2011年12月5日星期一

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Putin's party has domination cut in Russia (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 12:37 PM PST

Reuters - Several thousand protesters took to the streets on Monday to demand an end to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule after voters cut his party's parliamentary majority in an election that was condemned as unfair by European monitors.

Syria says "would like" to accept Arab deal (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 11:53 AM PST

Demonstrators protesting against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad display a 1961-63 Syrian flag during a march through the streets after Friday prayers in Adlb December 2, 2011. Picture taken December 2, 2011. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - Syria said it had conditionally approved an Arab League peace plan to end eight months of unrest which threatens to drag the country to civil war and activists said at least 60 bodies were taken to hospitals in the central city of Homs on Monday.


Ivory Coast's Gbagbo appears before ICC (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:54 AM PST

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo waits for the judges to arrive at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, December 5, 2011. REUTERS/Peter Dejong/PoolReuters - Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo appeared at the International Criminal Court on Monday to face charges of crimes against humanity, the first former head of state expected to be tried by the court since its inception in 2002.


Debt and doubt loom large over Durban climate talks (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:27 AM PST

In this photo taken on Sunday, Dec 4, 2011, bird watchers sit  waiting for the arrival of barn swallows at a wetland area on the outskirts of Durban, South Africa. Wetlands — critical for the health of South Africa's coasts and river systems — already have been degraded or seriously altered by human activity, and experts fear global warming threatens them further. (AP Photo/Arthur Max)Reuters - Economic crisis and the top three polluters China, the United States and India, loomed as obstacles to a new global deal at the start of a second make-or-break week of U.N. climate talks in the South African city of Durban.


The ICC is Scrutinized Even as Ivory Coast's Ex-President Goes on Trial (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:00 PM PST

Time.com - With its activist prosecutor nearing the end of his term, the ICC in The Hague is receiving increasing scrutiny

Protesters accuse Putin's party of rigging vote (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:13 PM PST

Russian police officers detain an  opposition member after he and other members marched along one of the central streets in downtown Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. Several thousand people have protested in Moscow against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party, which won the largest share of a parliamentary election that observers said was rigged. A group of several hundred then marched toward the Central Elections Commission near the Kremlin, but were stopped by riot police and taken away in buses. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Several thousand protesters took to the streets Monday night and accused Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party of rigging this weekend's parliamentary election in which it won the largest share of the seats.


Egypt runoff exposes tensions between Islamists (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:56 PM PST

Egyptian women stand next to an election poster of Islamist candidate Mohammed Yousri Ibrahim, in Nasr City, a neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. A trickle of Egyptian voters headed to the polls Monday for two days of runoffs in the country's first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a balloting in which Islamist parties already captured an overwhelming majority of the votes in the first round. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - The runoff Monday for Egypt's first-round parliamentary elections heated up tensions between competing Islamist groups that have so far dominated the vote, with scuffles breaking out and allegations of death threats.


Court sides with investors in Antigua resort fight (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:09 PM PST

AP - A Caribbean appeals court on Monday sided with a group of U.S. investors in a long-standing battle with Antigua and Barbuda over a luxury resort battered by hurricanes.

Clashes erupt in Congo ahead of vote results (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:46 PM PST

Reuters - Clashes erupted between protesters and security forces in parts of Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday as diplomats scrambled to defuse tensions ahead of the country's full election results.

U.S., India, Japan to meet after Obama's Asia "pivot" (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:46 PM PST

Reuters - The United States, India and Japan will hold their first trilateral meeting this month as Washington pushes ahead with its "pivot" toward Asia, where China's growing power has raised concern.

Bank of Canada says Greece exit not the cure (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 11:50 AM PST

Reuters - Kicking Greece out of the euro zone would not be an easy cure for the region's sovereign debt problems, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said in an interview published on Monday.

New Zealand PM secures support he needs to govern (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 08:39 PM PST

AP - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has secured the votes he needs to govern for a second term after announcing deals with two minor parties.

Putin's party ekes out majority in controversial Russia election (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 11:17 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Vladimir Putin's United Russia party appears to have eked out a 50 percent win in Sunday's elections for the State Duma, which puts it on track to dominate Russia's lower house of parliament for the next five years.

Thousands Occupy Russian Square in Public Protest of Putin (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:00 PM PST

Time.com - In the biggest expression of public anger at Vladimir Putin, thousands gather in a Moscow square, suddenly venting in public what they have been spewing in the blogosphere

With peace stalled, Afghanistan looks to extend foreign aid (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 10:33 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - As Afghan President Hamid Karzai addressed representatives from about 100 countries and 60 foreign ministers gathered in Bonn, Germany to discuss the future of Afghanistan, one aspect of his speech was conspicuously brief: reconciliation with the Taliban.

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