2012年5月6日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News


Victorious French left reclaims the Bastille

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Supporters of France's newly-elected President Francois Hollande react after the early results in the second round vote of the 2012 French presidential elections in ParisPARIS (Reuters) - Giddy revellers thronged Paris's Bastille square on Sunday as Socialist Francois Hollande swept to a presidential election victory, erupting into cheers and rejoicing not seen since the party's only other elected president won power 31 years ago. Tens of thousands of Hollande supporters gave a huge cry of joy as a giant screen showed him as victor, echoing the spontaneous street party in the same historic venue that followed Francois Mitterrand's 1981 election. ...


Analysis: Greek, French voters reject German-led austerity

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Supporters of the newly-elected French President Francois Hollande celebrate at La Bastille square in ParisBERLIN (Reuters) - Greek voters dealt a serious blow on Sunday to the fragile political consensus that has kept Europe's currency bloc intact through more than two years of crisis, rejecting the austerity-for-aid policies that have shielded the country from bankruptcy and a euro exit. Greece's vote, combined with the victory of Socialist Francois Hollande over incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in a French presidential election, will raise pressure on Europe's paymaster Germany to pursue a more growth-oriented approach to the crisis. ...


Socialist Hollande ousts Sarkozy as French leader

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Supporters of France's newly-elected President Francois Hollande react after the early results in the second round vote of the 2012 French presidential elections in ParisPARIS (Reuters) - Socialist Francois Hollande swept to victory in France's presidential election on Sunday in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe and promised to start a pushback against German-led austerity policies. Hollande led conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy by 51.3 percent to 48.7 percent with 83 percent of votes counted, the Interior Ministry said, bringing the centre-left back to government in Paris after a decade in opposition. "Europe is watching us," the president-elect said in a victory speech in his constituency of Tulle in central France. ...


Putin to be sworn in as president of divided Russia

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Supporters of Prime Minister and President-elect Vladimir Putin wave flags during a supporters rally in central MoscowMOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin will be sworn in as Russia's president at a glittering ceremony on Monday, hours after clashes between police and protesters laid bare the deep divisions over his return to the Kremlin for six more years. The former KGB spy will take his oath before nearly 2,000 guests in the Kremlin's St Andrew Hall, the former throne room with sparkling chandeliers, gilded pillars and high Gothic vaults, before being blessed by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and taking charge of the nuclear suitcase. ...


Angry Greeks reject bailout, risk euro exit

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A girl smokes a cigarette before the arrival of Greek Socialist PASOK party leader Evangelos Venizelos during a rally in AthensATHENS (Reuters) - Greek voters enraged by economic hardship caused by the terms of an international bailout turned on ruling parties in an election on Sunday, putting the country's future in the euro zone at risk and threatening to revive Europe's debt crisis. The latest official results, with over 61 percent of the vote counted, showed the only two major parties supporting an EU/IMF program that keeps Greece from bankruptcy would be hard pressed to form a lasting coalition. ...


Netanyahu seeks September Israel election

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a Likud party convention in Tel AvivTEL AVIV (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he supported holding an early general election in four months' time, a ballot polls say could strengthen his hand as Israel confronts Iran's nuclear ambitions. The next national vote was not due until October 2013, but new legislation that might force ultra-Orthodox Jews to serve in the military and an upcoming budget debate have threatened to unravel a governing coalition of religious and nationalist parties once seen as one of the most stable in Israel's history. ...


Heavy fighting rocks eastern Syria ahead of poll

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Family riding on a tractor pass a Syrian soldier at a checkpoint, during a field visit made by United Nations observers to the Madaya area, near DamascusAMMAN (Reuters) - Fighting between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces erupted in an oil producing province in eastern Syria, residents and activists said on Sunday, the eve of a parliamentary election the authorities say shows reforms are under way. Rebels armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked tank positions in the east of the provincial capital Deir al-Zor, in response to an army offensive against towns and villages in the tribal area bordering Iraq that has killed tens of people and stopped others reaching supplies and medical care, they said. ...


Serbian right tied for power with liberals

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Combo photo shows candidates for Serbian presidential election Tadic, Nikolic, Dacic, Kostunica, Jovanovic and Seselj, in BelgradeBELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's ruling liberals and right-wing opposition were tied for control of the Balkan country on Sunday after knife-edge elections in which the party of late Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic emerged as kingmaker. The opposition Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), led by former ultranationalist allies of Milosevic, claimed the narrowest of victories in the parliamentary election over the ruling Democratic Party, playing to voter anger over economic stagnation. The SNS said it would open coalition talks without delay. ...


Chinese tropical city highlights national income disparity

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Hundreds of tourists visit Dadonghai beach in SanyaSANYA, China (Reuters) - A central government plan to create a high end tourist industry on the tropical Hainan island has delivered a much-anticipated surge in economic growth, but it has also widened the wealth gap between rich and poor that Beijing was trying to close. Money has poured into prime seafront property to build five-star hotels, lush golf courses and marinas for private yachts, generating an investment-led boom that has seen the island's economy grow an average 35 percent faster than the rest of the country in the three years since the government campaign began. But, for the 8. ...


Suspected U.S. drone kills two Yemeni al Qaeda men

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ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - Two Yemeni members of al Qaeda were killed by a missile strike on their car on Sunday, in what residents and the al Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia group described as a U.S. drone attack. The Yemeni government called the attack an air strike. Washington and Yemen do not acknowledge U.S. drone attacks on militants in the country, which have taken place regularly for years. Yemen's branch of al Qaeda has plotted abortive overseas attacks and is a major concern for Washington, which is waging an assassination campaign against suspected members using drone and missile strikes. ...

Hollande defeats Sarkozy in French presidency vote

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President-elect Francois Hollande holds a bouquet of roses after delivering his speech in Tulle, central France, Sunday, May 6, 2012. Francois Hollande defeated Sarkozy on Sunday to become France's next president, Sarkozy conceded defeat minutes after the polls closed. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)Socialist Francois Hollande defeated conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday to become France's next president, heralding a change in how Europe tackles its debt crisis and how France flexes its military and diplomatic muscle around the world.


Greek parties vow bailout changes as votes come in

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Leader of the Greek Socialist PASOK party Evangelos Venizelos, center, is greeted by supporters upon his arrival outside a polling station in Thessaloniki, northern Greece Sunday May 6, 2012. Greeks cast ballots on Sunday in their most critical _ and uncertain _ election in decades, with voters set to punish the two main parties that are being held responsible for the country's dire economic straits. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)Greeks angered by a vicious and protracted financial crisis punished the parties that have dominated politics for decades Sunday, with projected election results showing them hemorrhaging support to anti-bailout groups and no party gaining enough ballots to form a government.


Runoff expected in Serbian presidential race

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Democratic Party leader and former president Boris Tadic casts his ballot at a polling station in downtown Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, May 6, 2012. Serbia, a landlocked nation of 7.1 million people in southeast Europe, is holding presidential, parliamentary and municipal elections Sunday. Whoever wins could affect Serbia's future relations with the European Union as well as Kosovo, a one-time province whose declaration of independence Serbia has refused to accept.(AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)A pro-European Union candidate and a nationalist opponent are headed for a runoff in Serbia's presidential elections, while the ruling pro-Western party is likely to form the next coalition government, independent pollsters said Sunday.


Airstrike kills senior al-Qaida leader in Yemen

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FILE - This file photo released by the FBI Thursday, May 15, 2003 shows Fahd al-Quso, who was charged as an al-Qaida member who helped to plan the attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in 2000. Yemeni officials say an airstrike has killed a top al-Qaida leader who was wanted in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. Local official Abu Bakr bin Farid said Fahd al-Quso was killed Sunday, May 6, 2012 along with an aide in an airstrike in the southern Shabwa province. (AP Photo/FBI, File)An airstrike Sunday killed a top al-Qaida leader on the FBI's most wanted list for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship, Yemeni officials said. The airstrike resembled earlier U.S. drone attacks, but the U.S. did not immediately confirm it.


Turkish premier: Syrian regime weaker every day

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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a fashion conference in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, May 3, 2012. Erdogan on Thursday accused ratings agency Standard & Poor's of bias for lowering the country's long-term credit outlook on the same day it upgraded Greece's credit grade. (AP Photo)President Bashar Assad's grip on Syria is getting weaker by the day and "victory is close," Turkey's prime minister said Sunday in an address to thousands of cheering Syrians who fled a brutal crackdown on an anti-regime uprising.


Afghan soldier fires on NATO troops, killing 1

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An Afghan soldier killed a NATO trooper before being shot to death in return fire Sunday in southern Afghanistan, the latest in a series of attacks against foreigners blamed on government forces within their own ranks.

Egypt parliament limits future military trials

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Egyptian protesters chant anti-ruling military council slogans during a rally demanding the release of fellow activists, detained during the army operation that dispersed a protest in front of the Ministry of Defense, in Cairo, Egypt Sunday, May 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)Egypt's Islamist-dominated parliament on Sunday approved a ban on the country's next president from sending civilians for trial by military tribunals, but preserving that power for the military itself.


Georgia's patriarch baptizes 400 babies

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Georgian babies are baptized at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sunday, May 6, 2012. Many of the parents of the 400 babies baptized on Sunday said Georgian Orthodox Church Patriarch Ilia II was instrumental in their decision to have a third or fourth child. Patriarch Ilia II promised to become the godfather of all babies born into Orthodox Christian families who already have two or more children and since 2008 has gained nearly 11,000 godchildren. (AP Photo/ Shakh Aivazov)The patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church presided over the baptism of hundreds of babies in a Tbilisi cathedral on Sunday as part of an effort credited with helping raise the birth rate in this former Soviet nation.


Sarkozy joins fallen leaders amid Europe crisis

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This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, from top left, former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, former Portugal interim Prime Minister and Socialist Party leader Jose Socrates, former Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former Spain Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, and Chairman Timo Soini of the True Finns. When Nicolas Sarkozy was defeated Sunday, May 6, 2012, in France's presidential runoff by Socialist challenger Francois Hollande, he joined a series of European leaders booted from office because of public anger over austerity measures and economic crisis. Almost every crisis-hit European country that has held an election since disaster struck in 2009 has thrown out its leader. (AP Photo/File)Nicolas Sarkozy, defeated Sunday in France's presidential runoff by Socialist challenger Francois Hollande, joins a series of European leaders booted from office because of public anger over government spending cuts and economic crisis. Almost every crisis-hit European country that has held an election since disaster struck in 2009 has thrown out its leader.


What French election result means for US, world

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President-elect Francois Hollande waves to the crowd after his election in Tulle, central France, Sunday, May 6, 2012. Francois Hollande defeated Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday to become France's next president, Sarkozy conceded defeat minutes after the polls closed. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)French voters chose Socialist Francois Hollande as their new president Sunday in a race that will have implications for Europe's debt crisis, the Afghanistan war and global diplomacy.


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