2012年9月22日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Pakistani bounty placed on anti-Islam filmmaker

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 02:13 PM PDT

A girl attends an anti-U.S. demonstration with religious students in the compound of the Red Mosque in IslamabadPESHAWAR (Reuters) - A Pakistani minister offered $100,000 on Saturday to anyone who kills the maker of an online video which insults Islam, as sporadic protests rumbled on across parts of the Muslim world. "I announce today that this blasphemer, this sinner who has spoken nonsense about the holy Prophet, anyone who murders him, I will reward him with $100,000," Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told a news conference, to applause. "I invite the Taliban brothers and the al Qaeda brothers to join me in this blessed mission. ...

Free Syrian Army rebel leaders move from Turkey to Syria

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 01:47 PM PDT

A member of the Free Syrian Army uses a pair of binoculars and a mirror to peek at a government checkpoint, in AleppoBEIRUT (Reuters) - The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) has moved its leadership for the first time from Turkey to parts of Syria that are now controlled by rebels, the group's commander-in-chief said on Saturday. The FSA has been based in Turkey for more than a year as fighters have struggled to battle forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Although rebels now control large swathes of Syria, they face air and artillery attack from Assad's forces. ...

Panetta's Asia visit shows balancing role U.S. hopes to play

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 04:32 PM PDT

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key walk to a meeting in AucklandABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's week-long visit to the Asia-Pacific region helped deepen the U.S. military's strategic shift to the area, even as it illustrated the balancing role that Washington may have to play to maintain peace and stability. The trip, which concluded on Saturday, took Panetta to Japan, China and New Zealand and coincided with a flare-up in tensions between Tokyo and Beijing over a disputed island group in the East China Sea. Anti-Japanese protests took place in dozens of cities across China while Panetta was in the region. ...

Fake Italian pilot traveled in cockpit, police say

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 05:17 PM PDT

ROME (Reuters) - A man who posed as an airline pilot and traveled in the cockpit of at least one plane was arrested in Turin Airport using forged identity cards and wearing a pilot's uniform, Italian police said on Saturday. The 32-year-old, whose real name was not released, allegedly created a fake identity as a Lufthansa pilot named "Andrea Sirlo," complete with a Facebook page that included fake flight attendant friends. ...

France's Hollande hits new low in popularity poll

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 03:09 PM PDT

France's President Francois Hollande adjusts his glasses after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in ParisPARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande's approval ratings have tumbled to their lowest level since he first took office in May, a new poll showed on Sunday, as France's grinding economic stagnation and record unemployment show little sign of easing. According to the Ifop poll for Sunday newspaper JDD, Hollande now has a 43 percent positive rating, down from 54 percent in August - one of the sharpest drops in over a decade. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault also saw his own approval rating drop to 50 percent, from 57 percent, the poll said. ...

Ex-Guatemalan Army commander accused in massacre faces charges in U.S

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 05:06 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former Guatemalan army commander accused of taking part in the massacre of more than 200 people during that country's civil war has been returned to the United States to face charges he lied about his past to gain U.S. citizenship, authorities said on Saturday. Jorge Sosa, 54, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport accompanied by U.S. Marshals on Friday evening following his extradition from Calgary, Canada, where he was arrested in January, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lori Haley said. U.S. ...

Opposition says Georgia vote a choice between "good and evil"

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 03:39 PM PDT

People attend an election rally of an opposition bloc Georgian Dream in ZugdidiTBILISI (Reuters) - Voters in Georgia face a stark choice between "good and evil" in parliamentary elections on October 1, said opposition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili on Saturday, following days of protests over state prison brutality that have left the ruling party reeling. "We should make a choice between good and evil on October 1," Bidzina Ivanishvili, told a crowd in Zugdidi in western Georgia. "We promise to come to power and to restore justice," said the billionaire leader of the "Georgian Dream" opposition coalition. ...

Tunisia president's former aide gets suspended jail sentence

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 04:23 PM PDT

TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian military court handed down a suspended prison sentence to President Moncef Marzouki's former aide who criticized the army's role, in a case that may raise concerns about freedoms in the birthplace of the Arab Spring revolts. Ayoub Massoudi publicly accused the head of the army Rachid Ammar in August of throwing his weight behind the Islamist-led government's decision to extradite Muammar Gaddafi's prime minister Baghadi al-Mahmoudi to Libya in June. ...

Seven mutilated, burnt bodies found in western Mexico

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 04:34 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Seven decapitated bodies that had been chopped into pieces and burnt were left on a highway in western Mexico on Saturday in a region where rival drug gangs are waging a bloody dispute. The bodies were found in plastic bags in the cargo bed of a burnt-out pick-up truck in the state of Michoacan near the town of Venustiano Carranza and the border of Jalisco state, the Michoacan attorney general's office said in a statement. The killings had all the hallmarks of a drug gang attack, a local official said on condition that he was not identified. ...

Libyan Islamist militia swept out of bases

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 04:15 PM PDT

A car burns after it was set on fire by demonstrators who attacked the base of the Rafalla al-Sihati brigade, part of the Libyan army, in Benghazi cityBENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The two main Islamist militias in Derna, a city in eastern Libya known as an Islamist stronghold, withdrew from their five bases on Saturday and announced they were disbanding, residents said, a day after a militia was driven out of Benghazi. The Abu Slim and Ansar al-Sharia militias' announcements were apparently motivated by events in Benghazi, where Ansar al-Sharia, a group linked with last week's deadly attack on the U.S. consulate, withdrew from all its bases in the city late on Friday amid mass demonstrations in support of the government. ...

Syrian rebels move command from Turkey to Syria

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 08:32 AM PDT

In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian man looks at his mobile phone in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday that nearly 30,000 Syrians have been killed during the 18-month uprising against the Assad regime. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)The leaders of the rebel Free Syrian Army said Saturday they moved their command center from Turkey to Syria with the aim of uniting rebels and speeding up the fall of President Bashar Assad's regime.

Anti-militia protests show frailty of Libyan state

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 02:14 PM PDT

Libyans climb up electricity towers to watch the march against Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias, in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. The recent attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans has sparked a backlash among frustrated Libyans against the heavily armed gunmen, including Islamic extremists, who run rampant in their cities. More than 10,000 people poured into a main boulevard of Benghazi, demanding that militias disband as the public tries to do what Libya's weak central government has been unable to.(AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)Residents of Libya's second-largest city warned on Saturday of a "revolution" to get rid of armed militias and Islamic extremists after protests spurred in part by the killing of the U.S. ambassador left four dead in an unprecedented eruption of public frustration.

Israelis fear PM is meddling in US politics

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 29, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. It is a taboo for Israeli leaders to give even the slightest hint of favoritism in politics in the United States, Israel's closest ally. So some Israelis are squirming over a perception that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is siding with Republican Mitt Romney in the U.S. presidential race, in the belief he would take a harder line on archenemy Iran. That, some fear, is putting Israel's alliance with Washington at risk if Barack Obama wins. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)It is a taboo for Israeli leaders to give even the slightest hint of favoritism in politics in the United States, Israel's closest ally. So some Israelis are squirming over a perception that their prime minister is siding with Republican Mitt Romney in the U.S. presidential race, in the belief he will take a harder line on archenemy Iran if elected.

Facebook party turns to rioting in Netherlands

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 05:05 AM PDT

Thousands of revelers descended on a small Dutch town sparking a riot after a party invitation posted on Facebook went viral, authorities said Saturday.

Arab League revitalized by Arab Spring revolts

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 09:03 AM PDT

Long thought of as a useless talk shop or stage for political theater, the Arab League is seeking to transform itself with the seismic changes from the Middle East's revolts. It has shaken off decades of near total submission to the will of the region's leaders, and reformers inside the league want to turn it into a voice for the Arab public.

Italian police report 'Catch Me If You Can' ruse

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 11:59 AM PDT

Italian police describe it as a real-life sequel to "Catch Me If You Can," the hit movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the true story about an ingenious con artist masquerading as a commercial airline pilot.

In Israel, time change unleashes culture clash

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 12:20 PM PDT

Israelis light candles in the shape of a clock during a protest against the government decision to return to winter clock more than a month ahead of Europe and the U.S. in Tel Aviv, Saturday, Sept 22, 2012. Israel was set to move its clocks back by an hour overnight on Sunday, putting the country on its winter clock more than a month ahead of Europe and the U.S. and adding to the rising anger that many mainstream Israelis feel toward an ultra-Orthodox minority. Yom Kippur, which begins on Tuesday evening, is marked by a sundown-to-sundown fast. Orthodox religious parties, which have always held key swing votes in Israel's political system, are behind the time change, wanting to decrease the number of waking hours for those fasting. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)The forecast for Israel on Sunday: balmy late-summer temperatures, uncomfortable humidity along the Mediterranean coast and ... darkness at 6 p.m.?

Argentina gives opposition media Dec. 7 deadline

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 05:32 PM PDT

Argentina's government on Saturday gave one of its leading media critics, Grupo Clarin, a deadline to sell off most of its broadcast stations, saying Dec. 7 will mark the day when media monopolies will no longer be able to put themselves above the law.

Riot outside MTV event in Madrid; 11 arrests

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 12:25 PM PDT

Fans rioted outside a free concert hosted by MTV at a Madrid theater early Saturday after they were denied entry because the venue was full to capacity, officials said. About 60 people sustained minor injuries and 11 others were arrested.

US Navy's new floating base gets a workout in Gulf

Posted: 22 Sep 2012 03:36 PM PDT

A U.S. Navy boat is lowered to the sea from the deck of the USS Ponce, a floating base to support mine countermeasure operations, in the Persian Gulf on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. More than 30 nations are participating in an exercise responding to simulated sea-mine attacks in international waters _ a demonstration of international resolve to ensure maritime security in the strategic but volatile region. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)A new, key addition to American-led naval efforts to ensure Mideast oil keeps flowing has emerged as an unusual mix of a ship combining decades' worth of wear and tear with state-of-the-art technology and a largely civilian crew.

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