2012年4月25日星期三

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"We don't have that sort of power," Murdoch tells inquiry

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A still image from broadcast footage shows Rupert Murdoch speaking at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in LondonLONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch is used to slipping into Downing Street by the back door for discreet meetings with prime ministers, but there was no such privacy on Wednesday when he faced a grilling about his political influence in the full glare of the world's media. It was one of the most extraordinary days in a career spanning six decades that has seen the owner of a provincial Australian newspaper morph into a global media magnate credited with the power to make or break governments. ...


Mexico starts investigation in Wal-Mart bribery case

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A general view of a Wal-Mart store in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico said on Wednesday it would open an investigation into allegations that the Mexican unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc bribed officials to expand its business there, piling pressure onto the embattled retail giant. The Mexican federal comptroller's office said it had begun checking the federal paperwork and permits that Wal-Mart de Mexico, known as Walmex, obtained to open and operate its stores in Mexico. The comptroller's office added that it would ask U.S. ...


Syria violence rages, France tells U.N. to hurry

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Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in KafranbelBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces shot dead four civilians on a bus on Wednesday and fighting raged near Damascus, dissidents said, as international pressure mounted on President Bashar al-Assad to honor U.N.-backed ceasefire pledges to order his troops back to barracks. In the city of Hama, an anti-Assad hotbed, an explosion ripped through a building, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens more, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. ...


Egypt lets Mubarak PM back in presidential race

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File photo of Ahmed Shafiq talking in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - The last prime minister to serve under deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been allowed to re-enter the race for the presidency, one day after electoral authorities disqualified him, the state news agency reported on Wednesday. Analysts said Ahmed Shafiq's re-entry into the race will make him the favorite of the military and a very strong contender to win Egypt's presidential elections set for May 23-24, with a run-off scheduled in June. ...


With eye on elections, Merkel pushes minimum wage

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German Chancellor Merkel and pupils pose for pictures at Girls Day career event at Chancellery in BerlinBERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have agreed plans to introduce a mandatory minimum wage for sectors of the economy that do not already have one, in the latest policy shift to try to win over left-leaning voters before next year's election. Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) have long opposed a blanket minimum wage, arguing that it would amount to excessive political interference in the wage-bargaining process between workers and employers. ...


U.S. accuses two Taiwanese in China military sale case

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday accused two Taiwanese nationals of trying to buy U.S. military technology on behalf of people they claimed worked in the Chinese government. Federal prosecutors in Newark, New Jersey said Hui Sheng Shen, 45, and Huan Ling Chang, 41, had been under U.S. investigation since February 2011, when they agreed to sell methamphetamine to undercover federal agents. But in a series of meetings in September and October 2011 in Las Vegas, Shen and Chang began asking the undercover agents for U.S. military technology, court documents said. ...

South Sudan frees prisoners; clashes abate

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A South Sudan's army, or the SPLA, comander sits in a chair in PanakuachJUBA/BEIJING (Reuters) - South Sudan freed prisoners of war on Wednesday as clashes appeared to abate between north and south, after cross-border fighting that threatened to tip into all-out war. Sitting on some of Africa's most significant oil reserves, Sudan and South Sudan have been unable to resolve a dispute over oil revenues and border demarcation since the South gained independence in July. ...


Israel's top general says Iran unlikely to make bomb

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(Blank Headline Received)JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's military chief said he does not believe Iran will decide to build an atomic bomb and called its leaders "very rational" - comments that clashed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's assessment. Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz's remarks, in an interview published on Wednesday in the left-wing Haaretz newspaper, drew little attention in Israel on its annual remembrance day for fallen soldiers, when political discourse is suspended. ...


Accused drug dealer says paid off fugitive Venezuela judge

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Suspected Venezuelan drug lord Walid Makled arrives at Venezuela airport after being extradited from Colombia in CaracasCARACAS (Reuters) - An accused Venezuelan drug lord wanted by the United States said on Wednesday he made monthly payments to a former judge who recently embarrassed President Hugo Chavez with accusations of widespread manipulation in the OPEC nation's justice system. The statement by Walid Makled, considered a major trafficker who is now on trial in Venezuela, is likely to fuel criticism by opposition leaders and U.S. authorities over the socialist government's alleged complicity with the drug trade. ...


Court to give Taylor verdict in war crimes milestone

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Former Liberian President Taylor awaits start of prosecution's closing arguments during his trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in LeidschendamTHE HAGUE (Reuters) - A special court delivers its verdict on Thursday on whether Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor is guilty of crimes against humanity by supporting and directing rebels who pillaged, raped and murdered during the Sierra Leone civil war. The verdict will be the first passed on a former head of state by The Hague's international courts in what human rights advocates say is a reminder that even the most powerful do not enjoy impunity. Yugoslav ex-president Slobodan Milosevic died in The Hague in 2006 before the war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia could reach a verdict. ...


France raises prospect of military action in Syria

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France's foreign minister Alian Juppe, right, with Syrian human rights activist Suhair al-Atassi ,center, and Syrian author and activist Rima Flihane, speak to the media after their meeting in Paris Wednesday April 25, 2012. The UN mission to Syria is seen as a last chance for diplomacy to end the bloodshed in the strife-torn country, experts say today, while expressing scepticism about its chances of success.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)France raised the prospect of military intervention in Syria on Wednesday, saying the U.N. should consider harsher measures if an international peace plan that has been shaken by violence ultimately collapses.


I'm not that powerful, Rupert Murdoch tells judge

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In this image from video, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch appears at Lord Justice Brian Leveson's inquiry in London, Wednesday April 25, 2012 to answer questions under oath about how much he knew about phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid. Murdoch is being grilled on his relationship with British politicians at the country's media ethics inquiry, while a government minister is battling accusations he gave News Corp. privileged access in its bid to take over a major broadcaster. (AP Photo/Pool)News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said Wednesday that his globe-spanning TV and newspaper empire doesn't carry as much political sway as is often believed, telling a British inquiry into media ethics that he wasn't the power behind the throne often depicted by his enemies.


Breivik's publicity at trial just what he wanted

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FILE This Monday, April 16, 2012 file photo shows Anders Behring Breivik gesturing as he arrives at the courtroom in Oslo, Norway. Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik's shocking testimony to a Norwegian court has revived a debate about how much of a public platform mass-murderers should be given in trials. Such atrocities are often waged for attention and carried out in the name of political or religious goals, and a trial gives perpetrators more of what they crave: a huge audience. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)As Anders Behring Breivik has given shocking and remorseless accounts to a Norwegian court of how he massacred 77 people, his testimony has revived a debate about how much of a public platform mass-murderers should be given in trials.


In fiery crash, challenges of Nigeria exposed

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Leonard Dibia, a lawyer representing victims of crash look through court documents during a ruling at the Magistrate court in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, April. 25, 2012,The failures of Africa's most populous nation seemed to explode into a fiery multiple car and truck crash in Nigeria that killed at least 18 people in 2010, according to a coroner's ruling issued Wednesday. Police set up an illegal checkpoint August 2010 along a major expressway in Lagos, using tires to funnel traffic down to one lane as officers demanded bribes from motorists, witnesses said. The driver of a speeding truck carrying sugar for the nation's largest industrial company tried to stop, but the vehicle's bad brakes failed and the truck slammed into waiting traffic, witnesses and officials said. Those details, long denied by authorities, came out Wednesday when a coroner investigating the deaths ruled against Nigeria's federal police and the Dangote Group, owned by billionaire Aliko Dangote. (AP Photos/Sunday Alamba)Government corruption and deteriorating roads caused a fiery multiple car and truck crash in Nigeria that killed at least 18 people in 2010, a coroner said Wednesday, highlighting major challenges facing Africa's most populous nation.


AP Interview: Iraqi Kurd leader hints at secession

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Kurdish president Massoud Barzani speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Salah al-Din resort, Irbil north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Barzani told The Associated Press on Wednesday that one possible alternative is a political revolt. He says opposition parties have run out of patience after feeling sidelined in al-Maliki's Shiite-led government. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)The president of Iraq's self-rule Kurdish region demanded Wednesday that Shiite leaders agree on sharing power with their political opponents by September or else the Kurds could consider breaking away from Baghdad.


Draghi says Europe needs growth pact

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European Central Bank President Mario Draghi addresses the committee on economic and monetary affairs at the European parliament in Brussels, Wednesday April 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)European Central Bank head Mario Draghi gave a muted outlook for the European economy and called for a "growth compact" to restore lost competitiveness across Europe.


Wills, Kate attend 'African Cats' London premiere

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, center, arrive under an umbrella for the UK Premiere of 'African Cats', in aid of 'Tusk Trust', at the BFI Southbank in central London, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)Prince William and his wife Kate were guests of honor at the U.K. premiere of Disneynature's "African Cats" on Wednesday.


Egypt body reinstates ex-premier in president race

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In a surprise move, Egypt's election commission has reinstated deposed leader Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister in the presidential race, a day after disqualifying him.

France's Hollande to renegotiate European treaty

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Francois Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, waves after his speech at a ceremony in Paris to mark the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks 97 years ago Tuesday, April 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer/Pool)French presidential front-runner Francois Hollande says that if he's elected, he would immediately ask other European leaders to renegotiate the fiscal treaty aimed at reducing debts to include measures to encourage growth.


Israel marks 64 years of independence

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An Israeli man cries beside a memorial stone for a fallen soldier during the annual Memorial Day ceremony at the Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)Israelis celebrated their country's 64th anniversary Wednesday with fireworks and military processions at a national ceremony in Jerusalem.


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