2012年10月26日星期五

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Damascus car bomb shatters Syria truce

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 10:46 AM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A powerful car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday and forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad clashed with rebels across Syria as a truce intended to mark a Muslim religious holiday unraveled and activists reported at least 70 deaths. State television said the "terrorist car bomb" had killed five people and wounded 32, according to "preliminary figures". Opposition activists said the bomb had gone off near a makeshift children's playground built for the Eid al-Adha holiday in the southern Daf al-Shok district of the capital. ...

China starts formal criminal probe into politician Bo Xilai

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:59 AM PDT

File photo of Bo Xilai, then Governor of Liaoning Province, speaking in BeijingBEIJING (Reuters) - China moved quickly on Friday to announce it had formally begun a criminal probe into disgraced former senior politician Bo Xilai, hours after expelling him from the largely rubber stamp parliament and so removing his immunity from prosecution. The announcements pave the way for Bo, once a contender for top leadership in the world's second largest economy, to face trial and likely a long jail sentence on accusations of corruption and abuse of power. ...

Italy's Berlusconi sentenced to jail for tax fraud

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 10:46 AM PDT

Former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi looks on during a vote of confidence at the Lower House of Parliament in RomeMILAN (Reuters) - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to four years in jail on Friday for tax fraud in connection with the purchase of broadcasting rights by his Mediaset television company. The 76-year-old billionaire media magnate, who was convicted three times during the 1990s in the first degree before being cleared by higher courts, has the right to appeal the ruling two more times before the sentence becomes definitive. That process is likely to be lengthy and he will not be jailed unless he loses the final appeal. ...

Britain says opposed to strike on Iran "at this moment"

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:06 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Cameron gestures at a news conference at the end of a European Union leaders summit in BrusselsLONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday it was opposed to a military strike on Iran "at this moment" over its disputed nuclear program, arguing sanctions were having an effect and diplomacy should be given time. The comments followed a report by Britain's Guardian newspaper which said Britain had rebuffed U.S. plans to use its bases to support the build-up of troops in the Gulf, due to legal advice warning that a pre-emptive strike would be illegal. The legal advice says Iran currently does not represent a "clear and present threat", according to the Guardian, which cited unnamed sources. ...

Small fire breaks out near Khartoum arms factory

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:17 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A small fire broke out on Friday near Sudan's biggest arms factory in the capital Khartoum, a witness and state media said, two days after Sudan accused Israel of bombing the site. Sudan, which analysts say is used as an arms-smuggling route to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip via neighboring Egypt, said on Wednesday an Israeli air strike had caused a huge explosion and fire at the plant. Israel has declined to comment. ...

Indicted Imam to receive new prosthetics in U.S. jail

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 04:37 PM PDT

File photograph shows Muslim cleric, Abu Hamza al-Masri, addressing the sixth annual rally for Islam in Trafalgar Square, LondonNEW YORK (Reuters) - A radical Islamist cleric facing U.S. terrorism charges will be outfitted with new prosthetics after authorities refused to allow him to wear metal hooks in place of his missing hands when he is outside of his jail cell, his lawyer said on Friday. The Egyptian-born preacher, Abu Hamza al-Masri, who is missing both hands and his right eye, appeared in Manhattan federal court for the third time since his October 6 extradition to the United States from Britain as prosecutors and lawyers discussed procedure with the judge. ...

Ex-Soviet summit postponed amid worries over Putin's health

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 10:13 AM PDT

Russia's President Putin attends a meeting of the Valdai international discussion group of experts at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside MoscowMOSCOW/MINSK (Reuters) - A summit of leaders of ex-Soviet states scheduled for the start of November has been postponed, an official said on Friday, amid talk that Russian President Vladimir Putin is suffering from back trouble. The Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a loose group created as the Soviet Union broke apart in 1991, said earlier this month the summit was due to take place in Turkmenistan on November 2. "The (new) dates are being confirmed. They are being agreed with all the presidents," said CIS spokeswoman Vera Yakubovskaya. ...

Merkel's conservatives reach three-year high in key opinion poll

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:05 PM PDT

German Chancellor Merkel waves next to Bavarian Prime Minister Seehofer before her guest speech at CSU party meeting in MunichBERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives climbed to their highest level in more than three years in a leading opinion poll published on Friday, but the results pointed to no outright winner emerging from next September's election. The closely watched Politbarometer for ZDF TV indicated neither Merkel's center-right coalition nor a center-left alliance would be able to win a majority. The ZDF poll also showed a 48 to 44 percent majority of Germans now believe Greece should remain in the euro zone, up two points from the previous poll. ...

Myanmar revises down death toll in sectarian violence

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:36 PM PDT

Muslims look out for possible boats bringing more refugees to their camp in SittweSITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar authorities on Friday revised down to 64 the number of people killed in six days of unrest in the west of the country, after security forces opened fire to break up violence between Buddhists and Muslims. A spokesman for Rakhine State, where the fighting took place, had earlier put the death toll at 112, but later scaled that back, blaming "clerical errors". ...

Shot Pakistani girl recovering fast in UK: father

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 03:08 PM PDT

Undated file photo of Malala Yousufzai, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, who was wounded in a gun attack in Swat Valley northwest PakistanBIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - The father of a Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education said on Friday she would "rise again" to pursue her dreams after hospital treatment. Malala Yousufzai, 15, was flown from Pakistan to Britain for specialist treatment after the October 9 attack, which drew widespread international condemnation. The father Ziauddin Yousufzai and other family members arrived in Britain on Thursday to help her recovery. "They wanted to kill her. But she fell temporarily. She will rise again. ...

Car bombs, violence mar Syria's shaky truce

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:21 PM PDT

In this image released by the Syrian official news agency SANA , a crowd gather beneath the shattered facade of a building damaged by a car bomb in Damasus, Syria Friday Oct 26 2012. The blast in a residential area of Damascus, near a housing complex for police, killed five people and wounded more than 30, state TV said. A shaky holiday truce was marred by sporadic fighting and two car bombs Friday but gave war-battered Syrians a brief respite, allowing thousands of protesters to pour out of mosques to demand President Bashar Assad's ouster.(AP Photo/ Sana)Two deadly car bombs and sporadic fighting marred a shaky holiday truce Friday in Syria, although thousands of protesters used the brief respite in the civil war to pour into the streets and demand President Bashar Assad's ouster.

Silvio Berlusconi convicted in Italy of tax fraud

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, Italian former premier Silvio Berlusconi reacts during a press conference in Rome, Italy. A court in Italy has convicted, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, former Premier Silvio Berlusconi of tax fraud and sentenced him to four years in prison. In Italy, cases must pass two levels of appeal before the verdicts are final. Berlusconi is expected to appeal. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)Just two days after announcing he won't run in spring elections, former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to four years in prison Friday in a verdict that could see him barred from public office for five years.

Suicide attack kills 41 at Afghan mosque

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:36 AM PDT

Afghans carry the body of a suicide attack victim at the hospital in Maymana, Faryab province, north west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing dozens of people and wounding scores, government and hospital officials said. (AP Photo/Qawtbuddin Khan)A suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a mosque packed with senior regional officials in northern Afghanistan on a major Muslim holiday Friday, killing 41 people. The officials escaped unhurt, and many of the dead were soldiers and police.

Syrian toddler believed dead reunited with parents

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:53 PM PDT

Bushr Al Tawashi looks at the photographer as he is carried by his mother Arin Al Dakkar, outside of a private Sigma TV station, in Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Bushr Al Tawashi, a 2-year-old Syrian boy who was believed dead after his family inadvertently left him behind as they fled shelling in Damascus last summer has been reunited with his parents in Cyprus, a lawyer said. "You can imagine how they felt when they were told their son was alive after bearing all this guilt thinking that he was dead," lawyer Stella Constantinou told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)No one knows how long little Bushr Al Tawashi wandered alone in the rubble of his home in the Syrian capital before rebel fighters found the toddler and handed him over to another family to look after.

Egypt activists try to stop holiday sex harassment

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 01:14 PM PDT

Wearing vests painted with the slogan 'Anti-harassment', a group of volunteers confront a group of teasing young boys near Cairo's Tahrir Square. Instead of taking to the streets with air horns and toy guns and hissing at women like many of their peers, the small group of young Egyptian men tried to secure the streets of downtown Cairo during Eid al-adha, one of Islam's most important holidays, a time when fears of sexual harassment spike. Their effort largely failed, but it shows the extent of the sexual harassment scourge facing Egypt and the government's failures to address it. (AP Photo/ Maggie Fick)A group of Egyptian men had a mission for this year's Eid al-Adha, Islam's biggest holiday, which began Friday. They wanted to make some effort to stop sexual harassment of women, which in past years has spiked in Cairo during the holiday celebrations with the crowds of rowdy men in the streets.

Sandy leaves Bahamas after killing 40 in Caribbean

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 02:49 PM PDT

A man tries to recover his belongings from his house destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Thursday Oct. 25, 2012. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba on Thursday as a potent Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)Hurricane Sandy rolled out of the Bahamas on Friday after causing 40 deaths across the Caribbean, churning toward the U.S. East Coast, where it threatens to join forces with winter weather fronts to create a devastating super storm.

Jimmy Savile: How could his crimes go unnoticed?

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 10:54 AM PDT

FILE - This is a March 25, 2008 file photo of Sir Jimmy Savile, who for decades was a fixture on British television. A year after he died, aged 84 and honored as Sir Jimmy, several women have come forward to claim he was also a sexual predator and serial abuser of underage girls. The child abuse scandal that has enveloped the BBC, one of Britain's most respected news organizations, is now hitting one of America's, as the incoming president of The New York Times is on the defensive about his final days as head of the BBC. Mark Thompson was in charge of the BBC in late 2011 when the broadcaster shelved what would have been a bombshell investigation alleging that the late Savile was a serial sex offender. (AP Photo/ Lewis Whyld/PA, File)Jimmy Savile was one of the best-known faces on British television. So how was he able to become one of the country's worst child sex predators without ever being caught?

France: Lawmakers pass bill to pay for abortions

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 02:53 PM PDT

France's lower house voted Friday to fully reimburse all abortions and to make contraception free for minors.

Chile's ALMA probes for origins of universe

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 11:11 AM PDT

In this Sept. 27, 2012 photo, radio antennas face the sky as part of one of the worlds largest astronomy projects, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chajnator in the Atacama desert in northern Chile. Linked as a single giant telescope, the radio antennas pick up wavelengths of light longer than anything visible to the human eye and colder than infrared telescopes, which are good at capturing images of distant suns but miss planets and clouds of gases from which stars are formed. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)Earth's largest radio telescope is growing more powerful by the day on this remote plateau high above Chile's Atacama desert, where visitors often feel like they're planting the first human footprints on the red crust of Mars.

Panama to drop plans for land sales amid protests

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 04:11 PM PDT

Riot police patrol a street after looting broke out during clashes between protestors and police, in Panama City, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Panama's government said Friday it will cancel plans to sell state-owned land in a duty-free zone following a week of sometimes violent protests in which a 10-year-old boy and two adults died. Though the land in question is in the port city of Colon, protests spread to Panama City. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)Panama's government said Friday it will cancel plans to sell state-owned land in a duty-free zone on the Panama Canal following a week of sometimes violent protests in which a 10-year-old boy and two adults died.

In Aleppo, Syria cease-fire was short-lived

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:25 PM PDT

Regime and rebel forces engaged in clashes in Syria's largest city today, breaking a cease-fire agreement only hours after it got underway.

Buying bread and dodging snipers: 7 vignettes of life in war-torn Aleppo

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 11:05 AM PDT

As rebels and the Syrian government battle for control of Aleppo, residents tap caution – and dark humor – to survive.

Good reads: Growth we missed, Berlin's awkward fit, and where kids know best

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:46 AM PDT

Some five years after the dawn of the Great Recession, the global economic landscape is still sorting itself out. In a casual survey of the world horizon, Foreign Policy magazine takes stock of winners so far.

Ukraine heads to the polls, with pro-Russian government in lead

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 10:17 AM PDT

Ukrainians will vote a new parliament Sunday, in the first elections since President Viktor Yanukovych took sweeping steps to realign the country with Moscow, downgrade the State Rada, or parliament, consolidate power in the hands of the president, and introduce radical changes to the way parliamentarians are elected.

Ahoy Argentina: Crew of boat seized by creditors in Ghana arrives home

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 10:01 AM PDT

One would have expected crew members of the Libertad, an Argentine ship impounded in Ghana for the past three weeks, to be delighted to return home following its government-ordered evacuation.

The Eid holiday: What does it celebrate?

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:35 AM PDT

The Syrian cease-fire pegged to the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha has put the annual observance in the spotlight, bringing it to non-Muslims attention for reasons that have nothing to do with the holiday. But the "Feast of the Sacrifice" is one of the most important holidays on the Muslim calendar, actually trumping the better known festival holiday Eid al-Fitr in importance.

Wanted in Brazil: more English speakers

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 08:52 AM PDT

Each day a group of seven comes to this small classroom in downtown Rio de Janeiro on lunch break. The energetic young teacher, Natália Correa, runs a drill of simple English sentences by snapping her fingers and clapping her hands to keep up a fast call-and-response beat.

Shades of Iraq in Afghanistan? Problems with shoddy contracting work

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 06:13 AM PDT

SIGAR, the US government body assigned to audit and oversee US spending on reconstruction projects in Afghanistan, has released the latest in a series of reports detailing contractor failings with minimal accountability in Afghanistan.

Holiday cease-fire in Syria pocked with bullets

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 06:06 AM PDT

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Can we protect 10 percent of the oceans? Momentum is growing.

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 05:32 PM PDT

Efforts to set aside conservation zones in the world's oceans are picking up steam, putting countries on a path to reach an international goal of setting aside 10 percent of coastal and marine waters as marine-protected areas by 2020.

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