2012年10月17日星期三

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Syria envoy says bloodshed could engulf Middle East

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 11:04 AM PDT

UN-Arab League peace envoy for Syria Brahimi speaks during a news conference in BeirutBEIRUT (Reuters) - The international mediator on Syria said on Wednesday its civil war risks spilling across borders to engulf the Middle East and appealed for a temporary truce he said could mark a small step towards defusing 19 months of conflict. Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy, has proposed that both President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebel fighters seeking his overthrow hold fire during the Islamic feast holiday of Eid al-Adha that starts next week. ...


For Benghazi diplomatic security, U.S. relied on small British firm

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 02:20 PM PDT

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protestWASHINGTON/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The State Department's decision to hire Blue Mountain Group to guard the ill-fated U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, entrusted security tasks to a little-known British company instead of the large firms it usually uses in overseas danger zones. The contract was largely based on expediency, U.S. officials have said, since no one knew how long the temporary mission would remain in the Libyan city. The cradle of last year's uprising that ended Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule, Benghazi has been plagued by rising violence in recent months. ...


Alleged 9/11 mastermind: America killed more people than hijackers did

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 03:28 PM PDT

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is pictured on the third day of pre-trial hearings in the 9/11 war crimes prosecution as depicted in this Pentagon-approved courtroom sketch at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo BayGUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - - The alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks told the Guantanamo courtroom on Wednesday that the U.S. government had killed many more people in the name of national security than he is accused of killing. Khalid Sheik Mohammed was allowed to address the court at a pretrial hearing focused on security classification rules for evidence that will be used in his trial on charges of orchestrating the hijacked plane attacks that killed 2,976 people. ...


CIA officer, Army intelligence analyst killed in Afghan attack

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 01:11 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A CIA officer and a U.S. Army intelligence analyst were among those killed in a suicide bomb attack last weekend in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity. The attack on Saturday in Kandahar province also killed several Afghans. The NATO-led force has yet to determine whether it was the result of a insider attack, in which Afghan forces - including Taliban infiltrators - turn their weapons on allies. An investigation is ongoing. The U.S. ...

Colombia, FARC rebels begin peace talks in Oslo

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 01:22 PM PDT

Colombia's head of negotiators Calle speaks next to delegation members prior to boarding plane to Oslo, in BogotaBOGOTA/OSLO (Reuters) - Historic closed-door talks between Colombia and Marxist rebels began on Wednesday in Norway after FARC rebel and government negotiators arrived in Oslo in a bid to end almost half a century of armed conflict, Norwegian officials said. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is betting a decade of U.S.-backed blows against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, has left the group sufficiently weakened to seriously seek an end to the war after so many failed attempts. ...


Russia criticizes EU Iran sanctions, urges talks

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 11:48 AM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia criticized the European Union on Wednesday for imposing new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program and called for a fresh round of talks between world powers and Tehran as soon as possible. The Foreign Ministry issued a statement expressing "deep concern" over EU sanctions imposed on Tuesday against major Iranian state companies in the oil and gas industry and the central bank. ...

EU summit to tackle banking union; Spain on watch

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 03:06 PM PDT

A statue depicting European unity is seen near EU flags outside the European Parliament in BrusselsBRUSSELS (Reuters) - European leaders will try to bridge deep differences over plans for a banking union at a summit on Thursday but no substantial decisions are expected, reviving concerns about complacency in tackling the three-year-old debt crisis. It will be the fourth time EU leaders have met this year and the 22nd summit held since the crisis erupted in Greece in late 2009. Yet diplomats expect no breakthroughs at the two-day gathering, with the agenda focused instead on longer-term efforts to retool the region's banks and economies. ...


U.S. sees "open channel" with Myanmar on human rights

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 03:20 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has concluded its first set of human rights talks with Myanmar and is confident it now has an "open channel" to discuss political prisoners and other sensitive subjects as ties improve, the State Department said on Wednesday. Michael Posner, the State Department's top human rights official, led the U.S. team at the talks in Naypyitaw, the capital of Myanmar, which is also known as Burma. The talks come as the Obama administration dismantles longstanding sanctions to reward Myanmar's leaders for political and economic reforms. ...

Iranian man pleads guilty in Saudi envoy murder plot

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 01:17 PM PDT

Manssor Arbabsiar is shown in this 1993 Nueces County, Texas, Sheriff's Office photograph released to ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - An Iranian-born used car salesman from Texas admitted on Wednesday that he had participated in a plan hatched by Iranian spies to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington. Manssor Arbabsiar, 57, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to a three-count indictment. He said the plan had been to assassinate the ambassador at a restaurant in Washington last year, and that his co-conspirators had included Iranian military officials. ...


U.S., Israel to hold major missile defense exercise

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 04:20 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States and Israel will hold a major missile defense exercise in Israel this month, sending a message of close cooperation as both countries weigh their options over Iran's nuclear program. The three-week exercise, the largest the allies have ever held, will simulate a variety of long and short-range missile attacks that Israel could face during a regional conflict, said the commanders in charge. ...

Brothels rescue cash-strapped Greek soccer team

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 04:53 PM PDT

In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, Voukefalas players, a small amateur soccer club, get ready in a changing room before a local championship match in the city of Larissa, central Greece. A cash-strapped Greek soccer team has found a new way to pay the bills, with help from the world's oldest profession. Players are wearing bright pink practice jerseys emblazoned with the logos of the Villa Erotica and Soula's House of History, a pair of pastel-colored bordellos recruited to sponsor the team after drastic government spending cuts left the country's sports organizations facing ruin. One team took on a deal with a local funeral home and others have wooed kebab shops, a jam factory, and producers of Greece's trademark feta cheese. But the small amateur Voukefalas club which includes students, a bartender, waiters and pizza delivery drivers is getting the most attention for its flamboyant sponsors. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)The world's oldest profession is giving a whole new meaning to love of the game.


Syria's wealthy businesses feel civil war squeeze

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 12:26 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday September 24, 2012 file photo, a Free Syrian Army fighter, left, helps traders, right, as they remove their stock from their shops, at the souk of the old city of Aleppo city, Syria. Wealthy Syrians say the violence from the 19-month civil war has pommeled their businesses, but the squeeze from a complex array of sanctions is the noose slowly strangling their country's buckling economy. They warn that if their companies tank, thousands of employees may find themselves out of work and dragged into the fighting. Today, streets are manned by checkpoints and tanks. Construction on new apartment complexes has stopped as plumes of smoke rise from the city's hard-hit suburbs. In Aleppo, bombs have ripped through the city and a more than two-month long government offensive there has not only killed hundreds of civilians, but damaged ancient sites and demolished entire neighborhoods. Arabic on the closed shop at right reads,"Aleppo." (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)Syria's wealthy, long cultivated by President Bashar Assad as a support for his regime, are seeing their businesses pummeled by the bloody civil war. Factories have been burned down or damaged in fighting. International sanctions restrict their finances. Some warn that their companies are in danger of going under, worsening the country's buckling economy.


Legal path to US from Cuba still complicated

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 11:33 AM 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)Cuba's surprise decision to make it easier for citizens to leave the country doesn't mean Cubans can book tickets on commercial planes and head for Miami.


Accused 9/11 plotter lectures military tribunal

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 04:30 PM PDT

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sits at a defense table wearing a camouflage vest in front of military judge U.S. Army Col. James Pohl, right, during the third day of the Military Commissions pretrial hearing against the five Guantanamo prisoners accused of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has told authorities he was the mastermind of the Sept. 11 hijacking plot, wore the woodland-style camouflage vest for the first time Wednesday, a clothing choice previously denied because of fears it might disrupt the court. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)The self-styled terrorist mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks lectured a military court on government hypocrisy Wednesday and wore a previously banned camouflage vest to his pretrial hearing before being rebuked by the judge for his comments.


Group: Libya militias 'executed' Gadhafi loyalists

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 01:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2011 file photo, a revolutionary fighter zips a body bag containing one of nearly 30 bodies of Gadhafi loyalists killed in Sirte, Libya, during the city's fall. Libyan rebels appear to have "summarily executed" scores of fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, and probably the dictator himself, when they overran his hometown in October 2011, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)Libyan rebels appear to have "summarily executed" scores of fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, and probably the dictator himself, when they overran his hometown a year ago, a human rights group said Wednesday.


Crack addicts rounded up after Rio slum takeovers

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 10:24 AM PDT

A young suspected crack user reacts as she sits inside a van waiting to be taken to a shelter after being removed from the streets by social workers, near the Parque Uniao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. Health officials are locating and treating hundreds of crack addicts suddenly left without drugs after police occupied dangerous slums this week where the users congregated en masse to buy and smoke the potent drug. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)Days after police stormed one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous shantytowns to seize back territory long held by a powerful drug dealing organization, city health and welfare workers are working to ease the despair and devastation left behind among hundreds of crack cocaine addicts suddenly without drugs.


Sudan: 660 dead since 2011 in fighting with rebels

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 03:06 PM PDT

Sudan says that fighting in two states along its disputed border with South Sudan has left over 600 people dead over the past 16 months, releasing rare casualty figures in an ongoing conflict that has inflamed tensions between the two countries.

Egyptian father: Daughter punished for not veiling

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 02:02 PM PDT

A teacher in southern Egypt punished two 12-year-old schoolgirls for not wearing the Muslim headscarf by cutting their hair, the father of one girl said Wednesday, in an incident that stokes concerns over personal rights following the rise of Islamist political movements.

Dutch art thieves were no 'Ocean's 11' team

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 01:25 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)In Hollywood movies, heists usually feature criminals who plan meticulously and use high-tech equipment to avoid detection. But the thieves who snatched seven paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Monet worth millions from a gallery in Rotterdam appear to have taken a less glamorous approach, relying mostly on speed and brute force.


Israel counted Gaza calorie needs during blockade

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 12:23 PM PDT

Palestinians sit by the port in Gaza City, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. The Israeli military calculated the number of calories Gaza's residents would need to consume to avoid malnutrition during a sweeping blockade imposed on the Palestinian territory between 2007 and mid-2010, according to a document the Defense Ministry released reluctantly under a court order. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)Israeli authorities blockading the Gaza Strip in 2008 went so far as to calculate how many calories would be needed to avert a humanitarian disaster in the impoverished Palestinian territory, according to a newly declassified military document.


In Syria's war, long-repressed minority finds new freedom

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 01:46 PM PDT

Of the changes triggered by Syria's 19-month-old uprising, few have been as sudden as the seeming empowerment of the country's long-oppressed Kurdish minority.

Getting in on the Benghazi blame game

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 01:41 PM PDT

The finger-pointing and misdirection around the murder of four Americans at the US consulate in Benghazi last month is an embarrassing spectacle that just won't go away.

Australia marches ahead with India ties - despite a few trip ups

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 01:07 PM PDT

When it comes to bilateral relations, there are a few surefire ways that countries can chalk up some merit points. Australia, dogged by years of mediocre relations with India, a country it desperately craves a deeper relationship with, has put its big guns forward in trying to cement ties.

British Pakistanis to Malala: You go, girl

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 10:02 AM PDT

In Britain's Muslim community, a large portion of whom are of Pakistani heritage, there has been keen interest in the case Malala Yousufzai, the schoolgirl shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban for advocating education for girls.

Baba Ramdev: Can a yogi turn Indian politics on its head?

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 10:45 AM PDT

It's not yet 5 a.m, but hundreds of Indians are quietly shuffling into a football-field-sized yoga hall.

Ethiopia surprises itself with peaceful transition after Meles

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 09:35 AM PDT

When Ethiopia's leader of 21 years Meles Zenawi died in August, citizens were on edge with memories of violent transfers of power.

Kenyan Christians fear former brethren are attacking churches

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 08:49 AM PDT

Kenyan church leaders and analysts are expressing concern that recent Muslim converts from Christian rural regions are the new breed of jihadists targeting churches, public places, and police in the country.

Putin warns of growing terror risks as Kremlin arrests opposition leader

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 08:38 AM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned his security services yesterday that they will have to redouble their efforts to prevent terrorists and extremists from disrupting an upcoming string of high-profile sports events to be hosted by Russia, including the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.

Iran sees conspiracy in box office success of Ben Affleck's 'Argo'

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 08:27 AM PDT

American moviegoers flocked to theaters this weekend to see Ben Affleck's long-anticipated thriller Argo, which has been generating headlines since it was first screened at the Toronto Film Festival last month.

UN envoy to Syria visits region to resurrect cease-fire efforts

Posted: 17 Oct 2012 06:45 AM PDT

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