2012年6月23日星期六

Yahoo! News: World News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World News

Turkish, Syrian forces seek downed Turkish jet

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:43 PM PDT

File photo of Turkish Air Force F-4 war plane during a military exercise in IzmirANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu phoned world powers on Saturday to brief them about the downing of one of Ankara's planes by Syria as a joint search for the airmen, who were shot down over the Mediterranean, tried to locate them. Signals from both sides suggested neither wanted a military confrontation over Friday's incident as the search focused its efforts near a Turkish province that hosts thousands of rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad. ...

Egypt braces for Islamist president, or army rule

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:02 PM PDT

A general view shows fireworks as supporters of former prime minister and current presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik shout slogan against the Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Five hundred days after they overthrew Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians will finally have a new president on Sunday, the first they have chosen freely and who may well be from the Muslim Brotherhood, which Mubarak and fellow generals spent a lifetime fighting. The result of last weekend's run-off, due in an election committee news conference at 3 p.m. (1300 GMT), will be historic for Egypt and the Middle East. ...

Israel kills two in strikes on Gaza as truce falters

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 08:13 AM PDT

Palestinians try to douse a fire after Israeli air raids hit a Hamas security site in Gaza CityGAZA (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes on Hamas security targets in Gaza killed two Palestinians and wounded 30 people on Saturday, medical officials in the Islamist-ruled territory said, while heavier rocket fire by militants wounded an Israeli man. The escalating violence undermined a shaky truce brokered by Egypt on Wednesday, which sought to calm the latest flare-up in fighting that began on Monday when an Israeli man and two gunmen were killed in a raid launched from Egypt's Sinai desert. ...

Vatican hires U.S. journalist to help media relations

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 01:42 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Basilica for the canonization ceremony at the VaticanVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican, stung by communications blunders and mired in a leaks scandal, has hired an American journalist from Fox News and member of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei to help improve its relations with the media. The TV journalist, Greg Burke, and the Vatican on Saturday confirmed what a senior Church source had earlier told Reuters. Burke, Fox's Rome-based roving correspondent for Europe and the Middle East, will assume the new post of "senior communications adviser" to the Secretariat of State, the key department in the Vatican's central bureaucracy. ...

Argentina withdraws ambassador over Paraguay president's ouster

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 04:25 PM PDT

Newly appointed Paraguayan President Federico Franco speaks as he is flanked by Senator Miguel Saguier and Congressman Salustiano Salinas during a news conference at the Presidential PalaceASUNCION (Reuters) - Argentina withdrew its ambassador from Paraguay on Saturday in response to an impeachment trial that removed Paraguay's president from office in two days, prompting criticism in the region and beyond. Argentina's Foreign Ministry said it ordered the ambassador's immediate withdrawal from the capital Asuncion in response to "the grave institutional events ... that culminated in the removal of constitutional President Fernando Lugo and the rupture of democratic order." The move came a day after Argentine President Cristina Fernandez described Lugo's ouster as a coup. ...

Hollande's popularity falls slightly: poll

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:50 PM PDT

French President Francois Hollande attends a news conference at Villa Madama in RomePARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande's popularity has fallen by two percentage points to 59 percent, a poll published on the Journal du Dimanche's website showed on Saturday. The survey by pollster Ipsos was conducted between June 14 and June 22, a few days before and after the second round on June 17 of France's parliamentary election, which gave a large victory to Hollande's Socialist Party. Hollande's prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault had an approval rating of 65 percent, unchanged on the previous. ...

U.S. says attack likely in Kenya port city

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:59 PM PDT

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Kenya has warned of an imminent threat of an attack on the Kenyan port city of Mombasa and asked all its government workers to leave the coastal town, which has been hit by a series of attacks. Underscoring the threat, police said they recovered suspected bomb-making material in the capital Nairobi on Saturday, the second such discovery this week in the country. The U.S. ...

Peru's Humala says water guaranteed near Newmont mine

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 03:04 PM PDT

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian president Ollanta Humala said on Saturday Newmont Mining would ensure ample water for towns near its proposed Conga gold mine, and that his government would not allow new mines to open if they hurt water supplies. U.S.-based Newmont on Friday accepted a stricter environmental mitigation plan for its mine, which will now require total investments of $5 billion, making it the most expensive mine in Peruvian history. ...

Sudanese protest over cuts amid security crackdown

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 01:44 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Hundreds of Sudanese joined anti-government demonstrations across Khartoum on Saturday, as protests against spending cuts flared for a second week despite a security crackdown. Sudan's police force ordered its officers to put an end to the demonstrations "immediately", state media said, after the protests spread throughout the capital a day earlier expanding beyond the core of student activists initially involved. Angered by a raft of austerity measures meant to tackle a $2. ...

Partial roof collapse at Canada mall, evacuation

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 04:33 PM PDT

A roof partially collapsed at a busy shopping mall in Canada on Saturday, prompting an evacuation and a search for anyone who might have been injured.

Turkey threatens action after Syria downs jet

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 01:40 PM PDT

Map locates Latakia, Syria, near where a Turkish plane was shot down by Syria.Syria said Saturday it shot down a Turkish reconnaissance plane because the plane entered its airspace, insisting it was "not an attack" as both sides desperately tried to de-escalate the episode before it exploded into a regional conflagration.

Egypt to announce election results Sunday

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:02 PM PDT

Egyptian protesters shout slogans in Tahrir Square as the country awaits the outcome of a presidential runoff vote in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 23, 2012. Tens of thousands of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood have rallied in the capital's Tahrir Square in a show of force backing candidate Mohammed Morsi, who has warned against manipulating results in a vote that he says he has won. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)Egypt will release results from disputed presidential elections Sunday, the country's top elections commission official said — an announcement that will put an end to nerve-wracking uncertainty about who is the official winner, but promises no resolution to the power struggles between Islamists, the military and other factions.

Tropical Storm Debby forms in the Gulf

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 03:23 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, June 23, 2012, shows shower and thunderstorm activity developing around an area of low pressure spinning in the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Debby has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and forecasters say it will bring rain to the Gulf coast from southern Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle. (AP Photo/NOAA)Tropical Storm Debby formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, interfering with oil and gas production and putting officials on alert for flooding and strong winds from southern Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.

AP IMPACT: Syria rebels divided, at times violent

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 08:24 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, a Syrian revolutionary flag waves on top of a building on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. During two weeks with rebels in northern Syria, three Associated Press journalists found more than 20 rebel groups who often destroy government army posts and convoys but lack the weapons and unity to do more than gradually chip away at the regime of President Bashar Assad _ a recipe for a long, bloody insurgency.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)Rebel commander Ahmed Eissa al-Sheikh keeps a paper on his desk bearing the names of the dead from his brigade. The first 16 are neatly typed below a Quranic verse extolling martyrdom. The next 14 are handwritten and crammed into the margin, because the paper is full.

Hamas threatens to escalate attacks on Israel

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 11:36 AM PDT

A member of the Hamas security forces inspects the damage to a Hamas security building following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, early Saturday, June 23, 2012. A Gaza health official reported that at least one militant was killed and more than a dozen wounded during Israeli air strikes Saturday on the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military says the airstrikes target Palestinian militants who have fired over 150 rockets at residential areas in southern Israel this week(AP Photo/Adel Hana)Gaza's militant Hamas rulers threatened to escalate fighting with Israel on Saturday after airstrikes killed several gunmen in the coastal territory, and Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel wounded one person and damaged an elementary school in the country's south.

Hamas entrenched in Gaza after 5 years of rule

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Palestinian security police officers secure the main beach as people bathe in the Mediterranean sea in Gaza City, Friday, June 22, 2012. In five years, the Islamist group Hamas has established a functioning but authoritarian and highly entrenched statelet with a strong Islamic flavor in Gaza. Having come to power as a "clean" alternative to corrupt secular rivals, the Palestinian Islamists have lost much of that luster among Gazans who are even poorer and even more despondent now. It's an embarrassment for their parent group, the Muslim Brotherhood, as it vies for power in a tense electoral standoff in neighboring Egypt. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)In five years of rule in the Gaza Strip, Hamas has established a functioning, authoritarian mini-state with a strong Islamic flavor, so firmly in control that nothing short of an unlikely Israeli military takeover seems capable of dislodging the militants.

Syrian civilians hit hard by spreading violence

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 10:04 AM PDT

In this Saturday, June 16, 2012 photo, Umm Moussa holds a photo of her husband Mohammed Tilawi, who showed up dead in a morgue in October, in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria. As Syria's 15-month uprising has morphed from a popular call for reform into an armed insurgency, the country's civilians have paid a heavy price, watching their neighborhoods turn into battlegrounds and their friends and relatives die or disappear. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)Her daughter, 8, often hides in a closet, terrified of flying bullets. Her son, 6, still asks for his father months after he turned up in a morgue. And the family has little income because her brother-in-law was killed too.

APNewsBreak: Vatican gets Fox media adviser

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:08 PM PDT

This picture taken on Sept. 20, 2007, and released on Saturday, June 22, 2012 by Gregory Joseph Burke shows Gregory Joseph Burke as a Fox News journalist in the U.S. base of Camp Spann in Afghanistan. Greg Burke, 52, will leave Fox to become a senior communications adviser in the Vatican's secretariat of state, the Vatican and Burke told the AP. The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Burke will help integrate communications issues within the Vatican's top administrative office, the secretariat of state, and will help handle its relations with the Holy See press office and other Vatican communications offices. (AP Photo)The Vatican has brought in the Fox News correspondent in Rome to help improve its communications strategy as it tries to cope with years of communications blunders and one of its most serious scandals in decades, officials said Saturday.

Sudan police orders firm dispersal of protests

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Sudan's top police chief ordered his forces Saturday to quell "firmly and immediately" anti-government demonstrations that have entered their seventh day, while opposition groups reported a security crackdown on their leading members.

发贴者：iwvck10 时间 17:12 0 条评论

bnzv