2012年10月18日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News


Clashes erupt at Greek anti-austerity protests

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 03:03 PM PDT

A petrol bomb, thrown by protesters, explodes near riot police during a violent protest in Athens' Syntagma squareATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police clashed with anti-austerity protesters hurling stones and petrol bombs on the day of a general strike that brought much of the near-bankrupt country to a standstill. In the second major walkout in three weeks on Thursday, almost 40,000 protesters marched in Athens in a bid to show EU leaders meeting in Brussels that new wage and pension cuts will only worsen their plight after five years of recession. ...


Exclusive: Libyan Islamist says he was at U.S. consulate during attack

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 02:43 PM PDT

Damage at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen during a protestBENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A Libyan militia commander who U.S. officials say is under investigation in connection with the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi which led to the death of the ambassador said he was present during the incident but was not one of the ringleaders. Some American newspapers have quoted unnamed Libyan officials as pointing to Ahmed Abu Khattala as the leader of the attacks on Sept, 11. The newspapers also reported that the officials said Abu Khattala's whereabouts were unknown. U.S. ...


Analysis: Cuba's immigration reform casts spotlight on decades-old U.S. law

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 03:32 PM PDT

Immigration officers wait for travellers at a control checkpoint at Havana's Jose Marti International AirportMIAMI (Reuters) - Cuba's decision this week to make it easier to leave and enter the country is unlikely in the short term to prompt a sudden exodus, but could result in a rethinking of preferential treatment Cuban migrants have long received in the United States. Alarmed by the number of Cubans arriving in Miami for economic reasons, rather than the political causes that prompted earlier waves of migration from the island, even some Cuban exiles are increasingly questioning a decades-old law that has guaranteed Cubans safe haven in the United States. ...


U.S. offers rewards for Iran-based al Qaeda operatives

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 03:59 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it was offering millions of dollars for information leading to the location of two al Qaeda members accused of facilitating the movement of funds and operatives through Iran. The Obama administration is offering up to $7 million for information leading to the location of Iran-based financier Muhsin al-Fadhli, who was among the few al Qaeda leaders who received advance notification of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the State Department said. ...

U.S. military vows new measures in Okinawa after suspected rape

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 02:26 PM PDT

U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos delivers a statement after a meeting with Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuji Kira in TokyoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Thursday it would soon announce new measures to "ensure responsible behavior" by American troops on Japan's southern island of Okinawa, after the suspected rape of a Japanese woman threatened to strain ties between the allies. The incident, which led to the arrests on Tuesday of two U.S. servicemen, has thrown new scrutiny on the behavior of the large contingent of American military troops on the island, located in the East China Sea close to mainland China. ...


Colombian government, FARC rebels to meet in Cuba for peace talks

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 12:45 PM PDT

General view of the exterior of the Hurdalsjoen hotel and conference centre in HurdalHURDAL, Norway/BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian government and leftist rebel negotiators agreed to meet in Cuba in mid-November to start what are likely to be thorny peace talks aimed at patching together an end to half a century of conflict, both sides said on Thursday. Talks, which opened in Norway this week, are the latest in a long history of attempts to resolve the war which has left tens of thousands dead and millions more displaced since the founding of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in 1964. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is betting that a decade of U.S. ...


Costa Rica's San Jose airport shut after plane runway skid

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 04:49 PM PDT

SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rica's busy main international airport was shut down on Thursday afternoon after the tires of a plane burst upon landing, sending it skidding along the runway, the country's fire chief said. The plane, a Taca Airlines Airbus 321 originating in El Salvador, touched down at Juan Santamaria International Airport about 4 p.m. local time (2100 GMT). The plane carried 146 passengers and no injuries were reported, Hector Chaves, the national fire chief, said. The airport closure was ordered after the plane skidded to a halt and blocked a runway. ...

Diplomacy inbox fills up as U.N. awaits U.S. presidential vote

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 03:51 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - As the United States prepares for a presidential election next month, thorny diplomatic issues like an arms trade treaty, the Palestinians' U.N. aspirations and talks on banning weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East have had to wait. For months, U.N. officials and diplomats have complained privately that discussions at the United Nations aimed at resolving a range of problems have been delayed until after the November 6 election in which President Barack Obama, a Democrat, faces off against Republican contender Mitt Romney. ...

Putin's foes search for leaders in online Russia vote

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 01:35 PM PDT

Russia's Prime Minister and President-elect Putin chairs a meeting on housing development in the town of Istra outside MoscowMOSCOW/YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Opponents of President Vladimir Putin say elections in Russia are rigged in favor of his ruling party and are instead holding their own Internet contest to choose a "shadow parliament" they hope will reinvigorate the flagging opposition movement. Putin has dismissed those who took part in the biggest protests against his 12-year rule this year and last as "chattering monkeys", but has said the movement may produce civic leaders. ...


Peace envoy to visit Syria to work out Eid ceasefire

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 09:20 AM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighters take position in Aleppo's Bustan al-Basha districtAMMAN (Reuters) - The international mediator on Syria will go to Damascus in the next few days to try to broker a brief ceasefire in the war between President Bashar al-Assad's government and rebels during the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival. Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy, told reporters on Thursday after meeting Jordan's foreign minister that a respite in hostilities could build confidence and help bring about a longer truce in the 19-month-old conflict. "Yes I am going to Syria. ...


In Syria, Sunni rebels besiege Shiite villages

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 03:29 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 photo, Free Syrian Army fighter, Bashar al Hajji, points towards the besieged Shiite village of Zahraa in Aleppo, Syria. Anyone who dares try to slip out of the Shiite villages of Zahraa and Nubl risks their lives. Snipers outside town are ready to gun them down. Roads out are blocked with barricades and checkpoints. Rebels have imposed a smothering siege over the communities, which they call a den of pro-regime gunmen who have shelled, killed and kidnapped neighboring Sunnis. (AP Photo/Rob Celliers)Anyone who tries to slip out of the Shiite villages of Zahraa and Nubl is risking his life. Sunni rebel snipers stand ready to gun down anyone who dares. Roads are blocked with barricades and checkpoints.


Airstrikes in northern Syria kill at least 43

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 01:05 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 photo, citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian citizens gather to rescue people from under the rubble of a building that was destroyed from a Syrian force airstrike, at Kfar Nebel town, in Idlib province, northern Syria. (AP Photo/Idlib News Network ENN)Syrian warplanes hammered a strategic city captured by rebels, leaving behind scenes of carnage captured Thursday on amateur videos that showed a man holding up two child-sized legs not connected to a body and another carrying a dismembered arm.


TV show 'Homeland' irks Lebanese, Israelis

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 02:33 PM PDT

This undated image released by Showtime shows actors Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in a scene from the second season of "Homeland," filmed in Israel. The scene from a recent episode of the hit series "Homeland," is supposed to be Beirut - but it was shot in Tel Aviv, Israel. And that has some people irritated in both cities. (AP Photo/Showtime, Ronen Akerman)Militants carrying assault weapons clear the area around a street, shouting in Arabic for people to get out of the way. A jeep pulls up: The world's No. 1 jihadi has arrived for a meeting with top Hezbollah commanders. On rooftops, U.S. snipers crouch unseen, the kingpin in their crosshairs at last.


Iraq presses US for faster arms deliveries

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 04:08 PM PDT

Iraq's prime minister pressed for faster deliveries of weapons to help arm his country's military during a Thursday meeting with a senior U.S. defense official.

US sees potential for wider anti-Taliban uprising

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 11:16 AM PDT

This photo taken Oct. 10, 2012 shows U.S. Brig. Gen. John Charlton, left, talking to U.S. Lt. Col. Kevin Lambert at the U.S base in An Band district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Charlton is a deputy commander of Regional Command-East as well as the senior American advisor to the commander of the Afgan National Army's 203rd Corps, Lambert is commander of 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)Fed up with the Taliban closing their schools and committing other acts of oppression, men in a village about 100 miles south of Kabul took up arms late last spring and chased out the insurgents with no help from the Afghan government or U.S. military.


Libyan Islamist denies role in Benghazi attack

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 04:19 PM PDT

A Libyan Islamist militia commander who a witness and officials say helped lead the deadly assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi said on Thursday that he was at the building that night, but denied he was involved in the attack.

APNewsBreak: Suspect's family shocked at NY plot

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 07:29 AM PDT

Bangladeshi Quazi Ahsanullah displays a photograph of his son Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis as he weeps in his home in the Jatrabari neighborhood in north Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. The FBI arrested 21-year-old Nafis on Wednesday after he tried to detonate a fake 1,000-pound (454-kilogram) car bomb, according to a criminal complaint. His family said Thursday that Nafis was incapable of such actions. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)Just a few hours before he was arrested in an FBI sting operation, a Bangladeshi man accused of trying to blow up New York's Federal Reserve building calmly spoke via Skype with his parents back home and updated them on his studies, his family told The Associated Press.


Protests as Ireland's 1st abortion clinic opens

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 03:09 PM PDT

Protesters opposed to abortion hold placards outside the Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Thursday, 18, 2012. The first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland has opened in Belfast, sparking protests by Christian conservatives from both the Catholic and Protestant sides of Northern Ireland's divide. The Marie Stopes center plans to offer the abortion pill to women less than nine weeks pregnant _ but only if doctors determine they're at risk of death or long-term health damage from their pregnancy. That's the law in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, where abortion is otherwise illegal. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)The first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland opened Thursday in downtown Belfast, unleashing angry protests on the street and uniting Catholic and Protestant politicians in calls to investigate the new facility.


Diplomats: EU chiefs agree on bank supervisor

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 02:24 PM PDT

French President Francois Hollande, center, arrives for a meeting of European Socialist Party leaders prior to an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. European leaders are gathering again in Brussels to discuss how to save the euro currency from collapse and support countries facing too much debt and not enough growth. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)European leaders reached agreement Thursday on creating a single supervisor for banks in the countries that use the euro that will be up and running sometime next year, German diplomats said.


Navy to go after rats, mold in Gitmo legal offices

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 04:36 PM PDT

In this photo reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, towers overlooking a U.S. detention facility are silhouetted against a morning sunrise at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. Pre-trial hearings continue for five Guantanamo prisoners facing charges related to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, that include terrorism, conspiracy and murder. (AP Photo/Toronto Star, Michelle Shephard, Pool)Legal offices that are so contaminated with mold and rat droppings that lawyers in the Sept. 11 terrorism trial have been getting sick will get a full clean-up and be evaluated by safety experts, a military official said Thursday.


Mystery deepens about US enemy No. 1 in Libya

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 03:09 PM PDT

Anonymous Libyan authorities have identified the name of a man they say organized the attack on the US consulate, according to multiple press accounts.

What really happened in Benghazi?

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 01:27 PM PDT

An unidentified member of the Libyan government says the leader of the Benghazi consulate attack has been identified, according to The Los Angeles Times and other US outlets.

Pakistanis debate real enemy: girl-shooting Taliban or drone-firing US

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 11:22 AM PDT

The news that the Taliban shot a 14-year-old girl for speaking out against them has highlighted a major division in Pakistan over the question of which is worse: the United States or militants?

Colombia-FARC peace talks: 5 ways the Left lives on in Latin America

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 09:55 AM PDT

Peace talks have officially begun between the government of Colombia and FARC rebels. It is the first time peace has been on the table in over a decade. Previous talks have failed three other times in the past 30 years, but now hopes are high that the FARC, 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, could finally put down their arms. It would bring to an end one of the world's longest standing conflicts. ...

Vladimir Putin joins pajama workforce, decides to work from home

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 09:13 AM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin has finally decided to do something to help relieve Moscow's paralytic, bumper-to-bumper, round-the-clock, city-wide traffic congestion: He's going to drive less and work from home more often.

Eurozone summit: Will EU get veto over national budgets?

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 08:37 AM PDT

As sometimes violent protests against debt-crisis austerity programs – including a general strike today in Greece – continue to wrack Southern Europe, European leaders will meet in Brussels today to try and get a grip on the economic zone's debt crisis through budgetary control and a banking union. But as usual, the summit's attendees remain divided about the best course of action.

There will be no cease-fire in Syria

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 08:10 AM PDT

The UN special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi (who did such a bang up job as UN special envoy for Iraq and Afghanistan) has been lobbying for a three-day ceasefire in Syria to mark a Muslim holiday.

How will FARC peace talks play out in rural Colombia?

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 07:53 AM PDT

The hairline cracks in the white walls of Victor Salas's concrete house tell the recent history of guerrilla violence in this southwestern Colombian town.

Brass City Harvest brings fresh food to an urban 'desert'

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 06:16 AM PDT

In a bricked up, boarded up part of Waterbury, Conn., where the main crop seem to be shattered glass, Brass City Harvest stands as an oasis.

Arrests of US sailors in Okinawa reignites opposition to bases

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 05:54 AM PDT

The arrest of two American sailors on suspicion of raping a woman in Okinawa has reignited tensions over the US military's longstanding presence on the southern Japanese island.

Cease-fire in Syria? Support from Iran and Turkey boosts UN envoy's bid

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 05:44 AM PDT

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Raising the Costa Concordia, the biggest sea salvage operation ever

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 05:19 AM PDT

It has lain like a great white whale in the crystal clear waters off the Italian island of Giglio for nine months, but a new, crucial phase to remove the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship is about to swing into action.

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