2013年10月11日星期五

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Air raids and clashes near Syrian chemical weapons site

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 07:46 AM PDT

A man stands in front of buildings damaged by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, as smoke rises in the background in the besieged area of HomsBy Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian air force warplanes bombarded rebel-held targets close to a major chemical weapons facility on Friday in fighting that highlights the perils facing an international mission to eliminate President Bashar al-Assad's chemical arsenal. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is due to visit 20 sites across Syria to verify the destruction of 1,000 tons of chemical agents and precursors. ...


Dozens killed in new migrant shipwreck south of Sicily

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:38 PM PDT

By Wladimir Pantaleone PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) - Dozens of people died on Friday when a boat carrying around 250 migrants capsized between Sicily and Tunisia, in the second such shipwreck this month, the Italian coastguard said. The Italian news agency ANSA reported that around 50 corpses had been sighted, including around 10 children, following the incident about 60 miles south of the tiny island of Lampedusa. Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told a news conference in Valletta there were indications at least 27 people had died "and the number is expected to rise, possibly drastically". ...

Libyan PM calls brief abduction a 'coup' by foes

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 10:58 AM PDT

File picture shows Libyan PM Zeidan pausing after his address to the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva,TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said on Friday former rebels who abducted him briefly were part of an attempted "coup" by his opponents in the country's legislature, accusing them of seeking to undermine his government. Gunmen snatched Zeidan from the Tripoli hotel where he lives during a dawn raid on Thursday only to release him hours later in an incident that showed how far Libya has descended into militia-plagued chaos two years after Muammar Gaddafi's fall. "They wanted to overthrow the government," Zeidan said in a national address. ...


Africans tell ICC: Heads of state should not be tried

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:43 PM PDT

By Aaron Maasho and Edmund Blair ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African nations have agreed that sitting heads of state should not be put on trial by the International Criminal Court where Kenya's leaders are in the dock, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom said at a ministerial meeting. The ministers of the 54-member African Union also called for deferring the cases of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, the minister said after a meeting to discuss Africa's relations with the court based in The Hague. ...

Guyana says Venezuela navy evicted survey ship from its waters

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:52 PM PDT

By Neil Marks BRIDGETOWN (Reuters) - Guyana's government said on Friday the navy of neighboring Venezuela had evicted a ship used by a U.S. oil exploration company from Guyanese waters, calling the move unprecedented and a serious threat to security. The Venezuela authorities, meanwhile, accused the survey ship, which was being used by Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp, of violating its territorial waters. A border dispute has simmered between the two South American countries for more than a century and oil exploration has only fanned the flames. ...

U.S. says captures senior commander of Pakistani Taliban

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:42 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Afghanistan have captured senior Pakistani Taliban commander Latif Mehsud in a military operation and detained him under a law authorizing use of force against al Qaeda following the 2001 attacks, the Pentagon said on Friday. The arrest of Mehsud, a trusted deputy to Tehreek-e-Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, could be a big blow to the group, which seeks to topple the U.S.-backed government Pakistan but has also taken aim at U.S. forces in Afghanistan and sought to strike the United States itself. A Pentagon spokeswoman said Mehsud was captured in a U.S. ...

Venezuela detains ship in waters claimed by Guyana

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:40 PM PDT

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana's government said Friday that Venezuela's navy has detained a ship operated by a U.S. oil company in waters disputed by the neighboring South American countries.

Optimism but no deal in US fiscal showdown

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:23 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with small business owners in the White House in Washington, on October 11, 2013Washington (AFP) - The White House and Republicans painstakingly edged towards a deal Friday to stave off a disastrous US debt default and to end a partial government shutdown now sure to hit the two-week mark.


Brazil ethanol exports to U.S. at risk if EPA eases blend rule

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:13 PM PDT

By Cezary Podkul and Fabiola Gomes NEW YORK/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - U.S. imports of Brazilian sugar cane ethanol could be cut by more than half if a draft proposal to reduce next year's U.S. biofuel blending mandate is enacted. While the U.S. corn-based ethanol industry has issued the most fierce complaints over news this week that the Environmental Protection Agency may ease volumes, it may be Brazilian ethanol producers like Raizen and traders like Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Vitol S.A. who suffer a deeper blow. ...

Nazi war criminal Priebke dies aged 100 in Italy

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:44 PM PDT

Former German SS officer Erich Priebke, seen at the a Rome military justice court on July 30, 1996Rome (AFP) - Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke died Friday in Rome aged 100 after serving nearly 15 years under house arrest for a World War II massacre in Italy for which he never expressed remorse.


AU to urge UN to defer cases against Kenya, Sudan leaders

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:03 PM PDT

A woman walks up to the offices of the International Criminal Court in the Hague on July 1, 2002Addis Ababa (AFP) - The African Union will urge the UN to defer International Criminal Court cases pending against Kenyan and Sudanese leaders while they are in office, Ethiopia's foreign minister said Friday.


Libya PM says his abduction was attempted 'coup'

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 03:40 PM PDT

Security forces work at the site where a car bomb went off outside the building housing Swedish and Finnish consulates on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, badly damaging the building, but leaving no casualties. Benghazi has been hit by a wave of attacks against government offices and targeted killings in recent months as security agencies struggle to secure Libya since the 2011 civil war. Weapons have proliferated and a number of militias have vied for authority, operating with impunity.(AP Photo/Mohammed el-Shaiky)TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's Western-backed prime minister on Friday said his brief abduction by gunmen this week was an attempted coup by his Islamist political rivals, using militias which he warned are trying to "terrorize" the government and turn the North African nation into another Afghanistan or Somalia.


Eastern India braces for impact of major cyclone

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 03:05 PM PDT

This image provided by the U.S. Naval Research Lab shows Indian Cyclone Phailin taken Friday Oct. 11, 2013 at 6:32 a.m. EDT (10:32 GMT). Officials ordered tens of thousands of coastal villagers to flee their homes Friday as a massive cyclone _ so large it filled nearly the entire Bay of Bengal _ gathered strength and headed toward India's eastern seaboard. The Indian Meteorological Department warned that Phailin was a "very severe cyclonic storm" that was expected to hit with maximum sustained winds of 210-220 kilometers (130-135 miles) per hour. Forecasters are saying Cyclone Phailin will hit the region Saturday evening. (AP Photo/Naval Research Lab)BHUBANESHWAR, India (AP) — Officials ordered tens of thousands of coastal villagers to flee their homes Friday as a massive cyclone that filled nearly the entire Bay of Bengal gathered strength and headed toward India's eastern seaboard.


Townsend strike tips England towards Brazil

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:57 PM PDT

England's Andros Townsend celebrates scoring his team's third goal during their World Cup 2014 Group H qualifying football match against Montenegro at Wembley Stadium in north London on October 11, 2013London (AFP) - Tottenham Hotspur's Andros Townsend crowned his international debut with a fine goal as England beat Montenegro 4-1 on Friday to close on a place at next year's World Cup.


Deadlock remains over British press regulation despite new proposals

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:53 PM PDT

The Daily Mail flag and clock are shown above outside the headquarters of UK newspaper The Daily Mail in London, England, on October 6, 2013London (AFP) - British politicians on Friday published an amended version of their proposed new system of press regulation, but it looked unlikely to break the deadlock after key industry players signalled they would not accept it.


Kerry, Karzai narrowing differences over security deal

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:45 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes off in a black hawk helicopter in KabulBy Lesley Wroughton KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai narrowed differences in initial talks on Friday on terms for a future U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after 2014, a U.S. official said. Washington says it wants a deal done by the end of October but talks have stumbled over two issues that have become deal breakers for Kabul. Karzai has declared it can wait until after presidential elections in April next year, further straining what has become a rocky relationship between the allies. ...


Dozens dead in new migrant boat tragedy off Lampedusa

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:44 PM PDT

This picture released by the European Commission shows European Union President Jose Manuel Barroso (3rd R) and Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta (R) with officials standing near the bodies of the victims of a shipwreck October 9, 2013Valletta (AFP) - Dozens of migrants, including children, died on Friday when their boat sank off Malta near the Italian island of Lampedusa, officials said just over a week after a similar tragedy killed more than 300 refugees.


World Bank sees Afghan economic growth tumbling 10 percent in 2013

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:38 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan economic growth, largely reliant on international aid and security spending, will tumble more than 10 percent this year as foreign troops withdraw and endemic corruption and violence sap development, the World Bank said. Afghanistan ranks among the most corrupt nations in the world and international aid donors have threatened to cut funds unless there is a crackdown. Norway has already announced a reduction in its planned aid over Kabul's failure to tackle graft and violence against women. ...

Venezuelan beauty contest bridges political divide

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:36 PM PDT

Contestants pose during the Miss Venezuela beauty pageant in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013. From left, Miss Amazonas Debora Menicucci, Miss Anzoategui Daniela Briceno, Miss Apure Rogegsy Rivas, Miss Aragua Stephani de Zorsi, Miss Barinas Yaro Serpa, Miss Bolivar Fiorella Di Sabatino, Miss Carabobo Mariella Agriesti. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans have trouble agreeing on anything these days, whether it's who really won the election to replace Hugo Chavez or who to blame for this South American nation's mounting economic woes.


EPA says nothing final on ethanol blend; industry group cries foul

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:32 PM PDT

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday sought to calm a furor over its apparent proposal to reduce ethanol use in gasoline next year, saying that no final decisions had been made about the contentious mandate. On Thursday, Reuters and other news outlets reported on EPA documents that showed the agency proposing an unexpected drop in the amount of corn-based ethanol that would be required for blending next year, a historic retreat from the 2007 biofuel law and a major victory for the oil industry. ...

Another migrant ship capsizes off Italy; 27 dead

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:21 PM PDT

Map locates shipwreck near Malta; 1c x 3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76 mm;VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — For the second time in a week, a smugglers' boat overloaded with migrants capsized in the Canal of Sicily on Friday as it made the perilous crossing from Africa to Europe. At least 27 people drowned, but 221 people were rescued in a joint Italian-Maltese operation, officials said.


Nigeria: Pilot of crashed plane ignored warnings

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:16 PM PDT

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A preliminary investigation into a plane crash that killed at least 13 people in Nigeria indicated Friday that the crew were concerned about the aircraft even before departure and that the captain took off despite continuous automated voice warnings and the first officer's suggestion they abort the flight.

Chemical weapons watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:12 PM PDT

A picture released by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons shows inspectors being filmed after they heard a message from their director-general the group had won the Nobel Peace Prize on October 11, 2013Oslo (AFP) - The watchdog now overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for its efforts to rid the world of the devastating weapons.


Clinton backs Saudi women defying driving ban

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:05 PM PDT

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, listens to Robin Niblett, right, Director of Chatham House, during an event in London, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Clinton is to be presented with the institute's annual award in recognition of her contribution to the significant improvement of international relations, according to the institution. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)LONDON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton has supported Saudi women who this week defied their kingdom's ban on female driving.


Islamists hold scattered protests across Egypt

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:54 PM PDT

A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi holds a flare and chants slogans against the army during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi are holding scattered protests across Egypt, calling off a planned rally at Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square almost a week after bloody clashes left nearly 60 dead. Thousands of Morsi supporters took to the streets Friday in several cities, commemorating 100 days since Egypt's first democratically elected president was ousted by the military following mass protests calling for his resignation. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Cairo (AP) — Supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president held scattered protests across the country on Friday, calling off a planned rally at Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square almost a week after bloody clashes left nearly 60 dead.


Obama would sign a short-term debt increase: White House

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:53 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama would sign a short-term increase of the debt ceiling, if Congress passed a "clean" bill without policy conditions, but would prefer a longer extension, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Friday. "Is (a short-term extension) still acceptable as the bare minimum? Sure," Carney said. "If the Congress were to pass a clean debt ceiling of short duration to avoid default, the president would sign that," he said. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Eric Beech)

Libya PM lashes out at militias after abduction

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:48 PM PDT

Security forces work at the site where a car bomb went off outside the building housing Swedish and Finnish consulates on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, badly damaging the building, but leaving no casualties. Benghazi has been hit by a wave of attacks against government offices and targeted killings in recent months as security agencies struggle to secure Libya since the 2011 civil war. Weapons have proliferated and a number of militias have vied for authority, operating with impunity.(AP Photo/Mohammed el-Shaiky)TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's prime minister, who was abducted briefly by gunmen this week, lashed out Friday against the unruly militias stirring chaos, saying they are trying to "terrorize" the government and turn the North African nation into another Afghanistan or Somalia.


Dozens killed in new migrant shipwreck south of Sicily

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:44 PM PDT

By Wladimir Pantaleone PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) - Dozens of people including women and children died on Friday when a boat carrying around 250 migrants capsized and spilled them into the sea between Sicily and Tunisia, the second such tragedy in a little over a week, the Italian coastguard said. The Italian news agency ANSA reported that around 50 corpses had so far been sighted, including around 10 children, following the accident about 60 miles south of the island of Lampedusa. ...

Al-Qaida leader urges Egypt's Islamists to unite

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:43 PM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida's leader urged Islamists in Egypt in an audio-recording that surfaced Friday to unite under the banner of religion to rid the country of the rule of the military, saying it is fighting a war against Islam.

Twelve people drown in migrant boat accident off Egypt

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:34 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Twelve people died when a boat carrying illegal migrants and Syrian refugees sank off Egypt's northern coast on Friday, security and medical sources said. "The Egyptian coast guards saved 72 Palestinians, 40 Syrians and four Egyptians," one security source said. The circumstances of the accident and the nationalities of the deceased were not yet known. More than 2 million refugees have fled Syria's civil war, mainly to neighbouring Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. ...

Herbal products omit ingredients, Canadian study warns

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:33 PM PDT

A man stocks shelves with vitamins and diet supplements on April 6, 2009 at a store in San Francisco, CaliforniaOttawa (AFP) - Genetic tests on dozens of herbal products sold in Canada found most contained contaminants or fillers and cheaper substitutions not listed on labels, a study said Friday.


Corrosion may have led to North Dakota pipeline leak: regulator

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:27 PM PDT

By Selam Gebrekidan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Initial investigations following a 20,600-barrel leak on Tesoro Logistics LP pipeline in North Dakota point to corrosion on the 20-year-old pipeline, state regulators said on Friday. The six-inch pipeline was carrying crude oil from the Bakken shale play to the Stampede rail facility outside Columbus, North Dakota when a farmer discovered oil spouting from the pipeline on September 29. This is the largest oil spill in the state since it became a major U.S. producer. It is the biggest oil leak on U.S. ...

Amnesty slams plan for 'tests' to ban gays from Gulf

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:24 PM PDT

The sun sets March 7, 2003, over the Kuwait City skylineDubai (AFP) - A Kuwaiti proposal to require "medical tests" to prevent homosexual or transgender migrants from entering Gulf countries is "outrageous" and should be rejected, Amnesty International said Friday.


Egypt Islamists rally after calling off Tahrir demo

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:20 PM PDT

Supporters of Egyptian ousted president Mohamed Morsi and of the Muslim brotherhood movement burn an American flag during a rally outside the al-Quba presidential palace in Cairo on October 11, 2013Cairo (AFP) - Around 2,000 Islamists rallied in Cairo Friday after organisers backtracked from marching on Tahrir Square, avoiding a repeat of last week's clashes with police that killed dozens of people.


Netherlands rejects parole for far-right leader's killer

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:13 PM PDT

Pim Fortuyn during an interview in Rotterdam on May 3, 2002The Hague (AFP) - The man who killed flamboyant far-right Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn more than a decade ago will not be released on early parole, Dutch Deputy Justice Minister Fred Teeven said on Friday.


Maltese PM: 27 dead in capsized migrant ship

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:06 PM PDT

ROME (AP) — Malta's prime minister says 27 people are confirmed dead in the capsizing of a migrant ship off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.

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