2013年2月22日星期五

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Abe vows to revive Japanese economy, sees no escalation with China

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 04:17 PM PST

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe participates in a media conference at a Washington hotelWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Americans on Friday "I am back and so is Japan" and vowed to get the world's third biggest economy growing again and to do more to bolster security and the rule of law in an Asia roiled by territorial disputes. Abe had firm words for China in a policy speech to a top Washington think-tank, but also tempered his remarks by saying he had no desire to escalate a row over islets in the East China Sea that Tokyo controls and Beijing claims. "No nation should make any miscalculation about firmness of our resolve. ...


Rockets hit Aleppo, killing at least 29: monitor

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 02:11 PM PST

People search for survivors in Aleppo's Tariq al-Bab neighbourhoodBEIRUT (Reuters) - Rockets struck eastern districts of Aleppo, Syria's biggest city, on Friday, killing at least 29 people and trapping a family of 10 in the ruins of their home, activists in the city said. "There are families buried under the rubble," said an activist called Baraa al-Youssef, speaking by Skype after visiting the scene in his Ard al-Hamra neighborhood. "Nothing can describe it, it's a horrible sight." Video footage posted by several activists showed a burning building and people carrying the wounded to cars to be ferried to hospital. ...


Thirteen Chadian soldiers, 65 rebels killed in Mali

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 04:38 PM PST

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Thirteen Chadian soldiers were killed in fighting in northern Mali on Friday, the heaviest casualties sustained by French and African troops since the launch of a military campaign against Islamist rebels there six weeks ago, Chad's army said. Chadian troops killed 65 al Qaeda-linked fighters in the clashes that began before midday in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains near Mali's northern border with Algeria. "The provisional toll is ... on the enemy's side, five vehicles destroyed and 65 terrorists killed. ...

Five killed in Islamist car bomb attacks in north Mali

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 11:21 AM PST

A Malian soldier looks on during fighting with Islamists in GaoGAO, Mali (Reuters) - Five people were killed in a remote Malian town on Friday in car bomb attacks by Islamists on Tuareg MNLA rebels with close links to French forces, a spokesman for the Tuareg fighters said. Violence in northern Mali underscores the risk of French and African forces becoming entangled in a messy guerrilla war as they try to help Mali's weak army counter bombings and raids by al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants. ...


Cuba's Raul Castro jokingly hints at possible retirement

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 12:34 PM PST

Cuba's President Raul Castro gestures after a wreath-laying ceremony at the Soviet Soldier monument in HavanaHAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro, who is expected to begin a second five-year term on Sunday, jokingly told reporters on Friday that he was planning his retirement but left open just when he would step down. "I'm going to retire," said a grinning Castro in the company of visiting Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Castro urged reporters to pay close attention to the National Assembly meeting this weekend, when a Council of State and president will be elected. "I'm going to turn 82, I have a right to retire already," Castro said. ...


South Africa's Pistorius goes free on $113,000 bail

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 09:35 AM PST

Oscar Pistorius stands at the dock before the start of proceedings at a Pretoria magistrates courtPRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African court granted bail on Friday to Oscar Pistorius, charged with the murder of his girlfriend on Valentine's Day, after his lawyers successfully argued the "Blade Runner" was too famous to flee justice. The decision by Magistrate Desmond Nair drew cheers from the Paralympics star's family and supporters. Pistorius himself was unmoved, in marked contrast to the week-long hearing, when he repeatedly broke down in tears. Nair set bail at 1 million rand ($113,000) and postponed the case until June 4. ...


Outcome of Italy election deeply uncertain

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 02:40 PM PST

Five Star Movement leader and comedian Beppe Grillo speaks during a rally in RomeROME (Reuters) - Italy's election campaign drew to a close on Friday with the weak performance of outgoing premier Mario Monti key to a deeply uncertain and potentially unstable result. Political leaders were holding their final rallies before a campaigning ban ahead of two days of voting on Sunday and Monday, and analysts said the result was too close to call. ...


Sizzling prices heat up wage talks in Argentina

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 10:35 AM PST

A woman looks at banners with product offers outside a supermarket in Buenos AiresBUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A stagnant economy and one of the world's highest inflation rates are making Argentina's annual wage talks thornier than ever this year just as President Cristina Fernandez turns her attention to mid-term elections. Fernandez, who hails from the left of the Peronist party that has dominated Argentine politics since the late 1940s, has an increasingly difficult relationship with the unions and that is raising the risk of strikes ahead of the October elections. ...


Brazil's 2014 election campaign gets off to early start

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 11:53 AM PST

Dilma Rousseff speaks during the signing ceremony of the National Commitment to Improvement of Working Conditions in the Construction Industry at the planalto palace in BrasiliaBRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's 2014 election season got off to an unusually early start this week with the unofficial launch of President Dilma Rousseff's re-election campaign by her mentor and predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Celebrating his Workers' Party's 10th year in power, Lula laid to rest speculation that he would run again by anointing Rousseff as the party's best option to stay in power. ...


Defense cuts jeopardize NATO's effectiveness, Panetta warns

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 11:02 AM PST

U.S.' Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta addresses a news conference during a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in BrusselsBRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Defense cuts and U.S. budget gridlock are jeopardizing NATO's effectiveness, outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned on Friday. Leaving his last NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels, Panetta joined those warning of the effects of deep Defense cuts in many Western countries and said it would be an "irresponsible act of political dysfunction" if the U.S. Congress permitted sweeping across-the-board Defense cuts to take place. ...


Canada ambassador says he feels slighted by "Argo"

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 05:13 PM PST

TORONTO (AP) — Canada's former ambassador in Iran, who protected Americans at great personal risk during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979, says if "Argo" wins the Oscar for best picture on Sunday there would be something wrong with director Ben Affleck if he didn't mention Canada.

Oscar Pistorius gets bail as murder trial looms

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:45 PM PST

Photographers take photos of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius as he stands in the dock during his bail hearing at the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. The fourth and likely final day of Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing opened on Friday, with the magistrate then to rule if the double-amputee athlete can be freed before trial or if he has to remain in custody over the shooting death of his girlfriend. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius walked out of court Friday — free at least for now — after a South African magistrate released him on bail, capping four days of often startling testimony that foreshadowed a dramatic trial in the Valentine's Day slaying of his girlfriend.


Tunisia Islamist party chooses new prime minister

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:39 PM PST

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, right, receives a letter regarding the appointment of Interior Minister Ali Larayedh to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali from Ennahda ruling party's leader Rached Ghannouchi prior to a meeting at the presidential palace in Carthage near Tunis, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on Friday has asked incumbent Interior Minister Ali Laarayedh from the ruling Ennahdha to form a new government in two weeks, according to the presidential office. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's ruling Islamist party named an interior minister seen as a conservative loyalist to form a new government Friday, in a signal the party is unlikely to back down to opposition demands to try to smooth over the country's political crisis.


Obama, Japan's PM signal solidarity on N. Korea

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 04:24 PM PST

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — Japan's new prime minister declared Friday he would make his country a stronger U.S. ally and joined President Barack Obama in warning North Korea that its recent nuclear provocations would not be tolerated.


Panetta: Cybersecurity focus of next NATO meeting

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 10:04 AM PST

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, left, talks with Britain's Secretary of State for Defence Philip Hammond, during a two-day NATO defense ministers meeting to discuss Syria and Afghanistan, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. The head of NATO urged member countries Thursday to stop cutting their defense budgets in response to tough economic times, saying continued reductions will compromise the safety of all of the military alliance's 28 members. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)BRUSSELS (AP) — With cyberthreats escalating, the next meeting of NATO defense ministers will include a major focus on cybersecurity, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said.


Up to 12,000 US, allied troops for Afghanistan

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 01:24 PM PST

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond lead their delegations during a bilateral meeting at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Defense Ministers Meetings, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Panetta and his NATO counterparts are considering leaving 8,000 to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014, but a dispute arose Friday between the U.S. and German defense officials over whether that contingent would be an international force or an American one. (AP Photo/Chip Somodevilla, Pool)WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and its NATO allies revealed Friday they may keep as many as 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after the combat mission ends next year, largely American forces tasked with hunting down remnants of al-Qaida and helping Afghan forces with their own security.


Egypt opposition: Election will add to tensions

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 12:21 PM PST

Egyptian protesters chant anti-President Mohammed Morsi slogans and carry posters with pictures of victims of recent violence and their names in Port Said, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. In the restive city of Port Said, where a general strike entered its sixth day on Friday, factory workers, activists and laborers have held street rallies that brought the coastal city on the northern tip of the Suez Canal to a halt, though shipping in the international waterway has not been affected. Arabic on posters reads, "the martyr of treachery, Tamer Awad el-Fahleh, Abdo el-Dosouk." (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president set parliamentary elections to begin in April — a decision that an opposition leader denounced Friday as "a recipe for disaster" because of the ongoing political turmoil in the country.


Displaced who stay in Syria get little aid

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 11:51 AM PST

In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo, Syrian refugee women, wash their laundry in front of a Turkish military base, seen in the background, at Atmeh refugee camp in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, Syria. This rebel-controlled camp only yards from the border with Turkey houses some 16,000 people displaced by the civil war. But the U.N. and other major aid agencies best equipped to handle such a large-scale relief agency cannot reach them because they are inside Syria. That leaves the job to smaller organizations who can only provide a fraction of the needs. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)ATMEH CAMP, Syria (AP) — Turki Abdel Qadir, a burly villager from the northern countryside, fled to this muddy camp amid olive groves three months ago after his 13-year-old daughter Haifa was wounded in the civil war.


Greece: Fierce storm causes blackouts, road havoc

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 11:20 AM PST

A woman shelters from the rain and the flodding at a bus stop, by standing on a bench, on a flooded highway linking Athens with its port of Piraeus, during a rainstorm on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. Hours of heavy rainfall in Athens caused extensive flooding, inundating basements and forcing authorities to close major roads and a central subway station. The Greek fire brigade says it received more than 900 calls to pump out water in the greater Athens region Friday. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Torrential rainfall in Greece's capital Friday crippled traffic, inundated basements and streets, and was blamed for the death of woman whose car was trapped in floodwater, authorities said.


Pope clears decks with appointments, tweaks

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 10:44 AM PST

FILE - This July 18, 2012 file photo shows Vatican Undersecretary for the Relations with States, Mons. Ettore Balestrero speaking during a press conference at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 transferred a top official from the Vatican's secretariat of state to Colombia amid swirling media speculation about the contents of a confidential report into the Vatican's leaks scandal. Mons. Balestrero was named undersecretary of the Vatican's Foreign Ministry in 2009. Benedict XVI on Friday named him ambassador, or nunzio, to Colombia. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, files)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI is clearing the decks of his pontificate, tweaking the rules of the conclave, finessing the religious rites used to launch the next papacy and making some eyebrow-raising final appointments before he retires next week.


Bulgaria's prime minister is out, but austerity remains. What's next?

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 02:23 PM PST

Bulgaria's national parliament accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov yesterday, but the protests that drove him from office continue.

Pistorius lived in elite, gated, alternate South Africa

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 01:48 PM PST

Life in urban South Africa is so synonymous with crime and fear that a 90-acre gated community like Silver Woods Country Estate can seem like a paradise. Sprawling and secure compound living is prized as a crime-free, alternate version of South Africa.

Briefing: How violent is South Africa?

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 01:41 PM PST

Early in the morning of Feb. 14, police arrived at the home of South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius to find the double-amputee runner with the body of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, who he claimed to have shot to death accidentally while she was on the toilet, having taken her for an intruder.

Iran maneuvers for upper hand ahead of nuclear talks

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 11:25 AM PST

Iran is continuing to advance its nuclear program, according to a new report by United Nations inspectors, gaining bargaining chips on the eve of a new round of talks with six world powers in Kazakhstan.

Year after Once train crash, Argentine anger still seethes

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 11:00 AM PST

Paolo Menghini's t-shirt bears the face of his son, Lucas, a victim of one of Argentina's deadliest train accidents, which occurred a year ago today.

Syrian regime battles rebels for control of highway to its safe haven

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 07:12 AM PST

An unremarkable area of flat fields, orchards, farms and small villages lying between the Syrian town of Qusayr and Lebanon's northern border has become a fiercely contested battleground that threatens to expand into Lebanon.

Hyderabad: Indian government warned of impending terrorist attack

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 06:09 AM PST

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What Japan's hawkish Prime Minister Abe wants from Obama

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 05:42 AM PST

As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prepares for his summit today with President Obama in Washington, he has one overriding goal: to remind his fellow citizens, and Japan's neighbors in Asia, just how strong Tokyo's alliance with the United States is.

Is the Muslim Brotherhood seeking to kill Egypt's NGOs?

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 05:27 AM PST

A government minister and member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has proposed a highly restrictive law that rights activists say would cripple civil society groups in Egypt and mark an alarming shift by the Brotherhood toward the methods of the ousted Hosni Mubarak.

Anshu Gupta brings 'clothing for dignity' to India

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 05:00 AM PST

Anshu Gupta's journey began in 1992 after a 6-year-old girl in New Delhi told him that she hugged dead bodies through the night to keep her warm.

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