2013年1月3日星期四

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Vice President Maduro back in Venezuela, no news on ailing Chavez

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 04:06 PM PST

Venezuela's Vice President Maduro speaks during a visit to Fama de America's coffee processing plant in CaracasCARACAS (Reuters) - Vice President Nicolas Maduro returned to Venezuela on Thursday after visiting Hugo Chavez in hospital in Cuba, but gave no new details on the cancer-stricken president as rumors grow about his condition. Flanked by senior government figures including Diosdado Cabello, the head of the National Assembly, Maduro toured a coffee production plant in Caracas - the type of visit that the president made frequently before he fell ill. ...

Suicide car bomber kills 27 Shi'ite pilgrims in Iraq

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 09:29 AM PST

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber driving a car killed at least 27 Shi'ite Muslims at a bus station in the Iraqi town of Mussayab on Thursday, police and medics said, as they were gathering to return home from a religious rite. The attack, which also wounded at least 60, underlines sectarian tensions that threaten to further destabilize the country a year after U.S. troops left. ...

Indian rape accused charged; victim's father calls for hanging

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 06:24 AM PST

People arrive at a district court in New DelhiNEW DELHI (Reuters) - Five Indian men were formally charged in court on Thursday with the gang rape and murder of a physiotherapy student in a case that has generated widespread anger about the government's inability to prevent violence against women. The December 16 attack on the 23-year-old student and a male companion provoked furious protests close to the seat of government in New Delhi and has fuelled a nationwide debate about the prevalence of sexual crime in India, where a rape is reported on average every 20 minutes. ...

Libyan police captain abducted in Benghazi

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 12:06 PM PST

Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan speaks during a news conference at the headquarters of the Prime Minister's Office in Tripoli LibyaBENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A police investigator was missing after being abducted in the militia-ridden Libyan city of Benghazi, police said on Thursday, but tests on a charred body showed it was not his. The corpse charred with hydrochloric acid and found in the Buhmeida district was not that of the missing Captain Abdel-Salam al-Mahdawi, head of the city's criminal investigation unit, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said. "The body that was found in Benghazi was that of another man's and not Captain al-Mahdawi," Zeidan told reporters. "We wish that he is returned home safely to his family. ...

Turkish Kurd deputies meet jailed militant leader Ocalan: lawmaker

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 10:36 AM PST

DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) - Two Kurdish lawmakers made a rare visit to Abdullah Ocalan at his island prison on Thursday, signaling that Turkey is negotiating with the influential militant leader over ending a conflict that has killed tens of thousands over three decades. Pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputy Ayla Akat Ata and prominent Kurdish politician Ahmet Turk went with a lawyer to Imrali, where Ocalan has been held in virtual isolation since his capture in 1999, a Kurdish lawmaker said. ...

Court hearing delayed for former Haitian President Aristide

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 03:44 PM PST

Supporters of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide react outside a courthouse in Port-au-PrincePORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Thursday won a delay until next week in a court hearing to address accusations he exploited former street children for political gain. Aristide, who did not appear in court, has not been charged with a crime and a judge will ultimately decide whether any charges should be filed. His lawyer successfully argued that the hearing should be delayed to next Wednesday because the court summons was served improperly. ...

Northern Irish police injured as flag row turns violent again

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 03:39 PM PST

BELFAST (Reuters) - Eight police officers were injured in Northern Ireland on Thursday when protests at the removal of the British flag from Belfast City Hall turned violent for the first time in more than two weeks. Pro-British loyalists began rioting and fighting street battles with police after a decision a month ago by mostly nationalist pro-Irish councilors to end the century-old tradition of flying the British flag from City Hall every day in the British-controlled province. More than 40 police officers were injured in the initial wave of violence, which stopped over Christmas. ...

Cuban group says political detentions rose dramatically in 2012

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 02:55 PM PST

HAVANA (Reuters) - Political detentions rose dramatically in Cuba in 2012 and will likely increase again in 2013 because of a lack of "real reforms" on the communist island, a Cuban human rights group said on Thursday. The independent Cuban Commission of Human Rights said in its annual report there were 6,602 detentions of government opponents last year, compared to 4,123 in 2011 and 2,074 in 2010. Elizardo Sanchez, head of the group, said the rise reflected growing discontent among Cubans and the government's attempts to keep a lid on dissent. ...

Sudan, South Sudan leaders to try to defuse tension at summit

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 03:13 PM PST

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan meet on Friday to make another attempt to defuse hostilities after their countries split and restart cross-border oil flows to throw their beleaguered economies a lifeline. Sudan's Omar Hassan al-Bashir and South Sudan's Salva Kiir have both signaled possible concessions at the talks in Addis Ababa to end a stalemate over how to set up a demilitarized buffer zone after the countries came close to war in April. ...

Eleven dead in Damascus gas station blast

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 02:54 PM PST

Men stand amidst wreckage and debris, after a car bomb exploded at a crowded petrol station in Barzeh al-Balad district in DamascusAZAZ, Syria (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed and 40 wounded when a car bomb exploded at a crowded petrol station in the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, opposition activists said. The station was packed with people queuing for fuel that has become increasingly scarce during the country's 21-month-long insurgency aimed at overthrowing President Bashar al-Assad. The semi-official al-Ikhbariya television station showed footage of 10 burnt bodies and Red Crescent workers searching for victims at the site. ...

C. African Republic leader fires son from post

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 03:51 PM PST

The final contingent of reinforcements under current deployment plans, a group of around forty soldiers from Cameroon, load their equipment into trucks after arriving to bolster the multinational central-african regional force known as FOMAC which now numbers around a thousand troops, at the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Facing an insurgency by a new rebel coalition, Central African Republic President Bozize consolidated military power under his control Thursday after dismissing his own son as acting defense minister along with his army chief of staff. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Facing an insurgency by a new rebel coalition, the president of Central African Republic consolidated military power under his control Thursday after dismissing his own son as acting defense minister along with his army chief of staff.

US drones kill senior Taliban figure in Pakistan

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 02:49 PM PST

ALTERNATE CROP - In this April, 20, 2007 file photo, Pakistani militant commander Maulvi Nazir meets his associates in South Waziristan, Pakistan near the Afghani border. Five Pakistani security officials said the commander, Nazir, was reportedly among nine people killed in a missile strike on a house in the village of Angoor Adda in the South Waziristan tribal region early Thursday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)ISLAMABAD (AP) — An American drone strike in Pakistan has killed a top Taliban commander who sent money and fighters to battle the U.S. in Afghanistan but had a truce with the Pakistani military, officials said Thursday.

Rebel area shows limits of rebel push for Damascus

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 03:44 PM PST

In this image taken from video obtained from Bambuser, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians help an inured man after an airstrike hit Douma City, Syria on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Airstrikes continued across Syria on Thursday as Syrian President Bashar Assad's military stepped up its assault on areas that surround the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Bambuser via AP video)BEIRUT (AP) — Twin airstrikes by government jets on a large, rebel-held suburb of Damascus on Thursday sheered the sides off apartment towers and left residents digging through rubble for the dead and wounded.

Depardieu, in tax fight, gets Russian citizenship

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 12:24 PM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010 file photo Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and French actor Gerard Depardieu, left, attend the Russian Museum, in St. Petersburg. Gerard Depardieu, the French actor who has been sparring with his native country over taxes, has been granted Russian citizenship. A brief announcement on the Kremlin website said President Vladimir Putin signed the citizenship grant on Thursday Jan. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin has cast Gerard Depardieu in one of the most surprising roles of his life — as a new Russian citizen.

5 men charged with murder in New Delhi gang rape

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 04:41 PM PST

In this image taken from video obtained from Network 1 News and Information Syndicate (NNIS), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Bikram Singh Brahma, center, a leader of India's ruling Congress party, is slapped by a woman in the village of Santipur, India, on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. Police said Brahma was visiting the village of Santipur on the Bhutan border when he entered a woman's house and raped her at 2 a.m. In a sign that attitudes might be changing since the rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi, who died of severe internal injuries over the weekend, police have arrested Brahma. (AP Photo/NNIS)NEW DELHI (AP) — Five men accused of raping a university student for hours on a bus as it drove through India's capital were charged with murder, rape and other crimes that could bring them the death penalty.

Swiss gunman kills 3 people, had troubled history

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 11:44 AM PST

Policemen investigate the house of the gunman and the shooting scene after a shooting in Daillon, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. A man shot and killed three people and wounded another two in the Swiss village, and was then arrested by officers who shot and injured him, police said Thursday. Police in the southern canton (state) of Valais said they were alerted to the shooting in the village of Daillon just before 9 p.m. (20:00GMT) Wednesday. Three of the victims died at the scene and the two injured people were taken to hospitals. A police statement early Thursday gave no detail on their injuries. (AP Photos/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)GENEVA (AP) — A shooting in southern Switzerland has left three women dead, two men wounded and raised questions about how a troubled suspect was able to go on a rampage with an old military rifle.

Disputes brewing over Hugo Chavez's inauguration

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 04:12 PM PST

People walk a mural depicting Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez past in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. The ailing president's health crisis has raised contentious questions ahead of the swearing-in set for Jan. 10, including whether the inauguration could legally be postponed. Officials have raised the possibility that Chavez might not be well enough to take the oath of office, without saying what will happen if he can't. The constitution says that if a president or president-elect dies or is declared unable to continue in office, presidential powers should be held temporarily by the president of the National Assembly and that a new presidential vote should be held within 30 days. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez is due to be sworn in for a new term in less than a week and his closest allies still aren't saying what they plan to do if the ailing leader is unable to return from a Cuban hospital to take the oath of office.

Swiss bank to pay $57.8M in US tax evasion plea

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 01:05 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — Switzerland's oldest bank became the first foreign bank to plead guilty in the United States to tax charges when it admitted Thursday that it helped American clients hide more than $1.2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service.

Google chairman heading to North Korea

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 11:57 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2012 file photo, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt arrives for a seminar at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Schmidt is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea. He will be traveling to North Korea on a private trip led by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson that could take place as early as this month, sources told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The sources, two people familiar with the group's plans, asked not to be named because the visit had not been made public. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When he lands in North Korea, even Google's executive chairman will likely have to relinquish his smartphone, leaving him disconnected from the global information network he helped build.

It's 'cash only' now for tourists at the Vatican

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 11:03 AM PST

People queue to enter the Vatican Museums, at the Vatican Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. It's "cash only" now for tourists at the Vatican wanting to pay for museum tickets, souvenirs and other services after Italy's central bank decided to block electronic payments, including credit cards, at the tiny city state. The Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported Thursday that Bank of Italy took the action because the Holy See has not yet fully complied with European Union safeguards against money laundering. That means Italian banks are not authorized to operate within the Vatican, which is in the process of improving its mechanisms to combat laundering. The Vatican says it's scrambling to find a non-Italian bank to provide the electronic payment services "quite soon" but declined to discuss Bank of Italy's concerns. The central bank had no immediate comment on the situation. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)VATICAN CITY (AP) — It's "cash only" now for tourists at the Vatican wanting to pay for museum tickets, souvenirs and other services after Italy's central bank decided to block electronic payments, including credit cards, at the tiny city-state.

Could gang-rape protests mark beginning of an age of activism for India?

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 02:03 PM PST

The large-scale protests triggered by the gang rape of a 23-year-old student in New Delhi has renewed debate over the rise of a new urban middle-class activism in India.

Good Taliban, Bad Taliban? Pakistani commander's killing exposes blurry lines

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 12:53 PM PST

File photo of Mullah Nazir speaking during a news conference in WanaThe US drone killing of Pakistani Taliban commander Maulvi Nazir threatens to unleash new anti-government violence against the country's weak government or civilian targets, and expose fractures in the country's military and security forces, analysts say.

Amid bloodshed and chaos, Syrian wages a war for neutral reporting

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 12:00 PM PST

While Syria's state-run news outlets run a steady stream of reports about "terrorists" and international conspiracies against President Bashar al-Assad, opposition activists roll out their own endless barrage of footage highlighting atrocities and destruction by regime forces, with little in the way of context.

Libyan cop in Benghazi kidnapped

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 11:21 AM PST

Abdelsalam al-Mahdawi, the head of Benghazi's criminal investigation department, was kidnapped on his way to work today by gunmen at an intersection in Libya's second largest city.

Falklands again? Why Argentina's Kirchner keeps pushing the issue with Britain.

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 10:13 AM PST

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner relaunched her offensive over the Falkland Islands today, a move that coincides with the 180th anniversary of Britain's allegedly illegal usurpation of the South Atlantic archipelago.

Backward step for reform in Myanmar?

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 09:43 AM PST

Myanmar's military has stepped up attacks on ethnic Kachin rebels in recent days with airstrikes. This move calls into question efforts by the United States and other international powers to richly and quickly reward the nominally civilian regime there for a series of gestures toward political reform.

Gerard Depardieu's latest drama: a Russian passport

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 09:15 AM PST

Vladimir Putin flourished his pen Thursday morning and signed what must be the oddest decree of his long years in power: an order granting a Russian passport to French actor and tax exile Gerard Depardieu.

Russia plans biggest war games since Soviet era

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 07:58 AM PST

The Russian navy has announced that it will hold its biggest war games since Soviet times in the Mediterranean and Black seas later this month.

US drone strike in Pakistan kills influential Taliban commander

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 06:31 AM PST

Key Pakistani Taliban commander Maulvi Nazir – considered a "good" Taliban by some among the Pakistani military – died in a US drone strike that left at least six dead on Thursday, according to local reports.

Taiwan undersea oil plans raise neighbors' eyebrows

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 06:21 AM PST

Taiwan, a normally quiet claimant to portions of the disputed South China Sea, plans to explore for undersea oil there, a move likely to test fragile relations with China and upset major Southeast Asian nations.

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