2012年4月20日星期五

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More U.N. monitors heading to Syria as 13 people killed

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Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad after Friday Prayers in KafranbelBEIRUT (Reuters) - An additional 30 United Nations monitors should arrive in Syria in the coming week to join an advance team of seven observing a fragile week-long ceasefire which has failed to end bloodshed in the country, a spokesman for envoy Kofi Annan said on Friday. At least 23 people were killed, 10 of them in a roadside bomb targeting security forces and most of the others in shelling by President Bashar al-Assad's forces on the city of Homs, further undermining the truce. ...


Pakistani plane crashes with 127 on board

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A security official yells for help as rescue workers search through the wreckage of the Bhoja Air passenger plane which crashed on the outskirts of IslamabadISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani airliner with 127 people on board crashed in bad weather as it came in to land in Islamabad on Friday, scattering wreckage and leaving no sign of survivors. The Boeing 737, operated by local airline Bhoja Air, was flying to the capital from Pakistan's biggest city and business hub Karachi. It crashed into wheat fields more than 5 miles from the airport. Rawal Khan Maitla, director general of Emergency Disaster Management for the Capital Development Authority, said there were no survivors. ...


Analysis: Assad foes doubt Syria truce but have few options

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Demonstrators hold a sign as they protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad after Friday prayers in Kafranbel, near IdlibBEIRUT (Reuters) - Barely had the first U.N. ceasefire monitors set foot on Syrian soil this week than Bashar al-Assad's enemies were discussing the likelihood of the mission failing and warning of punitive measures against the Syrian president. The emir of Qatar gave Syria's flawed truce a three percent chance of holding while U.S. officials, pointing to continued army shelling of rebel strongholds, questioned whether there was any point adding to the handful of international monitors in place. France said it put no faith in the ceasefire because Assad was not sincere and even U.N. ...


South Sudan withdraws from oil area, easing border crisis

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Members of the Sudanese Women's Union demonstrate outside the U.N. building in KhartoumJUBA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan said on Friday it would withdraw its troops from the disputed Heglig oil region more than a week after seizing it from Sudan, pulling the countries back from the brink of a full-blown war. Sudan quickly declared victory, saying its armed forces had "liberated" the area by force as thousands of people poured onto the streets of Khartoum cheering, dancing, honking car horns and waving flags. ...


Cherie Blair, England soccer star among new phone-hacking claimants

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Manchester United's Rooney reacts during their Europa League soccer match against Athletic Bilbao in ManchesterLONDON (Reuters) - England soccer star Wayne Rooney and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife Cherie are among a new group of 46 people suing over alleged phone-hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World newspaper, court documents showed on Friday. Other celebrities listed included singer James Blunt, soccer players Ryan Giggs and Peter Crouch and former England rugby union player Matt Dawson. ...


43 killed in Mexico after truck, bus collide

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The wreckage of a tour bus after an accident is seen in Alamo TemapacheMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 43 people were killed when a cargo truck crashed into a bus on a highway in eastern Mexico, in one of the worst traffic accidents the country has suffered in recent years. Pictures of the crash site near the municipality of Alamo Temapache in Veracruz state showed the side of the bus ripped open, with seats mangled by the impact and debris and luggage strewn across the road. Mexican officials said the vehicles were traveling in opposite directions along the highway early on Friday when the rear trailer of the truck decoupled, smashing into the bus. ...


Britain's Cameron offered air tanker as VIP jet

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during the launch of the Conservative Party's 2012 Local Election Campaign in Alfreton, central England(Reuters) - Senior British politicians and royals might consider making foreign visits in converted air force refueling jets after a row over the use of a rented Boeing for a trade mission to tout European-made Airbus planes. Britain's aerospace industry lobby group said proposals were being drawn up by the industry that could allow Prime Minister David Cameron and even Queen Elizabeth to use modified Airbus jetliners that double as refueling planes. ...


Egyptians mass to demand army retreat from power

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A protester puts an Egyptian flag onto the hand of a statue in Tahrir Square in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Egyptians demanded on Friday that their military rulers stick to a pledge to hand over power by mid-year after a row over who can run in the presidential election raised doubts about the army's commitment to democracy. Two leading Islamist candidates, one representing the Muslim Brotherhood who was seen as the frontrunner, were among those disqualified this week from a vote that starts on May 23-24, drawing a storm of criticism from supporters and the candidates. ...


Mexico's conservatives bet on woman presidential hopeful

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Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy poses with Mexican Josefina Vazquez Mota, presidential candidate of the ruling National Action Party (PAN) before a private meeting at a hotel in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling conservatives took a bold step by becoming the first major party to nominate a woman presidential candidate, but Josefina Vazquez Mota is struggling to close a big gap with the front-runner, hamstrung by internal party divisions. Three weeks into a compressed campaign season before the July 1 vote, Vazquez Mota trails Enrique Pena Nieto from the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, by double digits in most opinion polls. ...


Argentina seeks Petrobras collaboration in YPF

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Argentina's Planning Minister De Vido attends meeting with Brazil's Energy Minister Lobao in BrasiliaBRASILIA (Reuters) - Argentine Planning Minister Julio De Vido approached Brazil and its state-run oil company Petrobras on Friday to invite greater investment and collaboration with oil company YPF, which the government announced this week it would seize. Brazilian Energy Minister Lobao responded after the meetings that Petrobras' investments in its southern neighbor would remain at roughly $500 million in 2012, unchanged from 2011. Although he did not dismiss Vido's call for Petrobras to double its oil and gas output in Argentina, he said it would only happen "in due time. ...


Sudan and S. Sudan claim control of oil town

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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, center, waves from the back of a truck during a visit to North Kordofan, Sudan, Thursday, April 19, 2012. The Arab League said Thursday it would hold an emergency meeting over the increasing violence between Sudan and South Sudan. Sudan President Omar al-Bashir on Wednesday threatened to topple the South Sudan government after accusing the south of trying to take down his Khartoum-based government. Al-Bashir continued his hardline rhetoric on Thursday in an address to a Sudan and South Sudan both claimed to be in control of a contested oil town near the countries' ill-defined border on Friday after the south said it was withdrawing its troops to avert a return to war.


Norwegian gunman describes hunting down teenagers

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One of the survivors from Utoya, Siri Seim Soenstelie (left), her sister Thea and their father Erik Soenstelie talk at the Oslo courthouse at end of day five of the ongoing terror- and murder case against Anders Behring Breivik . Siri and her father have published a book about their experiences. The survivors had a tough day in court Friday, as Breivik delivered a detailed description of the killings on Utoya island which left 69 people dead. (AP Photo/ Lise Aserud, Pool)Norwegians who lost loved ones on Utoya island relived the horror Friday as far-right fanatic Anders Behring Breivik described in harrowing detail how he gunned down teenagers as they fled in panic or froze before him, paralyzed with fear.


Syrian forces fire on anti-regime protesters

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This image made from amateur video and released by Shaam News Network Friday, April 20, 2012, purports to show an explosion amid heavy shelling in the Khaldiyeh area of Homs, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL. TV OUTSyrian troops fired tear gas and bullets on thousands of protesters who spilled out of mosques after noon prayers Friday, activists said. State media reported that bombs and shootings killed 17 soldiers as the latest diplomatic efforts failed to halt more than 13 months of bloodshed in the country.


Mexico preps shelters as volcano roars, spews ash

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A plume of ash rises from the crater of the Popocatepetl volcano seen from the town of San Nicolas de los Ranchos, Mexico, Friday April 20, 2012. Authorities prepared evacuation routes, ambulances and shelters in the event of a bigger explosion after the volcano that looms over Mexico City emitted a low-pitched roar early Friday morning and spewed ash and steam. (AP Photo/Joel Merino)The white-capped volcano that looms over Mexico City emitted a terrifying low-pitched roar Friday and spewed roiling towers of ash and steam as it vented the pressure built up by a massive chamber of magma beneath its slopes. Authorities prepared evacuation routes, ambulances and shelters in the event of a bigger explosion.


Pakistani plane carrying 127 crashes amid storm

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Pakistani rescue workers sort through the wreckage of the Boeing 737 passenger plane that crashed in the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, April 20, 2012. Sobbing relatives of those on the flight, which was coming from Karachi, flocked to the airport, and officials said there appeared to be no survivors from the 127 people on board. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)Emergency workers with flashlights searched the smoldering wreckage of a passenger jet carrying 127 people that crashed into a muddy wheat field Friday while trying to land in a violent thunderstorm at Islamabad's main airport.


Tens of thousands protest military rule in Egypt

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Fireworks streak across the sky as protesters fill Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 20, 2012. Tens of thousands of protesters packed Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square on Friday in the biggest demonstration in months against the ruling military, aimed at stepping up pressure on the generals to hand over power to civilians and bar ex-regime members from running in upcoming presidential elections. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)Egypt's Islamist and secular forces sought to relaunch the street uprising against Egypt's ruling military Friday, packing Cairo's Tahrir Square with tens of thousands of protesters in the biggest rally in months and accusing the generals of manipulating upcoming presidential elections to preserve their power.


Europe, Russia propose rival resolutions on Syria

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FILE - In a Friday, March 2, 2012 file photo, men hold revolutionary Syrian flags during an anti government protest in a town in north Syria. Secular young men and women, mostly university students, writers and journalists appeared then optimistic that the Assad family's four-decade rule is coming to an end and will be replaced by a democracy representing all of Syria's religious and ethnic group. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)European nations and Russia proposed rival U.N. resolutions Friday morning, both calling for expanding the number of U.N. cease-fire monitors in Syria from 30 to 300 but disagreeing on possible sanctions and on how quickly the larger observer force should get on the ground.


EU delays vote on labeling oil sands oil dirty

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The European Commission will delay asking members to approve a measure that would label oil from oil sands as worse for climate change than crude oil — a temporary victory for Canada, where such oil is produced.

IMF announces $430 billion to boost resources

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IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde smiles during a G-20 news conference at the IMF and World Bank Group Spring Meetings in Washington, Friday, April 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)The International Monetary Fund says it has raised more than $430 billion in an effort to assure finance markets that it has sufficient firepower to handle any new problems from Europe's prolonged debt crisis.


Bahrain protesters swell ahead of F1 weekend

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Bahraini anti-government protesters chant slogans toward riot police in Manama, Bahrain, Thursday, April 19, 2012. Nervous shop owners closed their doors and security forces fanned out across Bahrain's capital Thursday in attempts to quell widening unrest that threatened to overshadow the return of the Formula One Grand Prix to the Gulf kingdom. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)Anti-government protesters flooded a main highway in a march stretching for miles and security forces fired tear gas in breakaway clashes Friday as Bahrain's leaders struggled to contain opposition anger while under the world's spotlight as the island nation hosts the Formula One Grand Prix.


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