2012年7月12日星期四

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Over 200 massacred in Syrian government forces attack: activists

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 04:25 PM PDT

Smoke rises from Juret al-Shayah in HomsAMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 200 Syrians, mostly civilians, were massacred in a village in the rebellious Hama region when it was bombarded by helicopter gunships and tanks and then stormed by militiamen, opposition activists said. If confirmed, it would be the worst single incident of violence in 16 months of conflict in which rebels are fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad and diplomacy to halt the bloodshed has been stymied by jostling between world powers. ...


Libya's Jibril in election landslide over Islamists

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 02:03 PM PDT

Men shake hands near election campaign poster of candidate running for election to Libya's National Congress, Mahmoud Jibril, head of National Forces Alliance, in BenghaziTRIPOLI (Reuters) - The moderate National Forces Alliance of wartime prime minister Mahmoud Jibril scored a landslide victory over rival Islamist parties in Libya's first free national election in a generation, partial tallies showed on Thursday. Counts from across the North African country attested to a resounding defeat for the political wing of Libya's Muslim Brotherhood, bucking a trend of success for Islamist groups in other Arab Spring countries such as Egypt and Tunisia. Final official results are not due until next week. ...


War crimes trial adjourned as Mladic is hospitalized

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 09:47 AM PDT

Former Bosnian Serb army commander Mladic attends his trial at the ICTY at The HagueAMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic is expected to stay in hospital for a second day of tests after being taken ill during his war crimes trial on Thursday, his lawyer said. Mladic, 70, is accused of genocide over the siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and the 1995 killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, Europe's worst massacre since World War Two. He was rushed to hospital on Thursday morning after he was taken ill in court. ...


U.S. cracks down on Iran's oil tanker company, exposes fronts

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 04:25 PM PDT

Vessels sail past Malta-flagged Iranian crude oil supertanker "Delvar" anchoring off SingaporeWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States ramped up pressure on Iran's ability to export oil on Thursday, identifying Tehran's main tanker firm and exposing dozens of its vessels as government-controlled entities. In the latest set of measures designed to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the U.S. Treasury identified the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), 58 of its vessels and 27 of its affiliates as extensions of the state, which would undermine Iran's attempts to use renamed, disguised vessels to evade sanctions, the department said. ...


Leftist seeks to void Mexico's presidential election, again

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 01:53 PM PDT

Mexico's President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto meets with the foreign press in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The runner-up in Mexico's presidential election will ask the electoral tribunal to void the results, arguing that the winner violated campaign finance laws to buy votes, his lawyers said on Thursday. Left-wing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador came in 3.3 million votes behind Enrique Pena Nieto from the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), according to the official count from the July 1 vote. ...


Riot breaks out in Belfast after Protestant march

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 10:19 AM PDT

A nationalist youth displays the Irish National Flag beside a burnt-out car and riot police after trouble erupted in the Ardoyne area of North BelfastBELFAST (Reuters) - Police fired water cannon at Catholic youths in Belfast on Thursday after rioting erupted when a small Protestant parade, celebrating a 17th century military victory over Catholic forces, passed their estate. The violence came at the culmination of a series of parades that pro-British Protestants stage annually in the British-ruled province, a tradition seen as provocative by Irish nationalists who want to be part of a united Ireland. ...


Most Greeks think new government cannot solve woes: poll

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 01:01 PM PDT

ATHENS (Reuters) - Most Greeks believe their new government is unable to resolve their near-bankrupt country's problems, a poll found on Thursday. Greece depends on a second 130 billion-euro bailout from the International Monetary Fund and European Union, who demand spending cuts that have helped push it into its worst recession since World War Two and put one in five out of work. ...

U.N. calls for international probe into deadly Kazakh riots

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 11:42 AM PDT

ASTANA (Reuters) - The United Nations urged Kazakhstan on Thursday to allow an international investigation into deadly oil town riots that it said exposed rights abuses and growing inequality in Central Asia's largest economy. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said the December riots in Zhanaozen, during which police opened fire on protesters, should serve as a "warning" to Kazakhstan not to pursue financial prosperity at the expense of human rights. ...

Chile's Pinera signs hate crime law after gay youth death

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 04:04 PM PDT

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile on Thursday became one of the last Latin American nations to pass an anti-discrimination law, after a brutal beating that led to a young gay man's death put pressure on conservative president Sebastian Pinera's government to act. The hate-crime bill, which was originally introduced by ex-president Ricardo Lagos, was signed into law by Pinera after being tied up in Congress for seven years. Chile, one of Latin America's richest countries, remains conservative and heavily influenced by the Catholic Church, which considers homosexual acts sinful. ...

Nine dead, four missing in French Alps avalanche

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 10:53 AM PDT

File picture of climbers at Mont Maudit mountain in French AlpsCHAMONIX, France (Reuters) - Nine climbers were killed in an avalanche near Chamonix in the French Alps on Thursday when a wall of snow swept them away as they tried to scale one of Europe's tallest peaks, authorities said. Rescue efforts to find four other climbers still missing were called off until Friday and French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said an investigation would be launched to establish what had happened and how similar avalanches could be avoided. The dead included three Britons, three Germans, two Spaniards and one Swiss, authorities said. ...


Activists: Massacre in Syria kills more than 100

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 03:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2008 file photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Nawaf Fares, left, is sworn in as Syria's ambassador to Iraq before Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem in Damascus. Fares, who became Syria's highest ranking diplomat to defect to the opposition on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, dismissed the main international plan seeking to stop the violence, saying Thursday that nothing short of Assad's ouster is acceptable. (AP Photo/SANA, File)Syrian activists reported a new massacre late Thursday in the central Hama province, saying regime forces killed more than 100 people in shelling and other attacks.


9 dead in Mont Blanc summer avalanche

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 04:47 PM PDT

Gendarmes use blankets to hide victims of an avalanche at Chamonix rescue base, French Alps, Thursday, July, 12, 2012. An avalanche in the French Alps swept six European climbers to their deaths on a slope leading to Mont Blanc, and left at least nine others injured and several climbers unaccounted for, authorities said. Two climbers were rescued and emergency crews are searching for the missing. A group of 28 climbers from Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France, Denmark and Serbia are believed to be in the expedition caught in the avalanche that was about 4,000 meters (13,1000 feet) high on the north face of Mont Maudit, part of the Mont Blanc range. (AP Photo)They set out before dawn, hoping to conquer a mountaineering classic: Mont Blanc, Western Europe's highest peak. But below the prized summit, a climber is believed to have accidentally caused a slab of ice to snap off, triggering an avalanche Thursday that swept nine climbers to their deaths and injured a dozen others.


Rolling Stones celebrate 50 years on stage

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 02:39 PM PDT

From left, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Mick Jagger, from the British Rock band The Rolling Stones, arrive at a central London venue, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones first performance, Thursday, July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short)It's only rock 'n' roll, but the Rolling Stones definitely like it.


US to Iraq: Review case of acquitted militant

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 03:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 2, 2007 file photo, Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, the U.S. military spokesman speaks during a press conference, near a poster of a senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative Ali Mussa Daqduq in Baghdad, Iraq. An Iraqi appeals court has ordered the release of a Hezbollah commander who has been cleared of masterminding a deadly 2007 attack on U.S. soldiers, but officials say the White House is pushing Baghdad to keep him locked up. (AP Photo/Wathiq Khuzaie, Pool, File)The White House has asked Iraq to review the case of a Hezbollah commander who was accused of masterminding a 2007 attack that killed five American soldiers or hand him over to the United States, a senior Obama administration official said Thursday, though two Iraqi courts have declared him not guilty.


US piles more sanctions on Iran

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 02:07 PM PDT

The Obama administration on Thursday hit Iran with more sanctions designed to hinder the country's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Chilean hate-crime legislation signed into law

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 12:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 30, 2012 file photo, a man lights candles illuminating posters of Chilean Daniel Zamudio that read in Spanish: "Homophobia kills," outside Chile's embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Chile's President Sebastian Pinera signed an anti-discrimination law Thursday, July 12, 2012, after the death of Zamudio in March set off a national debate about hate crimes in Chile. Zamudio, a gay man, was found beaten and mutilated in a city park, with swastikas carved into his body. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)Chile's president signed an anti-discrimination law Thursday following the killing of a gay man beaten by attackers who carved swastikas into his body.


After verdict, Olmert may return to politics

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 11:34 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 10, 2012 file photo, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert smiles at Jerusalem's District Court following a verdict hearing in his trial Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Olmert said on Thursday, July 12, 2012 that he would not return to politics, two days after he was acquitted of the central charges in a corruption trial. Speculation over whether he may return to political life has been rife since a Jerusalem court dismissed most of the counts against him on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool, File)Could Ehud Olmert be plotting his return to politics?


Ex-NKorean star recalls 'ping pong diplomacy'

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 09:00 AM PDT

In this June 13, 2012 photo, North Korean Li Pun Hui speaks to media at the Taedonggong Cultural Center for the Disabled in Pyongyang, North Korea. Putting aside politics, the intensely competitive Li paired up with her arch rival, South Korean star Hyun Jung-hwa, in 1991 as part of the first "unified Korea" team to march into international competition wearing the flag of the Korean Peninsula. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)Her eyes well up when Li Pun Hui recalls her role in a historic example of "ping pong diplomacy."


Belfast Catholics riot after token Orange march

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 03:58 PM PDT

Nationalist rioters clash with Police Service of Ireland in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast, Northern Ireland, Thursday, July 12, 2012. Trouble broke out after an Orange Order march passed the area. The Twelfth of July is the busiest day of the marching season in Northern Ireland with thousands of Orangemen and women, accompanied by marching bands, taking part in hundreds of parades. The Orange Order holds its main Belfast event, which commemorates King William III's 1690 Battle of the Boyne victory over Catholic King James II. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)Irish Catholic militants attacked riot police Thursday in a divided corner of Belfast as the most polarizing day on Northern Ireland's calendar reached a typically ugly end — and yet managed, amid the smoke and chaos, to take a few tentative steps toward compromise.


Preliminary report issued over Nigeria plane crash

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 02:01 PM PDT

A commercial airliner that crashed last month in Nigeria's largest city, killing more than 150 people onboard and others on the ground, lost both engines within sight of the airport, according to a preliminary reported released Thursday.

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