2012年5月27日星期日

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U.N. Security Council condemns Syria over massacre

Posted: 27 May 2012 04:51 PM PDT

A young protester demonstrates in Chicago in opposition to the Syrian regimeAMMAN/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Sunday unanimously condemned the killing of at least 108 people, including many children, in the Syrian town of Houla, a sign of mounting outrage at the massacre that the government and rebels blamed on each other. Images of bloodied and lifeless young bodies, laid carefully side by side after the onslaught on Friday, triggered shock around the world and underlined the failure of a six-week-old U.N. ceasefire plan to stop the violence. ...


Iran not ready for visit to suspect nuclear site

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:01 AM PDT

Iran's chief negotiator Saeed Jalili addresses a news conference after a meeting in BaghdadDUBAI (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog has not yet given good enough reasons to visit an Iranian site where it suspects there may have been experiments for developing nuclear weapons, Iranian media said. The Parchin complex is at the centre of Western suspicions that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons capability despite Tehran's repeated denials of any such ambition. A report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week said satellite images showed "extensive activities" at Parchin. ...


Vatican faces widening of leaks scandal

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:25 AM PDT

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican faces a widening scandal that in one short week has seen Pope Benedict's butler arrested, the president of its bank unceremoniously dismissed and the publication of a new book alleging conspiracies among cardinals. It was a poisonous Pentecost Sunday for the pope, who likely had the tumultuous events of the past week on his mind as he celebrated a mass in St Peter's Basilica on the day regarded as the birthday of the Church. ...

Egypt presidential election body weighs complaints

Posted: 27 May 2012 03:24 PM PDT

Deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood El-Erian talks during a news conference in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's election committee on Sunday considered complaints about a presidential poll that has left voters with what many see as a painful run-off choice between an Islamist apparatchik and a throwback to Hosni Mubarak's era. Both contenders are seeking to lay claim to the mantle of the "revolution" that toppled Mubarak 15 months ago, and to appeal to the many Egyptians who picked more centrist figures in last week's first round. ...


Nepal faces fresh turmoil after charter deadline missed

Posted: 27 May 2012 12:43 PM PDT

Nepalese PM Baburam Bhattarai addresses the nation from his official residence to declare fresh elections for November 22, 2012 for the Himalayan republic after political parties failed to finalize the new constitution, in KathmanduKATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's warring political parties failed to meet a midnight deadline to agree on a new constitution on Sunday, plunging the Himalayan republic into further uncertainty, but the government moved quickly to defuse the crisis with a call for elections. A new constitution was widely seen as crucial to ending the instability that has plagued Nepal since the end of a Maoist-led civil war in 2006 and subsequent overthrow of the monarchy, but it has been thwarted by demands for the country to be divided into states along ethnic lines. ...


Britain's Blair faces grilling over ties to Murdoch

Posted: 27 May 2012 04:07 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Tony Blair's decision to openly court Rupert Murdoch to win power and ensure favorable coverage during his decade-long tenure as British prime minister will come under scrutiny when he faces a media inquiry on Monday. The inquiry, ordered by Prime Minister David Cameron after Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid admitted hacking phones, has tarnished Britain's elite by laying bare the collusion between politicians, the police and the media. ...

Eight Afghan civilians said killed in NATO airstrike

Posted: 27 May 2012 06:13 AM PDT

KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Eight members of an Afghan family, including six children and two women, were killed in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, local authorities said on Sunday, although the NATO-led coalition said there was no evidence of any civilian casualties. The strike took place in the Gerda Serai district of Paktia late on Saturday, the provincial governor's spokesman, Rohullah Samon, said as foreign and Afghan security forces try to quell Taliban and Haqqani network insurgents active in the area. ...

NATO has fight on its hands in Afghanistan: Panetta

Posted: 27 May 2012 10:17 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Panetta testifies next to U.S. Secretary of State Clinton, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dempsey, at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - NATO forces still have a fight on their hands in Afghanistan, where the Taliban has displayed resilience although its fighters have not regained territory they lost during the decade-long war, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Sunday. Panetta said plans for foreign troops to hand over security responsibilities to Afghan forces starting in mid-2013 were on track and necessary to ensure that the Taliban, which governed Afghanistan before the U.S.-led invasion, is kept at bay. U.S. President Barack Obama, who ordered a surge of U.S. ...


No strict sharia in Mali's independent north: MNLA rebels

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:45 AM PDT

DAKAR (Reuters) - Malian rebels who declared an independent Islamic state in the country's north said on Sunday they would impose sharia but not in a strict form. The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), which has fought to make Mali's northern Azawad region an autonomous state, on Saturday signed an agreement to merge with Islamist Ansar Dine rebels seeking to impose sharia across Mali. A mix of rebels have occupied the northern two-thirds of Mali since a March 22 coup led to a collapse of army resistance. ...

Fresh from defeat, Serbia's Tadic poised for PM

Posted: 27 May 2012 02:35 PM PDT

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's Boris Tadic, fresh from defeat in a presidential election a week ago, put himself forward on Sunday as his party's candidate for the more powerful post of prime minister at the helm of a renewed centre-left coalition. After eight years as president, Tadic lost his bid for re-election to rightist opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic, a former leader of the ultranationalist Radical Party who says he now shares the goal of taking Serbia into the European Union. ...

Syria defiantly denies killings, UN council meets

Posted: 27 May 2012 02:21 PM PDT

This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network taken Saturday, May 26, 2012, purports to show shrouded dead bodies following a Syrian government assault on Houla, Syria. The Syrian government denied Sunday its troops were behind an attack on a string of villages that left more than 90 people dead, blaming the killings on "hundreds of heavily-armed gunmen" who also attacked soldiers in the area. Friday's assault on Houla, an area northwest of the central city of Homs, was one of the bloodiest single events in Syria's 15-month-old uprising. The U.N. says 32 children under 10 were among the dead. (AP Photo) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS CITIZEN JOURNALISM IMAGESyria on Sunday strongly denied allegations that its forces killed scores of people — including women and children — in one of the deadliest days of the country's uprising, and the U.N. Security Council held an emergency session on the massacre.


Egypt candidates file appeals, charge vote fraud

Posted: 27 May 2012 12:30 PM PDT

COMBO - This combination of two photos shows Egyptian presidential candidates, from left, Ahmed Shafiq, and Mohammed Morsi. Shafiq and Morsi were the top vote-getters after a two-day election on Wednesday and Thursday which none of the 13 candidates could win outright. Now, both must appeal to the roughly 50 percent of voters who cast ballots for someone else. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra; Nasser Nasser)Three top candidates in Egypt's presidential race filed appeals to the election commission ahead of the deadline Sunday, alleging violations in the first round vote that they say could change the outcome.


NATO disputes report of casualties in airstrike

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:31 AM PDT

More than 1,500 Afghans block the highway between Kabul and Kandahar in Seed Abad, Wardak province, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 26, 2012. The protesters demanded a stop to military night operations. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad)The U.S.-led coalition on Sunday disputed reports that eight civilians, including children, were killed in a NATO airstrike in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan.


Millions in global aid for Iraq sits unspent

Posted: 27 May 2012 11:25 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, a student passes by an abandoned school foundation, unfinished since 2006, in central Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Millions of dollars in international aid to build and repair Iraq's dilapidated schools have for years gone unspent. Now, Iraq's government risks losing the funding as the World Bank weighs whether some of it would be better used in some of the poorest nations around the globe. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)Outside the crumbling elementary school, goats feed on trash strewn across the front yard. Inside, the ceiling is rotting, toilets don't work and students scrunch hip-to-hip behind narrow desks.


US slammed from both sides of Bahrain's divide

Posted: 27 May 2012 10:13 AM PDT

In this photo taken May 18, 2012, Bahraini anti-government protesters participating in mass march along a northern highway outside Manama, Bahrain, carry a sign reading in Arabic, "Death to America, the enemy of the nations and the creator of wars. Death to America." During one of the nightly clashes with Bahrain's security forces, a new chant broke out among opposition protesters: "The U.S. is the big devil." A few days later, pro-government marchers also waved their fists against Washington. Both sides in the Bahrain meltdown are finding a shared target in the United States. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)During one of the nightly clashes with Bahrain's security forces, a new chant broke out among opposition protesters: "The U.S. is the great Satan." A few days later, pro-government marchers also waved their fists against Washington.


Haneke's 'Amour' wins top prize at Cannes

Posted: 27 May 2012 02:04 PM PDT

Director Michael Haneke arrives for the awards ceremony at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)The Cannes Film Festival rewarded one of its favorite directors Sunday, as Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film about love and death, "Amour."


Premier appeals to Ireland: Vote yes to EU treaty

Posted: 27 May 2012 10:37 AM PDT

Dubliners bask in the sunshine on the River Liffey as an anti-EU poster advises voters to reject the European Union's fiscal treaty in Dublin, Ireland, on Friday, May 25, 2012. Ireland's May 31 referendum represents the only popular test of public support for the treaty, which is designed to restrict the ability of eurozone members to run up deficits. Prime Minister Enda Kenny made a televised appeal to his nation Sunday to support the treaty, arguing it would reassure the world that Ireland is serious about tackling its deficits and staying in the euro. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny made a nationally televised appeal Sunday to voters to support the European Union's fiscal treaty in a referendum this week, warning that rejection would send the signal that Ireland was not serious about tackling its deficits and was no longer a secure member of the euro currency.


Watching dissidents is a booming business in China

Posted: 27 May 2012 08:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, unidentified men block a journalist's vehicle from entering Dongshigu Village where blind activist Chen Guangcheng was locked down, in eastern China's Shandong province. While China has long been a police state, controls on these non-offenders mark a new expansion of police resources at a time the authoritarian leadership is consumed with keeping its hold over a fast-changing society. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)Every workday at 7:20 a.m., colleagues pick up Yao Lifa from his second-floor apartment and drive him to the elementary school where he taught for years.


Palestinian Airlines resumes flights after 7 years

Posted: 27 May 2012 09:44 AM PDT

A Palestinian Airlines flight takes off from Marka Airbase to El-Arish, Egypt, in Amman, Jordan, Sunday, May 27, 2012. Palestinian Airlines is back in the skies after being grounded for seven years by the vagaries of the Mideast conflict. It's a mom-and-pop operation, with just two 48-seat turbo-prop planes, two weekly flights and a borrowed hub in Egypt, but Palestinians say just being on the map again is what matters. (AP photo/Mohammad Hannon)Palestinian Airlines is back in the skies after being grounded for seven years by the deepening enmities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.


Guinea-Bissau rambles on, despite coup

Posted: 27 May 2012 08:02 AM PDT

Campaign banners from an election that was violently interrupted still hang in the main thoroughfare of this steamy capital, a reminder that a stable government is far from the country's grasp.

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