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Central African Republic rebels halt advance, agree to peace talks

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:15 AM PST

Soldiers from the Chadian contingent of the Central African Multinational Force (FOMAC) hold up their weapons in DamaraDAMARA, Central African Republic (Reuters) - Rebels in Central African Republic said they had halted their advance on the capital on Wednesday and agreed to start peace talks, averting a clash with regionally backed troops. The Seleka rebels had pushed to within striking distance of Bangui after a three-week onslaught and threatened to oust President Francois Bozize, accusing him of reneging on a previous peace deal and cracking down on dissidents. ...


U.N. lifts Syria death toll to "truly shocking" 60,000

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 02:58 PM PST

Free Syrian Army fighters and civilians search for bodies under rubble after an air strike by a fighter jet loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's al-Marja districtAMMAN/GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 60,000 people have died in Syria's uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending. In the latest violence, dozens were killed in a rebellious Damascus suburb when a government air strike turned a petrol station into an inferno, incinerating drivers who had rushed there for a rare chance to fill their tanks, activists said. "I counted at least 30 bodies. They were either burnt or dismembered," said Abu Saeed, an activist who arrived in the area an hour after the 1 ...


Egypt's Brotherhood says UAE arrests unfounded

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:14 AM PST

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said on Wednesday some of its members had been wrongfully arrested in United Arab Emirates (UAE) on allegations of helping to train local Islamists in subversion tactics. "I know 11 people were detained. I know that some of them are from the Brotherhood," said Mahmoud Ghozlan, a Brotherhood spokesman in Cairo. "The claim that they are a cell seeking to destabilize the country is devoid of truth. ...

Venezuela's opposition demands "whole truth" about Chavez health

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:52 PM PST

People talk in front of a mural in CaracasCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition on Wednesday demanded the government tell "the whole truth" about the health of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez, who has not been heard from in three weeks after undergoing a grueling operation in Cuba. Officials have acknowledged the usually garrulous former soldier's health is delicate after his fourth cancer surgery in 18 months, but they have offered scant details on his condition. He has not spoken in public in more than three weeks. ...


Gunmen kidnap seven Pakistani soldiers

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:32 AM PST

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped seven soldiers from a bus in Pakistan on Wednesday, military officials said, just days after Taliban forces executed 21 pro-government paramilitaries they had seized. The gunmen took the seven soldiers and let go a sweeper on the bus with them, one military official said. The gunmen were wearing military uniforms, other sources said. The men were travelling between army headquarters in Rawalpindi and their stations in the northern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa when they were taken off their bus in Jand in Punjab province. ...

Nominee to be Libyan foreign minister turns down the job

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 01:04 PM PST

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The man proposed as Libya's foreign minister has rejected the post despite being cleared by an Integrity Commission which was asked to examine his ties to deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi. Ali Aujali, Libya's former ambassador to the United States was among eight of the 27 ministers nominated by Prime Minister Ali Zeidan who were referred to the commission, which studies the backgrounds of public officials, after protests outside congress over the makeup of his cabinet. ...

U.N. worried about reports of air strikes in Myanmar

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:46 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern on Wednesday at reports of air strikes in Myanmar's Kachin State, where a 20-month conflict between government troops and rebels has been escalating. "(Ban) has taken serious note of the most recent reports indicating air strikes against targets in Kachin State," U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said in a statement. ...

Italy's Monti fires opening salvo of second-term campaign

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 08:31 AM PST

Italy's outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti gestures during a news conference in RomeROME (Reuters) - Italy's outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti pledged to cut labor taxes to fuel growth on Wednesday as he shed his neutral technocrat stance and fired the opening salvo of his campaign for a second term. The former European Commissioner was appointed in November 2011 to lead an unelected right-left government of experts to save Italy from financial crisis after Silvio Berlusconi quit amid a sex scandal and a crisis that threatened the euro. ...


Mandela's recovery "on track" at home: South African government

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:50 AM PST

Former South African president Nelson Mandela looks on as he celebrates his birthday at his house in QunuJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela's recovery is 'on track' at his home in Johannesburg, the government said on Wednesday in its first statement since the anti-apartheid hero was released from hospital a week ago. Mandela, 94, who has been in frail health for several years, spent nearly three weeks in a Pretoria hospital in December for treatment of a lung infection and surgery to remove gallstones, his longest stay for medical care since his release from prison in 1990. ...


Former Chilean military officials held in singer's 1973 slaying

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:55 AM PST

Chilean singer Victor Jara, who was tortured and died during the military dictatorship of [General A..SANTIAGO (Reuters) - At least four former military officials were detained in Chile on Wednesday for their alleged role in the slaying of singer-songwriter Victor Jara during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Jara was killed days after the coup that ousted left-leaning President Salvador Allende, and his death became a symbol of the political violence and human rights abuses that ravaged Latin America in the 1970s. Chilean prosecutors have accused two former lieutenants, Hugo Sanchez and Pedro Barrientos, of fatally shooting Jara and named six others as accomplices in the 1973 ...


UN says more than 60,000 dead in Syrian civil war

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:56 PM PST

This citizen journalism image taken from video provided by Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a wounded man being pulled from the site of a Syrian government airstrike on a gas station in the eastern Damascus suburb of Mleiha, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Activists say dozens of people have been killed or wounded in an air raid on a gas station near the capital Damascus. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)BEIRUT (AP) — The United Nations gave a grim new count Wednesday of the human cost of Syria's civil war, saying the death toll has exceeded 60,000 in 21 months — far higher than recent estimates by anti-regime activists.


Egypt panel implicates Mubarak, military in deaths

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 01:07 PM PST

FILE - In this June 2, 2012 file photo, Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak lays on a gurney inside a barred cage in the police academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. Ousted President Hosni Mubarak watched the uprising against him unfold through a live TV feed, despite his earlier denial that he knew the extent of the protests and violence, according to a fact-finding mission member said Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, which could lead to the retrial of the 84-old ousted leader already serving a life sentence.(AP Photo/File)CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian fact-finding mission determined that Hosni Mubarak watched the uprising against him unfold through a live TV feed at his palace, despite his later denial that he knew the extent of the protests and crackdown against them, a member of the mission said Wednesday.


C. African Republic leader faces rebel threat

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:10 PM PST

A Chadian soldier fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, sits on a truck in a convoy of other Chadian soldiers near Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. After troops under Bozize seized the capital in 2003 amid volleys of machine-gun and mortar fire, he dissolved the constitution and parliament, and now a decade later it is Bozize himself who could be ousted from power with rebels having seized more than half the country and made their way to the doorstep of the capital in less than a month. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)DAMARA, Central African Republic (AP) — More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting Central African Republic government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital.


Venezuela opposition: Chavez secrecy feeds rumors

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 01:19 PM PST

The windshield of a car frames a mural of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro is returning home Wednesday from a visit with Chavez in Cuba and says the ailing president's condition remains "delicate" three weeks after his cancer surgery. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition demanded that the government reveal specifics of President Hugo Chavez's condition Wednesday, criticizing secrecy surrounding the ailing leader's health more than three weeks after his cancer surgery in Cuba.


APNewsBreak: Google exec chairman to visit NKorea

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 04:49 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2012 file photo, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt arrives for a seminar at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Schmidt is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea. He will be traveling to North Korea on a private trip led by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson that could take place as early as this month, sources told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The sources, two people familiar with the group's plans, asked not to be named because the visit had not been made public. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Google's executive chairman is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea.


Indian court may suspend lawmakers facing crimes

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 06:03 AM PST

Indian women offer prayers for a gang rape victim at Mahatma Gandhi memorial in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. India's top court says it will decide whether to suspend lawmakers facing sexual assault charges as thousands of women gathered at the memorial to independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi to demand stronger protection for their safety. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian lawmakers facing sexual assault charges against women could be suspended from office if the country's top court rules in favor of a petition submitted following a gang-rape and murder that shocked the country.


American journalist missing in Syria

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 12:13 PM PST

This photo posted on the website freejamesfoley.org shows journalist James Foley in Aleppo, Syria, in July, 2012. The family of an American journalist says he went missing in Syria more than one month ago while covering the civil war there. A statement released online Wednesday by the family of James Foley said he was kidnapped in northwest Syria by unknown gunmen on Thanksgiving day. (AP Photo/Nicole Tung, freejamesfoley.org) NO SALESBEIRUT (AP) — An American journalist has been missing in Syria since he was kidnapped more than one month ago, his family said Wednesday, less than two years after he was held by government forces in Libya while covering that country's civil war.


Malala's father given diplomatic role in UK

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:56 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2012 file photo provided by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, left, and his daughter Asifa Bhutto, center back, meet with Malala Yousufzai, where she is undergoing treatment for injuries sustained when a Taliban gunman opened fire on her and her friends outside the Khushal School for Girls in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan, at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England. Pakistan's High Commissioner to Britain Wajid Shamsul Hasan confirmed a BBC report Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 saying that Malala's father, Ziauddin, has been appointed Pakistan's education attache in Birmingham. The position — with an initial 3-year commitment — virtually guarantees Malala will remain in the U.K. where she is undergoing treatment. (AP Photo/Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, File)LONDON (AP) — The father of a teenage Pakistani activist shot in the head by Taliban for advocating girls' education has been given a diplomatic post in the U.K.


Ivory Coast stampede survivors blame barricades

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 03:04 PM PST

Mariame Kanfando, 10, with her father, wait outside the morgue in in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday Jan. 2, 2013, in an attempt to get the bodies of her mother and two sisters killed in a stampede on new year's eve. Survivors of a stampede in Ivory Coast that killed 61 people, most of them children and teenagers, after a New Year's Eve fireworks display at a stadium said Wednesday that barricades stopped them from moving along a main boulevard, causing the crush of people. Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara ordered three days of national mourning and launched an investigation into to the causes of the tragedy but two survivors, in interviews with The Associated Press, indicated why so many died in what would normally be an open area, the Boulevard de la Republic. An estimated 50,000 people had gathered in Abidjan's Plateau district to watch the fireworks.(AP Photo/Emanuel Ekra)ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Survivors of a stampede in Ivory Coast that killed 61 people, most of them children and teenagers, after a New Year's Eve fireworks display said Wednesday that makeshift barricades stopped them from moving along a main boulevard, causing the crush of people.


Activist asks public to visit China Nobel wife

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 05:22 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2012 file image made from a video and provided by Hu Jia via AP Video, Liu Xia, right, wife of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, reacts to an unexpected visit by a group of activists at her home in Beijing, China. Chinese activists are urging the public to visit dissident Liu's wife to highlight that she has been under house arrest since her husband won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. The person at left is Beijing intellectual Xu Youyu. (AP Photo/Hu Jia via AP Video) EDITORIAL USE ONLYBEIJING (AP) — Chinese activists urged the public on Wednesday to visit dissident Liu Xiaobo's wife to highlight that she has been under house arrest since her husband won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.


For Egypt's satirists, Morsi's power is no joke

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 11:14 AM PST

There are few things dictators hate more than satirists, with their uncomfortable habit of piercing hypocrisy and self-importance with just a few well-placed verbal or written barbs.

5 female teachers killed: Pakistan aid work imperiled

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:17 AM PST

Pakistani police on Wednesday searched for the gunmen behind the brazen murder of five teachers and two health workers, amid fears that public health campaigns would suffer and lead to a resurgence of polio and other preventable diseases.

Myanmar launches air-strikes on Kachin rebels

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:08 AM PST

Heavy fighting between the Myanmar Army and the rebel Kachin Independence Army (KIA), is raising concern that a major escalation of violence is under way in the region, casting a shadow over Myanmar's much-touted reforms.

Is Russia trying a dead whistle-blower because of a US law?

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 09:30 AM PST

At the center of the stormiest US-Russia diplomatic crisis since the cold war stands the enigmatic figure of Sergei Magnitsky, for whom the US Senate has named a punitive new law that imposes harsh visa and economic sanctions against scores of Russian officials who are deemed to have committed serious human rights violations.

After 'peaceful' 2012, Kashmiris urge end to war-time measures

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 09:28 AM PST

Government tallies in Kashmir find that 2012 was the most peaceful year since an armed rebellion began in the disputed region in 1989. Despite that, no measures have been taken to demilitarize the region or to revoke the draconian laws that provide impunity to paramilitary forces here.

In South Korea, Kim Jong-un's New Year speech generates surprise - and doubt

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 07:01 AM PST

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un signaled his desire for improved relations with South Korea in a New Year's Day address that South Korean officials see as an unsatisfying attempt to appear conciliatory.

Any end in sight? Syrian conflict enters third calendar year

Posted: 02 Jan 2013 05:33 AM PST

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