2012年6月28日星期四

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Blast hits Damascus, Turkey sends troops to border

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:14 PM PDT

Wrecked cars are seen at the site of an explosion outside Syria's highest court in central DamascusBEIRUT/ISKENDERUN, Turkey (Reuters) - Rebel forces attacked Syria's main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad. A loud explosion echoed through the streets and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a "terrorist" blast. Dozens of wrecked and burning cars were strewn over a car park used by lawyers and ...


Iraq bomb attacks kill 21, wound scores

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:21 PM PDT

Residents inspect the site of a bomb attack in the town of TajiBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombings in and around Baghdad killed at least 21 people and wounded over 100 on Thursday, health and security sources said, the latest attacks in a bloody month that have stoked fears Iraq could return to broad sectarian fighting. Tensions have been high in the country since the last U.S. troops left in December, with ongoing political crises between Iraq's main Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish factions further aggravating concerns. ...


U.S. grants Iran sanctions exceptions to China

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:47 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States gave China a six-month reprieve from Iran financial sanctions on Thursday, avoiding a diplomatic spat with a country whose support it needs to try to quell violence in Syria and rein in Tehran's nuclear ambitions. With Thursday's decision to grant exceptions to China, which buys up to a fifth of Iran's oil exports, and Singapore, which buys Iranian fuel oil, the Obama administration has now spared all 20 of Iran's major oil buyers from its unilateral sanctions. ...

Analysis: Sudan rulers dig in as foes look for Arab Spring

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:06 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Outside the University of Khartoum, riot police in blue fatigues perch on pickup trucks, keeping watch as young women in bright headscarves and men in button-down shirts walk by carrying textbooks to class in Sudan's intense summer heat. Less than a week earlier, the campus - just a few hundred meters (yards) from the national security headquarters - was a battleground. Police fired teargas and used batons to break up hundreds of protesters, who threw rocks back at them. No one expects the shaky truce to last. ...

France's Strauss-Kahn, wife have separated: media

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:08 PM PDT

Former IMF head Strauss-Kahn and Pupponi, Deputy Mayor of Sarcelles arrive at a polling station in the second round of the 2012 French presidential elections in SarcellesPARIS (Reuters) - Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife have separated, as his legal battles run on over a New York sex assault case and his alleged involvement with a prostitution ring, weekly magazine Closer reported on Thursday. Anne Sinclair, a wealthy heiress who recently relaunched her media career as a news editor at the Huffington Post's French edition, threw Strauss-Kahn out of their home in central Paris a month ago and the two are living separately, the magazine said. The magazine did not cite any sources for the story that appeared in its online edition. ...


Ex-Marxist guerrilla to run for El Salvador presidency

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:37 PM PDT

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's ruling leftist party on Thursday tapped Vice President Salvador Sanchez, a former Marxist guerrilla commander, as its candidate for the 2014 presidential race. Sanchez, 68, a teacher by profession, was one of the leaders of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerrillas during 12 years of civil war that ended in 1992. El Salvador's ruling political party of the same name formally nominated him as its candidate on Thursday. ...

French government to cut staff, operating costs: PM

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 11:28 AM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - France's new Socialist government will cut staff at most ministries by 2.5 percent annually for the next three years as it seeks to reduce its budget deficit to meet European Union targets, the prime minister's office said on Thursday. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault also wrote in a letter to the ministries that government operating costs - which exclude staffing but cover things like car fleets and office supplies - would drop by 7 percent on average in 2013 versus 2012. Ayrault, however, did not provide a target figure for overall central government spending. ...

Jordan king pushes parliament to widen election law

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:05 PM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdullah instructed parliament on Thursday to reconvene next month to amend a controversial election law that has provoked Islamist disaffection and a potential boycott of polls that could deal a blow to democratic reforms. A palace statement said the monarch's message was conveyed in a meeting with heads of the lower and upper houses of parliament, composed mainly of pro-government deputies with strong tribal backing. ...

United Technologies sent military copter tech to China

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:39 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Technologies Corp on Thursday admitted selling China software that helped Beijing develop its first modern military attack helicopter, one of hundreds of export control violations over nearly two decades. At a federal court hearing in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United Technologies and its two subsidiaries, Pratt & Whitney Canada and Hamilton Sundstrand Corp, agreed to pay more than $75 million to the U.S. government to settle criminal and administrative charges related to the violations. ...

Egypt's new president to take oath before court

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 04:09 PM PDT

Muslim Brotherhood's President-elect Mohamed Mursi shakes hand with Egyptian political Dr.Abdel Gelil Mostafa at the presidential palace in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist President-elect Mohamed Mursi will give a speech to crowds in Tahrir Square on Friday but his party appears to have lost in a power struggle with the ruling military council over where he will take his oath of office. Details about the historic swearing-in ceremony were announced in a late statement from the presidency on Thursday which stated that Mursi will take the oath of office in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court on Saturday at 11 a.m. Cairo time (0900 GMT). ...


Turkey fortifies Syrian border; bomb hits Damascus

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:00 PM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, June 27, 2012, a Turkish military truck transports a mobile missile launcher to the Syrian border, in Iskenderun, Turkey. Turkey is deploys antiaircraft units along its border with Syria following the downing of one of its warplanes by Syrians.(AP Photo)Turkey deployed anti-aircraft guns, rocket launchers and other weapons along its border with Syria on Thursday, a military buildup that came as world powers showed new urgency to resolve the crisis before it ignites the region.


Italy, Spain demand help in return for growth deal

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:29 PM PDT

From right, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt participate in a media conference at an EU Summit in Brussels on Thursday, June 28, 2012. European leaders gathering Thursday in Brussels are set to sign off on a series of measures to boost economic growth but expectations of a breakthrough on the pooling of debt have fallen by the wayside. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)Diplomats at a European Union summit say the leaders of Spain and Italy are blocking final agreement on a stimulus package until they win promises of immediate help in reducing their borrowing costs.


Egypt president's wife: Don't call me first lady

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 10:48 AM PDT

In this Saturday, May 12, 2012 photo, the wife of then Presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi, Naglaa Ali Mahmoud, attends a rally during his campaign in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's new first lady Naglaa Ali Mahmoud and her predecessor Suzanne Mubarak have at least one thing in common: Both have seen their husbands and sons detained in Egyptian prisons. The similarities may end there though. Suzanne Mubarak was often criticized as being vain, self-important and strong-willed _ propelling her son, Gamal, toward inheriting the presidency. But the wife of Islamist President-elect Mohammed Morsi is a conservative, religious Muslim who wears the veil and appears to be extremely modest. (AP Photo/Ahmad Hammad)Egypt's new first lady Naglaa Ali Mahmoud and her predecessor Suzanne Mubarak have at least one thing in common: Both have seen their husbands and sons detained in Egyptian prisons.


'Miss Holocaust Survivor' crowned in Israel

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 03:08 PM PDT

Hava Hershkovitz, right, a Holocaust survivor and winner of a beauty pageant is congratulated by another participant, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Thursday, June 28, 2012. Fourteen women who lived through the horrors of World War II paraded on stage Thursday night in an unusual pageant, vying for the honor of being Israel's first "Miss Holocaust Survivor." (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)Grinning and waving, 14 women who survived the horrors of World War II paraded Thursday in an unusual pageant, vying for the honor of being crowned Israel's first "Miss Holocaust Survivor."


Mexican drug cartels work to sway local vote

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:29 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Thursday, June 21, 2012, mayoral candidate Saul Garcia stands in front of his home, weeks after men on a motorcycle shot his front gate and left a message on the behalf of a drug cartel warning him to withdraw from the race or the gang would kill him and his family, in Emiliano Zapata, Morelos. As Mexicans head to the ballot box Sunday, drug cartels are registering their votes with scare tactics and cold, hard cash to make sure whoever is elected doesn't interfere with their lucrative operations. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)Before the sun climbed above the hills around this central Mexican town, Saul Garcia and his family awoke to the sound of bullets piercing the front gate. A masked motorcyclist had opened fire on their brick home, leaving behind a poster signed by the La Familia drug cartel, warning the mayoral candidate to withdraw from the race or the gang would kill him, his wife and three children.


Egypt's president-elect to be sworn in Saturday

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:06 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, President-elect Mohammed Morsi is given a traditional robe during a meeting with political party representatives in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, June 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)Egypt's official news agency says the newly elected Islamist president will be sworn in Saturday before a high court.


APNewsBreak: 2 terror suspects arrested in London

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 10:52 AM PDT

London police have detained two British Muslim converts on suspicion of terror offenses Thursday, a U.K. security official told The Associated Press.

Brotherhood shelves Egypt's Islamization, for now

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 12:55 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, President-elect Mohammed Morsi speaks to newspaper editors in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, June 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)The Muslim Brotherhood has stopped talking about its longtime dream of an Islamic Egypt and expelling Israel's ambassador to Cairo. Instead, President-elect Mohammed Morsi is hurriedly building a diverse alliance with leftists, liberals and Christians to bolster his battle to end military rule.


McGuinness says he regrets all Troubles deaths

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 02:20 PM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister and former IRA commander Martin McGuinness watched by First minister Peter Robinson, centre, at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Wednesday, June 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Faith/pool)IRA commander-turned-political peacemaker Martin McGuinness said Thursday that he regrets "every single life" lost in Northern Ireland's decades of violence and expressed hope that his handshake with Queen Elizabeth II would be a key building block in a new relationship between Britain and Ireland.


Officials slam Iran on anti-Semitic statement

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 01:57 PM PDT

International officials have condemned statements made by Iran's vice president at a U.N.-sponsored drug conference in Tehran where he blamed Jews for the international drug trade.

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