2013年9月17日星期二

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Pakistan yet to decide details on freeing former Taliban No. 2

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 11:59 AM PDT

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addresses attendees at a flag raising ceremony to mark the country's 67th Independence Day in IslamabadANKARA (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reiterated on Tuesday his country will free former Afghan Taliban No. 2, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, but that details of his release would be determined after he returned to Pakistan later this week. The United States and Afghanistan have long pressed Pakistan to free Baradar and other senior Taliban figures who could be used to tempt moderate Taliban leaders to the negotiating table and transform the insurgency into a political movement. ...


Chaos as floods submerge Mexico's Acapulco, death toll rises

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:37 PM PDT

By Alberto Fajardo and Luis Enrique Martinez ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's famous beach resort of Acapulco was in chaos on Tuesday as hotels rationed food for thousands of stranded tourists and floodwaters swallowed homes and cars after some of the most damaging storms in decades killed at least 55 people across the country. Television footage showed Acapulco's international airport terminal waist deep in water and workers wading out to escape floods that have prevented some 40,000 visitors from leaving and blocked one of the main access routes to the city with mud. ...

Brazil's Rousseff calls off state visit to U.S. over spying

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:07 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama meets with Brazil President Rousseff in the Oval Office of the White House in WashingtonBy Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called off plans for a state visit to Washington in October because of revelations that the United States spied on her personal communications and those of other Brazilians. Rousseff's decision, which came despite a 20-minute telephone call from President Barack Obama on Monday night in an attempt to salvage the trip, is a big blow to relations between the two biggest economies in the Americas. ...


Analysis: Harsher U.S. sanctions on Iran oil sales may have little effect

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:04 PM PDT

Iranian crude oil supertanker "Delvar" is seen anchored off SingaporeBy Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress could soon pass a bill to further squeeze Iran's oil exports - and its nuclear program - but new sanctions may fail to cut the country's crude sales much more than existing ones already have. The Senate Banking Committee this month is expected to begin debating its version of a package of sanctions that easily passed in the House of Representatives in late July. The House bill would cut Iran's exports to global customers by an additional 1 million barrels per day in a year, on top of U.S. ...


Obama says he wants to test Iran leader's interest in dialogue

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:39 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama speaks about the economy at the White House in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Iran's new President Hassan Rouhani appears to want to open a dialogue with the United States and that he is willing to test whether this is the case. Obama's comment in an interview with Spanish-language network Telemundo was the latest indication the president would like to jump from the crisis over Syria's chemical weapons to a new search for a diplomatic deal to ensure Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon. Last weekend, Obama revealed he and Rouhani had exchanged letters about the U.S.-Iran standoff. ...


Kerry urges 'strong' U.N. resolution on Syria

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:54 PM PDT

US Secretary of State Kerry, British Foreign Secretary Hague and French Foreign Minister Fabius attend a news conference after a meeting on Syria conflict at the Quai d'Orsay ministry in ParisBy Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry insisted on Tuesday that the U.S.-Russian agreement for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons must be backed by a U.N. resolution with the teeth to force compliance from President Bashar al-Assad. "That will happen only with the United Nations passing a strong resolution. It will happen with the enforcement of the world, with Russia standing by us in this effort, and it will happen, finally, because Assad lives up to what he has agreed to do," Kerry told reporters at the U.S. Capitol. ...


Flooded Acapulco hit by looting as tourists airlifted

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:51 PM PDT

A man sits atop a car while trying to cross a street in Chilpancingo, state of Guerrero, Mexico, on September 17, 2013Mexican military and commercial flights airlifted hundreds of tourists stranded in the flooded resort of Acapulco on Tuesday, where looters ransacked stores after two deadly storms struck.


UN official: World failing over climate change

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:48 PM PDT

Halldor Thorgeirsson, right, a senior director with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and researcher Brian Hoskins take questions during a press briefing at London's Imperial College on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Thorgeirsson said international leaders are failing to fight global warming, appealing directly to the world's voters to pressure their politicians into taking tougher action against the buildup of greenhouse gases. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)LONDON (AP) — International leaders are failing in their fight against global warming, one of the United Nations' top climate officials said Tuesday, appealing directly to the world's voters to pressure their politicians into taking tougher action against the buildup of greenhouse gases.


Austria: Charred body of suspected killer found

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:35 PM PDT

Austrian army soldiers in an armored vehicle arrive near the villages of Grosspriel and Kollapriel some 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, where a man is barricading himself inside a farm building after he killed two police officers and the driver of an emergency rescue vehicle as the dpa news agency said, citing an unidentified police spokesman. Interior Minister spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck said a third police officer was apparently being held by the shooter in the village of Kollapriel. He confirmed that three people were shot but refused to say whether their injuries were fatal, explaining that officials did not want to give the gunman information through news reports he was likely monitoring. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)MELK, Austria (AP) — Police searching a farm for a gunman who killed four people in central Austria say they have found the charred body of what they believe was the suspect.


White House: Obama to host Netanyahu on September 30

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:34 PM PDT

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on September 17, 2013Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House on September 30 to consult President Barack Obama on Iran's nuclear challenge, Syria and Palestinian peace talks.


Envoys seek Syria U.N. resolution as France, Russia squabble

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:26 PM PDT

A Syrian national flag flutters over a building controlled by forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad in Ashrafieh, AleppoBy Louis Charbonneau and Alissa de Carbonnel UNITED NATIONS/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Diplomats from five key nations kicked off talks on Tuesday on a Western-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons even as France and Russia clashed over Moscow's insistence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's is innocent in an August 21 poison gas attack on civilians. The negotiations in New York among the American, British, French, Russian and Chinese diplomats focused on a draft resolution on Syria's chemical weapons arsenal to be put before the 15-nation U.N. ...


Russia opposes use of force in resolution on Syria

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:19 PM PDT

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, left, and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov arrive for a news conference after their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Moscow is insisting that a new United Nations resolution on Syria not allow the use of force, but Russia's foreign minister appears to suggest the issue could be reconsidered if Syria violates an agreement on abandoning its chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Russia insisted Tuesday that a U.N. Security Council resolution governing Syria's handling of its chemical weapons not allow the use of force, but it suggested that could change if Damascus reneges on the deal to give up its stockpile.


US welcomes Seleka rebel dissolution with caution

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:15 PM PDT

People look at wounded and killed SELEKA fighters after a clashes in Bangui on September 16, 2013The United States Tuesday welcomed an announcement by the Central African Republic that it had dissolved its Seleka rebel group, while also issuing the violent alliance a cautious warning.


Guatemala arrests suspected drug trafficker wanted for ties to Mexican cartel

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 04:10 PM PDT

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan and U.S. law enforcement agents on Tuesday arrested a suspected Guatemalan drug trafficker wanted for ties to Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, the gang run by drug lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman. Waldemar Lorenzana was captured by Guatemalan officials working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Teculutan, Zacapa, some 130 km (80 miles) northeast of Guatemala City, the attorney general's office said in a statement. Lorenzana, 48, belongs to a family with a strong pedigree in drug trafficking and the U.S. ...

Obama pledges to test Iran's willingness for dialogue

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:55 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on September 16, 2013US President Barack Obama pledged Tuesday to test the sincerity of signs that new Iranian President Hassan Rowhani may be ready for a newly productive nuclear dialogue with the West.


Gunman kills 4 in Austria, police raid his hideout

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:50 PM PDT

Austrian army soldiers in an armored vehicle arrive near the villages of Grosspriel and Kollapriel some 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, where a man is barricading himself inside a farm building after he killed two police officers and the driver of an emergency rescue vehicle as the dpa news agency said, citing an unidentified police spokesman. Interior Minister spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck said a third police officer was apparently being held by the shooter in the village of Kollapriel. He confirmed that three people were shot but refused to say whether their injuries were fatal, explaining that officials did not want to give the gunman information through news reports he was likely monitoring. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)MELK, Austria (AP) — Police searching a farm for a gunman who killed four people in central Austria say they have found the charred body of what they believe was the suspect.


Brazil leader postpones trip to US over spying

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 9, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama, right, meets with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. On Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, Rousseff postponed a state visit to the U.S. to protest an American spy program that has aggressively targeted the Latin American nation's government and private citizens alike. Rousseff was to be honored with a state dinner in October. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday postponed a state visit to the U.S. to protest an American spy program that has aggressively targeted the Latin American nation's government and private citizens alike.


Liberian president's son quits as head of state oil firm

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:21 PM PDT

By Alphonso Toweh MONROVIA (Reuters) - The son of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has resigned as chairman of the West African nation's state oil company, NOCAL, a statement from the president's office said on Tuesday. Robert Sirleaf also stepped down from his role as a senior adviser to his mother. President Sirleaf has come under pressure from opponents who accuse her of corruption, nepotism and mismanagement of Liberia's resources sectors, allegations she has denied. ...

Nigerian MPs brawl in parliament over splinter group visit

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 03:08 PM PDT

Party supporters of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, on June 13, 2012Lawmakers in Nigeria's Lower House exchanged blows on Tuesday over the presence in parliament of a splinter group of the ruling party, according to local television.


Suu Kyi calls for speedy change to Myanmar constitution

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:56 PM PDT

Myanmar's opposition leader Suu Kyi smiles after her meeting with former Polish president Walesa in WarsawBy Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) - Myanmar needs to change its constitution as fast as possible to put the country firmly on the path to democracy, Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the country's democratic opposition Aung San Suu Kyi said on Tuesday. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory in last year's parliamentary by-elections, giving her a seat in parliament. But the 68-year old faces a tough challenge to have the constitution changed to push on with reforms and to allow her to run for presidency in 2015. ...


Bashir's bid for New York trip embarrasses US, UN

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:55 PM PDT

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir on September 3, 2013 in KhartoumUN leader Ban Ki-moon wants Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir to answer war crimes charges, a spokesman said Tuesday as controversy mounted over Bashir's bid to attend a UN summit next week.


Clash kills at least 16 at prison in Venezuela

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:55 PM PDT

CARACAS (Reuters) - A clash between gangs killed at least 16 inmates at a Venezuelan prison in the latest bloodshed to afflict the notoriously over-crowded penal system, the government said on Tuesday. The government says weapons smuggling by corrupt guards has allowed heavily armed inmates effectively to control some facilities. Venezuela's prisons hold three times as many inmates as they were designed for, and gun battles are common. ...

160 UN peacekeepers desert Mali posts

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:49 PM PDT

United Nations soldiers patrol on July 27, 2013 in the northern Malian city of KidalA group of 160 Chadian troops from the United Nations peacekeeping force in Mali have deserted their posts in a dispute over pay and conditions, a military source and the soldiers themselves told AFP on Tuesday.


French citizen dies in police custody in Egypt

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:43 PM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — France's foreign ministry says a Frenchman died while in police custody in the Egyptian capital.

Egypt Muslim Brotherhood spokesman arrested

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:31 PM PDT

An Egyptian woman carrying a photo of ousted president Hosni Mubarak chants slogans against ousted President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood as she expresses her support for Mubarak at a court in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013. The ousted long-time autocrat went back in court as his trial resumed on charges related to the killings of some 900 protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his ouster. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian police arrested the main English-language spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday along with other senior members of the group, all charged with inciting violence, state media and a security official said.


EU urges more transparency in Guinea vote

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:21 PM PDT

Children walk past a banner showing candidate Baidy Aribot in Conakry on August 30, 2013The European Union on Tuesday urged greater transparency in the run-up to nationwide elections in Guinea, warning of "chaotic" distribution of voting cards, a day after clashes in the capital.


DR Congo soldier released after Rwanda 'kidnapping'

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:14 PM PDT

Rwandan soldiers pass a sign for Gisenyi, on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo on August 30, 2013A Congolese soldier who was captured by Rwandan forces at the weekend was set free on Tuesday, both countries said, ending a row that risked heightening tensions between the neighbours.


Spy row leads Brazil leader to postpone US state visit

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:03 PM PDT

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff attends a meeting in Brasilia on September 17, 2013Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff postponed a long-planned state visit to Washington on Tuesday, the most serious diplomatic fall-out yet from Edward Snowden's leak of US secrets.


Russia says no proof Assad was behind chemical attack

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:01 PM PDT

By Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and France sharply disagreed on Tuesday over a report by U.N. investigators into a chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people in Syria, underscoring the difficulties in reaching agreement on action at the U.N. Security Council. Sitting beside French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at a news conference in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the report had produced no proof that President Bashar al-Assad's troops carried out the August 21 attack and that Russia still suspected rebel forces were behind it. ...

Acapulco tourists stranded; Mexico death toll 47

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 02:01 PM PDT

A small chapel is engulfed in rock and mud from a landslide triggered by heavy rains brought on by Tropical Storm Manuel on the outskirts of Acapulco, Mexico, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Tropical Storm Ingrid and remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel drenched Mexico's Gulf and Pacific coasts, flooding towns and cities in a national emergency that federal authorities say has caused at least 34 deaths. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — The death toll rose to 47 Tuesday from the unusual one-two punch of a tropical storm and a hurricane hitting Mexico at nearly the same time. Authorities scrambled to get help into, and stranded tourists out of, the cutoff resort city of Acapulco.


Gunmen kill Egyptian army officer and soldier in Nile Delta

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:56 PM PDT

A Palestinian woman carries her son during a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to open the Rafah border crossing, outside the crossing in the southern Gaza StripBy Michael Georgy CAIRO (Reuters) - Gunmen killed an Egyptian military officer and a soldier in an attack on an army vehicle northeast of Cairo on Tuesday, security sources said, raising concerns that an Islamist insurgency is taking hold beyond the Sinai. The number of militant attacks has risen since the army deposed President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood on July 3, following mass protests against his rule. ...


UN probe exposes shocking NKorea rights abuses

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:46 PM PDT

South Korean conservative activists during an anti-North Korea rally at a park in Seoul on July 27, 2013A UN-mandated investigator Tuesday spotlighted "unspeakable atrocities" in North Korea's political prison camps, citing survivors who saw babies drowned, had relatives killed before their eyes, and lived on vermin.


UN leader to press major powers on Syria

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:43 PM PDT

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at headquarters in New York on September 16, 2013UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday he will press the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China to take joint action on the Syria crisis at a meeting next week.


Russia 'ignoring facts' over Syria attack: US

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:42 PM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives for a closed briefing on Syria September 17, 2013 on Capitol Hill in WashingtonThe United States accused Russia of ignoring the facts surrounding a poison gas attack in Syria on Tuesday, highlighting tensions between the West and Moscow over how to eliminate the country's chemical weapons.


Israel to allow more building materials into Gaza

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:39 PM PDT

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel plans to allow building materials meant for private projects into the Palestinian Gaza Strip for the first time in six years, an Israeli defense official said on Tuesday. Gaza has been struggling with a shortage of building materials which has worsened since July, when the Egyptian military began a sweeping crackdown on tunnels used to smuggle goods and weapons from Egypt into the neighboring Palestinian enclave. ...

Wave of car bombs, other attacks kill 31 in Iraq

Posted: 17 Sep 2013 01:38 PM PDT

An Iraqi policeman stands guard outside the Sunni Al-Hassan Mosque in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Gunmen have shot dead over a dozen Sunnis in Iraq's Shiite-majority city of Basra over the past two weeks, following threats to retaliate against them for attacks on Shiites in other parts of Iraq, police and a Sunni community leader said. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)BAGHDAD (AP) — A new wave of car bombs rocked commercial streets in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, part of a series of attacks across the country that left 31 people and four attackers dead.


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