2013年7月15日星期一

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Police fire tear gas in Cairo, U.S. envoy spurned by parties

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:35 PM PDT

A pro-democracy protester burn image of Lieutenant- General El Sisi during demonstration against what they said was a military coup that ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, in SanaaBy Ulf Laessing and Tom Finn CAIRO (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas in central Cairo on Monday when protesters calling for the reinstatement of the ousted Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, scuffled with drivers and passers-by annoyed that they had blocked major roads. Supporters of Mursi, Egypt's first freely elected president, threw rocks at police near Ramses Street, one of the capital's main thoroughfares, and on the Sixth of October Bridge over the Nile in the first outbreak of violence in Egypt in a week. ...


Kerry to discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace with Arabs

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 01:26 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry makes statement regarding meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Bandar Seri BegawanBy Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will discuss his effort to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks with Arab officials in Jordan on Wednesday, according to the State Department, which declined to comment on whether a resumption may be at hand. Kerry will leave Washington on Monday night to fly to Amman to see officials from Jordan and the Arab League, which put forward a peace proposal in 2002 that offered full Arab recognition of Israel if it gave up land seized in a 1967 war and accepted a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees. ...


Russia, China block U.N. condemnation of Iran missile tests

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:33 PM PDT

New medium-range missile is fired from naval ship during Velayat-90 war game on Sea of Oman near Strait of Hormuz in southern IranBy Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. Security Council committee is split over whether Iran's missile tests last year violated U.N. sanctions imposed on Tehran because of its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Australia's U.N. envoy said on Monday. That division effectively rules out any expansion of sanctions against Tehran over the tests for the time being, U.N. envoys said on condition of anonymity. Diplomats said it was Russia, backed by China, that refused to declare Tehran's missile launches a violation of the U.N. restrictions, as a U.N. ...


Russia's Putin wants Snowden to go, but asylum not ruled out

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:46 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits museum in ProkhorovkaBy Alexei Anishchuk GOGLAND ISLAND, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he wanted Edward Snowden to leave after three weeks holed up at a Moscow airport, but also signaled that the former U.S. spy agency contractor was moving towards meeting Russia's asylum conditions. Snowden flew to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport from Hong Kong on June 23 in the hope of travelling on to a country that would offer him protection from the United States after he divulged details of U.S. government intelligence programs. ...


U.S. lawmakers' doubts ease on arming Syrian rebels: official

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:51 PM PDT

A Free Syrian Army fighter sits on a sofa in the old city of AleppoBy Susan Cornwell and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has made progress in overcoming lawmakers' objections to its plans to arm Syrian rebels, but some details remain unresolved, a U.S. official said on Monday. Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee who questioned the wisdom of arming the insurgents have tentatively agreed the administration can go ahead with its plans, but asked for updates as the covert effort proceeds, a senior administration official told Reuters. There was no immediate comment from the committee. ...


France confirms body found in Mali is French hostage

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:24 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - France confirmed on Monday that a body found in northern Mali was that of the French geologist Philippe Verdon, taken hostage in November 2011. Al Qaeda's North African arm, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), said in March that it had beheaded Verdon in response to France's military intervention in Mali. "The remains will be transferred to our country as soon as possible and autopsies will allow us to know the cause of death," President Francois Hollande said in a statement. ...

Leader of Mexico's Zetas drug cartel captured

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 05:03 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A U.S. federal official says Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, head of the brutal Zetas drug cartel, has been captured in northern Mexico.

Even funerals on hold in blast-ravaged Quebec town

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 04:59 PM PDT

A memorial is pictured inside Sainte-Agnes church in Lac MeganticBy Phil Wahba LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - A small Quebec town devastated by the deadliest North American rail crash in more than 20 years faces a slow and painful return to a more normal way of life, with even the funerals of the dozens of victims likely to be delayed by weeks or months. About 50 people are believed to have died when a runaway train with 72 oil tanker cars crashed and exploded in the center of the Quebec lakeside town just over a week ago, although not all the bodies have yet been recovered, and only 11 have so far been identified. ...


Kerry set to return to roiling Middle East

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 04:46 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is returning to the Middle East this week amid rising tensions in Egypt and deteriorating conditions in Syria that threaten to put his signature effort to re-launch Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on the back burner.

Chile court rules for Indians against Barrick Gold

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:50 PM PDT

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Chilean appeals court ruled against the world's largest gold mining company on Monday, favoring Chilean Indians who accuse Barrick Gold Corp. of contaminating their water downstream and creating more doubts about the future of the world's highest gold mine.

Survivors of Quebec train crash to file class action suit

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:46 PM PDT

Firefighters spray wagons at the site of the train wreck in Lac-MeganticBy Phil Wahba LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - Two residents of the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic, where a runaway train derailed and exploded into a wall of fire that killed 50 people, have launched a class action lawsuit to win compensation for the small community. The plaintiffs, Guy Ouellet and Yannick Gagné, are seeking damages after the Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway train of 72 oil tanker cars crashed on July 6 into the center of the lakeside town near the Maine border, destroying buildings and businesses, and leaving a community in mourning. ...


American diplomat: US not backing a side in Egypt

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:43 PM PDT

This image released by the office of the Egyptian Presidency shows U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, center, meeting with Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour, right, as U.S. ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson listens in, second left, at the presidential palace in Cairo, Monday, July 15, 2013. The senior U.S. diplomat held talks Monday with Egypt's interim leaders as well as the head of the military in the highest level visit by an American official since the Egyptian army ousted the country's first democratically elected leader. The two-day visit by Burns to Cairo comes nearly two weeks after Islamist President Mohammed Morsi was overthrown by the military following days of mass protests. Washington has been sharply criticized by both Morsi's supporters and opponents for what each side perceives as support for their rival's position. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)CAIRO (AP) — The most senior U.S. official to visit Egypt since its elected president was ousted said Monday that Washington is committed to helping the Arab country succeed in its "second chance" at democracy, adding this can only happen with the participation of the Muslim Brotherhood.


Two killed as ethnic clashes grip eastern Guinea town

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:36 PM PDT

CONAKRY (Reuters) - At least two people were killed and six others injured in clashes in south-eastern Guinea on Monday, a resident and a police source said, underscoring ethnic tensions simmering in the country in the run-up to parliamentary elections. Mobs from rival ethnic groups took to the streets and gunfire rang out across Nzerekore, Guinea's second largest town, after a man accused of being a thief was killed, residents said. "The situation is still very tense as I speak to you," the police source, who asked not to be named, told Reuters. ...

Italy’s First Black Minister Suffers Even More Racial Abuse

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 03:33 PM PDT

This April, Cécile Kyenge — a Congolese immigrant who has lived in Italy since 1983 — was appointed as Italy's Minister for Integration, a position that made her the first black Cabinet minister in Italian history. But what should have be remembered as a momentous triumph of racial progress in Italy has turned into a national embarrassment. In the two and half months since Kyenge accepted her new post, she has been subject to an almost unceasing barrage of racism from both sections of the Italian public and fellow politicians.

EU sets sanction deadline in Iceland mackerel dispute

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:52 PM PDT

EU Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Commissioner Damanaki addresses a news conference in BrusselsBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's fisheries chief said she will decide by the end of the month whether to propose sanctions against Iceland in a row over mackerel quotas, which could see the island's fishermen banned from landing catches at EU ports. The warning on Monday by EU fisheries commissioner Maria Damanaki came on the eve of a visit to Brussels by Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, who in May suspended Iceland's bid to join the 28-nation bloc, pending a referendum. ...


Mexico sets $100 billion rail, ports, roads plan

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:51 PM PDT

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto attends a ceremony marking the anniversary of the federal police at the federal police intelligence center in Mexico City, Friday, July 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government announced plans Monday to invest about $100 billion in rail, road, telecom and port projects over the next five years, including Mexico's first high-speed rail links.


Spain PM resists resignation demands amid scandal

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:48 PM PDT

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy attends a bilateral signing with Poland at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, Monday, July 15, 2013. Conservative Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is certain to face a barrage of questions in a press conference following newspaper publication of alleged text message exchanges between him and a now jailed former party treasurer that have prompted opposition demands for the premier to resign. (AP Photo/Paul White)MADRID (AP) — Spain's prime minister on Monday brushed off demands he should resign after text messages emerged showing him comforting a political party treasurer under investigation over a slush fund and secret Swiss bank accounts. The spectacle of alleged greed and corruption has enraged Spaniards hurting from austerity and sky high unemployment with no end in sight.


Nigerian activists: Arrest Sudan leader for crimes

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 02:08 PM PDT

President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan, left, and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir right, shake hands before an African Union summit on health focusing on HIV and AIDS in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, July 15, 2013, Angry that Nigeria is hosting a fugitive accused of genocide and war crimes, human rights lawyers Monday asked the Federal High Court to issue an arrest warrant for Sudan's leader Omar al-Bashir. Nigerian civil rights activists sent an urgent request to the International Criminal Court to refer the Nigerian government to the U.N. Security Council for failing to detain al-Bashir and surrender him to the court in The Hague for trial, said the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project. (AP Photo/Sunday Aghaeze)ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Angry that Nigeria is hosting a fugitive accused of genocide and war crimes, human rights lawyers Monday asked the Federal High Court to issue an arrest warrant for Sudan's leader Omar al-Bashir.


France confirms body found in Mali is hostage

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 01:59 PM PDT

PARIS (AP) — President Francois Hollande's office formally confirmed on Monday the death of a French hostage in Mali, ending the uncertainty about the status of one of six French citizens captured by al-Qaida's North African arm.

Salvage crews rush for 1 chance to move Concordia

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 01:49 PM PDT

The Costa Concordia cruise ship lies on its side in the Tuscan Island of Isola del Giglio, Monday, July 15, 2013. Salvage crews are working against time to right and remove the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship, which is steadily compressing down on itself from sheer weight onto its granite seabed perch off the Tuscan island of Giglio. Salvage master Nick Sloane said Monday that the Concordia has compressed some 3 meters (10 feet) since it came to rest on the rocks Jan. 13, 2012 after ramming a jagged reef during a stunt ordered by the captain that cost the lives of 32 people. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)GIGLIO, Italy (AP) — Salvage crews are working against time to remove the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship, which is slowly being crushed under its own weight on its perch of granite seabed off the Tuscan island of Giglio. Officials said Monday that if this attempt fails, there won't be a second chance.


Syrian refugees in Egypt swept up in turmoil

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 01:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, file photo, Egyptian and Syrian protesters, with a Syrian revolutionary flag, protest against Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his visit to Egypt for the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at the Iranian diplomatic representation office in Cairo, Egypt. Once welcomed with open arms in Egypt, Syrians have increasingly found themselves the targets of hate speech and intimidation in the country since the military's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi on July 3, 2013. The backlash stems from the backing Morsi offered to the Syrian opposition during his year in office, as well as the support his Muslim Brotherhood provided to some of the refugees, often in the form of cheap housing and food aid. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials turn back a planeload of Syrians at Cairo airport. A popular presenter on Egyptian television warns Syrians to steer clear of protests or face the consequences. An Egyptian state school refuses admission to Syrian children.


Myanmar leader pledges prisoner release on visit to Britain

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 01:25 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron greets the President of Myanmar Thein Sein in Downing Street, central LondonBy Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - President Thein Sein, the first leader of Myanmar to visit Britain in more than 25 years, promised to release all his country's political prisoners by the year's end after his host, Prime Minister David Cameron, pressed him to speed up reforms. Cameron, who visited the former military dictatorship last year, asked Thein Sein to ensure the constitution was changed to allow opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to contest a presidential election in 2015 and urged him to halt inter-ethnic violence against Myanmar's Muslim minority. ...


Cairo security forces fire tear gas after scuffles

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:56 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police fired tear gas in central Cairo on Monday after scuffles broke out between supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi and locals in and around Ramses Street, eyewitnesses said. It was the first violent confrontation involving pro-Mursi protesters for a week. One witness said the police fired tear gas at the Mursi supporters after they cut off access to Ramses Street, one of Cairo's main thoroughfares, and the October 6th Bridge across the Nile, angering drivers and passers-by and leading to scuffles. ...

Hundreds protest Israeli Bedouin resettlement plan

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:50 PM PDT

A protester shouts slogans as others hold Palestinian flags during a demonstration against an Israel's plan to relocate nearly 30,000 Bedouins from the southern Negev desert, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, July 15, 2013. Hundreds of protesters have staged demonstrations in Israel against a plan to resettle nomadic Bedouin Arabs in the southern Negev desert. Arab rights groups called the protests. They are fighting a bill that would move thousands of Bedouins into government-recognized villages. Bedouins charge that the plan would confiscate their land and destroy their way of life. Israel says the moves are necessary to provide basic services that many Bedouins lack. The red letters in the sign at center reads ,"Bedouin." (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of protesters have staged demonstrations in Israel against a plan to resettle nomadic Bedouin Arabs in the southern Negev desert.


Cuban, US diplomats increasingly allowed to travel

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2013 file photo, Cubans wait to enter the U.S. Interests Section to apply for U.S. visas in Havana, Cuba. Travel is part of a larger, slow-moving thaw between the two countries and comes as both prepare for a sit-down talk on migration issues on Wednesday, July 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)MIAMI (AP) — For decades, Cuban and U.S. diplomats have faced strict limits on their travel within the Cold War enemy countries.


Rebel infighting in Syria undermining revolt

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:41 PM PDT

FILE - This Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows rebels from al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra waving their brigade flag as they stand on a Syrian air force helicopter, at Taftanaz air base that was captured by the rebels, in Idlib province, northern Syria. Arabic on the flag reads, "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet, Jabhat al-Nusra." On Syria's front lines, rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad have turned against each other in a fight between al-Qaida-linked groups and more mainstream factions that has stalled advances on the battlefield and thrown the rebellion into turmoil. After violent clashes and the assassination of two rebel commanders, one of whom was beheaded, more moderate factions are openly accusing the hard-liners they once saw as allies of trying to take over the movement. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN, File)BEIRUT (AP) — On Syria's front lines, al-Qaida fighters and more mainstream Syrian rebels have turned against each other in a power struggle that has undermined the effort to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.


Loblaw bid for Shoppers would expand Weston family empire

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:37 PM PDT

Executive chairman of Loblaw Companies Limited Galen G Weston holds his son Graydon, as they pose with W. Galen Weston (R) in TorontoBy Andrea Hopkins TORONTO (Reuters) - The bid by Canada's largest grocer for its largest pharmacy chain is just the latest move by the Weston family, Canada's second-richest clan, to expand a food and clothing empire that began 131 years ago with a Toronto bread factory. The C$12.4 billion friendly bid from the Weston family's Loblaw Companies Ltd for Shoppers Drug Mart Corp would add another jewel to a crown that already includes Selfridges and Fortnum & Mason in Britain, upscale retailers like Holt Renfrew in Canada and Brown Thomas in Ireland, and bakeries and groceries across North ...


Syrian regime attacks on villages in north kill 29

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 12:27 PM PDT

In this image taken from leaked video obtained by Ugarit News and posted on Monday, July 15, 2013, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show forces loyal to President Bashar Assad firing rockets into Homs, Syria. After seizing the momentum in recent months in Syria's civil war, President Bashar Assad's forces are on the offensive against the rebels on several fronts, including in Idlib province along the border with Turkey. Government forces are in firm control of the provincial capital of same name, while dozens of rebel brigades control the countryside.(AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government troops pounded rebel-held villages around the northern city of Idlib with rockets, artillery and airstrikes, killing at least 29 people, including six children, activists said Monday.


Asiana to sue San Francisco TV station over names

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:24 AM PDT

In this Saturday, July 6, 2013 aerial photo, firefighters, lower center, stand by a tarpaulin sheet covering the body of a Chinese teen struck by a fire truck during the emergency response to the crash of Asiana Flight 214 at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. The girl was hit by a fire truck while covered with firefighting foam, authorities said Friday, July 12, revealing a startling detail that suggested she could have survived the crash only to die in its chaotic aftermath. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Asiana announced Monday that it will sue a San Francisco TV station that it said damaged the airline's reputation by using bogus and racially offensive names for four pilots on a plane that crashed earlier this month in San Francisco.


Nigerian activists demand arrest of Sudan's Bashir in court

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:17 AM PDT

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir walks out of a hotel in AbujaLAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian activists filed a suit with the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday demanding that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir be arrested and handed over to the International Criminal Court, which is seeking him on an international arrest warrant. Bashir arrived in Nigeria on Sunday for an African Union summit on HIV/AIDS, angering human rights groups who said he should not have been made welcome. Bashir has been charged by ICC prosecutors with masterminding genocide and other crimes during the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, which has left some 200,000 people dead. ...


Arabs ready anti-Israeli resolution over nukes

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:10 AM PDT

VIENNA (AP) — After a two-year hiatus, Arab nations are relaunching efforts to single out Israel for criticism at a major international conference by preparing a resolution over the country's alleged nuclear arsenal, suggesting that the Jewish state's refusal to acknowledge it has such arms is threatening Middle East peace.

Nigeria says offensive has destroyed most Islamist bases

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 11:08 AM PDT

Soldiers walk through Hausari village during a military patrol near MaiduguriABUJA (Reuters) - The Nigerian military said on Monday that a two month old offensive in the northeast had "substantially achieved" the aim of destroying Islamist bases, as well as killing or capturing a number of fighters and freeing victims of abductions. In a statement, defense spokesman Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade also said 23 women and 35 children being held on charges of aiding Islamist militant group Boko Haram had been released as a gesture of peace to its more moderate sympathizers. ...


Rwanda complains to U.N. about new Congo brigade

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 10:48 AM PDT

Congolese government army soldiers prepare their weapons at an attack position near Munigi, overlooking the front-line, where they are fighting against M23 rebels outside the eastern Congolese city of GomaBy Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rwanda is accusing the United Nations' new intervention brigade in eastern Congo of discussing collaboration with Hutu rebels linked to the Rwandan genocide of 1994, thereby jeopardizing regional peace efforts. In a letter to U.S. Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo in her role as this month's president of the U.N. Security Council that was released on Monday, Rwandan U.N. ...


Syria coalition plans council to hasten rebel restructuring

Posted: 15 Jul 2013 10:39 AM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighters peek through holes in a wall at forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Deir al-ZorBy John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - Syria's opposition coalition wants to create a 10-person executive council to reorganize disparate rebel factions into a structured army with adequate financing and weapons, one of its senior members said on Monday. Islamist militant groups that have come to the fore in Syria reject the authority of the Western- and Gulf Arab-backed Syrian National Coalition, whose leaders live mostly abroad. Last week foreign Islamist fighters killed a commander of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which is aligned with the coalition. ...


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