2013年7月31日星期三

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Egypt's rulers want to break up Brotherhood vigils

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 04:12 PM PDT

By Asma Alsharif and Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt faced the prospect of fresh bloodshed on Thursday after the country's army-backed rulers signaled they would move soon to disperse thousands of supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. With no sign of a negotiated end to weeks of violent confrontation, Egypt's interim government said two Cairo vigils by Mursi supporters posed a threat to national security, citing "terrorism" and traffic disruption. It ordered the Interior Ministry to take steps to "address these dangers and put an end to them," but gave no time frame. ...

In raging Middle East, Israel wins time with Palestinian peace talks

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:03 PM PDT

Israel's PM Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in JerusalemBy Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pressured by Washington, worried about its international standing and perturbed by Middle East turmoil, Israel had many reasons to return to peace talks with the Palestinians this week after a three year hiatus. On the surface, Israelis saw little reason to jump back into negotiations. The status quo in the occupied Palestinian territories was holding and the question of the so-called peace process had largely fallen off the domestic political agenda. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have realized he could not take the rap for cold shouldering U. ...


Secretary of State Kerry in Pakistan on unannounced visit

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 11:31 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (C) walks with U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson (L) and unidentified Pakistani officials upon his arrival in IslamabadBy Lesley Wroughton ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Pakistan late on Wednesday for a day of talks aimed at easing tensions over U.S. drone strikes while putting pressure on the nuclear armed nation to do more to eliminate militant havens on its territory. In Pakistan on an unannounced visit, Kerry is also likely to discuss ways to revive deadlocked talks with the Taliban and broader efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan as U.S.-led forces prepare to pull out most combat troops by late 2014. ...


U.N. says chemical weapons inspectors to visit three Syrian sites

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 03:05 PM PDT

A general view shows Khan al-Assal area near the northern city of Aleppo, near the site where forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad say was Tuesday's chemical weapon attackBy Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. inspectors will travel to Syria "as soon as possible" to investigate claims of chemical weapons use during the country's civil war after President Bashar al-Assad's government granted access to three sites, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The head of a U.N. chemical weapons investigation team, Ake Sellstrom, and the head of the U.N. Office of Disarmament Affairs, Angela Kane, visited Damascus last week at the invitation of the Syrian government to discuss access and obtained an understanding that it would be granted. ...


Yemen's president meets senators as U.S. grapples with Guantanamo detainee issue

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 03:55 PM PDT

Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi takes his seat to meet with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez at the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi talked to U.S. senators on Wednesday as he to tries to persuade Washington to repatriate dozens of Yemeni detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison. Expectations that the Obama administration is moving closer to its long-held goal of closing the facility were raised last week when the White House announced it was sending two detainees back to Algeria in the first repatriations for nearly a year. ...


Volcano doctors check the pulse of Mexico's 'Popo'

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 04:12 PM PDT

In this July 23, 2013 photo, Moises Dominguez of Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center laboratory shows equipment used to monitor the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico City. Technicians keep a round-the-clock watch on Popocatepetl, analyzing data for signs of a full-scale eruption, which they can never fully anticipate. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY (AP) — In a clean, hushed room in the south of Mexico City, cameras, computer screens and scrawling needles track the symptoms of a special patient, as they have every second of every day for the past two decades. The monitors indicate that "Don Goyo" is breathing normally, even as he spews hot rock, steam and ash.


Puerto Rico sees more rain, wetter times to come

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 03:27 PM PDT

A couple uses an umbrella as it rains Ponce, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Puerto Ricans are used to wet tropical weather, but the past few weeks have been the wettest ever recorded in the U.S. island territory. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Ricans are used to wet tropical weather, but the past few weeks have unleashed a series of storms of almost biblical proportions, destroying hundreds of homes, sweeping away cars and leaving tens of thousands without power.


Cuba reports highest outflow of citizens since 1994

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 03:20 PM PDT

People wait for their name to be called by a worker of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Cuba as they wait for U.S. visas in HavanaBy Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - The number of Cubans leaving their country has increased steadily in recent years, the government reported on Wednesday, reaching levels not seen since 1994 when tens of thousands took to the sea in makeshift rafts and rickety boats. Separately, the U.S. State Department on Wednesday announced it is lengthening most visitor visas for Cubans from six months to five years, allowing them to make multiple U.S. visits over the five-year period instead of repeatedly applying and paying the $160 fee for the privilege. ...


The Case of Sture Bergwall, a.k.a. Thomas Quick: Sweden’s Former Serial Killer Acquitted

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 03:19 PM PDT

Sture Bergwall was once one of the most feared men in Sweden, a confessed serial killer convicted in eight murders who boasted of claiming dozens of other lives.

Dissident Kazakh oligarch Ablyazov held in France: sources

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 03:13 PM PDT

By Kirstin Ridley and Matthias Galante LONDON/CANNES, France (Reuters) - Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakh businessman accused of embezzling $6 billion from his former bank, BTA, has been arrested on the French Riviera, two sources said on Wednesday. Ablyazov was arrested in the village of Mouans-Sartoux about 8 km (5 miles) north of Cannes in southern France, a police source said. A court hearing has been scheduled for 10:30 a.m. (0430 EDT) Thursday, added a second source, who could not confirm the hearing's location. ...

U.S. to go ahead with joint military exercise in Egypt

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 03:07 PM PDT

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel attends the opening ceremony of the Pentagon's permanent Korean War exhibition near WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States still plans to hold a major military exercise called Bright Star in Egypt in mid-September, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Wednesday, even after the Egyptian military's toppling of the president and the violence that has ensued. "We're planning on going ahead with it," Hagel told reporters at a Pentagon news conference. Hagel has been in regular contact with Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sissi since the military ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on July 3. ...


UN experts to probe alleged Syria chemical attacks

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 03:06 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts will travel to Syria as soon as possible to investigate three alleged incidents of chemical weapons attacks, the United Nations announced Wednesday.

Iraq war logs in Manning case 'hit us in the face': U.S. officer

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 02:45 PM PDT

Bradley Manning is escorted into court for the first day of the sentencing phase in his military trial at Fort Meade, MarylandBy Tom Ramstack FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The U.S. Army was overwhelmed when WikiLeaks published more than 700,000 secret diplomatic and war documents handed over by soldier Bradley Manning, a retired officer testified in the sentencing phase of the convicted private's court-martial. "The ones that hit us in the face were the Iraq logs," retired Brigadier General Robert Carr said in a Fort Meade, Maryland court on Wednesday, a day after a military judge found Manning guilty of 19 charges over the leaks in 2010, the biggest breach of classified data in U.S. history. ...


Ruling expected soon in Berlusconi tax fraud case

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 02:44 PM PDT

Journalists crowd outside the Court of Cassation building where Berlusconi's case on tax fraud will be decided, in Rome, Thursday, July 31, 2013. Berlusconi's political fate is in the hands of Italy's highest court, which is preparing to hear arguments in the former premier's fraud conviction. Berlusconi has been convicted of tax fraud in a complex TV rights transaction for his Mediaset network, and sentenced to four-years in prison with a five-year ban on public office. This is his final appeal. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi's lawyers made a final attempt Wednesday to overturn a tax fraud conviction that threatens to derail the ex-premier's two-decade old political career banning him from holding public office, urging Italy's highest court to either acquit the business mogul or at least order a fresh trial in the long-running case stemming from film rights acquisitions in his media empire.


Egypt's military keeps Morsi's whereabouts secret

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 02:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 13, 2012 file photo, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks to reporters at the Presidential palace in Cairo. Egypt's army has held Morsi incommunicado at undisclosed locations since pushing him from power in a July 3 coup. But the country's military-backed interim leadership is coming under increasing international criticism about Morsi's continued detention, and allowing two visits in quick succession appeared to be an attempt to ease at least some of the pressure on the new administration. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt is taking extreme measures to keep Mohammed Morsi hidden. It says dignitaries are helicoptered to the deposed president's place of detention after nightfall, flying in patterns aimed at confusing the visitors. The military also has reportedly moved Morsi at least three times.


Analysis: Pope's revolution; not all are pleased

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 02:12 PM PDT

In this May 29, 2013 file photo, Pope Francis holds his skull-cap as he leaves at the end of his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. Since his March 2013 election, Pope Francis has started a revolution in the Roman Catholic church that charmed millions and the mainstream media, as he goes about doing what he was elected to do: reform not just the dysfunctional Vatican bureaucracy but the church itself, using his own persona and personal history as a model. But the enthusiasm isn't necessarily shared across the board. Traditionalist Catholics — so coddled by Benedict XVI in his pursuit to reach out to Catholics attached to the old Latin Mass and opposed to the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council — greeted Francis' election with concern and now have had their worst fears realized. Francis has spoken out both publicly and privately against such "restoratist groups" whom he accused of being naval-gazing retrogrades out of touch with the evangelizing mission of the church in the 21st century. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Francis Revolution is underway. Not everyone is pleased.


German industrialist Berthold Beitz dies at 99

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 01:59 PM PDT

FILE - The Jan. 20, 2012 file photo shows ThyssenKrupp AG board of directors member Berthold Beitz prior to the annual shareholders meeting of the steel company in Bochum, Germany. German steel company ThyssenKrupp said Wednesday, July 31, 2013 that the 99 years old manager_one of the most influential persons in German economy_has died. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)BERLIN (AP) — Berthold Beitz, who was honored for saving hundreds of Jews in occupied Poland during World War II and became one of post-war West Germany's leading industrialists, has died at 99.


Latest platform for Syria's president: Instagram

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 01:59 PM PDT

This screen capture made on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 shows the Instagram account of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Amid the carnage from the Syrian civil war, President Bashar Assad has embraced every tool at his disposal including social media to project confidence and transmit his message to dedicated fans, most recently on the popular photo-sharing service Instagram posting pictures of himself and his glamorous wife surrounded by idolizing crowds.(AP Photo/Syrian Presidency via Instagram)BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's embattled president already has a Facebook page, Twitter account and a YouTube channel. Now Bashar Assad is turning to the popular photo-sharing service Instagram in the latest attempt at improving his image as his country burns, posting pictures of himself and his glamorous wife surrounded by idolizing crowds.


Rwanda says U.N. ultimatum threatened Congo peace talks

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Congolese Revolution Army rebels walk past a U.N. patrol truck parked along a street in Goma, soon after capturing the city from the government armyBy Richard Lough NAIROBI (Reuters) - Rwanda said on Wednesday the decision by a U.N. intervention brigade to forcibly disarm people in a strategic zone of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo had surprised African leaders and risked jeopardizing peace talks. The U.N. peacekeeping mission said on Tuesday it was setting up a security zone around Goma, which briefly fell into M23 hands last year, and would disarm, by force if needed, anyone carrying weapons after a 48-hour grace period. ...


Mexico's opposition party proposes sweeping energy reform

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 01:40 PM PDT

By David Alire Garcia and Adriana Barrera MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's opposition conservative party proposed sweeping energy reform on Wednesday to change the constitution to allow more private investment and promote competition, while the ruling party is expected to present its own plans for an overhaul next week. Both parties favor market-friendly policies in Latin America's No. 2 economy and are expected to join forces to push through energy reform. ...

Leaked docs give new insight into NSA's searches

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 01:35 PM PDT

It's This Easy for the NSA to Spy on Your Entire Internet LifeLONDON (AP) — Documents published by the Guardian newspaper are providing new insight into the National Security Agency's surveillance of world data, giving an over-the-shoulder look at the programs and techniques U.S. intelligence analysts use to exploit the hundreds of billions of records they gather each year.


Jihadi jailbreaks raise doubts about US security funding

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 01:11 PM PDT

Policemen and Ranger soldiers stand outside a prison following a Taliban attack in Dera Ismail KhanIn the past few days Iraq, Libya, and Pakistan have experienced massive jailbreaks involving Islamist insurgents. What all three countries have in common is weak national institutions and massive US efforts to prop them up.


Egypt orders camps cleared, protesters buckle down

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi hold sticks and wear protective gear during a march in Nasr City, where supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi have installed a camp and hold daily rallies, in Cairo, Egypt, late Tuesday, July 30, 2013. The European Union's top diplomat said Tuesday after meeting with Morsi that he is well, and that she urged all those she met with on the need to move forward peacefully following his ouster nearly a month ago. It was Morsi's first contact with the outside world since he was toppled in a military coup on July 3. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)CAIRO (AP) — Protesters holding sticks and wearing helmets and makeshift body armor stand behind mounds of sandbags, tires and brick walls. They change guards every two hours to ensure they stay alert.


Russia: 1,200 Vietnamese in raid of workshops

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:34 PM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) — Police in Russia's capital say they have detained 1,200 Vietnamese who are in the country illegally during a pre-dawn raid on a complex of small workshops.

Phony rum kills seven in Cuba, dozens hospitalized

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:28 PM PDT

HAVANA (Reuters) - Seven Cubans have died and more than 40 have been hospitalized, eight in critical condition, after drinking wood alcohol, or industrial methanol, they thought was rum, the public health ministry said on Wednesday. The poisoning happened in the La Lisa municipality of Havana, beginning on Monday, and all those killed were in their 40s and 50s, according to a list provided by the ministry. Such incidents are rare, though not unheard of in Cuba. "Those affected consumed wood alcohol sold illegally ... ...

Fiat expresses confidence in US legal challenge

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:25 PM PDT

MILAN (AP) — Italian carmaker Fiat expressed confidence Wednesday that it will prevail in its dispute with Chrysler's minority shareholder on the price of some outstanding shares, citing a favorable ruling on key elements of the case.

Uruguay Congress debates bill to regulate legal marijuana use

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:23 PM PDT

Uruguayan President Mujica speaks to the media after a joint news conference with Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva at the seventh regiment of mechanized cavalry barracks in Santana Do LivramentoBy Felipe Llambias and Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Legislators in Uruguay hotly debated on Wednesday a measure backed by leftist President Jose Mujica that would create a government body to control the cultivation and sale of marijuana and allow people to grow it at home or as part of smoking clubs. The use of marijuana is already legal in the South American nation, but sale and cultivation of it is not. A vote on the bill - expected to be very close - was due later on Wednesday in the lower chamber of Congress. ...


Edward Snowden's father thankful to Putin

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:18 PM PDT

In this frame grab taken from Rossiya 24 channel, Lon Snowden, the father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden speaks during an interview to the state-owned Rossiya 24 channel in Washington, DC late Tuesday, July 30, 2013. He said on Russian television that he is grateful to the Kremlin for protecting his son. Speaking to the state-owned Rossiya 24 channel in footage broadcast Wednesday, Lon Snowden of Allentown, Pennsylvania, thanked President Vladimir Putin and his government for the "courage" they have shown in keeping his son safe. (AP Photo/Rossiya 24 via APTN) TV OUTMOSCOW (AP) — The father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden told Russian television that he is grateful to President Vladimir Putin and his government for protecting his son.


U.N. says chemical weapons inspectors to visit three Syria sites

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:12 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria has agreed to allow U.N. investigators to visit three sites to investigate accusations of chemical weapons use during the country's two year civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday. "The Mission will travel to Syria as soon as possible to contemporaneously investigate three of the reported incidents, including Khan al-Asal," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's press office said in a statement. (Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Vicki Allen)

South Sudan's Kiir to keep oil minister, change finance portfolio

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:10 PM PDT

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir delivers a speech in the capital JubaBy Andrew Green JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's oil minister Stephen Dhieu Dau will keep his post in the new government, while new appointments will be made to the key finance and defense portfolios, officials said on Wednesday. Last week, President Salva Kiir sacked the cabinet, Vice President Riek Machar and put his top Sudan negotiator, Pagan Amum, under investigation amid a power struggle. Dau told Reuters he had been appointed again. "We will try to continue with the same programs that we laid in the last two years," he said, without elaborating. ...


Libya: Gadhafi-era minister sentenced to execution

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 12:08 PM PDT

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A criminal court in Libya sentenced a Gadhafi-era education minister to death on Wednesday for murder and for inciting violence during the 2011 civil war, the second such guilty verdict by the same court in recent days.

Suspected Islamists steal 125 kg of dynamite in north Nigeria

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 11:58 AM PDT

(Updates death toll in Kano bomb) DAMATURU, Nigeria, July 31 - Gunmen suspected to be allied to Islamist sect Boko Haram have stormed a construction site in northeast Nigeria, carting off 125 kg (275 pounds) of dynamite and hundreds of detonators, two security sources said on Wednesday. The militants struck the Bara area of Yobe state at around 2 a.m. on Monday morning, the two security sources in Yobe told Reuters, but no shots were heard. One of the sources said the men arrived on four motorcycles, beating and overpowering the site's private security guards. ...

Mexican governmet likely to present energy reform bill next week: lawmaker

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 11:58 AM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government is likely to present a far-reaching energy reform bill to Congress next week, a senior ruling party lawmaker said on Wednesday, a key plank of President Enrique Pena Nieto's bid to boost economic growth. "Everything indicates that the (energy reform) initiative of President Pena Nieto will arrive next week," Senator Emilio Gamboa, leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party's (PRI) bloc in the upper body of Congress. ...

Syrian opposition chief: No talks for time being

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 11:53 AM PDT

This Saturday, July 27, 2013 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows the Khalid Ibn al-Walid Mosque in the heavily disputed northern neighborhood of Khaldiyeh, in Homs, Syria. Syrian government forces captured a historic mosque in the central city of Homs on Saturday, expelling rebel forces who had been in control of the 13th century landmark for more than a year and dealing a symbolic blow to opposition forces. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — The main Western-backed Syrian opposition will not take part in any peace negotiations with the government until rebels gain the upper hand on the battlefield again, the group's chief said Wednesday.


Berlusconi lawyers ask supreme court to acquit him of tax fraud

Posted: 31 Jul 2013 11:53 AM PDT

Reporters' tripods are left in position in front of Italy's supreme court building in RomeBy Roberto Landucci and Barry Moody ROME (Reuters) - Lawyers for Silvio Berlusconi asked the supreme court on Wednesday to throw out a tax fraud conviction against the former prime minister in a case that could decide not only his future but that of Italy's fragile coalition government. The Court of Cassation heard more than three hours of arguments from Berlusconi's two lawyers challenging the verdict of a lower appeals court which sentenced him to jail and a ban from public office for the fraudulent purchase of broadcasting rights by his Mediaset television empire. ...


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