2013年10月17日星期四

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Spate of attacks on Shi'ite Muslims kills 59 people in Iraq

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:56 PM PDT

Civilians gather at the site of a bomb attack in the village of MwafaqiyaMOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Attacks on Shi'ite Muslims killed at least 59 people across Iraq on Thursday, including a suicide truck bomb targeting members of the country's Shabak minority, police and medics said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for any of the attacks, but Shi'ites are viewed as apostates by hardline Sunni Islamists who have been regrouping and gathering pace in an insurgency this year. Militants linked to al Qaeda have in the past attacked Shabaks, who are mainly Shi'ite. ...


Rebel snipers kill high-ranking Syrian general

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 12:49 PM PDT

An undated handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA shows top-ranking general in Syrian military intelligence, General Jama'a Jama'a who was killed in Deir al-Zor city in northeastern SyriaBEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebel snipers killed a top-ranking general in Syrian military intelligence on Thursday, state television and opposition activists said. State TV said General Jama'a Jama'a was shot dead in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor, which is in a province largely held by opposition forces trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-Assad monitoring group, said Jama'a was a member of Assad's inner circle and one of Syria's most prominent military figures. ...


Guinea opposition secures key seat in tense parliament vote

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 03:59 PM PDT

CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's election authorities on Thursday declared an opposition politician winner of the country's most hotly contested parliamentary seat, a result that should ease tensions and is likely to deny the ruling party of an outright majority. Final results from the September 28 vote are due on Friday, but the announcement of the result from Matoto, a heavily populated district in the capital, came after days of recounting and diplomatic pressure to avoid threatened street protests. ...

Obama, Italy's Letta compare notes on budget woes

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 12:55 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta in the Oval Office of the White House in WashingtonBy Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta congratulated each other on Thursday for surviving extended budget crises and pledged to work together to advance U.S.-EU trade talks and address security issues. The two leaders met at the Oval Office on the day after Congress agreed to fund the U.S. government until January and averted a debt default by lifting the nation's debt ceiling until February. The U.S. government reopened after a 16-day shutdown. Letta said the U.S. ...


Russia, U.S. deny date set for Syria peace conference

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:15 PM PDT

By Alexei Anishchuk MOSCOW (Reuters) - A senior Syrian official said on Thursday that a long-delayed international conference aimed at ending his country's civil war was scheduled for November 23-24, but co-organizers Russia and the United States said no date had been set. A spokeswoman for the U.N. Syria peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi also cast doubt on the statement, saying the timing of the conference intended to bring Syria's government and opposition together had not yet been agreed. ...

Police arrest 40 as Canada shale gas protest turns violent

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:33 PM PDT

By Julie Gordon (Reuters) - Police in the eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick arrested about 40 people on Thursday after efforts to dismantle a highway barricade turned violent and protesters against shale gas exploration set several police vehicles on fire. The incident came in response to a weeks-long protest by activists and local aboriginals, who blocked a road near the town of Rexton to try to slow work by SWN Resources Canada, a subsidiary of Southwestern Energy Co, which is exploring shale gas properties in the area. ...

Angolan troops enter Congo Republic, seize soldiers: officer

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 04:28 PM PDT

By Christian Tsoumou BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - A detachment of Angolan troops crossed into neighboring Congo Republic earlier this week and has detained a group of Congolese soldiers, a senior Congolese officer said on Thursday. Angola's ambassador in Brazzaville said he was not aware of any Angolan troop movements inside Congo Republic and denied that his country's army was detaining Congolese soldiers. The incident highlights tensions around Angola's oil-rich Cabinda enclave, which is separated from the rest of Angola and surrounded by Congo Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo. ...

FA defends Hodgson over 'monkey' joke

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 04:22 PM PDT

In this handout provided by the Football Association (FA), England manager Roy Hodgson speaks to the media during a press conference on October 16, 2013 in LondonLondon (AFP) - The Football Association gave its backing to England manager Roy Hodgson on Thursday after he inadvertently created a media storm by telling his squad a joke about a monkey.


Bodies recovered in Mekong after Laos plane crash

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 04:20 PM PDT

People look at the debris of a Lao Airlines turboprop plane that crashed into the Mekong River, in Pakse, Laos on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. Backpacks, an airplane propeller and passports were among the debris scattered on the riverbank where the Lao Airlines turboprop plane apparently hit hard before skidding into the water and sinking Wednesday, killing all 49 people onboard. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)PAKSE, Laos (AP) — Rescuers in fishing boats pulled bodies from the muddy Mekong River on Thursday as officials in Laos ruled out finding survivors from a plane that crashed in stormy weather, killing 49 people from 10 countries.


Bushfires ravage communities in SE Australia

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 04:20 PM PDT

Smoke and ash from wildfires burning across the state of New South Wales blankets the Sydney city skyline on October 17, 2013Winmalee (Australia) (AFP) - Residents faced scenes of devastation Friday after bushfires ravaged communities and destroyed "hundreds" of homes in southeastern Australia with dozens of blazes still burning out of control.


Thousands of French students protest against deportations

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 03:56 PM PDT

High school students demonstrate in Paris on October 17, 2013, in protest against the deportation of foreign pupils following the high-profile eviction of a 15-year-old Roma girlParis (AFP) - Thousands of high school students in Paris and other parts of France rose up Thursday in anger at the deportation of foreign pupils, after the high-profile eviction of a 15-year-old Roma girl.


Obama: shutdown encouraged US foes, depressed friends

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 03:26 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks about the reopening of government following a shutdown in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, October 17, 2013Washington (AFP) - US President Barack Obama warned Thursday that America's recent bout of political dysfunction had encouraged its enemies and dismayed its friends, and said the crisis left "no winners" in Washington.


Zimbabwe diamonds: Where has all the money gone?

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:43 PM PDT

File - in this file photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006 gangs of illegal miners dig for diamonds in Marange, eastern Zimbabwe. The wealth enjoyed by just a few comes, at least in part, from the vast Marange diamond field that was exposed by an earth tremor in 2006. The Marange deposit is the biggest diamond field found in Africa for a century, estimated to be worth some billions of dollars, but as most Zimbabweans remain mired in poverty, questions are being asked about where all the money went and who benefited. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, FILE)HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Despite living in an impoverished country under sanctions, some in Zimbabwe seem awash in money, judging by the Mercedes-Benzes parked at a country club and the private woodland estate with artificial lake and mansion built by the nation's police chief.


Lightning strikes Namibia cheetah centre

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:41 PM PDT

A cheetah walks at The Cheetah Conservation Fund center in Otjiwarongo, Namibia, on August 13, 2013Windhoek (AFP) - A lightning strike set fire to Namibia's world-renowned cheetah conservation centre, injuring an intern and burning down buildings, an official said Thursday.


US urges DR Congo, rebels to reach peace deal

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:38 PM PDT

Jeeps full of M23 rebels drive towards the town of Sake in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on November 30, 2012Washington (AFP) - The United States called Thursday on the Democratic Republic of Congo and opposition rebels to end months of dragging negotiations and conclude a peace deal.


Tesoro detected anomalies on North Dakota line before spill

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:31 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Tesoro Logistics LP detected anomalies during an inspection of its 20-year-old North Dakota pipeline just days before the line ruptured and spilled 20,600 barrels of oil onto farmland, the company said on Thursday. The six-inch pipeline was carrying Bakken oil to the Stampede rail facility outside Columbus, North Dakota, when it ruptured. A farmer harvesting wheat discovered oil spouting from the line on September 29. A robot, known as a "smart pig," detected anomalies during what Tesoro called routine internal inspections of the pipeline September 10 and 11. ...

Canada police clash with shale gas protesters

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:18 PM PDT

A shale gas well, ready to operate, is seen in Saint-Hyacinthe on September 28, 2010Ottawa (AFP) - Police arrested at least 40 protesters opposed to shale gas development in easternmost Canada on Thursday after vehicles were set ablaze and a shot was fired.


I.Coast, Burkina Faso ink deal to fight child trafficking

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:14 PM PDT

Ivory Coast's First Lady Dominique Ouattara (R) and her Burkina Faso counterpart Chantal Compaore shake hands on October 17, 2013 after signing cooperation agreements on fighting cross-border child trafficking, in AbidjanAbidjan (AFP) - The first ladies of Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso on Thursday sealed an agreement to fight the growing child trafficking trade between the two west African nations.


Donations, prisoners aid cities, ranchers after South Dakota blizzard

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:13 PM PDT

By Michael Hirtzer (Reuters) - Donations of money and some cattle have been rolling in for South Dakota ranchers after a blizzard last week killed tens of thousands of cattle in one of the state's worst agriculture tragedies, state officials said on Thursday. Dozens of minimum-security prison inmates were aiding the clean-up effort, gathering debris in three towns in the western part of the state hit by record snowfall that felled trees and knocked out power lines. "This is a very tough time in western South Dakota. ...

UN sees mercury use phase-out within 3 decades

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2013 file photo Swiss Environment and Transport Minister, Doris Leuthard, left, signs documents at the Minamata Convention on Mercury in Kumamoto, southern Japan. Achim Steiner, the executive director of the U.N. Environment Program, says Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013 the Minamata Convention on Mercury, which was formally adopted as international law last week, sends GENEVA (AP) — A new global treaty could eliminate within three decades the commercial use of mercury in everything from batteries, paints and skin-lightening creams to utility plants and small-scale gold mining, the head of the U.N.'s environment agency said Thursday.


Thirty million people are slaves, half in India - survey

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:54 PM PDT

By Timothy Large LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Some 30 million people are enslaved worldwide, trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labour, victims of debt bondage or even born into servitude, a global index on modern slavery showed on Thursday. Almost half are in India, where slavery ranges from bonded labour in quarries and kilns to commercial sex exploitation, although the scourge exists in all 162 countries surveyed by Walk Free, an Australian-based rights group. For factbox on the 10 countries where slavery is most prevalent, click http://in.reuters. ...

State TV: Top Syrian army general killed in battle

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:45 PM PDT

FILE - Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil speaks during an interview with Associated press, in Cairo, Egypt, in this Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013 file photo. An international conference on a political solution to the Syrian conflict could take place Nov. 23-24, Syria's deputy prime minister said Thursday Oct. 17, 2013 _ the first mention of possible dates for the long-delayed gathering. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)BEIRUT (AP) — One of Syria's most powerful military officers was killed in fighting with al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremists in an oil-rich eastern province largely controlled by the rebels, Syrian state-run television said Thursday.


Geneva talks herald new 'era' for Iran nuclear dispute

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:44 PM PDT

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a press conference closing two days of closed-door nuclear talks on October 16, 2013 in GenevaTehran (AFP) - Iranian analysts hailed Thursday the latest round of nuclear talks with world powers as a "new era" and a "new spring", praising Tehran's insistence on its right to enrich uranium.


Blackwater guards face new U.S. charges for Iraq shooting deaths

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:41 PM PDT

By David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States brought new manslaughter charges on Thursday against four former Blackwater Worldwide security guards for a 2007 shooting in Baghdad that prosecutors said killed 14 unarmed civilians. The shooting caused tension in U.S.-Iraqi relations and raised concerns about the U.S. government's use of private contractors, who were shielded from prosecution in Iraq. The original U.S. charges filed against the Blackwater guards in 2008 were thrown out in December 2009, about a month before a scheduled trial. A U.S. ...

API threatens suit if U.S. biofuel mandate not done by November 30

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:38 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. oil industry group the American Petroleum Institute told the federal environmental regulator on Thursday that it intends to file a lawsuit if the agency does not finalize 2014 biofuel requirements by the end of November. It was the oil industry's latest move to fight the so-called federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency. It requires fuel blenders to gradually mix more ethanol and biodiesel into the nation's gasoline and diesel supply. ...

Syrian refugees stranded at Milan rail hub

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:27 PM PDT

A Syrian women shows the fine her family received from Austrian Police on October 17, 2013 in the central station of MilanMilan (AFP) - Syrian asylum seekers are living camped out in between commuters and tourists at Milan's busy rail hub, their number growing by the day as charities and city officials try to help.


Iran talks with West _ but battles over outreach

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:24 PM PDT

In this picture taken on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, Iranian school girls show their hands with writing in Persian in support supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, denouncing the U.S. and one of them with word "Nuclear Scientist" in an annual state-backed rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, commemorating 33rd anniversary of the embassy takeover by militant students. On Nov. 4, 1979, students who believed the embassy was a center of plots against Iran held 52 Americans hostages for 444 days, and the US severed formal diplomatic ties in response. In a sharp counterpoint to the Western outreach by President Hassan Rouhani's government, hard-line factions in Iran have amplified their bluster and backlash in messages that they cannot be ignored in any diplomatic moves with Washington either in the nuclear talks or beyond. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Iranian foreign minister's parting words in Geneva carried hopes that the U.S. and other world powers could begin closing the gap with Tehran over its nuclear program. He returns home with perhaps an even tougher challenge at finding common ground.


Fear curbs holiday celebrations in Iraq's Mosul

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:18 PM PDT

A nearly-deserted amusement park on the outskirts of Mosul on October 15, 2013Mosul (Iraq) (AFP) - Fear generated by near-daily violence has kept residents of Iraq's second-largest city Mosul at home this Eid al-Adha rather than out celebrating the main Muslim holiday of the year.


Canada set to sack three senators in expenses scandal

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:11 PM PDT

Pamela Wallin on March 4, 2004 in New York CityOttawa (AFP) - A Canadian senator at the center of an expenses scandal sought medical leave on Thursday as he and two colleagues were set to be sacked from government.


Egypt denies mistreatment of Syrian refugees

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:02 PM PDT

A Syrian refugee woman from the province of Idlib carries water on her head as she returns to Serjilla, on October 8, 2013Cairo (AFP) - Egypt on Thursday denied it was mistreating Syrian refugees following a report by Amnesty International accusing authorities of unlawfully detaining and deporting hundreds of Syrians fleeing civil war.


Lawmakers launch budget talks as Washington returns to work

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 01:01 PM PDT

President Barack Obama walks out to make a statement to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. The Senate voted to avoid a financial default and reopen the government after a 16-day partial shutdown and the measure now heads to the House, which is expected to back the bill before day's end. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)By David Lawder and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers launched an effort to resolve budget differences in a less confrontational fashion on Thursday as Washington picked up the pieces from a political crisis that has slowed the economy and undermined the country's international standing. As hundreds of thousands of federal employees returned to work, Republican and Democratic negotiators held their first meeting to tackle tax and spending issues that have led to repeated rounds of brinkmanship over the past three years. ...


Family of Nazi criminal searches for missing body

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 12:59 PM PDT

People hold up signs with names of Nazi concentration and death camps during a march marking the 70th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of Rome's Jews to concentration camps, in Rome's ghetto neighborhood, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. Nazi forces rounded up more than 1,000 Jews from Rome's ghetto and nearby neighborhoods and sent them by train to Auschwitz. Only 16 survived. Rome's Jewish community, which gathered Wednesday amid deep anger over the late Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke and his Holocaust-denying final statement. Priebke died Friday in Rome, where he was serving a life term for his role in the 1944 massacre of 335 civilians at the Ardeatine Caves outside the capital. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)ROME (AP) — The case of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke took on another bizarre twist Thursday as his family said it doesn't know where his body is.


World welcomes US budget deal but fears remain

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 12:55 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. Lawmakers Wednesday voted to avoid a financial default and reopen the government after a 16-day partial shutdown. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)LONDON (AP) — The world's disbelief at the political impasse in the U.S. turned to cautious relief Thursday as the country stepped back from the brink of default. But fears remain about another possible shutdown — and, even worse, a possible default — early next year.


Father of evicted Roma girl lied to France about family origin

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 12:51 PM PDT

Leonarda Dibrani (15) shows her French language certificates at her home in the town of Mitrovica on October 16, 2013Pristina (AFP) - The father of a 15-year-old Roma girl whose detention during a school trip and deportation sparked an uproar in France, admitted Thursday he had lied to French authorities about his family's Kosovo origin in a bid to obtain asylum.


Mandela daughters drop bid to control 'handprint' firms

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 12:50 PM PDT

Makaziwe Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela (L) and Ndaba Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela (R) listen to proceedings at the Mthatha high court on July 2, 2013Johannesburg (AFP) - Nelson Mandela's daughters have dropped a high-profile court battle to wrest control of two companies set up to manage proceeds from his iconic handprints, lawyers said Thursday.


Pirate attacks by heavily armed gangs surge off Nigerian coast

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 12:48 PM PDT

By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) - Pirate attacks off Nigeria's coast have jumped by a third this year with ships passing through West Africa's Gulf of Guinea, a major commodities hub, increasingly under threat from gangs wanting to snatch cargoes and crews. Unlike the dangerous waters off Somalia and the Horn of Africa on the east coast of Africa, through which ships now speed with armed guards on board, many vessels have to anchor to do business off West African countries, with little protection. This makes them a soft target for criminals and jacks up insurance costs. ...

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