2012年10月16日星期二

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Bin Laden driver's conviction reversed by U.S. court

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 03:37 PM PDT

File courtroom drawing of Salim Hamdan in Guantanamo Bay(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of Osama bin Laden's former driver and bodyguard, Salim Hamdan, on charges of supporting terrorism, in a long-running case emerging from the American military trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that providing support for terrorism was not a war crime at the time of Hamdan's alleged conduct from 1996 to 2001 and therefore could not support a conviction. Human rights activists hailed the ruling as a blow to the legitimacy of the U.S. ...


Karadzic denies Bosnia war crimes as he starts defense

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:54 PM PDT

Former Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic talks to member of his legal team Sladojevic in the courtroom in The HagueTHE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused of some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two, told judges he should be praised for promoting peace, not charged with war crimes, an assertion hotly denied by victims watching the trial. Beginning his defense, Karadzic accused Bosnian Muslims of deliberately staging some of the atrocities against their own people to win international support, drawing gasps of disbelief from Muslim survivors in the gallery of the court on Tuesday. ...


Taliban says its attack on Pakistani schoolgirl justified

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 05:06 AM PDT

Police officers patrol outside the emergency entrance of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where injured Pakistani teenager Malala Yousufzai arrived for treatment in Birmingham, central EnglandISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents said on Tuesday that the Pakistani schoolgirl its gunmen shot in the head deserved to die because she had spoken out against the group and praised U.S. President Barack Obama. Malala Yousufzai, 14, was flown to Britain on Monday, where doctors said she has every chance of making a "good recovery". The attack on Yousufzai, who had been advocating education for girls, drew widespread condemnation. ...


Cuba lifting hated travel restrictions

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 03:39 PM PDT

A man sells newspapers on a street in HavanaHAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will scrap much-reviled travel restrictions starting in January, making it easier for its citizens to leave the communist-ruled island in the first major reform to its migration policies in half a century. The changes reverse tough restrictions imposed in 1961 when the government tried to put the brakes on a mass migration of people fleeing after the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power. ...


Colombia, FARC rebels set to start peace talks Wednesday

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:20 PM PDT

Colombia's head of negotiators Calle speaks next to negotiator Pearl and Jaramillo at a military airport in BogotaBOGOTA/OSLO (Reuters) - Colombia's government and Marxist rebels will start peace talks as planned on Wednesday in Oslo in a bid to end nearly half a century of conflict after logistical problems delayed departure of the delegates, Colombia's government said. President Juan Manuel Santos, facing criticism on security issues, has launched the latest attempt to negotiate a deal with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. "We're leaving now with hope, with moderate optimism. ...


Insight: Brazen Islamic militants showed strength before Benghazi attack

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 04:19 PM PDT

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protestWASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the months before the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, U.S. and allied intelligence agencies warned the White House and State Department repeatedly that the region was becoming an increasingly dangerous vortex for jihadist groups loosely linked or sympathetic to al Qaeda, according to U.S. officials. Despite those warnings, and bold public displays by Islamist militants around Benghazi, embassies in the region were advised to project a sense of calm and normalcy in the run-up to the anniversary of the September 11 attacks in the United States. ...


Exclusive: Rwanda, Uganda arming Congo rebels, providing troops - U.N. panel

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 03:50 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rwanda's defense minister is commanding a rebellion in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that is being armed by Rwanda and Uganda, both of which sent troops to aid the insurgency in a deadly attack on U.N. peacekeepers, according to a U.N. report. The U.N. Security Council's Group of Experts said in a confidential report that Rwanda and Uganda - despite their strong denials - continued to support M23 rebels in their six-month fight against Congolese government troops in North Kivu province. ...

Divided Syrian rebels agree on joint leadership

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 11:37 AM PDT

A member of the Free Syrian Army lies behind tank shells used by pro-government forces in the old part of AleppoBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's divided rebels have agreed to set up a joint leadership to oversee their battle to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, two insurgent sources said on Tuesday as fighting raged in cities across the country. Rebels hope the decision, taken after increasing pressure from foreign supporters on them to unite, will help convince those backers that they are a credible and coordinated fighting force deserving to be supplied with more powerful weapons. "The agreement has been reached, they only need to sign it now," one rebel source said. ...


"I take responsibility" for Benghazi: Clinton

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 07:39 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gives a speech to the media at the government palace in LimaLIMA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton assumed responsibility on Monday for last month's deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, which has become an issue in the hard-fought U.S. presidential campaign. "I take responsibility" for what happened on September 11, Clinton said in an interview with CNN during a visit to Peru, adding that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden would not be responsible for specific security instructions for U.S. diplomatic facilities. ...


Afghanistan's safest province falling prey to Taliban

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:04 PM PDT

File photo of the Large Buddha niche in the town of BamiyanBAMIYAN, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Violence is returning to what has long been the most tranquil region of Afghanistan, where fears of a resurgent Taliban are as stark as the ragged holes left by the bombing of two ancient Buddha statues in cliffs facing the Bamiyan valley. Bamiyan had been seen as the country's safest province due to its remote location in the central mountains and the opposition of the dominant local tribe, the Hazara, to the Taliban, mostly ethnic Pashtuns who massacred thousands of Hazara during their austere rule. ...


Syrian rebels in Aleppo mostly poor, pious, rural

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 file photo, a Syrian man cries while holding the body of his brother, killed by Syrian Army shelling, near Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria. The Aleppo rebellion started off in the rural areas of Aleppo province, not in the city as was the case in most other parts of Syria. Regime forces punish the city daily with artillery and airstrikes. Civilians are killed and wounded while standing on breadlines, walking the streets or watching television at home. Snipers target civilians in areas where rebels have positions. Members of staff at the rebels' field hospital say 80 percent of the average 100-120 cases they treat daily are civilians. Some residents blame the rebels. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)Most of the rebels fighting government forces in the city of Aleppo fit a specific mold: They're poor, religiously conservative and usually come from the underdeveloped countryside nearby.


Govt to let Cubans travel freely

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:41 PM PDT

A woman shows her passport and that of her son to reporters as she leaves an immigration office in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012. The Cuban government announced Tuesday that it will no longer require islanders to apply for an exit visa, eliminating a much-loathed bureaucratic procedure that has been a major impediment for many seeking to travel overseas for more than a half-century. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)The Cuban government announced Tuesday that it will eliminate a half-century-old restriction that requires citizens to get an exit visa to leave the country.


Gitmo war court back in session minus 3 defendants

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 11:47 AM PDT

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, Merrilly Noeth, a relative of a victim of the Sept. 11 attacks, watches behind sound-proof glass on the second day of the Military Commissions pretrial hearing against the five Guantanamo prisoners accused of the terrorist attacks at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. The military tribunal for the Sept. 11 terrorism case resumed Tuesday without three of the five defendants, the result of a judge's ruling that the men could not be forced to attend the session. Those who showed up in court were Yemenis Walid bin Attash and Ramzi Binalshibh. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)Three of the five men charged with plotting the Sept. 11 attacks skipped their military tribunal hearing Tuesday after a judge ruled the men could not be forced to attend the session.


Shot Pakistani girl responding well to treatment

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 11:43 AM PDT

Malala Yousufzai, 14, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen, is transferred from the plane aboard a stretcher as she arrives at Birmingham Airport, England, Monday Oct. 15, 2012. Malala Yousufzai, will receive medical care by doctors and nurses who are specialists in helping British soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq, after she was shot on a bus in front of her friends for promoting girls' education and criticizing militants. (AP Photo/David Jones, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVESA teenage Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting girls' education has responded well to treatment and impressed doctors with her strength, the British hospital where she was being treated said Tuesday.


90 dead in Syrian regime attacks on rebel areas

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 11:49 AM PDT

In this Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 photo provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, damaged houses lie in ruins following attacks by Syrian government forces in the town of Maarat al-Numan, in Idlib province, northern Syria. (AP Photo/Idlib News Network ENN)The Syrian military unleashed heavy airstrikes and artillery bombardments targeting rebel strongholds in the north on Tuesday, killing at least 90 people according to activists.


Hilary Mantel wins 2nd Booker Prize for Tudor saga

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 04:04 PM PDT

Hilary Mantel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, poses for the photographers with a copy of her book 'Bring up the Bodies', shortly after the award ceremony in central London, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Mantel, won the 50,000 British pounds (80,000 US dollars) prize. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)British writer Hilary Mantel won the prestigious Booker literary prize for a second time Tuesday with her blood-soaked Tudor saga "Bring Up the Bodies," which the head of the judging panel said had "rewritten the book" on historical fiction.


Picasso, Monets stolen in Dutch heist

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:56 PM PDT

CORRECTS SPELLING OF PAUL GAUGUIN'S NAME This photo released by the police in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, shows the 1898 painting 'Girl in Front of Open Window' by Paul Gauguin. Dutch police say seven paintings stolen from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam include one by Pablo Picasso, one by Henri Matisse, and two by Claude Monet. The heist, one of the largest in years in the Netherlands, occurred while the private Triton Foundation collection was being exhibited publicly as a group for the first time. (AP Photo/Police Rotterdam)Thieves broke into a Rotterdam museum on Tuesday and walked off with works from the likes of Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Matisse potentially worth hundreds of millions.


Orphaned baby elephant is raised by human mom

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 11:16 AM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 seven-and-a-half month old orphaned elephant calf named Moses takes his daily walk with pet dogs Barney, left, Bagheera right, and foundation owner, Jenny Webb, center, at their home in Lilongwe, Malawi. Moses was found alone and close to death in the Vwaza Wildlife Reserve. He has been adopted by the Jumbo Foundation where he is cared for and is being raised by humans. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)Lots of mothers wake in the middle of the night to feed their babies, but not many get up to give a bottle to an infant elephant.


Europeans hoping to fight in Syria raise new fears

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:20 PM PDT

In this Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 photo, smoke rises from buildings due to government forces shelling seen through broken glass in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)European governments have been among the most vocal supporters of Syria's rebels — to a point: Last week, Muslims in Britain and France accused of trying to join the fight against the regime were detained.


Former Israeli kingmaker poised for comeback

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:53 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 17, 1999 file photo, Arieh Deri, center, is greeted by supporters as he leaves the Jerusalem's district court after listening to his verdict. The popular ultra-Orthodox politician Deri is preparing a comeback after a 13-year hiatus that included a brief prison term for accepting bribes. (AP Photo/Eyal Warshavsky, File)The popular ultra-Orthodox Israeli politician Arieh Deri is preparing a comeback after a 13-year hiatus that included a brief prison term for accepting bribes.


Dutch art heist 'a nightmare for any museum director'

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 12:42 PM PDT

Seven highly valuable paintings by artists like Matisse and Picasso were stolen last night from the Kunsthal Rotterdam in The Netherlands in what the museum director called "a nightmare."

Britain nixes extradition of NASA hacker Gary McKinnon to US

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 11:14 AM PDT

The British government today announced that Gary McKinnon, a British hacker diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, will not be extradited to the US. But while the decision is nominally about his human rights, it may also be a byproduct of a long-standing debate over the US-UK extradition treaty, which British critics say is weighted too much in favor of US interests.

A senior Iraqi official ponders if his government is a client of Iran's

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 10:15 AM PDT

Foreign Policy ran a piece a few days ago examining the question "Is Iraq an Iranian proxy?" that was most interesting for one of its co-authors: Safa al-Sheikh, the acting national security adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Israel's Netanyahu banks on tough guy image to win early elections

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 10:09 AM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come charging out of the gate with his reelection campaign, fashioning himself as a tough leader who is unrivaled in his ability to keep Israel safe and prosperous at a crucial time.

Cuban Missile Crisis: 5 ways leftist ideology lives on in Latin America

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 07:22 AM PDT

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the US and the Soviet Union were on the brink of nuclear war over the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba. It is what many consider the most dangerous conflict in modern history. This week also features the beginning of peace talks between the government of Colombia and FARC rebels, who emerged in 1964 as a group of communist peasants rebelling against the state, and later turned to the cocaine trade to fund their activities. ...

Former Serb leader Karadzic: I deserve reward, not punishment

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 05:36 AM PDT

Accused Bosnian war criminal Radovan Karadzic opened his defense today at the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague today, claiming that he was a "tolerant man" who had done "everything within human power to avoid the war and to reduce the human suffering."

Iran sanctions: playing the long game

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 05:22 AM PDT

This article is part of a special report on the impact of sanctions on Iran's economy. For the main story, go here.

As sanctions crush rial's value, Iranians point fingers at Ahmadinejad

Posted: 16 Oct 2012 05:22 AM PDT

Parinaz could see the growing impact of Iran's deepening economic chaos every day while riding the Tehran subway. To make ends meet, more and more Iranians had gone underground to sell cheap Chinese goods to passengers.

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