2012年9月7日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Bombardment, blasts rock Syrian capital

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 07:32 AM PDT

A view shows the wreckage after a car bomb exploded in the Syrian capital DamascusBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces bombarded a crowded Palestinian refugee district in Damascus on Friday, killing at least 10 people according to residents, while other parts of the city were rocked by apparent rebel bomb attacks. The main focus of the fighting is now in the economic center, Aleppo, but rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad continue to attack government forces and buildings in the capital. ...

U.S. to blacklist Pakistan-based Haqqani as terrorists: NYT

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 03:16 PM PDT

An Afghan security personnel holds his weapon as he leaves the area after a battle with insurgents who took over a building near the U.S. embassy in Kabul September 14, 2011. REUTERS/Ahmad MasoodWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is preparing to designate the Pakistan-based Haqqani network as a terrorist group as early as Friday, the New York Times said on its website. The Haqqanis, a Pashtun tribe with strongholds in southeastern Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan, have been blamed for an attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul and other high-profile assaults in Afghanistan. ...

Family feud one theory in French Alps murder probe

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 12:05 PM PDT

French gendarmes stand guard next to a caravan at Saint-Jorioz campingCHEVALINE, France (Reuters) - Police investigating a gruesome family murder in the French Alps are looking at several theories, including that the British man shot dead in his car with his wife and another woman was involved in a financial feud with his brother. As forensics experts performed autopsies on the four victims, who include a local cyclist who was passing at the time of the attack, a team of French investigators landed in Britain. ...

Canada closes embassy in Iran, to expel Iranian diplomats

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 03:08 PM PDT

Canada's Foreign Minister Baird speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in OttawaOTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada has suspended diplomatic relations with Iran, closing its embassy in Tehran and giving all Iranian diplomats in Canada five days to leave the country, Foreign Minister John Baird said on Friday, calling Iran the biggest threat to global security. Baird, in Russia for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting, said Canada's actions were not linked to growing speculation that Israel might launch an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. "Unequivocally, we have no information about a military strike on Iran," a spokesman quoted Baird as telling reporters. ...

Arsenal found in Mexico after boy, 9, takes gun to school

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A family of suspected drug traffickers in Mexico lost an arsenal after their 9-year-old boy took a gun to school, leading police to a house full of lethal weapons. Classmates of the youngster spotted a loaded pistol in his school bag and alerted authorities, a spokesman for police in the northern city of Hermosillo said on Friday. Police raided the boy's home after confiscating the weapon, which was loaded with bullets known as "cop killers" designed to penetrate bullet-proof vests, he added. ...

Insight: Minority militias stir fears of sectarian war in Damascus

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 10:31 AM PDT

An opposition flag is seen over neighborhood Ruknuddin in Damascus(This story was reported for Reuters by an independent journalist, whose name is withheld for security reasons) DAMASCUS (Reuters) - For months, most of Syria's minority sects stood warily on the sidelines of the revolt by the Sunni Muslim majority against President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite-dominated rule. But in Damascus, neighborhood vigilante groups are arming themselves in Christian, Druze and Shi'ite Muslim areas, throwing up sectarian borders across Syria's capital in alliance with Assad's forces. "We protect our area from terrorists. ...

Cuba struggles with foreign investment, growth

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:19 PM PDT

To match Special Report CUBA-ECONOMY/REFORMSHAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's failure to encourage more foreign investment is crippling its economic performance and putting its goal of sustainable growth in danger unless changes are made, local experts and diplomats said this week. The communist island is in the midst of market-oriented reforms to its Soviet-style system that supposedly will make the island more investor friendly, but potential investors say the Cubans have not yet put out much of a welcoming mat. The National Statistics Office said this week that investment by Cuba and its foreign partners was 4. ...

Dozens killed in clashes between Sudan army and rebels

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 04:03 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Clashes erupted between Sudan's army and rebels in the western Darfur region and in a southern state, killing dozens of people including civilians, the sides said on Friday, the latest violence in the country's borderlands. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is battling an alliance of rebel groups operating in Darfur and two states bordering its neighbor South Sudan. Sudan accuses South Sudan of supporting the rebels, while Juba says Khartoum funds militias in South Sudan. Diplomats say that both allegations are credible. ...

Nigerian Islamists claim phone network sabotage

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:10 PM PDT

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram on Friday claimed a spate of attacks on mobile phone masts belonging to MTN, Airtel, Etisalat and two private operators, accusing the firms of helping the government spy on them. Boko Haram, a Taliban-style sect that says it wants to impose sharia or Islamic law on religiously mixed Nigeria, has killed hundreds this year, mostly in the largely Muslim north. In the past few days, attackers have blown up, burnt or torn down several mobile telecoms installations in the north of the country. ...

Bolivia says Washington won't extradite former leader

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 11:59 AM PDT

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Washington has refused to extradite a former Bolivian president to the South American country to stand trial over political violence that forced him from office nine years ago, President Evo Morales said on Friday. Former leader Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada is accused of corruption and responsibility for the deaths of 63 people killed in clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters in October 2003. ...

5 dead as bombs strike Syrian capital of Damascus

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 11:07 AM PDT

In this Friday Sept. 7, 2012 photo, released by Syria's state-run news agency, SANA, a firefighter extinguishes a burned car close to where an explosion went off between the buildings of the Ministry of Information and the Ministry of Justice, which are about 100 meters (yards) apart, in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/SANA)Two booby-trapped vehicles exploded within hours of each other Friday in Syria's once-impregnable capital of Damascus, killing at least five police officers as rebels increasingly target President Bashar Assad's seat of power.

US declares Haqqani network a terrorist body

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 03:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2011 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Foreign Affairs Committee following her trip the week before to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Clinton notified Congress Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, that the Obama administration has declared the Pakistan-based insurgent Haqqani network a terrorist body. The move, which bans Americans from doing any business with members of the group and blocks any assets it holds in the United States, could undermine Afghan peace efforts and test fragile U.S.-Pakistani relations. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)The Obama administration declared Friday that the Pakistan-based Haqqani network of militants is a terrorist body despite misgivings about how the largely symbolic act could further stall planned Afghan peace talks or put yet another chill on the United States' already fragile counterterrorism alliance with Islamabad.

Quakes kill at least 64 in mountainous SW China

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:47 PM PDT

People run as fallen rocks land near their vehicle after the area was hit by earthquake in Zhaotong town, Yiliang County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. A series of earthquakes collapsed houses and triggered landslides Friday in a remote mountainous part of southwestern China where damage was preventing rescues and communications were disrupted. At least 64 deaths have been reported. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTTwin earthquakes and a spate of aftershocks struck southwestern China on Friday, toppling thousands of houses and sending boulders cascading across roads. At least 64 people were killed and hundreds injured in the remote mountainous area, and more than 100,000 residents were evacuated.

FARC says cease-fire rejection won't derail talks

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 04:03 PM PDT

Marco Leon Calarca, spokesman and member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) speaks during an interview in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept 7, 2012. The spokesman for Colombia's main leftist guerrilla army says President Juan Manuel Santos' rejection of a cease-fire will not derail peace talks next month. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)A spokesman for Colombia's main leftist guerrilla army said Friday that President Juan Manuel Santos' rejection of a proposed cease-fire will not derail next month's peace talks on ending a half-century of armed struggle.

Canada closes Tehran embassy, kicks out diplomats

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:23 PM PDT

People wait at the door of the Iranian embassy in Ottawa to collect passports, Friday Sept.7, 2012. The Canadian government says it is shutting its embassy in Tehran and severing diplomatic relations amid recent attacks on foreign diplomats in Iran. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Friday that the Canadian embassy in Tehran will close immediately and Iranian diplomats in Canada have been given five days to leave. He says he's worried about the safety of diplomats in Tehran following recent attacks on the British embassy there. He's also warning Canadians to avoid traveling to Iran. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Fred Chartrand)Canada shut its embassy in Tehran on Friday, severed diplomatic relations and ordered Iranian diplomats to leave, accusing the Islamic Republic of being the most significant threat to world peace.

UN nearly doubles humanitarian appeal for Syria

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 02:57 PM PDT

A Syrian girl, Remm Hassan, 12, bottom left, whose family fled their home in Marea due to Syrian government shelling, dresses her sister Marwa, 5 months, 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, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Writing in Arabic on the child's forehead reads, " God is great." (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)The United Nations nearly doubled its humanitarian appeal for Syria on Friday, seeking $347 million for people in need, including more than half a million children forced to flee their homes.

Sleeping Beauty recreated in Kiev museum

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 02:38 PM PDT

Young visitors looks on a new art project called 'Sleeping Beauties' created by a Canadian-Ukrainian artist Taras Polataiko in The National Art Museum in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Five young Ukrainian women, dressed in white wedding gowns, take turns sleeping on display in the museum for a couple of hours every day. Based on the fairytale 'Sleeping Beauty', the idea of the art-exhibition is for visitors to look at a sleeping girl, and, if they feel the urge, kiss her on the lips. If a sleeping beauty opens up her eyes she's obliged by a legal contract to marry. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Looking for true love? Fall asleep in Ukraine's top museum and wait for a kiss.

Family feud eyed in grisly killings in French Alps

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 03:41 PM PDT

Journalists document the crime scene where four people were shot to death in a British-registered car, in a forest in the Alps, near Chevaline, France, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. The case took on international ramifications, with links that tied the slain family to Britain, Iraq and Sweden. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)The brother of an Iraqi-born British man shot dead in the French Alps with his wife and two other people came forward to British police on Friday and denied any conflict in the family, while investigators looked into a possible money dispute among the siblings, a French prosecutor said.

US senators urge tougher stand on Syria, Iran

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 02:46 PM PDT

US Senator John McCain answers reporters' questions during a meeting on World Economy in Cernobbio, Italy, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Experts and leaders gathered in Italy may disagree about the cure, but the malady is clear: the world faces a 'perfect storm' of gathering risks that includes prolonged crisis in a structurally flawed Europe, political dysfunction pushing America off a 'fiscal cliff,' a emerging economies slowdown drying up the last engine of global growth, and the spectacularly destabilizing prospect of war over Iran's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Giuseppe Aresu)U.S. Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham on Friday urged Washington to help arm Syria's rebels with weapons and create a safe zone inside the country for a transition government. They also called for a far tougher position against Iran over its suspected — and seemingly inexorable — drive toward acquiring nuclear weapons capability.

A glance at the Pakistan-based Haqqani network

Posted: 07 Sep 2012 01:51 PM PDT

FILE- In this Aug. 22, 1998, file photo, Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant group the Haqqani network, speaks during an interview in Miram Shah, Pakistan. The Obama administration faces a weekend deadline to decide whether the Pakistan-based Haqqani network should be declared a terrorist organization, a complicated political decision as the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan and pushes for a reconciliation pact to end more than a decade of warfare. (AP Photo/Mohammed Riaz, File)Some questions and answers about the Pakistan-based Haqqani network and the potential impact of the Obama administration's decision to designate it a foreign terrorist organization:

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