2013年4月8日星期一

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"Iron Lady" Thatcher mourned, but critics speak out

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 03:32 PM PDT

Baroness Thatcher arrives for the Service of Thanksgiving for the life and work of Sir Edward Heath in LondonBy Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and admirers worldwide are mourning Margaret Thatcher, who has died aged 87, as the "Iron Lady" who rolled back the state and faced down her enemies during 11 years as Britain's first woman prime minister. Her impact on the 1980s was such that opponents, including Labour's Tony Blair and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, led tributes to a legacy that radically transformed the British economy along free-market lines now widely taken for granted and includes her role in the peaceful end to the Cold War. But while U.S. ...


West sees enough substance for Iran talks to continue

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:24 PM PDT

Participants from the U.S., Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany prepare to start talks with Iranian negotiators in AlmatyBy Justyna Pawlak BRUSSELS (Reuters) - World powers believe there are enough grounds to keep talking to Iran about its disputed nuclear program, a senior Western diplomat said on Monday, even though the latest round of negotiations made little apparent progress. "There is enough substance for these negotiations to continue," the diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters. "I would not expect a breakdown. ...


Insight: The backroom battle delaying reform of China's one-child policy

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 04:55 PM PDT

File photo of a child watching the diving competition at the National Aquatics Center during the Beijing 2008 Olympic GamesBy Sui-Lee Wee and Hui Li BEIJING (Reuters) - Two retired senior Chinese officials are engaged in a battle with one another to sway Beijing's new leadership over the future of the one-child policy, exposing divisions that have impeded progress in a crucial area of reform. The policy, introduced in the late 1970s to prevent population growth spiraling out of control, has long been opposed by human rights and religious groups but is also now regarded by many experts as outdated and harmful to the economy. ...


U.S. envoy says must fight mistrust for Middle East peace

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:48 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry greets an Israeli official before a ceremony at Yad Vashem in JerusalemBy Arshad Mohammed JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday he is trying to break down mistrust on both sides of the "festering" conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and would not rush into a new peace process. Making his third visit to the region in less than three weeks, Kerry met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Sunday night had dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night. "I am intensely focused on this issue ... ...


Kenya to swear in president, leave West with headache

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Kenya's newly elected President Kenyatta attends the Easter Mass at the Saint Austin's Catholic church in the capital NairobiBy Edmund Blair NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya swears in Uhuru Kenyatta as president on Tuesday after an election that avoided the bloodshed of five years ago, but left Western nations with the challenge of how to deal with a leader indicted by the International Criminal Court. Western states regard Kenya as crucial to regional stability and have supported the role played by Kenyan and other African troops in efforts to push back al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist militants in neighboring Somalia. ...


Serbia rejects Kosovo deal, begs EU for more time

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:50 PM PDT

People block a street during an anti-European Union protest in BelgradeBy Aleksandar Vasovic and Matt Robinson BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia rejected a European Union-brokered plan on Monday to tackle the ethnic partition of its former province Kosovo, a move that could hurt Belgrade's hopes of starting membership talks with the bloc. But the coalition government called for the "urgent" continuation of negotiations to reach an accord, with the EU set to consider this month whether to recommend the start of accession talks with Serbia. ...


Venezuela's Maduro vows to battle corruption

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 02:26 PM PDT

Venezuela's presidential candidate Maduro greets supporters during a campaign rally in ApureBy Diego Ore CARACAS (Reuters) - Acting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro vowed on Monday to stamp out corruption following days of accusations by opposition candidate Henrique Capriles that ruling party officials were plundering the country's oil wealth. Corruption has been a perennial problem in Venezuela and was a primary campaign issue for the late socialist leader Hugo Chavez when he was first elected in 1998. His death from cancer last month triggered the April 14 election. ...


Body found in landing gear of plane at Paris airport

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 04:28 PM PDT

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - A body was discovered in the landing gear of a plane belonging to Cameroon air transport company CAMAIRCO after it landed at Paris' Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Monday, an airline official said. "The man, about 30 years old, probably sneaked into our plane to go to France before it took off from Douala airport. We don't know," CAMAIRCO's commercial director, Christian Perchat, told Reuters by telephone. Security forces discovered the body in the landing gear after the plane landed at the Paris airport, he said. An investigation was under way. ...

Sudanese journalists protest against editor's dismissal

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 03:51 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Dozens of journalists and Sudan's national press body protested against the dismissal of the editor of one of the country's biggest independent newspapers by the security service, staging a rare challenge to the dominant security apparatus. On Thursday, Al-Nour Ahmed al-Nour, editor of al-Sahafa newspaper, said security agents came to his office to order him to leave his job after accusing him of insulting one of their colleagues. Nour has stopped working since then, and the newspaper, one of Sudan's oldest, has removed his name from the masthead. ...

Bin Laden son-in-law lawyers may seek to move trial out of NYC

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 02:37 PM PDT

An artist sketch shows Abu Ghaith at a hearing in a Manhattan federal court in New YorkBy Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden said on Monday that he may try to move his client's trial out of New York, saying he was concerned about having the proceedings in the city that saw the greatest destruction from the attacks of September 11, 2001. Suleiman Abu Ghaith's attorneys said at a federal court hearing in Manhattan that they are considering a request for change of venue. Martin Cohen, one of the defense attorneys, said after the hearing that the concern stems from the potential "prejudicial nature" of having a trial in New York. ...


Thatcher, even in death, divides world opinion

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:23 PM PDT

The Union flag flies at half mast at the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, April 8, 2013, in honour of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher's spokesman, Tim Bell, said the former prime minister died Monday morning of a stroke. Flags were flown at half-staff at Buckingham Palace, Parliament and Downing Street for the 87 year old. Queen Elizabeth II authorized Thatcher to have a ceremonial funeral — a step short of a state funeral — to be held at St. Paul's Cathedral in London with military honors. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)Combative and determined to get her way, Margaret Thatcher divided opinion down the middle in life — and in death.


Thatcher had profound effect on popular culture

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 02:24 PM PDT

FILE - This is a Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007 file photo of a Spitting Image puppet of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher now Baroness Thatcher's, at Christie's auction house in London, Spitting Image was a satirical puppet show televised in Britain in the 1980's and 1990's. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose conservative ideas made an enduring impact on Britain died Monday April 8, 2013. She was 87. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)LONDON (AP) — Margaret Thatcher was not just a political titan, she was a cultural icon — skewered by comedians, transformed into a puppet and played to Oscar-winning perfection by Meryl Streep.


In slap at South, NKorea suspends work at factory

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:57 AM PDT

A South Korean military vehicle passes by gates leading to the North Korean city of Kaesong at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be setting the stage for a missile test or another provocative act with its warning that it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats' safety in Pyongyang. But he added that the North's clearest objective is to extract concessions from Washington and Seoul. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday it will suspend operations at a factory complex it has jointly run with South Korea, pulling out more than 53,000 North Korean workers and moving closer to severing its last economic link with its rival as tensions escalate.


Suicide blast in Syrian capital kills at least 15

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:46 PM PDT

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows smoke rising from burned cars after a huge explosion shook the Sabaa Bahrat Square, one of the capital's biggest roundabouts, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April. 8, 2013. A car bomb rocked a busy residential and commercial district in central Damascus on Monday, killing more than a dozen with many more injured and sending a huge cloud of black smoke billowing over the capital's skyline, Syrian state-run media said. (AP Photo/SANA)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A suicide car bomber struck Monday in the financial heart of Syria's capital, killing at least 15 people, damaging the nearby central bank and incinerating cars and trees in the neighborhood.


UN whistleblower asks US to withhold UN payments

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 04:52 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A United Nations whistleblower who won his case alleging corruption in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Kosovo but received only 2 percent of the $2.2 million he sought in damages and costs asked the U.S. government Monday to withhold 15 percent of its payments to the global organization.

Japan increasingly nervous about North Korea nukes

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:38 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, April 15, 2012 file photo, a North Korean vehicle carries a missile during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. Though it remains a highly unlikely scenario, Japanese officials have long feared that if North Korea ever decides to play its nuclear card it has not only the means but several potential motives for launching an attack on Tokyo or major U.S. military installations on Japan's main island. And while a conventional missile attack is far more likely, Tokyo is taking North Korea's nuclear rhetoric seriously. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)TOKYO (AP) — It's easy to write off North Korea's threats to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile as bluster: it has never demonstrated the capability to deploy a missile that could reach the Pacific island of Guam, let alone the mainland U.S.


Pain bites into Portuguese life as crisis deepens

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 06:43 AM PDT

In this photo taken on March 29, 2013, Elena Baptista, right, prepares a meal with her daughter Vania, 12, left, and son Joao, 7, in their house's kitchen/living room in Loures, outside Lisbon. The Baptista family counts itself among the casualties of an unrelenting financial crisis that is squeezing the life out of some European Union economies, including Portugal. Pedro Baptista, a stocky 37-year-old, has found work as a part-time window cleaner but his wife Elena, 35, has been on unemployment benefit for almost a year after losing her job in a school canteen. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Serving a frugal lunch in their kitchen not much bigger than a bathroom, Pedro and Elena Baptista spoon stewed chicken feet onto their boiled potatoes and leave the slightly meatier wings for their 12-year-old daughter, Vania, and 7-year-old son, Joao.


Israel honors 6 million victims of Nazi Holocaust

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:42 AM PDT

Israeli motorists stand still next to their cars on a freeway as a two-minute siren sounds in memory of victims of the Holocaust in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, April 8, 2013. Holocaust remembrance day is one of the most solemn on Israel's calendar with restaurants and places of entertainment shut down, and radio and TV programming focused on Holocaust documentaries and interviews with survivors. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)JERUSALEM (AP) — Among the crowds marking Israel's annual Holocaust remembrance day at the Yad Vashem memorial Monday was a retired American Air Force colonel from San Francisco who came to honor a family he never knew.


Al-Qaida denies its No. 2 in Yemen was killed

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 02:20 PM PDT

Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi speaks during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Natalia Kolesnikova, Pool)SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Al-Qaida in Yemen posted a statement on militant websites Monday saying that its second-most senior commander has not been killed. It was the second time the group has denied Saeed al-Shihri's death.


After violence, Egypt opposition presses Morsi

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:24 PM PDT

Egyptian Christians grieve during a funeral service at the Saint Mark Coptic cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, April 7, 2013. Several Egyptians including 4 Christians and a Muslim were killed in sectarian clashes before dawn in Qalubiya, just outside of Cairo on Saturday, April 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — After Egypt's worst sectarian violence in months left seven dead the past two days, Egypt's leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday called on the Islamist president to make serious concessions to bring the opposition into decision-making, saying national reconciliation is the only way out of the country's myriad problems.


Falklands loom large in Argentine view of Thatcher

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:25 PM PDT

Margaret Thatcher, who died today at the age of 87, was a hugely divisive figure in Britain. Supporters say her free-market policies brought the country economic prosperity while critics despise her for closing coal mines, forcing people out of work, and eroding the welfare state. In Argentina, however, there is a consensus: Mrs. Thatcher is loathed.

Margaret Thatcher: the divisive creator of modern Britain

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 12:44 PM PDT

Loved and loathed in equal measure, Margaret Thatcher was one of Britain's most divisive leaders of the last century, when the country's left and right battled for the soul of modern politics.

At #Thatcher, no halfhearted tweets on Iron Lady's legacy

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 11:45 AM PDT

Irreverent, brisk, and decisive.

Is Indonesia finally going after its feared special forces unit?

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 10:47 AM PDT

Indonesia has been giving off signals that it may clean up its Special Forces unit (Kopassus) after some of its members raided a prison in Central Java last month to murder four inmates.

Hasta luego, Mexico: The Monitor's Latin America bureau chief signs off

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 09:38 AM PDT

Editor's note: The Monitor's Sara Miller Llana finds that a farewell letter is the best tribute to the one constant in her years of reporting from Mexico.

Margaret Thatcher leaves mixed legacy in Ireland

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 08:46 AM PDT

The legacy of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher isn't confined to the United Kingdom. Leader of the country from 1979 to 1990, she launched the Falklands war against Argentina to reclaim the south Atlantic islands, railed against the European Union, and, standing beside Ronald Reagan, sought to undermine the Soviet Union.

Why is North Korea's Kaesong industrial park closing?

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 08:39 AM PDT

On Monday, North Korea announced it would pull its workers from the Kaesong Industrial Complex, sounding a possible death knell for the main symbol of hope for inter-Korean cooperation.

Cyber attack on Israel falls short of promised havoc

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 08:04 AM PDT

A much-hyped cyber attack on Israeli websites yesterday caused some disruption, but fell well short of hackers' promise to "wipe Israel off the map of the Internet" and certainly did not turn out to be the "largest Internet battle in the history of mankind."

Chile's Pablo Neruda: from Nobel laureate to center of suspected murder plot

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 07:45 AM PDT

When Pablo Neruda died in 1973, the bookish boy from a sleepy town in southern Chile had already played many roles. He was a Nobel laureate in literature. A diplomat to Spain, France, and Burma (today Myanmar). A senator who fled his homeland on horseback when his Communist Party was banned, and later a presidential candidate. A husband to two women, a father to a daughter.

North Korea suspends last major project with South Korea

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 05:44 AM PDT

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China's Xi signals limited shift away from North Korea

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 05:24 AM PDT

For once, Washington and Beijing are on the same side. Both the United States and China have lost patience with North Korea's intensifying threats of war, and both fear that a misstep could spell disaster.

Mr. Kerry, how do you ask a woman to be the last to die in Afghanistan?

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 02:15 PM PDT

Once again, history thrust John Kerry today in front of microphones to speak about American youths who are cut down in the waning days of an unpopular war.

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