2012年9月14日星期五

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Anti-American fury sweeps Middle East over film

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 03:50 PM PDT

Protesters burn a U.S. flag during a protest against a film produced in the U.S. that they said that was insulting to the Prophet Mohammad in IstanbulKHARTOUM/TUNIS (Reuters) - Fury about a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad tore across the Middle East after weekly prayers on Friday with protesters attacking U.S. embassies and burning American flags as the Pentagon rushed to bolster security at its missions. At least seven people were killed as local police struggled to repel assaults after weekly Muslim prayers in Tunisia and Sudan, while there was new violence in Egypt and Yemen and across the Muslim world, driven by emotions ranging from piety to anger at Western power to frustrations with local leaders and poverty. ...


Taliban Afghan attack kills two U.S. troops, Prince Harry unhurt

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 04:48 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - Two U.S. Marines were killed and other Americans were wounded on Friday during a Taliban attack on a base in southern Afghanistan where Britain's Prince Harry is stationed, U.S. officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. A spokesman for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said Harry was on the base at the time of the attack but was unharmed. "Prince Harry was never in any danger," spokesman Martyn Crighton said, adding that the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) would investigate whether his presence on the base had motivated the attack. ...

U.S. officials offer differing explanations of Libyan attack

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 03:53 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama watches as the body of an American killed in Benghazi this week is placed in a hearse during a return of remains ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base near WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A spokesman for President Barack Obama said on Friday officials had no evidence the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya was pre-planned, an assertion which added to confusion over the incident. Immediately after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Tuesday night, U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, were quoted widely in the media saying they believed the attack was well-planned and organized. On Friday, however, President Barack Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, offered a different version of events. ...


U.S.: Syria must end nuclear go-slow, conflict no excuse

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 11:04 AM PDT

A member of the Free Syrian Army walks near a damaged building in AleppoVIENNA (Reuters) - The United States accused Syria on Friday of using the "brutal repression" of its people waging an uprising as an excuse not to address U.N. nuclear watchdog concerns about suspected past illicit nuclear activity in the Arab state. For its part, Syria insisted at a debate of the governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency that it had agreed last year with the IAEA on how to handle the issue. This was denied on Monday by the IAEA chief in a speech to the board. The IAEA has long sought access to a site in Syria's desert Deir al-Zor region that U.S. ...


U.S. renews waivers of Iran sanctions for Japan, EU nations

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 03:55 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers remarks at the State Department in WashingtonSINGAPORE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has renewed waivers on Iran sanctions for Japan and 10 European countries because they cut their purchases of the OPEC nation's crude oil, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday. The renewal means banks in the 11 countries have been given a second 180 day reprieve from the threat of being cut off from the U.S. financial system under the sanctions designed to choke funding to Iran's nuclear program. The West suspects Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. Tehran insists the program is for civilian purposes. ...


Striking South African miners reject Lonmin pay offer

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 09:34 AM PDT

Mine workers take part in a march at Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa's North West ProvinceMARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - Wildcat strikers at Lonmin's Marikana mine rejected a pay offer on Friday, dimming prospects of ending five weeks of industrial action that has swept through South Africa's platinum sector and laid bare the power struggle in the ruling ANC. Workers on a rocky outcrop at the mine where police shot dead 34 protesters last month dismissed the offer as way below the 12,500 rand ($1,500) a month sought by members of the militant Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). ...


Syria's displaced fear homelessness as school year starts

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:10 AM PDT

Syrian refugees stand where they are staying temporarily with their relatives at a school in Wadi Khaled townBEIRUT (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Syrians who moved into schools after air strikes and fighting drove them from their homes will be on the move again on Sunday when the government plans to start the school year despite unrelenting violence. Panic has spread through displaced communities in roughly 800 schools around the country, each housing hundreds of men, women and children with nowhere to go. ...


Venezuela's Capriles goes on offensive after graft accusations

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:44 PM PDT

Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles talks to supporters during an election rally in the state of CaraboboCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition challenger Henrique Capriles sought to deflect attention from a corruption row by throwing the accusation back at President Hugo Chavez on Friday in an escalating political brawl ahead of the October 7 vote. Already in an uphill fight to end Chavez's 14-year socialist rule of the South American OPEC member, Capriles' camp suffered a setback on Thursday when government lawmakers released a video of an aide taking cash in dubious circumstances. ...


Mexico's Pena Nieto eyes trade, security ties in Latin America

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 02:08 PM PDT

Mexico's President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto speaks during a meeting with legislators of the the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to present initiatives on anti-corruption laws in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's incoming President Enrique Pena Nieto will tour Latin America next week seeking to pave the way for deeper cooperation in the fight against drug gangs and stronger trade ties. In his first major trip since Mexico's electoral tribunal confirmed him as president elect, Pena Nieto is to hold talks with leaders in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Peru and Chile after beginning his week's travels in neighboring Guatemala. ...


Berlusconi keeps Italy guessing over political comeback

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 10:43 AM PDT

Italy's former Prime Minister Berlusconi arrives for a meeting of the European People's Party (EPP) in BrusselsROME (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday dashed supporters' hopes that he would at last announce his candidacy for coming elections and remove one element in Italy's chronic political uncertainty. Berlusconi failed to turn up for his annual appointment at a major youth rally near the ancient Colosseum in Rome where his supporters had wanted him to finally launch the political comeback that top aides have predicted for weeks. ...


Violence erupts at protests of anti-Muslim film

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 04:21 PM PDT

An Islamist Jordanian protester burn the U.S. flag near the U.S. embassy in Amman, Jordan, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad.(AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)Fury over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world Friday, with deadly clashes near Western embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, an American fast-food restaurant set ablaze in Lebanon, and international peacekeepers attacked in the Sinai despite an appeal for calm from Egypt's Islamist president.


2 Marines killed in attack in southern Afghanistan

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 04:39 PM PDT

Heavily-armed insurgents attacked a British air base in southern Afghanistan Friday, killing two U.S. Marines and wounding several other troops, U.S. officials said.

Egypt's Christians anxious, anticipate troubles

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 04:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, April 26, 2008 file photo, Coptic Christians take part in a midnight service to celebrate Christ's resurrection, at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's estimated 8 million Coptic Christians are feeling increasingly cornered amid the rise to power of hardline Islamists after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak's longtime authoritarian regime and fear that they will bear the brunt of blame for the film that mocked the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Christians gathered Friday in front of a Cairo cathedral holding signs denouncing a film that mocked the Prophet Muhammad amid fears that Muslims will take out their anger on Egypt's minority community.


2 dead, 40 injured at US Embassy protest in Tunis

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 02:45 PM PDT

A pall of smoke rises above protesters after they set alight cars in the U.S. embassy parking lot in Tunis, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. some thousands of demonstrators massed outside the embassy and several were seen climbing the outer wall of the embassy grounds, an Associated Press reporter on the scene said. (AP Photo/Amine Landoulsi)Violent protests outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunis against an anti-Muslim film were met with tear gas and gunshots Friday, leaving two people dead, around 40 others injured and plumes of black smoke wafting over the city.


Topless tempest: Kate photos spark palace fury

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 02:27 PM PDT

Prince William and his wife Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge take their shoes off before entering a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)Paparazzi, French media and a British royal: The publication of topless photos of Prince William's wife Kate has reunited the same players whose clash ended with the untimely death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a Parisian car crash.


Brazil: Cemetery of African slaves honored

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:28 PM PDT

In this Sept. 11, 2012 photo, Ana de la Merced Guimaraes points to remains of African slaves covered with a glass pyramid at her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1996, Merced Guimaraes and her husband Petrucio bought a fixer-upper in the historic port-side neighborhood of Gamboa. Once they started digging into the foundation, they made a startling discovery: the building sat atop the "cemetery of new blacks," - the burial place of newly arrived Africans who died soon after their arrival in Brazil between 1769 and 1830. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Wearing full-skirted white dresses and turbans, the religious leaders chanted blessings and sprinkled water on the concrete floor of a modest house near this city's port. Beneath their feet were the remains of tens of thousands of African slaves who had died shortly after arriving from their horrific sea voyage.


2 arrested in Colombia after swallowing dollars

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:47 PM PDT

Colombian police on Friday said they had arrested two men at an airport in Medellin after discovering they were smuggling $80,000 in cash hidden in their stomachs.

Critics say Argentina leader wants another term

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 04:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2011 file photo, Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez sings her country's national anthem after her swearing-in ceremony outside the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Both supporters and opponents of Fernandez are invoking the threat of a constitutional change to allow a third consecutive presidential term. Fernandez has no interest in appearing to be a lame duck, and analysts say her silence on the question has helped her thwart would-be challenges to her near-absolute power. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)President Cristina Fernandez is being coy about whether she wants to stay in power after her constitutional term ends.


Pope calls for peace as violence hits Lebanon

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 10:39 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI stands next to Lebanese President Michel Suleiman as he waves to the crowd at Rafik Hariri international airport, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Lebanon on Friday to urge peace at a time of great turmoil in the Middle East, saying the import of weapons to Syria during the country's civil war is a "grave sin." The three-day visit comes at a time of turmoil in the region — the civil war in neighboring Syria and in the aftermath of a mob attack that killed several Americans in Libya, including the U.S. ambassador. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)Pope Benedict XVI appealed for peace and reconciliation among religions Friday as violence over an anti-Islam movie spilled over into Lebanon within hours of his arrival in the tumultuous region.


Israel leader says US may not act against Iran

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 11:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 29, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Romney is criticizing President Barack Obama for not planning to meet in person with Netanyahu next week, calling it "confusing and troubling." Romney said at a New York fundraiser Friday that Israel is America's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insinuated in an interview published Friday that Israel cannot entirely rely on the U.S. to act against Iran's suspect nuclear program, a sign that the Israeli leader is not backing down from the sharp rhetoric that strained relations this week with the Obama administration.


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