2013年4月11日星期四

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Pentagon says North Korea can likely launch nuclear missile

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 04:23 PM PDT

Rocket fired during drill of drones assaulting targets and a firing drill of flak rocket destroying cruise missiles in an undisclosed location in this KCNA picture, in PyongyangBy David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pentagon spy agency concluded for the first time that North Korea likely has the ability to launch nuclear-armed missiles, illustrating the high stakes surrounding the escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula. A study dated last month by the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency reckoned with "moderate confidence" that Pyongyang is able to launch nuclear-armed ballistic missiles but the weapons would probably be unreliable, officials said on Thursday. ...


Senators push for military aid for Syrian rebels

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 03:36 PM PDT

U.S. Senator John McCain speaks during a news conference next to with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse after his meeting with Libyan officials in TripoliBy Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators, including some of President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats, pushed the White House on Thursday to shift its policy and provide lethal military assistance to rebels waging a civil war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It is time for Washington to do more to oust Assad and end a two-year conflict in which more than 70,000 people have been killed and millions displaced, they said at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sentiment is growing in the United States and internationally that more should be done in Syria. ...


U.S. seeks tough Chinese stance on North Korea as Kerry heads to Seoul

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 04:19 PM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry exits his government aircraft after arriving ahead of the G8 foreign ministers' meeting, at Stansted AirportBy Arshad Mohammed BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - The United States wants China to deliver a "tough" message to North Korea to rein in its nuclear program and belligerent rhetoric, a U.S. official said on Friday as Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Asia. Kerry begins a three-day visit to Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo as U.S. and South Korean officials say the nuclear-armed North appears poised to test a medium-range missile after weeks of threatening statements. ...


Exclusive: Brazil's Rousseff to make rare state visit to U.S.

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 01:23 PM PDT

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff speaks with reporters during breakfast at the Planalto Palace in BrasiliaBy Brian Winter SAO PAULO (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff will make the first formal state visit by a Brazilian leader to the United States in nearly two decades, a diplomatic breakthrough for an emerging power that has clashed with Washington but is hungry for closer ties and recognition of its growing prestige. The trip will occur later this year, likely in October, officials told Reuters on condition of anonymity because the White House has not yet announced the visit. A White House spokeswoman declined comment. ...


Italy's center-left leader denies party about to split

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 12:36 PM PDT

Italy's PD leader Bersani speaks during news conference following a meeting with Italian President Napolitano at Quirinale Presidential palace in RomeBy Massimiliano Di Giorgio and Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Democratic Party (PD) chief Pier Luigi Bersani on Thursday denied an imminent split of his center-left bloc, the largest in parliament, amid increasing criticism of his leadership during a prolonged political stalemate. The PD is divided over whether to join forces with its center-right rival Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who says a "grand coalition" is the only way to break the political impasse caused by February's inconclusive national vote. ...


U.S. targets web of companies accused of evading Iran sanctions

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 03:42 PM PDT

U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Cohen leaves after a meeting with South Korea's nuclear envoy Lim in SeoulBy Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday slapped financial penalties on an Iranian businessman, a Malaysian bank and a network of companies it accused of attempting to evade international sanctions on Iran's nuclear program through money laundering. The Treasury Department blacklisted Babak Zanjani and First Islamic Investment Bank for providing financial and other support to the National Iranian Oil Company. ...


Egyptian parliament approves revamped election law

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 10:29 AM PDT

Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi speaks during an event marking Science Day in CairoBy Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament approved a revised election law on Thursday setting rules for a parliamentary poll later this year, but opposition politicians denounced the new statute and repeated a threat to boycott the vote. The Islamist-dominated upper house will now send the text to the Supreme Constitutional Court to check the legality of the voting procedures for a new lower house. The court has 45 days to review the bill. ...


Sudan's Bashir to visit South Sudan for first time since split

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 02:59 PM PDT

Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir looks on during the opening of the Arab League summit in DohaBy Khalid Abdelaziz and Andrew Green KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will visit South Sudan on Friday for the first time since Africa's once-largest country split in 2011, raising hope the two long-time adversaries will take steps to establish peaceful co-existence. They agreed in March to resume cross-border oil flows and take steps to defuse tension that has plagued them since South Sudan's independence in July 2011 following a treaty which ended decades of civil war. ...


At least 45 die in shelling, executions in Syrian town: activists

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 10:46 AM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 45 Syrians were killed, some in cold blood, when government troops stormed the contested town of Sanamein in the southern province of Deraa, opposition activists and a monitoring group said on Thursday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said dozens of civilians, including children, were killed on Wednesday in shelling and summary executions after forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad entered Sanamein. There was no immediate comment from Syrian state officials. ...

North Korea can launch nuclear missiles, U.S. spy agency says

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 03:26 PM PDT

South Korean soldiers stand guard at an observation post near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) which separates the two Koreas in PajuBy David Alexander, Christine Kim and Narae Kim WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has the ability to launch nuclear-armed ballistic missiles, although they would likely be unreliable, a Pentagon spy agency has concluded, as the United States and South Korea kept watch on Thursday for a missile test-launch by Pyongyang. The Defense Intelligence Agency study, dated last month, appeared to be the first time the agency had reached such a conclusion. ...


North Korea hints it will soon launch a missile

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 02:42 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, April 10, 2013 photo, North Korean military officers look from a sight-seeing boat sailing on the Yalu River, the China-North Korea border river, near North Korea's town of Sinuiju, opposite to the Chinese border city of Dandong. North Korea delivered a fresh round of rhetoric Thursday with claims it had "powerful striking means" on standby for a missile launch, while Seoul and Washington speculated that the country is preparing to test a medium-range missile during upcoming national celebrations. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTPYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Hinting at a missile launch, North Korea delivered a fresh round of war rhetoric Thursday with claims it has "powerful striking means" on standby. Seoul and Washington speculated that it is preparing to test-fire a missile designed to be capable of reaching the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.


Pentagon: NKorea could launch nuclear missile

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 04:31 PM PDT

National Intelligence Director James Clapper testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 11, 2013, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. intelligence report concludes that North Korea has advanced its nuclear knowhow to the point that it could arm a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, a jarring revelation in the midst of bellicose threats from the unpredictable communist regime.


Serb suspect in shooting rampage dies

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 09:42 AM PDT

This undated photo provided by Stanica Kostadinovic shows Ljubisa Bogdanovic who, according to police, gunned down 13 people, including a baby, in a house-to-house rampage in the quiet Serbian village of Velika Ivanca Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Belgrade emergency hospital spokeswoman Nada Macura said Bogdanovic, 60, used a handgun in the shooting spree at five houses, then tried to kill himself and his wife. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Stanica Kostadinovic)BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The Serbian veteran suspected of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage and then turning the gun on himself and his wife died Thursday, hospital officials said.


Bitcoin bursts: Hacker currency gets wild ride

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 12:40 PM PDT

In this April 3, 2013 photo, Mike Caldwell, a 35-year-old software engineer, holds a 25 Bitcoin token at his shop in Sandy, Utah. Caldwell mints physical versions of bitcoins, cranking out homemade tokens with codes protected by tamper-proof holographic seals, a retro-futuristic kind of prepaid cash. With up to 70,000 transactions each day over the past month, bitcoins have been propelled from the world of Internet oddities to the cusp of mainstream use, a remarkable breakthrough for a currency which made its online debut only four years ago. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)LONDON (AP) — It's a promising form of electronic cash free from central bankers and beloved by hackers. It — Bitcoin — may also be in trouble, registering catastrophic losses that have sent speculators scrambling.


Canada minister to oversee probe to teen's suicide

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 03:00 PM PDT

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Canada is looking further into the case of a teenage girl who hanged herself after an alleged rape and months of bullying, after a photo said to be of the assault was shared online and no charges were filed against four teenage boys being investigated.

Syrian troops launch counterattack on south

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 02:25 PM PDT

This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Revolution Against Assad's Regime, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian man putting an injured woman into a car after being shot by a Syrian Army sniper, in the neighborhood of Bustan Al-Qasr in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, April. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Aleppo Revolution Against Assad's Regime)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive in the south, capturing a town and killing at least 45 people including women and children, opposition activists said Thursday.


France's top rabbi takes leave amid scandal

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 08:56 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 12, 2012 file photo, France's Grand Rabbi Gilles Bernheim talks to the media after his meeting with French President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace in Paris. French Jewish leaders were holding an urgent meeting to discuss the career fate of France's chief rabbi Bernheim after he acknowledged PARIS (AP) — France's top rabbi announced Thursday he is taking leave from his post, hoping to end a scandal that has unsettled the Jewish community after he acknowledged "borrowing" other people's work and lying about his educational pedigree.


Outside Caracas, Chavismo's unfulfilled promises

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 02:13 PM PDT

In this April 8, 2013 photo, an image of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez is posted on an iron fence next to a government construction project of would be homes in Valencia, Venezuela. Outside Venezuela's capital, power outages, food shortages and unfinished projects abound; important factors heading into Sunday's election to replace socialist Chavez, who died last month after a long battle with cancer. An estimated 2 million of Venezuela's country's nearly 30 million people lack permanent homes, and one of Chavez's anti-poverty "missions" builds them. But it's been slow going. The government says it has built 370,500 homes and apartments over the past two years, and more than 3 million people applied for them. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)VALENCIA, Venezuela (AP) — It's just after nightfall and the power is out again in untold hundreds of thousands — probably millions — of Venezuelan homes. If the government knows how many, it's not saying. It hasn't issued reports on problems in the public power grid since 2010.


Maduro takes narrowing lead into Sunday vote

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 02:44 PM PDT

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's acting President Nicolas Maduro waves to the crowd as he campaigns in Cabimas, Zulia state, Venezuela, Thursday, April 11, 2013. Maduro, late President Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor, is running for president against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles on April 14. (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — It's the final day of campaigning for Sunday's election to replace Hugo Chavez and the streets of Caracas are flooded with red-shirted backers of the man the recently deceased Venezuelan president tapped to succeed him.


French judge to rule if Hopi masks can be sold

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 12:09 PM PDT

PARIS (AP) — Is there such a thing as too sacred to sell? That's the question a French judge could answer Friday in a potentially landmark decision in Paris on whether dozens of Native American tribal masks can go up for auction.

Madonna loses VIP status in Malawi

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 02:44 PM PDT

Celebrity jaunts to Africa are usually carefully staged PR projects: posing with school children at a ribbon cutting here, shaking hands with refugees there.

British Euroskeptics claim Thatcher, but was she in their camp?

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 11:13 AM PDT

Today, the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is an icon of the euroskeptic right, whose antipathy to everything European has emboldened not only generations of Conservative Party lawmakers, but also the United Kingdom Independence Party now nipping at its heels.

Hot idea to keep African farmers planting harvests 100,000th participant

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 11:09 AM PDT

An innovative insurance policy that helps protect East African farmers against failed rains or pest-swarms that would eat their crops now has its 100,000th policyholder – growing remarkably from fewer than 200 participants four years ago.

Death penalty: Amnesty International says global decline in executions stalls

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 09:06 AM PDT

The number of executions carried out globally has dropped steadily over the past decade, but that downward momentum stalled in 2012, according to a report released Wednesday by Amnesty International.

Think Chávez was paranoid? Venezuela's Maduro warns of US-funded biker gangs.

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 07:48 AM PDT

Since the day of Hugo Chávez's death, acting president and presidential candidate Nicolás Maduro and other top government officials have put forward a steady flow of conspiracy theories unmatched by any period in the Chávez era, eight by our count.

Friend or frenemy? For China, key issue is how US really views it

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 07:14 AM PDT

On his first visit to Beijing as US secretary of State, John Kerry may find himself this weekend mostly doing a fireman's work in a bid to dampen the Korean crisis.

Foreign ministers struggle to find common ground on Syrian conflict

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 06:25 AM PDT

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Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra make it official

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 06:11 AM PDT

In an announcement that surprised few, Al Qaeda in Iraq has officially incorporated the Syrian militant group Jabhat al-Nusra. With the merger, the two groups will know be known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

UN arms trade treaty: Will it receive US Senate approval?

Posted: 11 Apr 2013 05:34 AM PDT

The First International Treaty governing the multibillion-dollar arms trade was passed overwhelmingly by the UN General Assembly April 2, after seven years of talks. Supporters say it will help curb the flow of weapons to human rights abusers, but its prospects for passage in the US Senate are dim. Here's why.

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