2011年8月7日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

Fears of more violence after worst London riots for years (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 11:52 AM PDT

Police officers wearing riot gear stand near a burning car in Tottenham, north London August 7, 2011. Crowds attacked riot police and set two squad cars alight in north London on Saturday following a protest at the fatal shooting of a man by armed officers earlier in the week. It is not known if the burning car in the picture is a police car. REUTERS/Stefan WermuthReuters - London braced on Sunday for more violence after some of the worst riots in the British capital for years which politicians and police blamed on criminal thugs but residents attributed to local tensions and anger over hardship.

NATO investigates deadly Afghan helicopter crash (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 01:36 PM PDT

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai speaks during a gathering with military personnel at the presidential palace in Kabul July 26, 2011. REUTERS/Omar SobhaniReuters - NATO tried to determine on Sunday if Taliban insurgents had shot down a troop-carrying helicopter in Afghanistan, killing 38 in the largest loss of life suffered by foreign forces in a single incident in 10 years of war.

Syria's Assad faces growing isolation over crackdown (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 10:45 AM PDT

Reuters - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faces growing isolation as the bloodshed from his crackdown on demonstrators seeking his overthrow begins to alienate even sympathetic Arab neighbors.

Syria tanks storm eastern city, kill 50: residents (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 02:29 PM PDT

EDITOR'S NOTE: REUTERS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT OF THE VIDEO FROM WHICH THIS STILL IMAGE WAS TAKEN A protester crouches near the body of a man lying on the ground in Hama in this still image taken from video posted on a social media website on August 4, 2011. REUTERS/Social media website via Reuters TVReuters - Syrian tanks stormed a city in the east of the country on Sunday, crushing makeshift barricades, opening fire and seizing the central square, residents said, in a fresh crackdown that activists said killed dozens of civilians.

U.S. concerned at Tymoshenko arrest, hundreds protest (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 01:22 PM PDT

Reuters - The United States has condemned the arrest of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, jailed for contempt of court for her behavior during a trial on charges of abuse of power.

Far-Right Ideologues Must Take Responsibility for the Islamophobia (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 03:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Viewpoint: Far-Right Ideologues Must Take Responsibility for Islamophobia

Eurozone must unite and act swiftly: Osborne (AFP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 04:38 PM PDT

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, pictured in July 2011, Monday urged eurozone nations to move quickly to ease fears over the debt crisis as the world's top finance officials prepared for crisis talks.(AFP/File/Carl Court)AFP - Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne Monday urged eurozone nations to move quickly to ease fears over the debt crisis as the world's top finance officials prepared for crisis talks.

Syria intensifies crackdown; activists say 59 dead (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 03:32 PM PDT

In this image from television taken Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011 and released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, empty streets with debris are shown of what SANA describes as the Syrian army restoring 'security and stability' to the central city of Hama, Syria. Syrian security forces pounded the city of Hama with tank shelling and opened fire on protesters who streamed into the streets across the country Friday Aug. 5, 2011 calling for the downfall of President Bashar Assad, killing at least four and wounding more than a dozen. (AP Photo/SANA) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Syrian troops fired on mourners at a funeral and raided an eastern city Sunday, killing at least 59 people in an intensifying government crackdown on protesters. Outrage was intensifying as well: Syria's Arab neighbors forcefully joined the international chorus of condemnation against President Bashar Assad's regime for the first time.

5 youths slain at hot dog stand in northern Mexico (AP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 02:53 PM PDT

Members of the Mexican Federal police patrol the entrance road to Matamaros city in Tamaulipas state, northern Mexico, in April 2011. The United States is sending new CIA operatives and retired military personnel to Mexico and may deploy private security contractors to fight drug cartels, The New York Times said.(AFP/File/Horacio Lopez)AP - Mexican authorities say five young people have been shot to death as they ordered dinner at a highway-side hot dog stand in northwestern Mexico.

Nigeria appoints managers for rescued banks (AFP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 12:37 PM PDT

A man keeps his money in his back pocket in Lagos. The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) on Sunday appointed new managers to run three struggling banks it has taken over under plans to inject fresh capital into them.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) on Sunday appointed new managers to run three struggling banks it has taken over under plans to inject fresh capital into them.

G7 ready to fight excessive currency moves: Japan (AFP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 04:56 PM PDT

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks during a meeting with US Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner at the Treasury Department in Washington, DC, in April 2011. Financial chiefs and central bankers of the G7 nations spoke again early Monday and agreed to cooperate against excessive currency moves, the Japanese finance minister said.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - Financial chiefs and central bankers of the G7 nations spoke again early Monday and agreed to cooperate against excessive currency moves, the Japanese finance minister said.

Legal challenge to Australia, Malaysia refugee swap (AFP)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 11:47 AM PDT

Malaysian human rights activists hold placards as they protest during the signing ceremony between Malaysia and Australia in downtown Kuala Lumpur in July 2011. Australia's plan to send asylum seekers to Malaysia struck a legal hitch Sunday, with a court delaying the transfer of the first group to the Asian nation pending another hearing.(AFP/File)AFP - Australia's plan to send asylum seekers to Malaysia struck a legal hitch Sunday, with a court delaying the transfer of the first group to the Asian nation pending another hearing.

Post-Petraeus Afghanistan: Turning Defeat into Transition (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 03:50 PM PDT

Time.com - A new military chief and a new U.S. ambassador are in place, but the same problems are sticking around

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