2012年10月19日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


Beirut bomb kills anti-Syrian intelligence official

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 03:10 PM PDT

A wounded woman is carried at the site of an explosion in AshrafiehBEIRUT (Reuters) - A prominent Lebanese intelligence official opposed to President Bashar al-Assad was killed in a huge car bomb in Beirut in another sign that Syria's civil war is dragging its volatile neighbor into the conflict. Wissam al-Hassan, who led an investigation that implicated Syria and Hezbollah in the assassination of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, and seven other people were killed when the bomb exploded in central Beirut on Friday afternoon. ...


Peace envoy Brahimi pushes in Syria for ceasefire

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 12:56 PM PDT

UN-Arab League peace envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi arrives for a joint news conference in AmmanDAMASCUS (Reuters) - Mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will meet Syrian officials over the next few days in an effort to secure a brief ceasefire in the worsening war between President Bashar al-Assad's government and rebel forces. Brahimi, who arrived in the capital Damascus on Friday afternoon, will meet Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem on Saturday morning, the U.N. spokesman in Damascus, Khaled al-Masri, said. He did not say whether the envoy would meet Assad. "We will talk about the ceasefire and the Syrian issue in general. ...


U.N. Security Council plans sanctions on Congo rebels, others

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 01:50 PM PDT

M23 rebel fighters dance in celebration in the rain at RumangaboUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council intends to impose sanctions on the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo's M23 rebels and others violating an arms embargo on the country, according to a statement the council unanimously adopted on Friday. Rwandan Defense Minister James Kabarebe is commanding the insurgency in eastern Congo that is being armed by Rwanda and Uganda, both of which also sent troops to aid deadly attacks, according to a U.N. experts' confidential report seen by Reuters on Tuesday. ...


Pakistani girl shot by Taliban "doing well"

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 07:08 AM PDT

A portrait of 14-year-old Pakistani girl, Malala Yousufzai, is displayed during a candlelight vigil in Hong KongLONDON (Reuters) - A Pakistani girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen is "not out of the woods" but is doing well and has been able to stand for the first time, doctors at the British hospital treating her said on Friday. Malala Yousufzai, who was shot for vocally opposing the Taliban, was flown from Pakistan to Birmingham to receive treatment after the attack earlier this month, which drew widespread international condemnation. She has become a symbol of resistance to the Islamist group's effort to deny women education and other rights. ...


Palestinian push for U.N. upgrade likely to succeed: Jeremic

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 04:14 PM PDT

The president of the United Nations General Assembly, Jeremic of Serbia, speaks during an interview at the United Nations Headquarters in New YorkUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The push by the Palestinians for upgraded status at the United Nations is likely to succeed, the president of the U.N. General Assembly said on Friday, while warning the United States against cutting U.N. funding over the issue. In his first major interview since winning a divisive campaign for the largely ceremonial U.N. post in June, former Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic also said he was seeking to improve coordination between the world body and the Group of 20 bloc of key developed and developing nations. Having failed last year to secure full U.N. ...


Leaders meet on Mali crisis but little progress made

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 04:49 PM PDT

Diarra, Bassole and Medelci stand at attention for the national anthem before the start of a high level international meeting in BamakoBAMAKO/DAKAR (Reuters) - Regional leaders and international organizations met in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday to seek a response to the occupation of the north of the country by al Qaeda-linked Islamists, but failed to resolve differences on how to tackle the growing security threat. Mali remains paralyzed by twin crises, with the leadership in Bamako still divided since a March coup that toppled the president and the rebel takeover of the north of the country. ...


Kuwait ruler orders electoral system changes

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 02:49 PM PDT

Kuwait's Emir Al-Sabah smiles during the opening session of the 23rd Arab League summit in BaghdadKUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's emir said on Friday he had ordered partial changes to the Gulf Arab state's electoral system to fix deficiencies ahead of expected elections, prompting opposition threats to boycott the vote. Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah dissolved parliament last week to pave the way for new election which many hoped would end a persistent political turmoil that had held up development projects in the major oil producer and U.S. ally. ...


Colombia's Santos: Land restitution law undermines rebels

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 11:03 AM PDT

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos speaks during a news conference at a hospital in BogotaBOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday defended his signature law that returns land seized by illegal armed groups to peasants after leftist rebels assailed the measure at the start of peace talks. Negotiations to end five decades of war started out bumpy this week when Ivan Marquez, lead negotiator for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, called Santos' restitution law a "trap. "When these gentlemen from the FARC say this law is a lie it's because ... ...


Muslim protesters fight police in Tanzania, popular cleric freed

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 04:26 PM PDT

Protester runs in front of a burning barricade in ZanzibarSTONE TOWN/DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Muslim protesters clashed with police in Tanzania's commercial capital and on the semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar on Friday, raising religious tensions in the east African country. In Dar es Salaam, protests against the arrest of a hardline Muslim cleric turned violent, while in Zanzibar, supporters of an Islamist separatist group have repeatedly fought police over the disappearance of their spiritual leader, who was then released after nearly four days in captivity. ...


Katatni elected as Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood party chief

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 04:36 PM PDT

Saad al-Katatni gestures after winning majority of votes by members of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, to be elected as their new leader in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood's political party, Egypt's biggest, chose veteran conservative Saad al-Katatni as its new leader on Friday to replace Mohamed Mursi who went on to become his country's first elected president. Katatni, 61, a microbiologist who joined the Islamist movement in 1979, is seen as more conservative than his main challenger for the post, Essam el-Erian, and less ready to compromise with liberals and leftists. ...


Top security official among 8 dead in Beirut blast

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 03:36 PM PDT

A Lebanese rescue man, carries an injured boy at the scene of an explosion in the mostly Christian neighborhood of Achrafiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday Oct. 19, 2012. A car bomb ripped through eastern Beirut on Friday, shearing the balconies off residential buildings and sending bloodied victims pouring out into the streets in the most serious blast this city has seen in years. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)A powerful car bomb tore through the heart of Beirut's Christian sector Friday, killing a top security official and seven others in a devastating attack that threatened to bring the war in Syria directly to Lebanon's doorstep. The blast sheared the balconies off apartment buildings, upended cars and sent dazed rescue workers carrying bloodied children into the streets.


Doctors say shot Pakistani girl improving

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 02:27 PM PDT

Doctors treating 15-year-old Pakistani shooting victim Malala Yousufzai said Friday that she is able to stand with help and to write, though she still shows signs of infection.

UN envoy arrives in Syria amid calls for truce

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 12:51 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, Syrians rescue people from under the rubble of a destroyed building that was attacked by a Syrian force airstrike, at Kfar Nebel town, in Idlib province, northern Syria. (AP Photo/Idlib News Network ENN)Turkey and Germany on Friday threw their weight behind calls for a Syrian cease-fire during a Muslim holiday next week as the international envoy for the conflict arrived in Damascus to push for the plan.


Austria probes gruesome fate of Nazi-era disabled

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 01:49 AM PDT

TO GO WITH STORY SLUGGED " AUSTRIA UNWORTHY LIVES" BY GEORGE JAHN - In this picture taken Oct. 8, 2012 anthropologist Dr. George McGlynn shows human bones in the hospital in Hall near Innsbruck, Austria. The Nazi-era psychiatric patients were demeaned, starved, brutalized, and left to die. More than half, say those involved, suffered from broken ribs and other bone fractures from blows likely dealt by hospital personnel. (AP Photo/ Kerstin Joensson)Forensic crews scraping away dirt from the remains of the Nazi-era psychiatric patients were puzzled: The skeletal fingers were entwined in rosary beads. Why, the experts wondered, would the Nazis — who considered these people less than human — respect them enough to let them take their religious symbols to their graves?


Blast in Afghanistan kills 19 en route to wedding

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 11:15 AM PDT

An Afghan National policeman joins others for Friday prayers in a tent at their base in Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Friday Oct 19, 2012. Afghanistan's police are routinely targeted by insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan, one of the deadliest regions in the country. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)A roadside bomb tore through a minibus carrying people to a wedding celebration in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 19 people and wounding 16, authorities said.


Progress but few rulings in Sept. 11 case at Gitmo

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 01:43 PM PDT

In this photo reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, a U.S. flag waves above the the Camp Justice compound, during day three of pre-trial hearings for the five Guantanamo prisoners accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001 attack, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. The the five Guantanamo prisoners face charges that include terrorism, conspiracy and 2,976 counts of murder, one count for each known victim of the attacks at the time the charges were filed. They could get the death penalty if convicted. (AP Photo/Toronto Star, Michelle Shephard, Pool)A weeklong pretrial hearing for the Sept. 11 terrorism case has come to a close at Guantanamo Bay without rulings on the most important of more than two dozen motions.


After lawsuit threat, Twitter to pull racist posts

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 12:39 PM PDT

Twitter agreed to pull racist and anti-Semitic tweets under a pair of French hash tags after a Jewish group threatened to sue the social network for running afoul of national laws against hate speech, the organization said. The decision came a day after Twitter bowed to German law and blocked an account of a banned neo-Nazi group there.

Afghan police school tries to fix struggling force

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 10:34 PM PDT

In this Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 photo, an Afghan instructor instructs a police student shooting with live ammunition at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. On Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, President Hamid Karzai said that his military and police are prepared to take full responsibility for security if the American-led international coalition decides to speed up the handover. But international observers warn that the largely illiterate police force will disintegrate after 2014 into factional militias more loyal to local warlords than to the state. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)At the gate to the National Police Academy, on the western edge of the Afghan capital, the guard's rifle bolts into firing position. "Stop!" he shouts.


Al-Qaida suicide raid kills 14 Yemeni soldiers

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 09:38 AM PDT

Suspected al-Qaida suicide bombers disguised in military uniforms stormed into an army base in southern Yemen on Friday, killing 14 soldiers and wounding more than 20, Yemeni officials said.

Shark finning hitting Persian Gulf sharks hard

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 10:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday July 18, 2012 file photo, a man points at a shark while he slides through an underwater tunnel at a hotel in Dubai , United Arab Emirates. Fishermen across the globe kill as many as 70 million sharks each year for their fins, which can sell for $700 a pound (450 grams), while the soup prized for Chinese banquets and weddings can cost $100 a bowl. The fin trade has devastated several species including hammerheads, oceanic whitetip, blue, threshers and silky and contributed to 181 shark and ray species being listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as threatened with extinction. The trade is legal, though efforts are being made to ban the practice of "finning" hacking the fins off of sharks and throwing the rest overboard, often when they are still alive. Four years ago, under international pressure, the UAE joined the growing number of countries banning the practice. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)Armed with a clip board and wearing bright yellow waders, Rima Jabado looked the part of a government inspector at the Dubai fish market as workers sawed the fins off hundreds of dead sharks from Oman and bagged them for export to Asian restaurants.


Beirut bombing kills anti-Assad official, bringing Syrian war to Lebanon

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 11:15 AM PDT

Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, a top Lebanese security chief and staunch opponent of the Syrian regime, was reported killed today in a powerful car bomb explosion.

Uruguay's Senate approves abortion bill: Will there be a ripple effect?

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 11:05 AM PDT

Uruguay paved the way for one of the most far-reaching abortion rights laws in Latin America this week when its Senate voted to legalize the procedure during the first trimester of pregnancy. The controversial decision has sparked speculation as to whether regional neighbors – from liberal Argentina to conservative Chile – could follow suit.

Polish city of Wroclaw comes to terms with its German past

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 10:49 AM PDT

If there is one sign of Wroclaw's transformation from a peripheral city in southwest Poland into an assertive Central European cosmopolis, it is the popularity of its new literary hero, Eberhard Mock.

Bangladesh worries plot to blow up the Federal Reserve will hurt moderate image

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 08:53 AM PDT

The case of the 21-year-old Bangladeshi man charged with plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York has raised concern among Bangladeshis that this will hurt their country's image as a moderate Muslim nation.

China's naval exercises in East China Sea send warning to regional rivals

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 05:49 AM PDT

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Good reads: a 'hidden' nuclear crisis, how China sees the US, and 'Chilecon Valley'

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 05:16 AM PDT

The world thought that the Cuban missile crisis ended in October 1962 when the United States lifted its quarantine around Cuba and the Soviet Union withdrew its medium-range missiles. However, "the secret crisis still simmered" through November, writes Svetlana Savranskaya in Foreign Policy . Unknown to American intelligence, the Soviets had also delivered almost 100 tactical weapons including 80 nuclear front cruise missiles, 12 nuclear warheads for dual-use Luna short-range rockets, and 6 nuclear bombs for IL-28 bombers.

Steven Amstrup says it's not too late to save polar bears – and ourselves

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 05:00 AM PDT

With apologies to "The Tipping Point" author Malcolm Gladwell, there is no tipping point – at least, not when it comes to global warming and sea ice.

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