2010年6月27日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Elections


Obama cites 'obsession' on Afghanistan timeline (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 05:49 PM PDT

President Barack Obama of the United States speaks during his closing press conference at the G20 summit in Toronto, Sunday, June 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama said Sunday that there's "a lot of obsession" about the withdrawal date for U.S. troops from Afghanistan. He said his focus is on making sure the mission there is successful.


GOP senators: Can Kagan be impartial judge? (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 04:34 PM PDT

U.S. Solicitor General and Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan smiles as she begins her day-long tour of Captiol Hill at the office of  U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Capitol Hill in Washington May 12, 2010. REUTERS/Jason Reed/FilesAP - Leading Republican senators on Sunday questioned whether Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan could be an impartial judge as they tried to inject some drama into her upcoming confirmation hearing.


Obama: Attacks on Kagan 'pretty thin gruel' (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 03:35 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama says that attacks on his Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, have been "pretty thin gruel."

Obama: US looking for Chinese currency to rise (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 03:32 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama says the U.S. anticipates China's currency will rise significantly as market forces come to bear.

World leaders walk economic tightrope in Canada (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 05:14 PM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, is joined by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero, top right, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, left, and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during the official family photo at the G20 Summit Sunday, June 27, 2010, in Toronto.  (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Wary of slamming on the stimulus brakes too quickly but shaken by the European debt crisis, world leaders pledged Sunday to reduce government deficits in richer countries in half by 2013, with wiggle room to meet the goal.


SUMMIT NOTEBOOK: Sarkozy left in the dark (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 05:39 PM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks during his final press conference at the conclusion of the G20 Summit Sunday, June 27, 2010, in Toronto.  (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - Was it a nefarious Canadian plot that left French President Nicolas Sarkozy standing silently at a microphone in the dark?


Obama: North Korea's behavior is unacceptable (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 03:24 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama says that North Korea "engaged in belligerent behavior that is unacceptable to the international community" in sinking a South Korean ship.

Longtime Sen. Byrd in hospital, seriously ill (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 04:36 PM PDT

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., questions panel members on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 20, 2010, during the Senate Health and Human Services subcommittee hearing on mine safety. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Sen. Robert C. Byrd, who holds the record as the longest-serving member of Congress, is seriously ill in a Washington-area hospital, his office said Sunday.


Obama looks foward to India visit later this year (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 01:55 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama says he looks forward to visiting India, an important ally of the United States.

CIA chief Panetta: US has driven back al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 04:34 PM PDT

Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon E. Panetta speaks with reporters at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va. Senior U.S. intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 Al-Qaida can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - The U.S. has driven al-Qaida into hiding and undermined its leadership, but is struggling to oust its primary sympathizer, the Taliban, from Afghanistan, the nation's spymaster said Sunday.


Martin Ginsburg, justice's husband, dies (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 04:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2003 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, right, laughs with her husband Martin as they listen to Justice Stephen Breyer speak at Columbia Law School. The occasion celebrated the 10th anniversary of her appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey, File)AP - Martin Ginsburg, the husband of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a prominent lawyer in his own right, died Sunday from complications of metastatic cancer. He was 78.


Obama: Global recovery requires level playing field (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 03:14 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Sunday it was important for global growth that there be a level playing field, and that involves market-driven currency policies.

Guinea votes in first democratic election since independence (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 02:53 PM PDT

A man stands at a polling station in Conakry during the presidential elections. Guineans voted in droves on Sunday in the west African nation's first democratic election since independence in 1958, hoping to end half a century of military and civilian dictatorships.(AFP/Seyllou)AFP - Guineans voted in droves on Sunday in the west African nation's first democratic election since independence in 1958, hoping to end half a century of military and civilian dictatorships.


McCain disagrees with AZ gov's drug 'mule' comment (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 11:13 AM PDT

AP - U.S. Sen. John McCain says he disagrees with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's statements that most people crossing the U.S. southern border illegally are smuggling drugs, but he thinks she is doing a good job of standing up for her state.

Kyrgyz vote wins 62 pct support: preliminary data (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 10:48 AM PDT

Kyrgyzstan's interim leader Roza Otunbayeva visits a local polling station during a referendum in the city of Osh, June 27, 2010. REUTERS/Shamil ZhumatovReuters - Kyrgyzstan's central election commission said that 62 percent of the electorate voted on Sunday in favor of a new constitution to create a parliamentary democracy, according to partial results. The commission published the preliminary results on its website, www.shailoo.gov.kg, citing data from 24 percent of polling stations.


Primer on senators judging would-be Justice Kagan (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 09:58 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2010, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is seen during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington. Monday, June 28, the committee convenes to consider Elena Kagan's nomination to a lifetime appointment as a Supreme Court justice. Sessions, a former federal prosecutor, cut his teeth in this role in the Sotomayor hearings. Then, there was some whispering as to whether he was up to the job of succeeding the sharp-edged Specter in the lead GOP role, and going nose to nose with Leahy. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)AP - A cast of graybeards, rising stars and a lame duck once in charge convenes Monday as the Senate Judiciary Committee to consider giving President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, a lifetime appointment as a justice.


Daughter says Cheney likely to leave hospital soon (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 08:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 file photo,  former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Center For Security Policy dinner at Union Station in Washington. Former Vice President Dick Cheney was admitted to the hospital Friday, June 25, 2010 after experiencing discomfort, the latest health scare for the 69-year-old Republican leader who has a long history of heart disease.  (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)AP - One of Dick Cheney's daughters says the hospitalized former vice president could go home on Monday after receiving medication to treat a fluid buildup related to his aggressive form of heart disease.


CIA's Panetta: North Korea to back away from brink (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 08:01 AM PDT

This undated picture, released from North Korean official Korean Central News Agency on June 21, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il inspecting a radish at the training centre for commanding officers of KPA Unit 593 at undisclosed place in North Korea. The world faces a AP - CIA director Leon Panetta says he doesn't think the skirmishes involving North Korea will lead to a military confrontation on the Korean peninsula.


CIA's Panetta: Iran has enough uranium for 2 bombs (AP)

Posted: 27 Jun 2010 07:44 AM PDT

CIA director Leon Panetta, pictured in February 2010, has warned Iran has enough low-enriched uranium to make two weapons, which it could have prepared and ready for delivery as early as 2012.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AP - CIA Director Leon Panetta says Iran probably has enough low-enriched uranium for two nuclear weapons, but that it likely would take two years to build the bombs.


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