2013年4月23日星期二

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Libya car bomb hits French embassy, wounds guards

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 12:34 PM PDT

Libyan Interior Minister Ashour Shuail inspects the scene near the French embassy in TripoliBy Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Ghaith Shennib TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A car bomb devastated France's embassy in Tripoli on Tuesday, wounding two French guards in the Libyan capital, which had not seen major attacks like that which killed the U.S. ambassador in Benghazi last year. Since Muammar Gaddafi was toppled by Western-backed rebels in 2011, Tripoli, like the rest of the sprawling desert state, has been awash with weapons and roving armed bands, but violence in the city has not targeted diplomats before in the way Western envoys have been shot at and bombed in the east of the country. ...


Canada train plot suspects in court; to fight charges

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 04:15 PM PDT

An artist's sketch shows Esseghaier making first court appearance, in MontrealBy Allison Martell and Randall Palmer TORONTO/MONTREAL (Reuters) - Two men charged with an alleged al Qaeda-backed plot to derail a Canadian passenger train made their first court appearances on Tuesday, and the lawyer for one said his client would fight the charges vigorously. Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto and Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal face charges that include conspiring with each other "to murder unknown persons ... for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group. ...


Japan shrine visits, isles row stir East Asia tensions

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 12:58 PM PDT

A group of lawmakers including Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Otsuji, Japan Restoration Party member Hiranuma and LDP member Takaichi are led by a shinto priest as they visit the Yasukuni Shrine in TokyoBy Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - Tensions flared between Japan and its Asian neighbors after a group of Japanese lawmakers visited a shrine seen by China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, and Chinese patrol vessels played cat-and-mouse with a flotilla of Japanese nationalists near disputed islands in the East China Sea. Beijing protested over the voyage by 10 boats carrying about 80 Japanese activists into waters near the islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China. ...


United States, Russia agree to try to revive Syria plan

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 12:01 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry gestures during a news conference at the NATO headquarters in BrusselsBy David Brunnstrom BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday he and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had agreed to look for ways to revive a Syrian peace plan, but admitted that doing so would be extremely difficult. Kerry, speaking after talks with Lavrov and NATO colleagues in Brussels, also backed away from earlier comments suggesting he was calling for increased NATO contingency planning on Syria. Kerry said he and Lavrov had discussed ways to revive a peace plan agreed in Geneva last June that called for a transitional government. ...


Israeli spy says Syria used chemical arms, U.S. unconvinced

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 04:12 PM PDT

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Syrian government forces have used chemical weapons - probably nerve gas - in their fight against rebels trying to force out President Bashar al-Assad, the Israeli military's top intelligence analyst said on Tuesday. The assessment met with skepticism from the United States, which has declared any use of chemical weapons in Syria's two-year-old civil war a "red line" that could trigger intervention. U.S. ...

For India's drought-hit states, on-track monsoon may be too late

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 02:21 PM PDT

Village girls carry metal pitchers filled with water supplied by the government in GujaratBy Rajendra Jadhav JAMWADI, India (Reuters) - India may be heading for another bumper grain harvest, if the first forecast for this year's monsoon proves correct, but the rain may be too little - and too late - for southern and western states already parched by the worst drought in four decades. Although last year's monsoon rains were, overall, just seven percent below normal, these states - including major sugar producer Maharashtra and cotton-growing Gujarat - went short, in some cases getting less than half the precipitation they needed. ...


Report urges Haiti to protect quake victims from forced evictions

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 03:42 PM PDT

Haitians made made homeless by the 2010 earthquake stand in an opening in wall around Shelter Camp 3 in Port-au-PrinceBy Susana Ferreira PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The human rights group Amnesty International accused the Haitian government on Tuesday of failing to stop the forcible eviction of thousands of displaced people living in tent camps set up after the huge earthquake that rocked the capital in 2010. Some 65,000 people were forcibly evicted from 175 camps between July 2010 and the end of March 2013, Amnesty said in a report, warning that more than a quarter of the 320,000 people still living in camps face possible eviction. "This is a story of ongoing human rights violations creating deep suffering. ...


Italy president set to announce choice for prime minister

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 03:08 PM PDT

Italy's President Napolitano speaks during a news conference at the Quirinale Presidential palace in RomeBy Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - Italy's president Giorgio Napolitano is set to announce on Wednesday his choice of prime minister to form a new government and pull the euro zone's third largest economy out of a two-month political rut. The new coalition government, which could take office in a matter of days, would be backed primarily by the rivals on the center-left and center-right, the same parties that had refused to cut a deal since national elections in late February. ...


U.S. could waive duties on imports from Myanmar

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 03:11 PM PDT

A girl hangs the newly made U.S flags at a shop in Yangon.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is reviewing trade relations with Myanmar in a move that could end import duties on thousands of goods from the Southeast Asian country, which Acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis is due to visit on Wednesday. Shortly before Marantis' departure for Asia last week, the U.S. Trade Representative's office initiated the review, which could add both Myanmar and Laos to the Generalized System of Preferences program, which provides duty-free treatment for up to 5,000 goods from 128 countries and territories. ...


British anti-EU party claims Thatcher mantle, has vote hope

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 02:28 PM PDT

UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage smiles as he leaves the UKIP campaign office in EastleighBy Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - The leader of Britain's anti-European Union UK Independence Party said on Tuesday his movement was carrying the torch for the late Margaret Thatcher's views on Europe, saying he planned to cause a "political earthquake". In his most detailed comments to date on his party's electoral strategy, UKIP leader Nigel Farage said he hoped to build on surging poll ratings to make big gains in local elections on May 2, win European Parliament elections next year, and secure a "substantial number" of parliamentary seats in Britain in 2015. ...


Venezuelan govt targets disaffected ex-supporters

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 01:18 PM PDT

In this April 7, 2013 photo, a man holds up a T-shirt that reads in Spanish "Long live Chavez!" with the name Chavez replaced with Capriles, referring to opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, at a campaign campaign rally in Valencia, Venezuela. A dozen voters interviewed across the country repeated the same explanation for their first opposition vote: anger at food shortages, electrical blackouts, government corruption and inefficiency and a personal dislike for the ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro, a former foreign minister who talks constantly about Chavez but doesn't share his mentor's charisma, talent for public speaking or long list of projects and proposals for improving Venezuela. Another factor was dissatisfaction over the luxurious lifestyles of high-ranking government officials who drive high-end cars and live in upscale neighborhoods, despite their purported socialist ideas. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)TACARIGUA, Venezuela (AP) — The razor-close vote to replace late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has sparked what opposition leaders and human rights groups say is a government crackdown on public employees who either didn't back Chavez's hand-picked successor or failed to show sufficient support for the ruling party.


Kerry: NATO needs plan for Syrian chemical weapons

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 04:08 PM PDT

Greek Foreign Minister Dimitrios Avramopoulos, left, talks with Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, during a NATO foreign ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. NATO foreign ministers meet in Brussels to discuss the situation in Syria and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged NATO on Tuesday to prepare for the possible use of chemical weapons by Syria on the same day that a senior Israeli military intelligence official said Syrian President Bashar Assad had used such weapons last month in his battle against insurgents.


Suspect in Canada terror plot denies charges

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 03:02 PM PDT

In this courtroom sketch, Raed Jaser appears in court in Toronto on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Jaser, 35, and Chehib Esseghaier, 30, were arrested and charged Monday in what the RCMP said was the first known al-Qaida terror plot in Canada. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, John Mantha)TORONTO (AP) — A man accused of plotting with al-Qaida members in Iran to derail a train in Canada rejected the charges and said Tuesday that authorities were basing their conclusions on appearances. Law enforcement officials in the U.S. said the target was a train that runs between New York City and Canada.


Syrian war increasingly drawing in Lebanon

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 12:36 PM PDT

Lebanese Sunni Muslim men queue as they register their names for jihad in Syria, at a mosque in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Lebanese Sunni Muslim clerics Ahmad Al-Assir and Sheikh Salem al-Rafie called late Monday for jihad in Syria to protect Sunnis in villages under attack by Syrian troops and pro-government Shiite gunmen. Lebanon and Syria share a complex web of political and sectarian ties and rivalries which are easily enflamed. Lebanon, a country plagued by decades of strife, has been on edge since the uprising in Syria against President Bashar Assad began in March 2011, with deadly clashes between pro and anti- Assad Lebanese groups erupting on several occasions. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)BEIRUT (AP) — As fighting rages just across the border, Lebanese are giving signs of joining the battle on rival sides of Syria's civil war — Sunnis on the side of the rebels, Shiites on the side of the regime — raising fears that Lebanon with its volatile sectarian divisions will be dragged into the conflict.


Photographer's loss offers hope for Boston wounded

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 12:25 PM PDT

In this Aug. 28, 2010 photo, Associated Press photographer Emilio Morenatti runs during a photo session in a Mexico City public park, one year after he lost his leg during an attack while on assignment in Afghanistan. For those who lost a limb or more in the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 15, 2013, was the day their world changed forever. Morenatti's world changed also, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, when during his embed in southern Afghanistan with the U.S. military as a photographer for The Associated Press, which was to have been his last patrol before going home, the eight-wheel armored Stryker vehicle where he was traveling in with U.S soldiers hit a roadside bomb and flipped over, knocking him unconscious. Morenatti, who lost his leg below the knee in the bomb blast, says that if those maimed in Boston were to ask him what was harder, the physical or psychological recovery, he would say the two go hand-in-hand. "If you don't confront the feelings of loss, the fact that your world has changed, you never fully recover from the amputation," writes Morenatti. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In the first horrific moments after the Boston bombing, with smoke still billowing around the wounded, I know what is going through the minds of the maimed victims.


Iraq on edge after deadly raid on protest camp

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 12:58 PM PDT

A burning Iraqi army military vehicle near the demonstration site in Ramadi, Iraq, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Protesters threw stones on a military convoy that was passing near the protest site in Ramadi, one army Humvee was flipped over and the soldiers opened fire on the fire, then they left, the protesters set fire on the abandoned army vehicle. Iraqi security forces backed by helicopters raided a Sunni protest camp before dawn Tuesday, prompting clashes that killed at least 36 people in the area and significantly intensified Sunni anger against the Shiite-led government. (AP Photo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Security forces stormed a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on Tuesday, sparking deadly clashes in several towns and sharply intensifying rage at the Shiite-led government. The unrest and a spate of other attacks, mostly targeting Sunni mosques, killed at least 56 people.


Car bomb at French Embassy in Libya wounds 3

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 01:19 PM PDT

Police tape closes the site of a car bomb that targeted the French embassy wounding two French guards and causing extensive material damage in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. The explosives-laden car was detonated just outside the embassy building in Tripoli's upscale al-Andalus neighborhood, officials said. (AP Photo/Abdul Majeed Forjani)TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside the French Embassy in Tripoli, wounding three people and partially setting the building on fire in the worst attack on a diplomatic mission in the North African nation since the U.S. ambassador was killed last year.


French protest against gay marriage turns violent

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 03:43 PM PDT

Pro gay marriage activists celebrate after French lawmakers legalized same-sex marriage, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 in Paris. Lawmakers legalized same-sex marriage after months of bruising debate and street protests that brought hundreds of thousands to Paris. Tuesday's 331-225 vote came in the Socialist majority National Assembly. France's justice minister, Christiane Taubira, said the first weddings could be as soon as June. Poster reads: Medically Assisted Reproduction. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)PARIS (AP) — Clashes have broken out between protesters and riot police near France's National Assembly building hours after the country legalized gay marriage.


US team to speak to Boston suspects' parents

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 01:32 PM PDT

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, mother of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two men accused of setting off bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line on April 15, 2013 in Boston, walks near her home in Makhachkala, Dagestan, southern Russia, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. The Tsarnaev brothers are accused of setting off the two bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15 that killed three people and wounded more than 260. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a gun battle with police. His 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was later captured alive, but badly wounded. (AP Photo/Ilkham Katsuyev)MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. investigators traveled to southern Russia on Tuesday to speak to the parents of the two Boston bombing suspects, a U.S. Embassy official said.


Yemen court sentences 11 al-Qaida militants

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 01:58 PM PDT

A Yemeni boy stands in the middle of garbage at a slum area on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, April 22, 2013. Hundreds of countries globally, mark International Earth Day on April 22, to help raise ecological awareness and support environmental protection. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni court on Tuesday sentenced 11 convicted al-Qaida militants to up to 10 years in prison for forming armed gangs to destabilize the country and planning attacks on foreign embassies and security forces.


China sends largest fleet yet to disputed islands

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 10:05 AM PDT

Spats between Asia's two most powerful nations, China and Japan, have grown uncomfortably routine since Tokyo nationalized a group of disputed islands in September. On Tuesday tensions reached a new and potentially worrisome high.

From Bali to Boston, terrorists chase the same goal: infamy

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 12:50 PM PDT

About a month ago I was sitting at my home in Inman Square, Cambridge, sipping coffee, grumbling about the late arrival of spring, completely unaware that two young men just a few blocks from me were probably planning Boston's worst bomb attack since 1976, when 22 people were injured in a bombing of the Suffolk County Courthouse by an obscure Marxist group.

Hagel goes to Israel bearing gifts of radar and Ospreys

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 12:33 PM PDT

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel brought presents for his first trip to Israel, where his nomination earlier this year stirred concern that he would be too soft on Iran and leave Israel vulnerable before its most feared enemy.

Saakashvili's party seeks relevancy in the Georgia it created

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 12:27 PM PDT

Nearly 10 years after Mikheil Saakashvili helped peacefully topple the government of Georgia amid the Rose Revolution, he and his United National Movement (UNM) party are effectively back where they began: in opposition.

Bill Gates sets South Korea abuzz with 'rude' one-handed shake

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 11:23 AM PDT

Global etiquette can be tricky. Just ask Bill Gates.

China tests its borders again, this time in the mountains

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 10:53 AM PDT

Chinese and Indian troops are camping 900 feet apart from each other six miles into Indian territory, according to India's External Affairs Ministry, which describes the Chinese incursion and resulting standoff as a "face to face situation."

France approves gay marriage after surprisingly violent debate

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 09:24 AM PDT

France became the 14th country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage today, fulfilling the campaign pledge of Socialist President François Hollande.

After Boston Marathon bombing: Faith in Watertown

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 06:51 AM PDT

My church is directly across the street from the Watertown, Mass., police department. Some might believe that small churches in suburban metro areas are antediluvian oddities in a world that has passed them by … theologically, economically, numerically, and in their Christian witness. But I humbly invite you to reflect on our small-church ministry in Watertown during the Boston Marathon terrorist attack and its aftermath.

China harasses family of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 06:47 AM PDT

Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo's brother-in-law went on trial for fraud Tuesday, the latest in a string of Chinese dissidents' relatives to be subjected to official harassment and persecution.

Canada alleges Al Qaeda plot from Iran, but Tehran's involvement unlikely

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 06:34 AM PDT

Could Iran really have been linked to an Al Qaeda plot in Canada to derail a passenger train bound for the US?

Israel charges Syria with lethal chemical weapons use

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 05:41 AM PDT

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Explosion outside French Embassy in Libya highlights security challenges

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 05:21 AM PDT

A bomb that exploded outside the French Embassy in Tripoli marks the first time that a diplomatic mission in the Libyan capital has been targeted by terrorists since the take down of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011.

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