2012年6月20日星期三

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Mubarak health drama adds to Egypt uncertainty

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:29 PM PDT

People sit in front of Maadi military hospital where Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak was transferred from Tora prison, on the outskirts of CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Hosni Mubarak's move from jail to a Cairo military hospital where officials said he was slipping in and out of a coma on Wednesday created fresh uncertainty for Egyptians as officials delayed the announcement of a presidential election result. Claims of fraud from both camps fuelled unease in a nation where rigged ballots were the norm under Mubarak and where his fellow generals have moved to curb the power of the new head of state. Now that results will not be announced on Thursday, clarity may not emerge until a full week after polling ended. ...


Exclusive: U.S. to slap "terrorist" label on Nigerian militants

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 04:17 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is expected to formally apply a "foreign terrorist" label on Thursday to three alleged leading figures of the violent Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, officials said. The action by the State and Treasury departments follows growing pressure on the Obama Administration to take stronger action against Boko Haram. The group, which says it wants to establish an Islamic caliphate in northern Nigeria, has stepped up attacks on Christian places of worship this year. ...

Red Cross to pluck wounded from Syria's Homs

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:12 PM PDT

Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at Al Sukri in AleppoGENEVA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Aid teams stood ready on Wednesday to enter the contested Syrian city of Homs to evacuate people trapped and wounded by 10 days of fighting between rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Both sides agreed to a temporary truce, the International Committee of the Red Cross said from Geneva. Teams from the ICRC and its partner the Syrian Red Crescent were ready to go into Homs as soon as possible, but an ICRC spokesman said no evacuations would take place before Thursday at the earliest. ...


Greek coalition takes power, promises to revise bailout

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 11:10 AM PDT

Conservative New Democracy leader Samaras arrives at the Presidential Palace in AthensATHENS (Reuters) - A conservative-led government took power in Greece on Wednesday promising to negotiate softer terms on its harsh international bailout, help the people regain their dignity and steer the country through its biggest crisis for four decades. The swearing-in of Antonis Samaras as prime minister after elections last Sunday ended weeks of uncertainty that rattled financial markets and threatened to push near-bankrupt Greece out of the euro zone. ...


Celebrities, activists risk losing Assange bail money

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:58 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The founder of Wikileaks knows how to keep a secret. Two days before claiming asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, Julian Assange partied with some of his most famous and well-heeled supporters. He did not mention that, in order to avoid extradition to Sweden on sexual-assault charges, he was about to potentially forfeit the bail money they had posted. Among the well-known figures who stand to lose some or all of whatever they pledged for Assange's bail are London socialite Jemima Khan, British film director Ken Loach and the U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore. ...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth gets bumper pay rise

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 04:04 PM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth waves as she arrives to attend the second day of racing at Royal Ascot in EnglandLONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth has another reason to be cheerful in her Diamond Jubilee year - her annual pay is about to jump by 20 percent to 36 million pounds. Her property holdings, known as the Crown Estate, posted a record profit of 240.2 million pounds ($377.4 million), a net rise of 4 percent in the year through March 2012 largely due to strong tenant demand for its shops in the upmarket Regent Street and St James's districts of London. ...


Romanian ex-PM attempts suicide as jailers arrive

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 04:00 PM PDT

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Former Romanian prime minister Adrian Nastase tried to kill himself on Wednesday when police came to take him to start a two-year jail term for corruption, a case touted by Romania as proof that it is getting tough on graft. Nastase appeared to have attempted suicide when police arrived at his house in an upmarket part of the capital to take him to prison, the Bucharest Court of Cassation and Justice said in a statement. A Reuters witness saw the 61-year-old, who was prime minister from 2000 to 2004, being stretchered from the house and taken away in an ambulance. ...

Hollande prepares French civil service cuts: paper

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:14 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande's government, under pressure to honor European debt-reduction commitments, is eyeing cuts in the staff and operational costs of the civil service over the years 2013, 2014 and 2015, a newspaper said on Wednesday. While not yet set in stone, government deliberations over recent days have focused on broad targets for spending restraint, to be fine-tuned in coming weeks, the daily Le Figaro said. Citing a source in the Budget Ministry, the newspaper said government meetings had focused on cutting civil service staffing by an average 2. ...

Eleven Islamist militants killed in southern Yemen

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:18 PM PDT

ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen's army killed at least 11 al Qaeda-linked militants in Abyan province on Wednesday as it pressed ahead with a U.S.-backed offensive to crush Islamist militancy in the south, a military official said. The Ministry of Defense said in a text message that some of the dead militants had been senior military leaders in Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law), a group which has close links to the Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). ...

Hamas signals ready for truce after Israel kills 2

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:02 PM PDT

Palestinian carry the body of a militant Rmelat during his funeral in the southern Gaza StripGAZA (Reuters) - Gaza militants said on Wednesday they were ready to sign up to an Egyptian-brokered truce to end three days of cross-border fighting after Israeli air strikes killed a Palestinian militant and a 14-year-old boy. In a statement, the militant wing of the Islamist Hamas group in control of Gaza said: "Responding to the Egyptian efforts, we and the armed resistance announce our commitment to stop this round of confrontation as long as the occupation stops this aggression." Israel had no immediate comment. ...


Officials delay announcing Egypt election winner

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 04:14 PM PDT

Muslim brotherhood's presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi supporters burn a poster for presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, in Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. The Brotherhood has called for mass demonstrations in Cairo and elsewhere on Tuesday to protest the interim charter issued by the military as well as a court ruling last week that dissolved parliament, where the Brotherhood controlled nearly half the seats. Already, several thousand protesters have gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square, birthplace of the uprising that toppled Mubarak 16 months ago. Arabic on the poster reads, "Ahmed Shafiq for Egyptian presidency." (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)Officials postponed declaring a winner in Egypt's disputed election on Wednesday, sending political tensions soaring as the country awaited its first new president in three decades.


Greece swears in new prime minister

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:47 PM PDT

The head of Greece's conservative New Democracy party, Antonis Samaras, enters the President's office to take the mandate to form the new government in Athens on Wednesday June 20, 2012. Samaras was sworn in as prime minister Wednesday at the helm of a three-party coalition that will uphold the country's international bailout commitments. The move ends a protracted political crisis that had cast grave doubt over the country's future in Europe's joint currency and threatened to plunge Europe deeper into a financial crisis with global repercussions. (AP Photo/Andreas Solaro,pool)Greece moved to end its protracted political impasse Wednesday, swearing in a new prime minister to lead a largely pro-bailout coalition tasked with saving the country's place in the eurozone and easing a European financial crisis with global repercussions.


Palestinian village faces demolition by Israel

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:43 PM PDT

In this Friday, June 15, 2012 photo, a Palestinian girls carries a Palestinian flag in the West Bank town of Susiya. Palestinian herders in this hamlet have clung to arid acres spread over several West Bank hills for decades, even as Israel forced them to live off the grid while providing water and electricity to nearby Jewish settlements and unauthorized outposts. But the end seems near for Susiya's 200 residents: Citing zoning violations, Israel is threatening to demolish the village, including German-funded solar panels. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)Palestinians in this hamlet have clung to their arid acres for decades, living without proper electricity or water while Israel provides both to Jewish settlers on nearby hills. But the end now seems near for Susiya: Demolition orders distributed last week by the Israelis aim to destroy virtually the entire village.


Rio: pollution rife during UN enviro conference

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 11:12 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Friday, June 15, 2012, a pig eats from a trash-ridden creek that runs towards the conference center where the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The throngs streaming into Rio for the Earth summit may be dreaming of white-sand beaches and clear, blue waters, but what they are first likely to notice as they leave the airport is not the salty tang of ocean in the breeze, but the stench of raw sewage. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)The throngs streaming into Rio for a sustainable development conference may be dreaming of white-sand beaches and clear, blue waters, but what they are first likely to notice as they leave the airport is not the salty tang of ocean in the breeze, but the stench of raw sewage.


Pakistan nabs French man accused of al-Qaida ties

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 12:43 PM PDT

Pakistan has arrested a French man accused of being a prominent al-Qaida militant, officials said Wednesday, a reminder of the country's vital role in the war on terror at a time of deteriorating relations with the U.S.

3 US soldiers, 18 Afghans killed in suicide attack

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 10:57 AM PDT

Seven suspected Taliban insurgents are shown to the media in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Afghan intelligence security forces arrested seven suspected Taliban insurgents on Tuesday with their explosive materials during an operation.(AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)A suicide bomber killed 21 people including three U.S. soldiers at a checkpoint in a packed market in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday — the third assault targeting Americans in as many days.


AP PHOTOS: World Refugee Day shows global plight

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 03:37 PM PDT

A Rohingya Muslim girl sits at an unauthorized camp that houses Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled Myanmar during an ethnic strife in 1992, at Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. World Refugee Day, a day initiated by the United Nations to raise awareness on the plight of refugees worldwide, is observed on June 20 every year. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)From Myanmar to Pakistan to Bangladesh and beyond, some 15.2 million people live as refugees, many for decades or more. Nearly half are children under the age of 18.


Ex-Romania PM shoots self after court's sentence

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 04:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 9, 2004, file picture former Romanian Premier Adrian Nastase wears a hat in Bucharest, Romania. Romania's highest court on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, sentenced Nastase to two years in prison after convicting him of illegally raising funds for a failed presidential campaign. The ruling is the first time a former Romanian premier has been sentenced to prison since communism ended in the country in 1989.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)A Romanian ex-prime minister shot and wounded himself Wednesday in an apparent suicide attempt, hours after the country's highest court ruled that he must serve a two-year prison sentence on corruption charges, the country's current premier said. Media reports said he had shot himself in the neck.


Yemen: 31 killed in fighting in south

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 01:50 PM PDT

Yemeni raids on al-Qaida positions have left at least 28 fighters and three soldiers dead, as the government consolidates its hold on recaptured militant strongholds, military officials said Wednesday.

Police nab suspect in France hostage standoff

Posted: 20 Jun 2012 02:39 PM PDT

Police officers control the street next to a bank where a man took hostages in the southern French city of Toulouse, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. A gunman who authorities say had past psychiatric problems took four people hostage Wednesday in a bank in the southern French city of Toulouse, claiming he was acting for religious reasons. (AP Photo/Bruno Martin)A gunman who ranted disjointedly about religious motives took four employees at a bank hostage on Wednesday before French police stormed in to arrest him — a new episode of apparent lone-wolf violence to jolt a region still reeling from a terrorist shooting spree that killed seven people three months ago.


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