2013年1月5日星期六

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Venezuela lawmakers elect Chavez ally as Assembly chief

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 02:50 PM PST

Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro listens to National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello speak during the assembly inauguration in CaracasCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan lawmakers re-elected a staunch ally of Hugo Chavez to head the National Assembly on Saturday, putting him in line to be caretaker president if the socialist leader does not recover from cancer surgery. By choosing the incumbent, Diosdado Cabello, the "Chavista"-dominated legislature cemented the combative ex-soldier's position as the third most powerful figure in the government, after Chavez and Vice President Nicolas Maduro. "As a patriot ... ...


Sudan, South Sudan agree once again to set up buffer zone

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 01:09 PM PST

Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir attends a meeting with leaders from South Sudan at the National Palace in the Ethiopian capital Addis AbabaADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan agreed on Saturday to set up a demilitarized zone along their disputed border, a condition for restarting oil exports, an African Union mediator said on Saturday, without giving a time frame. Sudan's Omar Hassan al-Bashir and South Sudan's Salva Kiir had agreed in September to withdraw their armies from the border area, a move both say is necessary to allow oil to flow again from landlocked South Sudan through Sudan. After weeks of deadly clashes early last year the two came close to all-out war but agreed a ceasefire in April. ...


Assad to make rare speech as Syrian rebels draw nearer

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 03:54 PM PST

A view of buildings damaged by missiles fired in TaftanazBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will deliver a rare speech on Sunday about the uprising against his rule, which has killed 60,000 people and brought civil war to the edge of his capital. With insurgents fighting their way closer to the seat of his power, state media said in a statement that Assad would speak on Sunday morning about the "latest developments in Syria and the region", without giving details. ...


Indian rape victim's father says he wants her named

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 04:32 PM PST

Women hold placards as they march during a rally organized by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit protesting for justice and security for women, in New DelhiLONDON (Reuters) - The father of an Indian woman whose brutal rape and torture provoked international outrage said in an interview published on Sunday that he wanted her name to be made public so she could be an inspiration to other victims of sexual assault. The 23-year-old physiotherapy student died on December 28 in a Singapore hospital, two weeks after a gang rape on a bus in New Delhi that ignited street protests across India and prompted promises from the government for tougher punishments for offenders. ...


Netanyahu's rivals eye centre-left pact for Israel vote

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:26 AM PST

Former Israeli FM Livni gestures during a news conference in Tel AvivJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Three Israeli parties on Saturday proposed forming a center-left opposition bloc to try to topple conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the January 22 election, but disagreements over the terms suggested any pact could be elusive. Former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, head of the centrist Hatenuah party, said on Twitter that she and leaders of the centrist Yesh Atid and left-leaning Labour parties would "discuss the creation of a 'united front' to work together to replace Netanyahu". ...


Man arrested after shots fired at Northern Irish police in flag riots

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 02:26 PM PST

Loyalist protesters demonstrate against restrictions on flying Britain's union flag from Belfast City Hall in central BelfastBELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Irish police arrested a 38-year-old man on Saturday on suspicion of attempted murder after shots were fired at police officers during protests over the removal of the British flag from Belfast City Hall. Police used water cannon against more than 100 protesters hurling fireworks, smoke bombs and bricks in the eastern part of the city shortly after a demonstration outside City Hall calling for the flag to be reinstated on a permanent basis. ...


North Korea trip by Richardson, Schmidt set for next week

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 04:05 PM PST

Richardson fields question during University of Southern California's Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy inaugural Symposium in Los AngelesSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will lead a private humanitarian mission to North Korea next week, Richardson's office confirmed in a statement Saturday. Richardson will hold a press conference at the Beijing airport next Thursday, but no media will be accompanying the delegation, according to the statement. The trip comes despite public criticism from the U.S. State Department, which has said the visit was ill-timed in light of tensions stemming from North Korea's recent rocket launch. ...


Fugitive Saddam deputy lends support to Iraq Sunni protests

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 02:14 PM PST

Iraqi Sunni Muslims wave national flags and chant slogans during an anti-government demonstration in TikritBAGHDAD (Reuters) - The most senior member of the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's entourage still at large has urged Sunni Muslim anti-government protesters to stand their ground until the Shi'ite prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, is toppled. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri heads Saddam's now-banned Baath party, whose leaders fled or went underground after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that overthrew the Sunni strongman and empowered the Shi'ite majority. ...


Boy killed at holiday parade in southern Spain

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 12:49 PM PST

A child picks up sweets thrown from floats during the traditional Epiphany parade in MalagaMADRID (Reuters) - A six-year-old boy was killed in an accident at a traditional festive parade on Saturday in Malaga on Spain's southern Costa del Sol, local authorities said. The child died at the city's annual "cabalgata" parade to mark the arrival of the Three Kings said to have followed the Star of Bethlehem to bring presents of gold, frankincense and myrrh to the infant Christ. These parades take place across Spain in early January, with the most spectacular in the capital Madrid. ...


Egypt fires finance, interior ministers before IMF visit

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 02:04 PM PST

Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi answers reporters' questions after meeting European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in BrusselsCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Mursi fired his finance and interior ministers, cabinet sources said on Saturday, in a government reshuffle he had promised to assuage public anger at an economic crisis. General Mohamed Ibrahim will replace Ahmed Gamal El-Din as interior minister and Al-Mursi Al-Sayed Hegazy takes the finance ministry job from Mumtaz al-Saaed. ...


Syrian president to give speech Sunday

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 12:15 PM PST

A family crosses a street piled with rubbish in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013. The revolt against President Bashar Assad started in March 2011 began with peaceful protests but morphed into a civil war that has killed more than 60,000 people, according to a recent United Nations recent estimate. (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad will deliver a speech on Sunday in a rare address to the nation, state media said, as rebels fighting to topple his embattled regime pressed ahead with an offensive on the capital.


Rebels in C. African Republic seize another town

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 08:54 AM PST

Several hundred protesting merchants, one holding a placard using the french acronym of the country's name, hold a demonstration calling for peace as negotiators prepare for talks with rebels from the north, in downtown Bangui, Central African Republic Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013. The U.N. Security Council urged rebels in the Central African Republic on Friday to halt their military offensive, withdraw from cities they have seized, and take part in negotiations to find a political solution to the impoverished country's longstanding problems. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Rebels in Central African Republic seized control of another town on Saturday, just days before they are to begin negotiations with the government in nearby Gabon.


India gang-rape victim's friend recounts attack

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 04:05 AM PST

School children and staff watch a self defense training program at a school in Mumbai, India, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. An attack on a 23-year-old woman, who died of severe internal injuries over the weekend, has provoked a fierce debate across India about the routine mistreatment of women and triggered daily protests demanding action. Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde announced a special recruitment drive for women police officers Thursday and ordered every police station in the capital to be staffed by at least nine female officers to make them more attentive to women's needs. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)NEW DELHI (AP) — Passers-by refused to stop to help a naked, bleeding gang-rape victim after she was dumped from a bus onto a New Delhi street, and police delayed taking her to a hospital for 30 minutes, the woman's male companion said in an interview. It was his first public account of the gruesome attack that killed the 23-year-old student and prompted demands for reform of a law enforcement culture seen as lax in crimes against women.


Starbucks enters entrenched Vietnam coffee market

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 11:46 PM PST

In this photo taken Jan. 5, 2013, customers drink coffee on Trieu Viet Vuong Street in Hanoi, Vietnam. Starbucks announced Thursday Jan. 3, it would enter Vietnam in early February with a cafe in Ho Chi Minh City. But the Seattle-based company faces a unique market in Vietnam, where French-inspired coffee culture reigns supreme; two homegrown chains have established presences; and family-run sidewalk cafes are as ubiquitous as noodle shops. (AP Photo /Mike Ives)HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Nghiem Ngoc Thuy has been slinging coffees to thirsty Vietnamese for 20 years in her colonial-style villa with peeling shutters, and she and her customers aren't too worried that the imminent arrival of U.S. giant Starbucks will alter their time-tested coffee traditions.


Violence in Northern Ireland for 3rd day over flag

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 08:42 AM PST

Protestant Loyalist protestors converge on Belfast city hall Saturday Jan. 5, 2013. Ongoing protests and demonstrations continue at the removal of the Union flag from the Belfast city hall. Police said Saturday that more than 30 petrol bombs were thrown at officers, along with ball bearings, fireworks and bricks as they responded to clashes Friday night in Protestant sections of Belfast. Friday's clashes come a day after 10 police were injured in east Belfast during a similar demonstration. (AP Photo/Paul Faith/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUTBELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Northern Ireland police used water cannons to fend off brick-hurling protesters in Belfast on Saturday as violent demonstrations over flying the British flag stretched into a third straight day.


Missoni scion on plane missing in Venezuela

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 04:11 PM PST

In this photo taken on March 30, 2005 Vittorio Missoni, right, and his wife Maurizia Castiglioni smile in Milan, Italy. The search resumed Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 for a small plane that has disappeared off the Venezuelan coast with six people aboard, including Vittorio Missoni, a top executive in Italy's Missoni fashion house, officials said. Vittorio Missoni, 58, is the director general of the iconic brand and the eldest son of the company's founder. Flying with him on Friday's flight from Venezuela's Los Roques resort archipelago to Caracas, was Missoni's wife, Maurizia Castiglioni, two Italian friends of the couple, and a crew of two Venezuelans. (AP Photo/Livio Valerio, Lapresse)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Rescue crews used boats and aircraft on Saturday to search for a small plane that disappeared off Venezuela carrying the CEO of Italy's iconic Missoni fashion house and five other people.


Hugo Chavez's allies re-elect legislative chief

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 04:41 PM PST

National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, center, gestures to supporters of President Hugo Chavez as Vice President Nicolas Maduro, left, looks on after a session by lawmakers at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013. Allies of President Hugo Chavez on Saturday chose to keep Diosdado as National Assembly president who is the next in line to step in as a caretaker leader in some circumstances. Just five days remain until Chavez's scheduled inauguration on Thursday, and government officials are suggesting the swearing-in could be delayed as the president fights a severe respiratory infection after cancer surgery in Cuba. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Allies of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez on Saturday chose to keep the same National Assembly president — a man who could be in line to step in as a caretaker leader in some circumstances.


6 Russians die in snowmobile crash in Italy

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 08:29 AM PST

Rescue workers aboard a snowmobile recover the bodies of six people who died following a sled crash on Mount Cermis, northern Italy, early Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013. Six Russians were killed and two others were injured after their snowmobile slammed into a fence and flipped over into a ditch during a night run down an Italian ski slope. The Russian consul general in Milan, Alexei Parmonov, said on Russian state television that he was in contact with Italian investigators, who he said suspect the crash was caused by excessive speed. They also were checking the possibility of a mechanical malfunction. (AP Photo/Federico Modica)ROME (AP) — Six Russians were killed and two seriously injured when the snowmobile and sled they were riding veered off an Italian Alpine ski slope at night, slammed into a barrier and flew through the air into a ravine.


AP Photos: Dubai makes bid to be City of Gold

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 07:24 AM PST

In this Thursday Oct. 11, 2012 photo, an Emirati woman discusses her purchases with a salesman at a jewelry shop in gold suq in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With low customs on gold imports, low labor charges, cheap prices and high quality, Dubai has become one of the world's best retail gold jewelry markets. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai is sometimes called the "City of Gold" because of its stunning growth from a sleepy Gulf port to a world-famous business crossroads in the space of a single generation. Its nickname has a literal meaning for traders in the precious metal.


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