2012年9月19日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News


U.N. chief says anti-Islam filmmaker abused freedom of expression

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon listens to speech in the Swiss National Council during his visit in the Autumn Parliament Session in BernUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday the maker of an anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests across the Muslim world abused his right to freedom of expression by making the movie, which he called a "disgraceful and shameful act." The film, posted on the Internet under several titles including "Innocence of Muslims," mocked the Prophet Mohammad and portrayed him as a womanizer and a fool. It sparked days of deadly anti-American violence in many Muslim countries, including an assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in Libya in which the U.S. ...


Exclusive: Western report - Iran ships arms, personnel to Syria via Iraq

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:40 PM PDT

An undated handout photo shows Syrian armed forces during a live ammunitions exercise in an undisclosed locationUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran has been using civilian aircraft to fly military personnel and large quantities of weapons across Iraqi airspace to Syria to aid President Bashar al-Assad in his attempt to crush an 18-month uprising against his government, according to a Western intelligence report seen by Reuters. Earlier this month, U.S. officials said they were questioning Iraq about Iranian flights in Iraqi airspace suspected of ferrying arms to Assad, a staunch Iranian ally. On Wednesday, U.S. Senator John Kerry threatened to review U.S. aid to Baghdad if it does not halt such overflights. ...


Actress sues California man behind anti-Muslim film

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:55 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An actress in an anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests across the Muslim world sued a California man linked to its production on Wednesday for fraud and slander, saying she had received death threats after the video was posted on YouTube. Actress Cindy Lee Garcia, who also named Google Inc and its YouTube unit as defendants, asked that the film be removed from YouTube and said her right to privacy had been violated and her life endangered, among other allegations. ...

U.S. official says Benghazi consulate was "terrorist attack"

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 04:10 PM PDT

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protestWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last week in which four Americans died was a "terrorist attack" that may have had an al Qaeda connection, a top U.S. counterterrorism official told Congress on Wednesday. Rocket-propelled grenades and mortars struck the consulate on September 11, the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the United States. U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died. ...


China implicates Bo Xilai in criminal case

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 08:27 AM PDT

To match insight CHINA-BO/WANG LIJUNBEIJING (Reuters) - China for the first time on Wednesday implicated former senior politician Bo Xilai in a criminal act while avoiding naming him directly in a published account by state media of the trial of his one-time police chief. The Bo scandal has rocked Beijing, exposing rifts within the ruling Communist Party - elements of which are strong supporters of Bo's populist, left-leaning policies - at a time when China is preparing for a once-in-a-decade leadership change. ...


Obama, Karzai discuss 'insider' attacks in Afghanistan

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 04:01 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally at Schiller Park in ColumbusWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed on Wednesday to press forward with a U.S.-Afghan security pact, the White House said, despite the curtailment of NATO operations in response to a surge in "insider" attacks on foreign servicemen. "The two presidents discussed a range of issues, including efforts to stem insider attacks on U.S., coalition, and Afghan forces," the White House said in a statement summarizing a video conference call between the two leaders. ...


Syrian rebels extend grip on Turkish border

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:20 PM PDT

Members of the Free Syrian Army are seen with weapons, which activists say were taken from forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al Assad, after clashes in Saida near DeraaAKCAKALE, Turkey (Reuters) - Syrian rebels seized another border crossing with Turkey on Wednesday, consolidating their grip on a frontier through which they ferry arms for battles with President Bashar al-Assad's troops around the northern city of Aleppo. Turkey, Assad's ally turned enemy, confirmed the fall of the Tel Abyad border post, the third of seven main crossings along the Turkish-Syrian frontier to come under rebel control - though Syrian state media spoke only of bloody fighting in the area. ...


EU, China leaders meet amid growing trade disputes

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 04:55 PM PDT

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso addresses a news conference after meeting Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi in BrusselsBRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union and Chinese leaders will try to bridge growing differences over trade and find common ground on tackling Europe's debt crisis at a summit in Brussels on Thursday. Overseas trade is one of few bright spots in Europe and a critical source of growth for the region's economy, which has slumped under the weight of the debt and banking crises, with EU gross domestic product falling and unemployment steadily rising. ...


Mexico's Pena Nieto optimistic on labor reform bill

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:32 PM PDT

Enrique Pena Nieto attends a media conference after a business meeting at the FIESP (Sao Paulo Industry Federation) in Sao PauloSAO PAULO (Reuters) - Mexico's incoming president Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday raised pressure on his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to back a labor reform proposed by the outgoing administration, saying he was optimistic Congress would pass it. The draft bill put forward this month is viewed as a litmus test of cooperation between the centrist PRI and President Felipe Calderon's conservatives. The lower house of Congress has 11 more days to either approve or reject it. ...


Cartoons in French weekly fuel Mohammad furor

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 04:59 PM PDT

French police cars are parked in front of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo offices in ParisPARIS (Reuters) - A French magazine ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday by portraying him naked in cartoons, threatening to fuel the anger of Muslims around the world who are already incensed by a California-made video depicting him as a lecherous fool. The drawings in the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo risked exacerbating a crisis that has seen the storming of U.S. and other Western embassies, the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and a deadly suicide bombing in Afghanistan. Riot police were deployed to protect the paper's Paris offices after the issue hit news stands. ...


Extremists showing up on front lines in Syria

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 01:57 PM PDT

In this Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, photo, Col. Abdel-Jabbar Aqidi, a top rebel commander for the Aleppo area, gestures during an interview with the Associated Press, in Dwaar Al Zeytoun, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. Col. Aqidi told The Associated Press there were maybe 500 jihadis involved in the battle for Aleppo, while a report from the Quilliam Foundation, a London-based think tank studying extremism, estimated a total of 1,200-1,500 foreign fighters total in the whole country. (AP Photo)The bearded gunmen who surrounded the car full of foreign journalists in a northern Syrian village were clearly not Syrians. A heavyset man in a brown gown stepped forward, announced he was Iraqi and fingered through the American passport he had confiscated.


New French cartoons inflame prophet film tensions

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:32 PM PDT

Publishing director of the satyric weekly Charlie Hebdo, Charb, displays the front page of the newspaper as he poses for photographers in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. Police took up positions outside the Paris offices of the satirical French weekly that published crude caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday that ridicule the film and the furor surrounding it. The provocative weekly, Charlie Hebdo, was firebombed last year after it released a special edition that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a "guest editor" and took aim at radical Islam. (AP Photo/MIchel Euler)France stepped up security Wednesday at its embassies across the Muslim world after a French satirical weekly revived a formula that it has already used to capture attention: Publishing crude, lewd caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.


Doubts over Harvard claim of 'Jesus' Wife' papyrus

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 09:58 AM PDT

Karen King, a professor at Harvard Divinity School, is interviewed outside the Augustinianum institute where an international congress on Coptic studies is held in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. Scholars are questioning the authenticity and significance of a much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar who reported that a 4th Century fragment of papyrus has provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married. Karen King announced the finding Tuesday at an international congress on Coptic studies in Rome. Her paper, and the front-page attention it received in some U.S. newspapers, was very much a topic of conversation during the coffee breaks at the conference Wednesday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)Is a scrap of papyrus suggesting that Jesus had a wife authentic?


Russia accuses USAID of trying to sway elections

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:36 PM PDT

Russia explained its decision to end the U.S. Agency for International Development's two decades of work in Russia by saying Wednesday that the agency was using its money to influence elections — a claim the U.S. denied.

South Africa: Lonmin miners ready to resume work

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:53 PM PDT

Miners sing and dance after accepting a pay rise in Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. Striking miners have accepted a company offer of a 22% overall pay increase to end more than five weeks of crippling and bloody industrial action. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)Lonmin miners celebrated a wage deal Wednesday that ended a deadly and prolonged strike but labor unrest continued with police firing rubber bullets and tear gas at strikers at a different platinum mine.


Venezuela: Drug lord changed look with surgeries

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:16 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Ministry of Popular Power for Interior Relations and Justice, Venezuela's judicial police officers escort alleged Colombian drug trafficker Daniel Barrera, center, at the Regional Command No. 1 National Guard base in San Cristobal, Tachira state, Venezuela, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos announced Tuesday evening that a man he described as Colombia's last big-time drug lord had been captured in neighboring Venezuela. It was the third arrest of a purported Colombian drug boss in the last year. Santos said alleged drug boss Daniel "Loco" Barrera was arrested in the Venezuelan city of San Cristobal after months of multinational cooperation that included help from the U.S. and other nations. (AP Photo/Ministry of Popular Power for Interior Relations and Justice)One of Colombia's most-wanted drug lords changed his appearance through repeated plastic surgeries before he was captured in Venezuela while making a call from a public payphone, Venezuela's justice minister said Wednesday.


Chavez, challenger aim for youth, women voters

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:37 PM PDT

In this Sept. 1, 2012 photo, opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, center left, is embraced by a female supporter during a campaign rally in Miranda, Venezuela. Capriles and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez are waging intense, contrasting campaigns ahead of Venezuela's Oct. 7 election while aiming for swing voters among young Venezuelans under 30, middle-class households and women of all social classes. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)Presidential candidate Henrique Capriles is mobbed at rallies by ecstatic women who press close to touch him and leave scratches on his arms and neck. Some shout "Marry me!" to the single 40-year-old who's trying to unseat President Hugo Chavez in next month's hotly contested vote.


Syrian rebels seize border crossing with Turkey

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:41 PM PDT

In this image taken from video obtained Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Free Syrian Army soldiers seize Ain al-Arous town in Raqqa, Syria, on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)Syrian rebels seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey on Wednesday, ripping down the Syrian flag as the rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Assad expand their control of the country's north.


Scandinavian magazine publishes Kate topless pics

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 08:59 AM PDT

Lawyer Maud Sobel, left, is surrounded by reporters as she reads a statement by a French court which ordered a magazine publisher to hand over all digital copies of topless photos of Britain's Duchess of Cambridge and blocked the further publication of the images, at a court house in Nanterre, west of Paris, Tuesday Sept. 18, 2012. Under the ruling Tuesday, the French gossip magazine Closer faces a daily fine of euro 10,000 ($13,100) if it fails to hand over the photos taken during the royals' vacation in southern France and cannot disseminate them any further, including on its website and tablet app. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)A Swedish celebrity magazine published topless photos of Britain's likely future queen Wednesday, and its sister publication in Denmark said it would do the same later this week.


Iran election buzz flirts with Rafsanjani return

Posted: 19 Sep 2012 10:08 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, and released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, parliament speaker Ali Larijani, right, chief of Expediency Council, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, second right, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second left, and judiciary chief Sadeq Larijani, left, listen to Iran's national anthem, at the opening session of the Nonaligned Movement, NAM, summit, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)The political obituary of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been written a number of times: when he lost a comeback presidential bid, when he was dumped from leading Friday prayers at Tehran University, when he was pushed out as head of a panel that will pick Iran's next supreme leader.


China: dañan vehículo de embajador de EEUU

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 09:52 PM PDT

Manifestantes chinos sostienen imágenes del fallecido líder comunista Mao Tse Tung y banderas de China en una marcha afuera de la embajada japonesa en Beijing, el martes 18 de septiembre de 2012. El aniversario 81 de la invasión japonesa y el dominio de unas islas que se disputan ambos países desataron una nueva ola de protestas. (Foto AP/Alexander F. Yuan)Un vehículo que transportaba al embajador de Estados Unidos en China resultó con daños menores después de volverse blanco de los bulliciosos manifestantes que protestaban contra Japón y que expresaban su enfado por una disputa territorial.


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