2013年10月8日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News


Anti-army protests staged at Egyptian universities

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 12:37 PM PDT

By Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters chanted "Down with the military government" outside Cairo University on Tuesday, defying Egypt's army-backed authorities despite deadly clashes with security forces two days earlier. Supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi had urged university students to protest against the army following the violence on Sunday, one of Egypt's bloodiest days since the military ousted the Islamist leader on July 3. The death toll from Sunday's unrest rose to 57, state media said, with 391 people wounded. ...

British spy chief warns Snowden data is a 'gift' for terrorists

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 02:02 PM PDT

A kite flies near antennas of Former National Security Agency (NSA) listening station at the Teufelsberg hill (German for Devil's Mountain) in BerlinBy Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Revelations by Edward Snowden about British eavesdropping are a gift to terrorists because they weaken the ability of the security services to stop those plotting deadly attacks against the West, the head of the MI5 Security Service said on Tuesday. In an unusually frank public intervention in the debate over the powers of U.S. and British spy agencies, MI5 Director General Andrew Parker warned that his agents needed to read and listen to suspect communications to foil major attacks. The extent of U.S. ...


Fire kills nine at Bangladesh garment factory

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 11:43 AM PDT

DHAKA (Reuters) - Nine people were killed on Tuesday evening in a fire at a garment factory in the Bangladeshi town of Gazipur, 40 km north of the capital Dhaka, emergency officials said. A series of deadly incidents at Bangladeshi factories, including a building collapse in April that killed more than 1,100 people, has raised global concern over shaky safety standards in the South Asian country's booming, $20 billion garment industry. ...

U.N. urged to consider Central African Republic peacekeepers

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 03:20 PM PDT

By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council is planning to vote this week on a draft resolution that would urge the United Nations to explore the possibility of establishing a U.N. peacekeeping force in Central African Republic, diplomats said on Tuesday. The landlocked, mineral-rich Central African Republic, or CAR, has slipped into chaos since northern Seleka rebels seized the capital, Bangui, and ousted President Francois Bozize in March. U.N. officials and rights groups say both sides may have committed war crimes. ...

No time constraints for U.S. in holding Libyan on ship: experts

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 04:21 PM PDT

By Tabassum Zakaria and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A terrorism suspect grabbed in Libya by U.S. special forces will likely be held on a Navy ship until interrogators decide he has provided as much information as he is going to, and there are no legal constraints on how long that may be, experts said Tuesday. But while the U.S. government is not running against a legal clock to hold al Qaeda suspect Nazih al-Ragye, it will not want to keep him too long on board the USS San Antonio at sea, which could prompt accusations of flouting Geneva Conventions, U.S. experts say. ...

Exclusive: Brazil seeks business-friendly path to new power rate cuts

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff leaves after attending the opening of the Third Global Conference on Child Labour in BrasiliaBy Alonso Soto and Leonardo Goy BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is looking to cut power rates again, one year after her government shocked investors by strong-arming utility companies into reducing some of the world's highest electricity costs. This time the plan is to keep the peace with power firms, two officials involved in the discussions told Reuters. The government's move to pressure companies to lower charges in exchange for the renewal of their concessions last year helped ease electricity bills for household consumers. ...


British vans telling migrants to 'go home' ruled inoffensive

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 05:01 PM PDT

A protester holds a placard as she takes part in a demonstration outside the Home Office in central London on September 5, 2012London (AFP) - Britain's advertising watchdog said Wednesday that government posters urging illegal immigrants to "go home or face arrest" were not offensive despite hundreds of complaints -- but banned them for using misleading statistics.


UN Council to vote first step to C.Africa force

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 04:47 PM PDT

Soldier of the multinational African force (FOMAC) stands guard in front of a house on October 7, 2013 in BanguiNew York (AFP) - The UN Security Council will vote a resolution on Thursday that takes the first steps toward sending a peacekeeping force to end anarchy in Central African Republic, diplomats said.


Higgs boson, key to the universe, wins Nobel physics prize

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 04:44 PM PDT

A worker rides his bicycle in a tunnel of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), during maintenance works on July 19, 2013 in Meyrin, near GenevaBy Simon Johnson and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Britain's Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets. The insight has been hailed as one of the most important in the understanding of the cosmos. Without the Higgs mechanism all particles would travel at the speed of light and atoms would not exist. ...


Doctors: Argentine president well after surgery

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 04:22 PM PDT

Supporters of Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez celebrate after hearing presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro announce that Fernandez is in good spirits after a successful surgery outside the Favaloro Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. Hospital doctors report that the president's condition is "evolving favorably" after they removed a blot clot pressuring the right side of her brain. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Before doctors drilled through President Cristina Fernandez's skull Tuesday to remove a blood clot pressuring her brain, her vice president sought to reassure Argentines they have no reason to be alarmed. Yet the government is facing a number of challenges, and many people are worried by the country's dominant political force being sidelined.


'Irregularities' in Guinea elections: international observers

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 04:07 PM PDT

Guinean women search for their names on the registered voters' list at a polling station in Conakry on September 28, 2013Conakry (AFP) - Diplomats and UN representatives observing Guinea's parliamentary elections on Tuesday raised "irregularities" in the September 28 vote, and warned that some results may be skewed.


Canada announces aviation agreements with 7 countries

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 04:05 PM PDT

An aerial view of planes parked at Tegel Airport in Berlin, Germany on August 1, 2013Montreal (AFP) - Canada announced Tuesday a series of air transport agreements with seven countries that will result in more flight options and routes for its airlines.


Child labor down but not enough

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 03:25 PM PDT

International Labour Organization director general Guy Ryder gestures in an interview with AFP in Manila on December 16, 2012Brasília (AFP) - Despite recent declines in the incidence of child labor much more must be done to tackle the issue, the Third International Conference on Child Labor heard Tuesday.


EU demands extra sea patrols after Lampedusa tragedy

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 03:19 PM PDT

A member of the Italian Coast Guard washes his boat after the recovery of bodies of migrants who were killed in a shipwreck off the Italian coast, in the harbour of the Italian island of Lampedusa on October 7, 2013Luxembourg (AFP) - The EU's executive Tuesday pushed for extra resources to launch Mediterranean-wide search and rescue patrols after the Lampedusa tragedy as Europe struggles to cope with the flood of refugees knocking on its doors.


British intelligence chief says Islamist threat rising

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 03:18 PM PDT

An undated handout picture obtained in London on March 28, 2013 shows Andrew Parker, the head of British domestic spy agency MI5London (AFP) - The head of Britain's domestic intelligence agency on Tuesday warned there were thousands of Islamist extremists in the country who regard the public as "legitimate targets," and defended the use of snooping technology.


Colombia minister says tax haven 'party over' with 33 percent charge

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 03:17 PM PDT

By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia slapped a 33 percent charge on Tuesday on assets moved to tax havens, and the finance minister said "the party is over" for Colombians dodging taxes by sending funds abroad. The charge will be applied for both individuals and businesses that move funds to any of the 44 countries on the government's tax haven list, which includes Hong Kong, Bahrain and Antigua and Barbuda. Colombia's DIAN tax authority estimates the country misses out on between 15 trillion and 20 trillion pesos ($7.9 billion to $10. ...

Obama says U.S. to keep 'going after' al Qaeda-linked groups in Africa

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 03:00 PM PDT

By Matt Spetalnick and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday staunchly defended his decision to order commando raids in Libya and Somalia last weekend, saying the United States would keep targeting al Qaeda-linked groups in Africa but had no intention of going to war there. Speaking at a news conference, Obama said the United States was justified in seizing a senior al Qaeda figure in Tripoli and whisking him out of the country, and he made clear that it likely would not be the last operation of its kind. ...

Shebab to be threat for some time, US lawmakers told

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 02:56 PM PDT

Somali Al-Shebab fighters gather on February 13, 2012 in Elasha BiyahaWashington (AFP) - Violent extremist networks based in the Horn of Africa may be evolving and groups such as the Islamic Shebab militants will likely pose a regional threat for some time, top US officials said Tuesday.


Experts in Africa cautious on potential malaria vaccine

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 02:49 PM PDT

A mother and her child sit on October 30, 2009 on a bed covered with a mosquito net near Bagamoyo, 70 kms north of Tanzanian capital Dar es SalaamDurban (South Africa) (AFP) - Experts in Africa, the continent worst-hit by malaria, reacted with optimism but also caution on Tuesday to news that the first vaccine against the killer disease may soon reach the market.


There Are Two Egypts and They Hate Each Other

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 02:43 PM PDT

Egypt's latest spasm of violence over the weekend—which led to at least 57 deaths and 400 injured—confirmed the troubled nation's new reality: The emergence of two distinct, opposed Egypts that hate each other.

Shutdown heads south; Antarctic stations shuttered

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 02:38 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government shutdown is reaching all the way down to the South Pole.

US raid in Libya renews legality questions

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 02:22 PM PDT

In this picture downloaded from the US Navy website, taken on September 12, 2013, US Marines pivot into position during a live-fire exercise on the USS San Antonio in the Mediterranean SeaWashington (AFP) - The US capture of an Al-Qaeda suspect on Libyan soil has renewed questions of legality, with President Barack Obama relying on controversial rationales from his predecessor George W. Bush.


Kirchner blood clot surgery a success: Argentina

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 02:08 PM PDT

Government's spokesperson Akredo Scoccimarro gives an update on Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner outside the Fundacion Favaloro, in Buenos Aires, on October 8, 2013Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentine President Cristina Kirchner was recovering in hospital on Tuesday after successful surgery to remove a blood clot on her brain, officials said.


IMF warns weaker oil prices may leave MENA exporters in red

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 02:04 PM PDT

A Pakistani petrol station worker changes the price at a filling station in Karachi on October 1, 2013Dubai (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday that a sustained drop in oil prices could leave many Middle Eastern and North African exporters in the red because of surging spending.


Guinea president dismisses vote rigging claims

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:54 PM PDT

President Alpha Conde pictured during an interview in Conakry on October 8, 2013Conakry (AFP) - Guinea's president dismissed accusations of electoral fraud lodged by the opposition in an exclusive interview with AFP on Tuesday.


Ecuador may take Assange case to world court

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Ecuadurian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino (R) and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appear at the window of the Ecuadorian embassy in central London on June 16, 2013Quito (AFP) - Ecuador said on Tuesday it may turn to the International Court of Justice to resolve an impasse with Britain over Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder holed up since mid-2012 in Quito's London embassy.


Destroying Syria's chemical arms is the easy bit

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Rebel fighters cover a car in mud for camouflage at an undisclosed location in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on October 8, 2013New York (AFP) - Destroying the chemical horrors may prove the easy part of ending Syria's war as the United Nations struggles to bring the government and opposition to the negotiating table.


Pan-African magazine: Africa has 55 billionaires

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:48 PM PDT

In this photo taken,Saturday Oct. 5, 2013, Folorunsho Alakija, attends a function in Lagos, Nigeria. Ventures Africa a pan-African magazine says Africa has many more billionaires than previously reported, 55 of them worth $143.88 billion. The magazine's survey surprised by identifying oil tycoon Folorunsho Alakija as the richest black woman in the world, saying that she is worth $7.3 billion. Forbes magazine in its respected list had estimated Alakija's fortune at $600 million and Oprah Winfrey's worth at $2.9 billion. (AP Photo)LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A pan-African magazine says Africa has many more billionaires than previously reported, 55 of them worth more than $143 billion including a Nigerian said to be the richest black woman in the world.


Amnesty urges justice for Tunisians tortured

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:46 PM PDT

People wave a national flag marking the second anniversary of the uprising that ousted long-time dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 14, 2013 in TunisTunis (AFP) - Amnesty International on Tuesday demanded those responsible for widespread torture practised under Tunisia's ousted former regime be brought to justice, after uncovering the details of a 25-year-old victim.


Egypt general leaves open question of election run

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:45 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour, center, Defense Minister Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, left, and other officials visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and President Anwar Sadat's memorial as part of celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1973 Middle East war in which Egyptian forces made initial gains against Israel, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. Egypt's army is on high alert ahead of expected mass demonstrations by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi timed to coincide with annual celebrations honoring the military, a combination many fear will lead to a new round of violence. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's powerful army chief left open the possibility of running for president in elections due next year, according to excerpts of an interview published Tuesday, as he gave his first account of his overthrow of the country's Islamist president.


Saudi cleric gets 8 years prison for killing child

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:38 PM PDT

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — An ultraconservative Muslim preacher in Saudi Arabia was sentenced to eight years in prison and 800 lashes for raping and beating his five-year-old daughter to death, official media said Tuesday.

UK seeks government-backed regulator for press

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:37 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — British officials have endorsed a plan to impose a government-backed watchdog on the country's scandal-scarred media, a minister announced Tuesday, dealing a blow to newspaper owners' efforts to preserve their system of self-regulation.

Strike-hit S.Africa car makers race to meet orders

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:35 PM PDT

Workers on strike hold signs as they take part in a demonstration outside Ford's plant in Pretoria on August 20, 2013Port Elizabeth (South Africa) (AFP) - South African auto component makers said Tuesday it may take weeks to make up for production lost during a crippling strike as more labour action loomed.


Nigeria drops charges against Russians in arms case

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:29 PM PDT

Russian sailors arrive at the Federal High Court in Lagos on June 18, 2013Lagos (AFP) - A Nigerian court on Tuesday dismissed charges against the 19 remaining Russians who had been accused in an illegal arms possession case, a defence lawyer said.


US and China tussle for trade dominance at APEC

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:24 PM PDT

Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (R) speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Nusa Dua on October 8, 2013Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) - The United States on Tuesday intensified its drive to clinch an ambitious Asia-Pacific trade pact by the end of the year, raising China's hackles at a regional summit in Indonesia.


Rebels attack army base in northern Syria

Posted: 08 Oct 2013 01:20 PM PDT

In this Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 photo, opposition fighters reload pieces of heavy artillery during an attack on the Wadi al-Deef military post at the frontline in Maaret al-Numan in the Idlib province countryside of Syria. With much of the northern countryside now in opposition hands, a cat-and-mouse game has emerged over the past year as the rebels try to cut the government supply lines to the regime's remaining troops in the north. (AP Photo)MAARET AL-NUMAN, Syria (AP) — Rebel fighters dressed in camouflage uniforms carefully loaded mortar rounds, then with a loud boom and a burst of smoke the shells zipped off in the direction of a nearby government army base.


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