2012年4月30日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News


U.N. panel prepares to expand North Korea sanctions: envoys

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A North Korean flag flutters on top of a tower at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea taken from Panmunjom, north of SeoulUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States, South Korea, Japan and European nations have submitted to the U.N. Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee lists of individuals and firms they want blacklisted after Pyongyang's recent rocket launch, envoys said on Monday. Earlier this month the 15-nation council strongly condemned North Korea's April 13 rocket launch, called for adding new names to the list of those hit by existing U.N. sanctions and warned Pyongyang of further consequences if it carried out another missile launch or nuclear test. ...


France holds Colombian FARC responsible for journalist

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French journalist Romeo Langlois is seen in this undated photo distributed to the media by French television station, France 24, in ParisPARIS/BOGOTA (Reuters) - France on Monday said it held FARC rebels responsible for the life of a French journalist in Colombia, calling on the drug-funded group to release him immediately in line with a pledge it made to stop taking hostages for ransom. France believes Romeo Langlois, a freelance reporter for French news channel France 24, was taken captive by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia after being caught in crossfire between the Marxist guerrillas and government troops. ...


Venezuela's Chavez reappears in public, back to Cuba

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks in a national TV broadcast to promulgate the new Labour Law, ahead of May Day commemoration, in CaracasCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his first live public appearance in two weeks on Monday to announce a new workers' law prior to his return to Cuba for more cancer radiation therapy. The 57-year-old socialist leader has been shuttling between Caracas and Havana for treatment on an unspecified cancer that is hampering his ability to campaign for an October 7 presidential election in the OPEC member nation. Chavez's last live public appearance had been on April 13, though he phoned state TV several times and was seen in a pre-recorded video from Havana. ...


White House: U.S. drone killings legal to combat threats

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John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, speaks about the killing of Osama bin Laden in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. campaign of drone strikes to kill militants in other countries is legal under international law, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser insisted on Monday in a rare public admission and justification of the controversial tactic. John Brennan's speech, on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a raid in Pakistan, was remarkable in that U.S. officials in public rarely discuss the drone program, which has for years been considered a covert CIA operation. ...


Mali soldiers fight to reverse coup in capital

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Malian soldiers stand guard at the international airport of BamakoBAMAKO (Reuters) - Soldiers from Mali's presidential guard unit, loyal to the country's ousted president, battled junta forces on Monday in an bid to wrest back control of the capital Bamako a month after a coup, witnesses and a junta official said. Heavy gunfire rang out in the centre of the city near a military barracks, and the red beret presidential unit took up positions around the airport and entered the state broadcaster building, witnesses said. ...


Deadly bombs in Syria's Idlib target security

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A view of the damage at the site where two bombs detonated near state buildings in the northern city of IdlibBEIRUT (Reuters) - Explosions blew the fronts off buildings in the Syrian town of Idlib on Monday, with state TV reporting nine people killed and 100 wounded including security services personnel targeted by an intensifying rebel bombing campaign. Images on state television showed flattened cars and mangled bodies lying under tarpaulins near the site of a pair of bombings. Craters had been blasted in the road. "My wife and I were asleep in bed and then there was a loud explosion. It rocked the whole house and woke us all up," said one man, standing amid rubble. ...


Scandal talk clouds French campaign before TV debate

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France's President and UMP party candidate for the French 2012 presidential elections Sarkozy arrives for his re-election campaign rally in DijonPARIS (Reuters) - Allegations of scandal and dirty tricks, and a presidential lawsuit, clouded France's election race as it entered the final week on Monday with both sides preparing for rival May Day rallies and a crucial television debate. The developments, along with a new opinion poll showing Socialist challenger Francois Hollande's lead over Conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy has narrowed slightly, raised the temperature on the eve of the rallies and Wednesday's sole TV debate before Sunday's decisive runoff. ...


Argentine envoy urges UK to "give peace a chance" on Falklands

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(Blank Headline Received)LONDON (Reuters) - Argentina's new ambassador to London ambushed Britain's foreign minister over the disputed Falklands Islands on Monday, asking him at a public meeting whether he was ready to "give peace a chance" by opening talks on the islands' future. Alicia Castro, formerly Argentina's ambassador to Venezuela, took up her post in London in March, just as tensions escalated between Britain and Argentina 30 years after they went to war over the South Atlantic islands, known in Spanish as Las Malvinas. ...


Two horse race in final stretch for Egypt presidency

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Women walk under campaign election posters for Mursi in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt enters the last stage of its first democratic presidential race on Monday with its field narrowing to a two-horse race between the urbane former head of the Arab League and a charismatic Islamist medic jailed for years under Hosni Mubarak. A poll published in state-run al-Ahram daily on Monday showed veteran diplomat Amr Moussa in the lead, followed by Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh, who has emerged in recent days as the leading Islamist candidate after securing the support of the ultra-conservative Salafist movement. ...


Congo army clashes with wanted general, five dead

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General Bosco Ntaganda addresses a news conference in Kabati, a village located in Congo's eastern North Kivu provinceKINSHASA (Reuters) - At least five people have been killed in clashes between Democratic Republic of Congo's army and soldiers loyal to a renegade general wanted by the International Criminal court for war crimes, U.N. and military sources said on Monday. The fighting in the Masisi region of North Kivu began late on Sunday and forced thousands of residents to flee their homes, some of them into neighboring Rwanda, said aid groups. General Bosco Ntaganda fought the government as a rebel before he was integrated into the army alongside other insurgents as part of a 2009 peace deal. ...


Running blind: China activist's dramatic escape

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In this photo taken in late April, 2012, and released by Hu Jia, blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng, right, meets with Zeng Jinyan, the wife of human rights activist Hu Jia, at an undisclosed location in Beijing. Chen, an inspirational figure in China's rights movement, slipped away from his well-guarded rural village on April 22, 2012, and made it to a secret location in Beijing on Friday, April 27. Activists say Chen is under the protection of U.S. diplomats in Beijing. (AP Photo/Hu Jia)Chen Guangcheng's blindness was a help and a hindrance as he made his way past the security cordon ringing his farmhouse.


Fresh attacks target symbols of Syrian state power

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian man, left, stands in front of a building that was damaged after two bombs exploded near a military compound, in the city of Idlib, northwestern Syria, Monday, April 30, 2012. Two powerful bombs exploded near a military compound in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on Monday, killing several people and causing heavy damage, Syrian state media and opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)In fresh attacks on symbols of state power, twin suicide bombs exploded Monday near a government security compound in northern Syria and rockets struck the central bank in Damascus, killing nine people and wounding 100.


Junta spokesman: Countercoup attempt in Mali

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Soldiers loyal to the former government tried to stage a countercoup in Mali on Monday, a spokesman for Mali's military junta said.

Bahrain orders retrial for hunger striker, others

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A Bahraini man looks at an image of jailed hunger striker Abdulhadi al-Khawaja painted on a wall in Barbar, Bahrain, west of the capital of Manama, on Monday, April 30, 2012. A defense lawyer says a Bahrain appeals court has ordered the reexamination of the case of al-Khawaja and more than a dozen others. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)A Bahrain court Monday ordered retrials for a prominent hunger striker and 20 others convicted by a military-led tribunal in crackdowns against a 14-month-old uprising in the Gulf kingdom.


Uganda suggests Joseph Kony getting Sudan support

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Troops from the Central African Republic stand guard at a building used for joint meetings between them and U.S. Army special forces, in Obo, Central African Republic, Sunday, April 29, 2012. Obo was the first place in the Central African Republic that Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacked in 2008 and today it's one of four forward operating locations where U.S. special forces have paired up with local troops and Ugandan soldiers to seek out Kony. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Ugandan officials are renewing a claim made with some frequency over the years: That rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army are receiving backing from the government of Sudan.


Pakistanis dead; got 'blood money' in CIA killing

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An ambulance removes dead bodies of shooting victims from a house in Lahore, Pakistan on Monday, April 30, 2012. The widow and mother-in-law of one of two Pakistanis men shot and killed by a CIA contractor last year, have been murdered in Lahore, police said. It appears the killings may have been related to the large amount of The widow and mother-in-law of a Pakistani man killed by a CIA contractor last year were murdered Monday, allegedly by the widow's father who may have feared she would remarry and take the "blood money" she received with her, police said.


UN debating how to end Sudan-South Sudan fight

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Diplomats from key nations are trying to reach agreement quickly on a new U.N. resolution that would threaten non-military sanctions against Sudan or South Sudan if they don't halt fighting and return to negotiations.

French Muslims get call to vote for president

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FILE - In this Sept.16, 2011 file photo, French Muslims attend a mass prayer at a prayer hall in a unused former fire station in Paris, Friday, Sept. 16, 2011. They are France's millions-strong minority with a voice that usually falls silent at election time. But this year, there is a special new effort to mobilize French Muslims to speak up at the ballot box in Sunday's presidential race. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)They are France's millions-strong minority with a voice that usually falls silent at election time. But this year, there is a special new effort to mobilize French Muslims to speak up at the ballot box in Sunday's presidential race — amid a surge of Islam-bashing among the French right.


Problems in pacifying Rio de Janeiro slums

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In this photo taken April 11, 2012, police from the Special Operations Battalion (BOPE) patrol as children joke in the Manguinhos slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Setbacks in a security program meant to take back territory from the drug trade have shown the immense challenge of pacifying the city's violent slums and raised questions about the state's ability to keep the peace as Rio prepares to take the world stage not just for the Olympics but the 2014 World Cup, which will host its headline events in Rio. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)Jose Martins de Oliveira has lived with plenty of weapons and violence during his 45 years in the sprawling hillside shantytown of Rocinha. For most of that time, it was drug traffickers who controlled the giant slum with brutal force.


Moderate Islamist gains in presidential race

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FILE - In this Thursday, April 26, 2012 file photo, Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel-Moneim Abolfotoh gives a speech during a meeting in Monofeya, about 70 Kilometers (43 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt. Abolfotoh, a moderate Islamist campaigning to be Egypt's next president is gaining support from the country's most hard-line conservatives, including a former jihadist militant group. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)A moderate Islamist campaigning to be Egypt's next president has won the support of some unlikely allies — the country's most conservative religious groups, including former militant jihadists.


Japanese job seekers hold Tokyo pep rally

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With cheerleaders shouting encouragement, more than 1,000 young Japanese trying to break into the job market have held a pep rally in Tokyo to highlight what officials say is the bleakest employment outlook Japan has faced in years.

New Year celebrations cause 194 Beijing fires

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A chef with a restaurant enjoys fireworks to celebrate the fifth day of Chinese New Year in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)State media are reporting that people celebrating the Lunar New Year by setting off fireworks in Beijing caused 194 fires in the Chinese capital, double the number from last year.


Sumo questions wrestlers in bout-fixing scandal

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A media person talks on his cell phone outside Ryogoku Kokugikan sumo arena where the Japan Sumo Association is holding an emergency meeting in Tokyo Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. In the meeting, the Japan Sumo Association decided to call off its Spring Grand Sumo Tournament scheduled for March, the first cancellation in 65 years, as the country's ancient sport grapples with a match-fixing scandal. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)Japan's sumo association began questioning dozens of top wrestlers Tuesday in a widening investigation into allegations of bout-fixing that have deeply tarnished the image of the nation's ancient national sport.


Philippine general in graft probe shot dead

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The Philippine health secretary says a former military chief implicated in a corruption scandal has died of a gunshot wound.

Health secretary says former Philippine military chief in center of corruption probe shot dead

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Health secretary says former Philippine military chief in center of corruption probe shot dead.

Taiwan recalls Manila rep over China deportation

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Taiwan has recalled its representative to the Philippines over Manila's decision to extradite 14 Taiwanese citizens to face criminal prosecution in China.

Koreas to hold defense meeting to ease tensions

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A group of South Korean military officers has headed to a rare meeting with North Korean officials to try to lay the groundwork for high-level defense talks aimed at easing hostilities on the peninsula.

Cruise employee found dead in Cozumel, Mexico

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State police investigators and forensic workers examine the scene where a crew member of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship was found dead in the resort island of Cozumel, Mexico, Saturday Feb. 5, 2011. The body of Monika Markiewicz, 32, was recovered from the ocean off the southern part of the island and an autopsy determined the cause of death was drowning but added that Markiewicz also suffered a blow to the head. Police are investigating whether her death was a homicide, according to state authorities and company officials. (AP Photo/Angel Castellanos)A crew member of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship was found dead in the Mexican resort island of Cozumel, possibly the victim of a violent crime, authorities and company officials said Sunday.


Reputed drug 'queen' sentenced for arms possession

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A reputed Mexican drug cartel "queen" who once got Botox in prison has been sentenced to time already served on a weapons charge, authorities said Sunday.

Egyptians return to unfamiliar homeland

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The plane was nearly empty when it took off en route to Cairo. Most people have gone in the other direction, escaping the chaos surrounding mass protests demanding President Hosni Mubarak's ouster.

Egyptians seek normalcy after days of unrest

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Traffic returns to the Kasr El-Nil bridge leading to Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. A sense of normalcy began to return to some parts of the capital Sunday, which has been largely closed since chaos erupted shortly after the protests began on Jan. 25. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Egyptians desperate for cash lined up at newly reopened banks and Cairo's infamous traffic jams reappeared Sunday as the capital struggled to regain a sense of normalcy after nearly two weeks of unrest.


Officials: Unrest could affect EU, Israel security

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German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, left, Munich Security Conference Chairman Wolfgang Ischinger, center, and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen attend the opening of the Conference on Security Policy in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)Top defense officials and diplomats warned Friday that growing unrest in Egypt and elsewhere could affect Israeli and European security, although it may provide new impetus to the Mideast peace process.


Egypt's Mubarak holds meeting with economy team

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Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters dance and sing under an anti-Mubarak banner in Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011. President Barack Obama said Egypt's Hosni Mubarak should do the statesmanlike thing and make a quick handoff to a more representative government. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)President Hosni Mubarak assembled his economy team on Saturday in an effort to project calm as the country's turmoil triggered global economic jitters and the standoff continued, with thousands of anti-government protesters remaining camped out on Cairo's Tahrir, or Liberation, Square.


Mubarak's resignation now could hamper transition

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Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters chant as they wave Egyptian flags during their protest in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. Egypt's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would begin talks Sunday with the government to try to end the country's political crisis but made clear it would insist on the immediate ouster of longtime authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)President Hosni Mubarak's immediate resignation — the key demand of protesters in the streets of Cairo — would trigger snap presidential elections under the Egyptian constitution and could make political reform more difficult, experts say.


Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore dead at 58

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Bandmates say Gary Moore, guitarist with influential Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, has died. He was 58.

Tunisian minister suspends ex-ruling party

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Tunisia's interior minister on Sunday suspended all activities of the country's former ruling party amid the most serious protests since the country's autocratic president fled into exile less than a month ago.

Egypt's Brotherhood to hold talks with government

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Egypt's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would begin talks Sunday with the government to try to end the country's political crisis but made clear it would insist on the immediate ouster of longtime authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak.

Police evict indigenous Easter Island protesters

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Relatives of activists occupying a posh Easter Island hotel say Chilean police have raided and removed the last of the indigenous protesters. They have been battling for ancestral lands and a share of profits from the thousands of tourists who come to see the Pacific Island's famed statues of giant heads.

Cuban opposition leader urges end to hunger strike

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A leader of the Ladies in White opposition group says she will urge a colleague to end a 10-day old hunger strike she launched to demand freedom for her jailed husband.

Nobel prize winner calls for Mubarak to step down

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Egyptian Nobel prize awarded, Ahmed Zewail, talks during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. Egypt's vice president met a broad representation of major opposition groups for the first time Sunday and agreed to allow freedom of the press and to release those detained since anti-government protests began, though Al-Jazeera's English-language news network said one of its correspondents had been detained the same day by the Egyptian military. (AP Photo/Soliman Oteifi)Egyptian-American scholar and Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail added his weight Sunday to calls for President Hosni Mubarak to step down to help end the standoff with anti-government protesters.


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