2012年12月13日星期四

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U.S., rebels urge gloomy Moscow to help oust Assad

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 03:14 PM PST

SANA photo shows a damaged area pictured after a car bomb in Qatana, near DamascusBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's rebel leadership and the United States seized on Russian pessimism over President Bashar al-Assad's future to urge Moscow to help push its ally into ceding power and end the battles closing in around his capital. "We want to commend the Russian government for finally waking up to the reality and acknowledging that the regime's days are numbered," the U.S. State Department spokeswoman said after a senior Kremlin envoy conceded publicly on Thursday that Assad's opponents could win the 20-month-old civil war. ...


Venezuela's Chavez improving after surgery complications

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 04:20 PM PST

Sheikh Nasef, the Muslim imam of the Mosque of Managua, speaks during a mass to pray for the health of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in ManaguaCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's Hugo Chavez suffered unexpected bleeding caused by a six-hour cancer operation in Cuba, the government said, although the ailing president's condition began to improve on Thursday. The 58-year-old's health has deteriorated dramatically since he won re-election two months ago, casting doubt on the future of his "21st century socialism" project, which won him huge support among the poor but infuriated adversaries who denounce him as a fledgling dictator. ...


Israeli soldiers assault two Reuters cameramen

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 03:32 PM PST

HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers punched two Reuters cameramen and forced them to strip in the street, before letting off a tear gas canister in front of them, leaving one of them needing hospital treatment. Israel's military said on Thursday it took the allegations seriously, but offered no explanation for the assault that occurred on Wednesday evening in the heart of Hebron. "The regional brigade commander was ordered to open an investigation," Israeli Defense Forces spokeswoman Avital Leibovich said in an email. ...

Egyptian factions stage final rallies before referendum

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 02:27 PM PST

An anti-Mursi protester holds a Cross and a Koran at Tahrir Square in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi stage final rallies on Friday before a divisive referendum on a new constitution championed by the Islamist leader as a way out of the worst crisis since the fall of Hosni Mubarak. Cairo and other cities have seen a series of often violent demonstrations over the past three weeks since Mursi assumed sweeping new powers to push through the constitution, which he sees as a vital element of Egypt's transition to democracy. ...


Sudan detains prominent opposition politician

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 03:45 PM PST

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security forces detained one of the country's most prominent opposition politicians, Farouk Abu Issa, after he attended an opposition party forum on Thursday, the politician told Reuters. "I'm now in the security agency's offices," Issa said by phone. Issa, head of the National Consensus Forces, an umbrella group of Sudan's main opposition parties, is believed to be nearly 80 years old. There was no immediate comment from the security agency. ...

Japan's LDP set for big win in Sunday election: polls

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 04:48 PM PST

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is on track for a stunning victory in Sunday's election, returning to power with hawkish former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the helm, and possibly ending Japan's political gridlock. Opinion polls by the Asahi, Yomiuri and Nikkei newspapers on Friday forecast that the LDP was headed for a hefty majority in the 480-seat powerful lower house of parliament. ...

Italy's Monti faces pressure to run in election

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 04:40 PM PST

File photo shows Italy's PM Monti gesturing at the World Policy Conference in CannesROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti faced increasing pressure on Thursday to stand as a candidate in next year's election after Silvio Berlusconi's surprise offer to drop his bid for a fifth term as premier. At a meeting of the European People's Party in Brussels, an umbrella group of centre-right parties, Berlusconi repeated the offer to stand aside if Monti agreed to run against the centre-left, who are tipped to win the election. ...


Bomber kills American near Afghan base after Panetta visit

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 12:11 PM PST

U.S. Defense Secretary Panetta talks with U.S. Army Major General Abrams and Command Sergeant Major Watson during a visit to Kandahar Airfield in KandaharKANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed one American service member and wounded three other U.S. troops outside a base in southern Afghanistan on Thursday shortly after a visit there by U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, officials said. Panetta dismissed the attack as a desperate and futile attempt by insurgents to sow chaos in Afghanistan. He announced that Afghan President Hamid Karzai would head to the United States in the week of Jan 7. for talks with President Barack Obama on the future the U.S. presence in Afghanistan after the NATO-led mission ends in 2014. ...


Iran, U.N. nuclear agency end talks; no word on site visit

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 01:39 PM PST

IAEA Director General Amano attends a news conference in ViennaDUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said progress was made in Thursday's talks in Tehran with senior U.N. nuclear inspectors but gave no details other than they would meet again in mid-January. There was no immediate comment from the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) about the one-day meeting over Iran's disputed nuclear program, and no sign its inspectors would gain access to the Parchin military complex as requested. ...


Korean-American tourist detained by North Korea: report

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 03:10 PM PST

SEOUL/SEATTLE (Reuters) - A Korean-American tourist who visited North Korea last month for what was to have been a five-day trip has been detained by police in the reclusive state, South Korean media reported on Thursday. Kenneth Bae, 44, was in a group of five tourists who visited the northeast city of Rajin, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said, citing a report by the newspaper Kookmin Ilbo. Bae entered North Korea on November 3 for a five-day visit, South Korean media reported. CNN said Bae was part of a Protestant religious group in the United States. ...

Russia positions itself for fall of Syrian regime

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 01:04 PM PST

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens gather in front of a damaged building destroyed by a car bomb in Qatana, (25) kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. A bomb blast near a school in a Damascus suburb killed more than a dozen people, at least half of them women and children, the state news agency reported. Russia, Syria's most important international ally, said for the first time that President Bashar Assad is increasingly losing control and the opposition may win the civil war. (AP Photo/SANA)Syria's most powerful ally and protector, Russia, began positioning itself Thursday for the fall of President Bashar Assad, saying for the first time that rebels might overthrow him and preparing to evacuate thousands of Russian citizens from the country.


Egypt vote means fateful choice for nation

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 02:50 PM PST

A woman walks past Arabic writings on a wall that read, "no, leave, Muslim Brotherhood," in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. Egypt's opposition called on its followers to vote "no" in a crucial referendum on a disputed constitution drafted by Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Two days before a constitutional referendum it considered boycotting, Egypt's secular opposition finally launched its "no" campaign Thursday with newspaper and TV ads detailing the argument against the charter drafted by Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi.


VP: Chavez recovery favorable after complications

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 04:40 PM PST

A woman holds a trio of images showing Venezuelan St. Jose Gregorio Hernandez, top, renowned as the ``Doctor of the Poor''; a laminated holy card of Jesus Christ; and an image of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, at a church service where supporters of the ailing president gathered to pray for his health, in Caracas,Venezuela, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. Venezuelans were warned that Chavez may not be well enough after his fourth cancer-related surgery in Cuba to be inaugurated on Jan. 10. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)President Hugo Chavez is recovering favorably despite suffering complications during cancer surgery in Cuba, his vice president said Thursday amid uncertainty over the Venezuelan leader's health crisis and the country's political future.


Obama's 'red line' may be giving Assad an opening

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 02:54 PM PST

FSA fighters pray after an attack on a Military Academy in Tal Sheer village, north of Aleppo province, Syria, Thursday, Dec 13, 2012. (AP Photo / Manu Brabo)President Barack Obama's chemical weapons position on Syria may have given Bashar Assad an unintended opening: The embattled Syrian leader appears willing to use other deadly tactics, including Scud missiles, without fear of U.S. retaliation.


NKorea still years away from reliable missiles

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:11 AM PST

In this image made from video, North Korea's Unha-3 rocket lifts off from the Sohae launching station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. A satellite that North Korea launched on board the long-range rocket is orbiting normally, South Korea said on Thursday, following a defiant lift-off that drew a wave of international condemnation. (AP Photo/KRT via AP Video)After 14 years of painstaking labor, North Korea finally has a rocket that can put a satellite in orbit. But that doesn't mean the reclusive country is close to having an intercontinental ballistic missile.


Inquest: Nurse in British royal hoax found hanging

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 09:46 AM PST

FILE - Undated handout photo of the late nurse Jacintha Saldanha of King Edward VII hospital, provided by Saldanha's family in Shirva north of Mangalore, India after she was found dead in central London on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. An inquest on Thursday Dec 13 2012 heard that Saldanha was found hanging by the neck from a wardrobe door at her room at the hospital. Australian radio hosts managed to impersonate Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles and received confidential information about the Duchess of Cambridge's medical condition, in a hoax phone call to the King Edward VII hospital where the pregnant Duchess was staying and which was broadcast on-air. (AP Photo/Saldanha Family, File)A nurse was found hanging in her room three days after she had been duped by a hoax call from Australian DJs about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, a U.K. inquest was told Thursday. The case is being treated as an apparent suicide.


European court condemns CIA in landmark ruling

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 03:57 PM PST

FILE - In this March 13, 2006 file photo, German Khalid al-Masri who says CIA agents abducted him and transported him to Afghanistan attends a meeting of the European Parliament committee investigating claims of U.S. secret prisons and flights in Europe at the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, eastern France. The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012 in favor of al-Masri who says the CIA illegally kidnapped him and took him to a secret prison in Afghanistan in 2003. The decision was hailed by critics of the so-called extraordinary renditions programs in the U.S. war on terrorism. (AP Photo/Christian Hartmann, File)A European court issued a landmark ruling Thursday that condemned the CIA's "extraordinary renditions" programs and bolstered those who say they were illegally kidnapped and tortured as part of an overzealous war on terrorism.


Officials: Libyan government slowing investigation

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:22 AM PST

U.S. counterterrorism officials told lawmakers Thursday that uncooperative or less-than-capable local law enforcement in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia is slowing the search for suspects in the death of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya on Sept. 11.

Oscars Academy honors Pedro Almodovar in London

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 02:20 PM PST

Iconoclastic director Pedro Almodovar was hailed by Hollywood on Thursday at an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences retrospective in London.

EU scores hat-trick with Greek, bank deals, Nobel

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 04:40 PM PST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, speaks with French President Francois Hollande during a meeting on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. In one whirlwind morning, the European Union nations agreed on the foundation of a fully-fledged banking union and Greece's euro partners approved billions of euros in bailout loans that will prevent the nation from going bankrupt. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)Finally, it has been a good week for Europe. After months of bitter debate, European Union countries finally reached two crucial agreements Thursday: They found a compromise to create a single supervisor for their banks — a major step toward lessening the damage struggling lenders can inflict on government finances — and agreed to give Greece desperately needed bailout funds.


Chile-Peru border dispute moves from battlefield to courtroom

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 01:29 PM PST

Lawyers from Peru and Chile complete their arguments tomorrow in a trial to determine once and for all which country controls what acreage of the Pacific Ocean.

Mysteries swirl around North Korea's satellite launch

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 11:30 AM PST

US and South Korean officials appear to disagree on one detail of the North Korean satellite that has nothing to do with any difference over what to do about it.

Is Morsi a president for all Egyptians, or just Brothers?

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 08:28 AM PST

Mohamed Omar was taking supplies to a field hospital treating opposition protesters injured in deadly clashes with supporters of President Mohamed Morsi last week when suddenly the front line shifted. The president's supporters surrounded and grabbed him.

'Act of Killing': In small screenings, by word of mouth, Indonesians learn of dark past

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:46 AM PST

In a small screening room packed to capacity, young Indonesians sat riveted, their eyes glued to images of a village reenacting the massacre of suspected communists by a paramilitary youth group in the mid-1960s. At moments in the film "The Act of Killing," people laughed. At others they cringed. Some clasped their hands over their mouths in reaction to particularly chilling scenes. "I'm still in shock," says Handy Pernando, a 23-year-old who emerged from the showing trying to comprehend what he had just seen. "I knew the government was lying to people, but now I've been awakened. ...

Why Israeli settlements debate is heating up again

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:10 AM PST

Palestinians seek a state in the West Bank and Gaza with a capital in East Jerusalem, which together represent about 22 percent of historical Palestine. Israel captured those areas in the 1967 war with its Arab neighbors, and has since withdrawn fully only from Gaza.

Duck boat sunk in World War II found in Italian lake

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 07:09 AM PST

More than 70 years after it sank in a lake in northern Italy causing the loss of 24 American soldiers' lives, a US amphibious vehicle has been found lying on the lake bed.

Japan scrambles F-15s after China flies over disputed islands

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 06:08 AM PST

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Who is a victim in Mexico's drug war violence?

Posted: 13 Dec 2012 05:00 AM PST

The rusted steel slabs of a new memorial to victims of Mexico's drug war bear no mark, not a single engraved name, of anyone among the estimated 60,000 killed in the past six years.

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