2012年9月6日星期四

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Insight: In Aleppo, jets vs. rifles, as civilians despair

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 05:10 AM PDT

Members of the Free Syrian Army pose for the photographer as they rest in AleppoALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - The fighter jet banked sharply over the city and made a run at around 300 feet over the two-storey houses of Aleppo, a deep grinding sounding from its cannon as it unloaded onto home turf. A fuel tanker exploded and pumped fire and smoke upwards. Local people - for despite the conflict, Syria's biggest city is still full of life - flurried to the side of the dirty roads. Visible above the breeze-block homes, a helicopter gunship hovered. A lone teenager ran out and, in a bizarre display of audacity, fired at it with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. ...


Afghans use culture guides to cut "insider" attacks

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 09:50 AM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan Defense Ministry officials, trying to stop the alarming increase in 'insider' attacks, have given their troops tips on foreign culture, telling them not to be offended by a hearty pat on the back or an American soldier asking after your wife's health. A pamphlet with guidance on handling cultural differences between Afghans and their foreign partners has been produced amid great concern among Afghan and NATO leaders about attacks by Afghan soldiers and policemen on the foreign troops training them. The attacks have killed 45 NATO-led troops this year. ...

Insight: Taking on the "toga-wearing bandits" in Brazil's courts

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 11:51 AM PDT

Eliana Calmon, Ombudswoman for Brazil's Judicial System, speaks during an interview with Reuters in BrasiliaBRASILIA (Reuters) - Eliana Calmon takes great delight in provoking people. But even she didn't realize at first what a bomb she had dropped. "Look, I use a lot of colorful language, so when I said it, it didn't seem that bad. But then the interview ended," she recalled, starting to chuckle, "and I peered over at my aide, and he looked like he had seen a ghost! ... And that was when the whole storm started. ...


Congressman confirms high-level U.S.-Israel spat over Iran

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 04:43 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blew up at the U.S. ambassador last month because he was "at wit's end" over what he sees as the Obama administration's lack of clarity on Iran's nuclear program, a congressman who was at the meeting said. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican, made his first public comments about the late August meeting in Israel in an interview with Michigan's WJR radio on Tuesday. ...

Palestinian PM says willing to resign over economic protests

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:31 PM PDT

Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad addresses news conference after talks in BerlinRAMALLAH (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Thursday he was willing to resign if the public demanded, after three days of street protests against high living costs across the occupied West Bank, but did not say that he was going to do so. A fuel price increase of about 5 percent sparked the demonstrations in the Palestinian cities of Ramallah, Jenin and Hebron, where protesters burned an effigy of Fayyad, who presided over economic policy as finance minister until he was replaced in that role in May. ...


Migrant boat sinks off Turkey, children among 61 dead

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 10:36 AM PDT

AHMETBEYLI, Turkey (Reuters) - At least 61 migrants including Palestinians and Syrians, more than half of them children, died after their overcrowded boat sank just tens of meters off Turkey's western Aegean coast on Thursday, officials said. Tahsin Kurtbeyoglu, governor of the coastal district of Menderes in Izmir province, told Reuters an initial investigation showed the small vessel sank around dawn due to overcrowding. Its destination was unclear but the small Turkish town of Ahmetbeyli from where it set out is only a few kilometers from the Greek island of Samos. ...

Colombia's FARC rebels to ask government for ceasefire

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:01 PM PDT

HAVANA/BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's leftist FARC rebels said on Thursday they would seek a bilateral ceasefire next month at the start of peace talks with the government aimed at ending half a century of war, and expressed hope the latest bid to end the conflict would succeed. The proposal could complicate the process from the start because Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said this week there would be no ceasefire during the negotiations and military operations would continue in "every centimeter" of Colombia. ...

Hong Kong goes to polls with many fuming over China influence

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:01 PM PDT

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A wave of protests in Hong Kong ahead of citywide elections is posing a major test for the new leader as the prospect of voter discontent threatens to shake up the political landscape in retaliation against perceived meddling by Beijing. This time round, the legislature will have a more democratic flavor - it has been expanded from 60 to 70 seats, with just over half of those to be directly elected in Sunday's polls. ...

Unrest threatens Bangladesh's key garment export

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:03 PM PDT

Rabeya holds her one-month old daughter Sumaiya in front of her slum house at Hatirjheel in DhakaDHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's $19 billion garments industry attracts some of the world's biggest clothing brands because of low costs, but many retailers say unrest over pay and delayed shipping schedules are eroding that advantage. The killing of a labor activist and increasing publicity of unsanitary and unsafe working conditions at the country's 4,500 garment factories is also making some retailers worried about their reputation. Bangladeshi factories make clothes for brands including Tesco, Wal-Mart, JC Penney, H&M, Marks & Spencer, Kohl's and Carrefour. ...


Ex-U.S. soldier pleads guilty to smuggling guns to China

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:46 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former member of the U.S. National Guard on Thursday pleaded guilty to smuggling shipments of firearms from New York City to China, federal prosecutors said. Joseph Debose, 30, formerly a staff sergeant with a unit of the U.S. Special Forces National Guard, was arrested in May in a sting operation by federal agents in North Carolina, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn. At the time of his arrest, he was carrying a .45 caliber pistol and 12 other firearms he intended to send illegally overseas, prosecutors said. ...

Syria's rebels struggle to tame Assad's air power

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 12:05 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, photo, Syrian rebel fighter, Abu Muslim, 30, a former librarian, poses for a picture at a house where he and others wait their turn to go and fight against government forces in Aleppo, in Marea on the outskirts of Aleppo city, Syria. Syria's rebels have turned to a new tactic of attacking bases, trying to stop the jets and attack helicopters that have wreaked devastation on their fighters and civilians in the battleground city of Aleppo and the nearby countryside. Abu Muslim became a specialist in rocket-propelled grenades during his military service a decade ago. He said in the tight confines of urban warfare, taking out the regime's older tanks, wasn't a problem.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)Lt. Col. Maan al-Mansour's mission is to capture the Syrian air base where he once served.


Syrian troops take town on refugee flight route

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 11:16 AM PDT

Newly-arrived Syrian refugee families receive food from the Jordanian military after they crossed the border from Tal Shehab city in Syria, through the Al Yarmouk River valley, into Thnebeh town, in Ramtha , Jordan, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. More than 100,000 Syrians fled their country in August, the highest monthly total since the crisis began in March 2011, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday. That exodus sharply increased the number of Syrians now living in neighboring countries, bringing the total number of refugees to 234,368 in the past 17 months, the agency said. (AP Photo / Mohammad Hannon)After hours of heavy shelling, Syrian troops recaptured a border town Thursday in what activists said was a government attempt to stem the flood of people fleeing their country's civil war.


Rights Watch: Evidence of wider US waterboarding

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 09:26 AM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011 file photo, Libyans search for documents inside Abu Salim prison, Libya's most notorious prison of Gadhafi's regime and the scene of a 1996 massacre of prisoners, in Tripoli, Libya. A new report by New York-based Human Rights Watch reveals details about abuse and torture of Libyan Islamist detainees by their own government and the US and cooperation between Libya led by dictator Moammar Gadhafi and other governments, including the US, Britain, China, Sudan and Morocco, in the rendition program. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)Human Rights Watch said it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding than previously acknowledged by the CIA, in a report Thursday detailing brutal treatment of detainees at U.S.-run lockups abroad after the 9/11 attacks.


Islamic radicalism hits ancient city of Mombasa

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 09:49 AM PDT

Hardline Muslim clerics. Young people who feel marginalized. Suspicions that police are responsible for the killings and forced disappearances of extremists.

ECB unveils aggressive bond plan to save euro

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 01:50 PM PDT

El presidente del Banco Central Europeo, Mario Draghi, ofrece una rueda de prensa el jueves 6 de septiembre de 2012 en la ciudad alemana de Francfort, donde anunció un nuevo programa de compra de bonos entre las 17 naciones de la eurozona para favorecer un disminución en el costo de sus deudas. (Foto AP/Michael Probst)The European Central Bank unveiled its most ambitious plan yet to ease Europe's financial crisis with a plan to buy unlimited amounts of government bonds to help lower borrowing costs for countries struggling to manage their debts.


Bermuda braces for approaching Hurricane Leslie

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:35 PM PDT

A map at the National Hurricane Center in Miami shows the location of tropical weather systems Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. Hurricane Leslie is south of Bermuda. Tropical Storm Michael is brewing in the mid Atlantic ocean. In the Caribbean Sea, the monsoon trough is producing showers and thunderstorms over Colombia, Venezuela and the southwestern Caribbean Sea. Farther north, an area of low pressure off the coast of Alabama and western Florida Panhandle is producing showers and thunderstorms. This system has a low chance of development into a tropical cyclone. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)Tourists postponed holidays in Bermuda and locals stocked up on emergency supplies as a stalled Hurricane Leslie spun over open ocean south of the wealthy British Atlantic territory Thursday.


Birds, bears, bikers all play into Putin's stunts

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 09:32 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday Sept. 5, 2012, file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin, foreground, flies in a motorized hang glider alongside a Siberian white crane, on the Yamal Peninsula, in Russia. Putin has become alternately notorious and beloved for an array of adventurous stunts, including posing with a tiger cub and riding a horse bare-chested. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)Start with manly ventures — flying, hunting, scuba-diving. Add an element of danger — polar bears, tigers, fighter jets. Throw in a bare chest here and there.


Quebec election shooting suspect faces 16 charges

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 03:04 PM PDT

Richard Henry Bain arrives at court in Montreal on Thursday, Sept.6, 2012. Bain, 61, the suspect in a deadly shooting at a rally following the election of Quebec's new separatist premier was arraigned Thursday on 16 charges, including murder, attempted murder and possession of explosives. (AP Photo/Le Devoir via The Canadian Press, Jacques Nadeau) MONTREAL OUTThe suspect in a deadly shooting at a rally following the election of Quebec's new separatist premier was arraigned Thursday on 16 charges, including murder, attempted murder and possession of explosives.


Israeli model rallies support for Gadhafi son

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 02:44 PM PDT

Israeli model and actress Orly Weinerman poses for a photograph in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012. An imprisoned son of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is getting some help from an unlikely source: an Israeli actress and model who says she had a romantic relationship with him. Orly Weinerman is leading a petition drive calling on Libyan authorities to release Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, saying he is a generous and caring person who had nothing to do with his father's crackdown on the rebels who toppled him. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)An imprisoned son of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is getting help from an unlikely source: an Israeli actress and model who says she had a romantic relationship with him.


French Alps slayings: Child found 8 hours later

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 11:48 AM PDT

Gendarmes block access to a killing site near Chevaline, French Alps, Wednesday Sept. 5, 2012. French authorities say at least four people have been shot to death in a forest in the Alps.An official with the regional administration for the Haute-Savoie region says three of the bodies were found in a BMW registered in Britain. (AP Photo/Alexis Moro)French authorities struggled Thursday to explain why no one found a 4-year-old girl for eight hours at a blood-strewn crime scene as she huddled in a car under the skirt of a corpse — apparently her dead mother or grandmother.


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