2013年9月23日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News


Militants hold out as Kenya forces try to crush cross-border jihad

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:35 PM PDT

By Duncan Miriri and James Macharia NAIROBI (Reuters) - Islamist fighters from Somalia's al Shabaab held out at a Nairobi shopping center after killing at least 62 people, surrounded by Kenyan forces trying to crush their group's cross-border jihad. President Barack Obama offered U.S. support as the raid went into its fourth day, saying he believed Kenya - the scene of one of al Qaeda's first major attacks and a neighbor of chaotic Somalia - would continue to be a regional pillar of stability. ...

France expects U.N. council to agree on Syria arms measure

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:51 PM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighters aim their weapons as they take defensive positions in AleppoBy John Irish and Alexei Anishchuk UNITED NATIONS/SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - France's foreign minister said on Monday he expects the U.N. Security Council to agree on a resolution to enforce the chemical weapons deal with Syria and appeared to back off French calls for the measure to threaten force against President Bashar al-Assad. Syria's civil war is a top agenda item as world leaders gather this week for the annual U.N. General Assembly. Envoys from the five big U.N. powers - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - have been meeting to negotiate a resolution to back the U.S. ...


Kenya's Interior Ministry says forces take over mall, all hostages freed

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:29 PM PDT

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan officials said early on Tuesday that their forces were "in control" of a mall in the capital where Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab launched a raid that has killed at least 62 people. "Our forces are combing the mall floor by floor looking for anyone left behind. We believe all hostages have been released," the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government in The Office of the President said on its Twitter handle. (Reporting by James Macharia; Editing by Sandra Maler)

Iran takes charm offensive to U.N., agrees to nuclear talks

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:20 PM PDT

Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani gestures to the media during a news conference in TehranBy David Brunnstrom and Arshad Mohammed UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran's new government took its diplomatic charm offensive to the United Nations on Monday and agreed to new talks on its nuclear program with top diplomats from six world powers, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The meeting bringing the top U.S. diplomat and new Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif around the same conference table will be highly unusual given the United States has not maintained diplomatic relations with Iran since 1980. The announcement of the talks planned for this week during the U.N. ...


Egyptian court bans Muslim Brotherhood

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:40 PM PDT

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi form silhouettes during a protest near the El-Thadiya presidential palace in CairoBy Shadia Nasralla CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Monday banned deposed President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its funds seized, a crippling strike in the campaign to crush the Islamist movement. The case was brought by a lawyer from the leftist Tagammu party on the grounds of protecting Egyptians from violence. It was not stated if he was acting at the instigation of the army-backed government, which is mounting one of the fiercest crackdowns against the group in decades. ...


France says urgent action needed to aid Central African Republic

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:02 PM PDT

France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius attends a news conference after a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in MoscowBy John Irish NEW YORK (Reuters) - France's foreign minister said on Monday there was an urgent need to tackle the crisis in the Central African Republic and called for strengthening an African peacekeeping force. Speaking to reporters at the United Nations, Laurent Fabius warned that a lack of international response risked destabilizing the entire region. Land-locked, mineral-rich Central African Republic has slipped into chaos since northern Seleka rebels seized the capital Bangui and ousted President Francois Bozize in March. U.N. ...


Tunisia's Marzouki wants Iran to help stop Syria's 'nightmare'

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:57 PM PDT

Tunisia's President Moncef Marzouki hold a joint news conference with France's President Francois Hollande in TunisBy Daniel Bases NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on Monday urged Iran to help broker a political solution to the devastating civil war in Syria that has killed more than 100,000 people. "We have to stop this; this is the main problem: find and reach a political solution. I hope Iran now with President (Hassan) Rouhani would help. We have to put the pressure on our friends all over the world, but the nightmare of the Syrian people must stop," Marzouki told Reuters on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting. ...


Spanish journalist abducted in Syria: newspaper

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:49 PM PDT

Residents drive motorcycles and cars to flee during fighting close to Hama, on January 27, 2013MADRID (AFP) - A special correspondent in Syria for the Spanish newspaper El Periodico has been kidnapped in the war-torn country, the paper announced late Monday in its online edition.


US edges closer to high-level talks with Iran

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:37 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during the 68th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. Kerry was speaking at a high-level meeting about the Millennium Development Goals for persons with disabilities: (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — The Obama administration edged close to direct, high-level talks with Iran's new government on Monday, with Secretary of State John Kerry slated to meet his Iranian counterpart this week and the White House weighing the risks and rewards of an encounter between President Barack Obama and Iran's president, Hasan Rouhani.


Malala, Gordon Brown back schooling for Syrian refugee children

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:30 PM PDT

Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai speaks with Gordon Brown at a World School Day event , September 23, 2013 in New YorkNEW YORK (AFP) - Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen shot by the Taliban for championing girls' education, lent her support Monday to an initiative to provide schooling for thousands of Syrian school children.


Kenyan officials claim last push to end mall siege

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:29 PM PDT

Kenyan Defense Forces leave the near vicinity of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi Kenya Monday Sept. 23 2013. Multiple large blasts have rocked the mall where a hostage siege is in its third day. Associated Press reporters on the scene heard multiple blasts and a barrage of gunfire. Security forces have been attempting to rescue an unknown number of hostages inside the mall held by al-Qaida-linked terrorists. (AP Photo/ Jerome Delay)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan security forces battled al-Qaida-linked terrorists in an upscale mall for a third day Monday in what they said was a final push to rescue the last few hostages in a siege that has left at least 62 people dead.


Five bodies pulled from massive Mexico mudslide

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:26 PM PDT

Members of the Mexican rescue team "Topos" (Moles) search for victims in La Pintada on September 23, 2013MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Rescuers have pulled five bodies from a massive mudslide that buried part of a village in southwestern Mexico, where 68 people were reported missing, the interior minister said Monday.


Sudan police fire tear gas to end protest over fuel subsidies

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:17 PM PDT

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese police fired tear gas on Monday to disperse people protesting in the capital Khartoum and two other cities against the canceling of petrol subsidies by veteran President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, witnesses said. Bashir, in power since 1989, has avoided an "Arab spring" uprising of the sort that has unseated other rulers in the region, but many in Sudan complain about soaring food prices, corruption, violent conflicts and high unemployment. The government almost doubled prices for fuel and cooking gas on Monday to bring its budget under control. ...

New Syria dispute clouds UN assembly

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:12 PM PDT

Rebels secure a heavily damaged street in Deir Ezzor on September 23, 2013 following fighting with government forcesUNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Russia-US wrangling over a resolution to enforce the destruction of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons cast a shadow Monday over the start of the United Nations General Assembly.


Venezuela-to-France cocaine bust yields 9 arrests

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:08 PM PDT

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The smuggling of 1.4 tons of cocaine in 31 suitcases on an Air France flight from Caracas to Paris has led to nine arrests on two continents, and Venezuela's top police official said Monday that he expected more arrests with airline workers suspected.

Gunmen kill 10, including child, in northern Mexico

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:03 PM PDT

A member of the local police stands guard on January 31, 2012 in Ciudad JuarezCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP) - Gunmen carrying assault rifles opened fire on a crowd celebrating in a house after an amateur baseball game in northern Mexico, killing 10 including a six-year-old girl, authorities said Monday.


Fairfax consortium bids $4.7 billion to take BlackBerry private

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:55 PM PDT

A sign is seen at the Blackberry campus in WaterlooBy Alastair Sharp and Andrea Hopkins TORONTO (Reuters) - Smartphone maker BlackBerry has agreed to go private in a $4.7 billion deal led by its biggest shareholder, allowing the on-the-go email pioneer to regroup away from public scrutiny after years of falling fortunes and slumping market share. The $9 a share tentative offer, from a consortium led by property and casualty insurer Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd, will set a floor for any counteroffers that might emerge for Blackberry, which has been on the block since August. ...


Canada fast-tracks rail terror prosecution

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:31 PM PDT

A commuter walks through Union Station, the heart of VIA Rail travel, on April 22, 2013 in Toronto, CanadaTORONTO (AFP) - Canadian prosecutors on Monday moved to skip a preliminary hearing for two accused in an alleged plot to derail a passenger train, and proceed directly to trial.


US, Iran foreign ministers to hold first nuclear talks

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:29 PM PDT

Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (R) signs a guest book on September 19, 2013 at UN headquarters in New YorkUNITED NATIONS (AFP) - In a stunning diplomatic breakthrough, the foreign ministers of arch rivals, the United States and Iran, will hold their first talks on Tehran's contested nuclear drive at a landmark meeting on Thursday.


Canada PM says Merkel win 'a great victory'

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:27 PM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel waves as she gives a press conference in Berlin, on September 23, 2013OTTAWA (AFP) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday publicly congratulated German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her "historic" election win.


Former Guantanamo detainee in Canada court appearance

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:25 PM PDT

In this image released by the Pentagon on October 31, 2010 shows Canadian Omar Khadr constructing an IEDOTTAWA (AFP) - Former Guantanamo inmate Omar Khadr appeared in a Canadian court here Monday as his lawyers sought his transfer to a provincial prison.


Air France in spotlight as nine held over record cocaine bust

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:14 PM PDT

Part of the 1.3 tonnes of pure cocaine seized by French police in Nanterre, France on September 21, 2013NANTERRE, France (AFP) - Nine people are being held in France and Venezuela in connection with the seizure of 1.3 tonnes of cocaine stashed in suitcases on an Air France flight, police said Monday.


Hezbollah head urges Saudi to review stand on Syria

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:10 PM PDT

An image grab from Hezbollah's al-Manar TV shows Hassan Nasrallah, head of Hezbollah, on September 23, 2013 in LebanonBEIRUT (AFP) - The head of Lebanon's Shiite group Hezbollah, a staunch ally of Damascus, on Monday urged Saudi Arabia and other supporters of Syrian rebel forces to instead back a political settlement.


Egypt court bans all Muslim Brotherhood activities

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:01 PM PDT

Muslim Brotherhood supporters hold a portrait of Mohamed Morsi during a rally in Cairo, on July 24, 2013CAIRO (AFP) - An Egyptian court on Monday banned the Muslim Brotherhood from operating and ordered its assets seized, in the latest blow to the Islamist movement of deposed president Mohamed Morsi.


Hezbollah head hails army deployment in Beirut bastion

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Lebanese security forces man a checkpoint in the southern suburb of the capital Beirut on September 23, 2013BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's army on Monday deployed in Hezbollah's southern Beirut stronghold taking over checkpoints in a deal struck with the Shiite group which has been accused of running a "state within a state."


Illegal Spain-Melilla border entry bids double

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:58 PM PDT

A migrant smokes as he hides in a forest on September 18, 2013, after migrants tore down part of a fence around MelillaMADRID (AFP) - The number of people who have tried to illegally cross the border that separates the Spanish territory of Melilla from Morocco has nearly doubled this year but most fail to make it over, the interior ministry said Monday.


Pro-democracy activist wins Swaziland parliament seat

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:52 PM PDT

An elderly lady casts her vote at a polling station in Nhlangano, Swaziland on September 20, 2013MBABANE (AFP) - A pro-democracy activist who won a seat in Swaziland's parliament in elections criticised by regional observers vowed on Monday to fight for reform in Africa's last absolute monarchy.


U.S. examines Kenya information about foreign link to mall attack

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:51 PM PDT

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are urgently looking into information given by the Kenyan government that residents of Western countries, including the United States, may have been among armed militants who attacked a Nairobi shopping mall over the weekend, killing at least 62 people, U.S. security sources said. Kenyan officials said their forces were "in control" of the mall and combing it floor by floor looking for anyone left behind. They said they believed all hostages had been freed. A U.S. ...

Egypt Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, But the Islamists Are Not Finished

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:49 PM PDT

When President Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power in February 2011, it kicked off an extended (and some would argue well-deserved) victory lap for the Muslim Brotherhood. After decades in the shadows—alternately tolerated and oppressed by a string of military-backed rulers—the venerable Islamist group could finally step into the political sunshine.

Shell defers Nigeria exports after pipeline 'sabotage'

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:47 PM PDT

Gas flares at the Shell Cawtharine Channel in the Niger Delta on March 22, 2013LAGOS (AFP) - Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell's Nigerian subsidiary said Monday it has been forced to defer exports of 150,000 barrels of oil per day after thieves sabotaged its main pipeline.


Britain awaits 'concrete' steps by Iran: Hague

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:36 PM PDT

William Hague (L) shakes hands with Javad Zarif on September 23, 2013 in New YorkUNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The international community is waiting for "concrete steps" by Iran before moving to improve relations with the country's new government, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday.


Six Britons likely dead in Kenya mall attack: London

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:34 PM PDT

Kenyan troops take position inside the Westgate mall in Nairobi on September 21, 2013LONDON (AFP) - Six Britons are now believed to have been killed in an attack at a Nairobi shopping mall staged by Islamist militants, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday.


Ailing BlackBerry agrees to $4.7 billion buyout

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:31 PM PDT

Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins unveils the BlackBerry 10 mobile platform in New York on January 30, 2013OTTAWA (AFP) - Tech pioneer BlackBerry made a last roll of the dice Monday and agreed to a probable $4.7 billion buyout by a consortium planning to take the struggling smartphone maker private.


Romania minister under pressure over mine project

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:27 PM PDT

A child waves a flag with the logo of the "Save Rosia Montana" NGO in Bucharest on September 22, 2013BUCHAREST (AFP) - Romania's culture minister came under pressure to quit on Monday over his approval of a Canadian gold mine conservationists say threatens unique Roman ruins.


Obama says Kenyan mall attack a 'terrible outrage'

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 02:26 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama speaks during his meeting with Nigeria's President Jonathan in New YorkNEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama says the United States stands with Kenya against the "terrible outrage" of a shopping mall terrorist attack.


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