2012年5月17日星期四

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Spain beset by bank crisis, downgrades, bond pressure

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Bankia bank small shareholders take part in an assembly to discuss actions to take against the bank in MadridMADRID (Reuters) - Spain's borrowing costs shot up at a bond auction on Thursday and its troubled banks suffered a double blow, with shares in part-nationalized Bankia diving and 16 lenders - including the euro zone's biggest - having their credit ratings cut. Official data confirmed Spain was back in recession and a newspaper reported a big outflow of deposits from Bankia, but the government said it had taken a fundamental step to strengthen Spain's credibility by agreeing big budget cuts with the country's free-spending regions. ...


Exclusive: U.N. panel probes possible North Korea arms trade with Syria, Myanmar

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. panel of experts that monitors compliance with sanctions on North Korea is investigating reports of possible weapons-related shipments by Pyongyang to Syria and Myanmar, the panel said in a confidential report seen by Reuters on Thursday. "The DPRK (North Korea) continues actively to defy the measures in the (U.N. sanctions) resolutions," the panel said in the report, which it submitted to the U.N. Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee earlier this week. ...

Poll shows Greece electing pro-bailout government

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Newly appointed caretaker PM Pikrammenos shakes hands with Greece's President Papoulias during their meeting in AthensATHENS (Reuters) - Greek voters are returning to the establishment parties that negotiated its bailout, a poll showed on Thursday, offering potential salvation for European leaders who say a snap Greek election next month will decide whether it must quit the euro. The poll, the first conducted since talks to form a government collapsed and a new election was called for June 17, showed the conservative New Democracy party in first place, several points ahead of the radical leftist SYRIZA which has pledged to tear up the bailout. ...


Egypt Brotherhood forms human chain for candidate

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood organized a 760-km (470-mile)-long human chain of supporters across the country on Thursday to back the group's presidential candidate Mohamed Mursi in a show of strength ahead of next week's historic vote. From Cairo to Aswan, members of the Brotherhood and its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), held posters of Mohamed Mursi, the Brotherhood's alternative choice to the group's initial candidate Khairat Shater, who was disqualified over a military court conviction. ...

France's left-wing leadership starts with a pay cut

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France's President Hollande and newly named Defence Minister Drian walks at the end of first cabinet meeting of the new government at the Elysee Palace in ParisPARIS (Reuters) - France's new left-wing government started work on Thursday with pledges to combat excessive austerity but better manage public finances, marking the debut with a 30 percent cut in pay for President Francois Hollande and all ministers. The sizeable wage reduction was endorsed at a first meeting of the 34-minister team, a day after Germany's government awarded rises to its ministers and Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose pay will overtake Hollande's. ...


Qaeda chief urges Saudis to topple ruling family

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Still image from video shows Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri speaking from an unknown locationDUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri on Thursday urged Saudis to rise up against the kingdom's ruling Al-Saud family, suggesting they draw inspiration from uprisings that have deposed leaders across the Middle East and Africa in the past year and a half. Speaking in a video clip that was posted on an Islamist website, Zawahri, who took over the leadership of al Qaeda after Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan just over a year ago, said: "Muslim brothers in the land of the holy mosques, a year has passed since the uprising of the Arab people against their rulers... ...


Syria's Assad: Nations that sow chaos will suffer

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Members of the U.N. observer mission in Syria are seen between destroyed houses in Sermeen, near the northern city of Idlib,AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday that countries trying to "sow chaos" in Syria could be infected with it themselves, an apparent warning to Arab Gulf nations that back the insurgency aimed at forcing him from power. Assad's remarks, to a Russian TV channel, came after U.N. staff monitoring an increasingly shaky ceasefire were caught up in an attack that killed at least 21 people, and had to spend a night with rebel forces. ...


Judge holds Mexican generals over for drug probe

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General Tomas Angeles Dauahare listen as he takes part in a working meeting at Mexico's congress in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican judge on Thursday ordered the former deputy defense minister and a top general to be held for 40 days while they are investigated for alleged ties to drug cartels. Retired General Tomas Angeles and active General Roberto Dawe are to be held in a detention center in Mexico City following their arrest on Tuesday, the federal Attorney General's Office said in a statement. Several witnesses, including fellow military officers, have already testified against the generals, the statement said. ...


Greek winemakers see crisis as glass half-full

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Greek winemakers are not pricing their wares in drachmas - yet. The winemakers, visiting New York as part of an international promotional tour, doubted Athens would leave the euro-zone even after Fitch Ratings Agency downgraded Greece's sovereign debt on Thursday, calling the country's exit from the monetary union "probable. "No, no, no. That is not going to happen," Stellios Boutaris, whose family owns the Kir-Yianni winery, insisted. "And if that happens, we will have bigger problems than just pricing wine in drachmas. ...

U.S. suspends sanctions on investment in Myanmar

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U.S. Secretary of State Clinton speaks to reporters next to Burma's Foreign Minister Wunna after their meeting at the State Department in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday suspended sanctions barring U.S. investment in Myanmar in response to political reforms in the poor southeast Asian state, drawing praise from some U.S. lawmakers but criticism from human rights advocates. "Today we say to American business: invest in Burma and do it responsibly," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. She appeared with Myanmar's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin, on his long-isolated nation's first official visit to Washington in decades as ties between the two countries warm rapidly. ...


Egypt: Owner of belly dancing TV station arrested

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FILE - In this Thursday, March 22, 2001 file photo, Belly dancer Fifi Abdou performs at a hotel in Cairo, Egypt. An Egyptian security says vice police have arrested the owner a TV station specialized in belly dancing performances for allegedly operating without a license, inciting licentiousness and facilitating prostitution. (AP Photo, File)Egypt's vice police on Thursday arrested the owner of a belly dancing TV station on suspicion of operating without a license, inciting licentiousness and facilitating prostitution, a security official said.


Judge delays Mladic trial due to evidence errors

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In this video image taken from ICTY video former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic is seen on the second day of his trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands Thursday May 17, 2012. Prosecutors on Thursday were to outline their evidence of the alleged involvement of former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic in Europe's worst mass murder since World War II, the 1995 Srebrenica massacre but the presiding judge in the trial suspended the case indefinitely due to disclosure errors by prosecutors. (AP Photo/ICTY video, Pool) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAn apparent clerical error prompted judges to postpone the long-awaited war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic on Thursday, possibly for months.


Syrian opposition head offers to resign

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FILE - In this Monday, June 20, 2011 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech in Damascus, Syria, at Damascus University. In his first interview in six months, Syrian President Bashar Assad insists his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries and not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a year-long uprising. (AP Photo/SANA, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLYSyria's main opposition council is crumbling under the weight of infighting and divisions over issues that cut to the heart of the revolution, including accusations that the movement is becoming as autocratic as the regime it wants to drive out.


Greek party most extreme of Europe's far right

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This combination of six file photos shows from left to right, on the top: Marine Le Pen of France's National Front; Heinz Christian Strache, head of Austria's right-wing Freedom Party or FPOE; Netherlands Freedom Party lawmaker Geert Wilders. And on the bottom from left to right are: Italian Lower Chamber President Gianfranco Fini, former head of the National Alliance and currently head of Italy's Future and Liberty Party; chairman of Hungary's which won 7 percent of the vote in a May 6 election — says it wants to rid Greece of immigrants and plant landmines along the border with Turkey.


US envoy to Israel: US ready to strike Iran

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FILE- In this Monday, April, 9, 2007 file photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks at a ceremony in Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 Kilometers (186 miles) south of capital Tehran, Iran. The U.S. has plans in place to attack Iran if necessary to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, Washington's envoy to Israel said, days ahead of a crucial round of nuclear talks with Tehran. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)The U.S. has plans in place to attack Iran if necessary to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, Washington's envoy to Israel said, days ahead of a crucial round of nuclear talks with Tehran.


Cuban president's daughter gets US visa

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Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuba's President Raul Castro, holds a sign demanding President Barack Obama release five Cuban intelligence agents imprisoned in U.S., popularly known as the Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro has been granted a U.S. visa to attend events in San Francisco and New York, sparking a firestorm of criticism from Cuban-American politicians who called her an enemy of democracy and a shill for the Communist government her family has led for decades.


Greece hands Olympic flame over to Britain

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High priestess Ino Menegaki lights the torch with the Olympic Flame, during a handover ceremony for the Olympic flame at Panathenaean stadium in Athens, Thursday, May 17, 2012. The torch begins its 70-day journey to arrive at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, from the Greek capital, to cover about 8,000-mile (12,875-kilometer) on its progress over many parts of England to start the games. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)The Olympic torch was passed to London — witnessed, appropriately, by hundreds of Greeks huddled under umbrellas.


Life's a beach for civil servants at London Games

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Britain's beach volleyball team member, Denise Johns dives for the ball as teammate, Lucy Boulton, left, opposition Shauna Mullin and Zara Dampney, right, look on as they try-out the arena during a photocall at Horse Guards Parade in London on the eve of the FIVB Beach Volley International Olympic test event tournament, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. Horse Guards Parade will host the London 2012 Olympic beach volley competition next year. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, file)Tanned and toned Olympic athletes in skimpy outfits will be serving and spiking outside the prime minister's Downing Street home — but it's lower-ranked civil servants who will have the best view of beach volleyball at the London Games.


S.Africa's ANC fumes over art ridiculing president

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South Africa's governing party said Thursday it will demand the removal of a painting from an exhibition by one of the nation's best-known artists that ridicules the party and the president with graphic and provocative imagery.

Flood of refugees hits camp near Sudan border

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A mother and daughter from South Kordofan, Sudan, at a feeding center for the acutely malnourished in the Yida refugee camp in Unity State, South Sudan on Saturday May 12, 2012. Heavy fighting between Sudanese government forces and rebels in South Kordofan disrupted the usual agricultural cycle and created extreme food shortages. The girl's hands have been immobilized to prevent her from removing her feeding tube. More than 30,000 refugees currently reside in Yida which sits just 20 miles south of the border between Sudan and South Sudan. In recent weeks, aid agencies have reported a steep influx of new arrivals, at times exceeding 700 per day. Most arrive in need of food, medical treatment and other basic services. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)An unexploded bomb sticks out of the earth. Foxholes have been dug by aid workers fearing more airstrikes from Sudan. Streams of hungry refugees are pouring in.


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