2012年8月20日星期一

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China's Gu Kailai gets suspended death sentence

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 05:42 AM 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) - China sentenced the wife of fallen Politburo member Bo Xilai to death on Monday but suspended her execution, setting the stage for a possible final purge of Bo himself in a scandal that has shaken Beijing ahead of a leadership transition. The sentence means Gu Kailai is likely to face life in jail for murdering British businessman Neil Heywood last year. ...


Analysis: Afghanistan's peace hopes may rest on Taliban captive

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:30 PM PDT

Afghan National Army soldier keeps watch near the site of an incident in KabulKABUL (Reuters) - In the cloistered circles of the Taliban high command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar had no equal. As military chief of the hardline Islamic movement that once ruled Afghanistan and was ousted by a U.S.-led alliance, he oversaw the campaign of ambushes and roadside bombings that proved his fighters could threaten the most advanced armies. When the talismanic leader was caught in the Pakistani city of Karachi in 2010, some Afghan officials hoped the magnetism he forged in war would persuade his former comrades to start talking peace. ...


Obama deeply concerned over Afghan "insider attacks"

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:22 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks in the press briefing room at the White House in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday said the United States needed to do more to safeguard U.S. troops after a spate of Afghan "insider" attacks that have left 10 American troops killed in the past two weeks. His comments came during a visit by the top U.S. military officer, General Martin Dempsey, to Afghanistan, where the killings of American forces by Afghans have topped the agenda. Obama, who spoke to Dempsey earlier in the day, said he would reach out to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the killings. ...


Car bomb kills eight near Turkey's border with Syria

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:35 PM PDT

Firefighters work at the scene of an explosion in the southeastern Turkish town of GaziantepHAKKARI, Turkey (Reuters) - A car bomb a senior Turkish politician blamed on Kurdish separatists exploded near a police station in a city near Turkey's southeastern border with Syria on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens more. TV footage from Gaziantep showed a bus and the surrounding area ablaze and smoke billowing into the sky as firemen tried to fight the fire. Ambulances ferried casualties to hospital while anxious residents looked on. ...


Obama warns Assad U.S. could act

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:39 PM PDT

Members of the United Nations observers mission in Syria, who have left their bases in the province of Homs in Central Syria, check their departure dates in a hotel in DamascusWASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. forces could move against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, President Barack Obama warned, notably if he deploys his chemical weapons against rebels trying to overthrow him. In some of his strongest language yet on Syria, on a day when U.N. observers pulled out after a fruitless bid for peace and Assad's forces mounted new attacks, the U.S. leader said Assad faced "enormous consequences" if he crossed a "red line" of even moving unconventional weapons in a threatening manner. ...


Mali forms new caretaker government

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:12 PM PDT

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's interim president Dioncounda Traore approved a new transitional government on Monday, to move the West African country closer to constitutional order after a military coup in March. The 31-member government will replace a transitional authority that was crippled by political infighting, and failed make progress in setting elections. "The president of the republic, after receiving proposals from the prime minister, decrees the list of members of government," said a presidential statement read over state radio. ...

Malta's former prime minister Dom Mintoff dies at 96

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:26 PM PDT

VALLETTA (Reuters) - Dom Mintoff, Malta's former socialist prime minister and dominant political force for more than half a century, died at his residence near Valletta on Monday, the government said. He was 96. Mintoff, known for his confrontational style and fiery speeches, oversaw the closure of Britain's military base on the island in 1979 - ending the 200-year-old military link. The current leader of the labor party Joseph Muscat said on Monday all Maltese had been orphaned by Mintoff's death. ...

Seven arrested over attack on East Jerusalem Arab

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:08 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Seven people, mostly Jewish youths, have been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a Palestinian resident of Arab East Jerusalem, police said on Monday, in a case that has laid bare racial tensions in the divided city. Jamal Joulani was beaten unconscious by a gang as he walked through a square in West Jerusalem with relatives on Thursday night. The case provoked outrage in the city riven by decades of community and ethnic tensions where Jewish and Arab communities live alongside each other in adjacent neighborhoods but rarely mix. ...

U.S. seizes $150 million from Lebanese bank in laundering scheme

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:40 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities said on Monday that they had seized $150 million from a Lebanese bank suspected of being at the heart of international money-laundering schemes linked to the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah. In February 2011, the U.S. Treasury department designated the Lebanese Canadian Bank as a "primary money-laundering concern." The privately owned bank was subsequently merged with the Lebanese subsidiary of Societe Generale. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the U.S. ...

Britain's best bet to handle Assange: sit and wait

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:42 AM PDT

Supporters of Ecuador President Rafael Correa gather to show their support for the government's decision to give political asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, in the main square of QuitoLONDON (Reuters) - Britain's options in dealing with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are limited and British lawyers and diplomats reckon its best course of action is simply to sit tight and wait. Assange took refuge at Ecuador's London embassy in June to avoid being extradited to Sweden where he faces questioning over rape allegations. It triggered a diplomatic standoff that turned heated last week when Britain threatened to raid the diplomatic mission and Ecuador granted Assange political asylum. ...


Syria war empowers long-oppressed Kurdish minority

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:32 PM PDT

FILE - This Friday, June 15, 2012 file citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN purports to show anti-Syrian regime Kurdish protesters holding an effigy of Syrian President Bashar Assad as they wave their Kurdish flag during a demonstration called the "Friday of Russia is the enemy of Syrian people," at the northeastern town of Amouda, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN, File )THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTOLast month, while the world's attention was focused on battles raging in Syria's two largest cities, a quiet transformation was taking place in the country's oil-rich northeast where about 2 million minority Kurds live.


Syria airstrikes, shelling kill 100 during holiday

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:05 PM PDT

Syrians Bassem Kharfani, left, and Mahmoud Jikar sit at the door of Jikar's house, one of more than a dozen homes destroyed in a Syrian government bombing last week that killed more than 40 people, in Azaz, Syria, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)Government forces pummeled the battered city of Aleppo with airstrikes and tanks and shelled parts of Damascus and southern Syria Monday, killing at least 100 people during a major Muslim holiday, rights groups and activists said.


Cholera emergency declared in Sierra Leone

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:17 PM PDT

An outbreak of cholera in West Africa has infected more than 13,000 people and killed at least 258 people in Sierra Leone and Guinea, authorities said as they appealed for international assistance.

Reports: 8 killed in bomb in Turkey

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:23 PM PDT

A bomb concealed in a vehicle exploded near a police station in southeast Turkey on Monday night, Turkish media reported, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens amid an escalation in fighting between Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces.

Mali announces new govt 5 months after coup

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:41 PM PDT

Mali's interim leaders announced a new government late Monday, months after a military coup unleashed political chaos that allowed an Islamist takeover of the north and forced nearly half a million people to flee their homes.

Somalia: A new parliament but no presidential vote

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:46 PM PDT

Somali president Sharif Sheik Ahmed, left, and UN envoy for Somalia Augostina Mahiga, right, during the swearing in ceremony of 211 MP's at Aden Ade international airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Aug 20, 2012. Somalia's newly-selected members of parliament were on Monday sworn in as the Horn of Africa country moves from the long-drawn transitional period to a permanent form of government. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsamehmeh)Somalia's chief justice on Monday swore in 215 new members of parliament, an accomplishment but one that fell far short of U.N. hopes that the Horn of Africa nation would seat a full 275-member parliament that would vote in a new president.


Tapes found in AP reporter's Cold War show trial

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:31 AM PDT

FILE - The May 16, 1953 file photo shows William Oatis, Associated Press correspondent.smiling as he crosses Czech border into American sector of West Germany at Waidhaus after his release from a Czech prison. Of some 240,000 unlawfully jailed in Czechoslovak Republic, Oatis was the only Western reporter. He was sentenced to 10 years in a communist prison on trumped-up espionage charges. (AP Photo/Heinrich Sanden/Albert Riethausen)The characters had been carefully chosen, the testimony rehearsed in advance, the verdict a foregone conclusion.


Libya: Gadhafi's son's trial in September in Libya

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:11 PM PDT

Libya will put deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi's son on trial, defying a demand by the International Criminal Court, the Libyan representative to the Hague court said Monday.

Wife of disgraced Chinese politician sentenced

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2012 file video image taken from CCTV, Gu Kailai, second left, the wife of disgraced politician Bo Xilai, is taken to her trial in the Hefei Intermediate People's Court in Hefei in eastern China's Anhui province. Gu was given a suspended death sentence Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, after confessing to killing a British businessman in a case that rocked the country's top political leadership. A man in white shirt at right is Zhang Xiaojun, family aide of Gu. (AP Photo/CCTV via APTN, File) CHINA OUT, TV OUTThe wife of a disgraced Chinese politician received a suspended death sentence Monday for the murder of a British businessman, as authorities move to tidy up a huge political scandal ahead of a once-in-a-decade leadership transition this fall.


Moscow police search for other Pussy Riot members

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 01:15 PM PDT

Russian police say they are searching for other members of Pussy Riot, the punk band whose anti-Putin protest inside a Moscow cathedral led to prison sentences for three of the activists.

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