2012年5月31日星期四

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Insight: Butler's journey from trusted servant to accused Judas

Posted: 31 May 2012 09:47 AM PDT

File photo of Pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele with Pope Benedict XVI at St. Peter's Square in VaticanVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Just after dawn on Wednesday, May 23, Paolo Gabriele said goodbye to his wife, passed by the bedrooms of his three children and left to start another day in the service of the man Roman Catholics believe is the vicar of Christ on Earth. By the end of the day, Pope Benedict's butler would be branded a traitor and some, including an Italian cardinal, would compare him to the most famous betrayer in history - Judas Iscariot, the man who turned Jesus over to the Romans. ...

Syria: anti-government groups committed Houla massacre

Posted: 31 May 2012 11:02 AM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said on Thursday a preliminary investigation showed that anti-government armed groups carried out a massacre last week in Houla region with the aim of encouraging foreign military intervention against the government. Brigadier General Qassem Jamal Suleiman, head of the investigation committee formed by the government, said the victims were families "who refused to oppose the government and were at odds with the armed groups". ...

Syria on brink of sectarian civil war, West says

Posted: 31 May 2012 02:04 PM PDT

People gather at a mass burial for the victims purportedly killed during an artillery barrage from Syrian forces in HoulaBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria is nearing full-blown sectarian civil war that would be catastrophic for the entire Middle East, Western nations said on Thursday, urging Russia to end its support for President Bashar al-Assad and put pressure on him to stop the bloodshed. With anti-Assad rebels urging international envoy Kofi Annan to declare his peace plan dead, freeing them from any commitment to the tattered truce, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the prospect of spiraling violence presented "terrible" danger. "A civil war in a country that would be driven by sectarian divides ... ...

Insight: From a ferry, a Chinese fast-attack boat

Posted: 31 May 2012 04:06 PM PDT

(Reuters) - It looked like a textbook win-win deal when Australian high-speed ferry designer AMD Marine Consulting formed a joint venture in 1993 with the engineering arm of a state-owned Chinese shipbuilder. The joint venture partner, Guangzhou Marine Engineering Corporation, a subsidiary of the giant China State Shipbuilding Corporation, gained access to state-of-the-art technology in wave-piercing, aluminum-hull designs. For AMD, a Sydney-based private company, the payoff was a foothold in China's maritime market during a period of rapid growth. ...

Blind activist urges U.S. to push China on rule of law

Posted: 31 May 2012 04:01 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng urged the United States on Thursday to "try harder" to promote rule of law in his homeland as he described his brother and nephew being so badly beaten in an attack he blamed on local officials that thick axe handles being used as weapons broke. ...

Six blasts across Baghdad kill at least 17

Posted: 31 May 2012 08:48 AM PDT

Iraqi policemen stand guard near the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad's Shula districtBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Six explosions hit neighborhoods across Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens more in the most deadly attacks on the Iraqi capital in more than a month. The attacks - a truck bomb in a market, a car bomb and roadside explosives - broke weeks of relative calm in Baghdad just as Iraq's government, shared among Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish blocs, wrangles over a crisis that risks reigniting sectarian tensions. ...

FARC ready for peace or war, says French reporter

Posted: 31 May 2012 03:24 PM PDT

French reporter Romeo Langlois gives a news conference in BogotaBOGOTA (Reuters) - Looking relaxed and healthy after a month in jungle captivity, French journalist Romeo Langlois said Colombia's FARC rebel leaders may be prepared for peace talks, but younger fighters are ready for 50 more years of war. Langlois, 35, was released on Wednesday after being taken hostage in late April when the military unit he was reporting alongside came under fire from heavily armed rebels. Aided by billions of dollars in U.S. funding, Colombia's armed forces have debilitated the FARC, leaving it arguably at its weakest in almost five decades. ...

U.N. Security Council concerned by lack of aid access in Sudan

Posted: 31 May 2012 03:18 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council expressed concern on Thursday over a lack of access for aid to Sudan's border states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, where fighting has been raging between the Sudanese army and rebels. Sudan and South Sudan came close to all-out war last month when border fighting escalated in the worst violence since South Sudan's secession in July. Khartoum accuses Juba of supporting rebels in South Kordofan and Blue Nile. Juba denies the claim. The 15-member Security Council was briefed by senior U.N. ...

U.S. tourists freed unharmed in Sinai

Posted: 31 May 2012 12:35 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Two U.S. tourists were released unharmed in the Sinai Peninsula on Thursday, a day after being abducted by Bedouin tribesmen seeking the release of a kinsman held by the Egyptian authorities in a drugs case, officials said. The Americans, both 31-year-old men, were seized on Wednesday while driving near the resort of Dahab. "Egyptian officials have confirmed to the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that the two U.S. citizens kidnapped on the Sinai Peninsula on May 30 have been released unharmed," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement in Washington. "The U.S. ...

U.S. military trickles back into Western Pakistan

Posted: 31 May 2012 01:20 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sent a handful of military officials back into northwestern Pakistan in a sign the two nations may be able to achieve some low-level military cooperation despite a string of confrontations that have left Washington's relations with Islamabad in crisis. Two U.S. officers have been sent in the last few weeks to the city of Peshawar, close to the border with Afghanistan, a U.S. official said, restoring after a months-long absence a U.S. military presence in an unstable region home to militants fueling violence across the border. ...

Spain urged to come clean on bank bailout plan

Posted: 31 May 2012 04:10 PM PDT

The Bankia bank headquarters in seen in Madrid, Thursday May 31, 2012. The European Union urged Spain Thursday to come clean on how it plans to finance the overhaul of its banking sector, warning that uncertainty over this has contributed the recent market turmoil and soaring borrowing costs. The government nationalized Bankia earlier this month, and the euro 19 billion ($23.63 billion) in public money that will now be injected into it is more than twice what the government originally estimated would be needed. (AP Photo/Paul White)The European Union urged Spain on Thursday to come clean on how it plans to finance the overhaul of its banking sector, warning that uncertainty over this has contributed the recent market turmoil and the country's soaring borrowing costs.

Syria blames rebels for Houla massacre

Posted: 31 May 2012 04:08 PM PDT

In this citizen journalism image taken on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 and provided by Edlib News Network ENN, Syrians gather around a U.N. observers vehicle during a demonstration in Kfarnebel, Idlib province, northern Syria. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Syria on Thursday to stop its attacks, saying the U.N. observers monitoring the cease-fire were not there to watch the killing of innocent people. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTOSyria on Thursday blamed up to 800 rebel fighters for the massacre in central Syria last week that killed more than 100 people, nearly half of them children, in its most comprehensive explanation to date of the bloodshed.

Euro structure is 'unsustainable,' ECB chief warns

Posted: 31 May 2012 03:55 PM PDT

President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi reports to the Economic Committee, in capacity as the head of the European Systemic Risk Board, at the European Parliament in Brussels, Thursday, May 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)The head of the European Central Bank warned Thursday that the euro currency union is "unsustainable" without stronger political and financial ties, and called for a new course to save it from a crippling debt crisis.

Police think Canada body parts suspect fled abroad

Posted: 31 May 2012 02:39 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by City of Montreal Police Service media relations shows Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, who is wanted for homicide. Montreal police said on Wednesday, May 30, 2012, they have identified Magnotta as a suspect in the gruesome case of severed body parts discovered in packages mailed to Ottawa, Ontario, and in a garbage heap in Montreal. (AP Photo/City of Montreal Police Service)A Canadian porn actor suspected of mailing body parts to the headquarters of two major political parties after making a video of the killing might have fled to France, police said Thursday.

Satellite photos said to show Iran nuke clean up

Posted: 31 May 2012 01:19 PM PDT

This May 25, 2012 photo provided by the Institute for Science and International Security, ISIS shows the razing of two small support buildings in the Parchin military complex in Iran. It also shows heavy machinery tracks near the site. A nonproliferation think tank has published satellite images of an Iranian military site linked to suspected secret work on nuclear arms that it says show strong evidence of a cleanup. The commercial satellite photos obtained by the Institute for Science and International Security of Iran's Parchin facility appear to show that two buildings there were demolished. ISIS says that, and other activities at the site such as digging up and moving earth strengthen U.N. suspicions of a clean-up. (AP Photo/ISIS, handout)New commercial satellite images suggest that Iran has demolished two buildings at a military site where it is suspected of trying to erase evidence of a nuclear arms program, a U.S. nonproliferation think tank said Thursday.

AP 'napalm girl' photo from Vietnam War turns 40

Posted: 31 May 2012 03:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 8, 1972 file photo, crying children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, run down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places as South Vietnamese forces from the 25th Division walk behind them. A South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians. From left, the children are Phan Thanh Tam, younger brother of Kim Phuc, who lost an eye, Phan Thanh Phouc, youngest brother of Kim Phuc, Kim Phuc, and Kim's cousins Ho Van Bon, and Ho Thi Ting. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village.

Mubarak trial verdict may divide Egypt further

Posted: 31 May 2012 01:15 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 3, 2011 image made from video by Egyptian State Television shows Hosni Mubarak, 83, lying on a hospital bed inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom as his historic trial begins on charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him. Guilty or not, Saturday's verdict in the Hosni Mubarak trial may only add to Egypt's polarization. The country is bracing for a heated runoff for president pitting the ousted leader's protege and last prime minister against an Islamist from a group that the old regime repeatedly cracked down.(AP Photo/Egyptian State TV, File)Guilty or not, Saturday's verdict in Hosni Mubarak's trial will likely deepen Egypt's polarization. Political tensions are already simmering in a heated runoff for president pitting the ousted leader's last prime minister against an Islamist from a group that the old regime repeatedly cracked down.

Egypt's 31-year emergency law ends

Posted: 31 May 2012 12:58 PM PDT

An Egyptian flowers vendor stands in front of graffiti depicting president Hosni Mubarak as he waits for a customer in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, May 31, 2012, two days before Mubarak is to hear the verdict on charges of corruption and complicity in killing protesters during last year's uprising. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)Egypt's notorious emergency law expired Thursday, ending 31 years of broad powers to detain and arrest for a police force accused of severely abusing its far-reaching authority.

Pro-regime Syrian gunmen take on larger role

Posted: 31 May 2012 12:45 PM PDT

In this citizen journalism image made and provide by the Kfar Suseh Coordinating of the Syrian Revolution, taken on May 8, 2012, Syrian militiamen known as "shabiha" are seen stand at an alley in Kfar suseh area, in Damascus, Syria. The swaggering gunmen operate as hired muscle for the Syrian regime, clutching rifles and daggers as they sweep through towns and villages, seeking vengeance on enemies of Bashar Assad. Recruited from the ruling elite's Alawite sect, the militiamen known as "shabiha" carry out some of the most ghastly attacks of Syria's violent conflict, allowing the regime to deny any direct responsibility. Witnesses have blamed shabiha for the Houla massacre over the weekend. (AP Photo/The Kfar Suseh Coordinating Of The Syrian Revolution )THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTOThe swaggering gunmen operate as hired muscle for the Syrian regime, clutching rifles and daggers as they sweep through towns and villages, sometimes after regular military troops have pulled back.

Madonna kicks off world tour in Israel

Posted: 31 May 2012 01:34 PM PDT

U.S pop icon Madonna performs at the Ramat Gan stadium near Tel Aviv, Israel,Thursday, May 31, 2012. Pop music star Madonna is kicking off her new world tour in front of tens of thousands of ecstatic fans in Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)Pop music star Madonna treated tens of thousands of ecstatic fans in Israel to the inaugural show of her "MDNA" world tour on Thursday, performing in a country where she has long claimed a special bond.

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