2013年4月10日星期三

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South Korea says North likely to test-launch missile

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 02:36 PM PDT

By Daum Kim and Phil Stewart SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Korea said on Wednesday there was a "very high" probability that North Korea, after weeks of threats of war, would test-launch a medium-range missile at any time as a show of strength. Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said South Korea had asked China and Russia to intercede with the North to ease tension that has mounted since the U.N. Security Council imposed fresh sanctions on North Korea after its third nuclear arms test in February. In Washington, U.S. ...

Syria, North Korea top G8 meeting in London

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 11:10 AM PDT

Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague walks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the Foreign Office in LondonBy Natalie Huet and Arshad Mohammed LONDON (Reuters) - Western and Middle Eastern nations trying to help the Syrian opposition in its war against President Bashar al-Assad will meet in Turkey on April 20, a U.S. official said on Wednesday as G8 foreign ministers gathered in London for a summit. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will attend the meeting of the so-called Friends of Syria "core group" in Istanbul, said the official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity. ...


U.N. talks with Syria on chemical arms probe at "impasse"

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 03:37 PM PDT

Damaged vehicles fill a street lined with damaged buildings in Aleppo's Salaheddine districtBy Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Discussions between the United Nations and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government on a possible investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria have reached an impasse, U.N. diplomats said on Wednesday. Syria and the United Nations have been exchanging letters for weeks but the two sides are far from agreement on how the investigation should be run, diplomats said on condition of anonymity. Syria has asked the United Nations only to investigate what it says was a rebel chemical attack near Aleppo last month. ...


Syria's Nusra rebels say support Qaeda's Zawahri

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 11:14 AM PDT

Fighters from Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra watch snipers on the front line during a fight with Syria forces loyal to President Bashar al Assad in AleppoBy Mariam Karouny BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's rebel al-Nusra Front, one of the most effective forces fighting President Bashar al-Assad, pledged allegiance to al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in an audio recording posted on the Internet on Wednesday. Abu Mohammad al-Golani also appeared to distance his group from a recently announced merger with al Qaeda's Iraq branch. The group's allegiance to Zawahri would trouble Western nations which support the revolt against Assad and will dismay Syrian moderates who want a civil state but fear the rise of extreme Islamist militancy. ...


Venezuela's opposition denies it would scrap Chavez welfare aid

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 05:02 PM PDT

Venezuelan opposition candidate Capriles greets supporters in front of campaign poster of Venezuela's acting president and presidential candidate Maduro during campaign rally in MeridaBy Andrew Cawthorne and Mario Naranjo CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles denied on Wednesday accusations from acting President Nicolas Maduro that he would scrap popular welfare policies if he wins Sunday's election. Social "missions" in poor areas, from subsidized groceries to Cuban-staffed medical clinics, were a mainstay of the late Hugo Chavez's 14-year socialist rule and kept his popularity high. ...


Italy center-left tensions rise as Renzi cries foul

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 01:38 PM PDT

Italian PD (Democratic Party) leader Bersani speakes with mayor of Florence Renzi during a political rally in FlorenceBy James Mackenzie ROME (Reuters) - Italy's center-left alliance showed new signs of division on Wednesday after the chief rival to Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani denounced the party hierarchy as efforts to form a government enter a critical phase. The deadlock has left the euro zone's third-largest economy with only a caretaker government in charge as it slides further into a recession that many analysts expect will last until at least next year. ...


Mali's leading party picks candidate for July presidential poll

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 03:55 PM PDT

Mali's interim President Traore lays a wreath in front of a monument on Martyrs' Day in BamakoBAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's largest political party, Adema-PASJ, has chosen Dramane Dembele, a 46-year-old mining engineer, as its candidate in a July presidential election aimed at ending a tumultuous political transition in the West African nation. Once an example of democracy in what is known as West Africa's "coup belt", Mali has been mired in turmoil since March 2012, prompted by a Tuareg rebellion, an occupation of the north of the country by Islamic militants and a military coup. ...


Egypt's Mursi drops complaints against journalists

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:28 PM PDT

Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi arrives at King Shaka Airport in the coastal city of Durban during his visit to South Africa for the 5th BRICS SummitCAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has ordered the withdrawal of legal complaints filed by the presidency against journalists, in a move that appeared aimed at fending off accusations of a crackdown on dissent by the Islamist-led authorities. Mursi withdrew the complaints out of respect for freedom of expression, presidential spokesman Ehab Fahmy said. Mursi is under international pressure to work for consensus and stability while Egypt seeks aid from the International Monetary Fund to ease an economic crisis. ...


Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad offers resignation: sources

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 02:47 PM PDT

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad attends an opening reception of CEAPAD in TokyoBy Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad offered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday following a rift between the two men over government policy, two sources told Reuters. Abbas was due to return to the occupied West Bank from Jordan on Thursday, and it was not immediately clear whether he would accept the resignation of the U.S.-educated economist. A spokeswoman at Fayyad's office declined to comment on the reports, which followed persistent rumors that Abbas wanted to sack Fayyad following internal political wrangling. ...


Yemen president removes key officer in army shakeup: TV

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 01:54 PM PDT

File photo of Brigadier General Ahmed Saleh, the son of Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah SalehBy Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's president removed the commander of the elite Republican Guard, a powerful political foe, from the military on Wednesday, state television reported, in an apparent move to unify the divided armed forces under his own control. The television read out orders by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi appointing Brigadier General Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is the son of Hadi's predecessor, former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. ...


US couple in jail after fleeing to Cuba with kids

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 02:38 PM PDT

This framegrabbed image provided by Baynews9 shows Joshua Michael Hakken being processed for booking into the Hillsbourgh County Jail early Wednesday morning April 10, 2013. The Florida couple accused of kidnapping their two young sons and fleeing by boat to Havana were handed over to the United States, and were booked into a Florida jail, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Baynews9, Pool)TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Joshua and Sharyn Hakken seemed to have a charmed life, doting on their two young boys, buying a comfortable home and building successful careers as engineers. It all derailed last year when police in Louisiana found the family inside a hotel room with drugs, weapons and promises from the parents to take "a journey to the Armageddon."


No panic in NKorea despite talk of missile test

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 11:13 AM PDT

North Korean women pass by roadside propaganda depicting a North Korean soldier killing a U.S. soldier in Pyongyang, North Korea on Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The poster reads in Korean "Life or Death Battle. Merciless Punishment to U.S. Imperialists and Puppet Traitors." (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — As the world braced for a provocative missile launch by North Korea, with newscasts worldwide playing up tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the center of the storm was strangely calm.


Liberal Jews see a victory in proposed prayer area

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 12:59 PM PDT

A man holds up a Torah scroll as women stand across a fence at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's old city, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The rabbi of Judaism's holiest prayer site has backed a proposal to establish a prayer section for mixed-gender worship, a groundbreaking motion that could end a decades-old fight against Orthodox monopoly of the area. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities have proposed establishing a new section at the Western Wall where men and women can pray together, a groundbreaking initiative that would mark a significant victory by liberal streams of Judaism in their long quest for recognition.


Tensions emerge in al-Qaida alliance in Syria

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 01:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows rebels from al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, as they sit on a truck full of ammunition, at Taftanaz air base, that was captured by the rebels, in Idlib province, northern Syria. Al-Qaida's branch in Iraq said it has merged with Syria's extremist Jabhat al-Nusra, a move that shows the rising confidence of radicals within the Syrian rebel movement and is likely to trigger renewed fears among its international backers. Arabic on the flag, right, reads, "There is no God only God and Mohamad his prophet, Jabhat al-Nusra." (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Tensions emerged Wednesday in a newly announced alliance between al-Qaida's franchise in Iraq and the most powerful Syrian rebel faction, which said it was not consulted before the Iraqi group announced their merger and only heard about it through the media.


Putin on Finland's criminal blacklist by 'mistake'

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:24 AM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic during a meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin, Pool)HELSINKI (AP) — Vladimir Putin, banned in Finland?


Gay attack victim in France becomes cause celebre

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 04:28 PM PDT

Wilfred de Bruijn, a Dutch citizen who lives and works as a librarian in Paris, France, gestures during an interview with The Associated Press at his apartment in Paris, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. De Bruijn was beaten unconscious near his home early Sunday morning in central Paris, sustaining 5 fractures in his head and face, abrasions and a lost tooth. After posting a photo of his wounds on Facebook, the image went viral and de Bruijn has become a national cause celebre of the pro-gay campaign. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)PARIS (AP) — The shocking photo of a homophobic attack victim in Paris that went viral on social media this week and caused the French interior minister to weigh in was used as an emblem in a pro-gay rally Wednesday evening.


Yemen president orders military shakeup

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 02:26 PM PDT

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's president removed his predecessor's son and nephews from powerful security posts on Wednesday in the most dramatic step yet in sidelining old regime figures, according to the nation's state-run media.

IVF pioneer Robert Edwards dead at age 87

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 10:49 AM PDT

FILE- The British pioneer of IVF treatment, Professor Robert Edwards sits with two of his 'test-tube-babies', Sophie and Jack Emery who celebrate their second birthday in London in this file photo dated Monday July 20, 1998. The Nobel prize winner for medicine, Edwards who was a pioneer of in-vitro fertilization, which became known as test tube babies, has died aged 87, it is announced Wednesday April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)LONDON (AP) — Robert Edwards, a Nobel laureate from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilization research led to the first test tube baby and has since brought millions of people into the world, died Wednesday at age 87.


House committee approves pro-business cyber bill

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 03:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2012 file photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., left, and the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger, D-Md., participate in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. House lawmakers expected to finalize legislation Wednesday that would give the federal government a broader role helping banks, manufacturers and other businesses protect themselves against cyberattacks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel voted overwhelmingly Wednesday in favor of a new data-sharing program that would give the federal government a broader role in helping banks, manufacturers and other businesses protect themselves against cyberattacks.


SKorea says NKorea behind computer crash in March

Posted: 09 Apr 2013 11:53 PM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea was responsible for a cyberattack that shut down tens of thousands of computers and servers at South Korean broadcasters and banks last month, officials in Seoul said Wednesday, noting that an initial investigation pointed to a military-run spy agency as the culprit.

15 years after Good Friday Agreement, an imperfect peace in Northern Ireland

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 01:56 PM PDT

Fifteen years ago today, one of Europe's longest and seemingly most intractable conflicts came to an end. On April 10, 1998, Irish republicans and unionists signed the Good Friday Agreement, a peace accord that put a formal end to the "Troubles," a slow-burn civil war that had been going on in earnest since 1969. Well, in fact, they didn't sign it. Nothing was actually signed on paper by the opposing sides. But they did agree to it, marking the end of the beginning of the Irish peace process. ...

Business before politics: Merchants set up court to handle Israeli-Palestinian trade disputes

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 01:39 PM PDT

Secretary of State John Kerry has put Palestinian economic growth high on the agenda with his recent shuttle diplomacy to restart peace talks, but a group of Israeli and Palestinian business leaders are a couple steps ahead of him.

Calm in Guam as islanders doubt North Korean missile aim

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 09:01 AM PDT

Doomsday missives aside, the beat goes on in Guam.

'The Fatwa Show': Moroccan journalist tells clerics to just have some fun

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 09:06 AM PDT

A woman places her foot on the table and Sheikh Muslim Jiddan gingerly lifts the hem of her robe – then drops it again in shock at an impossibly hairy calf.

Fashionable and ready to fight

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 08:32 AM PDT

This is one of the first posts of a new regular feature from the Monitor's Jerusalem bureau chief, Christa Case Bryant. Read the introductory post for more explanation.

North Korea threat: How one island is taking Kim Jong-un more seriously

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 07:57 AM PDT

For six decades, the residents of South Korea's Baengnyeong Island have practically stared down the barrels of North Korea's artillery. Located just 10 miles off the North's Yellow Sea coast, this South Korean island is at the forefront of what some observers say could be the next military flashpoint.

Is birth the 'old-fashioned way' on its way out in Mexico?

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 08:03 AM PDT

Is birth the old-fashioned way on its way out in Mexico?

North Korea threat: Is it cooling?

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 07:06 AM PDT

North Korea picked Wednesday April 10 as the day by which foreign embassies in Pyongyang should submit evacuation plans, foreigners should leave South Korea, and South Korean workers should leave the now barely functioning Kaesong Industrial Complex, hinting at a provocation that could bring the area into a state of conflict.

Just how bothered is Beijing about North Korea?

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 06:19 AM PDT

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Finishing school, Chinese style

Posted: 10 Apr 2013 06:10 AM PDT

How's this for a Chinese start-up? Finishing school.

Why Kerry could succeed at securing Israeli-Palestinian peace

Posted: 09 Apr 2013 02:27 PM PDT

Secretary of State John Kerry's focus on restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, underscored by his third visit to Jerusalem in two weeks, marks what some see as perhaps the most promising American diplomatic efforts here since 2000.

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