2012年10月7日星期日

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Venezuela presidential vote looks set for close finish

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 04:06 PM PDT

Venezuela's President and presidential candidate Hugo Chavez waves as he arrives at a school to cast his vote during the presidential election in Caracas(Venezuelan election law prohibits any publication of results inside the country before an official announcement from the election board) CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's presidential election looked headed for a close finish on Sunday with President Hugo Chavez facing an unprecedented challenge to his socialist rule from a young rival tapping into discontent over crime and cronyism. ...


Turkey fires artillery into Syria after shelling

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 01:50 PM PDT

Smoke rises at the Akcakale border gate after a shell fired from Syria landed on the Turkish-Syrian border in Sanliurfa provinceISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish forces fired across the frontier into Syria on Sunday after a shell launched from Syria landed in Turkey's border town of Akcakale, underlining Ankara's warning that it will respond with force to any violence spilling over into its territory. It was the fifth consecutive day of Turkish retaliation against incoming bombardment from northern Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad's forces have been battling rebels who control swathes of land close to the Turkish frontier. ...


Hacking victims pressure British PM on media rules

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 11:42 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Cameron arrives at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, central EnglandLONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain would avoid "heavy-handed state intervention" of its national press after phone hacking victims urged him on Sunday to remain open-minded about the recommendations of an inquiry into media ethics. Actor Hugh Grant, singer Charlotte Church and more than 50 other victims of press intrusion said in letter to Cameron they feared he had already decided to reject statutory regulation of the media before the inquiry's findings were published. ...


Mali's Tuareg rebels soften separatist stance

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 12:57 PM PDT

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Mali's main Tuareg rebel group said on Sunday it was no longer seeking to carve out a sovereign desert homeland, softening its stance as it seeks Western support to rout Islamists that have taken over the region. In April the MNLA had declared an independent state in Mali's north called Azawad, days after a coup in Mali's southern capital Bamako, but Al Qaeda-linked Islamists later hijacked the rebellion and took control of the vast territory. ...

Migrants, church may end Malaysia government's Borneo vote bank

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 02:14 PM PDT

Locals from Sabah wave Malaysian flags during the Malaysia Day celebrations marking Sabah's entry into Malaysia, in Kota KinabaluKOTA KINABALU, Malaysia (Reuters) - Housewife Fawziah Abdul wants to thank former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad for making her a citizen 10 years after she illegally slipped into Borneo from the southern Philippines in search of a better life. The 50-year-old lives on the outskirts of Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Malaysia's Sabah state, where her tin-roofed shack jostles for space with more than 1,000 others in a slum where children play beside heaps of rubbish. She is hopeful that her three children will get a new home and identity cards if she votes for the government again. ...


China must reform or risk crisis, experts warn new leader

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 02:26 PM PDT

File photo of China's Vice President Xi listening to U.S. Secretary of Defense Panetta in BeijingBEIJING (Reuters) - China risks economic malaise, deepening unrest and ultimately even a crisis that could shake the Communist Party's grip on power unless its next leader, Xi Jinping, pushes through stalled reforms, experts close to the government have warned. The warnings, striking for their openly urgent tone, have been aired both inside the party and publicly, and reflect an internal debate about the direction of the new leadership that takes power next month. ...


Southeast Asia splashes out on defense, mostly maritime

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 02:25 PM PDT

File photo of crew members of a South Korean destroyer firing an anti-submarine torpedo during military drills in the Yellow Sea of South KoreaSINGAPORE (Reuters) - Indonesia is buying submarines from South Korea and coastal radar systems from China and the United States. Vietnam is getting submarines and combat jets from Russia, while Singapore - the world's fifth-largest weapons importer - is adding to its sophisticated arsenal. Wary of China and flush with economic success, Southeast Asia is ramping up spending on military hardware to protect the shipping lanes, ports and maritime boundaries that are vital to the flow of exports and energy. ...


Libyan assembly passes vote of no confidence dismissing prime minister

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 03:44 PM PDT

Libya's Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur speaks at a news conference in TripoliTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's national congress dismissed the newly elected prime minister on Sunday in a vote of no confidence which underscored the difficulties of forming a government which can unite the country's different factions and regions. The vote came minutes after prime minister Mustafa Abushagur named 10 new ministers - his second and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to form a government - after he was forced to withdraw his previous cabinet in the face of protests. ...


Ivory Coast to reopen border with Ghana following 2-week closure

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 02:29 PM PDT

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast announced it would reopen its border with eastern neighbor Ghana on Monday, more than two weeks after it was shut over a series of deadly attacks Ivorian officials said were launched from Ghanaian territory. The Ivorian government blamed the raids, which targeted police and army installations in the commercial capital Abidjan and a border town on September 20 and 21, on supporters of former president Laurent Gbagbo currently living in exile in Ghana. ...

Israeli air strike wounds two militants, eight bystanders in Gaza Strip

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 12:03 PM PDT

Wounded Palestinian boy speaks on the phone with his family following an Israeli air strike in RafahGAZA (Reuters) - A missile fired by an Israeli aircraft hit and wounded two Palestinian militants and eight bystanders in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian hospital officials said. The militants were riding a motorcycle near the town of Rafah which borders Egypt's Sinai peninsula. One of them and a bystander were in a critical condition, the officials said. The bystanders included three children, a woman and an elderly man. ...


Israeli jets fly mock raids over south Lebanon

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 11:33 AM PDT

Israeli Army vehicles and helicopters are seen in an open area as they search for the remains of a drone in the Negev southern Israel, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012. Israeli jets scrambled to intercept a drone that crossed into Israeli airspace Saturday from the Mediterranean Sea, bringing it down without incident in the south of the country, a military spokeswoman said. (AP Photo/Yehuda Lachiani) ISRAEL OUTIsraeli warplanes swooped low over Lebanese villages Sunday in a menacing show of force apparently aimed at the Hezbollah guerrilla group after a mysterious raid by an unmanned aircraft that was shot out of Israeli skies over the weekend.


Iran rulers eye currency mess from protected perch

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 09:35 AM PDT

An Iranian man tries to sell carpets at the main entrance of the Tehran's old main bazaar in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. Iran's parliament on Sunday abandoned its planned impeachment of a Cabinet minister over the free-fall of the country's currency, opting instead to look for more effective economic measures, like cutting spending. The aborted move to impeach the minister reflects unease over the severe drop in the value of the Iranian rial, mostly because of Western sanctions over Iran's suspect nuclear program. On Sunday the parliament approved outlines of a bill to restrict the government's use of different exchange rates for its foreign revenue and requiring the return of some funds to the treasury. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)Just as Iran's currency was rattling near bottom after a stunning free fall, officials in Tehran opened a trade exhibition that included advanced engineering tools, heavy machinery and robotics. Nearly every Iranian booth had some connection to the country's powerful Revolutionary Guard and the ruling system it safeguards.


Venezuela vote a critical test for divided nation

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 04:12 PM PDT

Residents wait in line at a polling station to vote in the presidential election in the Catia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. President Hugo Chavez is running for re-election against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)President Hugo Chavez's crusade to transform Venezuela into a socialist state, which has bitterly divided the nation, was put to the stiffest electoral test of his nearly 14 years in power on Sunday in a closely fought presidential election.


Russia celebrates Putin's 60th birthday in fanfare

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 09:28 AM PDT

A giant Russian President Vladimir Putin billboard reading "Good that you came. Happy Birthday" set up by a group of an unknown movement on a building, which faces the Kremlin , is seen in downtown Moscow early Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. Vladimir Putin turns 60-years old on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, and has recently sought to demonstrate his youthful vigor by many personal endeavors, but while he has shown creativity in his action-man stunts, the Russian president seems surprisingly vulnerable to the vagaries of oil prices. AP Photo/Ridus.ru, Anton Belitsky)Kremlin officials like to insist Russian President Vladimir Putin does not care for big birthday bashes and that he was to spend his 60th on Sunday quietly celebrating with close friends and family in his home city, St. Petersburg. However, the president's supporters don't appear to have received the memo, and so the day saw an unprecedented exhibition of Putin-idolatry reminiscent of some of the world's oddest cults of personality.


Documentary shows Putin in uncompromising mood

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 12:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 2010 photo released on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin carries a hunting rifle during his trip in Ubsunur Hollow in the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), on the border with Mongolia, Russia. Vladimir Putin turns 60-years old on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, and has recently sought to demonstrate his youthful vigor by many personal endeavors, but while he has shown creativity in his action-man stunts, the Russian president seems surprisingly vulnerable to the vagaries of oil prices. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service, file)Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a first-person documentary aired on his 60th birthday Sunday that the current generation of opposition leaders needs to be cast aside and he brushed aside concerns the two-year jail sentence for punk bank Pussy Riot was too severe.


Egypt's new president gives himself high grades

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 01:47 PM PDT

In this image released by the Egyptian Presidency taken on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, waves to the crowd gathered in a stadium upon his arrival for a speech on the 6th of October national holiday marking the 1973 war with Israel in Cairo, Egypt. Morsi boasts of his achievements in his first 100 days in office but sidesteps the key issues in the political transition to democratic rule. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has given himself high grades on his handling of some of the nation's pressing problems, spending much of a nearly two-hour speech late Saturday talking in painstaking detail about fuel, trash and bread, while sidestepping key issues in the nation's transition to democratic rule.


Rothko mural defaced at London's Tate Modern

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 02:03 PM PDT

A vandal scrawled graffiti on a mural by modern American master Mark Rothko at London's Tate Modern on Sunday.

Afghan war enters 12th year

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 08:52 AM PDT

In this Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 photo, Wahidullah, 32, whose spine was pierced by a bullet during the civil war that left him crippled, poses for a photograph in front of Darul Aman Palace which was damaged during the civil war in Kabul, Afghanistan. Wahidullah was a teenager when he fought in west Kabul during the civil war. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)Nobody wants a repeat of the bloody ethnic fighting that followed the Soviet exit from Afghanistan in the 1990s — least of all 32-year-old Wahidullah who was crippled by a bullet that pierced his spine during the civil war.


Philippines, Muslim rebels forge peace pact

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 07:36 AM PDT

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III delivers a speech on national television at the Malacanang Presidential Palace in Manila, Philippines on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. Aquino said Sunday that his government has reached a preliminary peace agreement with the nation's largest Muslim rebel group in a major breakthrough toward ending a decades-long insurgency in the country's south. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)Philippine President Benigno Aquino III announced Sunday that his government has reached a preliminary peace deal with the nation's largest Muslim rebel group in a major breakthrough toward ending a decades-long insurgency.


France boosts security at religious sites

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 11:51 AM PDT

A man leaves Argenteuil synagogue, west of Paris, Sunday Oct. 7, 2012. France is boosting security at Jewish religious sites after blank bullets were fired on the synagogue .French President Francois Hollande met Sunday with leaders of the country's Jewish community amid renewed concerns about anti-Semitism, and pledged to fight extremism and anti-Semitism "with the greatest firmness." A representative of the synagogue said the building was targeted with about eight blank bullets and services were canceled. No one was hurt in the incident.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)France is boosting security at Jewish and other religious sites after blanks were fired at a synagogue and police accused a suspected cell of radical Islamists of ties to a grenade attack on a kosher grocery.


France's Hollande vows more security after raids on Islamic network

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 09:59 AM PDT

French President François Hollande pledged on Sunday to increase security around synagogues and introduce tougher anti-terrorism measures, a day after a series of police raids dismantled a radical Islamist network that targeted Jews.

Gauging poverty from Appalachia to Africa

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 08:57 AM PDT

When New Yorkers find out I grew up in West Virginia, they often ask if I've read "The Glass Castle." Jeannette Walls's memoir, on The New York Times bestseller list for an absurd 288 weeks now, is about growing up poor. At one point she lived in Welch, W.Va., where her house leaks and freezes, where she makes her lunch out of sandwiches kids throw away in the bathroom at school – and some days that's all she eats.

Below the line: Poverty in America

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 08:56 AM PDT

Technically, Linda Criswell steals her fruit.

Can a dying language revive Lebanon's Christian population?

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Lebanon's most prominent Christian group, the Maronites, used to be so influential that the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat quipped that "The road to Jerusalem passes through Jounieh," referring to a town north of Beirut that was a stronghold for Lebanese Christian militias.

No more paninis on the piazza? Rome bars tourists from eating at historical sites

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 06:00 AM PDT

It is one of the simplest, most affordable pleasures of any visit to Rome: tucking into a piece of pizza, or a panino stuffed with prosciutto and mozzarella, while marveling at the city's ancient monuments. But not anymore.

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