2012年10月29日星期一

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Air strikes, car bombs wreck last day of Syria "truce"

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:50 AM PDT

Smoke rises from what activists say was a missile fired by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at ErbeenBEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian jets bombed parts of Damascus on Monday in what residents said were the capital's fiercest air raids yet, at the end of what was supposed to be a four-day truce. "More than 100 buildings have been destroyed, some leveled to the ground," said opposition activist Moaz al-Shami. "Whole neighbourhoods are deserted." Each side in the 19-month-old conflict between President Bashar al-Assad and rebels blamed the other for breaking the truce proposed by peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to mark a Muslim holiday. Two car bombs rocked the capital on Monday, state media ...


Clinton presses Algeria on Mali intervention plan

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 03:40 PM PDT

Algerian President Bouteflika shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Clinton as she arrives for meetings in AlgiersALGIERS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed regional power Algeria on Monday to support an Africa-led military intervention in northern Mali, a senior U.S. official said. Clinton's one-day visit comes amid mounting international pressure on Algeria over the crisis in Mali, where a March military coup was followed by a revolt that has seen Tuareg rebels and Islamist militants, some linked to al Qaeda, seize control of the northern two-thirds of the country. The senior U.S. ...


Germany's Schaeuble tells skeptical UK "EU needs you"

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:36 PM PDT

German Finance Minister Schaeuble speaks during a reception to celebrate his 70th birthday in BerlinOXFORD (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble urged Britain on Monday to remain strongly engaged in the European Union, responding to a tide of Euroskepticism that Berlin fears could sweep London towards the exit. Schaeuble's plea, delivered during a visit to Oxford University, came days after British Foreign Secretary William Hague mapped out a very different vision of a much looser EU in which Britain would opt out of many policies. Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would visit Britain, an "important partner", for talks with Prime Minister David Cameron next week. ...


Netanyahu wins party mandate for alliance with far right

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:51 AM PDT

Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks during a Likud central committee meeting in Tel AvivJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday overcame opposition within his party to an alliance with a far-right group that opinion polls predict will help him triumph in a January election. Netanyahu had angered many Likud party faithful with a surprise announcement on Thursday of the merger with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's ultra-nationalist party. ...


Russian punk band "risk lives" in Soviet-style prisons

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 11:57 AM PDT

Members of the female punk band "Pussy Riot" sit in a glass-walled cage before a court hearing in MoscowMOSCOW (Reuters) - Two women from punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to jail for an anti-Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral face harsh, Soviet-style prison camps where their lives may be in danger due to a lack of medicine and no hot water amid sub-zero winter temperatures, according to a recently released band member. Pussy Riot's protest has attracted global attention because of the two-year jail sentences meted out to its members for what prosecutors called "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred". ...


Anti-corruption crusader rattles India's political class

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:39 PM PDT

Arvind Kejriwal, a social activist and anti-corruption campaigner, works on his laptop after his interview in GhaziabadNEW DELHI (Reuters) - From a shabby house in one of New Delhi's grimmest suburbs, a mild-mannered former tax official has launched a salvo of accusations of corruption involving some of India's most powerful people, rocking the political establishment. In quick succession, Arvind Kejriwal has publicly leveled charges of shady dealings against the son-in-law of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, the outgoing law minister and the leader of the main opposition party. ...


Senegal's Sall replaces interior, foreign ministers in reshuffle

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 04:27 PM PDT

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegalese President Macky Sall has fired his interior and foreign ministers in his first cabinet reshuffle since taking office six months ago, the government announced on state television late on Monday. Interior Minister Mbaye Ndiaye had come under heavy criticism for his handling of a riot by supporters of a jailed religious leader who smashed car windows, set fire to buses, and ransacked shops in the capital Dakar last week. He was replaced by retired general Pathe Seck. ...

Storm damages crops in Haiti, fueling food price woes

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:53 AM PDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - As Hurricane Sandy barreled toward the U.S. East Coast on Monday, the full extent of the storm's havoc on Haiti was just beginning to emerge. Extensive damage to crops throughout the southern third of the country, as well as the high potential for a spike in cases of cholera and other water-borne diseases, could mean Haiti will see the deadliest effects of Sandy in the coming days and weeks. Haiti reported the highest death toll in the Caribbean, as swollen rivers and landslides claimed at least 52 lives, according to the country's Civil Protection office. ...

Turkish police fire tear gas at banned secularist march

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:22 PM PDT

Demonstrators run as police use tear gas to disperse them in central AnkaraANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of secularists protesting at a banned rally in the capital on Monday against what they see as an increasingly authoritarian and Islamist government. The scenes of chanting men and women draped in Turkish flags and carrying banners portraying the country's founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk highlight a longstanding division in Turkish society between staunch secularists on the one hand and more conservative religious Turks on the other. ...


Ukraine ruling party ahead in vote monitors call flawed

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 02:21 PM PDT

Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) attend a news conference in KievKIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich's party was on course on Monday to secure a new parliamentary majority, but international monitors condemned the election as flawed and said the country had taken a step back under his leadership. Exit polls and partial results from Sunday's vote showed Yanukovich's Party of the Regions would, with help from long-time allies, win more than half the seats in the 450-member assembly after boosting public sector wages and welfare handouts to win over disillusioned voters in its traditional power bases. ...


Syrian regime launches nationwide airstrikes

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:58 PM PDT

In this Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 photo. A rebel fighter throws a homemade grenade towards Syrian army troops on the frontline in the Bustan Al-Pasha neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. Syria's air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs on rebel strongholds while opposition fighters attacked regime positions, flouting a U.N.-backed cease-fire that was supposed to quiet fighting over a long holiday weekend but never took hold. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syria's troubles started 19 months ago.


Pearson, Bertelsmann confirm publishing tie-up

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 11:44 AM PDT

A book on display with the penguin logo. in Cirencester, England. Pearson PLC will merge its Penguin Books division with Random House, which is owned by German media company Bertelsmann, in an all-share deal that will create the world's largest publisher of consumer books, it was reported on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. The planned joint venture brings together classic and best-selling names. As well as publishing books from authors such as John Grisham, Random House scored a major hit this year with "Fifty Shades of Grey." Penguin has a strong backlist, including George Orwell, Jack Kerouac and John Le Carre. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVETwo of the world's biggest publishing houses are to link up in a deal that will bring the writings of classics like George Orwell's "1984" and this year's literary phenomenon "Fifty Shades of Grey" under one umbrella.


Al-Qaida claims deadly holiday attacks in Iraq

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:38 AM PDT

An al-Qaida affiliated group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for wave of attacks that killed dozens of people in the past two days during a major Muslim holiday.

Cuba's 2nd city without power, water after Sandy

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:45 PM PDT

In this Oct. 26, 2012 photo, residents walk past tree branches and power lines felled by Hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba. Residents of Cuba's second city continued to find themselves without power or running water, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, four days after Hurricane Sandy hit. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)Residents of Cuba's second-largest city of Santiago remained without power or running water Monday, four days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall as the island's deadliest storm in seven years, ripping rooftops from homes and toppling power lines.


UK police take some blame for Savile case

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 07:28 AM PDT

The head of Britain's Metropolitan Police says authorities and others failed to notice a pattern of behavior that indicated that entertainer Jimmy Savile may have been sexually abusing young girls.

China steps carefully with protesting middle class

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 06:21 AM PDT

Chinese police officers monitor residents gathered outside the city government office in Ningbo city in eastern China's Zhejiang province Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. After three days of protests by thousands of citizens over pollution fears, a local Chinese government relented and agreed that the petrochemical factory would not be expanded, only to see the protests persist. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)A victory by protesters against the expansion of a chemical plant proves the new rule in China: The authoritarian government is scared of middle-class rebellion and will give in if the demonstrators' aims are limited and not openly political.


Ukraine's ruling party leads in vote called biased

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 04:22 PM PDT

Election commission officials count ballots at a polling station in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Ukrainians are electing a parliament on Sunday in a crucial vote tainted by the jailing of top opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and fears of election fraud. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)The Ukrainian president's party will retain its strong grip on power, according to returns Monday from a parliamentary election that was criticized by Western observers as unfair and biased against the opposition.


Egypt: Coptic Church moves toward picking new pope

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:41 PM PDT

A Coptic clergymen, center, casts his ballot during the new Coptic Pope elections at the main Coptic cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. A council of Egypt's Coptic Christians is voting Monday in a process that will elect a new spiritual leader for the ancient church as the community struggles to assert its identity and role amid a rising tide of Islamism that has left many Copts fearful for their future. (AP Photo/Sami Wahib)A council of Egypt's Coptic Christians voted on Monday in a process that will lead to the selection of a new pope for the ancient church, as the community struggles to assert its identity and rights in a rising tide of Islamism that has left many Copts fearful for their future.


US seeks Algeria's support in possible Mali move

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:53 PM PDT

Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci, centre, greets US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, upon her arrival at Houari Boumediene Airport, in Algiers, Algeria, Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. US Secretary Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is on a five-day trip overseas to increase pressure on Mali's al-Qaida-linked rebels and help Balkan nations end long-simmering ethnic and political disagreements. (AP Photo, Saul Loeb, Pool)U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought Algeria's assistance on Monday for any future military intervention in Mali, pressing the North African nation to provide intelligence — if not boots on the ground — to help rout the al-Qaida-linked militants across its southern border.


France eyes 'Google Tax' for French websites

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:46 PM PDT

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, second from right, arrives at the Elysee Palace for a meeting with French President Francois Hollande, in Paris, Monday Oct. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)French President Francois Hollande is considering a pushing for a new tax that would see search engines such as Google have to pay each time they use content from French media.


'Pragmatic' Rutte to lead new Dutch coalition government

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

The next time Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has a summit with other European leaders in Brussels, he will be in a shrinking camp of political survivors.

Is the detritus of the Iraq war harming the babies of Fallujah?

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:34 AM PDT

Anecdotal tales of inexplicable sickness and deformities have abounded in Iraq for years. In their broad brushstrokes, they seem plausible. The first Gulf War had littered much of Iraq with depleted uranium from the armor-piercing bullets the US used to destroy Saddam Hussein's retreating columns in1991. (The Monitor's Scott Peterson traveled around Baghdad with a Geiger counter in 2003 and found plenty of "hot spots" more than a decade later).

Chile drops mandatory vote – and a few incumbent mayors

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:13 AM PDT

Chileans replaced pro-government mayors in many of its most important municipalities yesterday, in the country's first election without mandatory voting. It marked a reverse for the administration of President Sebastian Piñera, who three years ago became the first elected conservative president in Chile in decades.

The real reason China-Japan are locked in a territory dispute

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 10:11 AM PDT

As China and Japan spar over control of a group of tiny islets in the sea between them, the deeper issue is really the question of which of Asia's two biggest economies will gain control first of the valuable oil and natural gas located there.

Ukraine elections confirm divisions over Russia, Europe

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 09:05 AM PDT

The party of Ukraine's incumbent President Viktor Yanukovych looks on track to win a majority in the 450-seat State Rada, or parliament, after a hard-fought election campaign that seems to have done little more than confirm the hard, enduring political divisions between the country's Ukrainian-speaking Europe-leaning west, moderate center, and the Russian-speaking and Moscow-oriented east.

Venezuela prioritizes 'happiness' in its national budget

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 08:55 AM PDT

Happiness is serious business in Venezuela.

Home to Tintin and Smurfs, Belgium looks to reinvigorate comic industry

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 08:02 AM PDT

It may now be dominated by American superheros and Japanese manga, but the comic book industry was once associated with no country more than Belgium. Through much of the last century, this small, Western European nation played an outsized role in shaping comics through iconic characters like Tintin and the Smurfs.

Airstrikes, car bombs in Syria leave brief cease-fire in tatters

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 07:15 AM PDT

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Is Europe really on the brink?

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 06:32 AM PDT

In the 2012 London Olympic Games, who won the most medals? Yes, the United States garnered 104, and China captured 88. Nicely done!

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