Copyright (c) 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/721 World News en-us Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:46:29 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/721 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq ap/20070901/iraq Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:07:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070831/capt.11bb8df90ac640ffbf2644a8bef81a7f.iraq_shiites_fighting_shiites_bag501.jpg?x=130&y=80&sig=Lf8OF2SNY6jWqytk._u5oQ--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="Mahdi Army Militia men gesture in the Shiite holy city of Najaf , 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, in this Friday, May 28, 2004 file photo. Rivalries and violence between Shiite factions are threatening to overshadow progress U.S. forces have made against al-Qaida in Iraq and other extremists just weeks before the top American commander and diplomat in Iraq report to Congress. (AP Photo)" border="0" /></a>AP - Iraq's Shiite prime minister said Friday hard-line Sunni clerics outside Iraq share the blame for this week's bloodshed at a Shiite religious festival in Karbala because they issued religious decrees terming Shiites heretics.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070831/capt.11bb8df90ac640ffbf2644a8bef81a7f.iraq_shiites_fighting_shiites_bag501.jpg?x=130&y=80&sig=Lf8OF2SNY6jWqytk._u5oQ--" align="left" height="80" width="130" alt="photo" title="Mahdi Army Militia men gesture in the Shiite holy city of Najaf , 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, in this Friday, May 28, 2004 file photo. Rivalries and violence between Shiite factions are threatening to overshadow progress U.S. forces have made against al-Qaida in Iraq and other extremists just weeks before the top American commander and diplomat in Iraq report to Congress. (AP Photo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_eu/diana_anniversary ap/20070901/diana_anniversary Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:45:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_eu/diana_anniversary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070831/capt.2db3ff97db3747298b29490759d6a98f.britain_diana_anniversary_lon153.jpg?x=130&y=76&sig=I6K3WhM2Ka1s994fvIfvIQ--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="Princes William and Harry leave the Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, at the Guards' Chapel, London, Friday, Aug. 31, 2007. They organised the Thanksgiving Service to commemorate the life of their mother on the tenth anniversary of her death. (AP Photo/Lewis Whyld/pool)" border="0" /></a>AP - Princess Diana should be remembered as a loving, down-to-earth mother, Prince Harry said Friday at a memorial service where a bishop urged an end to a decade of bitterness over her death and her broken marriage.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_eu/diana_anniversary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070831/capt.2db3ff97db3747298b29490759d6a98f.britain_diana_anniversary_lon153.jpg?x=130&y=76&sig=I6K3WhM2Ka1s994fvIfvIQ--" align="left" height="76" width="130" alt="photo" title="Princes William and Harry leave the Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, at the Guards' Chapel, London, Friday, Aug. 31, 2007. They organised the Thanksgiving Service to commemorate the life of their mother on the tenth anniversary of her death. (AP Photo/Lewis Whyld/pool)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_politics ap/20070901/pakistan_politics Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:11:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_politics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070829/capt.b7f23ccbeea4415c876f724b625a2a5e.britain_pakistan_bhutto_llp113.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=Ldg4BQdqwOsZxfycgpwj3g--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto listens to a reporter's question during a meeting in central London Thursday Oct. 19, 2006. Pakistan's exiled former premier said Wednesday Aug. 29, 2007 that Gen. Pervez Musharraf had agreed to step down as army chief, in a move she expected before the next presidential elections. In a telephone interview with The Associated Press from London, she added that corruption charges would be dropped against her and dozens of other parliamentarians as part of ongoing negotiations to restore civilian rule. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)" border="0" /></a>AP - Exiled former premier Benazir Bhutto met with party colleagues Friday in London to decide whether to quit negotiating with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on a power-sharing deal that would end military rule in Pakistan.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_politics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070829/capt.b7f23ccbeea4415c876f724b625a2a5e.britain_pakistan_bhutto_llp113.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=Ldg4BQdqwOsZxfycgpwj3g--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto listens to a reporter's question during a meeting in central London Thursday Oct. 19, 2006. Pakistan's exiled former premier said Wednesday Aug. 29, 2007 that Gen. Pervez Musharraf had agreed to step down as army chief, in a move she expected before the next presidential elections. In a telephone interview with The Associated Press from London, she added that corruption charges would be dropped against her and dozens of other parliamentarians as part of ongoing negotiations to restore civilian rule. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_af/un_darfur ap/20070901/un_darfur Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:56:03 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_af/un_darfur"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070831/2007_08_31t070747_450x293_us_sudan_darfur.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=fCMmJ.xIiz.zOmFgB6qqVw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="An internally displaced Sudanese man rides on a donkey at the Abu Shouk refugee camp in Darfur region, March 24, 2007. The leaders of France and Britain on Friday revived the specter of sanctions against Khartoum if progress is not made on a Darfur ceasefire and upcoming political talks. (Michael Kamber/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Malnutrition is increasing in Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region along with lawlessness and the number of people fleeing their homes, a senior U.N. official said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_af/un_darfur"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070831/2007_08_31t070747_450x293_us_sudan_darfur.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=fCMmJ.xIiz.zOmFgB6qqVw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="An internally displaced Sudanese man rides on a donkey at the Abu Shouk refugee camp in Darfur region, March 24, 2007. The leaders of France and Britain on Friday revived the specter of sanctions against Khartoum if progress is not made on a Darfur ceasefire and upcoming political talks. (Michael Kamber/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_eu/greece_fires ap/20070901/greece_fires Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:05:01 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_eu/greece_fires"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070831/capt.4ccd317baa654d1986ea2c43274711ae.greece_fires_xpk111.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=qNWxblNNMTrvkAvxNfzTew--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Relatives mourn the death of Filippos and Ionna, 5, and their grandmother Ionna Alexandropoulou, 70, who died in fires, during their funeral in Artemida, Peloponnese, Greece, Friday, Aug. 31, 2007. Promises of aid poured in from Greece and abroad as firefighters managed to douse most of the massive fires that ravaged the Greek countryside for a week and killed 64 people. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)" border="0" /></a>AP - Promises of aid poured in from around Greece and overseas Friday as firefighters doused most of the huge wildfires that ravaged the Greek countryside for a week, killing 64 people.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_eu/greece_fires"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070831/capt.4ccd317baa654d1986ea2c43274711ae.greece_fires_xpk111.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=qNWxblNNMTrvkAvxNfzTew--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Relatives mourn the death of Filippos and Ionna, 5, and their grandmother Ionna Alexandropoulou, 70, who died in fires, during their funeral in Artemida, Peloponnese, Greece, Friday, Aug. 31, 2007. Promises of aid poured in from Greece and abroad as firefighters managed to douse most of the massive fires that ravaged the Greek countryside for a week and killed 64 people. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070901/wl_afp/britainmilitaryiraqus afp/20070901/britainmilitaryiraqus Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:53:51 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070901/wl_afp/britainmilitaryiraqus"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070901/capt.sge.pxw86.010907045346.photo00.photo.default-512x395.jpg?x=130&y=100&sig=yy17O.SYDvSyBK9W1jIZcQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="In this file photo, General Sir Mike Jackson makes a statement, in Germany. Sir Mike Jackson, the head of the British Army during the invasion of Iraq, has blasted the United States for its handling of the aftermath, according to a newspaper reported.(AFP/POOL/File/Stefan Rousseau)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The head of the British Army during the invasion of Iraq has blasted the United States for its handling of the aftermath, a newspaper reported Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070901/wl_afp/britainmilitaryiraqus"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070901/capt.sge.pxw86.010907045346.photo00.photo.default-512x395.jpg?x=130&y=100&sig=yy17O.SYDvSyBK9W1jIZcQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this file photo, General Sir Mike Jackson makes a statement, in Germany. Sir Mike Jackson, the head of the British Army during the invasion of Iraq, has blasted the United States for its handling of the aftermath, according to a newspaper reported.(AFP/POOL/File/Stefan Rousseau)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_germany_orchestra ap/20070901/iran_germany_orchestra Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:44:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_germany_orchestra"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070831/capt.f3c832fd4d754258853224dd5aa2488b.iran_germany__orchestra_xhs201.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=SG2GkaKx96lpLFPU5gBANQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="While Iran's national flag is seen at right, Osnabruck Symphony Orchestra member Christina Lahusen, left, and other German musicians play violins as they wear Islamic headscarves in Tehran, Iran, Thursday Aug. 30, 2007. The orchestra arrived Tehran on Monday for two guest performances this week which is the first guest performances by a Western orchestra in Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)" border="0" /></a>AP - The female musicians wore headscarves, but that didn't hinder them in playing Beethoven and Brahms in a rare performance by a Western classical orchestra in the capital of the Islamic Republic.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_germany_orchestra"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070831/capt.f3c832fd4d754258853224dd5aa2488b.iran_germany__orchestra_xhs201.jpg?x=130&y=89&sig=SG2GkaKx96lpLFPU5gBANQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="While Iran's national flag is seen at right, Osnabruck Symphony Orchestra member Christina Lahusen, left, and other German musicians play violins as they wear Islamic headscarves in Tehran, Iran, Thursday Aug. 30, 2007. The orchestra arrived Tehran on Monday for two guest performances this week which is the first guest performances by a Western orchestra in Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070901/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_tropical_weather ap/20070901/mexico_tropical_weather Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:28:17 GMT AP - Mexican officials closed schools, shut down ports to small fishing boats, and battled flooding in this Pacific resort city Friday as Tropical Storm Henriette dumped heavy rains and caused a minor landslide on a highway. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070901/wl_nm/congo_illness_dc nm/20070901/congo_illness_dc Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:46:29 GMT Reuters - The World Health Organization said on Saturday it was investigating &quot;an outbreak of an unknown illness with a high mortality rate&quot; in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070901/wl_asia_afp/ustaiwanchinapoliticsun afp/20070901/ustaiwanchinapoliticsun Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:40:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070901/wl_asia_afp/ustaiwanchinapoliticsun"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070901/capt.sge.pya86.010907064008.photo00.photo.default-341x512.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=coa7Gap1G4yZ.Z7BnGQJxw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="Taiwan&#39;s president Chen Shui-Bian speaks during a press conference in Managua, on 28 Aug. Chen has defiantly restated his country&#39;s statehood while hitting back at US criticism of the island&#39;s planned UN membership referendum, in a television interview.(AFP/File/Miguel Alvarez)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Taiwan&#39;s President Chen Shui-bian has defiantly restated his country&#39;s statehood while hitting back at US criticism of the island&#39;s planned UN membership referendum, in a television interview.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070901/wl_asia_afp/ustaiwanchinapoliticsun"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070901/capt.sge.pya86.010907064008.photo00.photo.default-341x512.jpg?x=86&y=130&sig=coa7Gap1G4yZ.Z7BnGQJxw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="Taiwan&#39;s president Chen Shui-Bian speaks during a press conference in Managua, on 28 Aug. Chen has defiantly restated his country&#39;s statehood while hitting back at US criticism of the island&#39;s planned UN membership referendum, in a television interview.(AFP/File/Miguel Alvarez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070901/wl_nm/apec_australia_security_dc nm/20070901/apec_australia_security_dc Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:26:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070901/wl_nm/apec_australia_security_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070901/2007_09_01t022556_450x281_us_apec_australia_security.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=UDBsATkbUqmTC4Y.5mjmQQ--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="A construction worker unloads panels of a new security fence being built in the central business district of Sydney to protect next week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, September 1, 2007. (Tim Wimborne/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Construction of a concrete and wire security fence which will cut the centre of Sydney in half began on Saturday as part of the nation&#39;s biggest security operation for next week&#39;s Asia-Pacific leaders&#39; summit.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070901/wl_nm/apec_australia_security_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070901/2007_09_01t022556_450x281_us_apec_australia_security.jpg?x=130&y=81&sig=UDBsATkbUqmTC4Y.5mjmQQ--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="A construction worker unloads panels of a new security fence being built in the central business district of Sydney to protect next week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, September 1, 2007. (Tim Wimborne/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)