2012年7月7日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Libyans celebrate free vote despite violence

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 04:38 PM PDT

A woman casts her vote at a polling station during the National Assembly election in BenghaziTRIPOLI/BENGHAZI (Reuters) - Libyans are celebrating their first free national election in 60 years after defying violence to turn out for a poll widely seen as drawing a line under Muammar Gaddafi's dictatorship. Revelers lit the night sky over the capital Tripoli with fireworks while in the eastern city of Benghazi, scene of anti-poll protests by those wanting more autonomy, people celebrated by firing rocket-propelled grenades in the direction of the sea. ...

Syria's fighting spills into Lebanon, five killed

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 11:23 AM PDT

Relatives of Nadia al Ouisi mourn during her funeral in Wadi Khaled town after shelling by Syrian forces towards villagers houses in North LebanonBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's conflict spilled further into Lebanon on Saturday when mortar fire from President Bashar al-Assad's forces hit villages in the north, killing five people after rebels crossed the border to seek refuge, residents said. Rebels fighting to unseat Assad have used north Lebanon as a base and his forces have at times bombed villages and even pursued insurgents over the border, threatening to stoke tension in Lebanon, whose sectarian rifts mirror those in Syria. ...

Over 100 killed in floods, landslides in Russia

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 04:23 PM PDT

A car lies submerged in a flooded street in the village of NovoukrainskMOSCOW (Reuters) - Floods and landslides killed at least 103 people in southern Russia after two months' average rainfall fell in a few hours, forcing some to climb on to roofs and into trees to save themselves, police said on Saturday. Many victims were elderly people who were asleep in the town of Krymsk when the storm broke in the agricultural region of Krasnodar overnight. They drowned as the torrential rain turned hilly streets into driving torrents and water rose above head-height in what one official called the worst flooding for 70 years. ...

Donors expected to pledge $16 billion in Afghan aid

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 11:07 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Clinton and Afghan President Karzai hold a joint news conference in KabulKABUL (Reuters) - Donors are expected to pledge $16 billion in aid for Afghanistan over the next four years, a U.S. official said on Saturday, as Washington kept a promise to declare the country a major non-NATO ally. The upgrade in Afghanistan's security status, a largely symbolic move for now, and a donors' conference to be held in Tokyo on Sunday both aim to reinforce the U.S. message to Afghans that they will not be abandoned as the war winds down. The new status may help Afghanistan acquire U.S. defense supplies and have greater access to U.S. ...

Greece says will carry out reforms, privatizations

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 02:13 PM PDT

Greece's Finance Minister Stournaras addresses parliamentarians during a session at the parliament in AthensATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's new finance minister on Saturday pledged to carry out reforms and privatizations demanded under its latest financial rescue in an attempt to regain credibility with international partners stumping up money to keep the country afloat. In his first policy speech since taking office, respected economist Yannis Stournaras reiterated the government's plan to ask lenders for an additional two years to implement deficit cutting measures, citing a deeper-than-expected recession. ...

Death toll from Pakistan drone attack rises to 19

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 07:37 AM PDT

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - The death toll from a drone strike in northeastern Pakistan has risen to 19, Pakistani intelligence officials said on Saturday. Twelve people were originally reported dead in Friday's strike on a compound in the Dhattakel region in North Waziristan. Public anger over U.S. drone attacks has helped inflame tensions between Pakistan and the United States. Friday's strike took place a day after two trucks carried NATO supplies across the border into Afghanistan -- the first shipments since convoys were halted by Pakistan last November. ...

Protesters march against Mexico's president-elect

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 02:58 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters marched through the Mexican capital on Saturday against President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto, accusing him of buying votes and paying off TV networks for support. The demonstrators, including students, leftists, anarchists and union members, shouted slogans criticizing Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and the electoral authority. Pena Nieto won Sunday's election by almost 7 percentage points, according to the official count, returning the PRI to presidential power after 12 years in the wilderness. ...

Rival supporters clash in Venezuela election campaign

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 02:47 PM PDT

CARACAS (Reuters) - Police moved into a Caracas slum on Saturday to separate rival supporters of President Hugo Chavez and opposition candidate Henrique Capriles during the latest flare-up of Venezuela's volatile election campaign. Aides for Capriles, who is seeking to unseat the socialist leader in an October 7 vote, said three opposition supporters were slightly injured after stone-throwing gangs tried to stop him entering the hillside La Vega neighborhood. ...

West African heads urge Mali to act over militants

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 04:01 PM PDT

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - West African leaders urged Mali's politicians on Saturday to urgently form a national unity government and request U.N. backing for troops from the ECOWAS regional bloc to help in the fight against al Qaeda-linked militants occupying the north. Once seen as an example of African democracy, Mali was plunged into chaos in March after troops toppled the president, leaving a power vacuum that enabled separatist Tuareg rebels, back by Islamists, to seize nearly two-thirds of the country. ...

Clashes in Nigeria's volatile Jos kill 10

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 02:56 PM PDT

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Clashes between Nigerian security forces and armed Fulani herdsman erupted on Saturday, killing at least 10 people in the ethnically mixed and volatile city of Jos, a government official said. Jos is the capital of Plateau State in the heart of Nigeria's religiously diverse "Middle Belt", where the mostly Muslim north meets the largely Christian south. Plateau has for more than a decade been a tinderbox of ethnic and religious rivalries over land and power between local people and migrants from other areas. ...

Libyans hold 1st nationwide vote in decades

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 02:26 PM PDT

This combo image of three photographs shows Libyan men holding their elections ID at a polling station in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, July 7, 2012. Jubilant Libyan voters marked a major step toward democracy after decades of erratic one-man rule, casting their ballots Saturday in the first parliamentary election after last year's overthrow and killing of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. But the joy was tempered by boycott calls, the burning of ballots and other violence in the country's restive east. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)Jubilant Libyans chose a new parliament Saturday in their first nationwide vote in decades, but violence and protests in the restive east underscored the challenges ahead as the oil-rich North African nation struggles to restore stability after last year's ouster of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

103 dead in southern Russia floods

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 10:40 AM PDT

A woman takes video of the flood in the Black Sea resort of Gelendzhik, southern Russia, Saturday, July 7, 2012. Intense flooding in the Black Sea region of southern Russia killed 103 people after torrential rains dropped nearly a foot of water, forcing many to scramble out of their beds for refuge in trees and on roofs, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Ignat Kozlov)Intense flooding in the Black Sea region of southern Russia killed 103 people after torrential rains dropped nearly a foot of water, forcing many to scramble out of their beds for refuge in trees and on roofs, officials said Saturday.

Minister: Privatizations are Greece's top priority

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 03:02 PM PDT

Leader of the extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party Nikolaos Michaloliakos speaks at the Parliament in Athens, Saturday, July 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)Greece's three-party coalition government will try to get the economy out of its deep recession by encouraging private investment and making privatizations its "highest priority," finance minister Yannis Stournaras said Saturday.

US delivers 'powerful commitment' to Afghanistan

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 08:55 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a joint press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, not pictured, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July. 7, 2012. Clinton announced that President Barack Obama had designated Afghanistan as a major non-NATO ally shortly after arriving in the country for talks with Karzai. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)The U.S. designation Saturday of Afghanistan as its newest "major non-NATO ally" amounts to a political statement of support for the country's long-term stability and solidifies close defense cooperation after American combat troops withdraw in 2014.

Israeli draft pits secular Jews vs. ultra-Orthodox

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 12:10 PM PDT

In this Monday, July 2, 2012 an Israeli soldier prays next to the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City. Deep in the heart of Mea Shearim, a Jerusalem bastion of hardline ultra-Orthodox Jews, hundreds of bearded young men in black suits have their noses burrowed into books, immersed in biblical study and oblivious to their surroundings. These young men, and their sheltered lifestyle, are at the heart of a battle that is tearing Israel apart in a clash between tradition and modernity, religion and democracy. The fight centers on whether ultra-Orthodox males should be drafted into the military along with other Jews, but it really is about a much deeper issue: the place of Judaism in the Jewish state. Deep in the heart of Mea Shearim, a Jerusalem bastion of hardline ultra-Orthodox Jews, hundreds of bearded young men in black suits have their noses burrowed into books, immersed in biblical study and oblivious to their surroundings. These young men, and their sheltered lifestyle, are at the heart of a battle that is tearing Israel apart in a clash between tradition and modernity, religion and democracy. The fight centers on whether ultra-Orthodox males should be drafted into the military along with other Jews, but it really is about a much deeper issue: the place of Judaism in the Jewish state. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)Deep in the heart of Mea Shearim, a Jerusalem bastion of hardline ultra-Orthodox Jews, hundreds of bearded young men in black suits have their noses burrowed into books, immersed in biblical study and oblivious to their surroundings.

International donors pledging $16B in Afghan aid

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 11:54 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a joint press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, not pictured, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 7, 2012. Clinton announced that President Barack Obama had designated Afghanistan as a "major non-NATO ally" shortly after arriving in the country for talks with Karzai. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)International donors will pledge $16 billion in aid for Afghanistan over the next four years in hopes of stabilizing the country after most foreign combat troops return home, a U.S. diplomat said Sunday, but the money will come with conditions to ensure it doesn't fall victim to rampant Afghan corruption and mismanagement.

UN envoy Annan says Syria efforts failing

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 08:58 AM PDT

This image made from video provided by Shaam News Network Friday, July 6, 2012, purports to show shelling in Homs, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS PICTURE.Special U.N. envoy Kofi Annan acknowledged in an interview published Saturday that the international community's efforts to find a political solution to the escalating violence in Syria have failed.

Peace talks spawn violent Taliban splinter groups

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 09:59 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, May 13, 2012 file photo, former Taliban fighters hand over their weapons to Afghan police as part of a reconciliation process in Herat, Afghanistan. As the United States and its allies try to negotiate a peace settlement with the Taliban before all combat troops leave Afghanistan in 2014, a new obstacle has arisen: Insurgent splinter groups opposed to the deal are emerging, complicating U.S. hopes of leaving behind a stable country.(AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi, File)As the United States and its allies try to negotiate a peace settlement with the Taliban before all combat troops leave Afghanistan in 2014, a new obstacle has arisen: Insurgent splinter groups opposed to the deal are emerging, complicating U.S. hopes of leaving behind a stable country.

Ivory Coast youth leader speaks from hiding

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 02:01 PM PDT

FILE - A Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010 photo from files showing Charles Ble Goude talking with other members of incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo's new cabinet ahead of the official announcement, in an antechamber at the presidency in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Gbagbo, who the U.N. says lost Ivory Coast's presidential election, is going ahead with naming his new cabinet. Charles Ble Goude will not say what country he is in. He calls on a masked number, after an appointment set up by a go-between in France. The 40-year-old headed the Young Patriots, an ultranationalist youth group that is implicated in hundreds of killings in Ivory Coast, according to Human Rights Watch. He has been in hiding for the past 14 months, and after more than a year's silence and library's worth of articles speculating where he may be holed up, he is finally talking again _ albeit by phone. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)Charles Ble Goude will not say what country he is in. He calls on a masked number, after an appointment set up by a go-between in France.

6 injured in Spain's Pamplona running of the bulls

Posted: 07 Jul 2012 02:41 AM PDT

A reveler is tossed by a Dolores Aguirre Yabarra ranch fighting bull during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona Spain, Saturday, July 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)One elderly thrill-seeker was gored in a leg and five others slightly injured as thousands of adrenaline-fueled runners raced ahead of six fighting bulls in the streets of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona in the first running of the bulls of this year's San Fermin festival, officials said Saturday.

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