2013年8月19日星期一

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U.S. questions Egypt prisoner deaths, Mubarak may be freed

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 04:13 PM PDT

File picture shows Egypt's ousted President Mubarak sitting inside a dock at the police academy on the outskirts of CairoBy Crispian Balmer CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court ruling has raised the prospect of freedom for deposed military strongman Hosni Mubarak, while the United States questioned Egypt's account of the deaths of dozens of Islamist detainees and called the incident "suspicious." Six weeks after the armed forces toppled President Mohamed Mursi and about a week after hundreds died when security forces broke up protests by his Muslim Brotherhood, the United States said on Monday it was still reviewing whether to freeze any of the $1.55 billion it gives Egypt in mainly military annual aid. ...


Britain forced Guardian to destroy copy of Snowden material

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 04:19 PM PDT

The editor of The Guardian Rusbridger leaves Downing Street in LondonBy Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The editor of the Guardian, a major outlet for revelations based on leaks from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, says the British government threatened legal action against the newspaper unless it either destroyed the classified documents or handed them back to British authorities. In an article posted on the British newspaper's website on Monday, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said that a month ago, after the newspaper had published several stories based on Snowden's material, a British official advised him: "You've had your fun. ...


Assad's forces push back rebels in Syria's Alawite mountains

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 03:03 PM PDT

A fighter from Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra stands on historical Deir al-Zor Suspension Bridge damaged by what activists said was by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-AssadBy Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian army and militia troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have pushed back a rebel offensive in the mountain heartlands of his Alawite sect, officials and activists said on Monday, after days of heavy fighting and aerial bombardment. The assault by Islamist rebels on the northern edges of the Alawite mountains overlooking the Mediterranean drove hundreds of Alawite villagers out to the coast and marked a major challenge to Assad's reassertion of power over central Syria. ...


U.N.'s Ban 'deeply disturbed' by Muslim Brotherhood deaths in Egypt

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 03:28 PM PDT

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks in front of international students participating in a model United Nations Conference at the U.N. compound in JerusalemBy Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he was "deeply disturbed" by the deaths in custody of 37 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and condemned an ambush by Islamist militants that killed 25 Egyptian policemen. The Muslim Brotherhood supporters died on Sunday while being transferred to a prison. Government officials said they were suffocated by tear gas during an attempted escape, but the Brotherhood said the men were murdered and demanded an inquiry. ...


In Indian Kashmir, angry youth flirt with armed militancy

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 02:34 PM PDT

File photo of Kashmiri Muslim protesters throwing stones and pieces of bricks towards Indian policemen during anti-India protest in SrinagarBy Frank Jack Daniel SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Ishfaq first threw a rock at an Indian policeman six years ago. Now he's thinking about arming himself with a gun. The 21-year-old is the human face of a trend that is worrying security sources, politicians and a rights group spoken to by Reuters - the revival of violent anti-Indian sentiment among the Kashmir Valley population just as New Delhi fears a renewed onslaught from Pakistan-based militants. ...


Mexico opposition party, PRD, proposes limited energy reform

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 02:28 PM PDT

An activist stands in front a banner during a political meeting organized by PRD to present a proposal to the energy reform bill in Mexico CityBy David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's largest left-of-center political party proposed a plan on Monday that would revamp state-oil monopoly Pemex, but without amending the constitution to permit more private investment in the oil, gas and electricity sectors, as the government has proposed. The proposal of the opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, would provide Pemex with budget and management autonomy, and create a new fund to administer the nation's energy riches. The proposal would also gradually lower the company's tax burden by 9 percent to 62. ...


Egypt: Court raises possibility of a free Mubarak

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 04:40 PM PDT

In this image obtained from an Egyptian emergency service worker which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, bodies of off-duty policemen who were killed near the border town of Rafah, North Sinai, Egypt, lie on the ground Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Islamic militants on Monday ambushed two mini-buses carrying off-duty policemen in the northern region of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing more than two dozen of them execution-style in a brazen daylight attack that deepens the turmoil roiling the country and underscores the volatility of the strategic region. (AP Photo)CAIRO (AP) — A court ruling Monday raised the possibility of jailed ex-president Hosni Mubarak walking free soon, a move that would fuel the unrest roiling the country after the autocratic leader's successor was removed in a military coup.


Prince William describes his joy at parenthood

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 04:31 PM PDT

This image taken by Michael Middleton, the Duchess's father, in early August 2013 and supplied by Kensington Palace, shows the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their son, Prince George, in the garden of the Middleton family home in Bucklebury, England, with Tilly the retriever, seen left, a Middleton family pet, and Lupo, the couple's cocker spaniel. (AP Photo/Michael Middleton/TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ) EDITORIAL USE ONLYLONDON (AP) — His newborn son is "a little bit of a rascal" and car seats can daunt any dad, Britain's Prince William says.


U.S., Russian officials to meet in The Hague on Syria

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 04:24 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading diplomat from the U.S. State Department and the U.S. ambassador to Syria will meet with a Russia delegation in The Hague next week to discuss plans for a peace conference to end the civil war in Syria, a spokeswoman for the State Department said on Monday. "We have long agreed with Russia that a conference in Geneva is the best vehicle for moving towards a political solution," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told a daily briefing for reporters. ...

Guardian chief: UK had newspaper disks destroyed

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 04:23 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — British agents oversaw the destruction of an unspecified number of the Guardian newspaper's hard drives in an apparent bid to keep the fruit of Edward Snowden's leaks safe from Chinese spies, the paper's editor said Monday.

Egypt security forces kill journalist after curfew starts

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 04:23 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces killed the bureau chief of a provincial office of state newspaper Al-Ahram on Monday after opening fire on a car they thought had tried to escape from a checkpoint enforcing a dusk-to-dawn curfew, the army said in a statement. Tamer Abdel Raouf, head of Al-Ahram's bureau in Egypt's Buhayra province, was shot dead while a journalist from another state newspaper, Al Gomhuriya, was injured. Journalists are exempt from the curfew. ...

Village bloodbath highlights Egypt's new agony

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 03:40 PM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — The police captain says he has memories of pretending to be dead, of men being dragged around by cars, of a policeman being told by his attacker: "We will give you a slow death."

Guardian chief: UK spies shredded newsroom disks

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 03:37 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — The editor of the Guardian newspaper says that British agents destroyed an unspecified number of his newsroom's hard drives in an apparent bid to keep Edward Snowden's leaked intelligence material safe from Chinese spies.

Agents defend 9/11 questioning at Guantanamo

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 03:30 PM PDT

In this pool photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, the self-proclaimed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, with his gray beard streaked with reddish-orange dye, unfurls a prayer rug during a break in the proceedings of the pretrial hearings at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of helping orchestrate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks returned to court Monday as arguments resumed. Lawyers for the five prisoners, who face charges that include murder and terrorism, began to challenge the statements made to U.S. federal agents such as James Fitzgerald of the FBI and Stephen McClain with the Criminal Investigative Task Force of the Department of Defense, who defended their interrogation of one of the detainees. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Two U.S. federal agents on Monday defended their interrogation of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of providing assistance to the Sept. 11 hijackers as a pretrial hearing resumed in the slowly unfolding war crimes proceedings for the five men charged in the attacks.


Snowden reporter: Won't be silenced by detention

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 03:18 PM PDT

U.S. journalist Greenwald walks with his partner Miranda in Rio de Janeiro's International AirportRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — An American journalist who has written stories based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he'll publish with more fervor after British authorities detained his partner.


Egypt's devastating museum looting latest casualty

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 02:24 PM PDT

FILE -- In this Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013 file photo, rows of display cases are broken and empty at the Malawi Antiquities Museum after it was ransacked and looted between the evening of Thursday, Aug. 15 and the morning of Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 in Malawi, south of Minya, Egypt. The theft of about 1,000 artifacts spanning some 3,500 years of history from a small antiquities museum south of Cairo showcases the tenuous security in the provinces. (AP Photo/Roger Anis, El Shorouk Newspaper, File) EGYPT OUTCAIRO (AP) — As violent clashes roiled Egypt, looters made away with a prized 3,500-year-old limestone statue, ancient beaded jewelry and more than 1,000 other artifacts in the biggest theft to hit an Egyptian museum in living memory.


Egypt security forces kill journalist after curfew starts, sources say

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 02:23 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces killed the bureau chief of a provincial office of state newspaper Al-Ahram on Monday after opening fire on a car they thought had tried to escape from a checkpoint enforcing a dusk-to-dawn curfew, security sources said. In what appeared to be an accidental shooting because journalists are exempt from the curfew, Tamer Abdel Raouf, head of Al-Ahram's bureau in Egypt's Buhayra province, was shot dead while a journalist from another state newspaper, Al Gomhuriya, was injured, according to the sources. ...

U.N. panel to hear accounts of North Korean human rights abuses

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 02:20 PM PDT

File photo of North Korean students and volunteers working to repair a water supply system in HaejuBy Michelle Kim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - A U.N. panel will start hearing harrowing testimony from North Korean defectors on Tuesday in a move that will likely mobilize public opinion on abuses in the one-party state that comes at or near the bottom of most measures of freedom. There are an estimated 150,000-200,000 people in North Korean prison camps, according to independent estimates, and defectors say many inmates are malnourished or worked to death. ...


Despite Bo's trial in China, no redress for victims of his crackdown

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 02:03 PM PDT

A view of the six-bedroom Villa Fontaine Saint Georges is seen in CannesBy Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - The curtain may be about to fall on China's disgraced leader Bo Xilai, but victims of the harsh brand of justice he handed out in a high-profile crime crackdown are not making any headway in their campaign for redress. Lawyers estimate there are thousands of cases demanding restitution in the foggy southwestern metropolis of Chongqing, which Bo ruled as Communist Party boss until he was dramatically sacked early last year amid lurid allegations of graft and murder. ...


Ecuador leader may insist on digital-only dailies

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 02:02 PM PDT

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's combative president is threatening to try to force the country's newspapers to go all-digital as a way to save paper.

Forty journalists, support staff killed in first half 2013: report

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:50 PM PDT

GENEVA (Reuters) - Forty journalists and back-up staff were killed on the job in the first half of this year and the circumstances of another 27 media deaths have yet to be clarified, a media safety group reported on Monday. Killings often occurred because of the victims' work in uncovering crime or corruption, while the highest single country total was eight - in Syria where journalists have been targeted by both government and rebel forces in the civil war there. ...

Snowden journalist to publish UK secrets after Britain detains partner

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:32 PM PDT

U.S. journalist Greenwald walks with his partner Miranda in Rio de Janeiro's International AirportBy Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The journalist who first published secrets leaked by fugitive former U.S. intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed on Monday to publish more documents and said Britain will "regret" detaining his partner for nine hours. British authorities used anti-terrorism laws on Sunday to detain David Miranda, partner of U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald, as he passed through London's Heathrow airport. ...


Afghan officials say 32 dead in clashes in west

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:15 PM PDT

Members of the Honor Guard stand at attention during Independence Day celebrations at a Defense minister office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug 19, 2013. Afghan officials' mark the country's 94th independence day from Britain with a small military parade and folk festivals in the capital. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Battles between the Taliban and an Afghan security company left 32 people dead over the weekend, officials said Monday, as the country marked its 94th independence day from Britain with a small military parade and folk festivals in the capital.


Mexico heads back to school with flawed textbooks

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:13 PM PDT

Diego Angel is consoled by his mother Dulce Castro, right, and grandmother Margarita as he is escorted to the first day of classes in Mexico City, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Mexican children returned to classrooms Monday, and they were getting a quick lesson: Not just school kids make mistakes. Their brand new textbooks have the kinds of errors that they are supposed to be learning not to make: words written with a "c'' instead of an "s," too many commas, not enough accents and at least one city located in the wrong state. (AP Photo/Ivan Pierre Aguirre)MEXICO CITY (AP) — As Mexican children trooped back to school on Monday, they had already learned one lesson: You can't believe everything you read in your textbook.


Benghazi aftershocks affecting US policy in Egypt

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The specter of Benghazi is affecting U.S. policy in coup-wracked Egypt.

U.S. says Zimbabwe vote flawed, won't lift sanctions

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:58 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States believes Zimbabwe's recent election was flawed and it doesn't plan to loosen sanctions against President Robert Mugabe's government until there are signs of change in the country, the State Department said on Monday, despite an endorsement of the vote by Southern African leaders. Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, is set to be sworn in as president as early as this week, extending his 33-year rule of the country after winning the July 31 election. ...

Palestinian finds Facebook bug, hacks CEO's page

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:55 PM PDT

Palestinan Khalel Shreateh sits in front of his his computer at his home in the West Bank town of Yatta south of Hebron, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. After discovering a privacy bug on Facebook, unemployed Palestinian programmer Khalil Shreateh said he just wanted to collect the traditional $500 bounty the social network giant offers to those who voluntarily expose its glitches. But when Facebook ignored his first two reports, Shreateh took his message to the top and hacked into CEO Mark Zuckerberg's personal page to prove his point. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)YATTA, West Bank (AP) — After discovering a privacy bug on Facebook, unemployed Palestinian programmer Khalil Shreateh said he just wanted to collect the traditional $500 bounty the social network giant offers to those who voluntarily expose its glitches.


Palestinian shepherd says settlers beat him

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:53 PM PDT

Injured Palestinian shepherd Najeh Abu Ali, 47 receives medical treatment at the main hospital in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. The Palestinian shepherd says he was hit in the head and hands by men wielding metal pipes in the vicinity of West Bank Jewish settlers' outposts. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)MIKHMAS, West Bank (AP) — Shepherds from this Palestinian village say they think twice before taking their herds to graze near Jewish settlement outposts in the area, fearing attacks by militant settlers.


Pakistan PM calls for peace talks with militants

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:40 PM PDT

People watch Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif addressing the nation, at an electronic shop in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Sharif has reiterated his offer to talk with militants who have so far rejected the prospect of negotiations. But he also held open the possibility of new military operations against militants who have waged a campaign of bombings and shootings that have killed thousands of civilians and security personnel. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's prime minister reiterated Monday an offer of peace talks with militants in the country's northwest who have waged a bloody campaign against the government and so far rejected any talk of negotiations.


U.S. troubled by 'suspicious deaths' of Egyptian prisoners

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:23 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department voiced deep concern on Monday about the deaths of Muslim Brotherhood prisoners while in custody in Egypt, terming them "suspicious," and made clear that it does not believe the Islamist group should be banned. "We are ... deeply troubled by the suspicious deaths of Muslim Brotherhood prisoners in a purported prison escape attempt near Cairo," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters, referring to 37 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi who died in disputed circumstances on Sunday. ...

Supporters of barred Madagascar candidate threaten protests

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:20 PM PDT

Former Madagascar leader Ravalomanana holds up air tickets standing beside his wife Lalao during a media briefing in JohannesburgBy Alain Iloniaina ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Supporters of the wife of Madagascar's deposed leader said they would take to the streets to protest against an "illegal" court ruling barring her from running in elections, threatening to bring more turmoil to the island nation. The electoral court on Saturday also banned incumbent President Andry Rajoelina from standing in the August poll - a ruling widely welcomed by Western and regional powers who say the country needs a fresh start with new candidates. ...


Thousands of Syrians flee to Iraq; crisis feared

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 12:09 PM PDT

In this photo provided by UNHCR officials and taken on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. Syrian refugees cross the border toward Iraq at Peshkhabour border point at Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has set up an emergency transit camp in Irbil, where around 2,000 refugees are camping out and UNHCR officials say some thousands of refugees have been streaming into northern Iraq, many coming across a newly-constructed pontoon bridge over the Tigris River at Peshkhabour. (AP Photo/HO)BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds swarmed across a bridge into neighboring Iraq's northern self-ruled Kurdish region over the past few days in one of the biggest waves of refugees since the rebellion against President Bashar Assad began, U.N. officials said Monday.


A look at the Pistorius case after his indictment

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 11:59 AM PDT

Double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius, left, talks with his lawyer, Kenny Oldwage, right, at the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Pistorius was indicted Monday on charges of murder and illegal possession of ammunition for the shooting death of the double-amputee Olympian's girlfriend on Valentine's Day.(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A look at the Oscar Pistorius case after the double-amputee Olympian was indicted on a charge of premeditated murder Monday in girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp's killing:


U.S. got ‘heads up’ before Greenwald’s partner Miranda was detained

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 11:49 AM PDT

U.S. journalist Greenwald walks with his partner Miranda in Rio de Janeiro's International AirportBut British government acted on its own, White House says.


Nigeria military: Extremist leader may be dead

Posted: 19 Aug 2013 11:48 AM PDT

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's military says the leader of an Islamic uprising in the northeast "might have died" of a gunshot wound.

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