2012年10月28日星期日

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Syria air force bombs cities, truce "practically over"

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 02:30 PM PDT

A boy looks up at a jet fighter after a strike in a residential area in the village of Kafranbel in IdlibAMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian jets bombarded Sunni Muslim regions in Damascus and around the country on Sunday, activists said, as President Bashar al-Assad kept up air strikes against rebels despite a U.N.-brokered truce that now appears to be in tatters. The Local Coordination Committees activists' organization said air raids killed 14 civilians, including women and children, in the town of Bara in the northern province of Idlib, where fighting has continued between Assad's forces and rebels who have seized large parts of the rugged region. "The ceasefire is practically over. ...

Insight: China grassroots democracy challenge awaits new leaders

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 02:01 PM PDT

File photo of China's Vice President Xi Jinping during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People, in BeijingXIANGSHAN/WUKAN, China (Reuters) - Hua Youjuan is an unlikely Chinese official. Free-spirited but driven, she left her village at age 17, got a degree in marketing, and opened a string of businesses in nearby cities in eastern China before settling in the coastal boomtown of Ningbo, 160 km (100 miles) from home. ...

Ukraine's ruling party leads in election: exit polls

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 02:35 PM PDT

Ukraine's Prime Minister Azarov addresses the audience at the pro-President Yanukovich Regions Party's election headquarters in KievKIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich's pro-business party seemed likely to hold on to a majority in parliament after an election on Sunday, but it will face a revitalized opposition boosted by a resurgent nationalist party, exit polls showed. Leaders of the Party of the Regions claimed victory after two exit polls put it in the lead with between 28 percent and 30.5 percent of the voting in the part of balloting conducted by party lists. ...

Indian state's industrial dream mired in delays, protests

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 02:14 PM PDT

Employees work at a plant of Indian Metal and Ferro Alloys Limited (IMFA) at Choudwar in CuttackANGUL, India (Reuters) - A few hundred meters from the high walls and barbed wire guarding billionaire Naveen Jindal's upcoming steel plant, a dozen men have gathered at a tea stall. Their plan for this and every day: disrupt any attempt by Jindal's company to lay a water pipeline. The men, from villages near Angul in India's Odisha state, have twice scuttled efforts to lay the pipeline in protest against Jindal Steel & Power's unwillingness to increase compensation and offer permanent jobs for taking over their land. "The company doesn't come clean on exact terms. ...

Greece says EU/IMF lenders refuse to concede on reforms

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 01:44 PM PDT

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's foreign lenders have refused to make any further concessions on changes to labour laws contested by a junior coalition partner, the country's finance minister said on Sunday, prolonging an impasse on a crucial austerity package. Athens has been locked in talks with its European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders on the austerity package for months, but a final agreement has been held up by the small Democratic Left party's refusal to back the new wage laws. ...

Lithuania opposition wins vote in austerity backlash

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 03:49 PM PDT

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuanians angry at spending cuts put left-wing opposition parties on the path to power in an election on Sunday that likely spelled the end for a conservative government praised abroad as a model of austerity. The Social Democratic Party and the Labour Party, which have promised to raise the minimum wage and shift the tax burden to the better off, were headed for a parliamentary majority in combination with their likely partner, the Paksas Party, according to preliminary results from the second-round vote. ...

Governments to debate 50 billion euro cut to EU budget

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 12:58 PM PDT

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments will debate a cut of at least 50 billion euros this week as the starting point for negotiations on the bloc's proposed 1 trillion-euro ($1.3 trillion) long-term budget, a source familiar with the issue said. The cut will be proposed in the latest EU negotiating text on the bloc's spending plan for 2014-2020, but is unlikely to be deep enough to satisfy Britain, Germany, France and other net budget contributors. ...

Finnish eurosceptics gain local seats but lose momentum

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 05:01 PM PDT

Centre Party Chairman Sipila laughs with True Finns Chairman Soini during Finnish municipal elections follow-up in HelsinkiHELSINKI (Reuters) - The anti-euro Finns Party won 12.3 percent of votes in Finnish municipal polls on Sunday, showing its popularity down from last year's national election while still strong enough to pressure the pro-Europe government. Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen's conservative National Coalition party won the most seats with 21.9 percent of votes, followed by his coalition partners the Social Democrats with 19.6 percent. The Finns Party was fourth, behind another opposition group, the traditionally agrarian Centre Party, which got 18.7 percent. ...

Suicide bomber kills 8, wounds 100 in Nigerian church

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 12:11 PM PDT

A view shows St. Rita's Catholic church in the Malali village, after a bomb attack, in Nigeria's northern city of KadunaKADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove a jeep full of explosives into a Catholic church during morning mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least eight people, wounding more than 100 and triggering reprisal attacks that killed at least two more. There was no claim of responsibility but Islamist sect Boko Haram has bombed several churches in the past in its fight to create an Islamic state in Nigeria where the 160 million population is evenly split between Christians and Muslims. ...

Berlusconi threat to topple Monti shows party divisions

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 11:09 AM PDT

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures as he speaks during a news conference at Villa Gernetto in GernoROME (Reuters) - Former premier Silvio Berlusconi's threat to bring down Italy's government underscores deep divisions in his center-right party ahead of next year's elections and risks rattling markets which see Prime Minister Monti as Italy's saviour. Berlusconi made the unexpected threat on Saturday, still fuming from his conviction 24 hours earlier on charges of tax fraud and a jail sentence of four years which he will not have to serve until all appeals are exhausted. ...

Syria truce collapse shows limits of diplomacy

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 12:38 PM PDT

In this Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 photo, a doctor examines an x-ray while a Syrian elder sits on a hospital trolley suffering partial loss of memory after was shot in the head by a sniper in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras).Syria's air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs on rebel strongholds while opposition fighters attacked regime positions Sunday, flouting a U.N.-backed cease-fire that was supposed to quiet fighting over a long holiday weekend but never took hold.

Libyans disillusioned with government amid chaos

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 11:36 AM PDT

In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 photo, Libyan army vehicles converge on protesters in front of of parliament, firing their heavy machine guns in the air in an attempt to disperse them in Tripoli, Libya. One year on, the country is still trying to overcome the legacy of one of the most erratic leaders of modern times as well as a brutal eight month struggle that left the country awash in weapons, militias and very few viable institutions of the state. (AP/Paul Schemm)The protesters converged on the conference center housing Libya's newly elected congress, trying to force their way in past startled guards. Mostly young and half of them women in headscarves, they demanded an end to the siege of the town of Bani Walid, where the government was in the midst of an attack to uproot holdouts from Moammar Gadhafi's former regime.

Reports: UK rocker arrested as part of Savile case

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 12:34 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan, 11, 2000 file photo, British performer Gary Glitter, during a press conference in London. Police investigating the sex abuse scandal surrounding late BBC children's television host Jimmy Savile have arrested pop star Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Metropolitan Police said they arrested a man in his 60s early Sunday morning at his London home, on suspicion of sexual offenses, and that he remains in custody in a London police station. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)Police investigating child sex abuse allegations against the late BBC television host Jimmy Savile arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter on Sunday, British media reported, raising further questions about whether Savile was at the center of a broader pedophile ring.

Ukraine ruling party claims victory in election

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 03:09 PM PDT

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich leaves a booth for voting at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's party claimed victory Sunday in a parliamentary vote tainted by the jailing of the country's top opposition leader.

Chinese officials bow to protests against factory

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 07:10 AM PDT

A Chinese police officer stands behind his folks confronting residents who gathered outside the government office in Zhejiang province's Ningbo city, during a protest against the proposed expansion of a petrochemical factory on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Thousands of people in the eastern Chinese city clashed with police Saturday while protesting the plan that they say would spew pollution and damage public health, townspeople said. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)After a weekend of protests by thousands of citizens over pollution fears, a local Chinese government relented Sunday and agreed that a petrochemical factory would not be expanded, only to see the protesters refuse to halt their demonstration.

Hurricane's death toll rises to 65 in Caribbean

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 03:04 PM PDT

Residents of Leogane, Haiti find higher ground as the water level continues to rise Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Residents of Leogane have had five consecutive days of rain in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which caused serious flooding and claimed at least 26 lives in the impoverished country. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste) MAGS OUTAs Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering.

Spain: French police arrest top Basque ETA leader

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 08:59 AM PDT

Izaskun Lesaka, center, surrounded by French Police officers, reacts as she leaves the hotel where she was arrested in the early hours of Sunday with another as yet unnamed suspected member of ETA, in Macon, central eastern France, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. French police have arrested a top leader of the Basque separatist group ETA in eastern France, the Spanish interior ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Izaskun Lesaka, one of "the three main leaders" of the banned organisation, was arrested during a raid by an elite French police unit at a hotel in the town of Macon, near the city of Lyon, it said. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)A member of the Basque separatist group ETA responsible for its arms and explosives caches was arrested in eastern France on Sunday, officials said.

Palestinians to seek UN recognition next month

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 11:38 AM PDT

FILE - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas leaves the podium after speaking during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 file photo. Palestinian leaders plan to shake up the 19-year-old peace process and proceed with a United Nations statehood bid in November over U.S. objections. The move to upgrade the their status to that of a The Palestinian president is moving forward with his plan to seek upgraded observer status at the United Nations next month, despite American and Israeli threats of financial or diplomatic retaliation, officials said Sunday.

Polls show new Israeli bloc will retain power

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 12:03 PM PDT

A pair of polls show that the Israeli premier's new alliance with his hard-line foreign minister has failed to produce a boost but could keep them in power after the Jan. 22 election.

Official: Iraq searches Syria-bound Iranian plane

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 10:22 AM PDT

A man inspects the aftermath of Saturday's car bomb explosion, in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Iraqi insurgents unleashed a string of bombings and other attacks primarily targeting the country's Shiite community on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, in a challenge to government efforts to promote a sense of stability by preventing attacks during a major Muslim holiday, killed and wounded scores of people. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)Iraqi authorities forced an Iranian cargo plane heading to Syria to land for inspection in Baghdad to ensure it was not carrying weapons, an Iraqi official said Sunday.

Yemen's 'Death to America' rebels bring calm to northern Yemen

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 03:36 PM PDT

Barely a decade ago, the Old City of Saada was tentatively placed on the list to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Once an impeccably preserved relic of medieval Arabia, the ancient settlement is now largely in ruins. Centuries-old homes lie wrecked, their mud brick construction crumbling. Bullet holes pock-mark the walls of ancient mosques.

Assassination attempt on anti-rape doctor raises fears for aid workers in Congo

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 09:32 AM PDT

A Congolese doctor praised for aiding female rape victims survived an assassination attempt and on Saturday was evacuated amid growing safety concerns for aid workers and rights activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Syrians celebrate a wartime wedding in hospital scrubs

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 08:05 AM PDT

The floors of this hospital are often smeared with blood. Every day, the horrors of Syria's war play out in the lobby, as men, women, and children wounded or killed in the fierce fighting that has raged between the regime and the rebels in this city for three months come into the hospital.

Plan for Mormon temple rattles Catholics in a French suburb

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 07:57 AM PDT

A dispute over the construction of a Mormon temple in a suburb of Paris is revealing as much about France's changing religious profile as it does about possible prejudice against the little known religion.

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