2013年1月21日星期一

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Algeria vows to fight Qaeda after 38 workers killed

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 03:51 PM PST

Smoke rises above following demining operations at the In Amenas gas plantALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's prime minister accused a Canadian of coordinating last week's raid on a desert gas plant and, praising the storming of the complex where 38 mostly foreign hostages were killed, he pledged to resist the rise of Islamists in the Sahara. Algeria will never succumb to terrorism or allow al Qaeda to establish "Sahelistan", an Afghan-style power base in arid northwest Africa, Abdelmalek Sellal told a news conference in Algiers where he also said at least 37 foreign hostages died. "There is clear political will," the prime minister said. ...

Israel set to re-elect Netanyahu, shift further right

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 05:09 PM PST

Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu stands with Jerusalem Mayor Barkat and Communications Minister Kahlon in JerusalemJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israelis look set to elect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a third term with a smaller majority on Tuesday, pushing the Jewish State even further to the right, away from peace with Palestinians and towards a showdown with Iran. Netanyahu has vowed to pursue the Jewish settlement of lands seized during the 1967 Middle East war if he stays in power, a policy that would put him at odds with Washington and deepened Israel's international isolation. ...

French troops take central Mali towns, rebels slip away

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 12:57 PM PST

Charred out pickup trucks destroyed by French airstrikes are seen in DiabalyDIABALY, Mali (Reuters) - French and Malian armored columns rolled into the towns of Diabaly and Douentza in central Mali on Monday after the al Qaeda-linked rebels who had seized them fled into the bush to avoid air strikes. France said the advance was a significant step in its campaign to break Islamist fighters' grip over Mali's vast desert north, a presence raising fears of the region becoming a an African launchpad for international militant attacks. ...

Germany, France paper over euro cracks in show of unity

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 04:07 PM PST

German Chancellor Merkel and French President Hollande salute to each other during a private dinner in a Berlin restaurantBERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts French President Francois Hollande and his government on Tuesday for a celebration marking half a century of post-war partnership, even as their countries struggle to forge a common vision for crisis-hit Europe. Fifty years after Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle signed the Elysee Treaty that sealed a reconciliation between the former adversaries, Berlin and Paris are determined to put on a rousing display of unity. ...

India's Supreme Court considers petition to transfer rape trial

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 02:04 PM PST

Women protest outside the Indian High Commission in LondonNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court will hear a petition on Tuesday by one of the five men charged with the gang rape and murder of a student in a bus to shift the case out of the capital on grounds that the atmosphere was too surcharged to ensure a fair trial. Last month's assault on the 23-year-old woman on a New Delhi bus triggered an outpouring of anger and grief and calls for swift punishment for the five men and a juvenile who will be y tried separately. ...

Britain's Prince Harry says he killed Afghan insurgents during tour

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 02:22 PM PST

Britain's Prince Harry races out from the VHR tent to scramble his Apache helicopter at Camp Bastion, southern AfghanistanLONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry says he killed Afghan insurgents during sorties against the Taliban while on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan where he was a gunner in Apache attack helicopters. Queen Elizabeth's 28-year-old grandson, third in line to the British throne, will return home later this week after a 20-week posting with NATO forces at the Camp Bastion military base in the southern province of Helmand. Asked before he left Afghanistan if he had killed insurgents during his tour, he said: "Yeah, so, lots of people have. ... ...

U.S. circulates draft North Korea rebuke at UN

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST

Video grab from KCNA shows Unha-3 rocket launching at North Korea's West Sea Satellite Launch Site, in Cholsan countyUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States has circulated a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council that would condemn North Korea for its December rocket launch and calls for tightening existing U.N. sanctions, diplomats said on Monday. The draft was the result of a deal between the United States and China, the envoys said on condition of anonymity. Even though the draft does not call for any new sanctions against Pyongyang, diplomats said China's support for the resolution represented a significant diplomatic blow to Pyongyang. ...

Merkel suffers setback months before federal vote

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 03:45 PM PST

German Chancellor Merkel is pictured during a news conference at the CDU headquarters in BerlinBERLIN (Reuters) - In an extremely tight German state election that seemed to produce few clearcut winners, there was no question who the biggest loser was - Angela Merkel. Her Christian Democrats (CDU), led by local star David McAllister, had convinced themselves over the past week that they were on the verge of a come-from-behind victory to keep control of Lower Saxony, a vast agricultural and industrial region that resembles a U.S.-style swing state. ...

Dissident Eritrean troops seize ministry

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 02:36 PM PST

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Dissident Eritrean soldiers with tanks took over the information ministry on Monday and forced state media to call for political prisoners to be freed, a senior intelligence official said. The renegade soldiers have not gone as far as to demand the overthrow of the government of one of Africa's most secretive states, long at odds with the United States and accused of human rights abuses. Eritrea has been led by Isaias Afewerki, 66, for some two decades since it broke from bigger neighbor Ethiopia. ...

Syrian opposition leaders fail to form government

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 12:50 PM PST

A fighter from the Free Syrian Army's Tahrir al Sham brigade looks at a building destroyed during yesterday's Syrian Air force air strike in Mleha suburb of DamascusISTANBUL/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian opposition leaders said on Monday they had failed to put together a transitional government to run rebel-held areas of the country, a blow to the exiled group trying to present an alternative to President Bashar al-Assad's rule. Political efforts to resolve the conflict have largely faltered because of the rebels' failure to form a unified front and because world powers are backing opposing sides. ...

Inside job, 2 Canadian militants in Algeria siege

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 02:33 PM PST

Algerian firemen carry a coffin containing a person killed during the gas facility hostage situation at the morgue in Ain Amenas, Algeria, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. The Islamist militants who attacked the natural gas plant included two Canadians and a team of explosives experts who had memorized the layout of the sprawling complex and were ready to blow the place sky-high, Algeria's prime minister said Monday. Algeria detailed a grim toll from the attack, saying at least 38 hostages and 29 militants died in four days of mayhem. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The hostage-taking at a remote Algerian gas plant was carried out by 30 militants from across the northern swath of Africa and two from Canada, authorities said. The militants, who wore military uniforms and knew the layout, included explosives experts who rigged it with bombs and a leader whose final order was to kill all the captives.

As Israelis vote, peace seems distant

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 03:17 PM PST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, is surrounded by bodyguards as he arrives with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, second right, and Likud party member Moshe Kahlon, left, to brief the media in Jerusalem, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. General elections in Israel will be held Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)JERUSALEM (AP) — Benjamin Netanyahu seems poised for re-election as Israel's prime minister in Tuesday's voting, the result of the failure of his opponents to unite behind a viable candidate against him — and the fact that most Israelis no longer seem to believe it's possible to reach a peace settlement with the Palestinians.

French seize control of 2 key Mali towns

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 12:19 PM PST

A French soldier secures a perimeter on the outskirts of Diabaly, Mali, some 460kms (320 miles) north of the capital Bamako Monday Jan. 21, 2013. French and Malian troops were in the city whose capture by radical Islamists prompted the French military intervention. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)DIABALY, Mali (AP) — French troops in armored personnel carriers rolled through the streets of Diabaly on Monday, winning praise from residents of this besieged town after Malian forces retook control of it with French help a week after radical Islamists invaded.

Moscow to start evacuating Russians from Syria

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 01:58 PM PST

A Free Syrian Army fighter holds his weapon during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013. The revolt against President Bashar Assad began in March 2011with peaceful protests but morphed into a civil war that has killed more than 60,000 people, according to a recent United Nations recent estimate. (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki)BEIRUT (AP) — Russia said Monday it is sending two planes to Lebanon to start evacuating its citizens from Syria, the strongest sign yet that President Bashar Assad's most important international ally has serious doubts about his ability to cling to power.

UK's Prince Harry returns from Afghanistan

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 02:10 PM PST

In this photo taken Dec. 12, 2012 and made available Monday Jan. 21, 2013 Britain's Prince Harry or just plain Captain Wales as he is known in the British Army, wears his monocle gun sight as he sits in the front seat of his cockpit at the British controlled flight-line in Camp Bastion southern Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defense announced Monday that the 28-year-old prince is returning from a 20-week deployment in Afghanistan, where he served as an Apache helicopter pilot with the Army Air Corps. (AP Photo/ John Stillwell, Pool)LONDON (AP) — Capt. Wales is coming home to be Prince Harry once again.

Public trust in government, business leaders falls

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 03:52 PM PST

Office workers walk in the business district of Madrid, Tuesday Jan. 15, 2013. Spain has sold an above-target euro 5.8 billion ($7.74 billion) in short-term bills at a sharply reduced interest rate, reflecting easing investor concern over the country's ability to manage its finances without a bailout. Spain's borrowing costs have plunged from unsustainable highs last year after the European Central Bank pledged to help countries by buying up their short-term bonds if they apply for help. Spain says it does not need outside aid for the moment.(AP Photo/Paul White)FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Public trust in business, government and media leaders has fallen in the wake of financial and political scandals, according to a new global survey.

Russia moves to enact anti-gay law nationwide

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 05:15 AM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012 file photo Russian gay right campaigner Pavel Samburov (center left) and five other gay rights activists kiss during a protest near the State Duma, Russia's lower parliament chamber, in Moscow, Russia. A controversial bill banning "homosexual propaganda" has been submitted to Russia's lower house of parliament for the first of three hearings Tuesday, Jan. 22. 2013. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, file)MOSCOW (AP) — Kissing his boyfriend during a protest in front of Russia's parliament earned Pavel Samburov 30 hours of detention and the equivalent of a $16 fine on a charge of "hooliganism." But if a bill that comes up for a first vote later this month becomes law, such a public kiss could be defined as illegal "homosexual propaganda" and bring a fine of up to $16,000.

NKorea eases rules, lets visitors bring cellphones

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 04:55 PM PST

FILE - In this March 16, 2012 file photo, a North Korean woman uses a cellphone on a sidewalk in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea is loosening its restrictions on foreign cellphones and is allowing visitors to bring their own phones into the country. The policy reverses a longstanding rule requiring visitors to relinquish their foreign phones at the border. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon, File)PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea is loosening some restrictions on foreign cellphones by allowing visitors to bring their own phones into the country. However, security regulations still prohibit mobile phone calls between foreigners and locals.

India gang-rape trial opens Thursday in new court

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 05:05 PM PST

V.K. Anand, lawyer for one of the accused, speaks to journalists outside the Saket district court complex where the five men facing charges of rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman aboard a moving bus in the capital last month stand trial, in New Delhi, India, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. Legal proceedings in the fatal gang-rape attack on the student in India's capital began Monday in a new fast-track court set up to deal specifically with crimes against women that has stirred debate over how best to deliver justice to rape victims.(AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)NEW DELHI (AP) — The trial of five men accused of the rape and murder of a student aboard a bus in New Delhi will begin Thursday and should have none of the long delays commonly associated with India's justice system, a defense lawyer said after a brief hearing.

Boeing 787 investigation turns to battery maker

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 04:47 PM PST

This Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 photo provided by the Japan Transport Safety Board shows the distorted main lithium-ion battery, left, and an undamaged auxiliary battery of the All Nippon Airways' Boeing 787 which made an emergency landing on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 at Takamatsu airport in Takamatsu, western Japan. Japanese and U.S. investigators are conducting a probe of the maker of the lithium ion batteries used in Boeing's 787 TOKYO (AP) — Japanese and U.S. investigators began a probe into the maker of the lithium ion batteries used in Boeing's grounded 787 jets.

Arab League encourages Israeli Arabs to get out the vote

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 12:49 PM PST

On the eve of Israeli elections, the Arab League has taken the unusual step of intervening in Israeli politics, urging Israel's Arab minority to flock to the polls. Otherwise, they warn, the country will be taken over by a far-right government that will increase discrimination toward Arab citizens and step up settlement expansion in the West Bank, where their Palestinian brethren have long sought a state of their own.

Same players, different ties: France's delicate role in Mali

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 12:39 PM PST

The first casualty named in the two-week old fight to liberate northern Mali from Islamists militants was a Frenchman. Damien Boiteux, a lieutenant, was reported killed while flying his helicopter into battle near the city of Konna.

Global hopes, concerns for Obama's second term

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 07:37 AM PST

When United States President Barack Obama gives his inaugural address today for his second term, the world won't be glued to their television sets as when the American leader first took office in 2009.

Could Silvio Berlusconi rise again to scramble Italian politics?

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 07:07 AM PST

As Italians prepare to vote next month in one of the country's most crucial elections in decades, a prospect that may seem incredible to outsiders confronts the recession-hit country: the return of Silvio Berlusconi.

Good Reads: 'purdah' culture in India, born good, finding purpose, a Jedi response

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 05:00 AM PST

"My first sense as a young girl of sexual menace came from my Indian grandfather. Let me be clear: He never even remotely sexually threatened or molested me. But he made sure I knew that the world in which I, a girl, was growing up was innately perilous to women."

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