2012年10月24日星期三

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Syria government indicates accepts holiday truce: Russia

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 12:55 PM PDT

A man walks past a recently shelled area in AtarebUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has indicated to Russia that it will accept U.N.-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi's proposal for a Muslim holiday ceasefire in Syria, Moscow's U.N. envoy said on Wednesday. "We have had indications that they (Syria's government) are accepting the proposal of Mr. Brahimi," Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters after a closed-door meeting of the 15-nation Security Council during which Brahimi briefed council members via video link from Egypt. ...


Clinton: Facebook post about Benghazi attack not hard "evidence"

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 09:54 AM PDT

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protestWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday a Facebook post in which an Islamic militant group claimed credit for a recent attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya did not constitute hard evidence of who was responsible. "Posting something on Facebook is not in and of itself evidence. I think it just underscores how fluid the reporting was at the time and continued for some time to be," Clinton said during an appearance with the Brazilian foreign minister at the State Department. ...


Sudan blames Israeli air strike hit for munitions plant blasts

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:02 PM PDT

Onlookers gather to looks at a huge fire that engulf the Yarmouk ammunition factory in KhartoumKHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Wednesday that an Israeli air strike had caused the huge explosion and fire at an arms factory in Khartoum that killed two people, but Israel's defense minister declined to comment. Sudan, which analysts say is used as an arms-smuggling route to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip via neighboring Egypt, has blamed Israel for such strikes in the past, but Israel has either refused to comment or said it neither admitted or denied involvement. ...


African Union reinstates Mali ahead of military action

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:47 PM PDT

AU Chief Nkosazana talks to Lamamra, the AU Commissioner for Peace and Security before the peace and security council meeting on the situation of Sudan, South Sudan and Mali at African Union headquarters in Addis AbabaADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union (AU) lifted Mali's suspension from the bloc on Wednesday, saying an African plan to intervene militarily to help the country claw back territory from Islamist militants would be ready within weeks. The pan-African body also laid out a political road map which foresees elections in the beleaguered West African country by April even as it is still grappling with the fallout from a coup in March this year. ...


Ecuador fears for Assange's health, seeks UK safe passage

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 01:34 PM PDT

Still image of WikiLeaks' founder Assange speaking during a teleconference from the Ecuadorian Embassy in LondonMOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) - Ecuador is worried about the health of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and has asked Britain to guarantee him safe passage from its London embassy to hospital if he needs medical treatment, a senior Ecuadorean diplomat said in Moscow. Assange, an Australian, has been holed up inside Ecuador's embassy in central London since June to avoid extradition to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault allegations. British authorities say Assange will be arrested if he sets foot outside the embassy. ...


Insight: Pakistani death squads spur desperate voyage to Australia

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:04 PM PDT

A boy sits on a grave of his brother, who was killed by gunmen, at the Hazara graveyard in MehrabadQUETTA, Pakistan/PUNCAK,Indonesia (Reuters) - It was 3 a.m. when Abid Warasi and his friend clambered into an Indonesian fishing boat, joining 300 other migrants packed into the hold. Only a few days away by sea, Australia seemed tantalizingly close. Six hours into the voyage, the craft overturned. The two teenagers clung to the upturned hull. One by one, survivors lost purchase and drifted away, their dreams swallowed by the warm waters of the Java Sea. ...


Russia demands expulsion of reporters, envoys over U.N. leaks

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:13 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia slammed leaks to the media from a closed-door Security Council briefing on Syria on Wednesday, saying diplomats and journalists involved should be stripped of U.N. accreditation for the release of confidential information. Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin was angry that some diplomats conveyed to Reuters that the U.N.-Arab League mediator for the Syrian conflict, Lakhdar Brahimi, told the 15-member council that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had accepted Brahimi's plan for an Eid holiday ceasefire. ...

Tunisia jails Salafist leader in U.S. embassy attack for one year

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 04:10 PM PDT

Tunis (Reuters) - A Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced a leader of radical Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia to one year in prison for inciting an attack on the U.S. embassy in Tunis last month in which four people were killed. The conviction of Abu Ayub was the first in connection with the attack - launched to protest against an anti-Islamic film made in California - and is likely to please the United States which has been urging the authorities to jail those responsible. "The judge decided to jail him on charges of inciting violence ... This decision is unfair ... ...

Israel says 79 rockets fired at it from Gaza

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:23 PM PDT

An Israeli police sapper holds the remains of a rocket rocket fired by Palestinian militants after it hit a community along the Israel Gaza Border, southern Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Rockets and mortars from Gaza have pummeled southern Israel, drawing Israeli airstrikes that killed a Palestinian militant. The Israeli military said 60 rockets and mortars were fired early morning Wednesday, following a volley the night before and that Israeli aircraft struck Gaza three times. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians fired dozens of rockets into Israel from Gaza on Wednesday and an Israeli air strike killed a militant, a day after the Emir of Qatar made a rare visit to the enclave's Hamas leadership. Hamas claimed responsibility for some of the rocket and mortar bomb attacks, prompting some Israelis to wonder whether it had been emboldened by the Qatari visit on Tuesday that broke the Islamist group's diplomatic isolation. ...


Pro-government forces seize old Gaddafi bastion Bani Walid

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 10:22 AM PDT

Libyan militias aligned with the defence ministry drive past an empty building in the centre of the former Gaddafi stronghold of Bani WalidBANI WALID, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Libya's government took control of the former Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid on Wednesday, commanders said, after weeks of fighting that have underlined the weakness of central authority more than a year after Libya's revolution. Pro-government fighters shouted "Bani Walid is free!" as pick-up trucks mounted with weapons poured into the center of the isolated hilltop town, one of the last to surrender last year to the rebels who toppled Muammar Gaddafi. ...


3,200 African troops needed to fight Mali rebels

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:14 PM PDT

The African Union on Wednesday pledged to mobilize an African military force to battle al-Qaida-affiliated groups controlling northern Mali.

Number of murdered Somali reporters grows to 16

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:42 PM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, July 11, 2011, journalist Ahmed Saakin Farah, a reporter for the Somali television station Universal, poses for a picture as he attends an annual meeting of the Somaliland Journalists Association in Hargeisa, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. Colleagues say the Somali journalist was shot to death by gunmen Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 in northern Somalia, bringing the number of journalists killed in Somalia this year to 16, most in targeted attacks by gunmen who know there is little chance they will be caught or jailed. (AP Photo/Barkhad Kaariye)The list of murdered Somali journalists keeps growing longer, and no one seems able to stop it.


UN Security Council endorses Syria holiday truce

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:35 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 photo, Syrian residents carry a man severely injured from an artillery shell that landed near a bakery, to a hospital for treatment in Aleppo, Syria. Several were killed and a dozen were injured after the artillery shell that landed near a bakery in Aleppo on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).The U.N. Security Council gave unanimous backing Wednesday to a four-day truce proposed by the international mediator for Syria to mark a major Muslim holiday after he warned that the failure of yet another cease-fire plan would only worsen the fighting.


Auschwitz prisoner and photographer dies at 95

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 01:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2006 photo Wilhelm Brasse speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Zywiec, Poland. Brasse, a former Auschwitz prisoner who survived the camp after the Nazis discovered he was a professional photographer and put him to work taking pictures of other prisoners, has died. He was 95. Brasse was a political prisoner for five years in the Nazi run death camp during World War II, where he took prisoner identity photos and later pictures of SS doctor Josef Mengele's "medical experiments" on camp prisoners. Brasse returned to his hometown after the war, but never worked as a photographer again. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)The images are haunting: naked and emaciated children at Auschwitz standing shoulder-to-shoulder, adult prisoners in striped garb posing for police-style mug shots.


NYT defends incoming chief amid BBC scandal

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 04:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 12, 2007 file photo, British Broadcasting Corporation Director-General Mark Thompson pauses during a news conference calling for the release of kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The child abuse scandal centered on the late BBC star Jimmy Savile has raised some uncomfortable for the corporation's former boss, now only weeks away from taking his position as the chief executive of The New York Times. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)The New York Times stood by its incoming chief Wednesday, even as questions about a BBC child sex abuse scandal followed him from one of Britain's most respected news organizations to one of America's.


In Latin America, incumbents increasingly dominate

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 04:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2007 file photo, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez arrives to a rally in support of changes to the nation's constitution in Caracas, Venezuela. After four election wins, Chavez is on track to completing at least 20 years in power. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)After four election wins, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is on track to completing at least 20 years in power, and supporters such as street bookseller Cristina Tovar say they're glad to have him in charge.


Use of chains denounced by accused in Guantanamo

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 01:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2000 file photo, investigators in a speed boat examine the hull of the USS Cole at the Yemeni port of Aden, after a powerful explosion ripped a hole in the U.S Navy destroyer, killing at least 17 sailors and injuring some 30 others. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi national accused in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship, faces trial in a special tribunal for war-time offenses known as a military commission for allegedly orchestrating the bombing of the USS Cole as well as attacks on two other ships. But his lawyers say that since the U.S. wasn't at war at that time, the 47-year-old shouldn't be tried at Guantanamo. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis, file)The Guantanamo Bay prisoner charged with orchestrating the attack on the Navy destroyer USS Cole denounced his treatment at the hands of the U.S. military, telling the judge in his case on Wednesday that he is subjected to painful and unnecessary security measures.


Hurricane Sandy pounds Jamaica en route to Cuba

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 04:32 PM PDT

Waves, brought by Hurricane Sandy, crash on a house in the Caribbean Terrace neighborhood in eastern Kingston, Jamaica, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Hurricane Sandy pounded Jamaica with heavy rain as it headed for landfall near the country's most populous city on a track that would carry it across the Caribbean island to Cuba, and a possible threat to Florida. (AP Photo/Collin Reid)Hurricane Sandy's howling winds and pelting rains lashed precarious shantytowns, stranded travelers and downed power lines Wednesday as it roared across Jamaica on a course that would take it on to Cuba and then possibly threaten Florida and the Bahamas.


Prison, $7 billion fine for French rogue trader

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:25 PM PDT

FILE - In this June, 4 2012 file photo, French trader Jerome Kerviel arrives at the Paris courthouse. The Paris appeals court on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012, ordered Kerviel, a former Societe Generale trader, to spend three years in prison and pay back a staggering €4.9 billion (about $7 billion) in damages for one of the biggest trading frauds in history. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)A former junior trader for France's second-largest bank who was ordered Wednesday to pay back a staggering €4.9 billion (about $7 billion) in damages to his ex-employer is painting himself as the victim of a financial system that runs on greed.


Gazans blast Israel with rockets, draws airstrikes

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:04 PM PDT

Medics carry a man wounded by a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip, for treatment in Soroka hospital in Beersheba, southern Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. Rockets and mortars from Gaza have pummeled southern Israel, drawing Israeli airstrikes that killed a Palestinian militant. Israeli police say more than 30 rockets and mortars landed in Israel early Wednesday, following a volley the night before. (AP Photo /Dudu Grunshpan) ISRAEL OUTHamas militants in the Gaza Strip fired dozens of rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel on Wednesday in the heaviest bombardment on the area in months, drawing ominous Israeli threats of retaliation and dangers of escalation.


Confounding expectations, global hunger is down (+video)

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 01:05 PM PDT

After famine in Somalia, extreme hunger in Sudan, and increased concern about global food security in recent years, it might have seemed inevitable that world hunger would rise. In 2009, world food experts told us it would.

Will Italy's L'Aquila quake verdict have a chill on science?

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 10:04 AM PDT

Finding a group of Italian scientists guilty of multiple manslaughter charges for failing to give adequate warnings of a massive earthquake in 2009 will paralyze the country's scientific community, critics of the controversial case say.

Momentum builds for Gaza to secede, Israel and West Bank to become one

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 09:43 AM PDT

After decades of the "two states for two people" blueprint more or less dominating proposals for Israeli-Palestinian peace, a new paradigm is gaining momentum. Under this model, Israel absorbs the West Bank and its 2.5 million Palestinians, while Hamas-run Gaza becomes a separate entity aligned with the Middle East's rising Islamist powers.

Will the Tour de France be able to overcome Lance's legacy?

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 09:24 AM PDT

At a ceremony here Wednesday full of high-octane hoopla to unveil next year's route, the Tour de France turned its back on the man who once dominated the event longer than any other, and looked resolutely to the future.

South African police unit prosecuted for fighting violence with thuggery

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 08:46 AM PDT

An elite South African police unit that has previously won praise for its high arrest and conviction rates of dangerous criminals is facing prosecution over accusations it was operating a death squad that executed suspects with impunity.

Russian report criticizes US on human rights, US responds 'bring it on'

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 08:39 AM PDT

Russian officials claim they are tired of being criticized by the United States government for Russia's alleged human rights abuses, democratic deficiencies, and systemic inadequacies, in many cases from a standpoint that's less than objective, often ignorant of cultural relativities and sometimes downright hypocritical.

Brahimi's plan for Syria cease-fire takes two steps forward, one step back

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 06:10 AM PDT

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Why Lebanon isn't headed for civil war

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 05:56 AM PDT

Five days after a devastating bomb attack killed a top Lebanese security chief sparking minor clashes and road blockages by his supporters, a semblance of calm has returned to a country that has little interest in starting a new civil war.

Can a gang truce in El Salvador open the door to lasting peace?

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 05:00 AM PDT

The streets of this city's toughest barrios are quieter than they have been in years – a disquieting tranquility, residents say, because it has come from a truce no one believed possible between two of the country's most violent rival gangs. It is a pact no one can be sure will last, yet hopes are growing.

Covered in tattoos, can El Salvador's gangs reintegrate into society?

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 05:00 AM PDT

What happens when your past life of crime is literally written across your face? For gang members in El Salvador, their characteristic excess of tattoos often betrays their affiliation: 18th Street or Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13).

MS-13 labeled transnational criminal organization. Who are the 'Maras?'

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 05:00 AM PDT

When Salvadorans immigrated to California in large numbers beginning in the late 1970s, fleeing civil war in their homeland, many landed in Los Angeles and collided with the city's gang culture. Facing prejudice and exclusion, and following the example of the city's Mexican criminal gangs, Salvadorans and other Central Americans began to form their own street gangs, known as maras.

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