2012年8月7日星期二

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Assad gets Iran backing as forces squeeze Aleppo rebels

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 04:07 PM PDT

A Free Syrian Army fighter takes cover during clashes with Syrian Army in the Salaheddine neighbourhood of central AleppoALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Iran has offered support to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad as his forces tried to choke off rebels in the northern city of Aleppo. Seeking to restore his authority after suffering the gravest setbacks so far in the 17-month-old uprising, culminating in the defection of his prime minister on Monday, Assad was shown on television on Tuesday meeting a senior official from his key regional ally. ...


U.S. rules denting Congo rebels' mineral profits: study

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 04:01 PM PDT

M23 rebel fighters celebrate in the rain at RumangaboUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.S. law and an electronics industry code governing the use of conflict minerals have slashed profits among armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo by 65 percent in the past two years, a report by a nonprofit rights group found on Tuesday. But the Enough Project - an arm of the Center for American Progress that combats genocide and crimes against humanity - also warned that months of unrest in Congo's volatile east is hampering progress made in curbing the conflict minerals trade. ...


As China prepares for Gu's trial, rule of law also in the dock

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:02 PM PDT

Combination photo shows British businessman Neil Heywood and Gu Kailai, wife of China's former Chongqing Municipality Communist Party Secretary Bo XilaiBEIJING (Reuters) - China holds its most sensational trial this week since convicting the Gang of Four over 30 years ago, putting Gu Kailai, the wife of deposed leader Bo Xilai, in the dock for murder. It took two months for the widow of Chairman Mao Zedong and three other ultra-leftist leaders to be found guilty of excesses in the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution after a show trial. Gu, a career lawyer who has championed China's swift, unblinking justice system, is likely to be dealt with even sooner. ...


"Shocking" pressure on top Romania court: Council of Europe

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:16 PM PDT

Romania's suspended President Traian Basescu addresses the media in BucharestBUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's Constitutional Court is under "shocking" political pressure ahead of its ruling on the validity of a referendum to impeach the president and has appealed to the Council of Europe for protection, a council official said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Victor Ponta's leftist Social Liberal Union (USL) is trying to oust suspended President Traian Basescu. Ponta accuses Basescu of abusing his position to block government legislation, but the European Union regards some of the government's tactics as undermining democracy. ...


Egypt moves to seal Gaza tunnels after border attack

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 04:08 PM PDT

A woman walks during a funeral for soldiers in CairoRAFAH, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt began to seal off smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a security source said, two days after gunmen shot dead 16 Egyptian border guards in an attack blamed partly on Palestinian militants. Crowds of angry mourners wept at the military funeral of the slain guards in Cairo after the deadliest assault along Egypt's tense Sinai Peninsula border with Israel and Gaza in decades. ...


Monsoon rains swamp Philippine capital, markets shut

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 11:08 AM PDT

A man holds his shoes as he swims in floodwaters along a road in Marikina, Metro ManilaMANILA (Reuters) - Deadly torrential rains submerged much of the Philippine capital and surrounding areas on Tuesday, forcing nearly 270,000 people to flee their homes with more flooding expected in the north of the country as a tropical storm passes through the region, officials said. Steady rains for the past 10 days, killing more than 50 people, are set to continue until Wednesday, the Philippines weather bureau said, fuelled by tropical storm "Haikui" in the Philippine Sea northeast of Taiwan. ...


U.S. asks Bangladesh not to shut down humanitarian groups

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 04:06 PM PDT

A member of the Bangladesh Coast Guard serves food to Mohammad Rafique and Amena Akter, both Rohingyas from Myanmar, in TeknafWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday called on Bangladesh to allow non-governmental organizations to continue providing aid to members of a minority group who have fled to Bangladesh to get away from violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state. "The United States is deeply concerned by the Government of Bangladesh's stated intent to shut down non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have been providing critical humanitarian aid to Rohingya residing in Bangladesh," U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said in a statement. ...


Mali mediator tells rebels to cut "terrorist" ties

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 03:55 PM PDT

Mali's interim President Traore arrives at Bamako airportOUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - The lead mediator in regional efforts to end unrest in Mali told rebels there that they had to cut ties to "terrorist movements" like al Qaeda before any peace talks could begin, when he traveled to the rebel-held north for the first time on Tuesday. Islamist militant groups control about two-thirds of Mali after hijacking a secular rebellion by Tuareg nationalists earlier this year. They were able to rapidly seize territory in the north in the wake of a March 22 military coup in the southern capital Bamako that toppled President Amadou Toumani Toure. ...


Generators whirring, India's factories shrug off blackouts

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:07 PM PDT

An employee inspects a spinning wheel used to roll power wires at the Kei Industries at the industrial estate of BhiwadiBHIWADI, India (Reuters) - A siren rang out in the cable factory in northern India when there was a power blackout in half the country last week, but its computer screens didn't even blink as $180,000 worth of batteries seamlessly took over the machines winding the thick coils on the shop floor. A few moments later, in a back room of the cavernous plant in the scruffy Bhiwadi industrial park near New Delhi, mechanic Gaurav Bhatia fired up a shipping container-sized diesel generator that ensured continued electricity. ...


Italy's Monti apologizes to Berlusconi over debt comment

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 10:28 AM PDT

Italy's PM Monti gestures during a news conference at the Moncloa Palace in MadridROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti apologized on Tuesday for suggesting the risk premium on Italian government debt would be much higher than it is if his predecessor Silvio Berlusconi were still in power. Monti had said the difference between the yield on the country's benchmark bonds and safe-haven German Bunds, measuring the premium investors demand to hold riskier assets, would be "1,200 points" if the media magnate were still in office. ...


Syria's Assad returns to public eye with ally Iran

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 12:39 PM PDT

Syrian President Bashar Assad made his first appearance on state TV in nearly three weeks Tuesday in a show of solidarity with a senior Iranian envoy even as the U.S. secretary of state urged stepped up international planning for the regime's collapse.

Cuba's aging population will test economic reform

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 12:10 PM PDT

In this picture taken Aug 2, 2012, women dance at a senior center, that provides retirees with medical attention, meals and social activities, in Havana, Cuba. Cuba grapples with having the oldest citizenry in Latin America, a phenomenon fueled by low birth rates and long life expectancies, plus the migration of young people and women. The government has already postponed the retirement age and is trying to create more homes and programs for the elderly, but still will have to handle the economic consequences of its increasingly graying population.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)The scene at Havana's Victor Hugo Park is unfortunately typical, with a handful of boys kicking a soccer ball through trees while dozens of gray-haired seniors bend and stretch to the urgings of a government-employed trainer.


Clueless fans inject fun into Olympic contests

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 08:57 AM PDT

Pietro Figlioli of Italy shoots and scores a penalty goal against Spain during the men's water polo preliminary round match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)Lucy Stewart says she likes water polo — even if it doesn't have horses.


Cayman premier scrapping income tax on expats

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 10:59 AM PDT

In this Aug. 2, 2012 photo, local newspapers show stories about the controversial strategy to bail the government out of a financial hole, at a restaurant along Seven Mile Beach on the outskirts of George Town on the Cayman Islands. The Cayman Islands have lost some of their allure by abruptly proposing what amounts to an income tax on expatriate workers who have helped build the territory into one of the most famous or, for some people, notorious offshore banking centers that have tax advantages for foreign investment operations. (AP Photo/David McFadden)The Cayman Islands is scrapping a plan to impose a direct income tax on thousands of expatriates working in the British Caribbean territory that is famed as a no-tax financial center.


Prosecutors ask for 3 years for anti-Putin rockers

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:12 PM PDT

Maria Alekhina, foreground right, a member of feminist punk group Pussy Riot is escorted to a court room in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012. Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Thursday criticized the feminist punk rockers facing trial for performing a "punk prayer" against him at Moscow's main cathedral, but said that a punishment for them shouldn't be too severe. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Prosecutors on Tuesday called for three-year prison sentences for feminist punk rockers who gave an impromptu performance in Moscow's main cathedral to call for an end to Vladimir Putin's rule, in a case that has caused international outrage and split Russian society.


Bank scandals tarnish London's reputation

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 09:35 AM PDT

A man walks by the headquarter of Standard Chartered bank in the City of London, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012. Shares in Standard Chartered PLC dropped sharply on Tuesday as investors reacted to U.S. charges that the bank was involved in laundering money for Iran. The charges against Standard Chartered were a shock for a bank which proudly described itself recently as "boring." (AP Photo/Sang Tan)It's been a tense summer in the City of London as one bank after another has faced allegations of massive misbehavior.


More Syrians flee to Turkey as fighting spreads

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 07:08 AM PDT

A Free Syria Army fighter waves from the top of a destroyed army tank in the town of Anadan on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. (AP Photo)More than 1,300 Syrians fled to Turkey overnight to escape the civil war as rebels tried to expand their hold inside Syria's largest city despite two weeks of withering counterattacks by President Bashar Assad's troops.


EYES ON LONDON: Olympics trounce 'Glee,' Bolt rope

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 08:14 AM PDT

Jamaica's Usain Bolt competes in a men's 200-meter heat during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you:


China's politics reign in trial of Bo Xilai's wife

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 06:46 AM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2007 file photo, Bo Xilai, right, then China's Minister of Commerce, and his wife Gu Kailai, left, attend a memorial ceremony for Bo's father Bo Yibo, a late revolutionary leader considered one of communist China's founding fathers, at a military hospital in Beijing. Gu goes on trial Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 on charges of murdering a British businessman in a politically charged case that may have little to do with whether she really killed him. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)The wife of a fallen Chinese leader goes on trial Thursday on charges of murdering a British businessman in a politically charged case that may have little to do with whether she really killed him.


EYES ON LONDON: Bolt, bling envy, hurdles carnage

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 06:11 AM PDT

Nigeria's Noah Akwu, left, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, second left, United States' Isiah Young, second right, and Switzerland's Alex Wilson, right, compete in a men's 200-meter heat during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, London, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012.(AP Photo/Martin Meissner)Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you:


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