2012年6月8日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


Insight: In Greece, a painful return to country roots

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 11:07 PM PDT

To match Insight GREECE-COUNTRYSIDE/KONITSA, Greece (Reuters) - Thirteen years after abandoning rural Greece for a career in graphic design, Spiridoula Lakka finds herself in the last place she expected to end up - watering a patch of lettuce and herbs in her sleepy village. As Greece sank into its worst economic crisis since World War Two, Lakka had already given up her dream of becoming a web designer. Even waitressing seemed impossible. She faced a simple choice: be stranded without money in Athens, or return to the geriatric village where she grew up plotting to escape. ...


Insight: Vatican bank-money, mystery and monsignors

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 03:01 AM PDT

President of the Vatican bank (IOR) Ettore Gotti Tedeschi speaks during the presentation of his new book "The Economic Reasons" in downtown Rome in this February 22, 2012 file photo.VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - For a financial institution whose ATMs offer Latin as a language option, whose offices are below the pope's windows and where tellers work under the gaze of crucifixes, one might assume the Vatican bank would have a dispensation from earthly travails. But new judicial woes and internal upheavals at the bank, officially known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), have raised new hurdles for the Vatican, just as it entered the final stretch of years of efforts to join the international club of financial righteousness. ...


U.N. says seven peacekeepers killed in Ivory Coast

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 03:38 PM PDT

U.N. Secretary General Ban is informed by his spokesperson Nesirky of killing of seven U.N. peacekeepers in Para, Cote d'Ivoire, at U.N. headquarters in New YorkABIDJAN (Reuters) - Seven United Nations peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in Ivory Coast on Friday while on patrol near the border with neighboring Liberia, the U.N. mission said. It was not immediately clear who attacked the U.N. troops or if any Ivorian troops they were patrolling with were harmed. The United Nations said the mission had only recently increased its presence in the area, near the towns of Para and Tai, to boost efforts to protect civilians. The troops came under attack just a few kilometers from the border with Liberia. ...


Bus bomb kills 19 in northwest Pakistan: police

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 08:50 AM PDT

Residents gather at the site of a bomb attack in the outskirts of PeshawarPESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb exploded on a bus on the outskirts of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing 19 people and wounding several, police officials said. There have been numerous bombings in Peshawar, capital of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, since the Pakistani military stepped up operations against militant groups in 2007. "The bus was carrying around 40 people, most of them government employees, when there was a huge blast," police official Merah Khan told Reuters. Police said the bus was travelling from Peshawar to the nearby town of Charsadda. ...


Egyptians protest against ex-premier before election

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 12:02 PM PDT

Protesters shout slogans during a protest after Friday prayers in Cairo's Tahrir SquareCAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of activists gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to demonstrate against presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik ahead of a run-off vote, saying they did not want to be ruled by another former military man. Some of those in the square supported Shafik's rival Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, which already controls parliament, but others were frustrated that they face a choice between two of Egypt's most polarizing politicians. Protesters have been angered by Shafik's links to ousted president leader Hosni Mubarak. ...


Husband of Nigeria air crash victim sues Boeing

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 03:58 PM PDT

LAGOS (Reuters) - The husband of a woman killed in last Sunday's plane crash in Nigeria is suing the plane's manufacturer, Boeing, and engine maker United Technologies, saying her death was caused by a "dangerous and defective" aircraft. David Chukwunonso Allison, who lives in Lagos, is also suing the estate of the American pilot, Peter Waxtan, according to the lawsuit filed on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. Allison's wife, Joy, was among the 153 people on board who died in the crash in Lagos, Nigeria's worst in two decades. ...

U.N. nuclear watchdog, Iran fail to reach deal on probe

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 02:11 PM PDT

Neckaerts of the IAEA and Iran's IAEA ambassador Soltanieh attends a news conference in ViennaVIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran failed at talks on Friday to unblock a probe into suspected atom bomb research by the Islamic state, a setback dimming any chances for success in higher-level negotiations between Tehran and major powers later this month. The International Atomic Energy Agency, using unusually pointed language, said no progress had been made in the meeting aimed at sealing a deal on resuming the IAEA's long-stalled investigation, and it described the outcome as "disappointing." It came just a few weeks after U.N. ...


Lopez Obrador stages late charge in Mexican election

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 12:53 PM PDT

Lopez Obrador, presidential candidate for the PRD, is embraced by a supporter as he arrives for a rally in OrizabaORIZABA, Mexico (Reuters) - Six years after Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador watched his big lead for the presidency evaporate in the final weeks of the campaign, the leftist is now gaining ground in polls and hopes to snatch a last-minute victory in the July 1 election. Fueled by a sudden surge in youth opposition to his main rival, the 58-year-old Lopez Obrador has narrowed the gap on front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). ...


Russia's Putin signs anti-protest law before rally

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 12:21 PM PDT

Police detain protesters during a demonstration by the Yabloko political party in MoscowST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law on Friday a bill that will dramatically increase fines for people who take part in protests that violate public order rules, just days ahead of the next planned rally against his 12-year rule. Putin told a meeting of top judges in his native St. Petersburg that he decided to sign the bill despite objections from his own human rights adviser, Mikhail Fedotov, who asked the president to veto it. ...


UN team sees massacre site in Syrian village

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:57 PM PDT

This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed Friday, June 8, 2012, purports to show explosions in the Khaldiyeh area of Homs, Syria. Syrian troops on Friday heavily shelled a rebel-held neighborhood in the flashpoint central city of Homs as President Bashar Assad's troops appeared to be readying to storm the area that has been out of government control for months and it was not clear if U.N. observers were able to enter an area where a massacre occurred this week, activists said. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIALU.N. observers could smell the stench of burned corpses Friday and saw body parts scattered around a Syrian farming hamlet that was the site of a massacre this week in which nearly 80 men, women and children were reported slain. The scene held evidence of a "horrific crime," a U.N. spokeswoman said.


US gen apologizes for Afghan deaths in airstrike

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 12:31 PM PDT

Afghan villagers gather near a house destroyed in an apparent NATO raid in Logar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, June, 6, 2012. Afghan officials and residents say a pre-dawn NATO airstrike aimed at militants in eastern Afghanistan killed civilians celebrating a wedding, including women and children. (AP Photo/Ihsanullah Majroh)The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan offered a somber apology on Friday in an eastern province where officials say 18 civilians — half of them children — were killed in a coalition airstrike this week.


Obama: Congress, Europe must stem economic crisis

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 11:59 AM PDT

President Barack Obama talks about the economy, Friday, June 8, 2012, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)The economy at risk, President Barack Obama accused Republicans on Friday of pursuing policies that would weaken the U.S. recovery. He simultaneously urged Europe's leaders to prevent an overseas debt crisis from dragging down the rest of the world.


Fear lingers in blind Chinese activist's hometown

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 01:03 PM PDT

Wang Jinxiang, mother of Chen Guangcheng, takes a rest in the courtyard of her house where Chen was under house arrest, at the Dongshigu village, Shandong province, China, Friday, June 8, 2012. Cameras and security guards that kept Chen under house arrest have gone, but fear lingered among residents of his village Friday and even his mother advised him not to come home. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)The fear is palpable and most people only dare whisper Chen Guangcheng's name in this village amid wheat fields where the blind activist was held under brutal house arrest.


UN says 7 peacekeepers killed in Ivory Coast

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:57 PM PDT

Armed men ambushed and killed seven U.N. peacekeepers trying to protect villagers in Ivory Coast on Friday and more than 40 of their colleagues who stayed to guard from more attacks remain in danger, the United Nations said.

Spain's ailing banks threaten country's finances

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 04:35 PM PDT

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, adjust his glasses before a meeting with Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte at the Moncloa Palace, in Madrid, Thursday, June 7, 2012. Spain's Prime Minister appeared Thursday to have abandoned his insistence that the country's troubled banking sector will not need an external bailout, as for the first time he avoided ruling out such an option.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)Spain is under rising pressure to find a lifeline for its deeply troubled banks.


Vatican hits back at Italy over document seizure

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 12:50 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI blesses faithful during the weekly general audience in St. Peter square at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)The Vatican chastised Italian authorities on Friday for seizing documents intended for the pope during a raid on the home of the recently ousted Vatican bank chief, reminding them that the Holy See is a sovereign state whose officials and documents enjoy immunity protections.


Critics say politics tainting trial of Iraqi VP

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 11:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 file photo, Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during an interview with the Associated Press near Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's first major trial dealing with the country's savage Sunni-Shiite sectarian killings is tainted by politics, critics say _ an ominous sign for those hoping for justice for tens of thousands of victims of street executions, bombings and kidnappings. The defendant, Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, says charges that he ran Sunni death squads are part of a political vendetta by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite. Al-Hashemi's nine-member legal team walked out in protest in the second court session late last month, citing judicial bias. And the prosecution's case relies heavily on the testimony of co-defendants, that the defense claimed was coerced, pointing to one who died in custody. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)Iraq's first major trial dealing with the country's savage Sunni-Shiite sectarian killings is tainted by politics, critics say — an ominous sign for those hoping for justice for tens of thousands of victims of street executions, bombings and kidnappings.


Putin's hard line against protests to be tested

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 09:54 AM PDT

In this Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 file photo, Russian opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov, left, with environmental activist Yevgenia Chirikova tears a picture of then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to pieces as he stands on a stage addressing a massive protest against Putin's rule in Moscow, Russia. Putin has taken a harder line against the opposition since returning to the presidency a month ago. He seems to be betting that by threatening demonstrators with prison time and onerous fines he can quash the street protests that have posed an unprecedented challenge to his 12-year rule. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)Helmeted riot police round up hundreds of protesters, including some whose only apparent crime is wearing white ribbons of opposition. A teacher who spoke out about election rigging is dragged into court and fined. Now a new law signed by President Vladimir Putin on Friday raises fines for participating in unauthorized protests 150-fold, to nearly the average annual salary in Russia.


Venezuela court decisions shake up 2 small parties

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 02:11 PM PDT

Opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles gestures as he delivers a speech during a ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, June 6, 2012. Capriles, Governor of the Venezuelan central state of Miranda, left his position on Wednesday to formally start his career as a presidential candidate to face Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)Venezuela's Supreme Court has issued decisions shaking up the leadership of two small political parties, potentially preventing them from backing opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles.


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