2013年9月12日星期四

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High-stakes U.S.-Russian talks open, Syria to join chemical arms ban

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 04:32 PM PDT

A Free Syrian Army fighter points his weapon as his fellow fighter watches in Aleppo's Al-Ezaa neighbourhoodBy Warren Strobel and Louis Charbonneau GENEVA/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States and Russia began high-stakes talks on Thursday on Moscow's plan for Syria to surrender its chemical weapons as Damascus formally applied to join a global poison gas ban, but Secretary of State John Kerry underscored that U.S. military force may still be necessary if diplomacy fails. "This is not a game," Kerry said in an appearance with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after opening talks in Geneva aimed at fleshing out Russia's plan to secure and dispose of Syria's stockpiles of chemical arms. ...


Cairo accuses Gaza's Hamas of training Egyptian militants

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 03:53 PM PDT

A soldier mans a machine gun on top of an armoured personnel carrier (APC) near the al-Fath mosque on Ramses Square in CairoBy Michael Georgy CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian state television accused Palestinian Hamas on Thursday of training Egyptian Islamists in how to carry out bombings, putting more pressure on the Muslim Brotherhood, ally of Hamas. In neighboring Gaza, the ruling Hamas Islamists strongly denied the allegations. Egypt has faced turmoil since the army forced the Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi from the presidency in July. A week ago, the interior minister survived an assassination attempt in Cairo, amid fears the country could face an Islamist insurgency. ...


Syria now full member of chemical arms pact: Syria's U.N. envoy

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 01:01 PM PDT

Syrian U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari shows a document to reporters at the United Nations Headquarters in New YorkUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria became a full member of the global anti-chemical weapons treaty on Thursday, the country's U.N. envoy said, a move that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had promised as part of a deal to avoid U.S. air strikes. "Legally speaking Syria has become, starting today, a full member of the (chemical weapons) convention," Syrian U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari told reporters in New York after submitting relevant documents to the United Nations. ...


Brazil's Rousseff targets internet companies after NSA spying

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 04:44 PM PDT

Brazil's President Rousseff speaks during a ceremony where she signs into law, the bill that allocates the country's oil royalties to education and health care, in BrasiliaBy Brian Winter SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Angered by reports that the U.S. government spied on her and other Brazilians, President Dilma Rousseff is pushing new legislation that would seek to force Google, Facebook and other internet companies to store locally gathered data inside Brazil. The requirement would be difficult to execute, technology experts say, given high costs and the global nature of the Internet. Still, Rousseff's initiative is one of the most tangible signs of a backlash following revelations that the U.S. ...


Rape trial puts focus on India's death penalty paradox

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 02:03 PM PDT

A police bus carrying four men who were found guilty of fatal gang-rape arrives at a court in New DelhiBy Ross Colvin and Anurag Kotoky NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian judge will announce on Friday whether four men should hang for fatally raping a young woman on a bus last December, in one of the biggest tests in years of India's paradoxical attitude towards the death penalty. Indian judges hand down on average 130 death sentences every year, but India has executed just three people in the past 17 years. Despite its apparent reluctance to carry out the sentences, last year India voted against a U.N. draft resolution calling for a global moratorium on executions. ...


Exclusive: U.S. total of Syrian gas deaths could include bomb casualties - sources

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 04:40 PM PDT

Syrian activists inspect the bodies of people they say were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region, in the Duma neighbourhood of DamascusBy Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the most precise and dramatic details cited by the Obama administration as proof that Syrian forces used chemical weapons in an August 21 attack was the death toll, which an official U.S. government assessment put at 1,429 people, including 426 children. The number, first released by the White House on August 30, was underscored by Secretary of State John Kerry in a fiery indictment of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, describing videos of what he said were victims of the attack, which Syria denies. ...


Kerry talks tough in Syria encounter with Russia

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 04:37 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks next to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, during a press conference before their meeting to discuss the ongoing crisis in Syria, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday Sept. 12, 2013. Secretary of State John Kerry and his team have opened two days of meetings with their Russian counterparts in Geneva. Kerry is hoping to come away with the outlines of a plan for securing and destroying vast stockpiles of Syrian chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)GENEVA (AP) — Striking a tough tone, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry opened swiftly convened talks with Russia on Syria's chemical weapons Thursday by bluntly rejecting a Syrian pledge to begin a "standard process" by turning over information rather than weapons — and nothing immediately.


NASA's Voyager first spacecraft to exit solar system

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 04:19 PM PDT

One of the two Voyager spacecraft on August 9, 2002Never before has a human-built spacecraft traveled so far. NASA's Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system and is wandering the galaxy, US scientists said Thursday.


Assad: Syria to offer data on chemical weapons

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 04:12 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian government solider aims his weapon during clashes with Free Syrian Army fighters, not pictured, in Maaloula village, northeast of the capital Damascus, Syria. Heavy fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels flared again on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 in the ancient, predominantly Christian village of Maaloula. Troops are trying to flush out rebel units, including two that are linked to al-Qaida, from the hilltop enclave which they broke into last week. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad publicly agreed Thursday to a Russian plan to secure and destroy his chemical weapons, but said the proposal would work only if the U.S. halts threats of military action.


Snowden leaks sparked welcome debate: US spy chief

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 04:01 PM PDT

James Clapper speaks on September 12, 2013 at a hotel in WashingtonLeaks from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden triggered a much needed debate about surveillance in America, even if they jeopardized national security, the country's spy chief admitted Thursday.


By giving guns to rebels, US tries to squeeze Syrian regime

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 03:47 PM PDT

Rebels clean their weapons before going to the frontline in the Syrian city of Aleppo on October 6, 2012Three months since President Barack Obama promised military support to opposition forces, the Washington Post reported that the first deliveries of guns and ammunition began arriving two weeks ago, after an alleged chemical weapons attack that Western governments blame on the Syrian regime.


American Islamist killed in Somalia: witnesses

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 03:45 PM PDT

A FBI handout image of US Islamic extremist Omar HammamiA US Islamist fighting in Somalia was killed Thursday in a shootout with Al-Qaeda linked Shebab militants, former comrades he had fallen out with, witnesses said.


Syria seeks to join global chemical arms ban

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 03:29 PM PDT

Bashar Jaafari, Syria's Ambassador to the United Nations, walks down a hallway at UN headquarters on September 12, 2013Syria on Thursday sought membership of the global convention banning chemical weapons, in a move that could help head off a western military strike.


Guinness: World's smallest dog is in Puerto Rico

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 03:25 PM PDT

This handout photo released on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, by Guinness World Records, shows Miracle Milly, a brown female Chihuahua who is the smallest dog living, in terms of height, measuring 3.8 inches (9.65 centimeters) tall when measured from backbone to paw, on Feb. 21, 2013. Milly is owned by Vanesa Semler who lives in Dorado, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Guinness World Records 2014 Edition)SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico can now boast it is home to the world's smallest dog — at least when it comes to height.


'Prove it,' US tells Assad on chemical arms vow

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 03:20 PM PDT

Supporters of the Syrian regime stand behind a placard of Bashar al-Assad at a protest in Lebanon on September 7, 2013President Bashar al-Assad confirmed for the first time Thursday that Syria plans to give up its chemical weapons, as the United States urged him and his Russian allies to quickly make good on his promise.


Taking Lead in Syria Talks, Russia Works to Preserve Assad Regime

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 03:15 PM PDT

On Thursday, Sept. 12, when Russian and American diplomats came to the negotiating table in Geneva, the Russian side came in with the upper hand. The previous night, they had sent Washington a proposal for dismantling Syria's stockpiles of chemical weapons. According to the Russian diplomat Alexei Pushkov, who discussed the outlines of the proposal with TIME, it includes several complicated phases and gives Syria a leading role in the destruction of its own chemical arsenal. The American side, meanwhile, has one trump card in these negotiations — the threat of a military strike against Syria. ...

Israel skeptical of new Iran president

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 03:06 PM PDT

VIENNA (AP) — Israel on Thursday expressed skepticism of Western hopes that the election of a new Iranian president could reduce tensions over the country's nuclear program, asserting that Tehran remains committed to building nuclear arms.

US hits back at Putin's dismissal of US 'exceptionalism'

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 02:58 PM PDT

Russia President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media in Moscow, on September 8, 2013The White House hit back Thursday at Russian President Vladimir Putin's dismissal of "American exceptionalism," saying that, in contrast to Moscow, Washington is a supporter of human rights and freedom of speech.


U.S. scolds North Korea on Yongbyon nuclear reactor

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 02:38 PM PDT

U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Glyn Davies speaks to the media at the Foreign Ministry in TokyoBy Paul Eckert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States scolded North Korea on Thursday over reports indicating the reclusive nation has restarted a plutonium-producing nuclear reactor, emphasizing that such a move would violate U.N. Security Council resolutions. U.S. officials in Washington and traveling in Asia, however, stopped short of confirming reports by two U.S. think tanks that steam rising over North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex indicated a reactor that was moth balled in 2007 was back in operation. "Suffice to say, if it was true, it would be a violation of the relevant U.N. ...


U.N. report may hint at source of Syria chemical weapons attack

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 02:33 PM PDT

A U.N. chemical weapons expert holds a plastic bag containing samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Ain TarmaBy Louis Charbonneau and Anthony Deutsch UNITED NATIONS/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - U.N. chemical weapons investigators will not explicitly blame anyone in their forthcoming report on the August 21 poison gas attack in Syria, but diplomats say their factual reporting alone could suggest which side in the civil war was responsible. The United States and other Western powers blame forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the attack. Russian President Vladimir Putin asserts there is "every reason to believe" it was carried out by rebels. France's U.N. ...


China navy chief says operational aircraft carrier a few years away

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 02:32 PM PDT

Commander of PLA Navy Wu salutes during a welcoming ceremony in BeijingBy David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Chinese navy is using its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, for training and testing and will decide on an operational carrier for the fleet after a few years of evaluation, Admiral Wu Shengli said on Thursday. The navy chief of the People's Liberation Army, on a military-to-military visit with his U.S. counterpart, told reporters at the Washington Navy Yard that Chinese sailors would carry out "very heavy" training over the next two or three years as they assess the carrier. ...


U.N. deployment of surveillance drone in Congo delayed to December

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 02:20 PM PDT

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The unprecedented deployment of an unarmed surveillance drone by U.N. peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been delayed several months due to procurement procedures, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said on Thursday. The United Nations has procured an unarmed surveillance drone from Italian defense electronics firm Selex ES, a unit of Finmeccanica, that was due to be deployed in the volatile eastern Congo during August. ...

Say what? Kerry loses something in translation

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 02:19 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks next to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, during a press conference before their meeting to discuss the ongoing crisis in Syria, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday Sept. 12, 2013. Secretary of State John Kerry and his team have opened two days of meetings with their Russian counterparts in Geneva. Kerry is hoping to come away with the outlines of a plan for securing and destroying vast stockpiles of Syrian chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)GENEVA (AP) — Say what?


AP PHOTOS: Syrians wait out war in Lebanon

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 02:12 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 photo, a Syrian refugee woman smokes a cigarette outside of her tent at a temporary refugee camp, in the eastern Lebanese town of al-Faour in the Bekaa valley, near the border with Syria. She is just one of Syria's refugees in Lebanon, driven out of their homes by a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 and displaced millions. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)BEIRUT (AP) — The days are long at the al-Faour settlement in Lebanon. Women draw on cigarettes to help pass the time, their faces haggard and sunburned. Children play outside their tents in bright, ragged clothes and worn-out shoes.


US must stop 'threats' for weapons plan to work: Assad

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad giving an interview with Russian newspaper Izvestia in Damascus on August 26, 2013President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday Syria plans to give up its chemical weapons, and demanded in return that Washington drop threats of military action and stop arming rebels.


American jihadi slain in Somalia by rivals

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 11, 2011 file photo, American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami addresses a press conference of the militant group al-Shabab at a farm in southern Mogadishu's Afgoye district in Somalia. Hammami, a jihadi from Alabama whose nom de guerre is Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki, or "the American," and ascended the ranks of Somalia's al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab high enough to attract a $5 million U.S. government bounty, was killed Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013 in an ambush ordered by the militant group's leader, militants said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — An American who became one of Somalia's most visible Islamic rebels and was on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list with a $5 million bounty on his head was killed Thursday by rivals in the al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab, militants said.


U.S., Russia differ on military force as Syria talks open

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 01:55 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry gestures next to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov as they speak to the media before their meeting in GenevaBy Warren Strobel and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov opened high-stakes talks on Thursday on disarming Syria's chemical weapons programs, but differences emerged at the outset over U.S. military threats against Syria. Kerry, appearing with Lavrov at the start of what are expected to be two days of talks, said military force might be needed against Syria if diplomacy over President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons stockpile fails. U.S. ...


Reports: American-born 'jihadist rapper' killed in shootout with terror group

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 01:45 PM PDT

One of the FBI's most wanted terrorists, Alabama-born Omar Hammami, has been killed in a shootout with Shebab militants linked to al-Qaida, according to reports by the AFP.

UN inspectors could point to perpetrator of attack

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 01:39 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Diplomats said Thursday the report by U.N. chemical weapons inspectors expected next week could point to the perpetrators of an alleged chemical weapons attack even though they are only charged with determining whether deadly agents were used in Syria — not who was responsible.

Ghana, Nigeria among World Cup draw seeds

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 01:37 PM PDT

FIFA World Cup trophy is displayed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 12, 2013Ivory Coast, Ghana, Algeria, Nigeria and Tunisia were seeded Thursday for the World Cup Africa zone play-offs draw.


Cubans wear yellow ribbons for agents jailed in US

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 01:30 PM PDT

Students wearing yellow ribbons sing during a ceremony commemorating the 15th anniversary of the arrest of five Cuban agents in the U.S. at the start of their school day in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. Rene Gonzalez, one of the five who was freed in 2011, called for people to wear and hang yellow ribbons to press for the release of the four others still in U.S. prisons who were convicted of spying. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)HAVANA (AP) — Cubans tied yellow ribbons to homes, trees and lampposts across the capital Thursday, in an organized mass campaign to press for the return of several espionage agents imprisoned in the United States on the 15th anniversary of their arrest.


Canada G20 policeman guilty of assaulting protestor

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 01:16 PM PDT

Riot police in Toronto make a mass arrest in front of the Novotel Hotel, June 26, 2010A Canadian policeman on Thursday was found guilty of assaulting a protestor with a weapon at a G20 summit in Toronto three years ago.


UN agencies appeal for more aid for Yemen

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 01:09 PM PDT

A woman sits next to sacks of humanitarian aid distributed by international aid agencies in Sanaa, on August 2, 2012The United Nations on Thursday urged the international community, especially Gulf states, to increase aid to impoverished Yemen, saying that more than 10 million people in the country go hungry.


Local Mexican politician killed with machete in troubled state

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 01:02 PM PDT

Family members, friends and colleagues of Mexican congressman Esquivel Lucatero surround his coffin in MoreliaMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Armed men in a Mexican state that is struggling to contain gang violence hacked a local congressman to death with a machete while he was being interviewed by a journalist, authorities said on Thursday. State prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan said the politician, Osbaldo Esquivel Lucatero, was giving the interview in his car Wednesday afternoon when a group of unidentified men forced him and the other man out and attacked them. The reporter survived. ...


20 years on, Oslo Accords promise rings hollow

Posted: 12 Sep 2013 12:58 PM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, a Palestinian man walks by a barrier separating the West Bank town of Abu Dis, from east Jerusalem with Arabic graffiti that reads, "PLO, no for negotiations," seen on the side of Abu Dis, West Bank. Twenty years after the two sides signed the Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn, the words that launched Israeli-Palestinian talks on dividing the Holy Land into two states ring hollow to many on both sides. Negotiators said mistakes they made then cause damage to this day. PLO refers to the Palestine Liberation Organization. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)ABU DIS, West Bank (AP) — In 1993, the words rang hopeful and historic. Israel and the PLO agreed "it is time to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict," live in peaceful co-existence and reach a "just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement."


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