2012年8月19日星期日

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China court to give verdict in Gu Kailai murder trial

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 03:07 PM PDT

Combination photo shows British businessman Neil Heywood and Gu Kailai, wife of China's former Chongqing Municipality Communist Party Secretary Bo XilaiHEFEI, China (Reuters) - A Chinese court will deliver its verdict on Monday against Gu Kailai, the wife of disgraced politician Bo Xilai, on charges of killing a British businessman last year in a scandal that has shaken the Communist Party's transition to a new leadership. When a court in the eastern city of Hefei announces its verdict at a hearing starting at 9 a.m. (9.00 p.m. EDT), Gu could receive the death penalty, along with a family aide, Zhang Xiaojun, who was also tried for the murder. ...


Syria's Assad makes rare appearance for Eid prayers

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 04:16 PM PDT

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad attends Eid Al Fitr prayers at al-Hamad mosque in DamascusBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made his first appearance in public since a July bomb attack, attending prayers at a Damascus mosque to mark the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid, state TV showed. The first day of Eid on Sunday also gave Assad's opponents a chance to rally and activists reported protests around Syria, including in the capital, on a holiday that marked the end of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan. Fighting raged on around Syria, killing more than 100 people, an activist group reported. ...


Sudan plane crash kills 32 including minister

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 12:20 PM PDT

SUDAN-CRASH/ TKHARTOUM (Reuters) - Thirty two people including a Sudanese government minister and other officials were killed when a plane taking them to an Islamic festival crashed in the south of the country on Sunday, state media said. The plane went down in mountains around Talodi, a town in the border state of South Kordofan, while taking a delegation there to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr festival marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, state news agency SUNA said. The report blamed the crash on "bad weather conditions" but did not give further details. ...


Landings, protests stoke Japan-China islands dispute

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 09:40 AM PDT

A protester destroys an overturned Japanese-brand police car with an metal rod during an anti-Japan protest in Shenzhen, Guangdong provinceEAST CHINA SEA (Reuters) - Anti-Japanese protests rocked Chinese cities on Sunday after nationalists from Japan landed on an East China Sea island at the heart of a territorial dispute between the two nations, the largest flare-up of Chinese public anger over Japan in years. In several Chinese cities, thousands took to the streets, including in Shenzhen where small groups overturned Japanese cars and shouted slogans denouncing Japan's claim over the islands, in footage carried by Hong Kong's Cable Television. ...


German politicians say no leeway for Greece on reforms

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 04:15 PM PDT

Greek PM Samaras addresses a parliamentary group in AthensBERLIN (Reuters) - Senior German politicians stepped up the pressure on Greece to stick to its reforms before the Greek prime minister visits Berlin this week and made clear that there was no appetite in the German parliament for a third aid package. Greek leader Antonis Samaras, facing mounting social and political discontent at home, is expected to ask for a two-year extension to the deadline international lenders have set when he meets the leaders of Germany and France this week. ...


Magnitude 6.2 earthquake hits Papua New Guinea: USGS

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 04:12 PM PDT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck in north-eastern Papua New Guinea on Monday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The strong quake was centered 115 km north-northeast of Mount Hagen, at a depth of 77 kilometers, the USGS said. Papua New Guinea is on the geologically active Pacific Ring of Fire. (Reporting By Jane Wardell; Editing by John Mair)

Another Afghan insider shooting as U.S. talks to Karzai

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 03:05 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - Another NATO soldier was killed on Sunday by an Afghan police officer, raising the coalition death toll from so-called "green on blue" shootings to nine in 11 days as the United States urged Kabul to step up screening of recruits. The growing insider threat has eroded trust between NATO and its Afghan allies, causing a headache for Western powers who are planning to pull out most of their troops by the end of 2014. U.S. ...

Libya arrests Gaddafi loyalists over Sunday bombings

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 03:34 PM PDT

A military personnel examines a car, which exploded near a women's police academy, in TripoliTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya said it had arrested 32 supporters of the country's former leader Muammar Gaddafi in connection with bombings that killed two people in the capital Tripoli earlier on Sunday. An official from Libya's Supreme Security Committee, which has been supervising security matters since Gaddafi's overthrow and death last year, said the 32 had been part of an organized network. Connections between the group and the attacks, near security and interior ministry facilities, "have been established", the official told Reuters. ...


Analysis: Clashes expose India's communal divide as elections loom

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 02:13 PM PDT

A woman from India's northeastern states ties the hair of her child while sitting inside the train bound for the Assam state at a railway station in KolkataNEW DELHI (Reuters) - The anonymous text message on Bhumidhar Das' mobile phone was chilling: "Muslims will attack and kill our people after Ramadan. Return home." Within hours, Das, a Hindu working at a car factory in the city of Pune, joined tens of thousands of fellow migrant workers returning to hometowns in the remote northeast after getting or hearing of similar messages. Nearly 80 people have been killed and 400,000 displaced in fighting between Muslims and mostly Hindu Bodo tribesmen in northeastern Assam state in recent weeks. ...


Web snares Vietnam as bloggers spread protests over land

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 02:53 PM PDT

A woman takes a photo of bloggers attending an anti-China protest in HanoiHANOI (Reuters) - Farmer Le Dung and his fellow villagers stockpiled rocks and petrol bombs to battle police trying to take over their land for a luxury property development near Vietnam's capital city. But their most powerful weapon turned out to be the equipment they had set up with the help of Internet activists to record and broadcast the confrontation, which was ignored by state-controlled media. Within hours of the fight on a clear April morning, video of several thousand police firing tear gas and beating farmers in the Van Giang district just east of Hanoi had gone viral. ...


Lonmin to SAfrica strikers: Work Monday or fired

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 03:57 PM PDT

A group of churchgoers join hand in prayer at the site, Sunday Aug. 19, 2012 at the Lonmin platinum mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, during a memorial service for 34 dead striking miners who were shot and killed bt police last Thursday. Miners must return to work Monday or face being fired from the mine where rivalry between unions has exploded into violence. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)Miners must return to work Monday or face being fired from the platinum mine where rivalry between unions exploded into violence that led to the deaths of 44 people in a week, Lonmin PLC said Sunday. Thirty-four strikers were gunned down by police in one of the worst displays of state violence since apartheid ended in 1994.


Assange urges US to end Wikileaks 'witch hunt'

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 03:18 PM PDT

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks makes a statement from a balcony of the Equador Embassy in London, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. Assange called on United States President Barack Obama to end a "witch hunt" against the secret-spilling WikiLeaks organization.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Wikileaks founder Julian Assange portrayed himself Sunday as a victim of an American "witch hunt" over his secret-spilling website in a defiant address from the balcony of an embassy where he has holed up to avoid extradition to face sex assault allegations.


Aleppo reflects on losses during holiday lull

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 11:55 AM PDT

Syrians look for the bodies two girls thought to be under the rubble of a building hit by a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012 (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)A brief lull in fighting for a Muslim holiday Sunday allowed residents of Aleppo to take stock of their losses after three weeks of intense battles left many in Syria's largest city strapped for cash, separated from loved ones and scared of more violence ahead.


AP Interview: Envoy seeks unified voice on Syria

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:50 AM PDT

Former Algerian foreign affairs minister and new Syria envoy Lakhdar Brahimi attends during an interview with The Associated Press in Paris, Sunday Aug. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)The new U.N. special envoy to Syria admitted on Sunday that he faces a difficult job trying to broker peace in Syria and said his first task is overcoming divisions within the Security Council that stymied the efforts of his predecessor.


Sudanese helicopter crash kills 32

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:07 AM PDT

A Sudanese helicopter carrying a government delegation crashed in a mountainous southern region on Sunday, killing all 32 people on board including a Cabinet minister, a former presidential adviser, two generals and a TV crew.

Madonna sued in Russia for supporting gays

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 09:08 AM PDT

In this picture taken Aug. 18. 2012, US singer Madonna performs one stage during a concert in Zurich, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone/Walter Bieri)Some Russian activists have sued Madonna for millions of dollars, claiming they were offended by her support for gay rights during a recent concert in St. Petersburg.


Iraqi Sunni cleric's convoy struck by bomb

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 11:58 AM PDT

People visit a cemetery during the first day of Eid al-Fitr in the Azamiyah area of north Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. The three-day Eid al-Fitr holiday marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)A bomb struck the convoy of a senior Sunni cleric in western Baghdad on Sunday, killing four and critically wounding the anti-extremist Muslim leader, police said.


Man in Afghan uniform kills NATO service member

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 04:41 PM PDT

An Afghan man collects victims' belongings at the scene of an explosion at a cemetery in Lashkar Gah, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. A bomb hidden in the cemetery exploded Sunday as a police official and his family were visiting the grave of a relative, killing the official and his brother, police said. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)A man in an Afghan police uniform shot and killed a U.S. service member on Sunday, a U.S. Defense Department official said, raising the death toll to 10 in such attacks in the space of just two weeks.


US drones kill 10 militants in northwest Pakistan

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 01:13 PM PDT

American drones fired a flurry of missiles in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan Sunday, killing a total of 10 suspected militants, Pakistani officials said.

Officials: crazed gunman kills 9 Yemenis in prayer

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 01:28 PM PDT

Protestors demanding that the relatives of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh be fired from army and police posts attend Eid al-Fitr prayers in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan, the Muslim calendar's ninth and holiest month during which followers are required to abstain from food and drink from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)Medical and security officials say a crazed gunman opened fire Sunday on worshippers marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in southern Yemen, killing nine.


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