2013年3月28日星期四

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North readies rockets after U.S. flies stealth bombers over South

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 04:18 PM PDT

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un looks at the latest combat and technical equipments, made by unit 1501 of the Korean People's Army, during his visit to the unitBy David Chance and Phil Stewart SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea put its rocket units on standby on Friday to attack U.S. military bases in South Korea and the Pacific, after the United States flew two nuclear-capable stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a rare show of force. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signed off on the order at a midnight meeting of top generals and "judged the time has come to settle accounts with the U.S. imperialists in view of the prevailing situation", official KCNA news agency said. ...


Mortar kills 15 at Damascus University, Syria says

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 01:16 PM PDT

A view shows debris and blood after mortar bombs landed on the canteen of Damascus University's College of ArchitectureBy Oliver Holmes and Hamdi Istanbullu BEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Fifteen Syrian students were killed when rebel mortar shells hit a Damascus University canteen on Thursday, state-run news agency SANA said, as attacks intensified in the center of the capital. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition monitoring group, said a mortar killed 13 people at the university, without saying who fired the bombs. Other activists confirmed the attack but no opposition group has denied or claimed responsibility. ...


Attempt to end Italy crisis stalls, president mulls next move

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 01:57 PM PDT

Italy's PD leader Pierluigi Bersani speaks during a news conference following a meeting with Italian President Napolitano at the Quirinale Presidential palace in RomeBy James Mackenzie and Barry Moody ROME (Reuters) - Center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani has failed in his attempt to find a way out of Italy's political deadlock and President Giorgio Napolitano will now seek another solution, the president's palace said on Thursday. Bersani reported back to Napolitano on Thursday night after being given a mandate almost a week ago to see if he could muster enough support to form a government after the inconclusive election in February. ...


South Sudan says 150 killed in battle with rebels

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 04:34 PM PDT

South Sudan's Information Minister Marial Benjamin addresses a news conference in NairobiJUBA (Reuters) - More than 150 people have been killed in a battle between South Sudan's army and insurgents in the eastern Jonglei state, officials said on Thursday. The African country's army earlier this month launched an offensive against rebels led by David Yau Yau in Jonglei where the government hopes to search for oil with the help of France's Total. Since winning independence from Sudan in July 2011, South Sudan has been struggling to impose its authority across vast swathes of territory bristling with weapons after decades of civil war with Khartoum. ...


South Africa's Mandela "responding positively" to treatment

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Members of the media are seen outside the One Military Hospital, which former South African President Mandela was previously admitted, in PretoriaBy Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela is "responding positively" to treatment for a recurring lung infection after being admitted to hospital overnight, the government said on Thursday. "He remains under treatment and observation in hospital," it added in a statement, without giving further details about the health of the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader. ...


Spy who foiled jet bomb plot to be Britain's intelligence chief

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 03:25 PM PDT

Andrew Parker, the newly appointed Director General of MI5, is seen in this undated handout photograph provided by MI5 in LondonBy Peter Griffiths LONDON (Reuters) - A British counterspy who helped to thwart an al Qaeda plot to blow up planes with explosives hidden in soft drink bottles and led the response to the 2005 London transport bombings will be the new head of Britain's domestic intelligence agency, the U.K. government said on Thursday. Andrew Parker has three decades' experience at the Security Service, known as MI5, countering Islamist militants, violent Irish republicans and organized criminals. He has been deputy chief since 2007, and once served as a British security liaison in the United States. ...


Iran, North Korea, Syria cause trouble for U.N. arms treaty

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 03:46 PM PDT

The United Nations logo is displayed on a door at U.N. headquarters in New YorkBy Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran, Syria and North Korea on Friday objected to the adoption of the first international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade, complaining that it fails to ban weapons sales to rebel groups. Peter Woolcott of Australia, the president of the U.N. Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, adjourned the final session of the 10-day meeting to hold last-minute consultations with the dissenting delegates in an attempt to persuade them to join the consensus needed to approve the draft treaty. U.N. ...


Beleaguered Hollande to reach out to nation on TV

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 11:41 AM PDT

France's President Hollande and his companion Valerie Trierweiler attend the annual Representative Council of France's Jewish Associations dinner at the Pavillon d'Armenonville in ParisBy Catherine Bremer PARIS (Reuters) - With his approval ratings and most of his economic pledges in tatters, French President Francois Hollande will try to convince a disillusioned nation on television on Thursday to keep faith in him to restore the economy to health. Hollande will be grilled in a 45-minute interview on France 2 television, his first such appearance in several months, in a studio whose backdrop and lighting have been prepared by his media team to create a somber mood. ...


U.S. debates how severely to penalize Russia in human rights spat

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Flowers are pictured on the grave of anti-corruption lawyer Magnitsky at the Preobrazhensky cemetery in MoscowBy Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a controversy underscoring continued stresses in U.S.-Russia relations, Obama administration officials are debating how many Russian officials to ban from the United States under a new law meant to penalize Moscow for alleged human rights abuses. The debate's outcome, expected in about two weeks, is likely to illustrate how President Barack Obama will handle what critics say is a crackdown on dissent in Russia and set the tone for Washington-Moscow relations in the president's second term. ...


Analysis: Gay marriage rights may carry bigger U.S. tax burden for some

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 03:48 PM PDT

Two bride figurines adorn the top of a wedding cake during an illegal same-sex wedding ceremony in central MelbourneBy Kim Dixon and Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a federal law defining marriage as between a man and woman, the newfound rights for gay married couples may bear something not so welcome - a bigger tax burden. That's because with equality, gay couples will face the same tax woes of many heterosexual couples with similar incomes, including the tax hit known in America as the marriage penalty. ...


SAfrica: Mandela responds positively to treatment

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 11:22 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 17, 2010 file photo, former South African President Nelson Mandela leaves the chapel after attending the funeral of his great-granddaughter Zenani Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa. The South African presidency says Nelson Mandela was re-admitted to hospital with a recurrence of a lung infection Thursday March 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko, Pool, File)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela was back in the hospital for the third time in four months Thursday, and the 94-year-old former South African president was reported to be responding well to treatment for a chronic lung infection.


South Sudan military says 163 killed in clashes

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 01:57 PM PDT

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A battle between South Sudan soldiers and rebels allegedly backed by neighboring Sudan killed 163 people, most of them rebels, government officials said Thursday.

Pope washes feet of young detainees in ritual

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 03:20 PM PDT

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of a dozen inmates, including two young women, at a juvenile detention center in a surprising departure from church rules that restrict the Holy Thursday ritual to men.

US-Russian crew blasts off for space station

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 02:13 PM PDT

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-08M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Friday, March 29, 2013. The Russian rocket carries Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin, Pavel Vinogradov and U.S. astronaut Christopher Cassidy. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man crew blasted off Friday from a launch pad in the steppes of Kazakhstan, for the first time taking a shorter path to the International Space Station.


US sends B-2s to South Korea for military drills

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 10:35 AM PDT

U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber, left, flies over near Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 28, 2013. A day after shutting down a key military hotline, Pyongyang instead used indirect communications with Seoul to allow South Koreans to cross the heavily armed border and work at a factory complex that is the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Lee Jung-hun, Yonhap) KOREA OUTSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In a show of force following weeks of North Korean bluster, the U.S. on Thursday took the unprecedented step of announcing that two of its nuclear-capable B-2 bombers joined joint military drills with South Korea, dropping dummy munitions on an island range.


Mortar shells strike Damascus, killing at least 10

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 12:54 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, plastic tables and chairs turned upside down, are seen on the floor of the open-air cafeteria at Damascus University in the central Baramkeh district, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, March 28, 2013. Mortar shells slammed into a cafeteria at Damascus University, killing several people and wounding scores, according to state media and an official. It was the deadliest in a string of such attacks on President Bashar Assad's seat of power, state media and an official said. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — Mortar shells crashed into an outdoor cafe at Damascus University on Thursday, killing at least 10 students in the deadliest of a rising number of mortar attacks in the heart of the Syrian capital.


Iran, NKorea, Syria block arms trade treaty

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 04:21 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran, North Korea and Syria blocked adoption Thursday of a U.N. treaty that would regulate the multibillion-dollar international arms trade which required agreement by all 193 U.N. member states.

France to tax companies 75 pct on $1.3M salaries

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 03:16 PM PDT

French people watch a live broadcast television debate with French President Francois Hollande, in a bar in a village of La Bastide Clairence, southwestern France, Thursday, March 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande may have finally found a way to tax the really rich: by making their companies pay.


Afghan villagers flee their homes, blame US drones

Posted: 27 Mar 2013 11:19 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, March 19, 2013 photo, Afghan men sit among the debris of their destroyed school in the village of Budyali, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. Taliban militants attacked the nearby district headquarters in July 2011, then took refuge in the school. The Afghan National Army requested help from coalition forces, who responded with drones, fighter jets and rockets, leaving the school destroyed, according to village elders. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)KHALIS FAMILY VILLAGE, Afghanistan (AP) — Barely able to walk even with a cane, Ghulam Rasool says he padlocked his front door, handed over the keys and his three cows to a neighbor and fled his mountain home in the middle of the night to escape relentless airstrikes from U.S. drones targeting militants in this remote corner of Afghanistan.


Pistorius allowed to leave SAfrica with conditions

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 11:48 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2013 file photo, Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius stands during his bail hearing at the magistrate court in Pretoria, South Africa A judge in South Africa says Pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend, can leave South Africa to compete in international competition, with conditions. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius could compete at this year's world championships after a South African judge eased his bail restrictions and ruled Thursday that the athlete, who faces a murder trial for the shooting death of his girlfriend, can travel overseas to run.


Iran's support for Syria still appears strong - but is it hedging its bets?

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 11:19 AM PDT

When the Arab League handed Syria's long-vacant seat to the Syrian opposition on March 26 and endorsed military aid for anti-regime rebels, the first and loudest complaints came from Iran.

Cypriot banks reopen their doors to an angry, but orderly, clientele

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 10:21 AM PDT

Cypriots expressed fury and frustration – but confounded predictions of chaos and even violence – as they formed orderly queues on Thursday to enter the country's banks, which reopened after being closed for nearly two weeks by a financial crisis that has shaken the foundations of the European Union and its common currency.

Islamist militancy quietly makes inroads in post-revolution Tunisia

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 09:43 AM PDT

One night last December, national guardsmen burst into the hospital emergency room in this mountain town leading a young man, handcuffed and shot through the right buttock.

In the wee hours, Putin orders impromptu Russian war games

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 08:57 AM PDT

President Vladimir Putin has surprised Russian military leaders by issuing a snap order to initiate immediate Black Sea war games – which experts say is a sign that the country's armed forces are becoming capable of defending the country on, literally, a moment's notice.

Too much of a good thing? Palestinians realize downsides of foreign aid boom

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 08:04 AM PDT

Luay Abdel Rafah was unconcerned with President Obama's visit to nearby Bethlehem last Friday, or by the announcement that the United States would unblock $500 million in US funds for the Palestinian government. He was busy tending to the last organic radish, onion, and lettuce crops of the season in a rooftop permaculture garden above the congested Dheisheh Refugee Camp.

Pakistan: Afghanistan 'overreacting' in pulling out of military visit

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 07:01 AM PDT

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Why is the US shifting its missile defense out of Europe?

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 06:38 AM PDT

Shooting down incoming missiles is notoriously difficult, despite rosy claims of success. But the potential for it both soothes populations and riles governments. Here's an update.

China takes aim at Apple. Why?

Posted: 28 Mar 2013 06:20 AM PDT

The state-owned Chinese media have gone into full William Tell mode this week, taking aim at Apple in a string of angry and critical articles accusing the US giant of multiple sins.

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