2012年12月18日星期二

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Egypt opposition protests against constitution

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 03:12 PM PST

Protesters opposing President Mursi shout slogans during a demonstration in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi staged protests in Cairo on Tuesday against an Islamist-backed draft constitution that has divided Egypt but looks set to be approved in the second half of a referendum this weekend. Several hundred protesters outside the presidential palace chanted "Revolution, revolution, for the sake of the constitution" and called on Mursi to "Leave, leave, you coward!". While the protest was noisy, numbers were down on previous demonstrations. ...


Kurdish troops fire on Iraqi army helicopter in dispute

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 01:12 PM PST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Troops from Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan opened fire on an Iraqi army helicopter on Tuesday, underscoring tensions between Baghdad's Arab-led central government and the Kurdish region, officials said. Iraq's government and self-ruled Kurdistan last month both sent troops from their respective armies to reinforce positions around towns in disputed areas where they both claim control as part of a broader feud over oil and territory. ...

South Korea votes in tight race on economy and jobs

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 03:42 PM PST

Moon Jae-in, former human rights lawyer and presidential candidate of the main opposition Democratic United Party, speaks to the media after voting at a polling station in BusanSEOUL (Reuters) - South Koreans started voting for a new president on Wednesday in a battle between the daughter of a former military ruler and a man her father jailed for political activism, set against the backdrop of a hostile North Korea and a slowing economy. Conservative candidate Park Geun-hye had a narrow lead in polls published last week, the last allowed under election rules. If she wins, she would be the first woman leader of the country, which is still largely run by men in dark suits. ...


Venezuela's Chavez "stable" after respiratory infection

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 04:30 PM PST

Venezuelan President and presidential candidate Chavez greets supporters during a campaign rally in the district of Catia in CaracasCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is in "stable" condition in Cuba after being treated for a respiratory infection following cancer surgery a week ago, the government said on Tuesday. Chavez, 58, is battling to recover from his fourth operation since he was first diagnosed with cancer in mid-2011. "The general condition of the commander-president is stable after he was diagnosed with a respiratory infection and the medical team treated him immediately," Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said in the latest update on Chavez. "It has been controlled. ...


Former Iranian diplomat wanted by U.S. arrives in Tehran

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 01:46 PM PST

DUBAI (Reuters) - A former Iranian diplomat arrested in London for trying to export night-vision weapons' sights to Iran arrived back in Tehran on Tuesday after winning a six-year legal battle in Britain. A British court last month blocked the extradition of Nosratollah Tajik, wanted by the United States after agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security posed as arms dealers seeking to sell the military kit in violation of arms embargoes. "Tajik was welcomed by some officials and family members at Tehran's Mehrabad airport," the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported. ...

Chad sends troops to back CAR army against rebels

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:50 PM PST

BANGUI/N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad sent troops into neighboring Central African Republic on Tuesday to help the government there stop a rapid advance by rebels that risks sparking a new spiral of violence in the mineral-rich nation. The rebels killed 15 government soldiers during the capture on Tuesday of Bria, a diamond mining town about 600 km (360 miles) northeast of the capital Bangui and the sixth town to fall to the insurgents in little over a week. ...

U.N. says 126 rapes committed in Congo town after army arrived

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 04:30 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo found that 126 women were raped in an eastern town after Congolese troops fled there last month as rebels advanced on the provincial capital of Goma, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Congolese troops, aided by U.N. peacekeepers have been battling the so-called M23 rebels - who U.N. experts and Congolese officials say are backed by neighboring Rwanda - for the past eight months in the resource-rich east of the country. ...

France confident it can bridge gap with U.S. on Mali

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 01:55 PM PST

PARIS/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France said on Tuesday it would address U.S. concerns about a military mission to retake northern Mali from Islamist rebels and hoped for a Security Council vote this week, but U.N. envoys said a French-U.S. agreement on the issue remained elusive. U.S. diplomats have voiced skepticism over a French draft resolution to approve an African Union (AU) military force that would seek to oust al Qaeda-linked insurgents who seized vast swathes of the African country last March. U.N. ...

Embattled Cayman Islands premier ousted in no-confidence vote

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:44 PM PST

The entrance to the home of Cayman Islands Premier McKeeva Bush, in GeorgetownGEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (Reuters) - Lawmakers in the Cayman Islands passed a vote of no confidence on Tuesday ousting embattled Premier McKeeva Bush from office one week after he was arrested on suspicion of corruption. Members of parliament voted 11 to 3 with one abstention to remove Bush as the head of government in the British territory, which is a major financial center, offshore home to more than half of the world's hedge funds, and a leading global tax haven. ...


Israel presses on with plan for 6,000 new settler homes

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:47 AM PST

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks in Ramat Shlomo, a settlement in an area Israel annexed to JerusalemJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli officials said they would press on with plans this week to build 6,000 homes for settlers on land claimed by Palestinians, defying criticism from Western powers who fear the move will damage already faint hopes for a peace accord. Stung by de facto recognition of Palestinian sovereignty in a U.N. General Assembly vote last month, Israel announced it would expand settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. An Israeli Interior Ministry planning committee on Monday gave preliminary approval for 1,500 new homes in the Ramat Shlomo settlement. ...


NBC's Engel, TV crew escape abduction in Syria

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:41 PM PST

In this image made from video, NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, right, shakes hands with an unidentified person after crossing back into Turkey, after they were freed unharmed following a firefight at a checkpoint after five days of captivity inside Syria, in Cilvegozu, Turkey, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. Engel told the Turkish news agency Anadolu that he and his colleagues are "very happy to be out" and they are "very tired." (AP Photo/Anadolu via AP TV) TURKEY OUT, TV OUTNBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said Tuesday he and members of his network crew escaped unharmed after five days of captivity in Syria, where more than a dozen pro-regime gunmen dragged them from their car, killed one of their rebel escorts and subjected them to mock executions.


Egypt's Alexandria gripped by feud over future

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:42 AM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 file photo, opponents of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi hold pamphlets urging a "no vote" on a constitutional referendum as cars burn during clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi in Alexandria, Egypt. This Mediterranean city with a cosmopolitan heritage, now an Islamist stronghold, is often seen as a predictor of Egypt's trends. So a ferocious battle between sword-wielding Islamists and rock-throwing opponents outside a revered mosque last weekend could be a sign of the volatile direction the country's crisis is taking: Islamists are threatening to take up arms, and young, secular activists are growing bolder in rebelling against their domination. (AP Photo, File)The Qaed Ibrahim mosque, revered by Alexandrines as the embodiment of their Mediterranean city's cosmopolitan heritage, has become a battleground between the two visions fighting over the future of Egypt, literally.


Irish government to legalize life-saving abortion

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:52 PM PST

Ireland's government pledged Tuesday to pass a law soon that will allow women to receive abortions if continued pregnancy threatens their lives — including from their own threats to commit suicide if denied one.

Army probing day care centers worldwide

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 04:07 PM PST

The Army said Tuesday it will investigate hiring practices at all 283 of its child day care centers worldwide following the arrest of two Army employees accused of assaulting children at a Fort Myer, Va., day care center.

Iraqi President Talabani suffers a stroke

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 10:18 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug 17, 2007 file photo, Iraq's President Jalal Talabani talks to reporters in Baghdad, Iraq. The office of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Tuesday he has been admitted to the hospital for treatment of an unspecified health problem.. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has suffered a stroke and was in intensive care at a Baghdad hospital Tuesday, injecting new uncertainty into the country's political future a year after the U.S. military left.


Around world, massacres have spurred gun control

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 03:24 AM PST

FILE - In this March 17, 1996 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth places a floral bouquet with hundreds of others in front of Dunblane Primary School. In March 1996, a 43-year-old man named Thomas Hamilton walked into a primary school in this central Scotland town of 8,000 people and shot to death 16 kindergarten-age children and their teacher with four legally held handguns. In the weeks that followed, people in the town formed the Snowdrop campaign - named for the first flower of spring - to press for a ban on handguns. Within weeks, it had collected 750,000 signatures. By the next year, the ban had become law. (AP Photo/Ian Waldie, Pool-File)If there's anywhere that understands the pain of Newtown, it's Dunblane, the town whose grief became a catalyst for changes to Britain's gun laws.


Mexico says some 80 cartels at work in country

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 03:50 PM PST

Mexico's new attorney general said Tuesday that as many as 80 small and medium-size drug cartels are operating in the country, a number far higher than the last formal government assessment.

Both SKorean presidential hopefuls promise change

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 03:21 PM PST

South Korean presidential candidate Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party waves to her supporters during her election campaign rally in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. South Korea's presidential election is scheduled for Dec. 19. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)South Koreans bundled in thick mufflers and parkas braved frigid weather Wednesday to choose between the liberal son of North Korean refugees and the conservative daughter of a late dictator. For all their differences, the presidential candidates hold similar views on the need to engage with Pyongyang and other issues.


Chavez suffers respiratory infection after surgery

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 04:32 PM PST

Musicians perform in front of an image of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez that reads in Spanish "singing, dance, life and hope" during a concert in support of him marking the 8th anniversary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas group, ALBA, in Managua, Nicaragua, Monday Dec. 17, 2012. Chavez is recovering in Cuba from a surgery, his fourth operation related to his pelvic cancer since June 2011. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a respiratory infection after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba, the government said on Tuesday amid uncertainty and concern over his delicate condition.


Panetta cites budget woes, Afghan war progress

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 12:11 PM PST

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Congress Tuesday that the budget stalemate and lawmakers' spending choices are among the greatest threats to the U.S. military today, increasing the stress on the force and making it difficult to fund programs that best keep troops ready to fight.

Ireland announces abortion law reforms, leaving no one satisfied

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 12:14 PM PST

Ireland took a step today toward loosening its strict antiabortion regime, as the government announced legislation to legalize abortion in limited circumstances. But a battle lies ahead, as both abortion-rights and antiabortion groups appear dissatisfied with the government's new prescription.

If change comes to Jordan, it won't start in Amman

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 12:06 PM PST

On a sunny Friday afternoon, about 70 protesters make their way down the main street of this small town in southern Jordan, snarling traffic on the narrow road and drawing black looks from motorists. More or less the whole town has just emerged from Friday prayer, and the street is packed with people shopping, chatting, or heading home for lunch. Many simply stand and watch the protesters go by, with expressions ranging from admiration to curiosity to derision.

In passport kerfuffle, Taiwan is stickin' it to China

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:16 AM PST

China hasn't started a military war with Taiwan – as has been feared since the 1940s – but a battle that began on paper last month has met with a fiery pulp-and-ink response that could burn a hole in goodwill between the two once-hostile governments.

Newtown shooting highlights Russia's gun-control debate

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 10:39 AM PST

The Newtown school massacre, heavily covered by Russian media, has shed light on a long-simmering debate within Russian society over the wisdom of allowing freer civilian access to firearms.

Five women shot dead in Pakistan for fighting polio

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 10:27 AM PST

Five female health workers involved in Pakistan's polio eradication efforts were gunned down Tuesday in two of the country's main cities amid militant resistance to immunization campaigns.

Global sympathy for Newtown, antipathy for US gun laws

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:58 AM PST

There has been no shortage of sympathy from across the globe for the victims of the shooting rampage at an elementary school in the New England town of Newtown, Conn. But there has been another global response as well: confusion and frustration that the US seems unable, or unwilling, to tighten gun laws.

How some Israelis see the sacred in settlements

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 07:54 AM PST

As Rabbi Dovid Ben Meir leads visitors through the ruins of this ancient city, believed to have served as the Jewish capital more than 3,000 years ago, his love of history is clear. But it wasn't his love of the past so much as his desire to shape the future that led him here. When he was a teenager in Chicago, a class on modern European history got him thinking: In every revolution, there are people for, against, and indifferent. "I wanted to say to myself that I would be for revolution, for progress. But I was born 200 years too late."

Why some Christians back Israeli settlers in the West Bank

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 07:47 AM PST

Zionism founded on religious conviction has gained greater traction in US politics over the past 10 to 15 years as evangelical Christians have joined with Jewish groups to promote Israel's interests. While not all Evangelicals back settlements, a growing number see the return of Jews to the land of Israel as a prerequisite to the second coming of the Messiah.

Japan's hawkish Abe claims the win, but not a mandate

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 06:25 AM PST

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party may have secured a convincing victory on Sunday, but it can hardly claim a mandate.

NBC's Richard Engel released in Syria, a journalist danger zone

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 05:33 AM PST

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