2013年6月8日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Boy, 4, Who Accidentally Killed Dad 'Doesn't Know That His Father Is Gone'

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 12:32 PM PDT

Arizona Father Accidentally Shot by Four-Year-Old Son Wielding Gun

Kabul demands British forces transfer prisoners within weeks

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 12:32 PM PDT

Afghanistan's President Karzai speaks during a celebration for World Environment Day in KabulKABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday demanded that Britain hand over within two weeks more than 80 prisoners of war being held in a British base in the south, saying the detention was against Afghan law and a breach of sovereignty. The issue of prisoner transfers is an irritant in the relationship Karzai between and his Western backers, and has become more pronounced as the NATO-led international force prepares to pull out most of its troops by the end of next year. ...


Car bomb kills 7 people in central Syrian city

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 12:16 PM PDT

FILE -- In this June 5, 2013 file photo released, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a damaged street is seen in Qusair, Syria. Syria's civil war has morphed into a proxy fight in which Shiite Iran has strongly backed Assad, while Sunni Arab nations have backed rebels. Many Sunni hard-liners around the Mideast have taken Hezbollah's intervention in Syria almost as a declaration of war by Shiites against Sunnis. (AP Photo/SANA, File)BEIRUT (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Saturday in Syria's central city of Homs, tearing through an area largely populated by the regime's Alawite sect and killing seven people, a state-owned TV station reported. Meanwhile, government troops took control of a key village as the regime presses its offensive to clear a path between Damascus and the Mediterranean coast.


US-ARTS Summary

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 08:11 AM PDT

London art market woos 'uber-collectors' to buoy summer sales LONDON (Reuters) - Auctioneers are pinning their hopes on "uber-collectors" to help London summer art sales top last year's $1 billion total when the series kicks off later this month. Estimates from Christie's, Sotheby's and smaller rivals such as Phillips and Bonhams for sales over the next few weeks in the British capital show that the paintings, sculptures and furniture under the hammer are on course to defy a sluggish global economy again this year. ...

George W. Obama? With NSA spying, Obama feels wrath of the left

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 07:05 AM PDT

Into his fifth year in office, President Obama knows well attacks from the right. Obamacare, Benghazi, IRS shenanigans, he's taken his lumps from Republicans and conservative activists. "Impeach him!" many cry. Only occasionally is he whacked from the left (see Guantánamo Bay prison camp).

Car bombs kill 5 in Iraq

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 03:58 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Authorities say two car bombs, one in a Baghdad Shiite neighborhood and the other targeting an Iraqi police convoy, have killed five people.

Soccer-Forty-year-old Schwarzer dreams of third World Cup

Posted: 08 Jun 2013 02:00 AM PDT

(Corrects year to 1974 in para 12) By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE, June 8 (Reuters) - Mark Schwarzer's release from Fulham this week may spell the end of the Australian's storied career in the English Premier League, but the 40-year-old goalkeeper would sooner regard it a speedhump on a road that ends at the World Cup finals in Brazil. Schwarzer, who leaves Craven Cottage after five seasons to make way for 30-year-old Dutchman Maarten Stekelenberg, has no intention of leaving Australia's goalmouth nearly 20 years after his 1994 debut against Canada. ...

Army suspends general linked to sex-assault probe

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 07:37 PM PDT

In this image provided by the Army, Maj. Gen. Michael T. Harrison Sr., left, commander of U.S. Army Japan and I Corps (Forward), stands aboard a craft near Tengan Pier in Okinawa, Japan, during a tour of some of the 505th Quartermaster Battalion's facilities on Chibana Compound. Harrison has been suspended from his duties for allegedly failing to report or properly investigate an allegation of sexual assault, the Army said Friday, June 7, 2013. Harrison was suspended by the Army chief of staff, Gen. Ray Odierno, and Army Secretary John McHugh, the Army said. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, Chip Steitz)WASHINGTON (AP) — A two-star general who commands U.S. Army forces in Japan has been suspended from his duties for allegedly failing to report or properly investigate an allegation of sexual assault, the Army said Friday.


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