2013年2月18日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

Time to refer Syrian war crimes to ICC: U.N. inquiry

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 11:44 AM PST

Member of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria del Ponte addresses a news conference at the UN in GenevaGENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations investigators said on Monday that Syrian leaders they had identified as suspected war criminals should face the International Criminal Court (ICC). The investigators urged the U.N. Security Council to "act urgently to ensure accountability" for violations, including murder and torture, committed by both sides in an uprising and civil war that has killed about 70,000 people since March 2011. "Now really it's time ... ...

U.S. could resume direct Mali military aid if elections successful

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 01:49 PM PST

U.S. Senator Isakson, U.S. Congresswoman Sewell, U.S. Senator Coons, Force Commander Major General Abdulkadir and U.S. Congresswoman Bass pose for a picture in BamakoBAMAKO, Mali (Reuters) - The United States is likely to eventually resume direct support for Mali's military, but only after full restoration of democracy through elections, the head of a visiting U.S. Congress delegation said on Monday. Senator Christopher Coons, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Africa, was leading the first American congressional visit to the West African nation since France sent a military force there last month to halt an offensive by al Qaeda-allied insurgents. ...

Venezuela's Chavez makes surprise return from Cuba

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 01:57 PM PST

Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez cheer outside the military hospital after his surprise return to CaracasCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a surprise return from Cuba on Monday, more than two months after surgery for cancer that has jeopardized his 14-year rule of the South American OPEC nation. The middle-of-the-night homecoming implies some medical improvement - at least enough to handle a flight of several hours - and will again fire up supporters with hope that the socialist leader could return to active rule. Yet there was no new information on Chavez's health nor images of his arrival, and aides say the 58-year-old's condition remains "complex. ...

Workers and police clash at airport during Iberia strike

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 09:48 AM PST

Iberia airline workers, on a strike, march towards Madrid's Barajas airportMADRID (Reuters) - Striking union workers clashed with police at Madrid's Barajas airport on Monday on the first day of a week-long strike over more than 3,800 pending job cuts at Spain's flagship airline Iberia. More than 80 Iberia flights were canceled as workers at the carrier began a series of five-day walkouts that are expected to cost the airline and struggling national economy millions of euros in lost business. Hundreds of workers flooded into Terminal 4 at Barajas - the biggest airport in Spain - to noisily protest, chanting and whistling, with one group staging a sit-in. ...

Mexico's new president has 56 percent approval rating: poll

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 11:27 AM PST

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto gives a speech before he received a sword and a sabre as the supreme commander of the armed forces during an event at the Palacio Nacional in Mexico CityMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has a lower approval rating at the start of his term than his predecessor did, a poll showed on Monday, underscoring the challenge he faces to push key economic reforms through a divided Congress. Less than three months into office, 56 percent of Mexicans approve of Pena Nieto as president compared to 29 percent who disapprove of the job he is doing, according to a survey by Buendia y Laredo published by daily El Universal on Monday. ...

Thousands in Guinea demand graft-free vote

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 11:05 AM PST

Main opposition figure Cellou Dalein Diallo takes part in an opposition protest to demand a free and fair parliamentary election, on the streets of ConakryCONAKRY (Reuters) - Opposition supporters held protests across Guinea on Monday to demand a free and fair parliamentary election, fearing the first such vote in more than a decade will be cheapened by fraud. The May 12 election is intended to be the last step in Guinea's return to civilian rule following the death of veteran strongman Lansana Conte in 2008 and two years of violent army rule. President Alpha Conde was elected in 2010 and has promised prosperity for Guinea's 10 million people. The West African nation's economy produces only about $1. ...

Tunisia PM fails to get new cabinet to stem unrest

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 01:06 PM PST

Tunisia's Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali arrives to address a news conference in TunisTUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's main political parties failed to agree on forming a non-partisan cabinet to tackle turmoil triggered by the assassination of an opposition leader, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said on Monday. But he said efforts would continue to form a government supported by most parties in the North African state that spawned the slew of popular uprisings against dictatorship across the Arab world two years ago. ...

Ecuador's re-elected Correa vows media and land reforms

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 01:14 PM PST

Ecuador's President Correa reacts after hearing the election results in QuitoQUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa vowed on Monday to press ahead with laws to control the media and redistribute land to the poor as he looks to deepen his socialist revolution after a resounding re-election victory. Correa, a pugnacious 49-year-old economist, trounced his nearest rival by more than 30 percentage points on Sunday to win a new four-year term. He has already been in power for six years, winning broad support with ambitious social spending programs. ...

Bulgaria presses EU to toughen stance on Hezbollah

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 01:19 PM PST

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Bulgaria urged European governments on Monday to take a harder stance towards Hezbollah after blaming the Lebanese Islamist movement for a bus bombing that killed five Israelis at a Bulgarian Black Sea resort last year. But the country's Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov cautioned European states not to be in a rush to brand the Lebanese group as a terrorist organization, saying careful consideration was needed of potential consequences in Beirut. ...

Armenian president wins re-election, exit poll shows

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 01:15 PM PST

Election officials count ballots after polls closed at a polling station in YerevanYEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan won a new five-year term on Monday, an exit poll and initial results showed, in an election marred by allegations of fraud and the lack of a serious opposition challenge. Police said they had received at least 70 reports of voting violations after a campaign in which one of the outside candidates was shot and wounded. The opposition Heritage Party said many ballots cast for opposition parties had been thrown out, but did not say whether it would challenge the result. ...

Kurdish refugees have mixed feelings about Syria

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 11:43 AM PST

In this Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 photo, Syrian Kurdish refugees makes traditional bread in a tent in the Dumiz refugee camp in northern Iraq. Syrian Kurds who fled their country's civil war have mixed feelings about a future without Bashar Assad: They hope to win autonomy if the regime falls, but fear chaos and the rise of Islamists could instead make their lives worse. (AP Photo/Karin Laub)DOMIZ REFUGEE CAMP, Iraq (AP) — Syrian Kurds who fled their country's civil war have mixed feelings about a future without Bashar Assad: They hope to win a measure of autonomy after the fall of the regime, but fear chaos and the rise of Islamists could instead make their lives worse.

Ailing Chavez returns to Venezuela from Cuba

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 04:46 PM PST

A supporter of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez attends a celebration marking the leader's return, in Bolivar Square, in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. The woman holds a cutout image of Chavez along with a Saint Judas statue and a note that reads in Spanish: "Thank you St. Judas," because she believes her prayers to the Catholic saint helped in the return of the ailing president. Chavez returned to Venezuela early Monday after more than two months of medical treatment in Cuba following cancer surgery, and was being treated at the Carlos Arvelo Military Hospital in Caracas, his government said. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez returned to Venezuela early Monday after more than two months of treatment in Cuba following cancer surgery, his government said, triggering street celebrations by supporters who welcomed him home while he remained out of sight at Caracas' military hospital.

Girlfriend's mom: Why did he do this?

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 09:36 AM PST

In this undated handout publicity photo supplied by Stimulii taken on the island of Jamaica, Reeva Steenkamp poses on set during the shooting of the reality show Tropika Island of Treasure which premieres on state television Saturday, Feb 16, 2013. South Africa's national broadcaster says it will screen the show featuring the dead model girlfriend of double-amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius, two days after she was shot and killed at Pistorius' home. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Stimulii-HO)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The family of Oscar Pistorius' slain girlfriend wants answers, her mother told a Johannesburg newspaper, as South Africans braced to hear why prosecutors believe a national hero murdered the model who was shot multiple times.

Israeli Ethiopian birth control ignites debate

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 02:51 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2013 photo, an Ethiopian Israeli, who asked not to be identified, is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem. Accusations that Israel deliberately attempted to curb birth rates among its Ethiopian community have reopened a charged debate over discrimination against the immigrants, highlighting the state's tenuous relationship with a community that has yet to fully settle into the Israeli mainstream. While the charges have not been proven, it remains unclear why so many Ethiopian women were receiving a controversial injection that is hardly prescribed to other Israelis. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)JERUSALEM (AP) — Accusations that Israel deliberately tried to curb birth rates among Ethiopian immigrants have reopened a debate over discrimination against the group — highlighting the state's uneasy relationship with a community that has yet to fully settle into the Israeli mainstream.

Costa Rica toughens stance in US-backed drug fight

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 03:34 PM PST

In this Jan. 25, 2013 photo, a detection officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection takes photos of a potential drug-carrying boat from inside a P3 Orion Airborne Early Warning Aircraft while flying over waters near the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The Central American country abolished its army in 1948 and plowed money into education, social benefits and environmental preservation. As a result, Costa Rican officials say, the country can't battle ruthless and well-equipped Mexican drug cartels without U.S. help. The U.S. is patrolling Costa Rica's skies and waters and providing millions of dollars in training and equipment to Costa Rican officials who have launched a tough line on crime backed by top-to-bottom transformation of the law-enforcement and justice systems. (AP Photo/Michael Weissenstein)LIBERIA, Costa Rica (AP) — On a recent Friday morning at a gleaming new international airport in Costa Rica, hundreds of tourists from New York and Minnesota emerged blinking onto the sun-blasted tarmac. At the other end of the runway, eight Americans zipped into tan flight suits aboard a massive white surveillance plane.

Germany: Tighter controls needed on meat products

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 01:57 PM PST

Butcher Norbert Hansel, specialized on horse meat, takes horse meat sausages in his sales car at a market in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. German federal and state agriculture ministers meet in Berlin to discuss the horse meat scandal. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)BERLIN (AP) — German officials on Monday vowed tighter controls on meat products and stronger penalties for companies that violate food-labeling rules as more items marketed as "all beef" were pulled from supermarket shelves after testing positive for horse meat.

Pro-Cuba protesters halt dissident Yoani's event

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 04:50 PM PST

Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez, center, is chanted at by pro-Castro supporters, accusing her of being a U.S. spy, upon her arrival at the Guararapes International airport, in Recife, Brazil, Monday, Feb.18, 2013. Sanchez has arrived in Brazil - her first stop in a three-month tour of 12 nations. Sanchez was barred from leaving Cuba for the last decade. But she's taking advantage of the communist island's relaxation on travel restrictions. (AP Photo/Hans von Manteuffeul-Agencia O Globo)FEIRA DE SANTANA, Brazil (AP) — Pro-Cuba protesters in Brazil have halted an event featuring the best-known dissident from the communist island who is making her first international trip in nearly a decade.

32 Myanmar nationals rescued at sea off Sri Lanka

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 04:22 PM PST

In this picture taken on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013 and released by Sri Lankan Navy, Myanmar nationals rescued off Sri Lanka's eastern coast on Saturday lie on the floor at a hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka. The navy said it has rescued 32 Myanmar nationals whose wooden vessel began sinking while making a perilous journey to Australia. The group comprising 31 adult males and a boy had been at sea without food for 21 days when the navy rescued them after being informed by a local fishing boat. (AP Photo/Sri Lanka Navy) EDITORIAL USE ONLYCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's navy says it has rescued 32 Myanmar nationals whose wooden vessel began sinking while making a perilous journey to Australia.

2 charged in Papua New Guinea 'witch' killing

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 04:33 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2013 file photo, bystanders watch as a woman accused of witchcraft is burned alive in the Western Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea police charged two people on Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, with the grisly killing of a woman who was burned alive in front of hundreds of people, including young children, after being accused of witchcraft.(AP Photo/Post Courier, File) PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUTSYDNEY (AP) — Papua New Guinea police have charged two people with the grisly killing of a woman who was tortured and burned alive in front of hundreds of people, including young children, after being accused of witchcraft.

Belarus guard get 2-year sentence for teddy bears

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 10:31 AM PST

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — A Belarusian court has handed out a two-year prison sentence to a border guard who failed to protect the ex-Soviet nation from foreign teddy bears.

Colombia: Violence flares in lead up to new round of FARC peace talks

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 07:58 AM PST

Colombian government and rebel negotiators begin a new round of peace talks today, even as hostilities between the two sides intensify and test the patience of war-weary Colombians. But the fact that negotiations have withstood the strain is a promising sign of the strength of the process, analysts say.

Family of slain girlfriend seeks answers, Pistorius to face bail hearing

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 06:53 AM PST

The family of Oscar Pistorius' slain girlfriend wants answers, her mother told a Johannesburg newspaper as the country waited to hear for the first time why prosecutors believe the iconic athlete murdered Reeva Steenkamp by shooting her multiple times on Valentine's Day morning.

Red-letter weekend for Latin America's left as Correa wins reelection and Chavez returns home

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 07:00 AM PST

The photos illustrating the biggest news in Latin America this weekend could not have differed more. One was of a vigorous and victorious Rafael Correa in Ecuador, winning a third term in office Sunday; the other was of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's ailing president, smiling but, weeks after surgery for cancer, still lying in a hospital bed.

Young Ugandan chess-prodigy: lessons in the slum take her to the world stage

Posted: 18 Feb 2013 06:00 AM PST

The muddy alleyways and dark, crowded rooms of the Katwe slum in Uganda's capital city seem like the last place you'd expect to pick up a game of chess. But this is where one of the world's most unlikely chess champions, 16 year-old Phiona Mutesi, first laid eyes on a board.

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