2012年7月22日星期日

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Assad brother's forces overrun Damascus district

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 04:08 PM PDT

Members of Syrian Free Army are seen at Qusseer neighbourhoodBAB AL-SALAM, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian troops commanded by the brother of President Bashar al-Assad and backed by helicopter gunships have driven rebel fighters out of a district of Damascus a week after the insurgents launched a major assault on the capital. Members of the Syrian army's Fourth Division under the command of Maher al-Assad, a feared hardliner, executed several young men during the operation to regain control of the northern Damascus district of Barzeh, a witness and activists said. ...


Bombs kill 20 and wound 80 across Iraq

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 11:09 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs in two towns south of Baghdad and in the Iraqi city of Najaf killed a total of 20 people on Sunday and wounded 80, police and hospital sources said, in one of the most violent days of the past two weeks. Three car bombs killed 11 people and wounded 38 in Mahmudiya, a town 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, according to police. The first detonated in a car in a parking lot, the second in another car as police arrived at the scene and a third at the town's police station, the police sources said. ...

Heaviest rains in 60 years kill 37 in Beijing

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 11:41 AM PDT

A resident walks past debris and a taxi damaged by a flood after heavy rainfalls hit Mentougou District in BeijingBEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese capital's heaviest rainstorm in six decades killed at least 37 people, flooded streets and stranded 80,000 people at the main airport, state media and the government said on Sunday. The storm, which started on Saturday afternoon and continued late into the night, flooded major roads and sent torrents of water tumbling down steps into underpasses. The Beijing city government said on its official microblog at least 37 people had died, including 25 drowned, six crushed in collapsing homes, five electrocuted and one struck by lightning. ...


Eight killed in deadly 24 hours for NATO in Afghanistan

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 12:30 PM PDT

HERAT (Reuters) - A gunman wearing an Afghan uniform turned his weapon against foreign trainers working for NATO in the western province of Herat on Sunday, killing three, in a grim 24 hours for the coalition which also saw five NATO soldiers killed. The latest rogue shooting by an Afghan in a police or army uniform happened at a regional training center in the relatively peaceful western province near Afghanistan's border with Iran, which is normally patrolled by Italian forces. ...

Iran adds batch of fuel to reactor: nuclear chief

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 08:20 AM PDT

A security official stands in front of the Bushehr nuclear reactorDUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has sent a new batch of enriched uranium to fuel a medical research reactor in its capital, the country's nuclear chief said on Sunday, an indication Tehran is digging in as its standoff with world powers over the enrichment continues. Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said a fourth batch of 20-percent enriched fuel produced inside Iran has now arrived at the Tehran Medical Research Reactor, according to the Mehr news agency. Iran says the reactor produces medical isotopes used to treat cancer patients. ...


Greece now in "Great Depression", PM says

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 08:38 AM PDT

Greek PM Samaras and visiting Former U.S. President Clinton wave to reporters during their meeting in AthensATHENS (Reuters) - Greece is in a "Great Depression" similar to the American one in the 1930s, the country's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Sunday. Samaras was speaking two days before a team of Greece's international lenders arrive in Athens to push for further cuts needed for the debt-laden country to qualify for further rescue payments and avoid a chaotic default. ...


Fires kill three, rage on in Girona in northern Spain

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 02:50 PM PDT

MADRID (Reuters) - Forest fires that broke out on Sunday in Girona, a tourist spot bordering with France in Spain's northern Catalonia region, have killed three people and were still out of control in the evening, local media said. The area is home to one of the most popular beach destinations in Spain, the Costa Brava. Strong winds hindered firefighters' efforts and have so far spread two fires over 9,000 hectares (22,000 acres). The interior minister of Catalonia, Felip Puig, was quoted in Spanish media as confirming the deaths. ...

Thousands march in Mexico to protest Pena Nieto win

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 04:16 PM PDT

A protester holds a picture of Mexico's president-elect Pena Nieto, with the words "Authoritarian pig" written on it, during a march against Pena Nieto at Zocalo square in Mexico cityMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thousands of people marched through Mexico City on Sunday to denounce the July 1 election of Enrique Pena Nieto as president, though the protest was smaller than one held earlier this month. Pena Nieto's capture of the presidency for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, has been challenged by his rival, leftist runner-up Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who alleges the PRI resorted to vote-buying and money laundering to win. ...


Lost boys of Bagram still live in prison's shadow

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 02:58 PM PDT

A portrait of U.S. military prison Bagram detainee Hamidullah Khan when he was 14-year-old hangs on a wall in his family home in KarachiKARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - During some sleepless nights when his stark bedroom walls remind him too much of his old prison cell in Afghanistan, Jan Sher Khan scans Internet dating sites he'd heard about from U.S. soldiers who once guarded him. The 24-year-old Pakistani never contacts anyone on the dating sites. He doesn't know how he'd tell them he spent more than six years in the U.S. military prison of Bagram after being detained as a 16-year-old and accused of being a suicide bomber. ...


Madagascar army quells mutiny, kills rebel leader

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 01:01 PM PDT

ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar's army stormed a military barracks near the island country's main airport in order to quell a mutiny, killing the corporal who led it and arresting a number of mutineers, the army said on Sunday. The soldiers had seized the barracks located 10km (6.2 miles) from the capital Antananarivo at dawn 16 hours earlier. It was unclear what their grievances or demands were, but the drama escalated dramatically when they shot and fatally wounded an officer who had been sent in to negotiate with them. ...

Emboldened Syrian rebels push into Aleppo

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 12:45 PM PDT

RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATE CROP - This citizen journalist image shows a dead body lying in the street in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria, Saturday, July 21, 2012. This week, fierce fighting between troops and rebels reached the Syrian capital, the central bastion of Bashar Assad's rule, shattering parts of the city and sending thousands of people fleeing to neighboring Lebanon and Iraq. Activists and residents reported a tense calm in Damascus Saturday but said sporadic gunfire and explosions could be heard throughout the night. (AP Photo)A new rebel group boasting some 1,000 fighters launched an operation Sunday to capture Syria's largest city, Aleppo, while government troops using helicopter gunships and heavy artillery rolled back opposition gains in the capital Damascus.


Israel marks Munich massacre anniversary in London

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 12:14 PM PDT

The Olympic Stadium is visible beyound an installation of artificial wildflowers in the Olympic Park at the 2012 London Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 22, 2012, in London. The opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games are scheduled for Friday, July 27. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Complaining that the Olympic movement is still ignoring their pain, Israelis marked the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre on Sunday with a modest service in the atrium of a London apartment block.


18 killed in sundown bombings in 2 Iraqi towns

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 12:32 PM PDT

Bombs struck two Sunni towns at sundown Sunday just as Iraqis were preparing to break their holy day's fast, killing 18 and wounding more than 50, officials said. Two earlier bomb blasts killed a policeman and wounded dozens of people.

AP Interview: US Afghan withdrawal halfway done

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 01:44 PM PDT

U.S. Gen. John Allen, top commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) and US forces in Afghanistan gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 22, 2012. Gen. Allen says this year's pullout of 23,000 American troops is at the halfway point. He told The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that a significant number will leave in August and early September. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)This year's pullout of 23,000 American troops from Afghanistan is at the halfway mark, U.S. Gen. John Allen, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces, said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press.


Japan probes alleged cover-up at nuclear plant

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 10:30 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, workers in protective suits and masks wait to enter the emergency operation center at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Okuma, Japan. Japanese labor officials said Sunday, July 22, 2012 that they are investigating subcontractors on suspicion they forced workers at the tsunami-hit nuclear plant to underreport their dosimeter readings so they could stay on the job longer. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, Pool, File)Japanese authorities are investigating subcontractors on suspicion that they forced workers at the tsunami-hit nuclear plant to underreport the amount of radiation they were exposed to so they could stay on the job longer.


Israel alert for attacks abroad, eyeing Olympics

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 12:33 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 22, 2012. The Israeli government is asking the country's Supreme Court to delay the evacuation of an unauthorized West Bank settlement outpost by a month. The court has ordered the Migron outpost dismantled by Aug. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Gali Tbbon, Pool)Israel's prime minister said Sunday that his country is on alert for plots to kill more of its citizens overseas, after speculation that last week's suicide bombing of a tour bus in Bulgaria was a rehearsal for a spectacular attack on Israel's Olympics team.


Norway remembers victims of bomb, shooting attacks

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 01:56 PM PDT

Norwegian King Harald, right, and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, center, attend a memorial ceremony for the victims of bombings and shooting near the site of a heavily damaged building by the bomb attack, in Oslo, Norway, Sunday July 22, 2012. Norway marked the first anniversary of the bombing in government buildings in Oslo, and shooting dead of youths at a Labor Party youth camp on Utoeya island. (AP Photo/NTB Scanpix, Roald Berit) NORWAY OUTNorway on Sunday paused to commemorate the 77 victims of a bomb and gun massacre that shocked the peaceful nation one year ago, a tragedy that the prime minister said had brought Norwegians together in defense of democracy and tolerance.


Egypt president: 1952 coup fell short on democracy

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 03:22 PM PDT

In this photo released by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, President Mohammed Morsi, second from right, talks with Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, second left, as they attend a military graduation ceremony with Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri, left, and Chief of Staff Sami Anan, right, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi hailed the Egyptian army and its commanders at a time the newly elected Islamist president and the military council, which took power after ouster of Hosni Mubarak last year, are in mid of power struggle. (AP Photo/Sheriff Abd El Minoem, Egyptian Presidency)On the eve of the 60th anniversary of a coup that started decades of military rule, Egypt's new president said Sunday that it failed to bring about democracy. He credited last year's uprising with correcting the path.


Al-Qaida: We're returning to old Iraq strongholds

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 10:11 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 20, 2010 file photo, Iraqi policemen search the site of a joint U.S-Iraqi raid that killed Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, two top-ranking al-Qaida figures, about six miles (10 kilometers) southwest of Tikrit. The first online statement from the new leader of al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq claims that the militant network is returning to the old strongholds from which it was driven by U.S. forces and their Sunni allies prior to the American withdrawal at the end of last year, and that it is preparing operations to free prisoners and assassinate court officials. (AP Photo, File)The first online statement from the new leader of al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq claims that the militant network is returning to strongholds from which it was driven by U.S. forces and their Sunni allies before the American withdrawal at the end of last year.


Kidnapped Libyan Olympic Committee chief released

Posted: 22 Jul 2012 02:54 PM PDT

The president of Libya's Olympic Committee said hours after he returned home Sunday that his kidnapping remains a mystery but that authorities promised to investigate the case.

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