2012年9月18日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

Anti-Japan protests reignite across China on occupation anniversary

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 08:07 AM PDT

Anti-Japan protesters chants slogans beside a defaced Japanese flag in GuangzhouBEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - Anti-Japan protests reignited across China on Tuesday, the sensitive anniversary marking Tokyo's occupation of its giant neighbor, escalating a maritime dispute which has forced major Japanese firms to suspend business there. Relations between Asia's two biggest economies have faltered badly, with emotions running high on the streets and also out at sea where two Japanese activists landed on an island at the center of the dispute. ...

World powers to discuss Iran nuclear program at U.N. next week

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:48 PM PDT

EU foreign policy chief Ashton addresses the European Parliament in StrasbourgBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Foreign ministers and the chief negotiator for world powers will meet next week to try to figure out how to break an impasse in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, after talks on Tuesday yielded no sign of progress. Six world powers, represented by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, have sought to persuade Iran to scale back its nuclear program through intensifying economic sanctions and diplomacy. The powers fear Iran is developing a bomb, but Tehran says its program serves peaceful purposes only. ...

Analysis: NATO pullback heightens doubts about Afghan strategy

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:12 PM PDT

An Afghan protester shouts slogans near burning tyres during a demonstration in KabulWASHINGTON (Reuters) - NATO's decision to scale back joint operations with Afghan forces may protect the lives of Western troops increasingly targeted by "insider attacks," but it raises troubling new questions about President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize Afghanistan. After ramping up Afghan security forces at a breakneck rate to allow for a drawdown of Western troops, NATO is coming to grips with a rash of deadly assaults by Afghan recruits who turn their guns on Western allies. Muslim rage over a film insulting the Prophet Mohammad has further stoked the risk. ...

Syrian rebels battle Assad forces near Turkish border

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:25 PM PDT

Residents walk near an area damaged after a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to Syria's President Assad fired missiles in KansfraAKCAKALE, Turkey (Reuters) - Syrian rebels battled government forces near a Turkish border crossing on Tuesday and bullets flew into the northern neighbor that has backed the 18-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The revolt, which began as peaceful street protests cracked down on by Assad's military, has escalated into a civil war in which over 27,000 people have died. Daily death tolls now approach 200 and the last month was the bloodiest yet. ...

French leaders sound alarm over planned Mohammad cartoons

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 02:54 PM PDT

France's Prime Minister Ayrault delivers a speech at the end of a two-day environmental conference in ParisPARIS (Reuters) - The French government has called for restraint after learning that a satirical weekly plans to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday just as an anti-Islam video has ignited Muslim protests around the globe. The Paris offices of the paper, Charlie Hebdo, were firebombed last November after it published a mocking caricature of Mohammad, and in 2005 Danish cartoons of the Prophet sparked a wave of protests across the Muslim world in which at least 50 people were killed. ...

Cuban dissidents end hunger strike, saying state to free opponent

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:51 PM PDT

HAVANA (Reuters) - Prominent Cuban dissident Marta Beatriz Roque and 29 others ended an eight-day hunger strike and declared victory on Tuesday when they said Cuban authorities would free a jailed opposition member whose release they had demanded. The dissidents said state security agents informed the wife of Jorge Vazquez Chaviano he would be released shortly from a prison in Santa Clara, 160 miles east of Havana. The Cuban government did not immediately confirm or comment on his release. ...

Afghan militants say deadly blast was revenge for film

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 02:58 PM PDT

Nato soldiers arrive at the site of a suicide bomb attack in KabulKABUL (Reuters) - Afghan militants claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a suicide bomb attack on a minivan carrying foreign workers that killed 12 people saying it was retaliation for a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad. A short film made with private funds in the United States and posted on the Internet has ignited days of demonstrations in the Arab world, Africa, Asia and in some Western countries. In a torrent of violence blamed on the film last week, the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in an attack in Benghazi and U.S. ...

South Africa's Lonmin miners accept pay rise to end strike

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 03:16 PM PDT

Striking miners dance and cheer after they were informed of a 22 percent wage increase offer outside Lonmin's Marikana mineMARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - Striking platinum miners at Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa accepted a hefty pay rise offer on Tuesday, ending six weeks of violent labor unrest that killed 45 people and rattled Africa's largest economy. The strikers, grouped on a bare soccer pitch near the mine, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, cheered when they were told that management were offering a 22 percent pay increase, and said they would return to work on Thursday. "I am happy - and forward with the struggle," said one of the striking miners, Sithembile Sohati. ...

British fugitive shoots dead two unarmed policewomen

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:09 PM PDT

Police and forensic officers gather at the scene where two female police officers were killed in Hattersley near ManchesterLONDON (Reuters) - One of Britain's most wanted fugitives killed two unarmed policewomen on Tuesday in a gun and grenade ambush, police said, killings which are likely to reignite a long-running debate over whether British officers should carry guns. Police constables Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, were gunned down in a hail of bullets after responding to a hoax call about a burglary in the northern English city of Manchester. ...

USAID mission in Russia to close following Moscow decision

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 11:59 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Tuesday that it would shut its aid mission in Russia at Moscow's insistence, a step analysts attributed to Russian misgivings about foreign-funded pro-democracy groups. The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, has spent more than $2.6 billion in Russia over the past two decades to help combat infectious diseases, protect the environment, develop a stronger civil society, and modernize the economy. ...

Militants claim Afghan attack is revenge for film

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:59 PM PDT

A French soldier investigates the scene of a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a mini-bus carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital early Tuesday, killing at least 12 people in an attack a militant group said was revenge for an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)Islamic militants sought Tuesday to capitalize on anger over an anti-Islam video that was produced in the United States, saying a suicide bombing that killed 12 people in Afghanistan was revenge for the film and calling for attacks on U.S. diplomats and facilities in North Africa.

NATO order changes way it will fight Afghan war

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 02:40 PM PDT

Afghan investigators inspect the wreckage of a suicide bomber's car Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a mini-bus carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital early Tuesday, killing at least nine people in an attack a militant group said was revenge for an anti-Islam film that ridicules the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)NATO's decision to restrict operations with small Afghan forces to mitigate the threat of insider attacks means fewer boots on patrols and a shift in how the U.S.-led coalition will fight the war in Afghanistan.

Syrian war looms over UN meeting of world leaders

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 02:48 PM PDT

Hovering over this month's annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations is the international community's failure to end the escalating war in Syria that is starting to spill over into a fragile and divided region.

Striking SA miners sign deal to end 5-week strike

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:53 PM PDT

Miners sing and dance after accepting a pay rise in Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. Striking miners have accepted a company offer of a 22% overall pay increase to end more than five weeks of crippling and bloody industrial action. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)Striking platinum miners in South Africa have signed a wage deal ending a bloody 5-week strike at the Lonmin PLC mine that had spread to the gold and chrome sectors of the industry which anchors the economy of Africa's richest economy.

Analysis: Prophet film diverts gaze from Syria

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this file Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 photo, Pro-Assad supporters chant slogans during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. For the embattled Syrian regime, the crudely produced film mocking Islam that has unleashed fury across the Muslim world could not have come at a better time. Arabic on the poster reads, "anyone but God's prophet." (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman, File)For the embattled Syrian regime, the crudely produced film mocking Islam that has unleashed fury across the Muslim world could not have come at a better time.

Topless photos ruling: 1st battle in privacy war

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Copies of the Italian magazine Chi are displayed at a newstands in Rome, Monday, Sept. 17, 2012. An Italian gossip magazine owned by former Premier Silvio Berlusconi published a 26-page spread of topless photos of Prince William's wife Kate on Monday despite legal action in France against the French magazine that published them first. Chi hit newsstands on Monday, featuring a montage of photos taken while the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were on vacation at a relative's home in the south of France last month. They included the 14 pictures published by the popular French magazine Closer, which like Chi is owned by Berlusconi's Mondadori publishing house. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)Prince William and Kate Middleton's aggressive legal strategy over topless photos of Britain's likely future queen is the first salvo in what could be a decades-long tug-of-war over their family's privacy.

A Benghazi power, Libya militia eyed in attack

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 01:22 PM PDT

Youssef Jihani, senior member of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades, speaks to the Associated Press during an interview, in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 18, 2012. Ansar al-Shariah is among the most powerful of the many, heavily armed militias that the government relies on to keep security in Benghazi. Jihani, denied the group took part in the attack. "We never approve of killing civilians, especially those who helped us," he said the day after the attack. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)Suspicion in last week's attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans has focused on members of a hardcore Islamist militia known for its sympathies to al-Qaida, its fierce animosity to the U.S. and its intimidation of other Muslims who don't conform to its harsh ideology.

Swedish doctors claim pioneering uterus transplant

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 12:17 PM PDT

From left specialist surgeons Andreas G Tzakis, Pernilla Dahm-Kähler, Mats Brannstrom, Michael Olausson and Liza Johannesson attend a news conference Tuesday Sept. 18, 2012 at Sahlgrenska hospital in Goteborg Sweden. Two Swedish women are carrying the wombs of their mothers after what doctors called the world's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants. The specialists at the University of Goteborg completed the surgery over the weekend without complications, but say they won't consider the procedures successful unless the women achieve pregnancy after their observation period ends a year from now. (AP Photo/Adam Ihse) SWEDEN OUTTwo Swedish women are hoping to get pregnant after undergoing what doctors are calling the world's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants.

French small business faces job-creation hurdles

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 10:47 AM PDT

Daniel Joutard, director and founder of Ainy poses during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris, Thursday, Sept, 13, 2012. Joutard wants to hire more employees for his growing, innovative skin-care products company, but can't take the risk in large part because of France's inflexible workplace protections. The 37-year-old is among thousands of small- and medium-size business owners who will be crucial to help France _ like other countries in Europe _ reduce a double-digit jobless rate, and ultimately shrink its hefty state budget deficit by bringing in more tax revenues. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)Europe needs jobs, and French entrepreneur Daniel Joutard wants to create them, hiring more employees for his skin-care products company. Yet he can't take the risk — in large part because of France's inflexible workplace protections.

Amnesty: Indiscriminate attacks maiming Syrians

Posted: 18 Sep 2012 04:03 PM PDT

The Syrian government has carried out indiscriminate air bombardments and artillery strikes on residential areas that do not target opposition fighters or military objectives, and instead appear aimed solely at punishing civilians seen as sympathetic to rebel forces, Amnesty International said Wednesday.

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