for the pay-TV operator BSkyB, the Independent newspaper reported on Monday.

Panetta in Iraq to see officials, commanders (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2011 04:32 PM PDT

US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, right,  has a brief chat with his US Generals Anthony Rock, left, and Lloyd Austin, late Sunday July 10, 2011, during an unannounced visit by the U.S. Secretary to Camp Dwyer, Sunday July 10, 2011, in southern Afghanistan. (AP  Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)AP - From one war front to another Sunday, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta hopped from a U.S. outpost in Afghanistan's southern desert to Baghdad, where he sought to encourage Iraqi leaders to decide soon whether they want a residual American military force beyond year's end.


Bolivian leader: Hugo Chavez's health improving (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2011 04:31 PM PDT

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, center, smiles accompanied by Bolivia's President Evo Morales, right, and Uruguay's President Jose Mujica during a meeting as a part of Venezuela's Bicentennial celebrations at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 5, 2011.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez appears to have made it through his most difficult moments and is improving after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor, Bolivian leader Evo Morales said Sunday.


Egyptian frustrations with army, government mount (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Jul 2011 04:05 PM PDT

A protester holding a big Egyptian flag walks in Tahrir square in Cairo July 10, 2011. REUTERS/Asmaa WaguihReuters - Egyptian activists vowed on Sunday to stay camped in Cairo's Tahrir Square, accusing the army rulers of failing to sweep out corruption, end the use of military courts and swiftly try those who killed protesters.


Tough line: US suspends military aid to Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2011 04:27 PM PDT

A Pakistani paramilitary soldier secure an area as other troops move toward a forward base during a military operation against militants in Pakistan's Khurram tribal region, Saturday, July 9, 2011.  'A military operation in Kurram tribal region has been launched to clear the area of terrorists involved in all kinds of terrorist activities, including kidnapping and killing of locals, suicide attacks and blocking the road connecting Lower with upper Kurram,' Pakistani army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas  said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair)AP - The Obama administration's decision to suspend $800 million in aid to the Pakistan's military signals a tougher U.S. line with a critical but sometimes unreliable partner in the fight against terrorism.


New Australian law to make Muslims lift veils (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2011 05:25 AM PDT

A Muslim woman wearing a burqa shops at a local market in Sydney Sunday, July 10, 2011. Muslim women would have to remove veils and show their faces to police on request or risk a prison sentence under proposed new laws in Australia's most populous state of New South Wales that have drawn criticism as culturally insensitive. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - Muslim women would have to remove veils and show their faces to police on request or risk a prison sentence under proposed new laws in Australia's most populous state that have drawn criticism as culturally insensitive.


South Sudan: A Hidden Tour of Juba, the Newest World Capital (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 10:30 PM PDT

Time.com - As South Sudan declares its independence, its capital city Juba is a complicated and fast-growing metropolis, teeming with prostitutes, adventurers, refugees and NGOs
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