2013年8月5日星期一

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Egypt's Brotherhood rejects appeal to 'swallow reality'

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:16 PM PDT

Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mursi hold up posters during a rally in CairoBy Yasmine Saleh and Angus MacSwan CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood on Monday rejected pleas from international envoys to "swallow the reality" that Mohamed Mursi will not return as Egypt's president. The envoys from the United States and the European Union, trying to resolve a political crisis brought on by the army's overthrow of the Islamist Mursi a month ago, visited jailed Brotherhood deputy leader Khairat El-Shater in the early hours of Monday. But he cut the meeting short, saying they should be talking to Mursi, Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said. ...


Syrian rebels push into Assad's Alawite mountain stronghold

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:03 PM PDT

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebel fighters armed with anti-tank missiles pushed toward President Bashar al-Assad's hometown of Qardaha on Monday, the second day of a surprise offensive in the heartland of his minority Alawite sect, opposition activists said. Forces comprising 10 mainly Islamist brigades, including two al Qaeda-linked groups, advanced south to the outskirts of the Alawite village of Aramo, 20 km (12 miles) from Qardaha, taking advantage of rugged terrain, the activists said. ...

Iraqi forces kill 11 militants in security crackdown

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:28 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces killed 11 suspected militants and arrested dozens in a large military-led operation north of Baghdad on Monday in response to a deadly attack on a checkpoint last month, military sources said. The security sweep in Sulaman Pek, a town 160 km (100 miles) north of Baghdad, turned fatal when some militants opened fire on officers inspecting homes, the sources said, adding that a number of the militants had been wearing suicide vests. ...

Iran's Rouhani pulls off cabinet balancing act

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 10:37 AM PDT

Iran's new President Rouhani arrives to take his oath of office during a swearing-in ceremony at the Iranian Parliament in Tehran in this photo provided by the Iranian state news agency (IRNA)By Yeganeh Torbati and Jon Hemming DUBAI (Reuters) - By choosing ministers known more for their experience than their political views, President Hassan Rouhani has proposed a cabinet that achieves a rare feat in Iranian politics - it satisfies both reformist and conservative factions. Rouhani's presidency has raised hopes in diplomatic circles that the moderate cleric with links to all of Iran's often-feuding factions can be someone the West can talk to and at least defuse tensions over the nuclear dispute. ...


Chilean judge closes Pinochet embezzlement case, family not charged

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:08 PM PDT

Lucia Hiriart, the widow of Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, waves after a mass in SantiagoSANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean court decided on Monday not to charge any of late dictator Augusto Pinochet's family members in a long-running investigation into the origin of the general's fortune and his suspected embezzlement of public funds. The judge did charge six former members of the military who had collaborated with Pinochet in the so-called Riggs case. Pinochet was charged in 2005 with tax evasion in connection with millions of dollars he held in foreign bank accounts, which came to light after a U.S. ...


Syrian rebels capture military airport near Turkey

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:54 PM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighters take cover near sandbags in Ashrafieh, AleppoAMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels captured a main military airport near the border with Turkey on Tuesday, consolidating their hold on a key supply route north of the city of Aleppo, opposition activists said. The reported capture of the Minnig Military Airport, situated on the road between Aleppo and the Turkish city of Gaziantep, after an eight-month siege, marks an important symbolic victory for the opposition, following a string of defeats to President Bashar al-Assad's forces in central Syria, the sources said. "The airport has been fully liberated. ...


Al Qaeda intercept is just one piece of threat intelligence: U.S. sources

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 04:41 PM PDT

Fortifications are pictured outside the British embassy in SanaaBy Tabassum Zakaria and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Intercepted communication between al Qaeda leaders was one component of a broader pool of intelligence that prompted a threat alert closing numerous U.S. embassies in the Middle East and Africa, U.S. sources said on Monday. The New York Times reported that the closure of the embassies was the result of intercepted electronic communications between Ayman al-Zawahri, who replaced Osama bin Laden as head of al Qaeda, and Nasser al-Wuhayshi, the head of Yemen-based affiliate al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). U.S. ...


Pedophile's pardon embarrasses Spain, Morocco

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 04:22 PM PDT

Police officers clash with demonstrators gathered outside the parliament in Rabat, Morocco, Friday Aug. 2, 2013, to protest the release of a Spanish paedophile. On July 30, King Mohammed VI released 48 Spanish prisoners, among which, a 64-year old Spaniard jailed for raping 11 children.(AP Photo/Mustapha Houbais)MADRID (AP) — Spain had a seemingly simple request for Morocco's king: Pardon 18 Spaniards convicted in his country, and let 30 others return to Spain to serve out their prison terms. Instead, the monarch pardoned 48 Spanish prisoners, including a man convicted of raping children.


One Sudanese soldier killed in clash with South Sudan

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 04:07 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - One Sudanese soldier was killed on Monday in a clash with troops from South Sudan after a patrol from the south crossed the border, a Sudanese military spokesman said. The spokesman, al-Sawarmi Khalid, said in a statement the clash took place after a South Sudanese patrol crossed the border and opened fire. The clash took place at Sudan's main oilfield in the border area of Heglig, north of Sudan and which although is under the authority of Sudan is also disputed with South Sudan. ...

Brazil: Thousands urge return of pet monkey Chico

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:52 PM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When two police officers tore little Chico from the arms of Elizete Carmona, they said it was for his own good. After all, 71-year-old women aren't meant to live with endangered tufted capuchin monkeys.

Al-Qaida chief's message led to embassy closures

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:41 PM PDT

A Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a ``significant threat'' of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)WASHINGTON (AP) — An intercepted secret message between al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and his deputy in Yemen about plans for a major terror attack was the trigger that set off the current shutdown of many U.S. embassies, two officials told The Associated Press on Monday.


Boys in Canada believed killed by snake that escaped cage: police

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:40 PM PDT

By Victoria Cavaliere (Reuters) - Two young brothers found dead in an apartment over a reptile store in New Brunswick, Canada, were believed to have been strangled by a snake that escaped its enclosure and slithered into the building's ventilation system, police said on Monday. The boys, ages 5 and 7, were sleeping over at a friend's apartment above Reptile Ocean in the city of Campbellton. Their bodies were discovered on Monday morning, said Constable Jullie Rogers-Marsh of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. ...

Yemen released names of 25 wanted al-Qaida men

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:25 PM PDT

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni authorities released the names of 25 wanted al-Qaida suspects on Monday, saying they were planning terrorist attacks in the capital, Sanaa, and other cities across the country.

Egypt: Envoys seek a bridge between hard choices

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 03:24 PM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans during a protest outside Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where protesters have installed a camp and hold daily rallies at Nasr City in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — Top U.S., European and Arab envoys visited a jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader Monday on a mission to ease tensions between Egypt's military-backed government and supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.


Exclusive: Father of Slain Chechen Plans to Sue FBI for Son’s Wrongful Death

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:48 PM PDT

A grudge against the FBI is never an easy thing to act upon, especially for a man as foreign to the U.S. legal system as Abdulbaki Todashev, a municipal official from the Russian region of Chechnya. But on Monday, August 5, Todashev arrived in Tampa, Florida with a black briefcase of photographs – the evidence he plans to use in suing the FBI for the wrongful death of his son. The case would be a long shot, in part because Todashev speaks little English, cannot afford a lawyer and only has a U.S. tourist visa glued into his Russian passport. What he does have is the help of two U.S. ...

U.S. military helicopter crashes in Okinawa

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:30 PM PDT

Smoke rises from a site where a U.S. military CH-46 helicopter crashed inside the U.S. Marine's Camp Hansen in central OkinawaTOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. military helicopter crashed on Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Monday, U.S. Forces in Japan said, an incident that could stoke anger over the concentration of U.S. military bases on the island. The U.S. Air Force said in a statement that three of the four crew members involved in the crash were in stable condition. It said the remaining crew member had not been accounted for. There were no casualties among local residents, a Japanese official said. Video footage showed smoke rising from a fire on a remote mountainside. ...


Al-Qaida chief's message spurred embassy closures

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:28 PM PDT

A Bahraini armored personnel vehicle reinforces U.S. Embassy security just outside of a gate to the building in Manama, Bahrain, on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a ``significant threat'' of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)WASHINGTON (AP) — Two officials say a secret message that was intercepted between al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and his deputy in Yemen led to the shutdown of U.S. embassies.


Embassies still shut, US tries to pinpoint targets

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 02:03 PM PDT

A Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a ``significant threat'' of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)WASHINGTON (AP) — American spies and intelligence analysts on Monday scoured email, phone calls and radio communications between al-Qaida operatives in Yemen and the organization's senior leaders to determine the timing and targets of a potentially spectacular attack that officials said they came across in monitoring militants' "chatter."


Libya swears in new defense minister

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:54 PM PDT

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's Congress has sworn in a new defense minister despite a continued show of force by gunmen carrying out near-daily attacks on security forces.

WikiLeaks case harms U.S. diplomacy, Manning sentencing told

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:33 PM PDT

U.S. Army Private First Class Manning departs the courthouse at Fort Meade, MarylandBy Tom Ramstack FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. soldier Bradley Manning's leaks of classified government files had a "chilling effect" on foreign relations, impeding U.S. diplomats' ability to gather information, a senior State Department official testified on Monday. The unauthorized releases made foreign diplomats, business leaders and other information sources "reticent to provide their full and frank opinions and share them with us," Undersecretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy said. ...


Egypt foreign reserves jump to $18.8B in July

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:25 PM PDT

An Egyptian vendor carries bread downtown Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. Egypt's central bank reported Monday that foreign reserves reached $18.8 billion, their highest level in almost two years, but economists caution the boost is a reflection of aid from oil-rich Arab Gulf nations and not the result of an improved economy. The July reserve figures, which were released on the central bank's website, represent a nearly $4 billion jump from $14.9 billion at the end of June. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's central bank reported Monday that foreign reserves reached $18.8 billion, their highest level in almost two years, but economists cautioned the jump was a reflection of aid from oil-rich Arab Gulf nations and not the result of an improved economy.


Bombing of bakery, other attacks in Iraq kill 9

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:19 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of attacks in Iraq on Monday, including a bombing of a bakery in the capital, Baghdad, killed 9 people.

Arms dealer 'expelled' from Sierra Leone

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:19 PM PDT

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A Sierra Leone court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for one of the most notorious arms dealers of its brutal 11-year civil war, but a justice official later said the ally of imprisoned former Liberian President Charles Taylor had already been kicked out — raising Western fears he will never be tried.

Sierra Leone deports former Taylor associate days before trial

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 01:14 PM PDT

By Tommy Trenchard FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone deported an associate of former Liberian president Charles Taylor last week, sparing him a trial for crimes committed during the 1991-2002 civil war due to begin on Monday, to the dismay of human rights campaigners. Ibrahim Bah has been named by United Nations experts as an intermediary for Taylor's arms deliveries to Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels, who became notorious for using child soldiers and hacking off the limbs of civilians. Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison last year by the U.N. ...

Syrian rebels take villages in regime's heartland

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 file photo, night falls on a Syrian rebel-controlled area as destroyed buildings, including Dar Al-Shifa hospital, are seen on Sa'ar street after airstrikes targeted the area last week, killing dozens in Aleppo, Syria. More than two years into Syria's civil war, the once highly-centralized authoritarian state has effectively split into three distinct parts, each boasting its own flags, security agencies and judicial system. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels on Monday captured four villages in the heartland of President Bashar Assad's minority Alawite sect as they fought government troops for the second straight day in the mountains overlooking the country's Mediterranean coast.


Taliban talking secretly to Kabul government

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 20, 2013 file photo, the Taliban flag, emblazoned with a Quranic verse, is visible through a gap in a wall at the new political office of the Afghan Taliban in Doha, Qatar. Although Afghan President Hamid Karzai was angered by the Taliban's efforts to present the office as a government in exile, the two sides have recently held secret, informal talks in an effort to jumpstart the peace process, according to Afghan officials and a senior Taliban representative. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal, File)ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — The Taliban have held secret talks with representatives of Afghan President Hamid Karzai to try to jumpstart a peace process that stumbled and stalled at the starting gate, according to Afghan officials and a senior Taliban representative.


Gibraltar accuses Spain of 'saber-rattling' in diplomatic row

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:44 PM PDT

A man pulls his suitcases after leaving the British territory of Gibraltar at its border with Spain in La Linea de la ConcepcionBy Peter Griffiths LONDON (Reuters) - Gibraltar's top politician accused Spain on Monday of "saber-rattling" and behaving like North Korea by saying it could impose border fees and airspace controls on the British territory whose sovereignty it disputes. British Prime Minister David Cameron was "seriously concerned" about the situation and has demanded an explanation from Madrid about the proposals, his spokesman said. ...


Russia’s Anti-Gay Laws: How a Dutch Activist Got Caught in the Crosshairs

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:37 PM PDT

On July 21, Russian authorities detained and questioned four Dutch nationals who were working on a documentary film about lesbian, gay, transgendered and bisexual townspeople in the northwestern city of Murmansk. In what appears to be the litmus test for Moscow's recently drafted anti-LGBT legislation, signed weeks earlier by President Vladimir Putin, authorities allege the film crew violated a new "propaganda" law that criminalizes public discussion of homosexuality, especially with foreigners.

Taste test: Lab-grown hamburger short on flavor

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 12:18 PM PDT

A new Cultured Beef Burger made from cultured beef grown in a laboratory from stem cells of cattle, is held by the man who developed the burger, Professor Mark Post of Netherland's Maastricht University, during a the world's first public tasting event for the food product in London, Monday Aug. 5, 2013. The Cultured Beef could help solve the coming food crisis and combat climate change according to the producers of the burger which cost some 250,000 euros (US dlrs 332,000) to produce. (AP Photo / David Parry, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVESLONDON (AP) — The food of the future could do with a pinch of seasoning — and maybe some cheese.


Dylan portraits to go on display at London gallery

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:45 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Portraits by Bob Dylan are going on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Gibraltar minister accuses Spain of saber-rattling

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:41 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — The chief minister of Gibraltar on Monday accused Spain of acting like North Korea after suggesting it could impose steep new entry and exit fees for the British territory.

AP PHOTOS: Muslims worldwide celebrate Ramadan

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:33 AM PDT

A man stands as Iranian worshippers perform prayers during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 26, 2013. Muslims throughout the world are marking the month of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar during which devotees fast from dawn till dusk. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)Iranian women place copies of the Quran on their heads during a religious ceremony at a cemetery outside Tehran. A Pakistani boy arranges plates of food for the meal that breaks the day's fast in Islamabad. Prayers are offered at mosques from India to Indonesia.


US embassies in 4 African countries also closed

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:30 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo of Monday, March 3, 2003, the new U.S. Embassy on the outskirts of Nairobi. The largest U.S. diplomatic mission in sub-Saharan Africa replaces the earlier mission that was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Aug 7, 1998, killing 219 people. Wednesday will mark 15 years since that explosion. During a week of heightened security concerns at U.S. embassies the East African countries of Rwanda, Burundi, Mauritius and Madagascar were added to the U.S. embassy closures list on Sunday. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.S. State Department closed its embassies in four sub-Saharan African nations as part of a heightened security alert, days before the 15th anniversary of al-Qaida's bombings of American diplomatic missions in Kenya and Tanzania.


European watchdog approves US Airways, AMR merger

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:28 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, file photo, American Airlines and US Airways jets prepare for flight at a gate at the Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. European authorities cleared US Airways Group Inc.'s proposed merger with American Airlines' parent company, AMR Corp., Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, on the condition that they give up one slot at London's Heathrow airport and take steps to foster competition on the London-Philadelphia route. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)AMSTERDAM (AP) — European authorities have cleared US Airways Group Inc.'s proposed merger with American Airlines' parent company, AMR Corp. — on the condition that they give up one slot at London's Heathrow airport and take steps to foster competition on the London-Philadelphia route.


Senators call for end to Afghan helicopter deal

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:18 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve Republican and Democratic senators are calling on the Pentagon to cancel all contracts to buy helicopters for Afghan security forces from a state-run Russian arms exporter that is a top weapons supplier to the Syrian government.

US shutters diplomatic posts amid al-Qaida threat

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:10 AM PDT

A Bahraini armored personnel vehicle reinforces U.S. Embassy security just outside of a gate to the building in Manama, Bahrain, on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a ``significant threat'' of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 cities in the Mideast and Africa will remain closed for the rest of the week amid intercepted "chatter" about terror threats, which lawmakers briefed on the information likened to intelligence picked up before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.


Sierra Leone court issues warrant for arms dealer

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:09 AM PDT

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A Sierra Leone court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for a top ally of former Liberian President Charles Taylor who was recently found living in Freetown, though a lawyer involved in the case expressed concern that the suspect may no longer be in the country.

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