2013年5月28日星期二

Yahoo! News: World News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World News


Disputes over arms for Syria cloud U.S.-Russian peace drive

Posted: 28 May 2013 12:53 PM PDT

A Free Syrian Army fighter sits on a pick-up truck mounted with anti-aircraft weapon in Salqin city, Idlib governorateBy Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW (Reuters) - Disputes between Russia and the West over arming warring sides in Syria on Tuesday dimmed prospects for peace talks that were also clouded by disarray among President Bashar al-Assad's political foes. As Western nations debate what action, if any, they should take on Syria, Assad's main allies - Russia, Iran and Lebanon's Shi'ite Hezbollah group - have been closing ranks behind him. ...


Muslims and Buddhists clash in northern Myanmar

Posted: 28 May 2013 11:28 AM PDT

YANGON (Reuters) - Muslims and Buddhists clashed in Myanmar's northern city of Lashio on Tuesday, witnesses said, as a wave of sectarian violence reached a mountainous region near China's border. Phone lines were down in the city of about 131,000 people and the extent of the violence was unclear. Witnesses reported several large fires and said a mosque and Buddhist monastery appear to have been torched. ...

Obama, NATO's Rasmussen to discuss Afghanistan at White House on Friday

Posted: 28 May 2013 04:39 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama walks towards the Oval Office at the White House in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the White House on Friday to discuss Afghanistan and other security concerns, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Tuesday. The meeting comes as NATO and the United States prepare to withdraw most troops from Afghanistan, ending a lengthy war that began after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. More than 60,000 U.S. troops are still in Afghanistan. ...


Exclusive: British fund executives to go on trial in Cuba

Posted: 28 May 2013 03:56 PM PDT

To match Exclusive CUBA-FUND/By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - The two top executives of a British investment fund in Cuba are scheduled to go on trial in Havana on Thursday, according to sources close to the accused men, as part of an unprecedented government crackdown on corruption involving foreign businessmen. In the second trial of foreign executives on the Communist-run island in a week, Amado Fakhre, a Lebanese-born British citizen and chief executive officer of Coral Capital Group Ltd, faces various bribery charges related mainly to the fund's import business. ...


Ecuador says UK violating human rights of WikiLeaks' Assange

Posted: 28 May 2013 03:08 PM PDT

Ecuador's Foreign Affairs Minister Patino gestures during a Reuters interview at his office in QuitoBy Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's foreign minister on Tuesday accused the British government of trampling on the human rights of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by refusing to allow him to travel to Ecuador, which granted him political asylum almost a year ago. Assange, 41, took refuge in Ecuador's tiny embassy in London last June to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over sex assault and rape allegations. He denies the allegations. ...


Rival Honduran gangs in truce to end spiral of violence

Posted: 28 May 2013 04:02 PM PDT

A member of the "Calle 18" street gang covers his face while squatting next to a wall covered with graffiti in memory of their late members, at the prison in San Pedro SulaBy Orfa Mejia TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Two of the most violent gangs in Honduras announced a truce on Tuesday under a church-brokered drive to stem a tide of violence that has turned Honduras into the world's most murderous country. Following the example of similar gangs in neighboring El Salvador, masked members of the "Calle 18" and "Mara Salvatrucha" gangs made separate announcements from within San Pedro Sula prison in northern Honduras, which houses the country's most violent criminals. ...


The HTC One Got Me to Care Less About Nexus Phones

Posted: 28 May 2013 03:31 PM PDT

The tech world has been buzzing lately about a potential wave of new "Nexus" phones. LG just announced a white Nexus 4 to complement the black model that's already available. Samsung will release a Nexus-like version of its Galaxy S 4 next month, and HTC is rumored to be considering the same for its HTC One.

A river runs through it? Kayaking, fishing come to downtown Los Angeles

Posted: 28 May 2013 03:12 PM PDT

The barren concrete sluice is best known as the location of the drag racing scene in "Grease" or the place where Arnold Schwarzenegger, as a leather-clad, Harley-riding cyborg, was chased by a semi truck in "Terminator 2."

After smoothing tensions in Slovenia, PM Bratusek seeks to win over Europe

Posted: 28 May 2013 03:03 PM PDT

If a week is a long time in politics, then two months can feel like an eternity. That has certainly been the case for Slovenian Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek.

Venezuela’s Latest Scandal Shows Signs the Regime Chávez Built Is Falling Apart

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:34 PM PDT

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro seems on a constant quest to deflect attention from his country's economic mess, its violent crime crisis and the fact that he only narrowly won last month's special election to succeed his demigod, Hugo Chávez, who died in March. As part of that effort, Maduro last week called for the creation of a "workers militia" to "defend the sovereignty of the homeland." But while he's girding for imperialist invasions, a new scandal suggests the biggest threat to Maduro's govenment lies within the socialist, anti-U.S. ...

AP Exclusive: Rise of al-Qaida Sahara terrorist

Posted: 28 May 2013 04:49 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file image taken from video provided by the SITE Intel Group made available Thursday Jan. 17, 2013, purports to show terrorist leader Moktar Belmoktar. In an Oct. 3 internal al-Qaida letter found by the AP, Belmoktar is excoriated for his unwillingness to follow orders and critiqued for his failure to carry out any large attack. His ego bruised, he quit and formed his own group to compete directly with his former employer. Within months, he claimed responsibility for two attacks so large they rivaled the biggest operations undertaken by al-Qaida's wing on the continent.(AP Photo/SITE Intel Group, File) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS PICTURE. MANDATORY CREDIT: SITE Intel GroupDAKAR, Senegal (AP) — After years of trying to discipline him, the leaders of al-Qaida's North African branch sent one final letter to their most difficult employee. In page after scathing page, they described how he didn't answer his phone when they called, failed to turn in his expense reports, ignored meetings and refused time and again to carry out orders.


Syria diplomacy a priority, despite EU arms vote

Posted: 28 May 2013 03:12 PM PDT

This image from amateur video obtained by a group which calls itself Ugarit News, which is consistent with AP reporting, shows a rocket fired by Syrian rebels in Qusair, Syria, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Europe's decision to allow member states to arm Syrian rebels and Russia's renewed pledge to send advanced missiles to the Syria regime could spur an arms race in an already brutal civil war and increasingly turn it into a East-West proxy fight. Britain promises not to transfer any arms before diplomacy is given a chance in Syria peace talks expected next month, while a top rebel commander says he needs Western anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles now to prevent more regime gains on the battlefield. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)BEIRUT (AP) — Russia on Tuesday harshly criticized Europe's decision to allow the arming of Syrian rebels, saying it undercuts international efforts to negotiate an end to the civil war, and a rebel general said he's "very disappointed" weapons won't come fast enough to help opposition fighters defend a strategic Syrian town.


Rescuers save newborn from sewage pipe in China

Posted: 28 May 2013 09:54 AM PDT

In this still image taken from video from Saturday May 25, 2013, rescue workers cut away parts of a sewage pipe where a newborn baby was trapped in Pujiang in east China's Zhejiang province. Chinese firefighters have rescued a newborn boy from a sewer pipe below a squat toilet, sawing out an L-shaped section and then delicately dismantling it to free the trapped baby, who greeted the rescuers with cries. A tenant heard the baby's sounds in the public restroom of a residential building in Zhejiang province in eastern China on Saturday and notified authorities, according to the state-run news site Zhejiang News. A video of the two-hour rescue that followed was broadcast widely on Chinese news programs and websites late Monday and Tuesday. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTBEIJING (AP) — A newborn's cries from a public restroom in a residential building in eastern China led a tenant to a startling discovery: a baby boy trapped in a sewage pipe beneath a squat toilet.


1 suspect in UK soldier slaying out of hospital

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:41 PM PDT

A picture of the murdered 25-year-old soldier of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Lee Rigby, amongst some of the thousands of floral and other tributes left at the scene near Woolwich Barracks in London Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Two men attacked and killed the soldier in broad daylight Wednesday May 22. Thousands of floral tributes have been left by public well wishers. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)LONDON (AP) — One of two suspects shot by police following the slaying of a British soldier in London last week has been released from the hospital and taken to a police station for questioning, police said Tuesday.


French man dies of SARS-related respiratory virus

Posted: 28 May 2013 12:51 PM PDT

PARIS (AP) — A French patient infected with a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS died Tuesday of the disease, which has killed half the people known to be infected and alarmed global health officials.

In China, US official promotes military ties

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:58 PM PDT

U.S. National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, left, talks with Gen. Fan Changlong, right, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, during their meeting at the Bayi Building, headquarters of Chinese Defense Ministry, in Beijing Tuesday, May 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, Pool)BEIJING (AP) — U.S. National Security Adviser Tom Donilon pushed Tuesday for stronger military relations with China, on the final day of a visit to Beijing to set the stage for a summit next month between President Barack Obama and China's Xi Jinping.


Passengers describe calm scene after cruise fire

Posted: 28 May 2013 04:20 PM PDT

Passengers from the Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship, which caught fire during its voyage from Baltimore to the Bahamas, leave a security checkpoint after arriving on a charter flight at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Tuesday, May 28, 2013, in Linthicum, Md. Royal Caribbean said the fire occurred early Monday and was extinguished after about two hours with no injuries reported. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)LINTHICUM, Md. (AP) — Passengers whose cruise vacations were cut short by a fire onboard the Grandeur of the Seas arrived back home Tuesday on charter flights from the Bahamas, many praising the crew's response and some already planning their next sailings.


Honduras gangs declare truce, ask talks with gov't

Posted: 28 May 2013 04:01 PM PDT

Masked members of the 18th Street gang give a press conference inside the San Pedro Sula prison in Honduras, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Honduras' largest and most dangerous street gangs have declared a truce, offering the government peace in exchange for rehabilitation and jobs. A Mara Salvatrucha spokesman says the gang and a rival known as 18th Street will commit to zero violence and zero crime in the streets as first step show of good faith. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras' two biggest and most dangerous street gangs declared an unprecedented truce Tuesday, offering peace in the world's most violent country in exchange for rehabilitation and jobs.


7 charged in $6B online money laundering case

Posted: 28 May 2013 03:39 PM PDT

Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, describes a chart showing the global interests of Liberty Reserve, during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Arthur Budovsky,the founder of Liberty Reserve, was indicted in the United States along with six other people in a $6 billion money-laundering scheme described as "staggering" in its scope, authorities said Tuesday.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — Calling it perhaps the biggest money laundering scheme in U.S. history, federal prosecutors charged seven people Tuesday with running what amounted to an online, underworld bank that handled $6 billion for drug dealers, child pornographers, identity thieves and other criminals around the globe.


South China Sea tension mounts near Filipino shipwreck

Posted: 28 May 2013 03:34 PM PDT

By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - A wrecked navy transport ship perched on a remote coral reef could be the next flashpoint in the South China Sea, where China and five other claimants bitterly dispute territory. The Philippine government is accusing China of encroachment after three Chinese ships, including a naval frigate, converged just 5 nautical miles from an old transport ship that the Philippines deliberately ran aground on a reef in 1999 to mark its territory. ...

20 Tunisians convicted of attacking US Embassy

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:53 PM PDT

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The lawyer for the 20 Tunisians accused of attacking the U.S. Embassy in Tunis says they have been convicted and given two-year suspended sentences.

AP Exclusive: Rise of al-Qaida Saharan terrorist

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:36 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file image taken from video provided by the SITE Intel Group made available Thursday Jan. 17, 2013, purports to show terrorist leader Moktar Belmoktar. In an Oct. 3 internal al-Qaida letter found by the AP, Belmoktar is excoriated for his unwillingness to follow orders and critiqued for his failure to carry out any large attack. His ego bruised, he quit and formed his own group to compete directly with his former employer. Within months, he claimed responsibility for two attacks so large they rivaled the biggest operations undertaken by al-Qaida's wing on the continent.(AP Photo/SITE Intel Group, File) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS PICTURE. MANDATORY CREDIT: SITE Intel GroupDAKAR, Senegal (AP) — After years of trying to discipline him, the leaders of al-Qaida's North African branch sent one final letter to their most difficult employee. In page after scathing page, they described how he didn't answer his phone when they called, failed to turn in his expense reports, ignored meetings and refused time and again to carry out orders.


American, Russian, Italian blast off into space

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:35 PM PDT

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-09M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Karen Nyberg, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz carrying an American, Russian and Italian blasted off Wednesday for a six-hour trip to the International Space Station, where the new crew will spend six months conducting a variety of experiments.


U.S. Embassy workers hurt in Venezuela strip club shooting

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:32 PM PDT

By Brian Ellsworth CARACAS (Reuters) - Two U.S. Embassy employees in Venezuela were injured on Tuesday in a shooting at a well-known Caracas strip club, police said. Officers heard shots around 4:25 a.m. at the Antonella 2012 club, better known as "Angelus" in the upscale Chacao district, a police source told Reuters. One of the embassy employees, military attaché Roberto Ezequiel Rosas, was shot in the leg after a fight between club patrons, according to a police report seen by Reuters and the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. ...

EU leaders sound the alarm on youth unemployment

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:23 PM PDT

France's President Francois Hollande attends the "Europe: next steps" conference at the Institute in Paris, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Platiau, Pool)PARIS (AP) — European leaders sounded the alarm on youth unemployment Tuesday and called for businesses to help solve a problem that has left nearly one in four young people in Europe without a job.


Gunfire at Caracas strip club hurts 2 US officials

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:12 PM PDT

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Two officials from the U.S. Embassy suffered gunshot wounds early Tuesday in an altercation at a strip club in Venezuela's crime-ridden capital, police and U.S. State Department officials said. Their injuries were not considered life-threatening.

Chinese artist Weiwei's mother at Venice opening

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:07 PM PDT

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's mother Gao Ying looks into one of the six containers part of an installation by her son during a press preview of the 55th edition of the Venice Biennale of Arts in Venice, northern Italy, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. The work on display is called S.A.C.R.E.D. The four initials standing for supper, accuser, cleansing, ritual, entropy and doubt, and referring to Ai Weiwei time 81 days in detention in 2011. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been prevented by Chinese authorities from traveling to Venice for the opening of two new works on the sidelines of the Biennale contemporary art show, so his mother came instead. Weiwei's elderly mother, Gao Yng, on Tuesday viewed for the first time a series of dioramas depicting six episodes of pressure during her son's 81 days in detention in 2011. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)VENICE, Italy (AP) — When a mother views scenes of her son's imprisonment, sometimes no words are needed. Tears will do.


Passengers arrive in US after cruise ship fire

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:05 PM PDT

Passengers from the Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship, which caught fire during its voyage from Baltimore to the Bahamas, leave a security checkpoint after arriving on a charter flight at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Tuesday, May 28, 2013, in Linthicum, Md. Royal Caribbean said the fire occurred early Monday and was extinguished after about two hours with no injuries reported. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)BALTIMORE (AP) — Passengers whose cruise aboard Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas was cut short by an onboard fire began arriving back in Baltimore on charter flights from the Bahamas on Tuesday afternoon, with many praising the response of the company and crew.


Japan's sex slave legacy remains open wound

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 24, 2013 file photo, South Koreans, Kim Bok-dong, center right, and Gil Wen-oak, center left, who were forced to serve for the Japanese Army as sexual slaves, so called "comfort women," during World War II, shout slogan with their supporters in an anti-Japan protest against the Japanese lawmakers' visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. More than 70 years ago, at age 14, Kim Bok-dong was ordered to work by Korea's Japanese occupiers. She was told she was going to a military uniform factory, but ended up at a Japanese-military-run brothel in southern China. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)OSAKA, Japan (AP) — More than 70 years ago, at age 14, Kim Bok-dong was ordered to work by Korea's Japanese occupiers. She was told she was going to a military uniform factory, but ended up at a Japanese military-linked brothel in southern China.


Honduras gangs declare truce, seek talk with gov't

Posted: 28 May 2013 02:00 PM PDT

A masked member of the 18th Street gang, touches his mask during a press conference inside the San Pedro Sula prison in Honduras, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Honduras' largest and most dangerous street gangs have declared a truce, offering the government peace in exchange for rehabilitation and jobs. Mara Salvatrucha gang spokesman says the gang and its rival, 18th Street, will commit to zero violence and zero crime in the streets as first step show of good faith. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras' two biggest and most dangerous street gangs declared a truce Tuesday, offering to give the government peace in exchange for rehabilitation and jobs.


Pakistan polio vaccination suspended after killing

Posted: 28 May 2013 01:25 PM PDT

Hospital staff and relatives transport an injured female polio worker at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Police say gunmen in Pakistan have shot dead a female polio worker and wounded another in the northwest, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities suspended a four-day polio vaccination program Tuesday after gunmen shot dead a female polio worker and wounded another, officials said, in a blow to the U.N.-backed campaign aimed at eradicating the crippling disease from this violence-torn country.


0 条评论:

发表评论

订阅 博文评论 [Atom]

<< 主页

bnzv