2013年4月20日星期六

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Insight: Pakistan cleric tries hand at politics, striking fear in Shi'ites

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 02:13 PM PDT

Radical Sunni cleric Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi addresses his supporters during his election campaign in Jhang, Punjab provinceBy Michael Georgy JHANG, Pakistan (Reuters) - When Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi greets supporters on the Pakistan election trail, he opens his pitch with the kind of promises to the poor that any other politician might make. But behind the reassuring rhetoric lies what his opponents believe is a dangerous agenda - to gain a foothold in parliament and further his designs to oppress Pakistan's Shi'ite minority. ...


Egypt's Mursi plans cabinet reshuffle

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 02:35 PM PDT

Egypt's President Mursi gives a speech at the Koerber foundation for social challenge in BerlinBy Omar Fahmy CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said on Saturday he planned to reshuffle his cabinet in a move that could help build political consensus around a $4.8 billion loan Cairo is seeking from the International Monetary Fund. Mursi's opponents have been demanding the formation of a new government to oversee parliamentary elections expected to begin later this year. The United States, a major donor to Cairo, has grown more critical of Mursi of late, listing a lack of political inclusivity as one of its concerns. ...


Merkel party loses support after female hiring quota dispute: poll

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 04:39 PM PDT

German Chancellor Merkel speaks to the media during a visit at a retirement home in MelleBERLIN (Reuters) - Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives has fallen by 2 percentage points to 39 percent after a dispute over quotas requiring companies to hire more women executives, an opinion poll published on Sunday showed. Rebel members of Merkel's centre-right coalition, including Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen, threatened to break ranks and vote with opposition parties that wanted to introduce a female quota from 2018, convinced that voluntary pledges to appoint more women have proven inadequate. ...


Syria opposition voices frustration with international backers

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:51 AM PDT

Foreign Ministers of "Friends of Syria" group attend a meeting at the Adile Sultan Palace in IstanbulBy Mariam Karouny and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrian opposition figures voiced frustration with their international backers on Saturday in the face of reluctance from some to supply the rebels with weapons and a call for them to distance themselves from extremist forces. Speaking at a meeting of the Friends of Syria in Istanbul, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Germany was skeptical about supplying weapons to the rebels but said the subject should be discussed by the European Union. ...


Bahrain F1 race to go ahead amid tensions, protests

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 02:50 PM PDT

Protesters are seen on a street after setting fire to garbage containers during clashes with riot police in Budaiya, west of ManamaBy Alexander Dziadosz MANAMA (Reuters) - Bahrain's controversial Formula One race will go ahead on Sunday despite opposition protests and street violence plaguing the island kingdom more than two years after pro-democracy protests began. Young men have battled police officers in near-nightly clashes in the Gulf Arab country - a key Western ally that hosts the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet - since protests broke out in February 2011. ...


Napolitano elected for second term as Italy president

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 01:27 PM PDT

File photo of Italian President Napolitano lifting his hat as he meets with German Chancellor Merkel for talks at the Chancellery in BerlinBy Gavin Jones and Naomi O'Leary ROME (Reuters) - The Italian parliament on Saturday re-elected 87-year-old President Giorgio Napolitano to serve a second term in an attempt to resolve the political stalemate left by February's inconclusive election. As most of parliament cheered his re-election, demonstrators protested outside. By evening the crowd had swelled as thousands of people vented anger at an outcome that was widely seen as perpetuating the grip on the country of a discredited political class and favoring centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi. ...


Greece's ruling conservatives regain narrow lead: poll

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 01:48 PM PDT

Greek PM Samaras smiles during an Economist conference in AthensATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's ruling conservatives have regained a narrow lead over anti-bailout leftists, an opinion poll published on Saturday showed. A survey by Metron Analysis for Sunday's Eleftherotypia newspaper put support for New Democracy at 18.7 percent, giving it a 0.6 percentage-point lead over the Syriza party. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's New Democracy party, which won elections in June with 29.6 percent of the vote, has been neck-and-neck with the anti-bailout Syriza in recent polls. In a previous Metron Analysis poll in March, New Democracy trailed Syriza by 0. ...


Bombs, mortars fail to stop first Iraq vote since U.S. exit

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:51 AM PDT

Employees of the IHEC count ballots at a polling station in BaghdadBy Patrick Markey BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bomb attacks and mortar fire failed to prevent Iraqis voting on Saturday in the first nationwide elections since the last U.S. troops left more than a year ago. The provincial elections will measure political parties' strength before a parliamentary election in 2014 to chose a new government in a country deeply divided along sectarian lines. A dozen small bombs exploded and mortar rounds landed near polling centers in cities north and south of the capital. Three voters and a policeman were injured by mortars in Latifiya, south of Baghdad, police said. ...


Egypt's Mubarak stays in detention despite second release order

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:25 AM PDT

Egypt's ousted President Mubarak sits inside a dock at the police academy on the outskirts of CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - A Cairo court on Saturday ordered Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak released pending a verdict on illicit gains charges, the second release order in a week, but he will remain in detention because he still faces other charges, court sources said. The appeal hearing on Saturday was held in Torah prison, to where 84-year-old Mubarak was transferred from an army hospital on Wednesday after an apparent improvement in his fragile health. ...


Earthquake kills 157, injures 5,700 in China's Sichuan

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 09:48 AM PDT

By Michael Martina YA'AN, China (Reuters) - China's worst earthquake in three years on Saturday killed at least 157 people and injured more than 5,700, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said. The magnitude 6.6 quake hit a remote mountainous area of southwestern China's Sichuan province at 8:02 a.m. (0002 GMT), close to where an earthquake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008. The quake struck in Lushan county, near the city of Ya'an, at a depth of 12 km (7.5 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said. ...

Boston bomb suspect hospitalized under heavy guard

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 03:41 PM PDT

Police officers stand near statues of former Boston Red Sox greats, from left, Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky and Dom DiMaggio during a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the Boston Red Sox, the first game held in the city following the Boston Marathon explosions, Saturday, April 20, 2013, in Boston. Police captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, late Friday, after a wild car chase and gun battle earlier in the day left his older brother dead. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lay hospitalized in serious condition under heavy guard Saturday — apparently in no shape to be interrogated — as investigators tried to establish the motive for the deadly attack and the scope of the plot.


Strong quake jolts China's Sichuan, killing 160

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 01:57 PM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, people carrying their belongings walk in quake-damaged Gucheng Village, Longmen Township, Lushan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Saturday, April 20, 2013. A powerful earthquake struck the steep hills of Sichuan province Saturday, nearly five years after a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across the region. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Fei Maohua) NO SALESYA'AN, China (AP) — Residents huddled outdoors Saturday night in a town near the epicenter of a powerful earthquake that struck the steep hills of China's southwestern Sichuan province, leaving at least 160 people dead and more than 6,700 injured.


US providing Syrian rebels $123M more in aid

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 04:05 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, and members of the Friends of Syria group are seen during a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, April 20, 2013. Kerry is expected to announce a significant expansion of non-lethal aid to the Syrian opposition.(AP Photo/Hakan Goktepe, Pool)ISTANBUL (AP) — The United States is providing Syrian rebels with $123 million in new nonlethal aid that may include body armor and other types of supplies that haven't been part of the assistance package in the past.


Hagel on first trip to Mideast as Pentagon chief

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 03:12 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel listens prior to testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 17, 2013, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Pentagon's budget for fiscal 2014 and beyond. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Saturday began a weeklong trip to the Middle East to consult with Israeli leaders on Syria's civil war and Iran's nuclear program and to discuss a set of U.S. arms deals with Israel and two Arab countries.


Boston suspects' Chechen family traveled long road

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 09:12 AM PDT

Schoolchildren march in front of a school where Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was dubbed a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, studied, in a small Kyrgyz city Tokmok east of the country's capital of Bishkek, on Friday, April 20, 2013. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer with muscular arms and enough brio to arrive at a sparring session without protective gear. The Tsarnaev family arrived in the United States, seeking refuge from strife in their homeland. The family had moved from Kyrgyzstan to Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim republic in Russia's North Caucasus that has become an epicenter of the Islamic insurgency that spilled over from Chechnya. (AP Photo/Abylay Saralayev)TOKMOK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — The two brothers accused of blowing up homemade bombs at the Boston Marathon came from a Chechen family that for decades had been tossed from one country to another by war and persecution.


Indian girl, 5, in serious condition after rape

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 08:56 AM PDT

In this Friday, April 19, 2013 photo, a 5-year-old girl, according to police, is wheeled into a hospital for treatment after she was raped and tortured in New Delhi, India. Officials say the child is in serious condition after being raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days. Police say the girl went missing Monday and was found Wednesday by neighbors who heard her crying in a room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her parents. (AP Photo)NEW DELHI (AP) — A 5-year-old girl was in serious condition Saturday after being raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days, officials said.


World finance leaders issue sober assessment

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 03:26 PM PDT

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde, left, talks with IMFC Chair Tharman Shanmugaratnam during the World Bank IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, Saturday, April 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)WASHINGTON (AP) — World finance leaders issued a somber assessment on Saturday of the global economy, saying the recovery remains uneven with growth and jobs in short supply.


Pakistani judge orders Musharraf held for 2 weeks

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 07:45 AM PDT

Pakistan's former President and military ruler Pervez Musharraf, center, arrives in an anti-terrorism court in Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday, April 20, 2013. The general who ruled Pakistan for nearly a decade before being forced to step down appeared Saturday in front of an anti-terrorism court in connection with charges linked to his 2007 sacking and detention of a number of judges. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)ISLAMABAD (AP) — Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on Saturday was ordered held for two weeks until the next hearing in a case related to his 2007 decision to sack and detain several judges.


Rio delivers bikinis in mesh and rigid metal

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 02:06 PM PDT

A model wears a creation from the Triya summer collection during Fashion Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, April 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Just how complicated can the Brazilian bikini, among the skimpiest iterations of the simple spandex triangle and string design, possibly get?


Egypt's Morsi to reshuffle Cabinet amid turmoil

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 03:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, July 13, 2012 file photo, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi holds a joint news conference with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, unseen, at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. In a posting Saturday, April 20, 2013 on his official Twitter account, Morsi promised to reshuffle the Cabinet and appoint new governors. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi defended his handling of some of the nation's most pressing problems in a nearly two-hour television interview on Saturday, and pledged to appoint new Cabinet ministers in a move that could ease the country's deep political polarization.


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