2012年8月28日星期二

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Syria refugee exodus raises pressure for buffer zone

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 08:14 AM PDT

Civilians flee the violence from the Damascus suburbs of KfarbatnaANKARA/BAB AL-SALAMEH, Syria - (Reuters) - Syria's refugee exodus is accelerating and up to 200,000 people could settle in Turkey alone if the conflict worsens, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, increasing pressure for creation of a buffer zone inside Syria. Turkey has floated the idea of a "safe zone" to be set up for civilians under foreign protection as fighting has intensified in a 17-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. ...

Analysis: China's aircraft carrier: in name only

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:01 PM PDT

File photo shows half-built Chinese-owned aircraft carrier Varyag towed and escorted by a flotilla of tugboats and pilot ships past the Leandros Tower on the Bosphorus Straits in Istanbul(Reuters) - When Japanese activists scrambled ashore on a disputed island chain in the East China Sea this month, one of China's most hawkish military commentators proposed an uncharacteristically mild response. Retired Major General Luo Yuan suggested naming China's new aircraft carrier Diaoyu, after the Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea. It would demonstrate China's sovereignty over the islands known as the Senkakus in Japanese, he said. ...

Calderon promises answers on U.S. staff shot in Mexico

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:58 PM PDT

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Earl Anthony Wayne and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon sit together during an event in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - President Felipe Calderon promised on Tuesday to get to the bottom of how two U.S. officials were shot at by federal police officers, allegedly in plain clothes, while heading to a Mexican marine base. Speaking alongside the U.S. ambassador in Mexico, Calderon said the shooting incident should not hinder bilateral efforts to fight Mexico's violent drug cartels. "We can't allow these things to happen, whether it is because of negligence, lack of training, lack of trust or complicity," Calderon said. ...

Montreal police arrest 11 after university clash

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:36 PM PDT

MONTREAL (Reuters) - Police arrested 11 people on the Montreal campus of Canada's largest French-language university on Tuesday as protesters opposed to the resumption of classes after last spring's province-wide student boycott clashed with guards inside a classroom building. Ten people were charged with assault and assault on a police officer after fighting broke out at the University of Montreal campus on Tuesday morning, Agent Danny Richer of the Montreal Police Service said. One protester was released without charge. ...

Red Cross halts most Pakistan aid after beheading

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:08 PM PDT

Hospital staff and rescue workers carry the casket of Khalil Rasjed Dale, a British doctor working with the International Committee of the Red Cross, to an ambulance at a hospital in QuettaGENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday it was halting most of its aid programs in Pakistan due to deteriorating security and the beheading of a British staff doctor in April blamed on Taliban insurgents. The independent agency, which had already suspended operations in three of Pakistan's four provinces in May pending a security assessment, said it would carry on working in the country "but on a reduced scale". "All relief and protection activities are being stopped. ...

Ex-Somali PM must pay $21 million for alleged torture: U.S. court

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:13 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former Somali prime minister denied diplomatic immunity must pay $21 million in damages to the victims of his alleged torture and human rights abuse, a U.S. federal court ruled on Tuesday. Mohamed Ali Samantar, who served as Somalia's defense minister in the 1980s and prime minister from 1987 to 1990, agreed in February to not contest the charges and accept liability for any damages against the seven plaintiffs - four individuals and three estates. ...

U.S. to fight document request by Strauss-Kahn accuser

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 03:12 PM PDT

Former IMF head Strauss-Kahn arrives at a polling station in the second round of the 2012 French presidential elections in SarcellesNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. immigration authorities will fight a request for documents by a hotel maid pursuing a civil case against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was cleared of criminal charges that he attempted to rape her. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a filing on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court that it had been subpoenaed by the maid, Guinean immigrant Nafissatou Diallo, seeking recordings of phone conversations between her and a detainee in Arizona. ...

Mexico's electoral court set to confirm Pena Nieto victory

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 03:46 PM PDT

Mexico's president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto gives a speech during a meeting with newly elected members of the country's congress from the Green Party of Mexico (Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico, PVEM) in a Mexico City hotelMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's electoral court is poised to confirm President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto's victory in the July 1 ballot, despite allegations of vote buying and money laundering during the campaign, electoral officials and legal experts said. Leftist runner-up Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who lost the presidential election by 3.3 million votes, challenged the result, alleging that Pena Nieto's party used slush funds to buy votes and breached spending limits. ...

Venezuela stamps out refinery blaze, eyes a restart

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:11 PM PDT

Firefighters work at extinguishing flames from fuel storage tanks at Amuay oil refinery in Punto FijoPARAGUANA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan firefighters put out a blaze at the country's biggest oil refinery on Tuesday, paving the way for a restart of the facility and an investigation into the world's deadliest refinery accident in fifteen years. Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez has said the 645,000-barrel-per-day Amuay facility should restart within two days of the fire being extinguished. A pre-dawn blast on Saturday killed 48 people, wounded dozens and flattened hundreds of homes. U.S. ...

Slain dictator's daughter turns to mother's legacy in bid to lead South Korea

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:38 PM PDT

Park Geun-hye looks at relics pertaining to her mother and the late first lady Yuk Young-soo at an opening of the Park Chung Hee Memorial-Library in SeoulOKCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - Park Geun-hye was 22 years old when she washed the blood from her assassinated mother's dress. Five years later, she recalls in her autobiography, she held her father's blood-soaked shirt after the South Korean strongman was shot dead. Now, both hampered and helped by the contrasting legacies of her murdered parents, the 60-year-old Park appears on the cusp of becoming South Korea's first women president. Park was chosen as presidential candidate for the ruling conservatives last week and polls show she is the front-runner for a December election. ...

Argentine leader could face criminal fraud probe

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 03:59 PM PDT

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez could be in legal trouble. A federal prosecutor has found grounds for a criminal fraud investigation of the president along with her central bank chief, top tax collector and commerce secretary.

Belgian pedophile accomplice gets early release

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 03:04 PM PDT

In this March 3, 2004 file photo, accused Michelle Martin, ex-wife of convicted rapist Marc Dutroux, attends a hearing at the Palace of Justice in Arlon, South East Belgium. Belgium's highest court on Tuesday Aug. 28 2012 granted conditional early release to one of the nation's most despised criminals, the accomplice and former wife of a pedophile and child killer, even though she let two of his victims starve to death. Martin can leave prison under strict conditions after serving more than half of her sentence, and will work in a Belgian convent. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, file)A woman who let two 8-year-old girls starve in a cellar and helped her pedophile husband carry out horrific abuse of other girls went from prison to a convent Tuesday, outraging Belgians who opposed the early release of one of the country's most despised criminals.

Fire doused at Venezuela refinery hit by explosion

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 04:14 PM PDT

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, firefighters douse a fuel tank at the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela,Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. Venezuela's biggest oil refinery remained offline Tuesday after firefighters extinguished a blaze that raged for more than three days following an explosion that killed at least 41 people. (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office)Venezuela's biggest oil refinery remained shut down Tuesday after firefighters extinguished a blaze that raged for more than three days following an explosion that killed at least 41 people.

France opens murder inquiry into Arafat's death

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2003 file photo, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, with tears in his eyes, after he was informed of the death of his sister Yousra Abdel Raouf Al Kidwah at his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah. French prosecutors opened a murder inquiry into the death of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, judicial officials told a French new agency, after his widow and a TV investigation raised new questions about whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)French prosecutors opened a murder inquiry into the death of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday, his widow's lawyer said, after she and a TV investigation raised new questions about whether the Palestinian leader was poisoned.

Mexico sect vows fight over public schools

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:39 PM PDT

Father Luis Maria, spokesman of a religious group of followers of the Virgen del Rosario, delivers a speech against secular education in Nueva Jerusalen, Mexico, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. Mexican authorities are still unable to overcome the resistance of an apocalyptic religious sect in western Mexico which has refused to allow public school teachers to hold classes in their town. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)Sprouting out of the corn fields of western Mexico rises a hill crowned with two arches and four towers, marking the gates of an improvised "holy land" that farmers built brick by brick over nearly four decades. The sprawling complex, they believed, would be the only place saved in the coming apocalypse: Nueva Jerusalen, or "New Jerusalem."

Analysis: No easy path to peace in Colombia

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:14 PM PDT

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has claimed to have "the key to peace" in his pocket since assuming the presidency two years ago in a nation afflicted by an internal conflict for nearly a half century.

AP Exclusive: Syria defectors live in secret camp

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, June 21, 2012 file photo, the entrance of King Hussein Air Base in Mafraq, Jordan, 45 miles (70 kilometers) north of Amman, Jordan. In an isolated stretch of Jordanian desert not far from Syria, a heavily guarded, secretive compound houses 1,200 senior police and army officers who defected from the neighboring country. Though their movements are limited, they are protected in an arrangement that underscores Jordan's growing role as a quiet supporter of Syria's opposition. (AP Photo, File)In an isolated stretch of Jordanian desert, a heavily guarded, secret compound houses 1,200 senior police and army officers who defected from nearby Syria.

Egypt leader said to reach out to Sinai radicals

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 02:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 6, 2012 file photo, Egyptian border guards patrol near the border with Israel in Rafah, Egypt. President Mohammed Morsi is using former jhadists to mediate with radical Islamists in Sinai, trying to ensure a halt in militant attacks in return for a stop in a military offensive in the lawless peninsula, participants in the talks say. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa, File)Egypt's Islamist president is using former jihadists to mediate with radical Islamists in Sinai, trying to ensure a halt in militant attacks in return for a stop in a military offensive in the lawless peninsula, participants in the talks say.

Goal of united Syrian opposition still elusive

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:17 PM PDT

Syrian girl, Haya Khalil, 8, who fled her home in Homs with her family due to fighting between the Syrian government forces and the rebels, looks up, as she and her family take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey, near the Syrian town of Azaz, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)In the foreign halls of power, the strategy is clear: Syria's opposition should unite to present an alternative to Bashar Assad's rule — a step France's president says would lead to diplomatic recognition.

Israeli court rejects US activist's family lawsuit

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Cindy, center, and Craig Corrie, right, the parents of Rachel Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003, sit together with their daughter Sarah, during an interview with the Associated Press in Jerusalem, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. Almost a decade after their daughter was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer as she tried to block its path in a Gaza Strip war zone, Rachel Corrie's parents are bracing for the judge's ruling in their high-profile civil lawsuit against the military. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)An Israeli court on Tuesday cleared the military of wrongdoing in the death of a young American activist who was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer during a protest in the Gaza Strip nearly a decade ago, rejecting claims by her parents that the driver acted recklessly.

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