2012年5月5日星期六

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Explosions in two Syrian cities kill at least three

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A U.N. observer stands next to a Syrian army tank during a field visit in Douma cityDAMASCUS (Reuters) - An explosion killed several people in Aleppo and two blasts hit a Damascus highway on Saturday in further signs that rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad are shifting tactics towards homemade explosives. Syria's state news agency said three people had been killed, one of them a child, and 21 wounded by a booby-trapped car in the northern city of Aleppo. ...


Egypt imposes curfew, deploys army after protests

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Security forces throw stones back at protesters near Egypt's Defence MinistryCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's military rulers on Saturday imposed an overnight curfew and deployed soldiers around the Defence Ministry to deter a repeat of Friday's deadly violence, less than three weeks before a presidential vote. One soldier died and almost 400 people were wounded in Friday's clashes, the second time in a week that protests over the army's handling of Egypt's troubled transition from army rule to civilian government have turned violent. The military imposed a 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. ...


Conservative factions dominate Iran's run-off elections

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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, now out of favor with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, suffered more setbacks in a run-off parliamentary election seen as a pointer for next year's presidential race, results showed on Saturday. The authorities hailed the outcome as a resounding triumph for Iran as it prepares for nuclear negotiations with the West. ...

Hollande favorite as French prepare for Sunday vote

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Francois Hollande, Socialist Party candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, attends a meeting at his campaign headquarters in ParisCampaigning ended on Saturday in France for a decisive second-round presidential vote expected to crown Francois Hollande the country's first Socialist leader in two decades despite polls showing President Nicolas Sarkozy clawing back some ground. Sunday's election, which coincides with parliamentary polls in Greece, may prove decisive for the direction of Europe as Hollande has promised he will try to temper a German-led austerity drive across Europe and reorientate the recession-struck euro zone towards growth. ...


Merkel's party set for photo finish in state vote

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German Chancellor Merkel and NATO Secretary-General Fogh Rasmussen address news conference after talks in BerlinBERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel's conservatives face a photo-finish state vote in Germany's north on Sunday, knowing that losing power in Schleswig-Holstein could give vital momentum to the opposition and dent the chancellor's 2013 re-election hopes. Merkel's resolute stance through the dramas of the euro zone crisis has left her personal popularity intact. But her national centre-right coalition is in jeopardy after a slump in public support for her junior coalition partners, the Free Democrats (FDP), due to their infighting and prickly leaders. ...


Putin says ready to "go far" in U.S. relations: Ifax

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Russia's Prime Minister and President-elect Putin talks to the media at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside MoscowRussia's President-elect Vladimir Putin is ready to go far in developing ties between Russia and the United States provided the relationship is equal, Interfax news agency quoted Putin's foreign policy aide as saying on Saturday. Putin discussed bilateral relations at a closed-door meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama's top security aide Tom Donilon at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on Friday, three days before his inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin. ...


Five killed and two wounded in Mexico City shootout

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Five young people died and two others were seriously wounded after a gunfight in eastern Mexico City on Saturday, authorities said. The prosecutors' office in Mexico City said two of the dead were female, aged 14 and 20. The male victims were 17, 22 and "about 20", a spokeswoman for the office said. The sex and precise age of the two wounded was still unclear, she added. The shooting took place early on Saturday in Iztapalapa, a poor, crowded district that has struggled with crime. Two cars were found at the scene, one of which contained the bodies of the two girls. ...

Armenia hopes for calm election, democratic outcome

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YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenia holds a parliamentary election on Sunday which leaders hope will reinforce stability and be free of the fraud and violence that marred the South Caucasus country's last national polls. The biggest parties in the coalition government, President Serzh Sarksyan's Republican Party and Prosperous Armenia led by businessman Gagik Tsarukyan, are expected to remain the strongest in the former Soviet republic of 3.3 million. ...

Netanyahu is mistaken on Iran, says election rival

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in JerusalemJERUSALEM (Reuters) - A key rival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized his hawkish stance on Iran's nuclear program on Saturday, making the issue a central theme for parliamentary elections expected this year. "It's a most serious mistake to turn the issue of defense against Iran into Israel's biggest problem," Shelly Yechimovitch, leader of the left-of-centre Labour party, said in a televised interview. ...


Backing EU path, Serbian right wing bids for power

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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's right-wing opposition bids for power on Sunday in knife-edge elections marked by an unprecedented pro-European consensus more than a decade since the fall of nationalist strongman Slobodan Milosevic. Liberals who took power in 2000 face their strongest challenge yet from the opposition led by Tomislav Nikolic, once demonized by the West as Milosevic's spiritual heir but who says he now shares the goal of taking Serbia into the European Union. ...

9/11 defendants ignore judge at Guantanamo hearing

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In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reads a document during his military hearing at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Saturday, May 5, 2012. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed repeatedly declined to respond to a judge's questions Saturday and his co-defendant Walid bin Attash was briefly restrained at a military hearing as five men charged with the worst terror attack in U.S. history appeared in public for the first time in more than three years. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)They knelt in prayer, ignored the judge and wouldn't listen to Arabic translations as they confronted nearly 3,000 counts of murder. The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants defiantly disrupted an arraignment that dragged into Saturday night in the opening act of the long-stalled effort to prosecute them in a military court.


Egypt military detains hundreds following violence

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An Egyptian Army soldier sits atop an armored vehicle as workers clear away plywood and debris used by protesters during clashes outside the Ministry of Defense in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 5, 2012. Lawyers say authorities have detained over 300 Egyptian protesters including 18 women following clashes outside the country's Defense Ministry, accused of attacking troops and disrupting public order.(AP Photo/Mahmoud Abd Al-Aziz)Egypt's military officials moved swiftly Saturday to prosecute protesters they blamed for an attack on the Defense Ministry, in an attempt to put down increasingly violent protests against their authority just weeks before the country's presidential election.


Polls open in France's overseas territories

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French Socialist Party candidate for the french presidential election Francois Hollande with his companion French journalist Valerie Trierweiler, answer journalist's questions during a visit at the market in Tulle, southwestern France, on the eve of the presidential election second round, Saturday, May 5, 2012.(AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)Voters in France's overseas territories began casting ballots for Nicolas Sarkozy or Francois Hollande on Saturday in a presidential election that could affect everything from Europe's efforts to fight its debt crisis to how long French troops stay in Afghanistan.


Putin returns to presidency in a changed Russia

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In this Friday, Aug. 19, 2011 file photo, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin listens as he comes to discuss the problems of the disabled, organized by the People's Front in Moscow, with Russian national flag in the background. Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency on Monday May 7, 2012 will technically give him greater powers than he wielded as prime minister. The irony is that his position will be arguably weaker than at any time since he first came to power more than 12 years ago. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency on Monday will technically give him greater powers than he wielded as prime minister. The irony is that his position will be arguably weaker than at any time since he first came to power more than 12 years ago.


Afghan child bride's in-laws sentenced for torture

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FILE- In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 file photo, Afghan doctors, unseen, dress the tortured ear of Sahar Gul, 15-year-old at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations, a judge said Saturday, May 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations, a judge said Saturday.


Fire at Peru rehab center kills 14

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Relatives weep after learning the names of the victims of the pre-dawn blaze at the Sacred Heart of Jesus clinic in Chosica, Peru, Saturday, May 5, 2012. A fire swept through the rehabilitation center for addicts near the Peruvian capital of Lima and officials say at least 14 people are dead. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)A predawn fire swept through a drug rehabilitation center in a town on Lima's outskirts Saturday, killing 14 people in the second blaze in Peru this year to claim the lives of addicts trapped behind locked doors in a private treatment residence.


Ahmadinejad's support crumbles in Iran runoff

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Iranian electoral workers count the ballots of the parliamentary runoff elections, in a polling station, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 4, 2012. 130 hopefuls competed for 65 seats in 33 constituencies including the capital Tehran with 25 undecided seats. Conservative opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have already won majority of seats of the new parliament in the first round of the elections in March. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's support in Iran's parliament crumbled as final results released Saturday showed conservative rivals consolidating their hold on the legislative body in a runoff vote.


Syrian activists: Explosion in Aleppo kills 5

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This image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Friday, May 4, 2012, purports to show Syrians chanting slogans and caring Kurdish flags during a demonstration in Qamishli, the capital of Syria's Kurdish heartland. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIALAn explosion in a car wash in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least five people on Saturday, activists said, while another blast in the capital destroyed nine cars.


Clinton says Bangladesh's parties must end discord

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni upon her arrival in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 5, 2012. Clinton is in Bangladesh to press tolerance, democracy and development in one of the world's most impoverished nations that is now in the throes political turmoil. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman)U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday urged Bangladesh's feuding political leaders to work together and end their most recent bout of discord for the good of their impoverished country.


Ex-Milosevic allies front-runners in Serbia vote

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A woman passes by a defaced election poster of Zoran Dragisic, a presidential candidate, in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, May 5, 2012. The first round vote on Sunday for president, and votes for a 250 seat national assembly and local councils pit pro EU democrats against nationalists who have gained in popularity with the EU's own economic troubles, which have dimmed the bloc's allure for many Serbs. (AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic)Former ultranationalist allies of Slobodan Milosevic may return to power in Serbia, 12 years after the late Balkan strongman was ousted by pro-Western forces seeking European Union membership.


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