2012年7月18日星期三

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No sign of Assad after bomb kills kin, rebels close in

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:17 PM PDT

File handout photo of Syria's President Assad standing with Fahad Jassim al-Freij and Daoud Rajha in DamascusBEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Mystery surrounded the whereabouts of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday, a day after a bomber killed and wounded his security chiefs and rebels closed in on the centre of Damascus, vowing to "liberate" the capital. The Syrian leader made no public appearance and no statement after a bomber killed his powerful brother-in-law, his defense minister and a top general. By the early hours of Thursday, residents had reported no let-up in the heaviest fighting to hit the capital in a 16-month revolt against Assad's rule. ...


Israel blames Iran for Bulgaria bus bomb that kills six

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 03:29 PM PDT

Smoke is seen after a blast at Bulgaria's Burgas airportBURGAS, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Six people were killed in a bomb attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists at a Bulgarian airport on Wednesday and Israel accused Tehran of carrying out the attack, promising a strong response to "Iranian terror". Body parts were strewn across the ground and mangled metal hung from the bus's torn-back roof. Its windows were blown out and surrounded by scorch marks, as clouds of dense black smoke billowed above the airport. "We heard a very strong blast. The bus was full with people and children. Flesh and blood everywhere," a Bulgarian witness told TV7 television. ...


U.S. can defeat any Iranian effort to block oil shipping: Panetta

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 10:55 AM PDT

Phillip Hammond signs a guestbook as he is welcomed to the Pentagon by Leon Panetta in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has the military capacity to defeat any Iranian attempt to shut down sea commerce in the oil-rich Gulf region and will hold Tehran directly responsible for shipping disruptions, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Wednesday. "The United States is fully prepared for all contingencies here," Panetta told a Pentagon news conference. "We've invested in capabilities to ensure that the Iranian attempt to close down shipping in the Gulf is something that we are going to be able to defeat, if they make a decision to do that. ...


Senate panel approves Russia trade, rights bill

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 01:54 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill to ensure U.S. exporters share in the benefits of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization but also to punish Russian officials for human rights violations. The legislation still faces an uphill battle to be passed before U.S. elections in November because of concern over Russia's ties to Syria and Iran that make it a politically difficult vote for some lawmakers. ...

Lawsuit asks U.S. to explain killings of Americans in Yemen

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 12:04 PM PDT

Obama delivers remarks at Ft. Meyer in VirginiaWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The families of U.S.-born al Qaeda militant Anwar al-Awlaki and two other U.S. citizens who were killed in Yemen are questioning the deaths in court in the latest challenge to President Barack Obama's conduct of drone attacks abroad. The lawsuit filed on Wednesday tests the Obama administration's position that, under the laws of war, it can target for secret, lethal strikes Americans who join al Qaeda or an affiliate if there is an imminent threat to the United States and capturing them is not feasible. ...


North Korean leader cements control over army

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 07:24 AM PDT

File photo of North Korea leader Kim Jong-un speaking in North KoreaSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was named marshal of the army, the country's top military rank, in a move that adds to his glittering array of titles and cements his power in the isolated and impoverished state that has a 1.2 million strong military. The decision was made on Tuesday and reported on Wednesday by North Korea's state media. It comes after the country's top general was purged. The new title completes Kim Jong-un's elevation following the death of his father Kim Jong-il in December. ...


Report criticizes Vatican bank, urges more reform

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 12:27 PM PDT

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A European report on Wednesday identified serious failings in the Vatican's bank and gave the Holy See a negative rating in almost half of the most transparency related criteria. The milestone report by Moneyval, a department of the Council of Europe, welcomed reforms enacted so far but suggested the Vatican still has a long way to go before it can be included on an international "white list" of countries that abide by global norms on combating money laundering, the financing of terrorism and tax evasion. ...

Ferry capsizes off Zanzibar, at least 31 dead

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 02:19 PM PDT

Residents carry the bodies of victims who died in a ferry tragedy in the Indian Ocean waters, at the port of ZanzibarSTONE TOWN, Zanzibar (Reuters) - A ferry with more than 250 people on board, including some foreigners, capsized and sank between the east African coast and the Zanzibar archipelago on Wednesday, killing at least 31 people, police said. Police Commissioner Mussa Ali Mussa said 145 people had been rescued and that the rescue mission was suspended until morning. The ferry, MV Skagit/Kalama, set sail from mainland Tanzania at around midday for Zanzibar, Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago and a popular tourist destination. "The latest count that we have is 31 people dead and 145 were rescued. ...


Missile shield may spark China nuclear upgrade: officer

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 02:48 PM PDT

Visitors walk past a Chinese-made missile at the Military Museum in BeijingVIENNA (Reuters) - China may need to modernize its nuclear arsenal to respond to the destabilizing effect of a planned U.S.-backed missile defense system, a senior Chinese military officer said on Wednesday. "It undermines the strategic stability," said Major General Zhu Chenghu of China's National Defense University about the U.S.-led development of a missile shield, which has also alarmed Russia. ...


Hollande orders French NATO command seat review

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 10:08 AM PDT

France's President Francois Hollande visits the health care center "Maison Medicale Notre Dame du Lac" in Rueil-MalmaisonPARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande has asked former foreign minister Hubert Vedrine to review France's membership of NATO's integrated military command, his office said on Wednesday, echoing unease about its place in the alliance's inner circle. Hollande has in the past expressed reservations about France's 2009 return to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's integrated command, a move approved by his conservative predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy, who was one of the most pro-American presidents France has had in decades. ...


Rebel bombing strikes at heart of Syrian regime

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 04:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday Oct. 6, 2011 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, stands next to Syrian Defense Minister Gen. Dawoud Rajha, right, during a ceremony to mark the 38th anniversary of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war, in Damascus, Syria. Syria's state-run TV says the country's defense minister has been killed in a suicide blast in the capital. Wednesday's attack struck the National Security building in Damascus during a meeting of Cabinet ministers and senior security officials. (AP Photo/SANA, File)Rebels penetrated the heart of Syria's power elite Wednesday, detonating a bomb inside a high-level crisis meeting in Damascus that killed three leaders of the regime, including President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law and the defense minister.


Attack on Israeli tourist bus in Bulgaria kills 7

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 05:16 PM PDT

Bulgarian policeman is seen in front of destroyed buses at Burgas Airport, outside the Black Sea city of Burgas, Bulgaria, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of the capital, Sofia, Wednesday, July 18, 2012. A bus carrying young Israeli tourists in a Bulgarian resort exploded Wednesday, at least killing three people and wounding at least 20, police said. Witnesses told Israeli media that the huge blast occurred soon after someone boarded the vehicle. (AP Photo/ Bulphoto Agency) BULGARIA OUTIsrael vowed to strike back at Iran for a brazen daylight bombing Wednesday that killed at least seven people on a bus full of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria.


Divided South Africa honors Mandela's birthday

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 10:07 AM PDT

Former South African President Nelson Mandela as he celebrates his birthday with family in Qunu, South Africa, Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Across the country, and even abroad, people are doing good deeds to honor the country's most famous statesman on his 94th birthday Wednesday.(AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)A nation divided between black and white, rich and poor, came together Wednesday to honor Nelson Mandela, the deeply loved statesman who helped bring freedom to South Africa. The good deeds done on Mandela's 94th birthday ranged from building houses to performing free eye cataract operations.


Path for Iran nuclear talks choked by tensions

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 10:49 AM PDT

FILE - Iran's Ghadir submarines are seen in the southern port of Bandar Abbas in Persian Gulf, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. In the span of just a few hours, announcements bouncing between Tehran and Washington showed the direction of their showdown: New issues are piling up even as Western envoys try to find a path to move nuclear talks forward. In quick succession last week: Iran said it seeks to build a nuclear-powered submarine, the U.S. unveiled more sanctions and a senior Iranian military official ramped up denunciations of Middle East nations trying to topple the Tehran-allied regime in Syria. (AP Photo/Iranian Defense Ministry, Vahid Reza Alaei, File)In the span of just a few hours, announcements bouncing between Tehran and Washington showed the direction of their showdown: New issues are piling up even as Western envoys try to find a path to move nuclear talks forward.


Yemen president warns Iran to stop meddling

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 02:16 PM PDT

Yemen's president on Wednesday called on Iran to stop spying in his country, warning that the Shiite-led nation would "pay the price" if it continues meddling.

US-born kids of migrants lose rights in Mexico

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 09:53 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, July 10, 2012, Rogelio Hernandez Sanchez, 34, second from left, and his son, Rogelio Hernandez Medina, 7, left, listen to Ellen Calmus, right, a coordinator of the "Proyecto El Rincon" or "The Corner Project", a local non-profit organization for migrant families, as he tries to get his son's U.S. birth certificate stamped by Mexican authorities in Malinalco, Mexico. Because of the Byzantine rules of Mexican and U.S. bureaucracies, tens of thousands of U.S. born children of Mexican migrant parents now find themselves without access to basic services in Mexico - unable to officially register in school or sign up for health care at public hospitals and clinics that give free check-ups and medicines.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)As a cold drizzle washed over this town of narrow cobblestone streets in the forested highlands of central Mexico, mothers waiting outside the colonial-era cultural center wrapped wool blankets around the infants snuggled in their arms. Other parents tightened plastic bags around folders filled with U.S. passports and birth certificates from California, Ohio and Texas.


Libya's independents might emerge as third power

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 01:36 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 photo, Mahmoud Jibril, a secular former prime minister, is interviewed by the Associated Press in Tripoli, Libya. Libya's elections bring in a large new political generation of independents _ businessmen, activists, former judges and former exiles _ who form the largest bloc in the first elected national assembly after Moammar Ghadafi's fall and will be the big wild card in determining the country's course. Both a coalition led by Jibril and Islamists led by the Muslim Brotherhood are trying to woo them, but many of the independents are trying to form their own coalition, distrusting both sides. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)Libya's elections have brought in a large new political generation of independents — businessmen, activists, former judges and former exiles — who form the largest bloc in the first elected national assembly after Moammar Gadhafi's fall and will be the big wild card in determining the country's course.


Police: Eva Rausing's body was badly decomposed

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 08:45 AM PDT

The body of Eva Rausing, one of Britain's richest women, was badly decomposed and covered by layers of clothing and garbage bags when it was found in the luxury London home she shared with her husband, police said in court Wednesday.

Islamist rebel group releases 3 hostages

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 04:05 PM PDT

A helicopter was dispatched to Mali on Wednesday to retrieve three European hostages held for the past 10 months by a jihadist group, according to the governments of Italy and Spain and a military official in Burkina Faso, which sent the copter.

Protesters try to storm Syria embassy in Egypt

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 02:05 PM PDT

A protester throws tear gas back at Egyptian riot police, unseen, during clashes outside the Syrian embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas to push back several hundred protesters trying to storm the Syrian Embassy in Cairo and raise the green-striped flag of Syria's rebels.(AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas to push back several hundred protesters trying to storm the Syrian Embassy in Cairo and raise the green-striped flag of Syria's rebels.


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