2012年11月25日星期日

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Egypt's Mursi to meet judges over power grab

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 03:14 PM PST

Protesters run from riot police during clashes at Tahrir square in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi will meet senior judges on Monday to try to ease a crisis over his seizure of new powers which has set off violent protests reminiscent of last year's revolution which brought him to power. Egypt's stock market plunged on Sunday in its first day open since Mursi issued a decree late on Thursday temporarily widening his powers and shielding his decisions from judicial review, drawing accusations he was behaving like a new dictator. ...


Syrian rebels take airbase in slow progress toward Damascus

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 07:52 AM PST

Members of the Free Syrian Army gather as gunfire is heard between them and the armed Kurds of The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in the northern Syrian town of Ras al-AinAMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said on Sunday they had captured a helicopter base east of Damascus after an overnight assault, their latest gain in a costly battle to unseat President Bashar al-Assad that is drawing nearer to his seat of power. The Marj al-Sultan base, 15 km (10 miles) from the capital, is the second military facility on the outskirts of the city reported to have fallen to Assad's opponents this month. Activists said rebels had destroyed two helicopters and taken 15 prisoners. ...


"Shadow of Roh" neck and neck with dictator's daughter before South Korea polls

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:11 PM PST

Park Geun-hye, South Korea's ruling Saenuri Party's presidential candidate, listens to a reporter's question during a news conference at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents' Club in SeoulSEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's December presidential election looks set to turn into a referendum on two of the country's most polarizing leaders as the daughter of military dictator Park Chung-hee faces off against a former aide to ex-President Roh Moo-hyun. Park's authoritarian rule propelled South Korea from poverty to the cusp of developed-nation status and ended when he was assassinated in 1979. ...


Voters in tsunami-hit zone feel let down as Japan election nears

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:50 PM PST

File photo of victims observing a minute of silence to remember the earthquake and tsunami at a shelter in Kamaishi, Iwate prefecture.IWAKI/KAMAISHI, Japan (Reuters) - Three weeks before Japan's first national election since the March 2011 earthquake, none of the contenders has managed to win the hearts, and votes, of those hardest-hit by the disaster - with many feeling let down by the entire political class. Volunteers and donations had poured in after the magnitude 9.0 quake off the northeast coast of Japan's main island Honshu unleashed a deadly tsunami that killed nearly 19,000 and triggered reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant. ...


China's princelings come of age in new leadership

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:19 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - In China they are known as "princelings" — the privileged children of the revolutionary founders of the People's Republic of China. And in the generational leadership change that just took place in Beijing, it could not have been clearer that having the right family bloodlines is among the most important attributes an ambitious cadre could possess. Of the seven men who now comprise the Communist Party's new politburo standing committee, the apex of political power in China, four are members of "the red aristocracy", led by the new general secretary of the party, Xi Jinping. ...

European lawmaker Strasser on trial for corruption

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 02:03 PM PST

VIENNA (Reuters) - Disgraced Austrian politician Ernst Strasser goes on trial on Monday in a corruption case that has undermined trust in European and Austrian institutions. The former Austrian interior minister and European lawmaker could face 10 years in jail if convicted, after being caught on camera offering to propose amendments to European laws in exchange for 100,000 euros ($130,000 a year). Strasser, 56, was exposed last year by undercover journalists from Britain's Sunday Times posing as lobbyists. ...

Eight dead, human remains found in northern Mexico

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:43 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities discovered the bodies of eight men and the remains of others in the northern state of Chihuahua over the weekend, the local government said on Sunday. The eight victims, who were aged 30-35, were found by a road roughly 50 miles south of the city of Chihuahua. The victims had been tortured and shot in the head, a spokesman for the state government said. State prosecutors also found a grave containing the remains of men who died roughly two years ago in the desert area just south of the city of Ciudad Juarez, near the U.S. border. ...

Bersani leads after Italy center-left primary

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:42 PM PST

Secretary of Italian PD Luigi Bersani delivers speech during political rally with European Socialists in ParisROME (Reuters) - Pier Luigi Bersani, head of Italy's Democratic Party, led his main rival Matteo Renzi in a primary to pick the center-left candidate in next year's election, early counting indicated on Sunday, setting the stage for a final runoff vote next week. With almost a third of the vote counted, Bersani had about 44.6 percent, ahead of Renzi, the 37 year-old mayor of Florence, who was campaigning as a moderniser, on 36.5 percent, according to party officials. Nichi Vendola, the openly gay head of the left-wing Left, Ecology, Freedom party was in third place with 14. ...


Serbia Democrats elect Belgrade mayor as new party leader

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 12:03 PM PST

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's pro-Western Democratic Party elected mayor of Belgrade Dragan Djilas as its new leader on Sunday who pledged to reform the party following an election defeat in May. Addressing a party congress, 45-year-old Djilas said the Democrats had to take their share of responsibility for unemployment, now over 25 percent, double-digit inflation and a public debt seen at 60 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by the end of this year. "The fact is that we are responsible ... ...

Separatists winning in Catalonia, Spain: early results

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 03:43 PM PST

CIU party's candidate Artur Mas is surrounded by photographers before casting his vote for Catalunya's regional government at BarcelonaBARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Four separatist parties in Spain's Catalonia looked set to win a majority in regional elections on Sunday, partial results showed, but the main one was on course to lose some seats, possibly undermining its bid to call an independence referendum. With half of votes counted, the ruling Convergence and Union alliance, or CiU, was winning 48 seats in the 135-seat local parliament, well down from its current 62 seats. ...


112 killed in fire at Bangladesh garment factory

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 02:07 PM PST

Bangladeshi firefighters douse last of the smoke at the garment factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday Nov. 25, 2012. At least 112 people were killed in a late Saturday night fire that raced through the multi-story garment factory just outside of Bangladesh's capital, an official said Sunday. (AP Photo/ khurshed Rinku)Fire raced through a garment factory that supplies major retailers in the West, killing at least 112 people, many of whom were trapped by the flames because the eight-story building lacked emergency exits, an official said Sunday.


Egypt's political foes dig in their heels

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 04:38 PM PST

An Egyptian protester runs during clashes with security forces near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. President Mohammed Morsi's edicts, which were announced on Thursday, place him above oversight of any kind, including that of the courts. The move has thrown Egypt's already troubled transition to democracy into further turmoil, sparking angry protests across the country to demand the decrees be immediately rescinded. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)Supporters and opponents of Egypt's president on Sunday grew more entrenched in their potentially destabilizing battle over the Islamist leader's move to assume near absolute powers, with neither side appearing willing to back down as the stock market plunged amid the fresh turmoil.


Gaza cleric calls violation of Israel truce sinful

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 05:25 AM PST

Palestinian schoolchildren walk in debris by a damaged school in Gaza City, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. Schools in Gaza opened Saturday for the first time since the truce, which calls for an end to Gaza rocket fire on Israel and Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, came after eight days of cross-border fighting, the bloodiest between Israel and Hamas in four years. The school was damaged when Israeli forces struck on a nearby building. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)A leading Islamic cleric in the Gaza Strip has ruled it a sin to violate the recent cease-fire between Israel and the Hamas militant group that governs the Palestinian territory — according a religious legitimacy to the truce and giving the Gaza government strong backing to enforce it.


Gaza cease-fire raises hopes for reconstruction

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 11:27 AM PST

A Palestinian boy looks from the rooftop of a destroyed house in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. A leading Islamic cleric in the Gaza Strip has ruled it a sin to violate the recent cease-fire between Israel and the Hamas militant group that governs the Palestinian territory according a religious legitimacy to the truce and giving the Gaza government strong backing to enforce it. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)Mohammed Falah Azzam has been through this before.


Congo and M23 rebels negotiate in Uganda

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 09:54 AM PST

Internally displaced Congolese prepare food at the Mugunga camp outside the eastern Congolese town of Goma, Saturday Nov. 24, 2012. Regional leaders meeting in Uganda on Saturday called for an end to the advance by M23 rebels toward Congo's capital, and also urged the Congolese government to sit down with rebel leaders as residents fled some towns for fear of more fighting between the rebels and army.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Congolese officials are in talks Sunday with representatives of M23, the rebel group that last week took control of the eastern Congo city of Goma, according to Ugandan officials.


Historic Jewish cemetery in Caribbean fades away

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 12:42 PM PST

In this Nov. 12, 2012 photo, a portion of the Beth Haim cemetery, backdropped by the Isla oil refinery, is seen in Blenheim, on the outskirts of Willemstad, Curacao. Beth Haim, believed to be one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the Western Hemisphere, established in the 1950s and considered an important landmark on an island where the historic downtown has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is slowly fading in the Caribbean sun. Headstones are pockmarked with their inscriptions faded, stone slabs that have covered tombs in some cases for hundreds of years are crumbling into the soil, marble that was once white is now grey, likely from the acrid smoke that spews from the oil refinery that looms nearby. (AP Photo/Karen Attiah)Headstones are pockmarked, their inscriptions faded. Stone slabs that have covered tombs for centuries are crumbling. White marble has turned grey, likely from the acrid smoke that spews from a nearby oil refinery.


France: Sarkozy's party battles to save itself

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 01:31 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2012 file photo, former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, left, and French conservative party UMP secretary general Jean-Francois Cope pose for photographers before a televised debate in Saint Denis, outside Paris. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative party is holding emergency meetings Sunday to try to figure out who's in charge, after a disputed election for its new leader that could reshape French politics. After a decade at the helm of one of the world's leading economies, the Union for a Popular Movement party is now in shambles and may fall apart altogether. Central to the troubles is a debate among conservatives over immigration and Islam in France. The election a week ago split party members into those leaning toward the anti-immigrant far right, represented by Jean-Francois Cope, and those hewing to more centrist views, supporting Francois Fillon. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)Parents struggle to explain it to their kids. Ambassadors struggle to explain it to their governments. The only thing that's clear is that French politics is a mess.


Spain's Catalonia punishes pro-referendum leader

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 02:58 PM PST

The leader of center-right Catalan Nationalist Coalition (CiU), Artur Mas smiles after casting his vote during elections for the 'Generalitat de Catalunya' (Catalan Autonomous Government) in Barcelona, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. Voters in Catalonia begin casting their ballots in regional elections that could determine the future shape of Spain. If voters give the regional government strong support, its leader pledged to hold a referendum asking Catalans if they'd prefer to split from Spain and go it alone in the 27-member EU. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)Voters in the economically powerful region of Catalonia on Sunday punished the leader who made a referendum over breaking away from Spain a central plank of his campaign, seeing his party's majority reduced by a dozen seats.


UN to launch new round of talks on global warming

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 08:41 AM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2012 file photo, conference flags are displayed ahead of the Doha Climate Change Conference, in Doha, Qatar. As nearly 200 countries meet in oil-and-gas rich Qatar for annual talks on curbing climate change, one of the main challenges will be raising hundreds of billions of dollars to help poor nations adapt to a warming world that may damage their health, agriculture and economies. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal, File)As nearly 200 countries meet in oil-and-gas-rich Qatar for annual talks starting Monday on slowing global warming, one of the main challenges will be raising climate aid for poor countries at a time when budgets are strained by financial turmoil.


Grammy-winning bassist injured in Swiss bus crash

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 09:30 AM PST

FILE - This is a Wednesday, May 23, 2012 file photo of Grammy award-winning jazz bassist Marcus Miller performs in concert at Papp Laszlo Sports Arena in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Marcus Miller and several members of his band were injured when their bus overturned Sunday Nov. 25, 2012 on a busy highway in Switzerland, killing the driver, police said. (AP Photo/MTI, Balazs Mohai, File)Grammy-winning jazz bassist Marcus Miller and several members of his band were injured when their bus overturned Sunday on a busy highway in Switzerland, killing the driver, police said.


President Morsi stands firm despite Egypt protests

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 09:58 AM PST

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi attempted to calm a furor raised by his decree expanding his powers as clashes between police and a small group of protesters continued in Cairo today.

In world's most religious country, humanists rally for secular space

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 08:15 AM PST

In Ghana, where deeply held religious beliefs unite much of the population, a new group has formed around a shared disbelief in religion.

Stalemate in Syria? Army short on loyalists, rebels short on guns

Posted: 25 Nov 2012 06:26 AM PST

A little more than a week ago, Ahmad Dahar was a member of the embattled Syrian government's state security service in Damascus. Although he was officially a guard, he says he was not allowed to carry a weapon or go on any missions because he is a Sunni Muslim while the country's core leaders are from the minority Alawite sect of Islam.

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