Copyright © 2008 Yahoo! Philippines Pte. Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. http://beta.ph.news.yahoo.com/world-north-america.html en-en Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:42:00 +0800 5 http://beta.ph.news.yahoo.com/world-north-america.html http://l.yimg.com/hb/i/ph/mastheads/210x47_ph_news.gif 30 140 http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081008/twl-us-vote-7e07afd.html /afp/20081008/r_t_afp_wl_us/twl-us-vote-7e07afd_1 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:42:00 +0800 John McCain and Barack Obama clashed repeatedly over the financial crisis Tuesday but strove to show voters they cared about their economic fears in their second presidential debate. AFP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081008/twl-lt-bolivia-us-trade-ef375f8.html /ap/20081008/r_t_ap_wl_us/twl-lt-bolivia-us-trade-ef375f8_1 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:24:00 +0800 The U.S. is set to suspend a trade deal with Bolivia that is worth 20,000 Bolivian jobs and $150 million a year, but President Evo Morales says South America's poorest country shouldn't worry. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081008/twl-us-attacks-justice-guantanamo-uighur-7e07afd.html /afp/20081008/r_t_afp_wl_us/twl-us-attacks-justice-guantanamo-uighur-7e07afd Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:48:00 +0800 A US federal judge has ordered a group of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs held at the Guantanamo Bay military jail in Cuba to be released in the United States, officials have said. AFP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081008/twl-iraq-us-deaths-ef375f8.html /ap/20081008/r_t_ap_wl_us/twl-iraq-us-deaths-ef375f8_1 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:11:00 +0800 As of Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008, at least 4,180 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081008/twl-us-iran-ef375f8.html /ap/20081008/r_t_ap_wl_us/twl-us-iran-ef375f8_1 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:23:00 +0800 In an effort to help the United States counter al-Qaida after the 9/11 attack, Iran rounded up hundreds of Arabs who had crossed the border from Afghanistan, expelled many of them and made copies of nearly 300 of their passports, a former Bush administration official said Tuesday. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081007/twl-serbia-kosovo-us-diplomacy-7e07afd.html /afp/20081007/r_t_afp_wl_us/twl-serbia-kosovo-us-diplomacy-7e07afd_2 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:17:00 +0800 US Defence Secretary Robert Gates underscored Washington's opposition to any partition of Kosovo following its declaration of independence as he made a landmark visit to Pristina on Tuesday. AFP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081007/twl-iran-us-military-7e07afd.html /afp/20081007/r_t_afp_wl_us/twl-iran-us-military-7e07afd_1 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:11:00 +0800 Iranian fighter jets have forced an aircraft carrying US troops to land in Iran after it entered its air space without permission, the Fars news agency said on Tuesday. AFP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081007/twl-serbia-kosovo-us-diplomacy-partition-7e07afd.html /afp/20081007/r_t_afp_wl_us/twl-serbia-kosovo-us-diplomacy-partition-7e07afd_1 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:59:00 +0800 The United States opposes any partition of Kosovo following its declaration of independence from Serbia, Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday on a landmark visit to Pristina. AFP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081007/twl-ml-iraq-us-casualties-ef375f8.html /ap/20081007/r_t_ap_wl_us/twl-ml-iraq-us-casualties-ef375f8_1 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:03:00 +0800 The U.S. military says an American soldier has been fatally shot by an al-Qaida in Iraq extremist. AP http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081007/twl-ml-iran-us-iraq-deal-ef375f8.html /ap/20081007/r_t_ap_wl_us/twl-ml-iran-us-iraq-deal-ef375f8_1 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:02:00 +0800 A top Iranian military official on Tuesday urged Iraq to reject a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security deal, calling the agreement a "disgrace." AP