2013年5月29日星期三

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Venezuela furious at Colombia's meeting with opposition leader

Posted: 29 May 2013 04:46 PM PDT

Colombia's President Santos shakes hands with Venezuela's opposition leader Capriles during a visit in BogotaBy Enrique Andres Pretel and Luis Jaime Acosta CARACAS/BOGOTA (Reuters) - Venezuela reacted with fury to Wednesday's talks between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles, saying it was a "bomb" in ties and recalling an envoy to Colombia's peace process. Capriles met Santos in Bogota at the start of a tour around Latin America to press his case that last month's presidential poll in Venezuela was fraudulent and President Nicolas Maduro's government is therefore illegitimate. ...


Three Senegal women freed after rebel kidnapping

Posted: 29 May 2013 04:28 PM PDT

BISSAU (Reuters) - Three Senegalese women who work for a South African organization that cleared land mines and were kidnapped by separatist rebels in Senegal this month were handed over to authorities in neighbouring Guinea-Bissau on Wednesday. Twelve employees of demining firm Mechem were kidnapped by a faction of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance, which has waged a 31-year struggle for independence in Senegal's southern border with Guinea-Bissau. ...

Iran set up terrorist networks in Latin America: Argentine prosecutor

Posted: 29 May 2013 03:22 PM PDT

Argentine prosecutor Nisman, who is investigating the 1994 car-bomb attack on the AMIA Jewish community center, speaks during a meeting with journalists at his office in Buenos AiresBy Guido Nejamkis BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine prosecutor accused Iran on Wednesday of establishing terrorist networks in Latin America dating back to the 1980s and said he would send his findings to courts in the affected countries. State prosecutor Alberto Nisman is investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. Argentine courts have long accused Iran of sponsoring the attack. Iran, which remains locked in a stand-off with world powers over its disputed nuclear program, denies links to the blast. ...


Struggling Korean builders tell employees to show loyalty: buy apartments

Posted: 29 May 2013 02:35 PM PDT

A dusty, empty shell of an apartment belonging to Kim Keon-hoon is seen in the middle class suburb in GoyangBy Ju-min Park GOYANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Five years after the global financial crisis, South Korean construction workers are feeling the pinch more than ever as they shoulder a mountain of debt from a real estate bust that has cast a long shadow on the country's growth prospects. Facing the specter of bankruptcy, some construction firms persuaded their staff to take up loans to mop up unsold apartments. "There was pressure. ...


Syrian opposition says peace talks must mean Assad exit

Posted: 29 May 2013 11:36 AM PDT

A general view shows buildings that were damaged during clashes near Sayeda Zainab area in DamascusBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Syrian opposition said on Wednesday it would only take part in planned international peace talks if a deadline was set for a settlement that forces President Bashar al-Assad to leave power. In its first official reaction to the Geneva conference being prepared by the United States and Russia, the opposition coalition adopted a declaration calling for "binding international guarantees" for any resolution of Syria's two-year-old conflict. ...


Attack on French soldier had religious motivation: prosecutor

Posted: 29 May 2013 12:34 PM PDT

Still image taken from video surveillance cameras shows a man suspected of having carried out a terror-related knife attack on a French soldier at the La Defense commercial centre of ParisBy Alexandria Sage PARIS (Reuters) - A Muslim convert arrested on suspicion of stabbing a French soldier in a Paris suburb was motivated by religion and had shown some signs of radicalization, French authorities said on Wednesday. The attack took place on May 25, three days after attackers chanting Islamist slogans killed a British soldier in London. France has been on a security alert since January, when its troops began fighting al Qaeda-linked Islamists in Mali. Prosecutor Francois Molins said authorities were treating the Paris attack as a terrorist act. ...


Money-laundering scheme hid $6 billion for fraudsters like 'Joe Bogus'

Posted: 29 May 2013 03:56 PM PDT

Criminal investigators slammed the digital door on a massive $6 billion cyber money-laundering scheme with 1 million users worldwide, including more than 200,000 users in the US, according to court documents.

Why Pentagon has doubts about no-fly zone over Syria

Posted: 29 May 2013 03:32 PM PDT

Reports this week that the Pentagon is putting together plans for a no-fly zone over Syria came as little surprise to most defense analysts – after all, senior US military officials are constantly planning for war possibilities.

Home prices up 10 percent: How strong is this year’s US housing market?

Posted: 29 May 2013 03:04 PM PDT

News of the first double-digit annual home price gain since 2006 raises a question: Just how blazing hot is the housing market?

After Obama’s Speech on Drones, CIA Allegedly Kills Pakistani Taliban Commander

Posted: 29 May 2013 02:35 PM PDT

Less than a week after President Barack Obama's speech marking a policy shift on the use of drones, the CIA broke its weeks-long hiatus with a drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area. The target of the attack, according to reports, was Wali-ur-Rehman, a leader of the Pakistani Taliban. The alleged strike signals that while Obama has spoken of a curtailment of drones, such attacks will continue in Pakistan where targets are deemed worthy. But on the eve of a new government taking office in Pakistan, after an election marked by sharp anti-U.S. ...

Syria says Assad will remain president until 2014

Posted: 29 May 2013 03:25 PM PDT

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights South African Navi Pillay, left, speaks with Polish Remigiusz Henczel, right, President of the Human Rights Council, during the urgent debate on the situation in Syria at the 23rd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Syria's civil war is spilling out of control and represents a massive failure to protect citizens against war crimes and crimes against humanity that are now a routine occurrence according to the U.N.'s top human rights official Pillay. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's foreign minister laid out a hard line Wednesday, saying Bashar Assad will remain president at least until elections in 2014 and might seek another term, conditions that will make it difficult for the opposition to agree to U.N.-sponsored talks on ending the civil war.


Top Pakistan militant said killed in US strike

Posted: 29 May 2013 12:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 28, 2011 file photo, Taliban No 2 commander Waliur Rehman talks to the Associated Press during an interview in Shawal area of South Waziristan along the Afghanistan border in Pakistan. Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed the commander of the Pakistani Taliban. The militant group denies he is dead. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suspected U.S. drone strike killed the No. 2 commander of the Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday, Pakistani intelligence officials said, although the militant group denied he was dead.


France's first gay marriage is broadcast to nation

Posted: 29 May 2013 12:04 PM PDT

MONTPELLIER, France (AP) — In a historic ceremony broadcast live on French television, the first gay couple to marry in France said "oui," then sealed the deal with a lengthy and very public kiss.

NKorea sanctions squeeze cash for aid groups

Posted: 29 May 2013 12:30 PM PDT

In this Sunday, May 19, 2013 photo, a North Korean woman works at a boutique shop which sells goods including Italian suits and Dior makeup at the newly-opened Haedanghwa Service Complex in Pyongyang, North Korea. U.N. sanctions are meant to stop the financing of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs but also aimed to sting the country's rich by crippling the import of luxury goods. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — New international sanctions aimed at thwarting North Korea's nuclear weapons program are having unintended consequences: halting money transfers by foreign humanitarian groups working to help those most in need and forcing some agencies to carry suitcases of cash in from outside.


Afghan security rescues 7 Red Cross staffers

Posted: 29 May 2013 11:50 AM PDT

Smoke rises from the International Red Cross building after a gun battle between security forces and an insurgent, in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. A senior Afghan official said security forces rescued seven foreigners working for the International Red Cross on Wednesday after a two-hour-long gun battle with an insurgent at a guest house in the eastern city of Jalalabad. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two insurgents attacked a compound housing the International Committee of the Red Cross in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing an Afghan guard before security forces rescued seven foreigners. It was a striking escalation of attacks targeting international organizations.


Buddhist mobs spread fear among Myanmar's Muslims

Posted: 29 May 2013 01:22 PM PDT

A policeman and an army officer guard a burned mosque in Lashio, northern Shan State, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 29, 2013.Hundreds of Buddhist men on motorcycles waved iron rods and bamboo poles and threw rocks in the northeastern Myanmar town on Wednesday, a day after the mosque and a Muslim orphanage were torched in a new wave of violence targeting the religious minority. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)LASHIO, Myanmar (AP) — It was a terrifying sight: hundreds of angry, armed men on motorcycles advancing up a dusty street with no one to stop them.


Terror remains for Salvadorans despite gang truce

Posted: 29 May 2013 04:28 PM PDT

A masked member of the 18th Street gang peers from behind a window of a prison door as other gang members 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 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)ILOPANGO, El Salvador (AP) — Young men come around once a week to collect $20 from store owner Carlos Tevez, the "tax" he pays to continue operating his business and to keep his family safe.


Colombian rebel rejects peace talks deadline

Posted: 29 May 2013 04:09 PM PDT

Marco Leon Calarca, member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, gestures during an interview in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Calarca has rejected the government's insistence that talks wrap up by November ahead of national elections, saying the president should not put his personal ambition ahead of the peace process. In an interview with The Associated Press, Marco Leon Calarca said his Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia were hopeful the months' long negotiations would lead to peace, and heartened that the two sides had reached agreement on the first major point of dispute between them: land reform. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)HAVANA (AP) — A leading peace negotiator of Colombia's main rebel group has rejected the government's insistence that talks wrap up by November ahead of national elections, saying the president should not put his personal ambition ahead of the peace process.


Hurricane Barbara landfall in Mexico 2nd earliest

Posted: 29 May 2013 03:29 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 10:45 AM EDT shows a low pressure system over the central United States with widespread showers and thunderstorms from Texas into the Northern Plains. Farther east, a warm front extended into the Northeast with showers and thunderstorms. Tropical Storm Barbara can be seen south of Mexico. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)OAXACA, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Barbara made landfall on a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's southern Pacific coast Wednesday, the second-earliest landfall since reliable record-keeping began in 1966. At least two people were killed, including a man identified by local officials as a U.S. surfer.


Foes of Newmont's $5 billion Peru mine in standoff with police

Posted: 29 May 2013 03:03 PM PDT

LIMA (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters were locked in a standoff with police in northern Peru on Wednesday as they vowed to stop Newmont Mining from transferring water from a lake to a reservoir as part of its $5 billion Conga gold project. Residents and local officials said it was the second straight day of tensions near the proposed mine that would be Peru's most expensive ever. ...

Switzerland takes step to end tax dispute with US

Posted: 29 May 2013 02:36 PM PDT

Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf speaks during a press conference in Bern, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. The Swiss government says it will let banks circumvent the country's strict client secrecy laws as part of an effort to end a long-running tax evasion dispute with the United States. Widmer-Schlumpf says Switzerland is acting because U.S. patience with Swiss banks suspected of aiding American tax cheats is running out. (AP Photo/Keystone, Peter Schneider)GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland said Wednesday it will allow its banks to skirt the country's strict client secrecy laws in order to end a long-running dispute with the United States over tax evasion by American clients with hidden accounts.


Buddhist mobs attack Muslim homes in Myanmar, one dead

Posted: 29 May 2013 02:19 PM PDT

Motorcycles and houses destroyed in a fire after a riot between Muslims and Buddhist are seen in Lashio townshipBy Jared Ferrie LASHIO, Myanmar (Reuters) - Security forces struggled to control Buddhist mobs who burned Muslim homes on Wednesday for a second day in the northern Myanmar city of Lashio in a dangerous widening of ultra-nationalist Buddhist violence. Scores of young men and boys on motorbikes and on foot marauded through the city of 130,000 people, some singing nationalist songs, a day after a mosque and religious school were torched. One person was killed and four were wounded in fighting, Ye Htut, spokesman for President Thein Sein, said in a Facebook post. ...


UK museum staff to strike over cuts to pay, jobs

Posted: 29 May 2013 01:57 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Workers at museums and galleries in Britain — including top tourist spots like the British Museum and the National Gallery — are going on strike.

A look at the latest Syria developments

Posted: 29 May 2013 01:44 PM PDT

A general view of an international conference on Syria called "Political Solution- Regional Stability", at an hotel, in Tehran, Iran Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Iran has expressed its support for an international conference to end the bloodshed in Syria. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran "supports Geneva talks and U.N. efforts." The U.S. and Russia are leading a joint push to launch Syria peace talks, possibly next month in Geneva, though there is little evidence to suggest that either side in Syria is ready to halt more than two years of violence that has killed more than 70,000 people. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)BEIRUT (AP) — Here are the latest developments in the Syria crisis:


Evening bomb blasts kill 30 in Baghdad

Posted: 29 May 2013 01:38 PM PDT

Adnan Faihan, the head of the political bureau of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq group, speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. The senior member of an Iraqi Shiite militia that once fought the U.S. military warned on Wednesday that Iraq is heading toward widespread sectarian bloodletting similar to the kind that once pushed the country to the brink of civil war. Poster in the back shows late Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, father of the radical anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)BAGHDAD (AP) — Bomb blasts tore through two Baghdad neighborhoods Wednesday evening, killing at least 30 people including several members of a wedding party, and extending a relentless wave of bloodshed roiling Iraq.


Canada freezes trade with Iran over nuclear program, human rights

Posted: 29 May 2013 01:34 PM PDT

Canada's Foreign Minister Baird pauses while speaking to journalists in OttawaOTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will freeze all remaining trade with Iran to protest the Tehran's nuclear ambitions and its human rights record, Foreign Minister John Baird said on Wednesday. Canada, which has had increasingly poor relations with Iran for more than a decade, had already imposed a series of trade sanctions. In 2012, bilateral trade was worth around C$135 million ($130 million). Baird said Canada was particularly concerned by the failure of the United Nations' nuclear agency this month to persuade Iran to let it resume an investigation into suspected atomic bomb research. ...


Italian actress Franca Rame dies

Posted: 29 May 2013 01:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 9, 2009 file photo Italian Nobel prize winner Dario Fo, right, and his wife Franca Rame applaud during the Italian State RAI TV program "Che Tempo che Fa", in Milan. Franca Rame has died in Milan, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. She was 84. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)MILAN (AP) — Franca Rame, an Italian actress and wife of Nobel laureate Dario Fo, died Wednesday at the age of 84 after a long illness.


DNA, video led to arrest in French soldier attack

Posted: 29 May 2013 01:11 PM PDT

French State prosecutor Francois Molins during a news conference at the Court in Paris, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Molins said that the young suspect accused of stabbing a French soldier Saturday May 25, identified only by his first name Alexandre, was captured on camera offering a Muslim prayer in a corner of a busy shopping mall 10 minutes before he went after the soldier with a knife in the La Defense financial and shopping district. The 22 year old suspect was arrested outside Paris at the house of a friend, who has not been implicated. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)PARIS (AP) — DNA traces on an orange juice bottle and a surveillance video of a man praying in a mall led to the arrest Wednesday of a young suspected Islamic extremist accused of stabbing a French soldier patrolling a crowded area just outside Paris, officials said.


The new drama at Egypt's opera: A political fight

Posted: 29 May 2013 01:07 PM PDT

An Egyptian employee protests inside the Cairo Opera House, in Egypt, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. The Cairo Opera House has become a new battleground between supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist president, this time fighting over the direction of the Middle East's oldest music institution. The new culture minister fired the opera's head in what he calls a campaign to bring in new blood across the artistic scene. But her staff refuse any new boss and have closed the curtain on all performances, accusing the minister of bending to Islamist pressure. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)CAIRO (AP) — The Cairo Opera House has become a new battleground between supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist president, this time fighting over the direction of the Middle East's oldest music institution.


U.N. investigators say most Syria rebels not seeking democracy

Posted: 29 May 2013 01:05 PM PDT

By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - Most Syrian rebel fighters do not want democracy and the country's civil war is producing ever worse atrocities and increasing radicalization, independent U.N. investigators said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters in Paris, Brazilian expert Paulo Pinheiro said his team of investigators had documented horrific crimes on both sides, although the scale of those committed by President Bashar al-Assad's forces was greater. ...

Legendary Canadian abortion campaigner Morgentaler dies aged 90

Posted: 29 May 2013 12:59 PM PDT

Henry Morgentaler is awarded the rank of Member in the Order of Canada by Governor General Michaelle Jean at the Citadelle in Quebec City in this file photoBy David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Henry Morgentaler, a Holocaust survivor who became one of Canada's leading abortion campaigners and spent time in jail for terminating pregnancies, died on Wednesday at the age of 90, activists said. Morgentaler set up Canada's first independent abortion clinic in Montreal in 1969 at a time when the procedure could only be performed in hospitals and was limited to cases when doctors deemed that continuation of a pregnancy could harm a woman. ...


Syrian army seizes strategic air base near Qusair

Posted: 29 May 2013 12:47 PM PDT

By Mariam Karouny BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad seized an air base near the strategic town of Qusair on Wednesday and took more ground to the east of Damascus, state media said, dealing fresh setbacks to rebel fighters. Assad's troops have been battling alongside Hezbollah fighters from neighboring Lebanon for the last 10 days to drive rebels from Qusair. Taking the air base and neighboring Dabaa village puts Qusair under siege from all sides and cuts a main reinforcement line for rebel weapons and fighters. ...

France says 3,000-4,000 Hezbollah are fighting in Syria

Posted: 29 May 2013 12:47 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Wednesday its intelligence services believed 3-4,000 guerillas from Lebanon's Hezbollah militia fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad's army in Syria's civil war. "As far as Hezbollah militants present in the battlefield, the figures range from 3,000 to 10,000, our estimates are between 3,000 and 4,000," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told lawmakers. ...

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