2011年11月19日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News


Gaddafi's son captured, scared and without a fight (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 02:56 PM PST

This image from Libyan television and made available by the Libyan Outreach group via Facebook, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, purportedly shows Seif al-Islam Gadhafi in custody in an undisclosed location. Moammar Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam, the only member of the ousted ruling family to remain at large, was captured as he traveled with aides in a convoy in Libya's southern desert, Libyan officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Libyan TV via Libyan Outreach)Reuters - Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam has been captured in Libya's southern desert, scared and with only a handful of supporters, by fighters who vow to hold him in the mountain town of Zintan until there is a government to hand him over to.


One killed as Egyptian police, protesters clash (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 02:04 PM PST

Reuters - At least one person was killed and more than 650 wounded in clashes between riot police and protesters in Cairo's Tahrir square on Saturday, official said, after a protest demanding the ruling military transfer power swiftly to a civilian government.

Spanish voters set to throw out Socialists (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 03:34 PM PST

Reuters - Spaniards are expected to throw out the Socialists they blame for a disastrous economic situation in an election Sunday and to vote in a center-right party likely to dole out more bitter medicine in the form of public spending cuts.

Ethiopian troops move into Somalia: witnesses (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 12:28 PM PST

Reuters - Scores of Ethiopian military vehicles pushed at least 80 km (50 miles) into neighbouring Somalia on Saturday, residents said, five weeks after Kenya entered Somalia to fight Islamist militants it blames for a wave of kidnappings on its soil.

Israel: time running out to stop a nuclear Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 10:46 AM PST

Reuters - Iran is less than a year away from being unstoppable in its goal of producing a nuclear weapon, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview with CNN released on Saturday.

The Capture of Gaddafi's Son: The Reformer Who Refused to Reform (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 09:55 PM PST

Time.com - According to one aide, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi had opportunities to join the rebellion against his father. But he refused every one and turned against the rebels instead

AP Enterprise: US fugitive's 41-year life on lam (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 04:01 PM PST

In this Friday, Oct. 14, 2011 file photo, American fugitive George Wright stands by the door of his home in Almocageme, Portugal, outside Lisbon. The tale of Wright's life on the run spans 41 years and three continents. It starts in New Jersey with a prison break, moves to Algeria on a hijacked plane, to Paris where he lived underground, to Lisbon where he fell in love, to the tiny West African nation of Guinea-Bissau - and finally to an idyllic Portuguese seaside village, where he built a life as a respected family man. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)AP - On a spring day in 1976, while hiding out in Paris, an American member of the Black Liberation Army panicked.


Egypt police clash with protesters ahead of vote (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 04:30 PM PST

Protesters help a wounded man during clashes with Egyptian riot police in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. Thousands of police clashed with protesters for control of downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday after security forces tried to stop activists from staging a long-term sit-in there. The violence took place just nine days before Egypt's first elections since the ouster of longtime President Hosni Mubarak in February. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - Egyptian riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets stormed into Cairo's Tahrir Square Saturday to dismantle a protest tent camp, setting off clashes that killed two protesters, injured hundreds and raised tensions days before the first elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster.


Security fears keep Nigeria president from home state vote (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 04:07 PM PST

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan gives a speech during the lunch Reuters - Security fears kept Nigeria's president from attending his party's gubernatorial primary on Saturday in his home state that has been tainted by an escalating row over the incumbent governor's exclusion from running.


Analysis:Obama pivots towards Asia, eyeing U.S. exports and jobs (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 12:18 PM PST

Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama sought to charm Asia-Pacific leaders this week with Australian slang and memories from his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia in his bid to boost U.S. ties with the fast-growing region.

Nurse charged over Sydney nursing home fire deaths (AP)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 04:13 AM PST

AP - A nurse who said he rescued patients from a fire at a nursing home was charged with murder Saturday in the blaze that killed five of them and critically injured 13 others.

Qaddafi heir Seif al-Islam captured in Libya (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 07:36 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, considered Moammar Qaddafi's heir apparent, long drew Western favor by touting himself as a liberalizing reformer but then staunchly backed his father in his brutal crackdown on rebels in the regime's final days.

Diabetic Chefs Make Healthy Eating Easy (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 09:55 PM PST

Time.com - Blood Sugar Skillet Magic: The Chefs Rocking the World of Diabetic Cooking

Kenya finds cleaner government is just a keystroke away (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 07:01 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Kenya is an economic engine for East Africa, but its rise on the global stage has long been stunted by corruption.
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