2011年11月14日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

Monti to wind up consultations on Italy government (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:40 PM PST

Newly appointed Prime Minister Mario Monti arrives to speak to reporters following a talk with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano at the Quirinale palace in Rome November 13, 2011. Italy's head of state begins talks on Sunday to appoint an emergency government to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and handle a crisis that has brought the euro zone's third largest economy to the brink of financial disaster. REUTERS/Quirinale Presidential Office/HandoutReuters - Italy's Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti concludes consultations on Tuesday to form a new government, one he hopes will last until 2013 and sort out Italy's deep economic problems.

Yemen's Saleh says ready to step down in 90 days (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 12:38 PM PST

Reuters - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Monday he was ready to step down within 90 days of reaching a deal on a formal process for implementing a Gulf initiative aimed at ending the nine-month-old crisis in his country.

Afghans tentatively seek a voice after 30 years of conflict (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:44 PM PST

Reuters - After three decades of occupation, civil war, Taliban rule and a NATO-led military campaign, ordinary Afghans remain powerless and without a unified voice.

EU ministers postpone decision on new Iran sanctions (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 02:37 PM PST

Reuters - European Union foreign ministers spoke out in favor of tougher sanctions against Iran Monday, but decided to wait until their next meeting on Dec 1. before taking further action.

Syria faces growing world pressure to halt bloodshed (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 01:02 PM PST

Reuters - Jordan's King Abdullah told Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Monday he should step down and the European Union added pressure with more sanctions after the Arab League's surprise suspension of Damascus for its violent crackdown on protests.

Is Europe's Crisis a Glimpse of America's Future? (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 09:00 AM PST

Time.com - The problems caused by rising debt are fundamentally different in the U.S. from those in Europe, but they are equally daunting

German intel agencies puzzled by far right terror (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:57 PM PST

Aerial view of a house in Zwickau, eastern germany, that was set on fire and exploded a week ago photographed Sunday Nov. 13, 2011. German police on Sunday arrested a suspected accomplice of a group of far-right extremists who are believed to be responsible for killing 10 people, prosecutors said. Two of the other group members are dead while the third turned herself in to police after setting this house on fire. The suspect, identified only as Holger G. in line with German privacy laws, is believed to have helped the group's other three known members by providing them with documents and vehicles The group is suspected of having murdered eight people of Turkish origin and one Greek in several German cities between September 2000 and April 2006, as well as killing the police officer in the southwestern city of Heilbronn in April 2007. (AP Photo/dapd/ Uwe Meinhold)AP - Germany's domestic intelligence agency was put on the defensive Monday, amid questions of how a neo-Nazi group that it had been aware of in 1998 could have slipped from its radar and carried out a series of bank robberies and at least 10 murders.

Pressure mounts on Syrian leader amid crackdown (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 05:11 PM PST

Pro-Syrian regime protesters, hold portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad and shout slogans against the Arab League, as they gather outside the Syrian foreign ministry where Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem helds a press conference, in Damascus, Syria, on Monday Nov. 14, 2011. Syria's foreign minister accused Arab states on Monday of conspiring against Damascus after the Arab League voted to suspend Syria's membership over the government's deadly crackdown on an eight month-old uprising. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)AP - Jordan's king said Monday that Syrian President Bashar Assad should step down for the good of his country, the first Arab leader to publicly make such a call as Syria's neighbors close ranks against an increasingly isolated regime.

Ex-ruling party wins violence-scarred Mexican race (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 03:03 PM PST

A man casts his ballot during the elections for governor of the state of Michoacan, in Morelia, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011. Web users claiming to be in the hacking movement known as 'Anonymous' said they are behind an attack on the website of the New Alliance party, which backs the gubernatorial race of Luisa Calderon, sister of Mexico's President Felipe Calderon. (AP Photo/STR)AP - The party that held a lock on power in Mexico for seven decades appears to have won a key state election before the country's presidential race by becoming the party of change.

Most looted missiles still in Libya: U.S. official (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 01:59 PM PST

Reuters - Most of Libya's missing stocks of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles are still in the country but they need to be secured before they are smuggled to militants outside Libya, a U.S. official said on Monday.

Australian PM says she favors vote on gay marriage (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 05:07 PM PST

AP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she favors allowing a parliamentary vote on same-sex marriage — although she personally opposes changing the law.

New Quebec party could marginalize separatists (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 11:56 AM PST

Reuters - A senior Quebec politician, fed up with decades of arguments over whether the province should separate from Canada, launched his own party on Monday, with polls showing he would easily win an election now.

New Zealand crews pump all oil from grounded ship (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:11 AM PST

In this photo provided by New Zealand Maritime, a sea crane, foreground, arrives to begin removing some of the 1,280 containers that remain on board the cargo ship Rena, near Tauranga, New Zealand, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. The Rena grounded on the Astrolabe reef near Tauranga on Oct. 5 and authorities feared the worst as about 385 tons of oil initially spilled into the ocean, fouling local beaches. (AP Photo/New Zealand Maritime, Graeme Brown, HO) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Salvage crews have successfully removed all the remaining oil from a cargo ship that ran aground on a New Zealand reef, avoiding a worse environmental disaster.

Did Israel assassinate Iran's 'missile king'? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 10:10 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Iran today buries a senior commander of its missile force, amid claims that the huge explosion that killed him and at least 16 others at a Revolutionary Guard base on Saturday was the work of Israeli agents.

'Cold and Inhuman': Anders Behring Breivik Makes First Public Court Appearance (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 02:15 AM PST

Time.com - Breivik described himself as a "resistance" fighter while appearing in a courtroom packed with 500 people

Neo-Nazi cell shines light on far-right extremism in Germany (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 09:57 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Ten days ago, police in the town of Eisenach in southeast Germany found the scarred bodies of two men with gunshot wounds to the head in a burned-out recreational vehicle. At the time, it looked like a double suicide of two bank robbers who had just stolen 10,000 euros at gunpoint from a local bank and then been cornered by officers.

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