2013年1月18日星期五

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Insight: Algerians suspect inside help in hostage raid

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:15 PM PST

A truck passes by a road sign in In AmenasLONDON/ALGIERS (Reuters) - The In Amenas gas plant felt impregnable to many who worked there - walled in, hundreds of miles from anywhere and with the Algerian army constantly patrolling its desert approaches. That was a mirage. Libya, an ex-police state turned arms bazaar and now open for jihad, lies just 50 empty miles away. And in any case, the enemy was probably already inside the gates. ...


Analysis: After Algerian incident, West Africa fears Mali spillover

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:47 PM PST

Benin soldiers stand in preparation to leave for their deployment to Mali, in the capital CotonouDAKAR (Reuters) - By seizing hundreds of hostages at a gas plant in the Algerian desert, al Qaeda-linked militants angry at French intervention in Mali sent a clear message: they could strike anywhere in the Sahara. Many experts now believe the sight of a former colonial power leading unprepared West African armies into war against Islamists in Mali could spark similar attacks across a swathe of smaller, more vulnerable nations to the south. ...


U.S., China in deal on U.N. North Korea rebuke; Russia to back it

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:26 PM PST

KCNA photo shows the launch of the Unha-3 rocket at West Sea Satellite Launch Site in Cholsan county, North Pyongan provinceUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States and China have struck a tentative deal on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution condemning North Korea for its December rocket launch, U.N. diplomats said on Friday, and Russia predicted it would be approved by the council. The resolution would not impose new sanctions, but would call for expanding existing U.N. sanctions measures against Pyongyang, the envoys said on condition of anonymity. They added that China's support for the move would be a significant diplomatic blow to Pyongyang. ...


Clinton assures Japan on islands, invites Abe to U.S. in February

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 02:47 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) meets Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida at the State Department in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assured Japan on Friday of U.S. support in Tokyo's dispute with Beijing over a string of islands and invited new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Washington in late February for a meeting with President Barack Obama. Clinton held a working lunch with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, and both emerged pledging that U.S.-Japan security and economic ties would remain strong following Abe's landslide election victory last month. ...


U.S. won't drop conspiracy charge against 9/11 plot suspects

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:07 PM PST

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is pictured on the third day of pre-trial hearings in the 9/11 war crimes prosecution as depicted in this Pentagon-approved courtroom sketch at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo BayMIAMI (Reuters) - The Pentagon appointee overseeing the Guantanamo war crimes court refused on Friday to drop conspiracy charges against five accused plotters of the September 11 attacks despite the chief prosecutor's concerns that the charge might not withstand appeals. The decision announced by the Pentagon means the alleged mastermind of the hijacked plane attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four other captives could be tried on a charge that the prosecutor acknowledged might not have been recognized as a war crime when the attacks occurred in 2001. ...


Panetta calls for more agile NATO with wider strategic focus

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 10:54 AM PST

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta delivers a speech in LondonLONDON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on Friday for NATO to reinvent itself as a more agile alliance with a broader outlook embracing the Asia-Pacific and able to respond to new threats from Islamic militancy. Panetta said as the alliance winds down the Afghanistan war and cuts defense spending to fit shrinking budgets, it would still face challenges from Islamist militants as well as countries like Iran and North Korea. ...


Wanted Pro-Gbagbo youth leader sent home to Ivory Coast

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:43 PM PST

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - A fugitive youth leader and close ally of Ivory Coast's ex-president Laurent Gbagbo was sent home from Ghana on Friday and taken into police custody, the Ivorian government said in a statement. Charles Ble Goude had been sought on one of more than two dozen international warrants issued by the Ivorian government following a brief post-election civil war in 2011. Arrested in the Ghanaian capital Accra on Thursday, he is the first Gbagbo ally to be handed over by Ghana, and his transfer could have ramifications for other former top officials living in exile there. ...

Top U.S. commander denied visa in rights row: Russia

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:27 PM PST

Russian Ambassador to UN Denisov talks to reporters at UN headquarters in New YorkMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia denied entry to a former commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in retaliation against U.S. moves to punish Russian human rights violators, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov said on Friday. The United States finalized the Magnitsky Act, named after an anti-corruption lawyer who died in a Moscow prison in 2009, in December to bar entry for alleged Russian rights violators and freeze any assets they hold in the United States. Russia denied a visa to Rear Admiral Jeffrey Harbeson, former commander at the Guantanamo U.S. ...


Givenchy makes menswear combatorial

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:37 PM PST

Models present creations by designer Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy as part of his men's fall-winter 2013/2014 fashion collection, presented in Paris, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)PARIS (AP) — Gladiatorial combat is in the air for Givenchy's ever-creative Riccardo Tisci.


Algerian army takes hard line in militant battle

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:56 PM PST

An unidentified rescued hostage receives treatment in a hospital Ain Amenas, Algeria, in this image taken from television Friday Jan. 18, 2013. Algeria's state news service says nearly 100 out of 132 foreign hostages have been freed from a gas plant where Islamist militants had held them captive for three days. The APS news agency report was an unexpected indication of both more hostages than had previously been reported and a potentially breakthrough development in what has been a bloody siege. (AP Photo/Canal Algerie via Assiaciated Press TV) ** TV OUT ALGERIA OUT **ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The militants had filled five jeeps with hostages and begun to move when Algerian government attack helicopters opened up on them, leaving four in smoking ruins. The fifth vehicle crashed, allowing an Irish hostage inside to clamber out to safety with an explosive belt still strapped around his neck.


Bolshoi ballet chief has surgery after acid attack

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:36 AM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 18, 2000 file photo, Sergei Filin as Albrecht and Nina Ananiashvili as Giselle perform a tragic scene during a dress rehearsal of the Bolshoi Ballet's United States premiere of "Giselle" at The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in New York. Filin was attacked in Moscow on Thursday night, Jan. 17, 2013, by an unknown person who splashed acid onto his face. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)MOSCOW (AP) — An acid attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet has shone the spotlight on the fierce "Black Swan" -like competition for starring roles at the famed Russian dance company.


Aleppo blast, car bombs cap bloody Syria week

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:53 PM PST

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency, SANA, shows rescue workers and bystanders at a building damaged by a rocket attack, that killed at least 12 people, in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. In a spike in civil war violence that Syrian state media blamed on rebel fighters a rocket attack in the northern city of Aleppo occurred during a particularly bloody week nearly two years after an uprising began against Assad's regime. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — A rocket slammed into a building in Syria's northern city of Aleppo and two suicide bombers struck near a mosque in the south Friday, capping a particularly bloody week in the country's civil war with more than 800 civilians killed, including an unusually large proportion in government-held areas.


With Olympics in mind, Rio's love hotels clean up

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 10:17 AM PST

A hotel worker makes the bed inside the Medieval Room, where chains hang on the wall, reflected in the mirror at left, at the Shalimar Hotel, known as a love hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. With the arrival of next year's World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympic Games to this seaside city, local officials are scrambling to bridge a chronic hotel bed shortage so severe that during a UN conference here last year, the mayor had to appeal to residents to open their apartments to visitors. The plan? Slash property taxes for love hotels, known as RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — One worker strips mirrored paneling off the ceiling, as another pries up the fiberglass shell of a whirlpool bath. A third man takes a sledgehammer to a life-size statue of Venus de Milo posing topless with a swirl of plaster robes hanging from her waist.


Africa forces' role in Mali faces diverse snags

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:12 PM PST

A resident of San in central Mali talks with a French soldier in his vehicle as French troops pass through en route to Sevare, Mali, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. French forces encircled a key Malian town on Friday to stop radical Islamists from striking closer to the capital, a French official said. The move to surround Diabaly came as French and Malian authorities said they had retaken Konna, the central city whose capture prompted the French military intervention last week.(AP Photo/Harouna Traore)DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — West African nations that promised to send troops to fight al-Qaida in Mali are finding it's a lot trickier than they'd hoped to actually get boots on the ground.


Palestinians: Apartheid state if Netanyahu wins

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 02:05 PM PST

In this photograph made on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, a print house employes work on an election campaign billboard of Israeli Prime Minister and Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, in the central Israeli Town of Petah Tikva. Palestinian officials largely view Benjamin Netanyahu's expected re-election with despair, fearing the Israeli hardliner's ambitious plans for settlement construction over the next four years could prove lethal to their dreams of a state. Hebrew on billboards reads - " I need you for strong Israel". (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinians have long complained that Israel's right-wing government is killing peace prospects by settling the West Bank with Jews, but now there is something new. The Palestinian president is warning that Benjamin Netanyahu's expected victory in next week's election could lead to an Arab-majority country in the Holy Land that will eventually replace what is now Israel — unless he pursues a more moderate path of a two state solution to the conflict.


Charges stay for now in Sept. 11 at Guantanamo

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:18 PM PST

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The prosecution of five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks will go on — for now — with eight charges against each of the men, the Pentagon said Friday.

French encircle key Malian town of Diabaly

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 10:25 AM PST

In this picture dated Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 and released by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) Nigerian troops for the African-led international support mission to Mali exit a military plane at Bamako airport, Mali. France remains alone as the only foreign power with boots on the ground, though on Thursday, a contingent of Togolese and Nigeria soldiers arrived at the airport. (AP Photo/Jeremy Lempin, ECPAD)BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — French troops encircled a key Malian town on Friday to stop radical Islamists from striking closer to the capital, a French official said.


Algeria army takes hard line in militant battle

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 03:37 PM PST

An unidentified rescued hostage receives treatment in a hospital Ain Amenas, Algeria, in this image taken from television Friday Jan. 18, 2013. Algeria's state news service says nearly 100 out of 132 foreign hostages have been freed from a gas plant where Islamist militants had held them captive for three days. The APS news agency report was an unexpected indication of both more hostages than had previously been reported and a potentially breakthrough development in what has been a bloody siege. (AP Photo/Canal Algerie via Assiaciated Press TV) ** TV OUT ALGERIA OUT **AIN AMENAS, Algeria (AP) — The militants had filled five jeeps with hostages and begun to move when Algerian government attack helicopters opened up on them, leaving four in smoking ruins. The fifth vehicle crashed, allowing an Irish hostage inside to clamber out to safety with an explosive belt still strapped around his neck.


Video appears to show Hezbollah and Iraqi Shiites fighting in Syria

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:25 AM PST

An unprecedented and slickly-produced video is being circulated around Shiite areas of Lebanon showing alleged Shiite combatants fighting in Syria. The video's production and open dissemination highlights how fighters outside Syria are jumping into the country's ongoing civil war – and growing less shy about hiding it.

National Day of Service calls on Americans to help others

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:12 AM PST

This weekend Washington D.C. will mark the inauguration of President Obama into a second term of office. It also will honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with a national holiday.

Pakistan protest march ends: Who won?

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 10:15 AM PST

The political drama in Pakistan that started with a protest march to Islamabad last weekend and a sit-in outside Parliament ended Thursday as the government and the protest leader signed an agreement.

US recognizes Somalia government after two decades of anarchy

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 09:28 AM PST

After more than 20 years without formal relations, the United States officially recognized the government of Somalia Thursday, paving the way for what Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called "a new chapter" between the two nations.

Hostage crisis: Energy needs ensnare Europe in the Sahara

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 08:32 AM PST

Still reeling from a deadly Algerian military attempt to free hostages held by Islamist militants at a natural gas installation, European governments, resource companies, and other investors are considering how large amounts of personnel on the ground in the region can be protected from future attacks.

Jakarta, Indonesia's megacity of 10 million, is under water

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 06:45 AM PST

Flooding brought one of Asia's megacities to a halt on Thursday, as monsoon rainwater in the central business district reached a foot and a half, and almost 10-feet in other parts of the city.

After deaths and escapes, Algeria hostage crisis still not over

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 06:16 AM PST

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Iran nuclear inspections remain stalled as latest talks with IAEA end

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 06:25 AM PST

Two days of talks between Iran and UN nuclear inspectors have failed to find a way to let investigations of alleged nuclear weapon research move forward.

French flags selling out in Mali's capital

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 05:47 AM PST

War and nationalist sentiment usually go hand in hand. The week-old war in Mali is no exception. As the war drums beat hotter in this landlocked former French colony in West Africa, nationalism is also on the rise.

Randy Grim and Stray Rescue reshape a city's approach to animal control

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 05:00 AM PST

Randy Grim thinks of himself as the shyest man in St. Louis. Unfortunately for him, he's also one of the better known.

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