2012年3月13日星期二

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Afghan government team attacked, Taliban fume over massacre

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An Afghan National Army soldier keeps watch near a mosque where an Afghan delegation meets with locals in Alokozai village, Panjwai districtKABUL (Reuters) - Suspected insurgents opened fire on Tuesday on senior Afghan investigators of the massacre of 16 civilians by a lone U.S. soldier, Afghan officials said, just hours after the Taliban threatened to behead American troops to avenge the killings. The gunmen shot from long range at two of President Hamid Karzai's brothers, Shah Wali Karzai and Abdul Qayum Karzai, and security officials at the site of the massacre in Kandahar's Panjwai district. ...


Israel-Gaza truce mostly observed

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A Bedouin girl herds sheep as Iron Dome launchers are seen in the background in a field near the southern city of AshdodGAZA (Reuters) - An Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and militant groups in the Gaza Strip was largely observed on Tuesday after four days of violence in which 25 Palestinians were killed and 200 rockets were fired at Israel. The number of Palestinian rocket attacks dropped sharply after the deal took effect overnight, with less than 10 rockets reportedly fired since then. In a further sign of a return to normality, towns and cities in southern Israel announced plans to reopen schools that had been kept shut for the past three days. ...


Violence across Syria; soldiers killed in ambushes

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Damaged building is seen at Karm al-Zeitoun near HomsBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces killed dozens of people in the northern city of Idlib, dumping their bodies in a mosque, while some 22 soldiers died in two separate rebel ambushes, opposition activists said on Tuesday. The army intensified its assault on the Idlib province near the Turkish border, intermittently shelling built-up areas and spraying houses with machinegun fire in a bid to dislodge anti-government fighters. ...


Poll shows fall in support for Mexican front runner

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Nieto, presidential candidate for the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, waves to supporters during an oath taking ceremony in Dolores HidalgoMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Support has fallen for the favorite to be Mexico's next president, Enrique Pena Nieto, of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), even though his main rival is struggling to gain ground, a poll showed on Tuesday. The latest survey of public opinion for the July 1 presidential elections from pollster Consulta Mitofsky showed the 45-year-old Pena Nieto with 38.5 percent support, down two percentage points from a poll published two weeks ago. ...


Monti says can't take on euro group presidency

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Italian Prime Minister Monti shakes hands with German chancellor Merkel as she arrives for a meeting at Chigi palace in RomeROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on Tuesday scotched media speculation he might succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as chairman of the euro group of euro zone finance ministers, saying he had his hands full fixing Italy's economic emergency which he stressed is still not over. At a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Monti, who is also economy minister, chose to respond to a question directed at Merkel about whether she felt he would be well suited to become chairman of the so-called euro group. ...


Turkish police fire teargas after controversial court ruling

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A protester makes a v-sign as he and others clash with Turkish police as they protest against the dropping of a case in AnkaraANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds protesting on Tuesday after a court dropped a case against five people charged with killing 37 writers and liberals in a 1993 hotel fire set by Islamist rioters. The five have never been found and the opposition blamed Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his AK Party, which emerged from a series of banned Islamist parties, for a failure to launch a serious search. ...


Brotherhood takes softer line on Egypt government

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Tuesday it recognized its demand to sack Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri's cabinet is unlikely to be heeded by the ruling generals but that it did not want a standoff with the army, toning down tough talk by some of its MPs. The Brotherhood is the biggest bloc in parliament which this week voted to begin steps to withdraw confidence from the army-appointed cabinet, a move that would take Egypt into uncharted political waters shortly before the military is due to relinquish power. The army says it will hand over to a new president by July 1. ...

Kony's LRA rebels mostly out of Congo, general says

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LRA leader Kony poses at peace negotiations in Ri-KwangbaKINSHASA (Reuters) - Fugitive warlord Joseph Kony and leaders of his LRA have been chased out of Democratic Republic of Congo to the neighboring Central African Republic and no longer pose a threat in Congo, a Congolese general said on Tuesday. The comment follows a complaint by nearby Uganda that Congo was obstructing its U.S.-backed hunt for Kony, who has been thrust into the headlines after a celebrity-backed U.S. internet campaign calling for his arrest. Self-proclaimed mystic Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. ...


Ban Ki-moon says Libya should end rights abuses

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban shakes hands with Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov as they pose for a photograph at the U.N. headquarters in New YorkUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that Libyan authorities should address human rights violations after a U.N. report found both sides committed war crimes during last year's conflict and that killing, torture and pillage were ongoing. Ban also noted that U.N. Human Rights Council investigators found that NATO "did not deliberately target civilians" in Libya airstrikes. Russia had criticized the investigators for failing to adequately probe deaths caused by NATO bombs. ...


Italy accuses India of "subterfuge" to arrest marines

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Salvatore Girone and Massimiliano Latorre, members of the navy security team of the Italian merchant vessel Enrica Lexie, gesture, in the southern Indian city of KochiROME (Reuters) - Italy on Tuesday accused Indian authorities of using trickery to arrest two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen they thought were pirates, and said Delhi's attitude risked undermining the international fight against piracy. Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi told the Senate that Italy was pursuing every possible solution to win the marines' release almost a month after the incident. The marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, were stationed on a merchant ship off the southern Indian coast to protect it from pirate attacks. ...


Afghan villagers recount weekend shooting rampage

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Afghan security forces are seen after Taliban militants opened fire on delegation of senior Afghan officials in Panjwai, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March. 13, 2012. Taliban militants opened fire Tuesday on a delegation of senior Afghan officials including two of President Hamid Karzai's brothers visiting villages in southern Afghanistan where a U.S. soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)As bullets flew, the Afghan woman scooped up her 3-year-old niece and ran for their lives. Moments later, the woman was dead and the girl lay bleeding from a gunshot wound.


Journalist recounts fleeing Syrian city under fire

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FILE - In this Saturday, March 10, 2012 file photo, Aida cries as she recovers from severe injuries after the Syrian Army shelled her house in Idlib north Syria. Aida's husband and and two children were killed after their home was shelled. Wounded people, including children and women, crowded into the clinic in bloodstained clothes. Many had clearly been struck by snipers, who shot them through the legs and arms. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)Explosions illuminated the night as we ran, hoping to escape Syria after nearly three weeks of covering a conflict that the government seems determined to keep the world from seeing. Tank shells slammed into the city streets behind us, snipers' bullets whizzed by our heads and the rebels escorting us were nearly out of ammunition.


Syrian regime gains momentum against rebels

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In this Sunday, March 11, 2012 photo, Syrian rebels take position during clashes with government forces in Idlib, north Syria. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)The Syrian army has recaptured most of the northern rebel stronghold of Idlib near the Turkish border, pushing hundreds of military defectors out of a major base they had held for months even as pockets of resistance kept up their fight on Tuesday.


US: Sri Lanka should reconcile with Tamils

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The U.S. warned Tuesday that Sri Lanka risks renewed conflict unless it addresses war crimes allegations, while rights groups said that abuses by security forces continue, three years after fighting against Tamil rebels ended.

UK police arrest Rebekah Brooks in hacking probe

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FILE In this Sunday, July 10, 2011 file photo Chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch, left, and then chief executive of News International Rebekah Brooks leave his residence in central London. British police made six arrests early Tuesday March 13, 2012 in the British media's phone hacking scandal, including Rebekah Brooks, the former top executive of Rupert Murdoch's News International, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)British police made six arrests early Tuesday in the British media's phone hacking scandal, including Rebekah Brooks, the former top executive of Rupert Murdoch's News International, The Associated Press has learned.


NKoreans, French prepare for major Paris concert

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Two members of North Korea's Unhasu Orchestra prepare their instruments as they take part in a rehearsal with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra in Paris, Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Musicians from the Unhasu Orchestra will perform a piece together with Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by South Korean conductor Chung Myung-whun, in Paris, Wednesday, March 14. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)A North Korean and a French orchestra held a daylong rehearsal on Tuesday ahead of a landmark concert in Paris, a sign of warming ties between Pyongyang and the West following years of tensions.


Official: Invest in children for peace in Somalia

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In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, Somali schoolchildren sit at their desks during a lesson in the town of Dhobley, currently under control by Kenyan military and Somali government forces, in Somalia. Many children in Somalia have little or no education and only about a third of children of primary-school age are enrolled in school, according to UNICEF, with children frequently forced to join armed groups such as the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Adan Abdi worries that the students in his class show too little interest in education. That might be a common complaint among teachers, but Abdi's concerns go further: His students are interested in playing war.


French war surgeon speaks of "hell" in Syria

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French war surgeon Jacques Beres, who just came back from Homs, Syria, testifies on humanitarian situation in Syria, during a panel French surgeon Jacques Beres has operated in war zones for 40 years, but he says the carnage in Syria is among the most horrific he has ever witnessed.


Kim Dotcom's money won him New Zealand residency

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FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2012 file photo, Kim Dotcom, the founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, comments after he was granted bail and released in Auckland, New Zealand. In the eyes of New Zealand immigration authorities in 2010, Kim Dotcom's money trumped his criminal past. Documents released to The Associated Press this week under New Zealand public records laws show that immigration officials granted the Megaupload founder residency that year after deciding the money he could bring to the country outweighed concern about criminal convictions in his native Germany for computer fraud and stock-price manipulation. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Brett Phibbs, File) NEW ZEALAND OUT, AUSTRALIA OUTIn the eyes of New Zealand immigration authorities in 2010, Kim Dotcom's money trumped his criminal past.


Diplomat: Syria answers Annan on ending violence

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U.N. peace envoy Kofi Annan speaks to the media after a meeting with Syrian National Council members in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Annan expressed deep concern Monday over the violence in Syria and urged the world to send a clear message to Damascus that the killings of civilians must stop immediately. Annan left Syria on Sunday without a deal to end the bloody year-old conflict there as President Bashar Assad's forces mounted a new assault on rebel strongholds in the north.(AP Photo)Syrian officials responded Tuesday to a number of concrete proposals by international envoy Kofi Annan on how to end the violence in their country, a U.N. diplomat said.


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