2012年4月21日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Report: Wal-Mart hushed up Mexico bribe network

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File photo of a customer paying for merchandise at a Wal-Mart store in Mexico CityWal-Mart Stores Inc. hushed up a vast bribery campaign that top executives of its Mexican subsidiary carried out to build stores across that country, according to a published report.


Longtime Utah senator Orrin Hatch forced into primary fight

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Senator Hatch talks to reporters during a series of votes in WashingtonBy a hair, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch was narrowly pushed into a Republican primary race against former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist Saturday after failing to capture the 60 percent necessary to win the nomination outright. Hatch received 59.19 percent on a second-round ballot vote against Liljenquist, who received 40.81 percent. "There will be a [...]


Watergate figure Charles Colson has died at 80

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FILE - In a Aug. 2, 2000 file photo, Charles Colson bears testimony at a conference for evangelical Protestants at Amsterdam's RAI congress center. Colson, the tough-as-nails special counsel to President Richard Nixon who went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case and became a Christian evangelical helping inmates, has died. He was 80. Jim Liske, chief executive of the Lansdowne-based Prison Fellowship Ministries that Colson founded, said Colson died Saturday, April 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)He was described as the "evil genius" of the Nixon administration, and spent the better part of a year in prison for a Watergate-related conviction. His proclamations following his release that he was a new man, redeemed by his religious faith, were met with more than skepticism by those angered at the abuses he had perpetrated as one of Nixon's hatchet men.


Lawmaker: More Secret Service agents likely to fall

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Prostitutes walk on the square of the old city in CartagenaMost of the Secret Service agents accused of misconduct with prostitutes ahead of President Barack Obama's recent visit to Colombia are likely to leave the agency, a top Republican lawmaker said on Saturday. Six of 11 employees linked to a night of partying in the coastal city of Cartagena on April 11-12 have left the agency over the scandal, which embarrassed the United States and overshadowed Obama's participation in the Summit of Americas meeting. ...


White Sox pitcher throws perfect game

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Philip Humber of the Chicago White Sox pitched a perfect gamePhil Humber threw the first perfect game in the majors in almost two years, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 4-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.


Police: Dutch train crash injures almost 125 people

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Emergency workers evacuate an injured passenger after two trains collidedAlmost 125 people were injured, many seriously, when two Dutch commuter trains crashed head-on in Amsterdam on Saturday, police said. There were no immediate reports of fatalities, but of those injured, 13 suffered major injuries while 43 or 44 were badly injured, a spokesman said. About 70 suffered minor injuries. A trauma helicopter was used to bring the injured to hospital, a spokesman for railways group NS said. The trains did not serve Schiphol international airport, the NS spokesman added, but the accident disrupted airport train service. ...


U.N. passes Syria monitors resolution

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At least 46 people were killed as thousands of Syrians protested on FridayThe United Nations voted Saturday to send 300 unarmed ceasefire observers to Syria, but the United States warned it may veto a new mandate for the force because its patience was "exhausted."


Chinese firm suspected in missile-linked sale to North Korea

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un waves his hand to the people during a military parade held to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the North's founder Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang in this picture released by KCNAThe United States believes a Chinese firm sold North Korea components for a missile transporter showcased in a recent military parade and will press Beijing to tighten enforcement of a U.N. ban on such military sales, a U.S. official said on Saturday. The Obama administration suspects the Chinese manufacturer sold the chassis - not the entire vehicle - and may have believed it was for civilian purposes, which means it would not be an intentional violation of U.N. sanctions, the senior official said. ...


Report: Bee Gee Robin Gibb wakes from coma

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British musician Robin Gibb prepares to present U.S.actor John Travolta the award for best international actor during Golden Camera awards in BerlinBee Gees singer Robin Gibb has woken from a coma more than a week after he lost consciousness and has attempted to communicate with family members at his hospital bedside, the BBC reported on Saturday. Gibb, 62, has begun to show signs of recovery and has been able to nod and communicate with his family, spokesman Doug Wright was quoted as saying by the BBC. Wright could not immediately be reached to confirm the report. The singer contracted pneumonia and fell into a coma at a central London hospital earlier this month. ...


Hugo Chavez's weeklong silence spurs uncertainty

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People walk by a mural of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 20, 2012. Chavez is in Cuba to continue with cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been out of sight for a week, speaking only through Twitter messages and written statements while undergoing cancer treatment in Cuba.


French voters frustrated on eve of election day

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Cyclist rides past electoral panels with campaign posters of candidates for 2012 French presidential election, in Mons en Pevele near LilleFrench voters voiced disillusionment on Saturday at a campaign that many said ignored the country's real problems, on the eve of a first-round vote expected to send President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist rival Francois Hollande to a runoff next month. A day ahead of voting in mainland France, the first ballots were cast in overseas territories, from French Guiana on the northern shores of South America to the Pacific islands of Polynesia. ...


Romney's task: Learn from errors made in primaries

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Tempe, Ariz., Friday, April 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Mitt Romney's urgent assignment now is to learn the lessons of a Republican primary season where missteps cost time and money while reinforcing doubts about his presidential candidacy.


Divided Congress confronts a rising cyberthreat

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FILE - This Sept. 30, 2011 file photo shows a reflection of the Department of Homeland Security logo in the eyeglasses of a cybersecurity analyst at the watch and warning center of the Department of Homeland Security's secretive cyber defense facility in Idaho Falls, Idaho. The center is tasked with protecting the nation's power, water and chemical plants, electrical grid and other facilities from cyber attacks. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)The mysterious caller claimed to be from Microsoft and offered step-by-step instructions to repair damage from a software virus. The electric power companies weren't falling for it.


Did U.S. fumble chance to probe China's secretive leadership?

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Deputy Mayor of Chongqing Wang reads documents as he attends a session of CPPCC of the Chongqing Municipal Committee, in Chongqing municipalityInformation about a Chinese policeman who implicated the wife of a top Chinese official in a British businessman's murder was not circulated widely in Washington as he was considered of marginal intelligence value, current and former U.S. officials said. In the weeks since Wang Lijun's visit to the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu and his subsequent detention, some critics of the Obama administration have accused it of fumbling what could have been one of the highest-level defectors ever from inside China's clannish leadership class. ...


China military warns of confrontation over seas

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U.S. army soldiers patrol as they conduct an ambush drill as part of the Filipino-U.S. joint military exercises inside a Philippine army campChina's military warned the United States on Saturday that U.S.-Philippine military exercises have raised risks of armed confrontation over the disputed South China Sea in the toughest high-level warning yet after weeks of tensions. China's official Liberation Army Daily warned that recent jostling with the Philippines over disputed seas where both countries have sent ships could boil over into outright conflict, and laid much of the blame at Washington's door. ...


Obama wooing young voters with student loan focus

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President Barack Obama blows an air horn during a ceremony to welcome the Wounded Warrior Project's Soldier Ride to the White House Friday, April 20, 2012, in Washington, in celebration of the sixth annual Soldier Ride. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Eager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education as he previews an argument he will make on university campuses next week in states crucial to his re-election.


Search resumes in high-profile N.Y. missing child case

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investigators in New York resumed the search for clues on Saturday into the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, digging into a Manhattan basement for a third day in hopes of solving a case that has confounded police for three decades. The boy was formally declared dead in 2001. But his fate has remained a mystery and the case, which helped spark a national movement on the issue of missing children, has continued to resonate with New Yorkers. Police declined to say if there were new suspects in the case. ...

Uganda Kony-hunting soldiers face jungle threats

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In this photo of Thursday April 19, 2012 Ugandan soldiers hunting for fugitive warlord Joseph Kony deep in the Central African Republic jungle patrol the area. For Ugandan soldiers tasked with catching Joseph Kony, the real threat is not the elusive Central Africa warlord and his brutal gang. Encounters between Ugandan troops and Lord's Resistance Army rebels are so rare that the Kony hunters worry about other things when they walk the jungle: armed poachers, wild beasts, honey bees, and even a widely-ranging fly that torments their ears during day. (AP Photo/Rodney Muhumuza)For Ugandan soldiers tasked with catching Joseph Kony, the real threat is not the elusive Central Africa warlord and his brutal gang. Encounters with the Lord's Resistance Army rebels are so rare that Kony hunters worry more about the threats of the jungle: Armed poachers, wild beasts, honey bees, and even a fly that torments their ears.


Coroner says Andrew Breitbart died of heart failure

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Conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart speaks at a news conference prior to U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner in New YorkConservative blogger and commentator Andrew Breitbart died of heart failure stemming from coronary artery disease, Los Angeles County coroner's office officials said. The 43-year-old collapsed as he was walking his dog near his Brentwood home and died on March 1. Breitbart had a negligible...


Calif. eatery known for 'rudest waiter' may stay open

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Signs taped to the walls from long ago are shown inside the Sam Wo restaurant in Chinatown in San Francisco, Friday, April 20, 2012. The 100-year-old Chinese restaurant known for having A San Francisco Chinese restaurant once known for having "the world's rudest waiter" may not be closing for good after all.


‘Dog Whisperer’ host must pay ex-wife $23,000 a month

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2012 Winter TCA Tour - Day 10"Dog Whisperer" host Cesar Millan might need some consolation from man's best friend after his divorce was finalized. TMZ is reporting that the self-taught expert dog trainer must pay his ex-wife, Ilusión, a one-time amount of $400,000, a monthly spousal payment of $23,000, and another $10,000 for monthly child support. That may seem like a [...]


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