2012年9月5日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News

Powerful quake hits Costa Rica, two dead

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:12 PM PDT

Damage to the walls of Hospital Monsenor Sanabria are seen following an earthquake in PuntarenasSAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake rocked Costa Rica on Wednesday, killing at least two people, sparking landslides, knocking down buildings, and briefly triggering a tsunami warning. Striking a tourist region popular with Hollywood stars, Costa Rica's worst quake in over two decades sowed panic in the capital, disrupting power supplies and communications, and caused an entire hospital on the Pacific coast to be evacuated. The Red Cross said two people died in Guanacaste, the northwestern province at the epicenter of the 7. ...

Exclusive: Russian firm to halt Iran ship work as pressure grows

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:37 AM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - A Russian firm has decided to stop verifying safety and environmental standards for one of Iran's biggest shipping groups, a letter showed, the latest international company wary of being caught up in Western sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Iran is under growing pressure over its disputed nuclear program and companies are cutting ties with its vital shipping sector, which transports most of its crude oil, for fear of losing lucrative U.S. business. Moscow opposes concerted trade pressure on Tehran by Washington and its allies, making the Russian company's decision unusual. ...

Turkish jets hit Kurdish militant positions-sources

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:02 PM PDT

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish fighter planes and attack helicopters pounded suspected Kurdish militant positions near the southeastern border with Syria and Iraq late on Wednesday in a major air-and-ground operation, security sources said. "Around 2,000 soldiers are involved in the operation. Cobra helicopters ... are bombing targets on the Kato mountain," a security source told Reuters, referring to a location in Turkey's southeastern Sirnak province. Around 10 F-16 fighter planes had been sent to support the operation, the source said. ...

Colombia names team for peace talks with FARC rebels

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:20 PM PDT

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos speaks during a televised national conference at the presidential palace in BogotaBOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos unveiled on Wednesday a six-man team to negotiate with Marxist FARC rebels in the hope of ending almost 50 years of war. A decade after the last attempt to end Latin America's longest-running insurgency failed, the negotiators led by former Vice President Humberto de la Calle are to travel to Norway next month to meet the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The negotiations will then move to Cuba. ...

Hundreds of Afghan soldiers detained, sacked for insurgent links

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:03 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan army has detained or sacked hundreds of soldiers for having links to insurgents, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday, as it tries to stem the rising number of so-called insider attacks. It made the announcement as NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to express his concern over the attacks, in which Afghan servicemen have killed at least 45 NATO-led troops this year, including 15 in August, compared with 35 for all of last year. "Hundreds were sacked or detained after showing links with insurgents. ...

Israeli air strike kills three Gaza militants

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:17 PM PDT

GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike on the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip killed three gunmen as they tried to launch short-range rockets into the Jewish state on Wednesday, the military said. Palestinian medical officials and witnesses confirmed that three militants had been killed in the attack near Bureij, in central Gaza. They did not immediately give the dead men's factional affiliation but said they did not belong to Hamas. Though hostile to Israel, Islamist Hamas has at times proposed long-term truces and faced resistance to its rule from smaller armed groups in Gaza. ...

Guinea's embattled elections commission chief to step down

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:32 PM PDT

Guinea's President Conde arrives for meeting with Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen at Council of Ministers in Phnom PenhCONAKRY (Reuters) - The president of Guinea's national election commission on Wednesday said he will step down amid a political stalemate over parliamentary polls and following months of pressure from opposition supporters. The mineral-rich west African nation has struggled to complete a transition to civilian rule since 2010 because the final step in the process -- parliamentary elections -- has been repeatedly delayed by disputes between rival political camps. ...

Pentagon maps Japan radiation, says U.S. personnel safe

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 04:11 PM PDT

No. 1, the No. 2, the No. 3 and the No. 4 reactor buildings are seen at the Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefectureWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Wednesday posted a website mapping the amount of radiation to which the tens of thousands of Americans in Japan at the time of last year's earthquake and nuclear disaster were exposed and said none of the doses posed health risks. The 9.0 magnitude March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo, triggering meltdowns, spewing radiation and prompting the Pentagon to announce voluntary evacuation for families of service members stationed in Japan. ...

Mali requests military assistance to free north

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:30 PM PDT

Mali's PM Diarra speaks during a meeting with political figures from northern Mali in BamakoABIDJAN (Reuters) - Mali's interim leader has made a formal request to West African regional body ECOWAS for military assistance to help free the country's north, which has been occupied since April by Islamist fighters, a senior Malian official said on Wednesday. Leaders of an influential former military junta, however, immediately rejected the possible deployment of foreign troops on Malian soil. "Mali is in danger, and that danger is a cross-border danger. ...

Dutch pro-European parties lead in opinion polls

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:16 PM PDT

Dutch Prime Minister and Dutch Liberal Party leader Mark Rutte smiles during a political debate in HilversumAMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two pro-European political parties in the Netherlands that backed bailouts are leading in the opinion polls one week before an election dominated by the euro zone crisis and austerity measures, three surveys showed on Wednesday. Prime Minister Mark Rutte's fiscally conservative Liberal Party would win the most seats, the new polls showed, followed closely by the Labour Party, which is pro-euro but opposes tough austerity measures. ...

Turkey accuses Syria of 'state terrorism'

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:46 AM PDT

This image taken from video filmed by an independent cameraman and made available on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012 shows a Syrian man throwing a bucket of water at a burning building in Myasar neighborhood, Aleppo, Syria. Government jets bombed the residential area of Myasar, reducing many of its buildings to rubble and causing a huge fire. (AP Photo/APTN)Turkey accused Syria of "state terrorism" Wednesday after a sharp spike in the death toll from the Syrian civil war, and Iran came under new scrutiny with the U.S. alleging that Tehran is flying weapons to President Bashar Assad's regime across Iraqi airspace.

France giving aid to rebel-held Syrian cities

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:40 PM PDT

France has started providing direct aid and money to five rebel-held Syrian cities as it intensifies efforts to weaken President Bashar Assad, in the first such move by a western power, a diplomatic source said Wednesday.

Strong Costa Rica quake causes panic, minor damage

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:57 PM PDT

A wall at the University of Costa Rica's school of electrical engineering is damaged after an earthquake in San Jose, Costa Rica, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Thomas Dooley)A powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and neighboring countries Wednesday, sending panicked people into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami alert, but causing little damage. Authorities reported one confirmed death.

President has not tackled Egypt's biggest problems

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 01:49 PM PDT

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi waves to photographers as he leaves the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. Morsi says Syrian leader Bashar Assad must learn from "recent history" and step down before it is too late. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)Power and water outages are common across Egypt. Crime is rampant. The value of the currency is slipping.

Iraq's role in Syria war poses problems for US

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 02:52 PM PDT

U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, left, greets Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, right, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)Iraq's acquiescence in possibly allowing Iranian weapons deliveries to the Syrian regime demonstrates Washington's limited influence in postwar Iraq, its inability to halt Syria's 18-month conflict and its continued struggle against Tehran for supremacy in the region.

French judges to exhume Arafat body in West Bank

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 11:14 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2009 file photograph, a Palestinian boy touches a mural of the late leader Yasser Arafat, in Gaza City. French judges will visit the West Bank town of Ramallah as part of a probe into the death of Yasser Arafat, the widow of the late Palestinian leader said Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. Arafat died eight years ago in a French military hospital from a stroke, but the underlying causes of the illness that preceded his death have never been determinedWriting in Arabic reads "In Jerusalem - who is in Jerusalem - I only see you". (AP Photo/ Tara Todras-Whitehill, File)The widow of Yasser Arafat said Wednesday that French investigators will soon visit the West Bank to dig up the remains of her husband in hopes of determining what killed the longtime Palestinian leader eight years ago.

Afghan soldiers fired during insider attacks probe

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 01:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009 file photo, Afghan Commandos stand in formation during an instructors' training course at their base in Afghanistan's Wardak Province. Hundreds of soldiers have been detained or removed from the Afghan National Army in 2012 after a surge in insider attacks against foreign forces who are their supposed partners in the fight against Taliban insurgents and other militants. The Afghan officials say they are re-vetting soldiers to stem the attacks that threaten to unravel the international community's alliance with the fragile government trying to stand on its own as foreign troops withdraw.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)Afghan authorities have detained or removed hundreds of soldiers in an investigation into rising insider attacks against international service personnel who are their supposed partners in the fight against Taliban insurgents and other militants, officials said Wednesday.

Gadhafi's spy chief in Libyan hands

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 03:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 file photo, intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, right, whispers to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in Sabha, Libya. A government statement read on national radio states that Mauritania has agreed to extradite Moammar Gadhafi's former spy chief, months after he tried to slip into Mauritania wearing a disguise and traveling on a fake passport. An official said Al-Senoussi is already on a plane headed to Libya. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany, File)Deposed Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's notorious spy chief is in custody in Tripoli after extradition from Mauritania, Libya's premier said Wednesday, in a step toward bringing the man linked to aircraft bombings and atrocities to justice.

Suspect IDed in Quebec election rally shooting

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 04:07 PM PDT

A man is arrested by police outside the Parti Quebecois victory rally in Montreal on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. A masked gunman wearing a blue bathrobe opened fire during a midnight victory rally for Quebec's new premier, killing one person and wounding another. The new premier, Pauline Marois of the separatist Parti Quebecois, was whisked off the stage by guards while giving her speech and uninjured. It was not clear if the gunman was trying to shoot Marois, whose party favors separation for the French-speaking province from Canada. Police identified the gunman only as a 62-year-old man, and were still questioning him Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Montreal La Presse via The Canadian Press, Olivier Pontbriand)Police interrogated a man accused of opening fire at a midnight victory rally for Quebec's new separatist premier, but they said the suspect's rambling statements in French and English offered no immediate motive for the shooting that killed one man and wounded another.

Bullfights back on Spanish public TV after ban

Posted: 05 Sep 2012 12:24 PM PDT

A TV camera films during a bullfight in Valladolid, Spain Wednesday Sept. 5, 2012. Bullfights returned live to Spanish state TV Wednesday evening, six years after the fights were banned from the widely watched public channel with the broadcast featuring one of Spain's most storied bullfighters and giving a boost to a tradition hit hard by declining popularity and a dire economic crisis. The RTVE broadcast from the northern city of Valladolid is a big victory for pro-bullfighting forces that saw bullfighting banned altogether this year in the northeastern region of Catalonia; it's a defeat for animal rights activists who denounce bullfighting as barbaric. The transmissions were halted in 2006 by Spain's previous Socialist administration, which said they were costly and coincided with key TV viewing hours for young children. (AP Photo/Israel L. Murillo)Bullfights returned live to Spanish state TV with a glittering and music-filled display on Wednesday evening, six years after the fights were banned from the widely watched public channel.

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