2012年6月22日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Syria downs Turkish jet, Ankara to act decisively

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 04:35 PM PDT

File photo of Turkish Air Force F-4 war plane during a military exercise in IzmirANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria shot down a Turkish warplane over the Mediterranean on Friday and Ankara warned it would respond decisively to the incident that threatened to open a new international dimension in the 16-month revolt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Syria said the Turkish aircraft was flying low, well inside Syrian territorial waters when it was shot down. With the second biggest army in NATO, a force hardened by nearly 30 years of fighting Kurdish rebels, Turkey would be a formidable foe for the Syrian army which is already struggling to put down a 16-month-old ...

Egypt army talks tough as Tahrir protests

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:23 PM PDT

Protesters demonstrate at Tahrir Square in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Cairo's Tahrir Square relived its glory days of the revolution on Friday as tens of thousands of flag-waving protesters called on the Egyptian army to relinquish power, in defiance of a stern communiqué from the generals criticizing the Muslim Brotherhood. All day, through weekly prayers in the baking midday sun to an evening clamor for change, demonstrators, mostly marshaled by the Islamist movement and its allies, called on the military to make good on promises to hand over to a civilian and end the prolonged uncertainty over last weekend's presidential election. ...

Deadly Israeli raids, Gaza rockets shake truce

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 02:28 PM PDT

Palestinians carry the body of militant Basil Ahmed during his funeral in the Gaza StripGAZA (Reuters) - Israel launched two air strikes in Gaza on Friday, killing two Palestinian militants and wounding five other people as rockets fired from the enclave slammed into its southern region, threatening to unravel an Egyptian-brokered truce. Palestinian officials in Gaza said both militants killed in two separate raids belonged to a pro al-Qaeda fringe Salafist Islamist group which Israel blamed in part for a deadly cross-border attack from Egypt's Sinai on Monday. ...

Paraguay's leftist president ousted by Congress

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 04:19 PM PDT

Supporters of Paraguayan President Lugo wait outside the Congress building, before Lugo's impeachment in AsuncionASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguay's Congress removed President Fernando Lugo from office after a lightning-quick impeachment trial on Friday that he said was tantamount to a coup but pledged to accept. Lugo, a silver-haired former Roman Catholic bishop who quit the Church to run for president on a social reform program, was found guilty of mishandling armed clashes over a land eviction in which 17 police and peasant farmers were killed last week. In line with Paraguay's constitution, Lugo was quickly replaced by Vice President Federico Franco, a fierce opponent of the president. ...

Nigeria's president sacks defense chiefs

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 02:09 PM PDT

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan sacked his defense minister and national security adviser on Friday, but gave no reason for the move, after several months of violence by Islamist sect Boko Haram across the country. "The president has relieved the NSA (national security adviser Owoye Azazi) of his job and replaced him with Colonel Sambo Dasuki," said presidency spokesman, Reuben Abati. "The president has also sacked the minister of defense (Bello Mohammed) and will announce his replacement later. ...

ICC expresses "regret" over staff held in Libya

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 03:56 PM PDT

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) has expressed regret to Libyan authorities in what seemed to come close to an apology designed to secure the release of four ICC employees detained in the country. Libyan officials said last week they may consider releasing ICC lawyer Melinda Taylor and three of her colleagues if the court apologized over allegations that she had attempted to carry sensitive documents to Saif al Islam Gaddafi, who is wanted for war crimes. ...

U.S. raps Argentina, Indonesia import curbs at WTO

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:16 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday demanded that Argentina "immediately" end an import licensing regime and other curbs that have frustrated foreign suppliers, and expressed concerns about a "sweeping new import restriction" Indonesia has imposed. The comments came in remarks by a U.S. official at the World Trade Organization in Geneva. Rachel Bae, a U.S. attache, took a notably harder line with Argentina, which is already the target of a WTO suit filed by the European Union over steps the South American nation has taken to discourage imports. ...

Bahrain opposition leader says injured in police clashes

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 02:50 PM PDT

MANAMA (Reuters) - The leader of Bahrain's leading opposition party was hit by a rubber bullet and teargas canister during clashes with riot police on Friday, the party said, describing it as an escalation of government efforts to stop protests led by majority Shi'ites. Sheikh Ali Salman was hit on the chest and shoulder, his Wefaq party said in a statement, and several others were also injured including Hassan Marzouk, pictures of whom circulated on social media showing him lying on the ground covered in blood around the neck. ...

Azerbaijan arrests reporter on drugs charges

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:42 AM PDT

BAKU (Reuters) - Azerbaijan arrested a prominent Azeri journalist and human rights activist on Friday on suspicion of drug possession in a case a rights watchdog said is politically motivated. An Interior Ministry spokesman said police seized five grams of heroin from Khilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of a popular newspaper in Azerbaijan's southern Talysh region, and found another 30 grams at his house. "His arrest is not connected to his professional activity," ministry spokesman Elshan Zahidov told reporters. ...

Syria says it shot down Turkish air force

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 04:17 PM PDT

Syria said Friday it shot down a Turkish military plane that entered Syrian air space, and Turkey vowed to "determinedly take necessary steps" in response.

Syrian government accuses rebels of mass killing

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 04:23 PM PDT

Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, speaks during a press briefing speaks during a press briefing at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, June 22, 2012. Annan says he believes Iran should be involved in efforts to end the violence in Syria. He says he is working to convene a so-called `contact group' meeting on Syria in Geneva on June 30. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)An online video showed more than a dozen bloodied corpses, some of them piled atop each other and in military uniforms, dumped beside a road in northern Syria in what the government Friday called a mass killing by rebel forces.

Paraguay's president ousted in impeachment trial

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 04:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 20, 2008 file photo, presidential candidate Fernando Lugo, left, and his running mate Federico Franco wave to supporters as they campaign in Asuncion, Paraguay. An impeachment process ended with the ouster of Lugo on Friday, June 22, 2012. The Senate tried him on five charges of malfeasance in office, including an alleged role in a deadly confrontation between police and landless farmers that left 17 dead. Lugo will be replaced by Vice President Federico Franco. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)Paraguay's Senate has voted to remove President Fernando Lugo from office in an impeachment trial, and his vice president was promptly sworn in as president.

Taliban gunmen lay siege to Afghan hotel, 18 dead

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:39 PM PDT

Afghan soldiers stand next to the body of a militant at the Spozhmai hotel on Lake Qurgha where security officials say Taliban insurgents have killed nearly two dozen people, most of them civilians, in an attack just north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, June, 22, 2012. It was the latest in a string of attacks this week that suggest the insurgent group is pushing hard with its summer offensive rather than waiting for international forces to draw down. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)Heavily armed Taliban gunmen stormed a lakeside hotel near Kabul, sending terrified guests jumping from windows or into a lake to try to escape the onslaught. Eighteen people were killed in the 12-hour rampage, their bullet-riddled bodies strewn on carpets, on the lawn and a blood-smeared patio.

Breivik ends massacre trial by defending attacks

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 02:39 PM PDT

Terror charged Anders Behring Breivik seen in court in Oslo, Friday, June 22, 2012. On the last day of his trial, Anders Behring Breivik's defense lawyers on Friday tried to cast the confessed mass killer as a political militant motivated by an extreme right-wing ideology rather than a delusional madman who killed 77 people for the sake of killing. (AP Photo/Heiko Junge/pool)With a rambling monologue depicting Norway's worst peacetime massacre as a necessary evil, confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik got the last word as his 10-week trial ended Friday amid conflicting claims about his sanity.

Ecuador's quandary over asylum for WikiLeaks chief

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:29 PM PDT

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa gestures during meeting about the Yasuni-ITT Initiative at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, holed up at Ecuador's embassy in London, is seeking political asylum in the South American nation. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)President Rafael Correa's objections to what he deems American interventionism in Latin America and his delight in Julian Assange's massive uncorking of U.S. secrets appear to have persuaded the WikiLeaks chief that Ecuador offers his best shot at avoiding extradition to Sweden.

Chimp champ Goodall crusades against deforestation

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:35 PM PDT

An indigenous woman participates in a protest at a building known as the "Old Indian Museum," located near the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, Thursday June 21, 2012. Indigenous people who have built homes at the building will be relocated due to works on the stadium and the surrounding area as part of Brazil's preparations for the 2014 World Cup. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)Even in the veritable tower of Babel that is the United Nations' largest-ever conference, it's safe to assume that Jane Goodall was the only one speaking chimpanzee.

Baghdad market bombs kill 14, wound more than 100

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:48 AM PDT

Two bombs exploded in an open-air market in Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 14 people in the latest round of spiraling violence six months after the last U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq.

AP PHOTOS: Palestinians display weapons of protest

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 08:44 AM PDT

In this combination of photos made from six photos taken on June 11 and June 13, 2012, Palestinian stone throwers pose for portraits in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah. The stone throwers are among a group of seven men who agreed to pose for a series of twelve portraits, six of which are represented here. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)One clutched stones behind his back, another extended a sling shot. A third man appeared wrapped in a Palestinian flag. All were masked.

Clinton calls for pragmatic action at Rio+20

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:09 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gives a speech at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, June 22, 2012.(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for pragmatic steps to solve global environmental problems and promote sustainable development on Friday, urging leaders attending the Rio+20 summit to partner with private-sector groups to make progress on a wide range of issues.

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