2012年8月17日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Mine "bloodbath" shocks post-apartheid South Africa

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 11:11 AM PDT

A policeman fires at protesting miners outside a South African mine in RustenburgMARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - The police killing of 34 striking platinum miners in the bloodiest security operation since the end of white rule cut to the quick of South Africa's psyche on Friday, with searching questions asked of its post-apartheid soul. Newspaper headlines screamed "Bloodbath", "Killing Field" and "Mine Slaughter", with graphic photographs of heavily armed white and black police officers walking casually past the bloodied corpses of black men lying crumpled in the dust. ...

U.N. names Algerian diplomat as Syria envoy; refugee crisis dire

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:09 PM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighters hold their weapons during clashes in the Salaheddine neighbourhood of central AleppoBEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Friday confirmed that veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi would become the new international mediator on Syria, as the 17-month-old conflict slid deeper into civil war and refugees fled to Turkey in increasing numbers. President Bashar al-Assad's forces have turned increasingly to air power to hold back lightly armed rebels in the capital Damascus and Aleppo, a northern commercial hub. More than 18,000 people have died and some 170,000 have fled the country as a result of the fighting, according to the U.N. ...

Egypt's Mursi accused of stifling dissent in media crackdown

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 01:43 PM PDT

Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi attends a meeting with Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Vice President Mahmoud Mekky and members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces at the presidential palace in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - A media crackdown in the first month of Mohamed Mursi's rule has raised fears Egypt's Islamist president is moving to stifle criticism of the Muslim Brotherhood. This week, formal accusations by state prosecutors were filed against two journalists, while an issue of the newspaper al-Dostour was confiscated by the state's censorship unit - disappointing those who believed last year's overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak would lead to greater media freedom. ...

Russian judge finds punk rock band members guilty

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 01:19 PM PDT

Members of the female punk band "Pussy Riot" sit in a glass-walled cage after a court hearing in MoscowMOSCOW (Reuters) - Three women from the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in jail on Friday for staging a protest against President Vladimir Putin in a church, a ruling supporters described as his "personal revenge". The group's backers burst into chants of "Shame" outside the Moscow courthouse and said the case showed Putin was cracking down on dissent in his new six-year term as president. Dozens were detained by police when scuffles broke out. ...

Hezbollah says can kill tens of thousands of Israelis

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 11:28 AM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah said on Friday it could kill tens of thousands of Israelis by hitting targets with what it described as precision-guided missiles in a declaration that seemed aimed at deterring Israeli strikes on Lebanon or its regional backer Iran. Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said his group could turn the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelis "to real hell" by hitting a small number of number of targets which he said was "not large" - a possible reference to nuclear facilities, though Nasrallah would not go into details. ...

Assange saga clouds freedom of speech agenda

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 09:54 AM PDT

A protestor holds a poster of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange outside Ecuador's embassy in LondonLONDON (Reuters) - Julian Assange's supporters outside the London embassy where he is confined say he is being persecuted for speaking truth to power, but free speech campaigners further afield say the WikiLeaks founder has lost his way and damaged the cause. The Australian has been seeking refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy for eight weeks to avoid extradition to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of rape. ...

Iran's Ahmadinejad says no place for Israel in new Middle East

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:05 AM PDT

Iran's President Ahmadinejad arrives at the opening ceremony of the OIC summit in MeccaDUBAI (Reuters) - Many thousands of Iranians shouted "Death to America, death to Israel" during state-organized protests on Friday and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told them there was no place for the Jewish state in a future Middle East. Iran, penalized by tough Western sanctions, faces the threat of an Israeli or U.S. military strike on its disputed nuclear facilities. With popular uprisings reshaping the region, the Islamic Republic is also trying to prevent the overthrow of its closest Arab ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. ...

Japan sends back Chinese activists in bid to defuse island row

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 08:39 AM PDT

Activists Koo Sze-yiu and Fang Xiao-song, who are part of the group of Chinese activists who went to the disputed Senkuki or Diaoyu islands, hold a Chinese national flag in front of a banner as they arrive at Hong Kong airportTOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan on Friday sent home the first group of Chinese activists detained after landing on an island claimed by both Tokyo and Beijing, a move China welcomed but at the same time warned its neighbor against any further escalation in tension. Japan and China, Asia's two largest economies, have been at odds since the activists were detained on Wednesday after using a boat to land on the rocky, uninhabited isles known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China. ...

Israel strike on Iran would be disaster: Netanyahu's ex-deputy

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 01:15 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A former deputy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday a pre-emptive military strike against Iran over its nuclear program could embroil Israel in a "disastrous war". Shaul Mofaz, a parliamentary opposition leader who quit Netanyahu's cabinet last month where he served as vice premier, said on Israeli television he thought Israel was "planning a hasty, irresponsible event". ...

Sudan frees U.S. resident after Washington demands release

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 03:18 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's security services have freed a resident of the United States who was arrested just after being released in one of the first trials of people detained in anti-government protests, his lawyer said on Friday. The United States had demanded the release of Radwan Daoud who was re-arrested by security agents on Monday, the same day a judge found him not guilty of the most serious charges against him, which included forming a terrorist organization. ...

Activists get 2 years for anti-Putin church stunt

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 02:14 PM PDT

FILE In this Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012 file photo feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia. Three members of Pussy Riot were jailed in March and charged with hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after their punk performance against President Putin in Moscow's main cathedral. Theyare awaiting the verdict on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, file)Three punk rock-style activists who briefly took over a cathedral in a raucous prayer for deliverance from Vladimir Putin were sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism on Friday, a decision that drew protests around the world as it highlighted the Russian president's intensifying crackdown on dissent.

Infiltration or bad blood behind Afghan attacks?

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 03:41 PM PDT

The U.S. military trainers handed the new recruit, Mohammad Ismail, his AK-47 to defend his remote Afghan village. He turned around and immediately used it, spraying the Americans with bullets and killing two — the latest of nine U.S. service personnel gunned down in two weeks by their supposed Afghan allies.

Iran: Israel's existence 'insult to all humanity'

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 01:23 PM PDT

Israel's existence is an "insult to all humanity," Iran's president said Friday in one of his sharpest attacks yet against the Jewish state, as Israel openly debates whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program.

Syria fighting deeply scars Aleppo neighborhoods

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 02:31 PM PDT

A Syrian man grieves over the bodies of four members of his family, who were killed when an airstrike hit their house, as they lie on the side of the street outside a field hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. Rebel footholds in Aleppo have been the target of weeks of Syrian shelling and air attacks as part of wider offensives by President Bashar Assad's regime. Rebels have been driven from some areas, but the report of clashes near the airport suggests the battles could be shifting to new fronts.(AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)Entire neighborhoods of Syria's largest city bear battle scars: buildings toppled by government shells, charred tanks blown up by rebels and trash-strewn no-man's lands where neither side has full control after nearly a month of deadly street battles.

Assange faces boredom, stress inside embassy

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 07:12 AM PDT

British police officers stand guard outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 after Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced that he had granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He's won asylum in Ecuador, but Julian Assange is no closer to getting there. The dramatic decision by the Latin American nation to identify the WikiLeaks founder as a political refugee is a symbolic boost for the embattled ex-hacker, but legal experts say that does little to help him avoid extradition to Sweden — and does much to drag Britain and Ecuador into a contentious international faceoff. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)Julian Assange lives in a pricey building in one of London's toniest districts. But he is not staying in the lap of luxury.

S. African leader vows probe into police shootings

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 03:55 PM PDT

An unidentified woman protests against the police near a shooting scene at the Lonmin mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. Police chief Mangwashi Victoria Phiyega says 34 miners died and another 78 were wounded when police opened fire on strikers in one of the worst police shootings in South Africa since apartheid. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)President Jacob Zuma rushed home from a regional summit Friday and announced an official inquiry into a police shooting of striking miners that left 34 dead and 78 wounded, an incident that police claimed was self-defense despite video recordings suggesting the protesters were not attacking them but running from clouds of tear gas.

Guantanamo plea deal prisoner said to have a cat

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 10:10 AM PDT

A former Maryland resident who is detained at Guantanamo Bay seems to have acquired a cat at the isolated prison on a U.S. base in Cuba, a fellow prisoner says in a letter released Friday.

UN: Algeria's Brahimi will replace Annan in Syria

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2009 file photo, former Algerian foreign affairs minister Lakhdar Brahimi attends the Ambrosetti economic forum in Cernobbio, Lake Como, Italy. The United Nations has announced that Brahimi will replace Kofi Annan as peace envoy to Syria. U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey announced Friday, Aug. 17, 2012, that the former Algerian foreign minister and longtime U.N. official would succeed Annan as joint U.N.-Arab League envoy. The 78-year-old Brahimi has worked in several high-profile positions at the U.N., gaining a reputation as a tough, independent negotiator as envoy to Afghanistan, Iraq and Haiti. He helped negotiate the end of Lebanon's civil war. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister and longtime U.N. diplomat known as a strong-willed, independent broker, has agreed to replace former Secretary-General Kofi Annan as peace envoy to Syria, the United Nations announced Friday.

In UK threat to Ecuador, experts see mistake

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:39 PM PDT

A supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds up a placard outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London, London, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange entered the embassy in June in an attempt to gain political asylum to prevent him from being extradited to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sex crimes, which he denies. WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange was granted political asylum by Ecuador on Thursday, setting up a standoff with the British government, which has vowed to block his exit from the country. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)It was a warning meant to remind Ecuador that Britain's patience has limits. But as the stalemate over Julian Assange settled in Friday, it appeared London's veiled threat that it could storm Ecuador's embassy and drag Assange out has backfired — drawing supporters to the mission where the WikiLeaks founder is holed up and prompting angry denunciations from Ecuador and elsewhere.

'We are all hooligans': Protests for Pussy Riot

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 10:35 AM PDT

Demonstrators with painted faces chant slogans in support of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot whose members face prison for a stunt against President Vladimir Putin, in St.Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. Pussy Riot members, two of whom have young children, are charged with hooliganism connected to religious hatred, but the case is widely seen as a warning that authorities will only tolerate opposition under tightly controlled conditions. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)Supporters of the punk rock band Pussy Riot bared their breasts, covered their faces with ski masks and cross-dressed Friday in a series of raucous protests that stretched from New York to Copenhagen to denounce the musicians' conviction in a Russian court.

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