2012年5月30日星期三

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More killings and ultimatum deepen Syria conflict

Posted: 30 May 2012 12:38 PM PDT

Syrian children hold up signs during a night demonstration at Sarmada on the outskirts of IdlibBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels on Wednesday gave President Bashar al-Assad a 48-hour deadline to comply with an international peace plan otherwise they would renew their battle to overthrow him. The ultimatum was issued after U.N. observers reported the discovery of 13 bodies bound and shot in eastern Syria, adding to the world outcry over the massacre last week of 108 men, women and children. The latest developments emphasized how the peace plan drafted by U.N. ...

Obama speaks with European leaders on EU crisis, Syria

Posted: 30 May 2012 04:25 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama discussed developments in Europe as well as in Syria on Wednesday in a video conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, the White House said. "(The) leaders agreed to continue to consult closely as they prepare to meet at the G-20 Summit in Mexico next month," the White House said in a statement, which did not specify what conclusions were reached about Europe's economic crisis. ...

U.S. military trainers trickle back into Pakistan

Posted: 30 May 2012 02:56 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sent a handful of military trainers back into Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level cooperation against militants despite a string of confrontations that have left Washington's relations with Islamabad in crisis. Fewer than 10 U.S. special operations soldiers have been sent to a training site near the border city of Peshawar, where they will instruct trainers from Pakistan's Frontier Corps in counter-insurgency warfare, a U.S. official said. ...

Colombian rebels free French reporter held for a month

Posted: 30 May 2012 02:34 PM PDT

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's FARC guerrillas freed French reporter Romeo Langlois on Wednesday, a month after taking him hostage in a firefight that showed the leftist group is still a menace despite a decade of military blows. Langlois, the rebels' highest-profile captive since French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, was taken hostage in the southern Caqueta region on April 28 after he was caught in crossfire between a Colombian military unit he was embedded with and heavily armed FARC rebels. ...

UK court backs Assange extradition to Sweden

Posted: 30 May 2012 08:54 AM PDT

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrives at the Supreme Court in Westminster, on the second day of his extradition appeal, in central LondonLONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, leaving the Australian with few legal options after an 18-month legal battle. Judges at Britain's highest court rejected by a majority of 5-2 Assange's argument that a European arrest warrant for his extradition was invalid. However, the court gave his lawyers two weeks to contest their ruling, and any extradition has been put on hold until Assange decides whether to challenge the judges' decision. ...

Image shows buildings gone at Iran site: diplomats

Posted: 30 May 2012 11:01 AM PDT

VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear inspectors displayed new satellite imagery on Wednesday indicating that some small buildings had been dismantled and other possible clean-up work undertaken at an Iranian military site they want to visit. One image from May 25 showed signs that "ground-scraping activities" had taken place at the Parchin facility, as well as the presence of a bulldozer, according to diplomats who attended a closed-door briefing by U.N. nuclear agency officials. ...

African Union to take Mali to U.N. Security Council: source

Posted: 30 May 2012 01:48 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - The African Union plans to refer the situation in Mali to the United Nations Security Council so that it can create a framework for tackling the worsening crisis there, a diplomatic source close to the AU president said on Wednesday. Mali, once regarded as a fine example of African democracy, collapsed into chaos after soldiers toppled the president in March, leaving a power vacuum in the north that enabled rebels to take control of nearly two-thirds of the country. ...

New Pakistani reason for jailing bin Laden case doctor

Posted: 30 May 2012 02:12 PM PDT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - In another twist to a case that is straining Islamabad's ties with Washington, a Pakistani court says the doctor who helped the United States find Osama bin Laden was imprisoned for aiding militants and not for his links to the CIA. It is the third different explanation for the 33-year jail sentence handed to Dr. Shakil Afridi. Last week after his conviction by a court in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said the decision was based on treason charges for aiding the CIA in its hunt for the al Qaeda chief. ...

French court lifts gagging order on Strauss-Kahn

Posted: 30 May 2012 03:01 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - A French appeals court on Wednesday lifted a gagging order that prevented former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn from speaking to the media during a judicial investigation into his links with a suspected prostitution ring. Strauss-Kahn is under investigation in France to establish whether he knew he was dealing with prostitutes and pimps when he attended sex parties in northern France, Paris and Washington in 2010 and 2011 allegedly organized by business acquaintances. He denies knowing that the women at the parties were prostitutes or that there was any violence. ...

U.N. group urges release of American in Nicaragua

Posted: 30 May 2012 12:18 PM PDT

Handout shows U.S. citizen Jason Puracal, who is serving a 22-year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering in Nicaragua(Reuters) - A United Nations group has called for the immediate release of a U.S. citizen serving a 22-year prison sentence in Nicaragua for drug trafficking and money laundering, concluding that he was wrongly convicted, his supporters said on Wednesday. Jason Puracal, 34, was detained by Nicaraguan authorities in November 2010 and found guilty by a trial judge nine months later along with 10 co-defendants, all of them Nicaraguan nationals. ...

Ex-Cameron aide arrested, charged with perjury

Posted: 30 May 2012 03:18 PM PDT

FILE - This is a Thursday, May 10, 2012 file photo of Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World newspaper and former director of communications for Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron as he arrives to appear at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in London, Coulson was arrested by police Wednesday May 30, 2012 on suspicion of perjury. Scottish police said Wednesday that Andy Coulson, was detained at his home in London over an accusation of committing perjury at a case at the High Court in Glasgow. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)The former top media adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron was arrested and charged with perjury Wednesday in the trial of a flamboyant ex-Scottish lawmaker — the latest case tied to allegations of wrongdoing by British tabloid newspapers.

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre

Posted: 30 May 2012 01:05 PM PDT

In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Tuesday, May 29, 2012, purports to show 13 blindfolded and handcuffed bodies on the ground in Deir el-Zour, Syria. U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIALWhen the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead.

13 corpses found in Syria amid massacre fallout

Posted: 30 May 2012 02:17 PM PDT

In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Tuesday, May 29, 2012, purports to show 13 blindfolded and handcuffed bodies on the ground in Deir el-Zour, Syria. U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) TV OUT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIALThirteen bound corpses, many apparently shot execution-style, have been discovered in eastern Syria, U.N. observers said Wednesday, days after the massacre of more than 100 people provoked international outrage and the coordinated expulsion of Syrian diplomats from world capitals.

World powers worry Syria sliding to civil war

Posted: 30 May 2012 03:43 PM PDT

A Syrian man Nidal Kodssi, 27, who was wounded in his legs after the Syrian forces shelled his house and killed his wife and his eight month son at Baba Amr in Homs Province in February, is being treated by a Lebanese nurse at a hospital, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Wednesday May 30, 2012. Since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in March 2011, thousands of Syrian refugees who fled the violence in their country now live in Lebanon, and many wounded Syrians are smuggled across the border for treatment in Lebanese hospitals, mostly in the northern city of Tripoli which is largely sympathetic to the Syrian uprising. But Lebanon is sharply divided by the Syrian conflict, and even in hospitals, Syrian opposition activists are fearful of retaliation. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)World powers share a belief that Syria could descend into civil war and plan to map out possible ways to avoid such a disaster for the region, a deputy to international envoy Kofi Annan said Wednesday.

Brazil prosecutors seek payment from Shell, BASF

Posted: 30 May 2012 03:28 PM PDT

Brazilian prosecutors said Wednesday that they asked a court to force oil company Shell and the world's largest chemical company, BASF, to immediately pay $500 million into a compensation fund for hundreds of workers who may have been contaminated at an agricultural chemicals plant.

UN: Civilian deaths drop 36 percent in Afghanistan

Posted: 30 May 2012 01:34 PM PDT

Afghan policemen examine the remains of a damaged vehicle after it was hit by a road side bomb in Deh Bala district of Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Three district government employees were killed by a roadside bomb as they were traveling to work Wednesday morning in eastern Nangarhar province's Deh Bala district, said district chief Asrarullah. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)The number of Afghan civilians killed has dropped 36 percent so far this year compared with last, the U.N. said Wednesday, the first time the death toll has declined over multiple months since the United Nations started keeping track.

Closing bank account will cost you, group finds

Posted: 30 May 2012 02:43 PM PDT

Want to close your bank account? It could cost you as much as $55.

Mubarak's sons face new charges of insider trading

Posted: 30 May 2012 04:12 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 file photo, Gamal Mubarak, center, son of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, arrives at a court house in Cairo, Egypt. Mubarak and his two sons, one-time heir apparent Gamal and wealthy businessman Alaa, are already in prison and on trial on charges of corruption. A verdict is expected on June 2. (AP Photo/Mohammed al-Law, File)Hosni Mubarak's two sons were accused Wednesday with insider trading in a new case opened just three days before they and their elderly father are to hear the verdict in a separate trial on charges of corruption and complicity in killing protesters during last year's uprising.

Israel's Barak: Weigh 'unilateral action'

Posted: 30 May 2012 11:55 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 file photo Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak attends a meeting with Greek Foreign Minister, Stavros Dimas in Athens. Barak abruptly proposed on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 that Israel consider "unilateral action" if long-stalled peace talks with the Palestinians don't resume and produce a deal suggesting Israel may be thinking of withdrawing from part of the West Bank, as it did from the Gaza Strip seven years ago. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)There are signs the Israeli government is considering taking unilateral action if peace talks with the Palestinians remain stalled, a move which could involve a withdrawal from parts of the West Bank along the lines of a 2005 pullout from the Gaza Strip.

Europe worries stalk Wall Street; Dow loses 161

Posted: 30 May 2012 03:27 PM PDT

Specialist Michael Pistillo center, works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Fear about Europe's financial stability caused traders to retreat from most investments seen as risky Wednesday, punishing U.S. stocks and pushing the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note to a record low. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Fearing a financial rupture in Europe, investors around the world fled from risk Wednesday. They punished stocks and the euro and flocked to bonds, driving the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note to its lowest point since World War II.

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