2012年8月26日星期日

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Assad's forces accused of massacre near Syrian capital

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:14 PM PDT

A Syrian rebel fires towards a pro-government sniper in the Seif El Dawla district in the center of Aleppo cityALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian opposition activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's army of massacring hundreds of people in a town close to the capital that government forces recaptured from rebels. About 320 bodies, including women and children, were found in houses and basements in the town of Daraya, southwest of Damascus, according to activists who said on Sunday most had been killed "execution-style" by troops. Activists uploaded several videos to the Internet showing rows of bloodied bodies wrapped in sheets. ...


Britain wants to restart Assange talks with Ecuador

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 01:32 PM PDT

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange prepares to speak from the balcony of Ecuador's embassy, where he is taking refuge in LondonLONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Sunday it remained committed to reaching a diplomatic solution to the presence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Ecuador's London embassy, after both countries took steps to defuse a row over his action in taking refuge there. Assange has been living in the embassy's cramped quarters for more than two months since fleeing there to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations. ...


Venezuela struggles with refinery blaze after deadly blast

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:10 PM PDT

A column of smoke rises, a day after an explosion at Amuay oil refinery in Punto Fijo in the Peninsula of ParaguanaPARAGUANA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan firefighters struggled on Sunday to put out a blaze at the country's biggest refinery sparked by an explosion that killed 41 people in one of the global oil industry's deadliest accidents. Officials at the 645,000 barrel-per-day Amuay refinery are trying to stop the fire still raging at two storage tanks from spreading to other nearby fuel storage facilities. That would delay Amuay's restart beyond the current estimate of two days. ...


Analysis: Politics the priority for China as economy slows

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:20 PM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's policy chiefs have about two weeks left to decide about giving the economy a proper stimulative prod, or risk parading a new Communist Party leadership to the world just as growth falls below target for the first time in nearly four years. Factory activity is already at a nine-month low, according to the latest manufacturing sector survey from HSBC, signaling that the official August numbers for industrial production and trade published in a fortnight will foreshadow third quarter economic growth falling below the government's 7.5 percent goal. ...

Nigeria navy frees 28 kidnapped oil workers

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:41 PM PDT

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's navy said it had freed 28 local oil workers who were being held hostage by a criminal gang in the oil-producing Niger Delta. The hostages were Nigerian employees of Chinese oil servicing firm Sinopec, navy spokesman Commodore Kabir Aliyu said. They were kidnapped on Thursday by a gang called the Lapto Marine Force operating around the Bakassi waterways in Cross Rivers state and freed in the naval operation late on Friday, he said. "The gang ... ...

Pakistan pioneers lead epic struggle for more milk

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:04 PM PDT

Milkmen gather outside a distribution point in SahiwalNAROWAL, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Shahzad Iqbal abandoned the jet-set lifestyle of a corporate executive because he wanted to do something worthwhile for his country. So he invested his life savings in world-class bull semen. He imports the sperm from potent bulls in the West, with names like Socrates, Air Raid and Liberator, and sells it at affordable prices to farmers so they can breed cows that produce higher volumes of quality milk. ...


Graffiti artists thrive in reform-era Myanmar

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:23 PM PDT

Street artists spray-paint graffiti on a wall under a bridge beside a railway line in Yangon(Note: strong language in paragraph 16) YANGON (Reuters) - A television set with wings hovers on a wall in a murky Yangon sidestreet. "This was my first one," says Aung, 33, pointing proudly to an image he spray-painted last year to protest media censorship and now duplicated across Myanmar's commercial capital. "Media freedom is a big issue for me." Aung, who requested that his full name be withheld, belongs to a new generation of Yangon street artists whose often politically charged graffiti was almost unthinkable before Myanmar's recent burst of reforms. ...


Under China's watch, Macau won't return to "Gangster's Paradise"

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:02 PM PDT

MACAU (Reuters) - Three murders, hammer-wielding heavies, and a high-profile police swoop have raised concerns that Macau, the world's casino capital, may be backsliding to the bad old days of the late-1990s. And that's even before ex-triad boss "Broken Tooth" ends a 15-year jail sentence in December. All this at a time when China's economy, the world's second-biggest, is growing more slowly - hitting gambling revenue and possibly making junket operators, who collect gambling debts in exchange for commission from casinos, more aggressive. ...

Dutch Liberals, Socialists in close race ahead of vote

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:21 PM PDT

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Liberal Party, the pro-business movement led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and the far-left Socialists are neck and neck ahead of a September 12 parliamentary election dominated by the euro zone crisis, two polls showed over the weekend. The fiscally conservative country is considered a core euro zone member, but the run-up to the ballot has highlighted growing discontent about Europe - in particular over the high cost of bailing out weaker euro zone states and the pressure for belt-tightening at home. ...

Libya minister quits after criticism over attacks

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:14 PM PDT

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's interior minister resigned on Sunday, officials said, after he was criticized for failing to halt a surge of attacks on Sufi Muslim shrines that have raised fears of the spread of sectarian violence following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Attackers, described as ultra-conservative Islamists by some officials, bulldozed sites sacred to Sufi Muslims in the western city of Zlitan on Friday and the capital Tripoli on Saturday. ...

Evidence mounts of new massacre in Syria

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:42 PM PDT

This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network SNN, taken on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012, purports to show people killed by shabiha, pro-government militiamen, in a makeshift morgue in Daraya, Syria. According to activists' accounts, government forces retook the Damascus suburb of Daraya from rebel control three days ago and have since gone on a killing spree. Reports of the death toll range widely from more than 300 to as many as 600. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, SNN) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS CITIZEN JOURNALIST IMAGERow upon row of bloodied bodies wrapped in colorful blankets laid out on a mosque floor in a Damascus suburb. Long narrow graves tightly packed with dozens of victims. Nestled among them, two babies were wrapped in a single blood-soaked blanket, a yellow pacifier dangling beside them from a palm frond.


Libya's interior minister resigns after attacks

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 03:05 PM PDT

Libya's interim interior minister resigned on Sunday after members of the newly-elected parliament accused his forces of neglect when attackers bulldozed a Sufi shrine and mosque while police stood by a day earlier.

Despite Isaac's soaking, Keys residents laid back

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:41 PM PDT

Shira Edllan Gervasi, of Israel, puts her name on plywood protecting a storefront in Key West, Fla., in anticipation of Tropical Storm Isaac on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. Isaac's winds are expected to be felt in the Florida Keys by sunrise Sunday morning. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)Tropical Storm Isaac barely stirred Florida Keys residents from their fabled nonchalance Sunday, while the Gulf Coast braced for the possibility that the sprawling storm will strengthen into a dangerous hurricane by the time it makes landfall there.


Afghanistan says Badruddin Haqqani is dead

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 12:23 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Sunday Aug. 5, 2012 file photo, a Pakistani Taliban militant holds a rocket-propelled grenade at the Taliban stronghold of Shawal, in Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, Pakistan. Pakistani officials said Saturday that it is investigating whether the son of the founder of the powerful Haqqani militant network, Badruddin Haqqani, was killed in a U.S. drone strike this week. The U.S. has long viewed the Haqqani network as one of the biggest threats to U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan as well as the country's long term stability. (AP Photo/ Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)The son of the founder of the powerful Haqqani network was been killed in an airstrike in Pakistan, Afghanistan's intelligence agency said Sunday, providing the first public confirmation of rumors that have been swirling for days about the key member of a militant group the U.S. considers one of the most dangerous in the region.


Militants from Afghanistan attack Pakistan

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 08:40 AM PDT

FILE -- In this Sunday Aug. 5, 2012 file photo, a Pakistani Taliban militant holds a rocket-propelled grenade at the Taliban stronghold of Shawal, in Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, Pakistan. Pakistani officials said Saturday that it is investigating whether the son of the founder of the powerful Haqqani militant network, Badruddin Haqqani, was killed in a U.S. drone strike this week. The U.S. has long viewed the Haqqani network as one of the biggest threats to U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan as well as the country's long term stability. (AP Photo/ Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)Dozens of militants from Afghanistan attacked an anti-Taliban militia post in northwest Pakistan for the third day Sunday, sparking fighting that killed one soldier and 20 militants, a Pakistani official said.


Hispaniola death toll from Isaac climbs to 9

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 11:15 AM PDT

A man stands on a post with a stop sign as waves pass the seawall during the passage of Tropical Storm Isaac in Baracoa, Cuba, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. Tropical Storm Isaac pushed into Cuba on Saturday after sweeping across Haiti's southern peninsula. Isaac's center made landfall just before midday near the far-eastern tip of Cuba. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)The death toll from Tropical Storm Isaac has climbed to nine after authorities in the Dominican Republic reported two deaths Sunday.


Survivors: strong gas odor before Venezuela blast

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 02:49 PM PDT

Members of a family walk on a street as flames rise after an explosion at the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. Venezuelans who live next to the country's biggest oil refinery said they smelled a strong odor of sulfur hours before a gas leak ignited in an explosion on Saturday that killed at least 39 people and injured more than 80. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)After nightfall on Friday, as red lights began glowing atop the massive Amuay refinery in western Venezuela, the odor of sulfur made its way through the surrounding neighborhood of working-class homes and small shops.


German minister rejects more time for Greece

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 08:38 AM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler, left, arrive for the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)Germany's economy minister has rejected calls for Greece to get more time to implement economic reforms, saying in an interview Sunday that Athens needs to respect the bailout deal reached with its international creditors.


Flooding kills 10 in northeast Nigeria

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 01:58 PM PDT

An emergency management official in northeast Nigeria says 10 people were killed in floods that swept through the region.

Egypt prosecutor probes anti-Brotherhood critic

Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:38 PM PDT

In this Tuesday Aug. 7, 2012 photo, Tawfiq Okasha holding some plants, 2nd left, rallies his supporters against Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood at the funeral of 16 Egyptian soldiers killed in the Egyptian border town of Rafah on Aug 5, 2012. He emerged as one of the most popular television personalities of post-revolution Egypt by railing against the revolution, a bombastic conservative who every night mocked the country's Egypt's attorney general has referred an outspoken anti-Islamist former lawmaker for investigation by police prosecutors over claims he called for the downfall of the regime, according to a statement Sunday.


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