2013年6月10日星期一

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Iranian diplomat detained for 3 months without lawyer: sources

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 03:45 PM PDT

Prison guard stands along corridor in Tehran's Evin prisonBy Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior Iranian diplomat linked to Iran's reformists, who has been detained at Tehran's notorious Evin Prison for three months, has been denied access to his attorney for the entire time, sources familiar with the case told Reuters on Monday. Bagher Asadi, who was previously a senior diplomat at Iran's U.N. mission in New York and most recently a director at the secretariat of the so-called D8 group of developing nations in Istanbul, was arrested in mid-March in Tehran for unknown reasons, sources said last month. ...


Israel signals readiness to limit settlement building for peace

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 11:28 AM PDT

Houses are seen in a general view of the West Bank Jewish settlement of EfratJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted on Monday that Israel was ready to confine Jewish settlement expansion to the blocs of occupied territory it wants to keep under any peace deal with the Palestinians, in a nod to U.S. efforts to revive stalled negotiations. Settlement construction was cited as a key reason for the breakdown of U.S.-sponsored peace talks in 2010, and a stumbling block to Secretary of State John Kerry's latest efforts to revive negotiations towards founding a Palestinian state in land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war. ...


Government holds high-level meetings on Syria, including on arming rebels

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 03:50 PM PDT

People run for cover after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa province, eastern SyriaBy Arshad Mohammed and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States could decide as early as this week whether to arm Syrian rebels, U.S. officials said on Monday, as Secretary of State John Kerry put off a Middle East trip to attend meetings on the subject. The battlefield has tilted against the rebels in the Syrian civil war as Lebanese Hezbollah has entered the fray on the side of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, helping his forces retake the strategic town of Qusair last week. However, the White House has debated for months whether to give arms to the rebels and a U.S. ...


Bombs and battles hit northern Iraq, more than 70 dead

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:46 PM PDT

A member of Iraq security personnel inspects the site of a car bomb attack at Jadidat al-Shatt in DiyalaBy Patrick Markey BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents attacked cities across Iraq on Monday with car bombs, suicide blasts and gun battles that killed more than 70 people in unrest that has deepened fears of a return to civil war. No group claimed responsibility for the day-long attacks, most of them in northern Iraq, but officials blame much of the violence that has killed nearly 2,000 people since April on Sunni Islamist insurgents linked to al Qaeda's local wing. ...


Mali government, Tuaregs reach ceasefire deal 'in principle'

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:05 PM PDT

By Mathieu Bonkoungou OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - A Malian government delegation and Tuareg separatist rebels have reached an agreement "in principle" that would allow planned elections in July to go ahead in the disputed northern Kidal region, a senior mediator in the talks said late on Monday. Negotiations in the capital of neighboring Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, opened on Saturday, after Mali's army last week began advancing towards Kidal, the MNLA rebels' last stronghold in the remote northeast, in the first direct fighting in months. ...

Egypt 'war' talk raises Ethiopia Nile dam stakes

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:29 PM PDT

Egyptians youth dances and enjoy a Nile River cruise in CairoBy Tom Perry and Alastair Macdonald CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt does not want war with Ethiopia but will keep "all options open", President Mohamed Mursi said on Monday, turning up the heat in a dispute over a giant dam Addis Ababa is building across the Nile. In a televised speech to cheering Islamist supporters, Mursi voiced understanding for the development needs of poorer nations upstream in the Nile basin, but rammed home in emotive language that Egyptians will not accept any reduction in the flow of the river on which their civilization has been based for millennia. ...


Santa Monica shooting raises specter of mental health, again

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:12 PM PDT

The mental health of John Zawahri, accused of fatally shooting five people in Santa Monica, Calif., Friday before being killed by law enforcement, is increasingly becoming a focal point in the search for larger lessons behind yet another mass shooting.

Israeli policy pivot strengthens grasp on East Jerusalem

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:23 PM PDT

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat recently advised the city's Arab residents to forget about ever having a capital in the predominantly Palestinian eastern part of the city.

Booz Allen Hamilton, federal contractor

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 01:55 PM PDT

Edward Snowden, the man who leaked details of the National Security Agency's secret PRISM data-mining program and the use of broad warrants to monitor vast amounts of data passing through US telecommunications companies like Verizon, was working as an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton at the time of the leaks.

Edward Snowden leaks: why Obama has a political cushion

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 01:51 PM PDT

In an odd way, Edward Snowden has done President Obama a favor.

Canadian, nicknamed 'Black Widow,' pleads guilty

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 03:30 PM PDT

SYDNEY, Nova Scotia (AP) — A Canadian woman nicknamed the "Black Widow" for her ability to persuade grieving widowers to marry her pleaded guilty on Monday to drugging a man she married days earlier.

Brazil govt to perform crash tests after AP report

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2012 file photo, rescue workers remove a man from a Ford Ka vehicle after an accident in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Ford Ka hatchback sold in Europe scored a high safety rating of four out of five stars when it was tested by Euro NCAP in 2008; its Latin American version scored one star. Ford acknowledged that particular Ka is built on an outdated platform, and said it cannot be compared with the European version of the same name. The Brazilian government says it's building its first auto crash test facility to try to improve the safety record of cars sold in the country, hoping to have the facility operating by 2017. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File)SAO PAULO (AP) — After a decade of spiking fatalities from passenger car wrecks, the Brazilian government said Monday it plans to build its first auto crash test facility in an effort to improve the poor safety record of vehicles built and sold in the world's fourth-largest automobile market.


Iraqi Shiite fighters' Syria role raises tensions

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 11:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, May 17, 2013 file photo, Iraqi mourners carry a coffin containing a Shiite fighter killed in Syria, with the Arabic that reads, "O, Zeinab," during a funeral in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi Shiite fighters are playing an increasingly prominent role in neighboring Syria's civil war, exacerbating Iraq's own fraught sectarian tensions even as violence in the country spikes to its highest level in years. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi Shiite fighter's family is urging him to stop risking his life by traveling to Syria, saying he's done his part defending the holy shrine of Sayida Zeinab outside Damascus. Abu Mohammed al-Moussawi isn't listening.


2 out of 3 people face hunger as Haiti woes mount

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 08:50 AM PDT

In this May 22, 2013 photo, a malnourished 5-year-old Dieufort Jean stands in his kitchen holding a spoon as he waits for a meal in the community of Mabriole near the town of Belle Anse in Haiti. Mabriole town official Geneus Lissage fears that death is imminent for these children if Haitian authorities and humanitarian workers don't do more to stem the hunger problems. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)BELLE ANSE, Haiti (AP) — The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast.


Iran's reformists find spark in presidential race

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:21 PM PDT

Female supporters of the Iranian Presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani, a former Iran's nuclear negotiator, attend a campaign rally at the western city of Sanandaj, Iran, Monday, June 10, 2013. He talks about easing the political restrictions imposed by Iranian authorities. He told crowds that rebuilding ties with Western governments is better than denouncing them as irreconcilable enemies. At a rally Monday, crowds gathered for candidate Hasan Rowhani broke out in chants for the release of political prisoners. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — He talks about easing the political restrictions imposed by Iranian authorities. He tells crowds that rebuilding ties with Western governments is better than denouncing them as irreconcilable enemies.


Hong Kong is unlikely refuge for US secrets leaker

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 11:22 AM PDT

People stand in front of the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong Monday, June 10, 2013. A 29-year-old contractor who claims to have worked at the National Security Agency and the CIA allowed himself to be revealed as the source of disclosures about the U.S. government's secret surveillance programs, risking prosecution even as he was holed up in a Hong Kong hotel room. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)HONG KONG (AP) — By holing up in Hong Kong, the American defense contractor who says he leaked information on classified U.S. surveillance programs has found an unlikely refuge from extradition.


Contractor who leaked NSA files drops out of sight, faces legal battle

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 04:23 PM PDT

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, an analyst with a U.S. defence contractor, is pictured during an interview with the Guardian in his hotel room in Hong KongBy John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A contractor at the National Security Agency who leaked details of top-secret U.S. surveillance programs dropped out of sight in Hong Kong on Monday ahead of a likely push by the U.S. government to have him sent back to the United States to face charges. ...


German WWII bomber raised from English Channel

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 03:19 PM PDT

The remains of a crashed World War II Dornier bomber, the only surviving German Second World War Dornier Do 17 bomber, rests on a barge after being raised from the English Channel off Deal, southern England, Monday June 10, 2013. The aircraft was shot down off the Kent coast more than 70 years ago during the Battle of Britain and the project is believed to be the biggest recovery of its kind in British waters. Attempts by the RAF Museum to raise the relic over the last few weeks have been hit by strong winds but the operation was finally successful. (AP Photo/PA, Gareth Fuller) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVELONDON (AP) — A British museum on Monday successfully recovered a German bomber that had been shot down over the English Channel during World War II.


Canada to snuff out medical marijuana production in homes

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:53 PM PDT

Marijuana is pictured for sale during the annual 4/20 day, which promotes the use of marijuana, in VancouverBy Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canada, a pioneer in the use of medical marijuana, will take legal production out of private homes next year as it seeks to address more than a decade of neighborhood spats and criminal activity. Health Canada will also snuff out its own production, which has been another legal source of the drug, and leave supplies solely to licensed growers in the private sector. ...


Gulf Arabs pledge sanctions against Hezbollah members over Syria

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:48 PM PDT

DUBAI (Reuters) - Gulf Arab states on Monday promised sanctions against members of the Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah in retaliation for its intervention in Syria's civil war in support of President Bashar al-Assad. Both Sunni and Shi'ite Arab states long backed Hezbollah as a bulwark against Israel, but the Arab League, heavily influenced by Sunni-led Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, last week strongly condemned Hezbollah's intervention, highlighting how Syria's war is widening sectarian divisions in the region. ...

Mandela remains in serious but stable condition

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:33 PM PDT

FILE - This July 18, 2012 file photo shows former South African President Nelson Mandela during the celebration of his 94th birthday in Qunu, South Africa. Mandela's condition remained serious but stable on Monday, June 10, 2013, his third day in a Pretoria hospital, the South African government said. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela was in serious but stable condition in a Pretoria hospital for the third day Monday with a recurring lung infection, and a foundation led by retired archbishop Desmond Tutu described the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero as an "extraordinary gift" to South Africa.


UK lawmaker denies he broke lobbying rules

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:29 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — A British lawmaker says he will temporarily step down as chairman of a parliamentary committee after undercover reporters appeared to show him claiming he could use his role to help a company.

Egypt warns all options open for Ethiopia Nile dam

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:28 PM PDT

An Egyptian fishes with a net in the Nile River, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Egyptian officials tried to cool tensions with Ethiopia Wednesday over the new Nile River dam project by highlighting its CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president on Monday hardened his stance against Ethiopia and its construction of a Nile dam, warning that "all options are open" in dealing with the project that threatens to leave Egypt with a dangerous water shortage.


Merkel, Obama to discuss NSA surveillance program

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:24 PM PDT

This undated photo made available by Google shows failed drives that are destroyed at a data center in St. Ghislain, Belgium. Google says it destroys malfunctioning storage drives on site to protect user data. (AP Photo/Google, Connie Zhou)BERLIN (AP) — Germany's chancellor will raise the issue of the U.S. National Security Agency's eavesdropping on European communications when she meets President Barack Obama here next week — the latest sign of the international backlash over America's sweeping electronic surveillance programs.


Polish PM rejects move to Brussels job for now

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:09 PM PDT

Poland's PM Tusk welcomes France's President Hollande during the Visegrad Group meeting in WarsawBy Adrian Krajewski WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday he wanted to fight for another term in office, quashing speculation that he was preparing a bid to take over as the next European Commission President. Tusk has strong pro-European credentials and had been seen by many officials in EU capitals as a leading candidate to replace serving Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso when his term ends in 2014. But he told Polish public television channel TVP2 he intended to lead his Civic Platform party to victory in parliamentary elections in 2015. ...


Correction: Nicaragua-Canal story

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:08 PM PDT

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — In a story June 8 about Nicaragua's plans to build a canal, The Associated Press misidentified the university where Jason Bittner is director of the Center for Urban Transportation Research. It is the University of South Florida, not the University of Southern Florida.

Iraq hit by wave of bomb attacks, killing dozens

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 01:13 PM PDT

Civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack at al-Ameen neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 8, 2013. Iraqi authorities say the car bomb explosion has killed and wounded people in a commercial street in the Shiite neighborhood of al-Ameen, southeastern Baghdad. Several shops were damaged in the attack. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of car bombings rocked central and northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and extending the deadliest eruption of violence to hit the country in years.


Turkish leader Erdogan to meet Istanbul protesters

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 12:53 PM PDT

A woman wearing a traditional head-scarf is framed by Turkish flags depicting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in Istanbul's Taksim squareBy Gulsen Solaker ANKARA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to meet on Wednesday with leaders of the movement whose peaceful protests in Istanbul spiraled into a wave of anti-government demonstrations across Turkey. Erdogan has repeatedly dismissed the protesters as "capulcular", or riff-raff. But Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Monday leaders of the Gezi Park Platform group had asked to meet him in an effort to end unrest in which police have blasted demonstrators with tear gas and water cannon. ...


South Sudan urges Sudan to keep security pact

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 12:48 PM PDT

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Sudan's threat to shut down South Sudan's oil exports over its alleged support for rebels in Sudan will not spark a return to armed hostility as long as Sudan respects a security agreement reached earlier this year, a South Sudanese military official said Monday.

Bombs, rockets hit north Iraq's Mosul police HQ, 24 killed

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 12:42 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five car bombs, including several detonated by suicide attackers, and rockets hit a police headquarters in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least 24 people, mostly policemen and soldiers, police and medical sources said. Iraq is facing a surge in violence officials blame on al Qaeda's local wing and Sunni Islamist insurgents determined to drag the country into a sectarian civil war. (Reporting by Baghdad newsroom; writing by Patrick Markey)

Prince Philip spends 92nd birthday in hospital

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 12:38 PM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrives at the London Clinic, Monday June 10, 2013, in central London, where her husband the Duke of Edinburgh is recuperating following an operation on his abdomen. The Duke of Edinburgh is "comfortable and in good spirits" following the exploratory operation, Buckingham Palace said early Monday evening. (AP Photo/PA, Lewis Whyld) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVELONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II visited her husband, Prince Philip, at a London hospital on Monday, where he was spending his 92nd birthday recovering from abdominal surgery.


Turkey premier to meet with Istanbul protesters

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 12:33 PM PDT

A Turkish protester sleeps in Kugulu Park in Turkish capital, Ankara, Monday, June 10, 2013. In a series of increasingly belligerent speeches to cheering supporters Sunday, Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched a verbal attack on the tens of thousands of anti-government protesters who flooded the streets for a 10th day, accusing them of creating an environment of terror. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's prime minister will meet with a group of protesters occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square this week, the deputy prime minister said Monday, as the government sought a way out of the impasse that has led to hundreds of protests in dozens of cities.


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