2012年5月11日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


U.S. lawmakers want Haqqani named "terrorist" group

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To match feature PAKISTAN MILITANTS/HITSQUADWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of congressional intelligence committees, who recently returned from a trip to Afghanistan, urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday to immediately designate the militant Haqqani network as a "terrorist" group. U.S. officials blame the al Qaeda-linked network for attacks in Afghanistan including assaults on embassies and the parliament in Kabul. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mike Mullen, called the Haqqani group a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's intelligence service. ...


Greece hurtles towards new election; hard left leads

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Leader of the Socialists PASOK party Venizelos meets leader of Conservatives New Democracy party Samaras in AthensATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's politicians failed on Friday to agree a new government, sending the country hurtling towards a new vote, with radical leftists leading in the polls and poised to scrap the 130 billion euro bailout that staved off bankruptcy. The prospect of a new election just weeks after an inconclusive vote that paralyzed the most troubled country in the euro zone caused havoc in financial markets. The European single currency hit its lowest point since January near $1.29, while the Athens stock exchange fell more than 4 percent to its lowest level since 1992. ...


U.S. says "eyes wide open" in response to Myanmar changes

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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi smiles after presenting her expensives at the Thanlyin township election commission office on the outskirts of YangonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is matching Myanmar's tentative steps toward democracy after decades of harsh military rule with a calibrated re-engagement, aware of the potential for setbacks, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Friday. Patrick Murphy, the State Department's deputy special representative for Myanmar, said Washington is deepening its engagement with the reformist government, looking at easing more sanctions and likely to appoint a U.S. ambassador "in coming weeks. ...


From Cameron with love: Murdoch protégée haunts PM

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A still image from broadcast footage shows Rebekah Brooks giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in central LondonLONDON (Reuters) - David Cameron signed off messages to tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks with an affectionate "LOL", she told an inquiry on Friday, conjuring the embarrassing image of a British prime minister-in-waiting fawning over a Rupert Murdoch protégée. As editor of Britain's most-read newspapers the News of the World and later the Sun, Brooks had the power to make or break careers and was courted for years by top politicians until she quit in disgrace in July 2011 over phone-hacking by reporters. ...


Blast hits Syria's Aleppo near ruling party HQ

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Demonstrators hold Kurdish and opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Al-Assad in QamishliBEIRUT (Reuters) - An explosion hit Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Friday, close to the ruling party headquarters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The activist group said no one was killed by the blast itself but one guard at the headquarters died, apparently in a round of gunfire that followed the explosion. "Initial details indicate that the Aleppo blast was targeting the local branch of the ruling Baath party and there is no information until now on the number of victims that fell in the explosion," the British-based group said in an email. ...


U.S. resumes Bahrain arms sales despite rights concerns

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Anti-government protesters shout slogans while holding Bahraini flags during a protest outside Bahrain's leading opposition party Al Wefaq's headquarters in ManamaWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will resume some military sales to Bahrain, a key Gulf ally facing Iran, despite human rights concerns linked to months of popular protests against the island kingdom's rulers, the State Department said on Friday. The Obama administration notified Congress that certain sales would be allowed for Bahrain's defense force, coast guard and national guard, although it would maintain a hold on TOW missiles, Humvees and some other items for now, the department said in a statement. ...


Hezbollah says able to strike anywhere in Israel

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A Hezbollah supporter holds pictures of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Nasrallah and assassinated Hezbollah military commander Moughniyeh during Nasrallah's address via a screen during a ceremony in BeiruBEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah said his militant group was capable of striking any target in neighboring Israel, saying "the days when we fled and they did not are over". "Today we are not only able to hit Tel Aviv as a city but, God willing, we are able to hit specific targets in Tel Aviv and anywhere in occupied Palestine," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address. "For every building destroyed in Dahiya, a building will be destroyed in Tel Aviv," he said, referring to Hezbollah's stronghold in a suburb of southern Beirut. ...


South Sudan police withdraw from disputed Abyei: U.N.

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - South Sudan has withdrawn its police from the disputed Abyei region on its border with Sudan, the United Nations said on Friday, after the U.N. Security Council threatened the African neighbors with sanctions to try and stop an escalating conflict. Sudan and South Sudan both claim Abyei, a border region containing fertile grazing land, which Khartoum took in May last year - triggering the exodus of tens of thousands of civilians - after a southern attack on an army convoy. ...

Mexico's Pena Nieto widens poll lead after debate

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Enrique Pena Nieto, presidential candidate of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), waves to supporters after attending a private meeting with Spanish's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy at a hotel in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto has extended the big lead he holds over his nearest rival in the campaign for the July 1 election after the first televised debate Sunday, a poll showed on Friday. The first voter survey by pollster Consulta Mitofsky since the debate showed support for Pena Nieto of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, at 38.5 percent, up 0.5 percentage point from a previous poll published on May 1. That gave him a lead of 17. ...


Egyptians vote abroad, leadership contest heats up

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An Egyptian expatriate living in Lebanon, casts her ballot at a polling station at the Egyptian embassy in BeirutCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's presidential election, set to be the freest it has ever had, began for citizens abroad on Friday after a caustic televised debate between two candidates that produced no clear favorite to lead the most populous Arab nation. Egyptians who overthrew President Hosni Mubarak as uprisings hit the Arab world last year are savoring the spectacle of politicians competing for their votes. The streets are abuzz with argument over who is the best man to tackle poverty and corruption and uphold their new-found freedoms. ...


Algerian Islamists fall to govt party in election

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Workers at a polling station count ballots at a polling station in the Bab el-Oued neighborhood, Algiers, Thursday, May 10, 2012. As parliamentary elections unfolded across Algeria on Thursday, voting was light for much of day in the capital, despite these contests being billed the freest in 20 years. (AP Photo/Paul Schemm).Islamists suffered a surprising defeat in Algeria's parliamentary elections, bucking a trend that saw them gain power across North Africa after Arab Spring uprisings.


Suicide attacks in Syria add wild card element

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Syrian soldiers check a burned truck in front of a damaged military intelligence building where two bombs exploded, at Qazaz neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday May 10, 2012. Two strong explosions ripped through the Syrian capital Thursday, killing or wounding dozens of people and leaving scenes of carnage in the streets in an assault against a center of government power. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)The latest suicide bombings in the Syrian capital showed an increasing ruthlessness: The attackers struck during rush hour, setting off one blast to draw a crowd before unleashing a much bigger one, killing 55 people and leaving the street strewn with rubble and mangled bodies.


12 bodies found at Russian jet crash in Indonesia

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The logo of Sukhoi Co. is clearly visible, center, among the wreckage of a Sukhoi Superjet-100 scattered on the mountainside in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Friday, May 11, 2012. The crash of the new, Russian-made jetliner into a jagged Indonesian volcano during a flight to impress potential buyers has thrown doubt on dozens of plane sales just as Moscow seeks a comeback in foreign markets. All 45 people aboard were feared dead. (AP Photo)Search teams who scaled a volcano's steep slopes found at least 12 bodies Friday near the wreckage of a Russian-made jetliner that crashed in Indonesia during a demonstration flight for potential buyers, an official said.


Attacker in Afghan uniform kills US soldier

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An Afghan child looks at UN Humanitarian chief Valerie Amos, unseen, during her visit to an informal settlement in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Afghanistan's security situation has overshadowed the glaring humanitarian needs of the country's poorest, a top UN official said Wednesday, and the situation may worsen as international aid dwindles in the years ahead. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)A man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot dead a U.S. soldier in the east of the country, one of two NATO troops killed on Friday, military officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.


Egypt's mindboggling first time choosing a leader

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Moderate Islamist, Abdel-Moneim Abolfotoh, left, and former foreign minister, Amr Moussa stand at their podiums on Egypt's first televised presidential debate in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 11, 2012. Two presidential election front-runners, have squared off in the Arab world's first ever presidential debate, trading barbs over the role of religion and how to bring democratic reform to Egypt. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Khaled, Al Masry Al Youm)Egyptians are for the first time getting a taste of how it is to choose a president— with groundbreaking presidential debates, face-to-face encounters with candidates on the campaign trail, and chances to question their programs, political history and even personal lives.


Shoe-thrower interrupts Breivik trial

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Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted to the July 22, 2011 massacre and a bombing in Oslo that killed eight people earlier that day, stands with a police woman in court in Oslo Thursday May 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Krister Sorbo/NTB Scanpix, Pool)An Iraqi man whose brother was killed in Norway's worst peacetime massacre hurled a shoe at the confessed killer and urged him to "go to hell" in a rare outburst Friday that briefly interrupted the terror trial of Anders Behring Breivik.


AP Exclusive: Vatican eyes Legion priests on abuse

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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2004 file photo, Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late father Marcial Maciel, founder of Christ's Legionaries, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the Regnum Christi movement, at the Vatican.The Vatican is investigating seven priests from the troubled Legion of Christ religious order for alleged sexual abuse of minors and another two for other alleged crimes, The Associated Press has learned. The investigations mark the first known Vatican action against Legion priests for alleged sexual assault following the scandal of the Legion's founder, who was long held up as a model by the Vatican despite credible accusations _ later proven _ that he raped and molested his seminarians. The Legion, which is now under Vatican receivership, has insisted that the crimes of its late founder, the Rev. Marciel Maciel, were his alone. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri, File)The Vatican is investigating seven priests from the troubled Legion of Christ religious order for alleged sexual abuse of minors — evidence that the scandal over the order's pedophile founder doesn't rest solely with him, The Associated Press has learned.


Russian crash shows risks of informal demo flights

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In this photo released by Sergey Dolya, cabin crew serve passengers during a flight over Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. The Russian-made Sukhoi jet plane with 50 people on board, including eight Russians and an American, has gone missing during the second demonstration flight of the day near Jakarta, Indonesian government officials said Wednesday.(AP Photo/Sergey Dolya) NO SALESThe crash of a Russian-made passenger jet into the flanks of an Indonesian volcano has put a spotlight on the notoriously informal atmosphere aboard new aircraft during manufacturer demonstrations — known here as "joy flights."


Greek euro exit no longer unthinkable

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Let Greece go: It's a possibility that's being considered more and more publicly in Europe.

Prospectors ready to tap Haiti's buried gold

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In this April 10, 2012 photo, Genove Valcimon, 70, poses for a picture as he works on a road being built through the mountains to lead to an exploratory drill site in the department of Trou Du Nord, Haiti. Haiti's land may yet hold the solution to centuries of poverty: there is gold hidden in its hills, and silver and copper too. Now, two mining companies are drilling around the clock to determine how to get those metals out, and how much it might cost. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti's land may hold the key to relieving centuries of poverty, disaster and disease: There is gold hidden in its hills — and silver and copper, too.


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