2012年8月2日星期四

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Frustrated Annan quits as Syria peace envoy

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 04:20 PM PDT

U.N.-Arab League mediator Annan addresses a news conference at the United Nations in GenevaUNITED NATIONS/ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is quitting as international peace envoy for Syria, frustrated by "finger-pointing" at the United Nations while the armed rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad becomes increasingly bloody. As battles raged on Thursday in Syria's second city, Aleppo, between rebel fighters and government forces using war planes and artillery, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced in New York that Annan had said he would go at the end of the month. ...


Buenos Aires province devises its own Falklands ship ban

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 03:48 PM PDT

To match BRITAIN-ARGENTINA/FALKLANDSBUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Buenos Aires province passed a bill on Thursday to prohibit ships involved in business activities off the disputed Falkland Islands from mooring at its ports, part of Argentina's drive to discourage oil exploration in the area. Argentina had already banned ships flying the Falklands flag from stopping at the country's ports. The regional Mercosur trade group backed the move. President Cristina Fernandez has launched a wide-ranging diplomatic offensive to assert Argentina's claims to the British-ruled islands 30 years after the Falklands war. ...


Yemen tribesmen release Italian officer: official

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 02:52 PM PDT

Police troopers guard outside the Italian embassy in SanaaSANAA (Reuters) - An Italian embassy security officer kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen has been released unharmed, a government official said on Thursday, the same day the country's information minister survived an assassination attempt. The incidents highlight continuing instability in Yemen five months after former leader Ali Abdullah Saleh was formally replaced by his deputy under a plan designed to forestall a slide into lawlessness. ...


Iran, EU agree to talk again on nuclear dispute

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 01:51 PM PDT

General view of Bushehr nuclear power plant, 1,200 km south of TehranBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Chief negotiators for the EU and Iran agreed on Thursday to hold more talks about Tehran's nuclear work, but the European Union gave no sign progress was imminent in the decade-long dispute. Six world powers, represented by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, have sought to persuade Iran to scale back its nuclear program through intensifying economic sanctions and diplomacy. They have failed to reach a breakthrough in three rounds of talks since April. ...


Clinton takes message of reconciliation to South Sudan

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 12:00 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the University of Dakar in DakarKAMPALA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will press South Sudan to resolve disputes with its former rulers in the north, on her first visit to the world's newest country on Friday. On an 11-nation African tour, Clinton will be the most senior U.S. since independence last year, warning that bitter divisions over territory and oil threaten to wreck the economies of two nations. "We're encouraging both sides, South Sudan and Sudan, to meet and negotiate the differences between them as expeditiously as possible," a senior U.S. ...


Founder of modern Turkey Ataturk's daughter dies

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 03:21 PM PDT

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The adopted daughter of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, was killed in a traffic accident, her son said on Turkish television on Thursday. Ulku Adatepe was 79. Adatepe died on Wednesday when she was thrown from a vehicle after the driver lost control of the car while driving on a motorway from Istanbul to the capital Ankara, the daily newspaper Milliyet reported. Adatepe's husband and the driver were hurt but survived the crash, which occurred in the northwest province of Sakarya. Her son Ahmet Dogancay confirmed the news on NTV television. ...

Brazil Supreme Court trial could tarnish Lula's legacy

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 02:41 PM PDT

A general view shows a session of the "mensalao" trial at the Supreme Court in BrasiliaRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Seven years after a corruption scandal rattled the government of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday began a landmark trial that could mar the wildly popular leader's legacy. Brazilians still don't know the extent of the infamous "mensalão" scandal, an alleged scheme to pay legislators a monthly retainer in exchange for their support in Congress. ...


U.N. demands end of foreign support for Congo rebels

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 01:44 PM PDT

M23 rebel fighters occupy Rumangabo after government troops abandoned the townUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday demanded an end to foreign support for the M23 rebels fighting against the Kinshasa government in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a rebuke diplomats said was aimed at Rwanda and Uganda. The 15-nation council issued a statement voicing its "strong condemnation of any and all outside support to the M23 and demand that all support to the M23, including from outside countries, cease immediately. ...


Echoes of past in new Egypt government

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 10:08 AM PDT

Egypt's new Prime minister, Hisham Kandil, speaks during his first news conference at his office in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi kept his post as Egyptian defence minister in a Muslim Brotherhood-led administration sworn in on Thursday by President Mohamed Mursi, confirming the military's role at the epicenter of power. Tantawi's inclusion in Prime Minister Hisham Kandil's cabinet was widely expected, but underlined the emerging power balance between a civilian president from a once banned Islamist group and the generals who removed Hosni Mubarak from power. "Do we start from zero? For sure, no," Kandil said during a news conference. ...


Putin weighs into punk trial after judo gold

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 12:48 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron point as watch women's -78kg and men's 100kg judo competition at London 2012 Olympic GamesLONDON (Reuters) - Fresh from cheering a Russian judo star to a gold medal at the Olympic Games, President Vladimir Putin urged leniency on Thursday for members of a female punk band on trial for protesting against him at the altar of a Moscow cathedral. Putin told Interfax news agency that there was "nothing good" about the protest by the band Pussy Riot, which outraged many Russian Orthodox believers on the eve of Putin's latest presidential election win. "Nonetheless, I don't think that they should be judged so harshly for this," Interfax news agency quoted Putin as saying. ...


Annan quits Syria role, blasts UN Security Council

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 12:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, June 30, 2012 file photo, Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria speaks during a news conference at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. On Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, Annan said he is quitting as special envoy to Syria, effective Aug. 31. (AP Photo/Martial Trezzini, Keystone, File)Frustrated by Syria's escalating civil war, Kofi Annan announced Thursday that he will quit his high-profile role as special envoy to the country at the end of the month, giving reasons that amounted to scathing criticism of world powers' failure to unite to stop the chaos in the Arab state.


Phelps back on top, beats Lochte in 200 IM

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 03:23 PM PDT

Michael Phelps spent the day thinking about all the things he's doing for the final time at the pool. It turns out that included one last win over Ryan Lochte.

Syrian rebels accused of executions, other abuses

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 01:06 PM PDT

This image made from amateur video released by Tabshoor1 and accessed Tuesday, July 31, 2012, purports to show Free Syrian Army soldiers moments before executing Assad loyalists in Aleppo, Syria. A gruesome video apparently showing rebels gunning down Assad loyalists in Aleppo this week has fueled concerns that opposition fighters in Syria are capable of brutality that matches that of the regime they are fighting to topple. (AP Photo/Tabshoor1 via AP video) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTOThe unsteady, hand-held video shows several bloodied prisoners, one in boxer shorts, being led into a noisy outdoor crowd and placed against a wall. The prisoners crouch and seem to avert their eyes as men carrying assault rifles shout slogans and take aim. The gunfire lasts for more than 30 seconds.


New Egypt government puts Brotherhood in key posts

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 03:07 PM PDT

Cars burn after riots broke out in front of a luxury hotel in central Cairo., Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. A security official said one person was killed when Egyptian police opened fire on a mob trying to storm a Nile-side luxury hotel in central Cairo. The official said the crowd of around 500 people smashed the hotel's lobby and set ablaze 10 cars and dozens of motorcycles outside the building, located in a skyscraper housing a glitzy shopping mall and offices. (AP Photo)Egypt's Islamist president swore in his first new government Thursday, led by a devout Muslim and including five members of his Muslim Brotherhood in unglamorous but ideal ministries for a group whose long-term aim is to Islamize the most populous Arab nation.


US-bound Cubans pour into Panama through Colombia

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 10:06 AM PDT

In this July 3, 2012 photo, Cuban migrant Mayra Reyes, sitting fourth from right, gathers with other Cubans with whom she traveled as they rest at a shelter along with another group of migrants from Bangladesh, after being found by Panamanian border police in the Darien province in Meteti, Panama. Panamanian authorities began noticing five years ago that the Darien Gap, the only interruption in the Pan-American Highway, was being used by migrant smugglers, usually to move people from Asia and Africa. Panama's Public Safety Minister Jose Murillo says that the movement of people from Asia and Africa has tapered off but that hundreds of Cubans are now taking the arduous Darien Gap route toward the United States. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)Led by smugglers armed with knives and machetes, Mayra Reyes and 14 other Cubans sloshed through swamps and rivers and suffered hordes of mosquitoes as they struggled across the notorious Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia, the only north-south stretch of the Americas to defy road-builders.


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