2012年8月24日星期五

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Scuffles as Egyptians challenge Islamist president

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 10:39 AM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi and anti-Mursi protesters throw stones at each other during clashes in Tahrir Square in CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Opponents of Egypt's president scuffled with his supporters on Friday at a demonstration that was billed as a test of Mohamed Mursi's popularity on the street but which managed to muster only modest numbers against his rule. After months of turmoil, Egypt's streets have become calmer since Mursi's June election that ended 60 years of rule by military men, a relief to Egyptians and the West, wary of instability in a nation that has a peace treaty with Israel. ...

Immigrants march in Greece against racist attacks

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:11 PM PDT

Immigrants living in Greece shout slogans during rally against racism attacks in central AthensATHENS (Reuters) - Thousands of immigrants marched in Athens on Friday to protest police sweeps and a rash of racist attacks in Greece as the country struggles to pull itself out of a huge debt crisis. Greece is a major gateway for mostly Asian and African migrants trying to enter the European Union. They face increased hostility as the country struggles through its deepest post- World War Two recession and record unemployment, propelling the ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn party to parliament for the first time since the fall of a military junta in 1974. ...

Nicaragua nabs Mexican cop, others with $7 million posing as reporters

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:47 PM PDT

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaraguan police have detained 18 people, including a Mexican policeman, posing as journalists while trying to enter Honduras with millions of dollars in cash, the country's police chief said on Friday. The group was detained on Monday as it tried to cross into Nicaragua with the cash in six vehicles, Nicaragua's national police commissioner Aminta Granera told a news conference. ...

Putin critic Garry Kasparov cleared over Pussy Riot protest

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:26 PM PDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former world chess champion turned Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov was cleared on Friday of taking part in an unsanctioned protest over the conviction of punk band Pussy Riot in a rare Moscow court ruling in his favor. Kasparov, an opposition leader, was among dozens of activists picked out of a crowd and detained outside the court where the Pussy Riot trial ended in two-year jail sentences for three female band members on August 17. The 49-year-old was speaking to journalists when police grabbed him and carried him to a waiting van. ...

Mexican police shoot two U.S. Embassy staff in botched chase

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:59 PM PDT

A bullet-riddled armoured U.S. embassy SUV is seen on a road near the town of Tres MariasMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Two U.S. Embassy employees were shot at and wounded by Mexican police on Friday after they were caught up in a police chase on the outskirts of the capital, Mexico's Navy said. Police fired on vehicle in which the embassy employees were traveling, which carried diplomatic plates, after the driver veered out of the way when he saw the officers' weapons. "At that moment those in the ... (police) vehicle opened fire on the diplomatic vehicle," the Navy said in a statement. "Moments later, three other vehicles joined the chase and fired shots at the U.S. Embassy vehicle. ...

IAEA gets no deal with Iran on bomb research suspicions

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:01 PM PDT

International Atomic Energy Agency's chief inspector Herman Nackaerts briefs the media at the Iranian embassy in ViennaVIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran failed on Friday to strike a deal aimed at allaying concerns about suspected nuclear weapons research by Tehran, a setback in efforts to resolve the stand-off diplomatically before any Israeli or U.S. military action. A flurry of bellicose rhetoric from some Israeli politicians this month has fanned speculation that Israel might hit Iran's nuclear sites before the U.S. presidential election in November. ...

Norway jails "sane" Breivik for maximum 21 years

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 06:24 AM PDT

Norwegian mass killer Breivik gestures as he arrives in the court room at Oslo CourthouseOSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was jailed for a maximum term on Friday when judges declared him sane enough to answer for the murder of 77 people last year, drawing a smirk of triumph from the self-styled warrior against Islam. An unrepentant Breivik, 33, gave the Oslo court a stiff-armed, clench-fisted salute before being handed the steepest possible penalty, 21 years. His release, however, can be put off indefinitely should he still pose a threat to a liberal society left traumatized by his bomb and shooting rampage last July. ...

Jailed Western Sahara activists stage 48-hour hunger strike

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 01:37 PM PDT

RABAT (Reuters) - Twelve activists from the disputed Western Sahara began a 48-hour hunger strike inside a prison in the Moroccan-controlled city of Laayoune to denounce their detention conditions, fellow activists said. Morocco's Communication Minister Mustafa el-Khalfi said authorities were not aware of the hunger strike but he strongly denied what the two activists said was a heavy security deployment around Laayoune on the day a U.S. human right group was expected to arrive in the former Spanish colony. ...

Hamas leader gets invite to summit in Iran

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:08 PM PDT

GAZA (Reuters) - Iran has invited a leader of the Islamist group Hamas to attend a summit of 120 developing nations, officials said on Friday, a move that could antagonize Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and anger Western powers who consider Hamas a terrorist group. Iran hopes to earn diplomatic kudos by hosting a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement from August 29-31 at a time when the West is seeking to cripple its economy and isolate it diplomatically over its disputed nuclear program. U.N. ...

Fierce fighting in Syria swells refugee exodus

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 08:15 AM PDT

Members of the Free Syrian Army exchange places as they take cover during clashes with Syrian army soldiers in Aleppo's Saif al-Dawla districtAMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops forced rebels to abandon a battered Damascus suburb on Friday in the latest battle of an intensifying civil war that the U.N. refugee agency said had prompted more than 200,000 people to flee the country. Hundreds of soldiers and dozens of tanks and armored vehicles pushed into the centre of Daraya after a small group of defenders withdrew, opposition activists said. ...

Isaac nears Haiti with homeless quake population

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:00 PM PDT

A man rests on a hammock as others chat on Manresa beach before the arrival of Tropical Storm Isaac in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Isaac strengthened slightly as it spun toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti, but seemed unlikely to gain enough steam early Friday to strike as a hurricane. The storm's failure to gain the kind of strength in the Caribbean that forecasters initially projected made it more likely that Isaac won't become a hurricane until it enters the Gulf of Mexico, said Eric Blake, a forecaster with U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. (AP Photo/Manuel Diaz)Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened as it swirled toward vulnerable Haiti on Friday evening, threatening to bring punishing rains to people still without homes after the 2010 earthquake, but unlikely to gain enough steam to strike as a hurricane.

PR consultant: More Harry material may emerge soon

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:51 PM PDT

FILE- Britain's Prince Harry watches track cycling during the 2012 Summer Olympics, in this file photo dated Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, in London. Nude photographs of Prince Harry in a Las Vegas, USA, hotel room are published on the Internet Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012, and now security experts are wondering whether the Scotland Yard officers who are assigned to keep the 27-year-old royal safe from harm, might have done a better job of keeping him out of trouble. The photos available on the Internet and not taken by Photographers' long lenses but are up close and personal. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)Brace yourself, Harry.

Norway gunman declared sane, sent away to prison

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:16 PM PDT

Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, makes a salute after he arrives at the court room in a courthouse in Oslo Friday Aug. 24, 2012 . Breivik has been declared sane and sentenced to prison for bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people last year. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)It was during breaks between marathon video game sessions in his mother's apartment in Oslo that Anders Behring Breivik drafted his complicated and chilling plan.

Diplomats: Iran shrouds suspected nuclear site

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:25 PM PDT

In this satellite image supplied Friday Aug. 24, 2012, by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), showing what they say are buildings, seen here at centre and top, shrouded with a pink tarp to stop the U.N nuclear agency from monitoring Tehran's efforts to sanitize the site which they suspect was used for secret work on atomic weapons, in this photo dated Aug. 15, 2012, of the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran, Iran. Other photos taken at an earlier date, appear to show the same buildings, without a tarp but with what looks like the results of extensive alterations undertaken at the suspected high explosives testing site, including the demolition of two nearby buildings and major earth displacement activities nearby, diplomats told The Associated Press on Friday Aug. 24, 2012. The information on the shrouding of the building came from two diplomats who demanded anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the confidential satellite images. (AP Photo/ISIS)Iran has shrouded a building that the U.N. nuclear agency suspects was used for secret work on atomic weapons, meaning spy satellites can no longer monitor Tehran's alleged efforts to clean up the site, diplomats told The Associated Press on Friday.

Solly the hippo dies in South Africa rescue effort

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 12:49 PM PDT

A hippo is lifted from a swimming pool Friday Aug. 24, 2012, at the Monate Conservation Lodge, near Modimolle, South Africa, after being trapped there for three days. The young hippo had plunged into the deep pool on Tuesday after being chased off from his herd by male members seeking dominance, wandered into the lodge's camp and fell into the pool. The animal died just before the rescue operation got under way. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)What started out as a day of hope for Solly the hippo turned to tragedy when rescuers were unable to save the 3-ton beast from the swimming pool he plunged into after being chased from his herd.

Mexican Navy: Police fired on US gov't vehicle

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:42 PM PDT

Military stand guard over an armored U.S. Embassy vehicle attacked by unknown assailants on the highway leading to the city of Cuernavaca, near Tres Marias, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Two U.S. government employees were shot and wounded in an attack on their vehicle south of Mexico City on Friday, a law enforcement official said. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)Mexican federal police fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle and wounded two U.S. government employees Friday after their vehicle drove into a rural, mountainous area outside the capital where the officers were looking for criminals, Mexican and U.S. officials said.

Paralympic cauldron lit in central London

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:30 PM PDT

Claire Lomas lights the Paralympic flame cauldron in Trafalgar Square in London, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. Claire had a horse riding accident in 2007 leaving her paralysed from the chest down. The London Paralympics begin on Wednesday Aug. 29. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Paralyzed marathon participant Claire Lomas lit the Paralympic cauldron in central London on Friday, one of a slew of events meant to mark the coming of the Paralympic Games across the British capital.

Mexico scrambles to cope with egg shortage

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:51 PM PDT

A city worker sells eggs at government subsidized prices as people line up outside the city truck in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012. The Mexican government is battling an egg shortage and hoarding that have caused prices to spike in a country with the highest per-capita egg consumption on earth. About 11 million chickens were slaughtered after a June outbreak of bird flu. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)The Mexican government is battling an egg shortage and hoarding that have caused prices to spike in a country with the highest per-capita egg consumption on Earth.

Jailing of Breivik is praised by Norwegians

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 11:07 AM PDT

Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle lays flowers in a symbolic act to remember the victims of the bombing and shooting rampage in Norway on July 22, 2011 outside Oslo Cathedral Friday Aug. 24, 2012. A chapter of a terror case that has haunted Norway for 13 months ended Friday as confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was declared sane and sent to prison for bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people and injured 200 others last year. (AP Photo/Fredrik Varfjell / NTB scanpix)A court's decision to sentence Anders Behring Breivik to between 10 and 21 years in prison for killing 77 people in Norway, and to say that he was sane when he did that as part of an anti-Muslim crusade, has been praised by many people, with some saying the ruling will allow them to begin to recover from the tragedy.

Q&A about Norway massacre case

Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:34 AM PDT

Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, smiles as he arrives at the courtroom in a courthouse in Oslo Friday Aug. 24, 2012 . Breivik was convicted Friday of terrorism and premeditated murder for bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people and sentenced to a special prison term that would allow authorities to keep him locked up for as long as he is considered dangerous. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)A chapter of a terror case that has haunted Norway for 13 months ended Friday as confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was declared sane and sent to prison for bomb and gun attacks that killed 77 people and injured 200 others last year.

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