2012年3月27日星期二

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Syria agreed to ceasefire, says U.N. envoy

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Demonstrators gather during a protest against Syria's President Assad in BinshAnnan's remarks came as Syrian troops reportedly clashed with Syrian rebels in northern Lebanon.


Ship heralds arrival of tsunami debris

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A Japanese fishing boat lost in the Pacific Ocean after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami was sighted March 20, 2012 drifting 150 nautical miles off the southern coast of Haida Gwaii near British Columbia, Canada by the crew of an aircraft on a routine surveillance patrol. The vessel is considered an obstruction to navigation, and a Notice to Shipping has been issued by the Canadian Coast Guard. (AP Photo/Canadian Department of National Defence via The Canadian Press)An empty Japanese fishing boat drifting off the coast of western Canada could be the first wave of 1.5 million tons of debris heading toward North America from Japan's tsunami last March. The wreckage from flattened Japanese coastal towns - including refrigerators, washing machines, televisions, roofs and fishing nets - is heading inexorably east across the Pacific and could arrive sooner than expected, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. ...


Al Jazeera won't air shooter's footage

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FILE - This undated and unlocated frame grab provided Wednesday, March 21, 2012, by French TV station France 2 shows the suspect in the killing of 3 paratroopers, 3 children and a rabbi in recent days, Mohamed Merah. Mohamed Merah grew up in one of the toughest housing projects of Toulouse, with his mother, two brothers and two sisters. At age five, his parents split up _ and he took that hard. He turned to a life of petty crime, landing in prison twice. How the young man described by one top official as a Al Jazeera confirmed on Tuesday that its Paris office received from an anonymous source video footage that appears to show last week's shooting spree in Toulouse, France--and said the network would not televise it.


Annan says Syria accepts peace plan, U.S. skeptical

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Smoke rises from downtown HomsBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria has accepted a U.N.-sponsored peace plan, international envoy Kofi Annan said on Tuesday, as troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad raided rebel forces who have taken refuge across the border in Lebanon. The United States reacted skeptically to Annan's announcement, saying it would judge Assad's sincerity in agreeing to the peace plan by what he did and not by what he said, given his record of "over-promising and under-delivering. ...


Pope honors patron saint, heads to meeting with Castro

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Pope Benedict XVI prays during a visit to the sanctuary of the HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) - Pope Benedict urged Cubans to "work for justice" as their country changes and prayed for "those deprived of freedom" in a visit to the shrine for Cuba's patron saint on Tuesday and then flew across the country for talks with President Raul Castro. Upon arrival at the Havana airport, he was greeted by Roman Catholic Church Cardinal Jaime Ortega and Communist Party officials ahead of a late afternoon meeting with Raul Castro and possibly his older brother, former leader Fidel Castro. Benedict, the leader of the world's 1. ...


Analysis: French shooting case shows counterterrorism limits

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An undated and non-datelined frame grab from a video broadcast by French national television station France 2 who claim it shows Mohamed MerahWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mohamed Merah, the French gunman who killed Jewish children and French soldiers and then died in a firefight with police this month, was hardly an unknown quantity to intelligence and law enforcement officials on both sides of the Atlantic. Merah made two trips to Afghanistan between 2010 and 2012, and was detained by U.S. forces during the first. He had a record of moderately serious criminal activities in France. ...


Dubai says Islamists trying to weaken UAE via Twitter

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Opposition supporters talk in Tahrir Square in CairoDUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai's top security official accused supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday of using social media to stir up opposition to the Gulf's ruling elite. Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan said sympathizers of the organization, which has moved to the heart of public life in Egypt since President Hosni Mubarak was toppled last year, sought to weaken the UAE by defaming its institutions. ...


Russian "cannibal" serial killer confesses to police

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have arrested a man who admitted killing at least six people before eating their hearts and livers, media said. Dubbed the "cannibal serial killer", Alexander Bychkov wrote in a diary of his crimes that he turned to murder after his girlfriend left him for being "a wimp". Bychkov, 23, was arrested for shoplifting but then told police that he had buried bodies in his backyard in Belinsky, a town some 630 km (390 miles) southeast of Moscow, a spokeswoman for the investigative committee charged with the case told Reuters on Tuesday. ...

Militia clashes in southern Libya kill nearly 50

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Three days of clashes between rival militias in southern Libya spread to the centre of the country's fourth largest city Sabha on Tuesday despite the deployment of army troops trying to stop the violence which has so far killed nearly 50 people. The clashes highlight the problems the government faces in imposing its authority following the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi last year. Fighting between gunmen from Sabha and those from the Tibu ethnic group had reached the centre of the city, said Ibrahim Misbah, a doctor at the main hospital. ...

South Sudan oil field "bombed", Sudan says hopes to avert war

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JUBA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan accused each other of launching fresh attacks on oil-producing areas either side of their contested border on Tuesday but Sudan said it hoped the conflict would not escalate into war. South Sudan said its neighbor Sudan launched airstrikes on major oilfields in its Unity state on Tuesday, in one of the most serious reported confrontations since the South declared independence from Sudan in July. Asian oil group GNPOC - the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company, a consortium led by China's CNPC - confirmed its facilities had been hit. ...

Peru president's kin causes headaches for leader

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Antauro Humala, former Army Major and brother of Peru's President Ollanta Huamala, sits in a courtroom at Callao's Naval Base in LimaLIMA (Reuters) - Oh, brother! It's apparently not enough that Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has to solve mining protests and figure out how to keep the Latin American country's economy booming. Now his own highly eccentric family is adding more trouble with their antics. One of his brothers was recently shown on television smoking pot in prison. Another brother told the media that Humala's wife actually runs the country. And a third embarrassed him by negotiating gas deals with Russia without permission. ...


Venezuela's Chavez leads rival in latest poll

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A police officer walks past a mural depicting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in CaracasCARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez has a solid 13-percentage point lead over opposition candidate Henrique Capriles in a new survey ahead of October's election - but many Venezuelans remain undecided. The opinion poll by respected local firm Datanalisis found that 44 percent of voters favor Chavez compared to 31 percent for Democratic Unity coalition candidate Capriles, according to people who saw a private presentation. No further details were available for the poll, which was to be formally published later in the week. ...


Briton held in Somalia on suspected links to rebels

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A British man was arrested in the Somali capital on Tuesday for suspected links to the Islamist rebel group al Shabaab, the African Union's force and police said. The suspect was apprehended at the Mogadishu airport before heading to Kismayu, a southern port city held by al Shabaab, an al Qaeda-aligned group battling Somalia's transitional federal government and the AU's troops. "A British man linked to al Shabaab is in our hands," police spokesman Abdullahi Barise said. "He is under investigation. ...

Mofaz beats Livni to head of Israel's Kadima party

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Head of Israel's parliamentary opposition Tzipi Livni leaves the poling station after casting her vote for the Kadima party primary elections in Tel Aviv, Israel,Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Israel's largest party, relegated to the opposition after 2009 national elections, is to choose its leader on Tuesday in a rematch between Livni, a former peace negotiator and Shaul Mofaz, a one-time defense chief who directed Israel's tough response to the last Palestinian uprising.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)Preliminary results show that Shaul Mofaz has soundly defeated Tzipi Livni to become the new leader of Israel's largest party.


Bloc puts peacekeepers on standby after Mali coup

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Broken glass litters the floor at the looted presidential palace, days after mutinous soldiers claimed power in a coup, in Bamako, Mali Monday, March 26, 2012. Mali's coup leaders said Monday they are partially reopening the West African nation's main airport even as demonstrators marched in the capital to protest last week's putsch and demand a return to constitutional order. (AP Photo/Aliou Sissoko)The body representing nations in western Africa has suspended Mali and has put a peacekeeping force on standby in the most direct threat yet to the junta that seized control in a military coup last week.


Syria accepts peace plan but clashes continue

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In this image made from video, Syrian President Bashar Assad, second right, visits Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs, Syria, Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Assad visited Baba Amr, a former rebel stronghold in the key city of Homs that became a symbol of the uprising after a monthlong siege by government forces killed hundreds of people many of them civilians as troops pushed out rebel fighters. Homs has been one of the cities hardest hit by the government crackdown on the uprising that began last March. (AP Photo/Syrian State Television via APTN) SYRIA OUT TV OUTSyria accepted a cease-fire drawn up by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan on Tuesday, but the diplomatic breakthrough was swiftly overshadowed by intense clashes between government soldiers and rebels that sent bullets flying into Lebanon.


Pope prays for freedom, 'renewal' in Cuba

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Pope Benedict XVI waves after praying before the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, Cuba's patron saint, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Tuesday March 27, 2012. Benedict is in the second day of his Cuban tour. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, Pool)Pope Benedict XVI prayed for freedom and renewal "for the greater good of all Cubans" before the nation's patron saint Tuesday, but the island's communist leaders quickly rejected the Roman Catholic leader's appeal for political change after five decades of one-party rule.


Mexican candidate accuses rivals of wiretapping

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The campaign of conservative presidential candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota charged Tuesday that the rival Institutional Revolutionary Party makes regular use of wiretaps, like the one in which she is purportedly heard accusing Mexico's top cop of spying on her.

Egypt Brotherhood conflicted over presidential run

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Members of Egypt's Parliament attend a session in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 24, 2012. Egyptian parliamentarians on Saturday cast ballots to select a 100-member panel that will draft the country's new constitution, amid deep polarization between liberals and Islamists over the process. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has postponed an open confrontation with the country's military rulers and other political players Tuesday when it delayed a decision about whether to field a candidate for the first presidential elections since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.


Boy beaten near Paris Jewish school amid tensions

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A 12-year-old boy was beaten outside his Jewish school in Paris by youths reciting anti-Semitic slogans, school officials said, amid high security and tensions in France following killings of Jewish children and a rabbi last week.

Jamaica protesters call for end to police killings

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Elaine Wilson's voice rose in anger Tuesday as she described a police shooting in her impoverished community that she claims killed her 45-year-old sister almost two weeks ago.

Cuba dissidents concerned for mystery protester

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A man is taken away by security as he shouts against the Cuban government shortly after Pope Benedict XVI arrived at Revolution Square to conduct a Mass in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Monday, March 26, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI is in Cuba for a three-day visit. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)Leading Cuban dissidents say they don't know the man who shouted anti-government slogans before Pope Benedict XVI's Mass in the eastern city of Santiago. Nor do they know his whereabouts a day after security agents removed him from the ceremony.


At least 50 killed in south Libyan tribal clashes

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A Libyan health official said Tuesday that at least 50 people have been killed in two days of tribal clashes in southern Libya — on the same day that another official was reported kidnapped in the north.

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