2013年5月31日星期五

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Assad forces advance; West, Russia exchange barbs ahead of talks

Posted: 31 May 2013 12:01 PM PDT

A damaged bicycle is pictured as a Free Syrian Army walks past children playing along a street in the besieged area of HomsBy Mariam Karouny BEIRUT (Reuters) - Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad tightened their siege of rebels in a strategic town on Friday, in a counter-offensive that is shifting the balance of the Syrian war ahead of a peace conference next month. Rebels said they had managed to infiltrate new fighters into the town of Qusair on the Lebanese frontier, where they are encircled by Assad's army and his allies in Lebanon's Hezbollah militia who have openly joined the war on his behalf. ...

Turkish police fire tear gas in worst protests in years

Posted: 31 May 2013 03:29 PM PDT

By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon on Friday at demonstrators in central Istanbul, wounding scores of people and prompting rallies in other cities in the fiercest anti-government protests in years. Thousands of demonstrators massed on streets surrounding Istanbul's central Taksim Square, long a venue for political unrest, while protests erupted in the capital, Ankara, and the Aegean coastal city of Izmir. Broken glass and rocks were strewn across a main shopping street near Taksim. ...

Biden says U.S. and Brazil ready for deeper relationship

Posted: 31 May 2013 12:19 PM PDT

U.S. VP Biden speaks to Brazil's President Rousseff during a meeting on his visit to BrazilBy Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden wound up a visit to Brazil on Friday saying it was high time the two largest economies in the Americas became closer partners in trade, investment and energy. "We're ready for a deeper, broader relationship across the board on everything from the military to education, trade and investment," Biden told reporters after meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. ...

Tehran says U.S., not Iran, sponsors terrorism

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:58 PM PDT

By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran on Friday rejected a U.S. State Department report that accused Tehran of increasing its support for terrorism overseas to levels not seen for two decades, saying it is the United States that backs terrorists in the Middle East. "Iran itself has been the victim of state-sponsored terrorism, which has claimed the lives of thousands of innocent Iranian people," said Alireza Miryousefi, spokesman for Iran's U.N. mission. ...

Lebanese parliament delays June election, deepening drift

Posted: 31 May 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Lebanese members of parliament attend a session in BeirutBy Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese lawmakers decided on Friday to extend their term by 16 months until November next year, postponing a scheduled June parliamentary election, because of political deadlock and violence spilling over from neighboring Syria's civil war. The move, criticized by the United States and the United Nations, provoked a protest in a main square near the parliament. Demonstrators garbed in black carried signs saying they were in mourning for the democratic process in Lebanon and some threw tomatoes at convoys of politicians driving past. ...

Sudanese rebels say shoot down army helicopter in oil area

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:00 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese insurgents said they brought down a military helicopter and attacked a government convoy when the army's chief of staff visited a flashpoint in Sudan's main oil region on Friday, rebels said. A witness also reported seeing clashes, but the government denied a helicopter had been brought down, or that there had been any fighting. Gibril Adam, spokesman for the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), one of the biggest rebel groups, said its fighters had attacked a government convoy carrying Sudan's army chief of staff, Ismat Abdelrahman, just outside Abu Kershola. ...

Social Security and Medicare: time running out to fix them, trustees say

Posted: 31 May 2013 02:58 PM PDT

The underlying financial condition of Social Security and Medicare did not change greatly in 2012 and both are still on borrowed time, trustees of the massive, politically sensitive programs said in separate annual reports issued Friday.

Iran's presidential candidates debate justice and a 'resistance economy'

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:09 PM PDT

Iran's eight presidential candidates sought to energize a lackluster election in the first debate of this election cycle, as each tried to stand out among the crowd of approved contenders in the June 14 vote.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi speaks out

Posted: 31 May 2013 12:35 PM PDT

In an unexpected turnaround Aung San Suu Kyi openly criticized aspects of the government's policies this week, resulting in a bit of head scratching among Myanmar-watchers.

Arab Idol: No Bieber fever in Gaza

Posted: 31 May 2013 12:10 PM PDT

Mohammed Assaf, who grew up in this crowded refugee camp performing with his pianist sister, has suddenly become one of the Arab world's hottest singing sensations.

Balance of power in Syria shifting Assad's way

Posted: 31 May 2013 12:50 PM PDT

This citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Qusair-based activist Hadi Abdullah, right, walking on a street hit by the shelling of Hezbolllah Lebanese Shiite group and the Syrian forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria, Friday, May 31, 2013. Syrian troops on Friday attacked a convoy trying to evacuate the wounded from a central town near the border with Lebanon, killing many people, as rebel reinforcements infiltrated the besieged area to fight government forces backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, activists said. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens)BEIRUT (AP) — As hopes for a Syrian peace conference fade and the opposition falls into growing disarray, President Bashar Assad has every reason to project confidence.

Turkish police raid sit-in against tree removal

Posted: 31 May 2013 03:08 PM PDT

Riot police use tear gas and pressurized water to quash a demonstration by hundreds of people trying to prevent the demolition of trees at an Istanbul park, Turkey, Friday, May 31, 2013. Police moved in at dawn Friday to disperse the crowd on the fourth day of the protest against a contentious government plan to revamp Istanbul's main square, Taksim. (AP Photo)ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish riot police used tear gas and water cannon Friday to end a peaceful sit-in by hundreds of people trying to prevent trees from being uprooted in an Istanbul park. The dawn raid ignited a furious anti-government protest that took over the city's main square and spread to other cities.

Poetry and bickering at Iran's presidential debate

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:56 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting on Friday, May 31, 2013, presidential candidates from left, Mohammad Reza Aref, Mohsen Rezaei, and Hasan Rowhani, attend a TV debate, in a state-run TV studio, in Tehran, Iran. A hard-liner calls for "reconciliation with the world" as Iran's ailing economy takes center stage at the first presidential debate by eight candidates to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The hopefuls, vetted by the country's ruling clerics, argue about how to deal with high inflation and unemployment, stemming in part from international sanctions over the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear program. (AP Photo/Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Mehdi Dehghan)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's ailing economy, hit hard by international sanctions over its disputed nuclear program, was supposed to be the center of the first debate Friday between eight hopefuls running for president — but the biggest fight on stage was over the format of the debate itself.

Toronto mayor won post on conservative discontent

Posted: 31 May 2013 04:40 PM PDT

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford answers questions about the three new staffers he has hired at a news conference at city hall in Toronto on Friday, May 31, 2013. Ford, the burly populist who refers to his conservative supporters as "Ford Nation," has transfixed North Americans since published accounts surfaced of a video that apparently shows him puffing from a glass crack pipe. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Michelle Siu)TORONTO (AP) — Mayor Rob Ford stomped to victory in Toronto's elections three years ago on a wave of discontent simmering in the outlying neighborhoods of Canada's quiet, efficient financial capital.

Radical monks, prejudice fuel Myanmar violence

Posted: 31 May 2013 08:27 AM PDT

A man rides a motorcycle near a burned building that housed an orphanage for Muslim children in Lashio, northern Shan State, Myanmar, Thursday, May 30, 2013. Many Buddhists and Muslims stayed locked inside their homes and shops were shuttered after two-days of violence in Lashio town, near the border with China, the latest region to fall prey to the country's spreading sectarian violence. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)LASHIO, Myanmar (AP) — When a huge mob of Buddhist thugs crawled on the roof of Ma Sandar Soe's shop, doused it with gasoline and set it ablaze, the Buddhist businesswoman didn't blame them for burning it to the ground despite seeing it happen with her own eyes.

South African enclave raises old race questions

Posted: 31 May 2013 09:25 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, May 29, 2013 a laborer, who would not give his name is photographed in front of a sculpture of Hendrick Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid in South Africa, while doing a welding job, at the entrance to Kleinforntein, near Pretoria, South Africa. Kleinforntein, a rural enclave that is home to about 1,000 Afrikaner whites, excludes anyone who is not Afrikaans, or a descendant of settlers who arrived from Europe centuries ago who speak the Dutch-based language, in a throwback to the apartheid era that ended with democratic elections in 1994. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)KLEINFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — There are no signs that say "Whites Only."

Wedding bells for Van der Sloot in Peru prison

Posted: 31 May 2013 05:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2012 file photo, Joran van der Sloot looks back from his seat after entering the courtroom for the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru. The convicted Dutch murderer is planning nuptials with a Peruvian woman in the prison where he's serving a 28-year sentence. His attorney Maximo Altez tells The Associated Press they are awaiting permission from penal authorities for a wedding within two weeks in Piedras Gordas prison. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)LIMA, Peru (AP) — Convicted Dutch murderer Joran van der Sloot is in love and planning to marry a Peruvian woman in the prison where he's serving a 28-year sentence, his lawyer said Friday.

Family stunned, confused over U.S. woman's death in Syria

Posted: 31 May 2013 04:59 PM PDT

By Steve Neavling FLINT, Michigan (Reuters) - The daughter of a 33-year-old Michigan woman who converted to Islam and was killed in fighting in Syria this week insisted on Friday her mother was "NOT a terrorist," although the woman's father said he had expressed concerns about her to the FBI. Syrian state media said Nicole Mansfield, a single mother from the Midwestern city of Flint, was killed with two others in an ambush by Syrian government forces on an opposition mission in northwestern Syria. Syrian media also showed the passport of a British man, Ali alManasfi, 22. ...

Liberty Reserve's money laundering spotted in 2009

Posted: 31 May 2013 04:56 PM PDT

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rican officials say the currency transfer firm Liberty Reserve first raised red flags in the Central American country in 2009 when authorities detected money laundering activities.

British businessmen await Cuba's verdict as graft trial ends

Posted: 31 May 2013 04:50 PM PDT

By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - The two-day trial of two top executives of a British investment fund ended in Havana on Friday with a five judge panel expected to deliver its verdict within 10 days. The sentences of two other foreigners tried a week ago have yet to be announced, as the government presses forward with an unprecedented crackdown on corruption. In this week's trial on the communist-run island, Amado Fakhre, a Lebanese-born British citizen and chief executive officer of Coral Capital Group Ltd, faced various bribery charges related mainly to the fund's import business. ...

OPEC keeps oil output target at 30 million barrels

Posted: 31 May 2013 04:46 PM PDT

Iran's Minister of Petroleum Rostam Ghasemi, left, and Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh listen to journalists prior to the start of a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Friday, May. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)VIENNA (AP) — OPEC oil ministers reached quick agreement Friday on keeping output targets steady but deferred solutions on how to deal with surging U.S. shale oil production and internal rivalries denting the organization's image of unity.

Woman's jailing in Mexico highlights tourist risks

Posted: 31 May 2013 04:46 PM PDT

Yanira Maldonado, 42, left, accompanied by her husband, Gary, center, speaks to an official after being released from a prison on the outskirts of Nogales, Mexico late Thursday, May 30, 2013. Maldonado, jailed in Mexico on a drug-smuggling charge, was released after court officials reviewed her case. She was arrested by the Mexican military last week after they found nearly 12 pounds (5.4 kilograms) of pot under her seat on the commercial bus traveling from Mexico to Arizona. (AP Photo/Cristina Silva)PHOENIX (AP) — The weeklong detention of an American woman after Mexican authorities said they found 12 pounds of marijuana under her bus seat illustrates just one of the perils Americans face while traveling in Mexico.

IRS faces more heat from watchdog report amid Tea Party fracas

Posted: 31 May 2013 04:44 PM PDT

Issa holds a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on alleged targeting of political groups seeking tax-exempt status from by IRS, in WashingtonBy Kim Dixon WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new chief of the Internal Revenue Service conceded on Friday there was "inappropriate" spending on a 2010 agency conference, a subject set to be the focus of one of three U.S. congressional hearings next week at which the IRS will likely face more criticism. The IRS is already embroiled in a major political scandal over extra scrutiny it gave to conservative groups seeking tax-free status, and Republicans in the House of Representatives are likely to keep the White House on the defensive over the agency's actions. ...

2 Mexico kidnap victims sons of drug traffickers

Posted: 31 May 2013 04:38 PM PDT

Photo composite of images taken from flyers made by relatives showing ten of the eleven young people that were kidnapped in broad daylight from an after hours bar in Mexico City last Sunday May 26, 2013. From left to right, top row; Josue Piedra Moreno, Aaron Piedra Moreno, Rafael Rojas, Alan Omar Athiencia Barragon, Jennifer Robles Gonzalez. From left to right, bottom row; Jerzy Ortiz Ponce, Said Sanchez Garcia, Guadalupe Morales Vargas, Eulogio Foseca Arreola, Gabriela Tellez Zamudio. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mothers of two of the 11 young people kidnapped from a Mexico City bar in a shocking, daylight abduction acknowledged Friday that the youths' fathers are serving prison sentences for drug-related crimes.

NKorean farmers planting rice with profits in mind

Posted: 31 May 2013 03:46 PM PDT

In this Thursday, May 23, 2013 photo, a North Korea farmer bank starts a tractor in a field along the highway between Pyongyang and Kaesong. Farmers in North Korea have confirmed that they have begun carrying out new economic policies designed to boost productivity by giving managers and workers financial incentives. Some foreign analysts say the moves are reminiscent of early reform in China in the late 1970s. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)HAMHUNG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean farmers knee deep in muddy paddies across the country have a new incentive during this year's crucial rice planting season: possible bonuses that are part of an economic shift echoing ally China's steps three decades ago toward embracing capitalism.

Toronto mayor rode wave of conservative discontent

Posted: 31 May 2013 03:35 PM PDT

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford answers questions about the three new staffers he has hired at a news conference at city hall in Toronto on Friday, May 31, 2013. Ford, the burly populist who refers to his conservative supporters as "Ford Nation," has transfixed North Americans since published accounts surfaced of a video that apparently shows him puffing from a glass crack pipe. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Michelle Siu)TORONTO (AP) — Mayor Rob Ford stomped to victory in Toronto's elections three years ago on a wave of discontent simmering in the outlying neighborhoods of Canada's quiet, efficient financial capital.

Egyptian tourist critically injured in Istanbul protests: medics

Posted: 31 May 2013 03:21 PM PDT

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An Egyptian tourist is in a critical condition after being hit by a police gas canister in a crackdown on anti-government protests in Istanbul on Friday, a doctors' association said. The 34-year-old woman was undergoing an operation after suffering a brain haemorrhage, Istanbul Medical Chamber board member Huseyin Demirduzen told Reuters. A total of 12 people, including a pro-Kurdish MP, suffered trauma injuries and hundreds suffered respiratory problems due to the effects of tear gas during the clashes around Istanbul's central Taksim Square, Demirduzen said. ...

Eurogroup head: Greece to wait on debt relief

Posted: 31 May 2013 02:41 PM PDT

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the finance ministers of the 17 European Union countries that use the euro, answers questions during a join news conference with Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras, in Athens, on Friday, May 31, 2013. Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem credited Greece with the efforts it is making to get its economy back into shape and laid out the hope of a recovery across the 17 EU countries that use the euro in the next year. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Eurozone countries will not consider possible debt relief for Greece until April 2014, the euro currency bloc's head said Friday on a visit to Athens.

Lawyer: Van der Sloot getting married in Peru

Posted: 31 May 2013 02:23 PM PDT

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Convicted Dutch murderer Joran van der Sloot is planning nuptials with a Peruvian woman in the prison where he's serving a 28-year sentence.

Guards at Libyan oil field protest, force shutdown

Posted: 31 May 2013 02:11 PM PDT

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Guards at a southern Libyan oil field have shut down the facility in protest over back pay and are demanding better living conditions, an oil official said Friday.

U.S. imposes sanctions on Iran's petrochemical industry

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:54 PM PDT

The Nouri petrochemical plant is seen in AssalouyehBy Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States blacklisted on Friday eight companies in Iran's petrochemical industry, sending a warning to the Islamic Republic's global customers as Washington strives to cut off funds to the country's nuclear program. Petrochemical companies owned or controlled by the Iranian government that are on the Treasury Department list include Bandar Imam Petrochemical Co, Bou Ali Sina Petrochemical Co and Mobin Petrochemical Co. ...

Ex-president blames Yemen leaders for power outage

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:51 PM PDT

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's ousted president is blaming the country's new government for widespread power outages that have hit the nation in the past weeks, saying the authorities are failing in their job.

Iran denounces US sentencing over Saudi envoy Plot

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:02 PM PDT

In this courtroom sketch, Manssor Arbabsiar, center, stands with his attorneys Thursday, May 30, 2013, in Manhattan Federal Court, in New York where the judge sentenced the former used car salesman from Corpus Christi, Texas, to 25 years in prison in a failed conspiracy to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States by bombing a Washington restaurant. At left, Federal Defender Sabrina Shroff put her hand on Arbabsiar's back as U.S. District Judge John Keenan, not shown, read the sentence. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's foreign ministry has denounced the U.S. for sentencing an Iranian-American to 25 years in prison over a plot to kill the Saudi envoy to Washington.

Protests spread after Turkish police raid sit-in

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:01 PM PDT

Riot police use tear gas and pressurized water to quash a demonstration by hundreds of people trying to prevent the demolition of trees at an Istanbul park, Turkey, Friday, May 31, 2013. Police moved in at dawn Friday to disperse the crowd on the fourth day of the protest against a contentious government plan to revamp Istanbul's main square, Taksim. (AP Photo)ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish riot police used tear gas and water cannon Friday to end a peaceful sit-in by hundreds of people trying to prevent trees from being uprooted in an Istanbul park. The dawn raid ignited a furious anti-government protest that took over the city center and spread to other cities.

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