2012年8月14日星期二

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Islamic states set to suspend Syria from OIC

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:10 PM PDT

Syrian residents inspect houses destroyed by what they said was heavy shelling from Syrian President al-Assad forces in Banisaba'i area in HomsRIYADH/ALEPPO (Reuters) - Leaders of Muslim countries are expected to suspend Syria's membership of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation at a summit in Mecca on Wednesday, despite the vocal objections of President Bashar al-Assad's main ally Iran. The decision by the 57-member organization, which requires a two-thirds majority, will expose the divisions within the Islamic world over how to respond to civil war in a country that straddles the Middle East's main sectarian faultline. ...

Russian punk band plans new anti-Putin protests

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 03:23 PM PDT

Members of Russian female punk group Pussy Riot who are still at large, wait before an interview with Reuters journalists in MoscowMOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian punk band Pussy Riot said on Tuesday it planned new protest performances against President Vladimir Putin and urged other women to don balaclavas and stage protests, despite a trial at which three band mates could be jailed. The trial of Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Maria Alyokhina, 24, has merely strengthened the band's resolve, members of the group who are not on trial told Reuters. ...

Israel hasn't decided on Iran strike: Pentagon

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:02 PM PDT

U.S. Defense Secretary Panetta attends a joint news conference with Japan's Defense Minister Morimoto after their meeting in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States does not believe Israel has made a decision on whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Tuesday, following sharp rhetoric from Israeli officials that has put financial markets on edge. Panetta, who visited Israel two weeks ago, told reporters at the Pentagon it was important that military action be the "last resort" and said there was still time for sanctions and diplomatic pressure to work. That contrasts with Israeli warnings in recent days about the possibility of a strike. ...

Ecuador says no decision yet on Assange's asylum

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:55 PM PDT

File photo of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outside the High Court in LondonQUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador denied a report on Tuesday that it had granted amnesty to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and the country's foreign minister said only he and President Rafael Correa could make the decision. Assange has been taking refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for the past eight weeks to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on sex crime allegations. The former computer hacker, who enraged Washington in 2010 when his WikiLeaks website published thousands of secret U.S. ...

U.N. envoy tells Honduras to better protect its journalists

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:45 PM PDT

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Honduran government must investigate the cases of 22 journalists murdered in the last two years in a country that has the world's highest murder rate, a United Nations envoy said on Tuesday. Frank La Rue, a U.N. special freedom of expression rapporteur, also demanded that President Porfirio Lobo establish new measures to protect journalists, including giving them access to bulletproof cars and helping threatened reporters and their families to relocate, either within Honduras or abroad. ...

Gunmen kill 8 in hail of bullets at Mexican strip bar

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Policemen stand outside a strip bar in downtown MonterreyMONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug cartel gunmen stormed a strip bar and shot dead eight men in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey late on Monday in an apparent dispute over drug dealing. Four victims died on site in the Matehuala bar, a well-known drinking and topless dancing venue in the city center, and four more died later in the hospital, officials said on Tuesday. Six gunmen arrived in three vehicles, entered the bar and began shooting in the latest brutal incident in a wave of recent violence across Mexico that have been blamed on drug gangs. ...

U.N. starts food airdrops in South Sudan for Sudan refugees

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:08 PM PDT

JUBA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Tuesday it had started airdrops to deliver emergency food to a camp in South Sudan packed with people fleeing fighting on the Sudan side of the joint border. Fighting broke out between the Sudanese army and rebels of the SPLM-North in South Kordofan state around the time of South Sudan's independence in July 2011. It then spread to nearby Blue Nile state in September. Sudan accuses South Sudan of supporting the SPLM-North, which says it is marginalized in the Arab country. ...

Mali army says ECOWAS troops only welcome in North

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:36 PM PDT

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's military on Tuesday rejected the deployment of any foreign West African soldiers to the capital, saying any regional intervention could only take place in the North of the country, currently occupied by Islamist groups. The comments, after talks between West African defense chiefs and Malian authorities, are likely to dismay regional leaders who have been seeking to shore up a weak civilian administration in Bamako before helping the local army take on a mix of gunmen including some from al Qaeda. ...

U.S. must stop countries reflagging Iran ships: lawmakers

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:41 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers on Tuesday urged the U.S. government to take action against Tuvalu and Tanzania, countries accused of flouting U.S. sanctions by putting their flags on Iranian tankers. Reflagging ships masks their ownership, which could make it easier for Iran to obtain insurance and financing for the cargoes, as well as find buyers for the shipments without attracting attention from the United States and European Union. ...

U.S. denies bond for Mexico's alleged cocaine "Queenpin"

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:07 PM PDT

MIAMI (Reuters) - An alleged smuggler known as Mexico's "Queen of the Pacific" was ordered jailed without bond on Tuesday pending trial in Miami on cocaine conspiracy charges. Mexico extradited defendant Sandra Avila Beltran to the United States last week. She appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick White, who ruled there was a risk of flight and ordered her continued detention. She was not asked to enter a plea and her arraignment was postponed to September 14. Avila, 51, is the highest-profile woman linked to Mexico's drug trade. ...

Bombs kill 46 across Afghanistan

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:59 PM PDT

An Afghan Muslim devotee, who lives and prays in isolation in a mosque during Itikaf, the last ten days of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, reads from the Quran in the city of Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. The last ten days of Ramadan, known as Itikaf, are very important according to many Muslims due to the belief that Prophet Muhammad used to exert himself even more in worship, hoping to draw himself closer to God. Itikaf involves total dedication to worship, reading Quran, and supplication. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)Suicide bombers launched multiple attacks in a remote corner of southwestern Afghanistan near the Iranian border Tuesday, killing dozens of people including shoppers buying sweets for a Muslim holiday and leaving charred and smoldering bits of cookies and dried fruit among the bodies on the ground.

Syrian premier who defected: Regime near collapse

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 07:59 AM PDT

Riad Hijab, Syria's defected former prime minister, speaks at a press conference at the Hyatt Hotel in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. Hijab is the highest-ranking political figure to defect from Assad's regime and in his first public comments since leaving his post and fleeing to Jordan he said Tuesday that the regime was near collapse and urged other political and military leaders to tip the scales and join the rebel side. (AP photo/Mohammad Hannon)The Syrian prime minister who defected said Tuesday that Bashar Assad's regime was near collapse and urged other leaders to tip the scales and join the rebel side. The U.N. said an estimated 2.5 million Syrians have been injured, displaced or face problems securing food or other necessities, a sharp rise from about 1 million three months ago.

Europe on the edge of recession

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 09:25 AM PDT

A man walks past containers at Lisbon port during a dock workers strike, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. Portuguese dock workers went on strike against new labor laws that the Portuguese government wants to apply in the sector. The government has been enacting austerity economic measures linked to a euro 78 billion ($96 billion) bailout in 2011. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Europe is edging closer to recession, dragged down by the crippling debt problems of the 17 countries that use the euro, official figures showed Tuesday.

Hungary far-right leader discovers Jewish roots

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:44 AM PDT

FILE - This file photo dated on June 7, 2009 shows Hungary's far right party, Jobbik's, Csanad Szegedi, left, and Krisztina Morvai, right, celebrating their entry into the European Parliament after the European parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary. Szegedi, who was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews, acknowledged in June that his grandparents on his mother's side were Jews. After resigning last month from all his party positions he was also asked by Jobbik to give up his seat in the European Parliament as well. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)As a rising star in Hungary's far-right Jobbik Party, Csanad Szegedi was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews: He accused them of "buying up" the country, railed about the "Jewishness" of the political elite and claimed Jews were desecrating national symbols.

Riot engulfs troubled French district in north

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:40 AM PDT

The shell of a burnt out car is seen in a neighborhood of Amiens, France, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. Dozens of young men rioted in a troubled district in northern France after weeks of tensions, pulling drivers from their cars and stealing the vehicles, and burning a school and a youth center. The police department in Amiens says at least 16 officers were hurt by the time the riot ended Tuesday, some by buckshot. (AP Photo/Georges Charrieres)Months of tension between police and young people in a troubled district of northern France exploded on Tuesday, with dozens of youths facing off against riot officers in a night of violence. Seventeen officers were injured, a pre-school and public gym were torched, and at least three passing drivers in Amiens were dragged from their cars.

US, UN concerned over corrupt Somali transition

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 09:38 AM PDT

Somali military trainees march during a graduation ceremony at the Jazeera military camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. Tuesday, Aug, 14, 2012. These soldiers are part of 602 trainees who are graduating following an eight-month training program. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)World leaders from Africa to the U.S. and Europe said they are growing increasingly concerned that intimidation and corruption are marring the selection of a new Somali parliament, a task still unfinished less than a week before the government's U.N. mandate expires.

Iran says foreign help for quake area now welcome

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:50 AM PDT

In this Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012 photo, Iranians search the ruins of buildings after Saturday's earthquake in a village near the city of Varzaqan in northwestern Iran. Over 300 people have died from Saturday's twin earthquakes in Iran's East Azerbaijan province. Iran is located on seismic fault lines, is prone to earthquakes and it experiences at least one earthquake every day on average, although the vast majority are so small they go unnoticed. (AP Photo/Ali Hamed Haghdoust, Mehr News Agency)In a change of heart, Iran said Tuesday it now welcomes foreign aid for victims of the deadly twin earthquakes that hit the country's northwest over the weekend.

Environmentalists warn of risks of Arctic drilling

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 08:34 AM PDT

Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo, right, and Greenpeace Russian energy researcher Vladimir Chuprov, left, speak at a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature unveiled a report on Tuesday they have commissioned to assess risks of an oil spill in the Pechora Sea in Russia's Arctic where state-owned Gazprom is currently prospecting for oil. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)Environmental activists warned Tuesday that drilling for oil in the Russian Arctic could have disastrous consequences because of a lack of technology and infrastructure to deal with a possible spill in a remote region with massive icebergs and heavy storms.

European rabbis rap Apple over anti-Semitic app

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:50 PM PDT

European rabbis said Tuesday that they were lobbying Apple Inc. to pull a mobile app version of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a notorious anti-Semitic forgery.

Bombs kill at least 46 in deadly Afghanistan day

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:11 AM PDT

An Afghan Muslim devotee, who lives and prays in isolation in a mosque during Itikaf, the last ten days of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, reads from the Quran in the city of Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012. The last ten days of Ramadan, known as Itikaf, are very important according to many Muslims due to the belief that Prophet Muhammad used to exert himself even more in worship, hoping to draw himself closer to God. Itikaf involves total dedication to worship, reading Quran, and supplication. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)Suicide attacks involving as many as 14 bombers struck an Afghan city Tuesday, and a motorcycle bomb exploded in a busy market in blasts that killed at least 46 people altogether— the year's deadliest day for civilians in Afghanistan.

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