2012年10月2日星期二

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Libya yet to work out U.S. cooperation in Benghazi probe

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 01:34 PM PDT

Libya's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdulaziz meets with acting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Elizabeth Jones in TripoliTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya and the United States have yet to agree how a U.S. investigative team will cooperate in a probe into a deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, a senior Libyan official said on Tuesday. FBI agents were sent to Libya after the September 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission and another facility in which the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans died. So far they have conducted interviews in Tripoli and have yet to go to Benghazi. ...


Tycoon's alliance wins election in Georgia

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 02:43 PM PDT

Georgian Dream coalition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili speaks during a news conference at his office in TbilisiTBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili on Tuesday conceded defeat in parliamentary elections to a coalition led by a tycoon promising to ease tensions with Moscow, four years after the staunch U.S. ally lost a war with Russia. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who has long been openly hostile to Saakashvili, welcomed the opposition victory as opening the way for "more constructive and responsible forces" to enter the Georgian parliament. ...


Greece pushes for austerity deal as time runs short

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 12:46 PM PDT

Students from music schools of Athens hold anti-austerity rally in AthensATHENS (Reuters) - Greece held a new round of talks with foreign lenders to bridge differences over 2 billion euros of disputed austerity cuts on Tuesday, with time running short to clinch a deal before a meeting of euro zone ministers next week. Athens has been haggling for weeks over 12 billion euros of cutbacks that its European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders have refused to sign off on over fears that some of the proposed savings are unlikely to materialize. ...


Iran to enrich uranium to 60 percent if nuclear talks fail

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 10:47 AM PDT

A security official stands in front of the Bushehr nuclear reactorDUBAI (Reuters) - Iran would enrich uranium up to 60 percent purity if negotiations with major powers over its nuclear program fail, an Iranian lawmaker said on Tuesday, in comments that may add to Western alarm about Iranian intentions. Mansour Haqiqatpour, deputy head of parliament's Foreign Policy and National Security Committee, said 60 percent enrichment would be to yield fuel for nuclear submarines, which often require uranium refined to high levels. ...


Assad rejected leaders' bid for peace in Syria: former PM

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 02:37 PM PDT

Smoke rises after an air strike on the city of AleppoDUBAI (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad vetoed demands by senior leaders to pursue a peaceful solution to the crisis in Syria after some of his top security aides were killed in an attack in July, his former prime minister said in remarks broadcast on Tuesday. Riyad Hijab, who defected in early August, told Al Arabiya television that the death of Defence Minister Daoud Rajha and his deputy, Assad's brother-in-law Assef Shawkat, in a bomb attack on a security meeting in Damascus had persuaded him that there was no military solution to the crisis. ...


Unrest tarnishes drive to tap Indonesia's gold riches

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 02:22 PM PDT

Miners wait for transportation from the site of Poboya gold mining at the Indonesia's Central Sulawesi provinceJAKARTA/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - When Hong Kong-listed G-Resources Ltd opened its $1 billion Indonesian gold mine in July, six months behind schedule, it had high hopes it would be hitting its annual output target of 250,000 ounces by next year. Less than three months later the company halted operations after hundreds of protesters blocked the entrances to the Martabe mine, in the north of Sumatra island, in a dispute over the installation of a water discharge pipe. It began laying off the 2,000-strong workforce at the mine, the company's sole asset, this week. ...


Venezuelan vote a high-stakes affair for Chavez allies

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 01:48 PM PDT

Sticker of opposition candidate Capriles is seen over a poster of Venezuela's President Chavez in downtown CaracasHAVANA (Reuters) - Pedro Alvarez, who drives one of the thousands of ancient American cars that serve as taxis in Cuba, cannot bring himself to think about life without Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. His big, blue 1949 Buick burns gallons of gasoline every day, most of it produced from the imported Venezuelan oil that fuels Cuba and all of it costing almost $5 a gallon, a pretty penny in a country where the average monthly pay is $19. ...


Colombia's Santos to spend two-three days in hospital after cancer surgery

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 02:10 PM PDT

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos arrives at the inauguration ceremony of the Latin American and Arab heads of states summit in LimaBOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will spend two or three days in the hospital after surgery for non-aggressive prostate cancer, his doctor said on Tuesday, a day before the 61-year-old was scheduled for the operation. Midway through his four-year term, Santos surprised the Andean nation on Monday night when he announced doctors had discovered a cancerous growth, but the disease had been caught in time and there was minimal risk. ...


U.S. officials sought more security before Libya attack: lawmakers

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 04:35 PM PDT

A Libyan government militia guarding the main entrance of the U.S. consulate that was attacked last week, fixes a note written by Libyans against the attack, in BenghaziWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials in Washington denied repeated requests from Americans in Libya for more security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi before last month's attack that killed four Americans there, two Republican lawmakers said on Tuesday. U.S. Representatives Darrell Issa and Jason Chaffetz wrote a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanding details of the requests for more security - which they said were made amid numerous attacks on Westerners in Libya in recent months. ...


Somali militants hit Kismayu as African troops move in

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 01:34 PM PDT

Troops display Somali flag after capture by AMISOM at Kismayu airportMOGADISHU (Reuters) - African Union troops and tanks occupied al Shabaab's former stronghold of Kismayu on Tuesday, but the Somali Islamist militants gave notice of their intention to fight back, saying they detonated a bomb in the port city. The blast points to the al Qaeda-linked rebels' ability to hit back with covert strikes and continues a pattern of attacks in other urban strongholds from where they have retreated under military pressure, including the capital. ...


AP Exclusive: US car was targeted in Mexico ambush

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 04:46 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2012. file photo, an armored U.S. embassy vehicle is checked by military personal after it was attacked by unknown assailants on the highway leading to the city of Cuernavaca, near Tres Marias, Mexico. A senior U.S. official says there is strong circumstantial evidence that Mexican federal police who fired on a U.S. embassy vehicle, wounding two CIA agents, were working for organized crime on a targeted assassination attempt. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, File)A senior U.S. official says there is strong circumstantial evidence that Mexican federal police who fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle, wounding two CIA officers, were working for organized crime in a targeted assassination attempt.


Smoked salmon blamed for salmonella outbreak

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 03:14 PM PDT

FILE- This Sunday, Dec. 2004 file photo, shows smoked salmon on toasted rye rounds with dilled cream cheese and sour cream. Smoked salmon tainted with salmonella bacteria has sickened hundreds of people in the Netherlands and the United States, sparking a major recall health authorities said Tuesday, Oct. 2, 201. (AP Photo/Mike Hentz, File)Smoked salmon tainted with salmonella has sickened hundreds of people in the Netherlands, authorities said, sparking major recalls there and in the U.S.


Islamist-secular struggle over Egypt constitution

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 01:13 PM PDT

An Egyptian female activist carries a placard that reads in Arabic "the woman's voice is a revolution," during an anti Islamist dominated constitutional assembly protest in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012. Islamists are seeking to enshrine in Egypt's new constitution a number of articles that secularists and liberals fear would bring theocratic rule and severely set back civil liberties, including provisions empowering clerics to review laws and restricting women's rights. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)Islamists are seeking to enshrine in Egypt's long-awaited new constitution a number of articles that secularists and liberals fear would bring theocratic rule and severely set back civil liberties, including provisions that could empower clerics to review laws and would stipulate that women's rights cannot violate Shariah law or "family duties."


Official: Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 10:48 AM PDT

This image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show smoke rising from buildings due to government forces shelling in Daraa, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)A Hezbollah commander and several fighters have been killed inside Syria, a Lebanese security official said Tuesday, a development that could stoke already soaring tensions over the Lebanese militant group's role in the civil war next door.


Israeli premier to visit Europe, discuss Iran

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 01:41 PM PDT

An Israeli official says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Europe in a few months to persuade leaders to step up sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.

Somalia: Kenyan army says it now controls Kismayo

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 12:26 PM PDT

Kenyan soldiers pose for their colleagues to take pictures of them as they sing and celebrate outside Kismayo University in Kismayo, southern Somalia Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012. Allied African troops have taken full control of Kismayo in Somalia, the last stronghold of al-Shabab Islamist rebels who have been fighting against the country's internationally backed government, a Kenyan military official said Tuesday, and Kenya Defence Forces and the Somali National Army are now patrolling the streets. (AP Photo/Josphat Kasire)Allied African troops have taken full control of Kismayo in Somalia, the last stronghold of Islamist rebels who have been fighting against the country's internationally backed government, a Kenyan military official said Tuesday.


Free coffins: political swag for Honduran poor

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 01:38 PM PDT

In this Aug. 17, 2012 photo, charity employees wait for customers at the offices of the Funeraria del Pueblo, or People's Mortuary, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The charities that provide the coffins, and sometimes free transportation and soft drinks to the bereaved, are run using public funds by three elected officials, two of whom are seeking the presidency and a third who is running for mayor of Tegucigalpa. The charities say the coffins are not a pitch for votes, but an important service to constituents who cannot afford a coffin. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)In some countries political campaigns give out bumper stickers and yard signs. In others, they offer free lunches and supermarket debit cards. In Honduras, one of Latin America's poorest countries and also its most dangerous, candidates dole out another type of political swag: coffins for the destitute.


TV show claims UK TV host Savile abused children

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 10:46 AM PDT

FILE In this Sunday Sept. 18, 2005 file photo British singer Vera Lynn and Jimmy Saville, right are seen at the unveiling of a contemporary sculpture at Victoria Embankment in central London to mark the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. For decades, Jimmy Savile was a fixture on British television — an eccentric, aggressively jocular host of children's shows and a tireless charity fundraiser. A year after he died, aged 84 and honored as Sir Jimmy, several women have come forward to claim he was also a sexual predator and serial abuser of underage girls. The allegations have set off ripples of shock — but not of surprise. There had, colleagues said, long been rumors. The main question being asked now is: Why did no one do anything? (AP Photo/Matthew Fearn, Pool, File)For decades, Jimmy Savile was a fixture on British television — an eccentric, aggressively jocular host of children's shows and a tireless charity fundraiser. When he died last year at 84 — by then knighted as Sir Jimmy — he drew tributes from Prince Charles and thousands of fans.


Georgian president concedes but democracy rules

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 11:21 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili meets the media at a polling station in Tbilisi, Georgia. Saakashvili conceded defeat on Tuesday, Oct. 2, in the country's parliamentary election and said an opposition coalition led by billionaire businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili now has the right to form a government. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)Defying expectations, President Mikhail Saakashvili conceded Tuesday that his party had lost Georgia's parliamentary election and his opponent had the right to become prime minister, setting the stage for political turmoil in the final year of his presidency.


Pope's butler pleads innocent to theft charge

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 11:54 AM PDT

FILE -- In this photo taken Wednesday, May, 23, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI, flanked by his private secretary Georg Gaenswein, top left, and his butler Paolo Gabiele arrives at St.Peter's square at the Vatican for a general audience. Paolo Gabriele took the stand Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, in a Vatican courtroom to defend himself against a charge of aggravated theft. He said he is innocent of charges of stealing the pope's private correspondence but acknowledged he feels guilty of betraying the trust of the pontiff, whom he said he loved like a father. In other testimony Tuesday, the pope's private secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, testified that he began having suspicions about Gabriele after he realized three documents that appeared in the journalist's book could only have come from the office he shared with Gabriele. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)Pope Benedict XVI's onetime butler declared Tuesday he was innocent of a charge of aggravated theft of the pope's private correspondence, but acknowledged he photocopied the papers and said he feels guilty that he betrayed the trust of the pontiff he loves like a father.


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