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Sahara hostage siege turns Mali war global

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 05:05 PM PST

Mokhtar Belmokhtar is pictured in a screen capture from an undated video distributed by the Belmokhtar BrigadeALGIERS/BAMAKO (Reuters) - Islamist fighters have opened an international front in Mali's civil war by taking dozens of Western hostages at a gas plant in the Algerian desert just as French troops launched an offensive against rebels in neighboring Mali. Nearly 24 hours after gunmen stormed the natural gas pumping site and workers' housing before dawn on Wednesday, little was certain beyond a claim by a group calling itself the "Battalion of Blood" that it was holding 41 foreign nationals, including Americans, Japanese and Europeans, at Tigantourine, deep in the Sahara. ...

France launches ground campaign against Mali rebels

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 03:01 PM PST

French Elite Special Operations soldiers drive through the town of MarkalaBAMAKO/PARIS (Reuters) - French troops launched their first ground assault against Islamist rebels in Mali on Wednesday in a broadening of their operation against battle-hardened al Qaeda-linked fighters who have resisted six days of air strikes. France has called for international support against the Islamist insurgents it says pose a threat to Africa and the West, acknowledging it faces a long fight against the well-equipped fighters who seized Mali's vast desert north last year. ...

Pakistan warns anti-government cleric to end protest

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 11:22 AM PST

Women supporters of Sufi cleric and leader of Minhaj-ul-Quran organisation Qadri link hands during his speech in IslamabadISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's interior minister on Wednesday warned an anti-government Muslim cleric and thousands of protesters camped out near parliament to disperse, saying they were at risk of attack by militants. Rehman Malik said authorities had learned militants might be planning to target the crowd, and that the cleric, Muhammad Tahirul Qadri, would be held responsible for any attacks. "The best commandos are with me today," Malik told a news conference, saying security forces could take action against Qadri within the next two days to prevent "expected terrorism". ...

Colombian president opens door to popular vote on FARC peace deal

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 02:29 PM PST

Colombian President Santos gives a speech during a promotion ceremony at a police school in BogotaBOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday opened the door to a popular vote on any peace accord negotiated and signed with FARC rebels, but rejected a guerrilla demand to change the constitution if a deal is clinched. Talks to bring an end to Latin America's longest-running insurgency began in Cuba in November, when the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, sat down for the first round of a five-point peace agenda. ...

UK's Cameron risks "dangerous gamble" on EU: LibDem minister

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 05:08 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron will be taking a "dangerous gamble" if he tries to win concessions from the European Union by exploiting a crisis among the bloc's euro zone nations, one of his senior ministers said on Thursday. Cameron, under pressure from euroskeptic legislators within his Conservative party, will make a long-anticipated speech on Friday detailing his plans to renegotiate Britain's relationship with the 27-nation bloc. ...

Pakistan protests to India over Kashmir killing

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 01:22 PM PST

Indian BSF soldiers patrol the fenced border with Pakistan in SuchetgarhISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's army protested to India on Wednesday over the killing of one of its soldiers in Kashmir, the fifth fatality this year in heightened hostilities that have raised concern about violations of the truce between the nuclear-armed neighbors. Indian troops shot the soldier at a position called Kundi during firing from the Indian side of the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed Himalayan territory, the Pakistani army said in a statement. ...

Talk to us, Venezuela's Capriles urges Chavez

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 05:09 PM PST

Venezuela's defeated opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles gives a news conference in CaracasCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, called on Wednesday for a proof of life from ailing President Hugo Chavez, who has not been seen publicly since cancer surgery in Cuba five weeks ago. Chavez's signature appeared in the government's official gazette on Wednesday in a decree naming his new foreign minister - though the document wrongly placed him in Caracas. "If the president of the republic can sign decrees, I call on him to show himself, to talk to Venezuela," Capriles said at his inauguration for a new term as Miranda state governor. ...

Mexican generals linked to drug gangs lose appeal

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 04:33 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican court said on Wednesday that two army generals, one retired and one still serving, should remain in jail and face trial in one of the highest-profile cases linking the military to organized crime. Retired General Tomas Angeles and General Roberto Dawe were arrested in May of last year and turned over to the country's organized crime unit for investigation. ...

U.S. Marine pleads guilty to urinating on Taliban corpses

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 04:38 PM PST

CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine pleaded guilty on Wednesday to urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and then posing for photographs in a scene captured in a widely circulated video on the Internet and denounced by world leaders. Staff Sergeant Edward W. Deptola said he knew desecrating the corpses and posing for the "trophy photographs" was wrong and he offered no excuse for the behavior during his court martial at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune. ...

Iran-IAEA nuclear talks to go into second day

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 11:45 AM PST

DUBAI/VIENNA (Reuters) - Senior U.N. nuclear inspectors will continue their talks with Iran for a second day on Thursday, hoping to reach a long-sought agreement to unblock an investigation into suspected weapons research in the Islamic state. It was not clear whether the extension of the meeting in Tehran meant that headway had been made towards nailing down a framework deal giving the U.N. nuclear watchdog access to sites, officials and documents for its long-stalled inquiry. ...

Mali: French troops begin land assault

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 01:48 PM PST

French troops stand guard along the road leading from Markala to Niono, in Markala, approximately 40 km outside Segou, in central Mali, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. French troops pressed northward in Mali toward territory occupied by radical Islamists on Wednesday, military officials said, announcing the start of a land assault that will put soldiers in direct combat "within hours." Residents of Niono, a city in the center of Mali which is just south of a town that was overrun by the jihadists earlier this week, said they saw trucks of French soldiers arrive overnight. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore)BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — French soldiers pressed north in Mali territory occupied by radical Islamists on Wednesday, launching a land assault that was to put them in direct combat with al-Qaida-linked fighters "in one to 72 hours," military officials said.

Desert drama: Islamists take hostages in Algeria

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 04:52 PM PST

In this undated image released Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013, by BP petroleum company, showing the Amenas natural gas field in the eastern central region of Algeria, where Islamist militants raided and took hostages Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013. Islamist militants from Mali attacked the Amenas natural gas field partly operated by BP in Algeria early on Wednesday, killing a security guard and kidnapping at least eight people, including English, Norwegian and Japanese nationals, an Algerian security official and local media reported. Algerian forces, later caught up with and surrounded the kidnappers and negotiations for the release of the hostages are ongoing, officials said.(AP Photo/BP)ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — In a desert standoff deep in the Sahara, the Algerian army ringed a natural gas complex where Islamist militants hunkered down with dozens of hostages Wednesday night after a rare attack that appeared to be the first violent shock wave from the French intervention in Mali.

Its allies reluctant, France goes it alone in Mali

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 10:55 AM PST

French troops in two armored personnel carriers drive through Mali's capital Bamako on the road to Mopti Tuesday Jan. 15, 2013. French forces led an all-night aerial bombing campaign Tuesday to wrest control of a small Malian town from armed Islamist extremists who seized the area, including its strategic military camp. A a convoy of 40 to 50 trucks carrying French troops crossed into Mali from Ivory Coast as France prepares for a possible land assault. Several thousand soldiers from the nations neighboring Mali are also expected to begin arriving in coming days. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)PARIS (AP) — France's allies have offered vocal support for the country's military operation in Mali, but when it comes to sending troops or weapons, they are agreeing to the bare minimum: a transport plane here and there, a handful of support staff and a lot of promises to think about it.

Emergency landing grounds Boeing 787 jets in Japan

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 09:34 AM PST

In this photo taken by a passenger and distributed by Japan's Kyodo News, passengers leave an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 after it made an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. ANA said a cockpit message showed battery problems and a burning smell was detected in the cockpit and the cabin, forcing the 787 on a domestic flight to land at the airport. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCETOKYO (AP) — Japan's two biggest airlines grounded all their Boeing 787 aircraft for safety checks Wednesday after one was forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the new jet.

AP Interview: Israel's Lapid won't be 'fig leaf'

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 02:07 PM PST

Yair Lapid, popular former TV anchorman and head of the new centrist party Yesh Atid, poses for a portrait at his house during an interview for the Associated Press, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, June. 16, 2013. Lapid predicted he will one day become prime minister and said he would fight for a more moderate policy towards the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Little known outside Israel, political newcomer Yair Lapid could soon become the moderate face to the world of an otherwise hard-line government after next week's parliamentary election.

Egypt's Morsi tries to defuse flap over Jews slur

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 02:15 PM PST

In this image released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, right, meets with Republican Sen. John McCain, at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. Morsi met with McCain in Cairo on Wednesday, for a visit expected to last three days. The meeting comes after the Obama administration on Tuesday gave a blistering review of remarks that the Egyptian President made almost three years ago about Jews and called for him to repudiate what it called unacceptable rhetoric. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Islamist president sought Wednesday to defuse Washington's anger over his past remarks urging hatred of Jews and calling Zionists "pigs" and "bloodsuckers," telling visiting U.S. senators that his comments were a denunciation of Israeli policies.

Russian court turns down Pussy Riot appeal

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 01:59 PM PST

Jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina is seen in a cell at a court room in the town of Berezniki, some 1500 km (940 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. A Russian court on Wednesday turned down her attempt to defer serving her sentence until her preschool son becomes a teenager. Alekhina was convicted last year along with two other band members of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Russia's main cathedral. (AP Photo/Alexander Agafonov)BEREZNIKI, Russia (AP) — A Russian court on Wednesday turned down an attempt by an imprisoned Pussy Riot band member to defer serving her sentence for hooliganism until her preschool son becomes a teenager.

Jordan: 7-member Syrian family killed in fire

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 02:09 PM PST

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A fire in a center for refugees who fled the Syrian civil war killed seven members of a family, a civil defense spokesman said Wednesday, the latest tragedy to befall tens of thousands who escaped the violence in Syria only to face difficult winter conditions in camps across the border in Jordan.

Shakira hosts shower for underprivileged kids

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 01:22 PM PST

This December 2012 image released courtesy of singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Shakira shows her posing with FC Barcelona star Gerard Piqué. The couple, who are expecting their first child, are inviting friends and fans to join their online baby shower to help provide life-saving items to children and communities in some of the poorest corners of the globe. After purchasing an Inspired Gift, they will then receive a personal thank you message from the couple. (AP Photo/courtesy of Shakira)NEW YORK (AP) — What does the baby of the world's most famous Latin American singer need? Nothing, apparently.

Germany to bring home gold stored in US, France

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 01:37 PM PST

A journalist holds a gold ingot next to a security officer of the German Central Bank, right, in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013. Germany's central bank is to bring back home some US $36 billion ( 27 billion euro) worth of gold stored in the United States and France.The Bundesbank said in a statement Wednesday that it will repatriate all 374 tons of gold it had stored in Paris by 2020. An additional 300 tons - equivalent to 8 percent of the Bundesbank's total reserves worth about $183 billion _ will also be shipped from New York to Frankfurt. Frankfurt will hold half of Germany's 3,400 tons of gold by 2020, with New York retaining 37 percent and London storing 13 percent. The move follows criticism from Germany's independent Federal Auditors' Office last year bemoaning the central bank's oversight of gold reserves abroad. (AP Photo/dpa/ Frank Rumpenhorst)BERLIN (AP) — In what sounds like the setup for a stylish Hollywood heist movie, Germany is transferring nearly 700 tons of gold bars worth $36 billion from Paris and New York to its vaults in Frankfurt.

France gets deeper in Mali war: Are they ready?

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 02:22 PM PST

French ground troops in Mali advanced north today toward the tiny hamlet of Diabaly, preparing to engage Islamic rebels in a shooting war whose duration and success are still a question mark.

Kumbh Mela: A million man dip

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 11:44 AM PST

This week, Hindu ascetics in ostentatious chariots pulled by elephants and horses along with pilgrims and tourists from around the world arrived in Allahabad, about halfway between New Delhi and Kolkata, India.

Tahrir, the saddest square in the world?

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 09:08 AM PST

Tahrir Square at dusk can be a lonely and forbidding place. When the wind kicks up, trash swirls past the smiling faces of young men killed in clashes against the government that are painted on the walls along Mohamed Mahmoud Street.

Israeli elections: The 5 candidates steering the debate

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 08:51 AM PST

The next Israeli government, which will be decided in elections on Jan. 22, faces pressing international challenges, including deciding what it will do if Iran crosses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's red line on nuclear production. It may also be the last with a realistic opportunity to secure a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, since many analysts warn that the window for such a deal is fast-closing – in part due to the steady expansion of Israeli settlements in the West bank.

Trouble at the line: Another soldier killed in India-Pakistan sparring

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 07:23 AM PST

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How much Quran belongs in the classroom?

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 06:40 AM PST

In the cool morning shadows that stretch across Al Redwan Islamic School's courtyard, dozens of youngsters chant, "The prophet is the only messenger."

Egyptians begin to take back their clunker classrooms

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 06:40 AM PST

In Cairo, Egypt's center of gravity for centuries, the marble halls of the Ministry of Education echo with the footsteps of important visiting entourages.

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