2013年3月10日星期日

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Falklands votes in sovereignty referendum rejected by Argentina

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Falkland islanders ride their horses during a parade in StanleySTANLEY, Falkland Islands (Reuters) - Residents of the Falkland Islands started voting on Sunday in a sovereignty referendum that seeks to counter Argentina's increasingly assertive claim over the British-ruled territory. Diplomatic tension between Britain and Argentina has flared up after more than three decades since they went to war over the South Atlantic archipelago, and that has unsettled some of the roughly 2,500 islanders. ...


Magnitude 6.7 quake strikes off Papua New Guinea: USGS

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 04:19 PM PDT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.7 earthquake has struck off Papua New Guinea's north coast city of Lae, the United States Geological Survey said on Monday. The quake, about 150 km (95 miles) east of Lae, was initially recorded at a depth of about 20 km, although that figure was later revised to 87 km. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no Pacific-wide tsunami threat. (Editing by Paul Tait)

Syrian rebels pierce Assad's siege lines in Homs: opposition

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 03:49 PM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighters stand by their weapons in the besieged area of HomsAMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels broke through government lines to ease a siege of their positions in the strategic central city of Homs on Sunday despite coming under fierce aerial bombardment, opposition campaigners said. The communally mixed city of Sunni Muslims and Alawites, the minority sect that has dominated Syria since the 1960s, has emerged as a major battleground in the two-year-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The bloodshed has claimed about 70,000 lives so far, according to the United Nations. ...


Afghanistan's Karzai blasts U.S., marring Hagel visit

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 01:41 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai sits during an event to mark International Women's Day in KabulKABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai ratcheted up his criticism of the United States on Sunday, marring a debut visit by the new U.S. defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, and highlighting tensions that could undermine Washington's strategy to wind down the unpopular war. A day after two Taliban bombings killed 17 people, Karzai accused the United States and the Taliban of colluding to convince Afghans that foreign forces were needed beyond 2014, when NATO is set to wrap up its combat mission and most troops withdraw. ...


Small bomb explodes at Greek courier firm in Athens

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 02:41 PM PDT

Policemen search the area of a bomb blast minutes after an explosion in central AthensATHENS (Reuters) - A small makeshift bomb exploded at a Greek courier company in Athens on Sunday, smashing windows but causing no injuries, a Reuters witness and police officials said. The explosion damaged some vehicles parked outside the local firm and caused minor damage to several neighboring buildings. Police officials said the bomb consisted of at least five gas canisters and some explosive material. Gas canister attacks against businesses and police are frequent in Greece. ...


Twenty bodies turn up in Aleppo's "river of martyrs"

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 01:26 PM PDT

Residents attempt to identify bodies found along a river, at a school used as a field hospital in Aleppo's Bustan al-QasrAMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian opposition campaigners said at least 20 bodies of young men shot by security forces were found on Sunday in a small waterway running through the contested city of Aleppo. It was the largest number of bodies lifted in a single day from what became known as "the river of martyrs", after 65 bodies turned up in late January. An average of several bodies a day have been appearing in the river since, several activists in the northern city, which is near Turkey, told Reuters. ...


Italy and Greece confirm hostages killed in Nigeria

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 01:14 PM PDT

ROME/ATHENS (Reuters) - Seven foreign hostages kidnapped last month by a Nigerian Islamist group from a construction company compound have been killed, the Italian and Greek foreign ministries said on Sunday. The al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansaru announced on Saturday that it had killed the hostages seized on February 7 in the northern state of Bauchi because of attempts by Nigerian and British forces to free them. It published grainy photos purporting to show the bodies of a Briton, an Italian, a Greek and four Lebanese workers snatched from the Lebanese firm Setraco's premises. ...

Khmer Rouge genocide: justice delayed may be justice denied

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 03:03 PM PDT

A tourist looks at portraits of victims killed in the former Khmer Rouge regime's S-21 security prison, presently known as Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, in Phnom PenhPHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Under Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge, Meas Mut and Sou Met, now two-star generals in their 80s, are said to have hauled prisoners to S-21, a torture center that symbolized the horrors of a regime that wiped out nearly a quarter of the population. Another soldier, Im Chaem, now a Buddhist nun in her 60s, is suspected of running a forced labor camp where fellow Khmer Rouge cadres Ta An and Ta Tith oversaw massacres in the "Killing Fields" revolution of 1975-79. ...


Grillo's party to tell Italy president it can lead government

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 02:29 PM PDT

Five-Star Movement leader and comedian Grillo gestures during a rally in TurinROME (Reuters) - Beppe Grillo's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement said on Sunday it wanted to lead Italy's next government following last month's inconclusive election and reiterated that it would not agree to an alliance with any other party. The movement's newly elected parliamentary leaders told reporters it would make this position clear to President Giorgio Napolitano when he begins consultations later this month on the formation of a government. "Our proposal will be a 5-Star government," the movement's Senate leader Vito Crimi said after a meeting of its lawmakers in a Rome hotel. ...


Study: Even ancient mummies had clogged arteries

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 05:16 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Even without modern-day temptations like fast food or cigarettes, people had clogged arteries some 4,000 years ago, according to the biggest-ever hunt for the condition in mummies.

Security risks, frayed relations dog US, Afghans

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 11:42 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, left, meets with Afghanistan's Interior Minister Ghulam Mujtaba Patang at the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) headquarters in Kabul, Sunday, March 10, 2013. It is Hagel's first official trip since being sworn-in as Obama's Defense Secretary. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A series of security problems and fractured relations with Afghan leaders plagued Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's first trip here as Pentagon chief, including the Afghan president's accusations that the U.S. and the Taliban are working in concert to show that violence in the country will worsen if most coalition troops leave.


Before the conclave, horse-trading has begun

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 09:27 AM PDT

Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer arrives to celebrate mass in the Sant' Andrea al Quirinale church, in Rome, Sunday March 10, 2013. Cardinals from around the world gather this week in a conclave to elect a new pope following the stunning resignation of Benedict XVI. In the secretive world of the Vatican, there is no way to know who is in the running, and history has yielded plenty of surprises. Yet several names have come up time repeatedly as strong contenders for the job. Scherer, the Archbishop of Sao Paulo, is among those considered to have a credible shot at the papacy. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican insists that the cardinals participating in the upcoming conclave will vote their conscience, each influenced only by silent prayers and reflection. Everybody knows, however, that power plays, vested interests and Machiavellian maneuvering are all part of the game, and that the horse-trading is already under way.


Hostage killings a new, dangerous turn for Nigeria

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 02:21 PM PDT

A man reads a local newspapers with the headline 'We've killed 7 foreign hostages' on a street in Kano, Nigeria, Sunday, March. 10, 2013. The United Kingdom's military says its warplanes recently spotted in Nigeria's capital city were there to move soldiers to aid the French intervention in Mali, not to rescue kidnapped foreign hostages. The Ministry of Defense said Sunday that the planes had ferried Nigerian troops and equipment to Bamako, Mali. An Islamic extremist group in Nigeria called Ansaru partially blamed the presence of those planes as an excuse for claiming Saturday that it killed seven foreign hostages it had taken. ( AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Radical Islamic fighters killed seven foreign hostages in Nigeria, European diplomats said Sunday, making it the worst such kidnapping violence in decades for a country beset by extremist guerrilla attacks.


Christian protesters, police clash in Pakistan

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 10:55 AM PDT

Pakistani Christians chant slogans during a demonstration demanding that the government rebuild their homes after they were burned down following an alleged blasphemy incident, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, March 10, 2013. The incident in Lahore began on Friday, March 8, 2013 after a Muslim accused a Christian man of blasphemy, an offence that in Pakistan is punished by life in prison or death. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Hundreds of Christians clashed with police across Pakistan on Sunday, a day after a Muslim mob burned dozens of homes owned by members of the minority religious group in retaliation for alleged insults against Islam's Prophet Muhammad.


Captured Syrian city a test for rebel forces

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 12:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, March. 5, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man sitting on a fallen statue of former Syrian President Hafez Assad in a central square in Raqqa, Syria. Since Raqqa fell under rebel control last week, opposition fighters have posted guards at government buildings to prevent looting, brought down the price of bread and opened a telephone hotline for residents to report security problems. Raqqa is shaping up as a test case for how rebels will administer their areas. Arabic on the fallen statue reads, "tomorrow will be better." (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Since rebels seized the capital of Raqqa province in northern Syria from the government last week, they have posted guards at state buildings, returned bread prices to pre-war levels and opened a hotline that residents can phone to report security issues, anti-regime activists said Sunday.


Princess whose forbidden love gripped Sweden dies

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 04:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2005 file photo, Princess Lilian during a lunch at the city hall in Stockholm. Welsh-born Princess Lilian of Sweden, whose decades-long love story with the king's uncle was one of the better kept secrets of the royal household, has died. She was 97. The Royal Palace says Lilian died Sunday March 10, 2013 in her home in Stockholm. (AP Photo/Erhan Gzner, Scanpix, File) SWEDEN OUTSTOCKHOLM (AP) — She was one of the better kept secrets of Sweden's royal household: a commoner and divorcee whose relationship with Prince Bertil was seen as a threat to the Bernadotte dynasty.


Cardinals say Mass, seek prayers ahead of conclave

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 09:57 AM PDT

U.S. Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley arrives to his titular church of Santa Maria alla Vittoria in Rome to celebrate Mass, Sunday, March 10, 2013. Cardinals from around the world gather this week in a conclave to elect a new pope following the stunning resignation of Benedict XVI. In the secretive world of the Vatican, there is no way to know who is in the running, and history has yielded plenty of surprises. Yet several names have come up time repeatedly as strong contenders for the job. O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, is among those considered to have a credible shot at the papacy. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals took a break from maneuvering ahead of this week's papal conclave to fan out across Rome and celebrate Sunday Mass at local parishes.


Kenyan church moves past painful election history

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 08:01 AM PDT

A Kenyan woman walks through the African Inland Church in the Kibera Slum of Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday March 10, 2013, one day after Uhuru Kenyatta was declared winner in the Kenyan presidential elections. One morning in Jan. 2008, more than 200 young men armed with crude weapons stormed the Churchand seized a generator that they then set on fire. The explosion tore through the roof, creating one of the most visible scenes of post-election violence after Kenya's disputed election of 2007. The roof is reflected through a glass lectern.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Rev. Joshua Kimuyu pointed where his church floor is broken and black, a scar from an attack five years old. More than 200 young men armed with crude weapons stormed the Africa Inland Church in Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum and set a generator on fire.


Relief in South Africa as Mandela leaves hospital

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 09:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 11, 1999 file photo, South African President Nelson Mandela, is photographed in Cape Town, South Africa. Mandela, the former South African president and anti-apartheid leader, was admitted to a hospital on Saturday, March 9, 2013, for a scheduled medical check-up and doctors say there is no cause for "alarm," the president's office said. (AP Photo, File)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The building that houses South Africa's highest court, made partly with bricks from an apartheid-era prison, symbolizes what Nelson Mandela hoped his country would become, a haven of tolerance wiser for the nation's past anguish.


With Chávez gone, what do his young opponents want now? (+video)

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 01:40 PM PDT

Weeks before Hugo Chávez died, while he was holed up in a Cuban hospital with details of his condition unknown to the public, youth protesters chained themselves together in front of Cuba's embassy here, demanding answers.

Malvinas curriculum helps Argentina revive Falklands claim

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 12:04 PM PDT

In a sunny classroom in rural Argentina, a teacher stands in front of a group of primary school students in white coats.

Two prominent Saudi human rights activists receive 10 years in jail

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 10:59 AM PDT

On Saturday, Mohammed Fahd al-Qahtani and Abdullah Hamad, two political and human rights activists, were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison by a Saudi Arabian court.

Pakistan arrests members of anti-Christian mob, but convictions rare

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 09:30 AM PDT

Christians and civil society activists across Pakistan took to the roads on Sunday demanding government protection for the rising persecution of religious minority communities which make up less than five percent of the country.

Indicted abroad for crimes, Kenya's new leaders pose diplomatic dilemma

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 07:31 AM PDT

The election of Uhuru Kenyatta to be Kenya's fourth president has thrown the country's global allies into a diplomatic dilemma because of his indictments at the International Criminal Court.

Exporting Grandma? Some German elderly head abroad for nursing care

Posted: 10 Mar 2013 06:00 AM PDT

From Germany, the pull of Senior Palace's webpage is hard to resist. "Looking for a senior home to bring the autumn of your life comfortably... where your savings are going to stay intact?"

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