2012年11月16日星期五

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China's commerce minister voted out in rare congress snub: sources

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 04:07 AM PST

China's Minister of Commerce Chen looks on during a news conference at the 8th WTO Ministerial Conference in GenevaBEIJING (Reuters) - China's commerce minister was surprisingly blocked from a spot on the ruling Communist Party's elite body during a conclave this week, sources said, a rare snub for an official that could raise questions about trade policies during his tenure. The failure of Chen Deming to secure a seat on the 25-member Politburo marks one of the few surprises to emerge from the party's five-yearly congress that wrapped this week with the anointing of a new slate of top leaders who will run the world's second largest economy. ...


Germany and Russia clash on human rights, build trade

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 09:57 AM PST

Russian President Putin walks tith German Chancellor Merkel during their meeting in Moscow's KremlinMOSCOW (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel took Russian President Vladimir Putin to task over a clamp-down on dissent and treatment of the Pussy Riot punk band when they held frosty talks on Friday. But despite the chill descending on relations, they signed a host of economic deals underlining the importance of mutual trade which Putin put at $72 billion in 2011, as well as Germany's dependence on Russia as an energy supplier. Often looking uncomfortable as they sat together at a business forum in the Kremlin, Merkel and Putin tried to put on a show of unity. ...


Iran ready to double nuclear work in bunker: IAEA

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 01:40 PM PST

Chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Salehi makes a speech during ceremony to take delivery of locally produced yellowcake at the UCF plant in IsfahanVIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is set to sharply expand its uranium enrichment in an underground plant after installing all the centrifuges it was built for, a U.N. report said, a move likely to increase Western alarm about Tehran's nuclear course. It also showed that Iran's stockpile of its most sensitive nuclear material - which could relatively quickly be processed further to bomb-grade uranium - had grown and was getting closer to an amount that could be sufficient for a nuclear weapon. ...


Irish PM says won't be rushed on abortion issue

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:09 PM PST

A woman holds a candlelit vigil outside University Hospital Galway in GalwayDUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's prime minister said on Friday he would not be rushed into making a decision on the issue of abortion, after an Indian woman who was refused a termination died from blood poisoning in an Irish hospital. "This is a matter that has divided Irish society now for a great number of years, and I am not going to be rushed into a situation by force of numbers on any side," Prime Minister Enda Kenny told state broadcaster RTE. The Irish government pledged on Thursday to clarify its abortion laws. ...


Jordan protesters call for "downfall of the regime"

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 02:55 PM PST

Riot police arrest an anti-government supporter after the area where some loyalists of the monarchy clashed with a group of anti-government protesters was sealed off in AmmanAMMAN (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators chanted the Arab Spring slogan "the people want the downfall of the regime" in Jordan on Friday, although a day billed as the culmination of three days of protests passed off largely in peace. Jordan has so far largely avoided the unrest that has swept across the Middle East over the past two years, but a decision this week to raise fuel prices led to the demonstrations. ...


U.S. House approves Russia trade bill with human rights slap

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 02:27 PM PST

Darkness sets in over the U.S. Capitol building hours before U.S. President Obama is set to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Friday to "name and shame" Russian human rights violators as part of a broader bill to drop Cold War-era trade restrictions, brushing off warnings from Moscow that the move would damage relations. The House voted 365-43 to approve the legislation, which takes a jab at the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin while ensuring U.S. companies get the full benefits of Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization on August 22. ...


Putin provokes criticism with Pussy Riot anti-Semitism charge

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:53 PM PST

Members of the female punk band "Pussy Riot" sit in a glass-walled cage before a court hearing in MoscowMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin provoked angry criticism from bloggers and activists on Friday when he suggested to German Chancellor Angela Merkel that one of the jailed women from the Pussy Riot punk band was anti-Semitic. Putin made his comments after Merkel made clear she saw the two-year sentences the women were serving for a raucous protest against him in a church as excessive. ...


Italy president indicates March 10 as possible vote day

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 02:22 PM PST

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's president indicated on Friday that he was open to holding national elections on March 10 - a month earlier than foreseen - if parliament passes key legislation first. Markets have been awaiting a signal on when the elections might be because of their desire that the next government continue economic reforms to overcome the debt crisis started by Prime Minister Mario Monti's year-old technocrat administration. ...

Close Sierra Leone vote carries high hopes for growth

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 03:08 PM PST

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leoneans vote on Saturday in elections they hope can propel the small West African state into an era of prosperity based on mining and oil after a decade of difficult recovery from civil war. The presidential and parliamentary polls, the third held since the end of the 1991-2002 conflict, pit President Ernest Bai Koroma and his ruling All People's Congress (APC) against challenger Julius Maada Bio, a former junta leader who represents the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). ...

Hamas targets Jerusalem in major escalation

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 03:33 PM PST

Israeli soldiers with armored vehicles gather in a staging ground near the border with Gaza Strip, southern Israel, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Gaza militants are continuing for the third day.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)Palestinian militants took aim at Jerusalem for the first time Friday, launching a rocket attack on the holy city in a major escalation of hostilities as Israel pressed forward with a relentless campaign of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.


Analysis: Israel-Hamas: a clash waiting to happen

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 01:24 PM PST

Israeli soldiers with armored vehicles gather in a staging ground near the border with Gaza Strip, southern Israel, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Gaza militants are continuing for the third day.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)Since Israel completed a devastating military offensive in the Gaza Strip four years ago, military officials have warned it was only a matter of time before the next round of fighting. Violence erupted this week with little warning, driven by Hamas' ambitions to make its mark on a changing Middle East and an Israeli government reacting to public outcry over rocket attacks just weeks ahead of national elections.


Gaza kids at risk in crowded urban battle zone

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 01:46 PM PST

Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, and Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil, left, hold the body of a Palestinian boy they claim was killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza City, as they show the body to the media at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Neighbors said the boy was killed in a blast around 8:30 a.m. Friday, around the time Kandil was entering the territory. Israel, which ordinarily confirms strikes, vociferously denied carrying out any form of attack in the area since the previous night. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hams, Pool)The image of a dead preschooler cradled by the prime ministers of Egypt and Gaza in a hospital hallway has drawn attention to the dangers Gaza's children face in this crowded urban battle zone.


Tel Aviv: Beloved oasis outraged by rocket fire

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 01:19 PM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 10, 2012 file photo, people enjoy the Mediterranean Sea in Tel Aviv, Israel. The freewheeling seaside oasis of Tel Aviv has long served as an escape from the troubles of everyday Israel. Thanks partly to its vibrant nightlife and balmy climate, it's also developed an international reputation as a fun place to visit _ and one of the few places in the Middle East where gays feel free to walk hand-in-hand and kiss in public. In the tech industry, the bustling metropolis is known as a hub of innovative companies. Now, for the first time ever, Tel Aviv is also the target of Iranian-made rockets fired by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)Leehee Goldenberg was having lunch at an outdoor cafe in Tel Aviv, Israel's largest metropolis, when an air-raid siren wailed. She and other diners knew the drill: They dashed inside the coffee shop and kept away from the windows. Then, from a distance, came the boom. Minutes later, everyone was back outdoors, chatting loudly.


Egypt president toughens rhetoric on Israel

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 11:16 AM PST

Protesters chant slogans and carry a desecrated representation of an American flag during demonstrations against the Israeli invasion of Gaza, while marching through the streets towards Tahrir square after Friday prayers in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov.16, 2012. In his Friday sermon at Al-Azhar mosque, influential cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, not shown, said the Islamic world would not be silent in the face of Israel's military operation in Gaza. Arabic writing reads, "death to Israel and death to America." (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)Egypt's Islamist president delivered his fiercest condemnation yet of Israel's offensive in Gaza on Friday, warning that the blood Israel sheds will be a "curse upon it" and presenting post-revolution Egypt as the new Arab champion for the Palestinians.


Casualties, attacks in Israel-Hamas conflict

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 02:57 PM PST

The Iron Dome defense system fires to interecpt incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the army is prepared for a Casualties and attacks in the Israel-Hamas conflict:


UN nuclear agency: Iran poised to expand nuke work

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:59 PM PST

FILE - In this April 8, 2008 file photo provided by the Iranian President's Office, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran. Iran is on threshold of boosting output of material that can be turned quickly into weapons-grade uranium at an underground plant that is heavily fortified against attack, diplomats told The Associated Press on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Iranian President's Office, File) NO SALESIran is poised to double its output of higher-enriched uranium at its fortified underground facility, the U.N. nuclear agency said Friday — a development that puts Tehran within months of being able to make the core of a nuclear warhead.


Joy in Croatia as UN overturns 2 key convictions

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 09:39 AM PST

Croatian Gen. Ante Gotovina, right and Gen. Mladen Markac hold the Croatian flag upon their arrival to the airport in Zagreb, Croatia, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal overturned the convictions of the two Croat generals on Friday for murdering and illegally expelling Serb civilians in a 1995 military blitz, and ordered both men to be freed immediately. (AP Photo/Nikola Solic)Chanting "Victory! Victory!," waving red-and-white checkered flags and dancing in the streets, tens of thousands of jubilant supporters gave two Croatian generals a hero's welcome Friday after a U.N. war crimes tribunal overturned their convictions for murdering and expelling Serb civilians during a 1995 military blitz.


In troubled Egypt, Copts turn to beloved saint

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 11:06 AM PST

In this Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012 picture, a young Coptic young girl pilgrim gets a tattoo during a ceremony at Mar Girgis Monastery, near Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's Christian minority, about 10 percent of the population of more than 80 million, has long complained of discrimination. But Christians fear things are reaching a crisis point since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak nearly two years ago and the subsequent rise to power of Islamists. The Church itself is undergoing a major transition: A new pope, Tawadros II, is to be enthroned in Cairo on Sunday, succeeding Shenouda III, the man who led the Church for 40 years and was revered by Copts as their protector until his death in March. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)There was no mention of churches torched or Christians killed, but the prayer neatly written on a tiny piece of paper and placed atop an icon of St. George in the chapel of a desert monastery left no doubt about the growing fear and despair of Egypt's Coptic Christians.


Tony Blair's father Leo Blair dies at 89

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:29 PM PST

Leo Blair, father of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has died at the age of 89.

IAEA: Iran making steady advances on nuclear program

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:56 PM PST

The UN's nuclear watchdog agency says Iran is making steady advances in its nuclear program, boosting its uranium enrichment capacity as diplomatic efforts to limit it nuclear work are due to resume.

Germany's Merkel pays Putin a prickly visit

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 09:03 AM PST

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a tense meeting in the Kremlin Friday, as both clearly struggled to reconcile the rising political acrimony between their countries with their long-standing and increasingly important economic partnership.

Jordan's crisis: Is an uneasy peace emerging?

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 10:54 AM PST

Three days after Jordan's government sparked nationwide riots by drastically reducing subsidies on fuel, tensions remain high.

As sirens blare, Israel seeks to punish Hamas without occupying Gaza

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 08:21 AM PST

The three-day war between Hamas and Israel seemed on the cusp of a major escalation Friday afternoon despite hopes the visit of Egypt's prime minister to Gaza would inspire calm. Sirens warning of an incoming missile rang through the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, a rocket from Gaza reportedly struck outside Jerusalem, and Israel called up thousands of reservists for a potential ground invasion.

A role reversal as former colonies meet former colonists at Ibero-American summit

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 08:20 AM PST

On Friday in the historic Spanish port city of Cádiz, the leaders of Spain, Portugal, and Latin American nations gathered for the 22nd annual Ibero-American summit. But unlike past meetings, the European nations are no longer running the show: now the former colonists are seeking help from their empowered cousins.

For both Hamas and Israel, there are reasons to escalate

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 07:09 AM PST

Israel and Palestinian militants in the besieged Gaza Strip are veering dangerously close to getting locked into a cycle of retaliation and revenge that could run for weeks.

Volunteer Square matches willing helpers with charitable tasks

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 06:45 AM PST

It's eHarmony for volunteers.

How China views Obama's trip to Myanmar

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 06:21 AM PST

As President Obama heads to Myanmar, Cambodia, and Thailand on Saturday, China is keeping a wary eye on the latest US move in the sometimes bruising tussle between the two giants for influence in the region.

Gaza: Brief cease-fire shattered, Israeli troops mass outside Strip

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 05:52 AM PST

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Where Syria's opposition groups get their rockets

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 04:30 AM PST

While the battle for Aleppo grinds on in Syria's largest city, behind the front lines hums an operation crucial to the fight: homemade weapons manufacturing.

Why Mumbai is so gripped by the status of right-wing Bal Thackeray

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 03:32 PM PST

Reports that controversial right-wing leader Bal Thackeray was critically ill put Mumbai on tense hold for much of Thursday while raising questions about the future of his party, the Shiv Sena, which controls the city government and is an important member of India's opposition group, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance.

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