2013年2月28日星期四

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West to send Syrian rebels aid, not arms

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:43 AM PST

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with Syrian National Coalition President Mouaz al-Khatib during meetings at Villa Madama in RomeROME (Reuters) - Western powers pledged aid for Syrian rebels on Thursday but stopped short of offering them weapons, disappointing opponents of President Bashar al-Assad clamoring for more arms. More than 70,000 Syrians have been killed in a fierce conflict that began with peaceful anti-Assad protests nearly two years ago. Washington has given $385 million in humanitarian aid for Syria but U.S. President Barack Obama has so far refused to give arms, arguing it is difficult to prevent them from falling into the hands of militants who could use them on Western targets. ...


Iran nuclear talks show progress, Western diplomat says

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 03:05 PM PST

People wave Argentine flags as they attend a demonstration to protest against an agreement between Argentina and Iran outside the Argentine Congress in Buenos AiresBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nuclear talks between Iran and world powers this week were more constructive and positive than in the past, but Iran's willingness to negotiate seriously will not become clear until an April meeting, a senior Western diplomat said on Thursday. The diplomat was more upbeat about the talks in Kazakhstan than other Western officials have been, suggesting there could be a chance of diplomatic progress in the long standoff over Iran's nuclear activities. ...


Van Rompuy tells Britain: leaving EU "not free"

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 01:57 PM PST

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy speaks during a conference entitled "Prospects for Revival in the euro zone – and what place for Britain in Europe", in LondonLONDON (Reuters) - One of Europe's most powerful officials cautioned Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday that leaving the European Union could cost Britain dear and that the bloc's other leaders do not want to renegotiate Europe's founding treaties. European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said Britain had a chance to play a leading role in building the European economy now the euro zone had the "artillery" of economic tools to get itself out of the worst crisis in its history. ...


Hungary PM seen picking his "right hand" to head central bank

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 04:04 PM PST

Hungarian Prime Minister Orban presents his annual state-of-the-nation speech in BudapestBUDAPEST (Reuters) - Prime Minister Viktor Orban is expected to nominate the man he calls his "right hand" to head Hungary's central bank on Friday, a move that could prompt cheap money being pumped into the economy ahead of elections in 2014. Orban, who has often been at loggerheads with the European Union, banks and the International Monetary Fund, is widely seen as appointing Economy Minister Gyorgy Matolcsy, one of his closest allies, to replace hawkish Governor Andras Simor, whose six-year mandate is expiring. ...


Donors step up ties with Somalia; praise rebuilding efforts

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 04:45 PM PST

Somalia's President Sheikh Mohamud arrives at the European Commission headquarters in BrusselsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Major Western donors have stepped up efforts in recent weeks to reengage with Somalia, opening the way for increased development assistance to a country trying to shake off years of conflict. A senior British official said in Washington that London will host a conference with the new Somali government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on May 7. The meeting will focus on rebuilding the security forces, police, and justice system and discuss resuming relations with the World Bank. ...


Sudan sends more troops to volatile border state

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 04:13 PM PST

UNAMID airlifts wounded civilians from the El Sireaf locality to El Fasher for medical treatmentKHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan is sending reinforcements to Blue Nile state to fight rebels near the border to South Sudan, state-linked media said on Thursday. Last week, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-North) said it had launched an offensive to take Kurmuk near the border to South Sudan and Ethiopia. Sudan's army has been fighting rebels of the SPLM-North in Blue Nile and nearby South Kordofan state since around the time of South Sudan's secession in July 2011 under a 2005 deal which ended decades of civil war. ...


Bombs kill at least 22 in Iraqi capital

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:18 AM PST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 22 people were killed in a series of blasts in Shi'ite neighborhoods of Baghdad on Thursday, police sources said, as Iraq's precarious sectarian balance comes under growing strain. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Sunni Muslim insurgents have been redoubling their efforts to undermine the Shi'ite-led government and spark deeper intercommunal fighting since the start of the year. ...

Israel, Turkey row over Zionism deepens rift between ex-allies

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 01:51 PM PST

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a meeting of the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors in JerusalemJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's prime minister accused his Turkish counterpart on Thursday of making a "dark and false" statement by calling Zionism a crime against humanity - a comment likely to hit efforts to repair ties between the two former allies. The Turkish premier's statement, made at a U.N. meeting in Vienna a day earlier, was also condemned by the head of Europe's main rabbinical group who called it a "hateful attack" on Jews. ...


African leaders call for U.N. mandate for Mali mission

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 02:11 PM PST

Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma, Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe and Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore attend a summit on the crisis in Mali and Guinea Bissau, at the Fondation Felix Houphouet Boigny in YamoussoukroYAMOUSSOUKRO (Reuters) - West African leaders on Thursday called for a regional military operation against al Qaeda-linked rebels in north Mali to be transformed into a U.N. peacekeeping mission as quickly as possible to secure desperately needed funding. France sent troops into its former colony last month to drive out Islamist fighters, claiming their seizure of Mali's north last year posed a threat to international security. ...


Exclusive: China plans bond overhaul to fund $6 trillion urbanization - sources

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 01:19 PM PST

A man walks past a construction site for a new stadium in Mentougou district, suburb of BeijingBEIJING (Reuters) - China plans major bond market reform to raise the money the ruling Communist Party needs for a 40 trillion yuan ($6.4 trillion) urbanization program to buoy economic growth and close a chasm between the country's urban rich and rural poor. The Party aims to bring 400 million people to cities over the next decade as the new leadership of president-in-waiting Xi Jinping and premier-designate Li Keqiang seek to turn China into a wealthy world power with economic growth generated by an affluent consumer class. ...


Benedict becomes 1st pope in 600 years to resign

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 02:02 PM PST

Pope Benedict XVI greets faithful from his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, the scenic town where Pope Benedict XVI will spend his first post-Vatican days and made his last public blessing as pope,Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Benedict XVI left the Catholic Church in unprecedented limbo Thursday as he became the first pope in 600 years to resign, capping a tearful day of farewells that included an extraordinary pledge of obedience to his successor.


Syrian rebel put his dreams on hold in civil war

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:36 AM PST

In this Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012 image taken from video obtained from the Beloved of Allah Brigade , which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebel Abdullah Qadi, foreground, addresses other fighters in the village of Orim, Syria. Qadi, a fresh graduate of veterinary school when Syria's conflict began, was killed this week while fighting the forces of President Bashar Assad.(AP Photo/Beloved of Allah Brigade via AP video)BEIRUT (AP) — Abdullah Qadi stood apart from his fellow rebel fighters — an educated young man from a poor farming town who managed to make it through veterinary school.


Syrians find makeshift homes in ancient structures

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 04:07 PM PST

Nihal, 9, puts olive tree branches inside a wooden stove at an underground Roman tomb which they use shelter from Syrian government forces shelling and airstrikes, at Jabal al-Zaweya, in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday Feb. 28, 2013. Across northern Syria, rebels, soldiers, and civilians are making use of the country's wealth of ancient and medieval antiquities to protect themselves from Syria's two-year-old war. They are built of thick stone that has already withstood centuries, and are often located in strategic locations overlooking towns and roads. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)THE JEBEL AL-ZAWIYA HILLS, Syria (AP) — Like countless other Syrians fleeing their country's civil war, Sami was eager to escape the bombs and artillery shells falling on his village. But instead of taking his family to another country, he simply brought them underground.


South African police, a force in turmoil

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:30 AM PST

FILE - In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 Police surround the bodies of striking miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa. The state of South Africa's police forces came into sharp focus last week during Pistorius' bail hearing where police stumbled and fumbled in the bail hearing of Pistorius who is charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The judicial system and its ruthless police force was the backbone of the racist Apartheid system. Now, almost two decades after Mandela ended the all-white regime in 1994, this system is creaking under corruption and mismanagement. (AP Photo/File)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The job of the South African police is to fight one of the highest crime rates in the world. Instead, the force stands accused of contributing to it.


WHO: Slight cancer risk after Japan nuke accident

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 12:22 PM PST

FILE - In this April 16, 2011 file photo, Wakana Nemoto, 3, standing next to her mother Naoko, receives a radiation exposure screening outside an evacuation center in Fukushima, northeastern Japan. People exposed to the highest doses of radiation during the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in 2011 may have a slightly higher risk of cancer that is so small it probably won't even be detectable, according to a new report from the World Health Organization released on Thursday Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)LONDON (AP) — Two years after Japan's nuclear plant disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of radiation face an increased cancer risk so small it probably won't be detectable.


Rodman tells Kim Jong Un he has 'friend for life'

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 12:04 PM PST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series. (AP Photo/VICE Media, Jason Mojica)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman hung out Thursday with North Korea's Kim Jong Un on the third day of his improbable journey with VICE to Pyongyang, watching the Harlem Globetrotters with the leader and later dining on sushi and drinking with him at his palace.


Study: Daisies sprout in King Richard I's heart

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 09:15 AM PST

Philippe Charlier, a forensic medical examiner, addresses reporters during a news conference held near Versailles, Thursday Feb. 28, 2013. King Richard I, the 12th century warrior whose bravery during the Third Crusade gained him the moniker Lionheart, ended up with a heart full of daisies, as well as myrtle, mint and frankincense. Those were among the findings of a French study, announced Thursday, which analyzed the embalmed heart of the English king more than 810 years after he died. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)PARIS (AP) — King Richard I, the 12th-century warrior whose bravery during the Third Crusade gained him the moniker Lionheart, ended up with a heart full of daisies, as well as myrtle, mint and frankincense.


Officials: France in Mali until July or later

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 02:08 PM PST

FILE - This Feb. 10, 2013, file photo shows French soldiers securing the evacuation of foreigners during exchanges of fire with jihadists in Gao, northern Mali. Promises of a pullout of France's 4,000 troops in Mali starting next month are looking harder and harder to fulfill. The fighting in rugged mountain terrain is growing tougher and threats of suicide bombings and hostage-takings are getting worse. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)PARIS (AP) — French troops will stay in the West African country of Mali at least until July, amid tougher-than-expected resistance from Islamic fighters, officials have told The Associated Press, despite earlier government promises to begin a quick pullout within weeks.


Many Venezuelans believe in Chavez recovery

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 04:15 PM PST

A supporter of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez holds a photo of him, alongside Cuba's Raul Castro, right, and Fidel Castro, during a event to commemorate the violent street protests of 1989 known as the "Caracazo," in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The wave of 1989 violent protests, seen by the current government as a "popular uprising," was in response to the economic measures imposed by then President Carlos Andres Perez. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's vice president said Thursday that Hugo Chavez is still fighting for his life, yet a recent poll says three in five Venezuelans believe their president will return to power.


Lawmakers push measure on Israel's self-defense

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 01:21 PM PST

In this photo provided by the United Nations, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, left, poses with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the Sacher Hotel in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/The United Nations, Evan Schneider)WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States would back Israel militarily if the Mideast ally were to attack Iran in self-defense, a bipartisan group of senators said Thursday in introducing a forceful resolution.


Titanic II: Billionaire launches plans for replica of doomed ship

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 01:58 PM PST

An Australian billionaire is getting ready to build a new version of the Titanic that could set sail in late 2016.

Report: UK stripping terrorism suspects of citizenship, US killing some of them

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 01:43 PM PST

From the UK, more fodder for the debate over the US drone assassination campaign and the acceptability of killing citizens:

South Africa police face scrutiny after video of dragging goes viral

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 01:39 PM PST

When a South African tabloid posted a disturbing video on its Facebook page Thursday morning, it touched off raw anger at a local police force with a long rap sheet of corruption and brutality.

Will limited US aid to Syria rebels hasten the end of war, or prolong it?

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 01:29 PM PST

Henry Kissinger allegedly said of the Iran-Iraq war that raged so bloodily in the 1980s that "it's too bad they both can't lose."

Ethiopia makes help difficult for world donors advocating civil society, rights

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 01:18 PM PST

Of the many outreach programs run here by Germany's Heinrich Böll Foundation, one caused special alarm for an official new Ethiopian agency that is starting to block and restrict the promotion of civil society ideas.

Friends forever: Rodman warms to North Korean dictator

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 01:02 PM PST

Former Chicago Bulls basketball star and 1990s bad boy Dennis Rodman may not have run into K-Pop star Psy during his "basketball diplomacy" jaunt to North Korea this week, but he reportedly met secretive leader Kim Jong-un.

Syrians are receiving US aid - they just don't know it

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:57 AM PST

At his tiny hospital in Turkey just a stone's throw from the Syrian border, Qussay Said Essa says he's all but given up on American assistance. Though he knows the US has pledged money both inside and outside of Syria, he says he doesn't know of anyone who has seen American aid.

Spain's economic crisis has an unexpected victim: journalism

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:39 AM PST

In Spain's transformational economic crisis, no industry has escaped unscathed. But one of the biggest casualties is an unusual one: journalism.

Benedict XVI pledges support to successor on his last day as pope

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 10:29 AM PST

Pope Benedict XVI marks his historic last day on the throne of St. Peter today, before becoming the first to resign from the papacy in 600 years. Benedict gave his final public mass on Wednesday and today sent off his 39th and ultimate tweet from his official papal Twitter account before boarding a helicopter bound for Castel Gandolfo, where he will begin his retirement.

Egypt quietly stifles NGOs by cutting off foreign cash flow

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 09:52 AM PST

Civil society organizations in Egypt are struggling to work, and sometimes even survive, as the government begins to cut off the foreign funding they rely on.

Circling the wagons? Putin urges 'drastic upgrade' to Russia's military

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 09:11 AM PST

In a speech to Russia's top military brass, President Vladimir Putin has urged them to make a "drastic upgrade" to Russia's armed forces within the next five years to counter a series of emerging external threats and what he described as "systematic attempts to undermine the balance of power" by the United States.

10 quotes about 'People Making a Difference'

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 08:49 AM PST

Ever wonder how you can help create positive change? Here is advice from 10 outstanding people whose lives made a difference in the world.

Iran hails 'softer' and 'smarter' approach to its nuclear program

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 06:39 AM PST

Talks on Iran's nuclear program made unexpected progress in Kazakhstan, reaching what Iran called a potential "turning point" to limit its most sensitive nuclear work in exchange for modest sanctions relief.

Pakistan textbooks raise debate about 'curriculum of hate'

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 06:24 AM PST

In a public school located just outside the capital, a classroom of ninth-graders follows quietly along in their history textbooks as their teacher reads out loud about what happened shortly after the creation of Pakistan in 1947:

US will send nonlethal aid directly to Syrian rebels

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 05:54 AM PST

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