2012年5月29日星期二

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West expels envoys over massacre of Syrian children

Posted: 29 May 2012 12:55 PM PDT

Syrian children hold up signs during a night demonstration at Sarmada on the outskirts of IdlibBEIRUT (Reuters) - Western powers expelled Syria's envoys on Tuesday in outrage at a massacre of 108 people, almost half of them children, and peace envoy Kofi Annan urged President Bashar al-Assad to halt the bloodshed as "a tipping point" had been reached. The killings in the town of Houla drew a chorus of condemnation from around the world, with the United Nations saying entire families were killed in their homes on Friday, some by army tanks and others probably by pro-Assad militia. "Bashar al-Assad is the murderer of his people," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told Le Monde. ...

Greece's pro-bailout conservatives leading in poll

Posted: 29 May 2012 03:22 PM PDT

Conservative New Democracy party leader Samaras greets supporters during a pre-election rally in AthensATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's pro-bailout conservatives are leading ahead of a national parliamentary election next month that may determine whether the country remains in the euro zone, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday. Greece was forced to call the June 17 vote after an election on May 6 left parliament divided between parties that support and oppose austerity measures tied to a 130-billion-euro bailout agreed with the European Union and International Monetary Fund in March. Neither the pro-bailout nor anti-bailout parties succeeded in forming a government despite tortuous efforts to do so. ...

Mining supporters, foes reveal polarized Peru

Posted: 29 May 2012 04:01 PM PDT

A car is seen in flames during a protest in EspinarLIMA (Reuters) - Thousands of Peruvians marched in support of the country's biggest-ever mining project on Tuesday, a day after the government implemented emergency powers to control an anti-mining protest in the South that turned deadly. The rally in the northern region of Cajamarca in favor of Newmont Mining's $4.8 billion Conga project praised the economic benefits of mining, a contrast to demonstrations in Cusco against Xstrata's Tintaya mine in which two people were killed. ...

New deadly quake shakes northern Italy

Posted: 29 May 2012 01:41 PM PDT

People stand in front of a damaged building in Cavezzo near ModenaCAVEZZO, Italy (Reuters) - An earthquake killed 16 people and injured about 350 in northern Italy on Tuesday, spreading fear among thousands of residents living in tents after a similarly strong tremor in the same region flattened their homes nine days ago. Rescuers were searching through the rubble of houses and warehouses in the Emilia-Romagna region, where several building sites had just reopened after the previous quake on May 20. ...

French government opposes payout for ex-Air France CEO

Posted: 29 May 2012 03:38 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - France's new Socialist government opposes a 400,000 euros ($ 499,290) indemnity payment for former chief executive of Air France-KLM Pierre-Henri Gourgeon as it seeks to clamp down on executive pay, Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said on Tuesday. A representative of the French state, which holds a 15.9 percent stake in the loss-making Franco-Dutch carrier, will not vote in favor of Gourgeon's payout at a shareholders meeting on Thursday, the minister said in a statement. ...

Taylor war crimes sentence could set precedent

Posted: 29 May 2012 03:10 PM PDT

Former Liberian President Taylor attends his trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone based in LeidschendamAMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor could be jailed for the rest of his life on Wednesday when he is sentenced by an international court for backing Sierra Leonean rebels in their war of murder, rape and mutilation. Prosecutors seek an 80-year sentence for Taylor, 64 - the first head of state convicted by an international court since World War Two - and the decision could set a precedent for other war crimes courts. ...

Israel pours cold water on big-power talks with Iran

Posted: 29 May 2012 11:54 AM PDT

Israel's PM Netanyahu speaks at the annual Institute for National Security Studies conference in Tel AvivTEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday nothing short of Iran stopping uranium enrichment, getting rid of what it already produced and dismantling the means of making more, would satisfy him that it had no nuclear weapons project. "This is the true test. Without that there is nothing," he told a strategic affairs conference in Tel Aviv. He said the six world powers, which last week finished a second round of negotiations with Iran over its disputed nuclear programme and scheduled the next meeting in Moscow on June 18-19, needed to take a tougher stance. ...

Candidate's HQ attacked as vote polarizes Egypt

Posted: 29 May 2012 10:08 AM PDT

Flyers of Egyptian presidential candidate and former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq are seen on the ground outside his campaign headquarters in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - An attack on the offices of one of the two finalists in Egypt's presidential race has sounded a warning that the last round of voting might spark more violence in a nation polarized by the choice between an Islamist and an ex-general from Hosni Mubarak's era. Protesters set fire to storage rooms and smashed computers late on Monday at the campaign headquarters of Ahmed Shafiq, a 70-year-old former air force chief and premier under Mubarak, who was confirmed as a run-off candidate after the first round. ...

Mexico presidential front-runner suffers poll setback

Posted: 29 May 2012 03:17 PM PDT

Enrique Pena Nieto, presidential candidate from PRI, gives a speech during the First Citizen Summit in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Enrique Pena Nieto, the favorite to win Mexico's presidential election, has suffered his biggest drop in support during the campaign after demonstrators said his party was corrupt and oppressive, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday. The poll by Consulta Mitofsky showed backing for Pena Nieto, candidate of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), at 35.6 percent, still a big lead over Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist contender and runner-up in the 2006 election. But the PRI candidate's support was down 2. ...

Tunisia judges start indefinite strike over purge

Posted: 29 May 2012 02:19 PM PDT

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian judges began an indefinite strike on Tuesday to protest at the firing of dozens of magistrates, increasing pressure on a government already facing the biggest upsurge in protests since it came to power in a democratic transition. Justice Minister Noureddine Bhiri fired 81 judges earlier this week on suspicion of corruption and ties to the administration of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, the autocratic ruler ousted last year in a revolt that inspired the "Arab Spring. ...

Britain's Supreme Court to rule on WikiLeaks chief

Posted: 29 May 2012 04:36 PM PDT

Britain's Supreme Court is expected to rule Wednesday on whether to approve the extradition of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to Sweden, a potential turning point in the Internet activist's controversial career.

Syrian diplomats around the world expelled

Posted: 29 May 2012 07:38 AM PDT

This frame grab made from an amateur video provided by Syrian activists on Monday, May 28, 2012, purports to show the massacre in Houla on May 25 that killed more than 100 people, many of them children. The amateur footage shows people running along a street, purportedly just after the attack on Houla started. (AP Photo/Amateur Video via AP video) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS CITIZEN JOURNALISM IMAGEGovernments around the world expelled Syrian ambassadors and diplomats Tuesday, an unusual, coordinated blow to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime following a gruesome massacre that the United Nations said involved close-range shootings of scores of children and parents in their homes.

Workers among 16 dead in latest big Italian quake

Posted: 29 May 2012 04:27 PM PDT

An excavator removes debris in Cavezzo, northern Italy, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. A powerful earthquake killed at least 15 people Tuesday as it rocked a swath of northern Italy. Factories, warehouses and churches collapsed, dealing another blow to a region where thousands are still homeless from a stronger temblor just nine days ago. The 5.8 magnitude quake drove thousands more from their homes in the Emilia Romagna region north of Bologna, one of Italy's most agriculturally and industrial productive areas. (AP Photo/Marco Vasini)Workers at the small machinery company had just returned for their first shift following Italy's powerful and deadly quake earlier this month when another one struck, collapsing the roof.

US ambassador surprised by Russian criticism

Posted: 29 May 2012 04:22 PM PDT

The U.S. ambassador to Russia said Wednesday that he was surprised by the Russian Foreign Ministry's criticism of his remarks at a meeting with students last week and the Ministry's interpretation that he had suggested Russia tried to bribe Kyrgyzstan.

Western nations expel Syrian envoys over massacre

Posted: 29 May 2012 03:12 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria, in Damascus, Syria. The meeting Tuesday followed a massacre in Houla, Syria, last week in which more than 100 people were killed, some of them women, children and entire families gunned down in their own homes. Following the meeting, Annan told reporters "We are at a tipping point." (AP Photo/SANA)Eyewitness accounts from the Syrian massacre emerged Tuesday, describing shadowy gunmen slaughtering whole families in their homes and targeting the most vulnerable in poor farming villages. Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats in a coordinated move against President Bashar Assad's regime over the killing of more than 100 people.

Iran, other Mideast states hit by computer virus

Posted: 29 May 2012 04:09 PM PDT

Iran and other Middle East countries have been hit with a cunning computer virus that can eavesdrop on computer users and their co-workers and filch information from nearby cellphones, cybersecurity experts said Tuesday. And suspicion immediately fell on Israel as the culprit.

Sudan pulls troops from oil-rich region

Posted: 29 May 2012 02:24 PM PDT

Sudan withdrew its army Tuesday from the disputed Abyei border region that contains rich oil fields and is contested by neighboring South Sudan, handing it over to U.N. forces, a semiofficial media agency reported.

Egypt Islamist candidate vows break with old ways

Posted: 29 May 2012 02:16 PM PDT

FILE - COMBO - This combination of two photos shows Egyptian presidential candidates, from left, Ahmed Shafiq, and Mohammed Morsi. The chairman of Egypt's presidential election commission says the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate and Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister will context next month's runoff vote. Farouq Sultan said Monday the official final results show the Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq, a former air force commander, as the top two finishers in the first round of voting on May 23-24. He said Morsi won 5.76 million votes, while Shafiq garnered 5.5 million votes.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra; Nasser Nasser, File)The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for the Egyptian presidential runoff promised Tuesday he would break sharply with the ways of ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak, a day after angry protesters burned down the headquarters of his challenger who served as prime minister in the old regime.

Saving Dominican forest and an elusive songbird

Posted: 29 May 2012 12:40 PM PDT

In this May 22, 2012 photo, a road crosses through an agricultural area of a forest in San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic. Conservationists are establishing a sanctuary that they say will be like no other in the Dominican Republic, blending sustainable agriculture with preservation on former pasture land at the edge of a cloud forest that will help protect a songbird called Bicknell's thrush which migrates each year from the northeastern U.S. and southern Canada. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)An elusive songbird that wings its way each year from austere mountaintops of the northeastern U.S. to the steamy forests of the Caribbean has inspired the creation of what conservationists hope will be a new model for nature reserves in a country that has long struggled with deforestation.

Europeans ambivalent to the euro, survey finds

Posted: 29 May 2012 09:07 AM PDT

An immigrant sleeps at a bench of a bus stop in central Athens on Tuesday May 29, 2012. The four biggest Greek banks received 18 billion euros (22.6 billion USD) in rescue funds on May 28, 2012 to help reinforce their capital bases, a Hellenic financial stability fund source said. National Bank, the biggest Greek lender, has received 7.43 billion euros, Piraeus bank 4.7 billion, Eurobank 3.97 billion and Alpha 1.9 billion, the official said.(AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)The debt crisis that has ravaged Europe for the best part of three years has exposed a dislike of the single currency but little desire to abandon it, a wide-ranging survey of public opinion found Tuesday.

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