2013年10月25日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Tunisia's ruling Islamist party, opposition start crisis talks

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration to call for the departure of the Islamist-led ruling coalition in Avenue Habib-Bourguiba in central TunisBy Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's ruling Islamist party and the opposition began talks on Friday to form a caretaker government and prepare for elections under an agreement to end months of unrest in the country that inspired the "Arab Spring" revolts. The North African nation has been in turmoil since July when the assassination of an opposition leader ignited anti-government protests that threatened to derail a democratic transition once seen as a model for the region. ...

Merkel to seek 'no spy deal' within EU as well as with U.S.

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:44 PM PDT

Germany's Chancellor Merkel addresses a news conference during a EU leaders summit in BrusselsBERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the European Union's 28 member states to reach a "no spy deal" similar to an agreement France and Germany seek with the United State following allegations Washington tapped her mobile phone. A German government spokesman late on Friday confirmed Merkel had made such a proposal to European leaders gathered at a summit in Brussels. Sources who attended the meeting said they appeared to be open to the suggestion. Charges that the U.S. ...

Bombs targeting Shi'ites kill 16 across Iraq

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 01:53 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A series of bombs killed at least 16 people across Iraq on Friday as Shi'ite Muslims celebrated a holy festival, police and medical sources said. Nine bombs were detonated by remote control. The deadliest were two roadside devices that exploded in quick succession in a market in the Shi'ite town of Yousufiya, 20 km (12 miles) south of Baghdad, killing at least seven people. ...

Berlusconi resurrects old party but center-right deeply divided

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 12:21 PM PDT

Italian center-right leader Berlusconi looks on at the Senate in RomeBy Massimiliano Di Giorgio ROME (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday resurrected the party with which he burst into politics 20 years ago, but the move deeply divided Italy's political center-right. A leadership meeting of People of Freedom (PDL), as the center-right party has been called since 2007, voted to change its name back to Forza Italia (Go Italy!). Berlusconi said the revived party would support the government of Prime Minister Enrico Letta, as the PDL has done. But the move caused a rift among his followers. ...

U.N. aid chief demands Security Council action on Syria aid access

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 04:21 PM PDT

Top U.N. humanitarian official Amos leaves the Labour Ministry building after a meeting with Syrian officials in DamascusBy Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. aid chief Valerie Amos demanded stronger action by the U.N. Security Council on Friday to get desperately needed aid into Syria, where 2.5 million people in need have not received help for almost a year. Violence and excessive red tape have slowed aid delivery to a trickle in Syria. More than 100,000 people have been killed in the 2 1/2-year civil war and some 2.1 million have fled. After months of talks, the 15-member Security Council approved a non-binding statement October 2 urging increased humanitarian access. ...

Georgian PM promises not to try to jail Saakashvili

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 01:43 PM PDT

Georgia's Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili speaks during a news conference in TbilisiBy Margarita Antidze and Timothy Heritage TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, hoping to ease fears of instability, says he will not try to jail President Mikheil Saakashvili when his rival steps down after Sunday's election. In an interview with Reuters on Friday, he reaffirmed a plan to quit as the former Soviet republic's premier in the weeks after Sunday's vote and revealed he would nominate a member of his government to replace him, but gave no name. ...

Syria's jihadist Al-Nusra Front says chief in good health

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 04:41 PM PDT

A picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency on August 8, 2013 shows Syrian army soldiers stand next to a tank in the Latakia provinceBeirut (AFP) - Syria's jihadist Al-Nusra Front said in a statement on Saturday that its leader was in good health, after state television had reported his death.

Top TV satirist back on air in a changed Egypt

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 04:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 file photo, a bodyguard secures popular Egyptian television satirist Bassem Youssef, who has come to be known as Egypt's Jon Stewart, as he enters Egypt's state prosecutors office to face accusations of insulting Islam and the country's Islamist leader in Cairo, Egypt. After more than four months away, the man known as CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's most popular TV satirist, famed for mercilessly skewering the former Islamist president on his weekly program, dove headfirst back into stormy politics Friday after four months off the air amid the turmoil surrounding the country's coup. His new target for mockery: the over-the-top, pro-military fervor sweeping Egyptians.

Former UK foreign minister Straw stepping down as MP

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 04:27 PM PDT

Former British foreign minister Jack Straw arrives to give evidence at the Iraq Inquiry at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre, in central London, on February 2, 2011London (AFP) - Former British foreign secretary Jack Straw said Friday he would step down as a member of parliament at the 2015 general election.

Syria claims al-Qaida linked group's leader killed

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 04:22 PM PDT

In this photo made from video released late Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a chemical weapons expert works at a chemical weapons plant at an unknown location in Syria. Norway has turned down a U.S. request to receive the bulk of Syria's chemical weapons for destruction because it doesn't have the capabilities to complete the task by the deadlines given, the Norwegian foreign minister said Friday. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state-run TV reported Friday that the leader of a powerful al-Qaida-linked rebel group has been killed — a claim that if confirmed would be a huge blow to fighters trying to topple President Bashar Assad. At least one rebel commander denied the report.

Hard-won Tunisia dialogue to end crisis finally begins

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 04:18 PM PDT

Police inspect the scene of an exchange of fire between police forces and members of a Salafist group on October 25, 2013 in the the Ennasr district in TunisTunis (AFP) - Tunisia's divided factions held hard-won negotiations Friday to end a protracted political crisis after Islamist premier Ali Larayedh managed to avert an opposition boycott by making a written pledge to resign.

William vows son will be Villa fan too

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 04:10 PM PDT

Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, leave with their son Prince George of Cambridge following his Christening by the Archbishop of Canterbury (R) on October 23, 2013London (AFP) - Britain's Prince William has vowed his son will follow in his father's footsteps by becoming an Aston Villa fan.

Guantanamo lawyers want Obama to declassify CIA prison program

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 04:10 PM PDT

Flags wave above the sign posted at the entrance to Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval BaseBy Tom Ramstack FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - Attorneys for five Guantanamo prisoners charged with plotting the September 11, 2001, attacks have asked President Barack Obama to declassify the CIA program that subjected the defendants to interrogation techniques that have been described as torture. In a letter made public on Friday, the lawyers asked the president to release potentially mitigating information that could spare the defendants from execution if they are convicted on charges of hijacking, terrorism and murdering nearly 3,000 people. ...

29 years later, Cuba hijacker wants to go home

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 03:52 PM PDT

U.S. citizen William Potts poses with a sign that reads in Spanish "USA my racist country" in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. Years after he hijacked a plane traveling from Newark to Miami in 1984, which landed in Cuba, Potts is optimistic that he'll soon be heading home. While he faces virtually certain arrest upon return, he said he believes that the time he served in Cuba will allow him to avoid a lengthy second jail term. In Cuba, Potts was convicted of air piracy. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)HAVANA (AP) — William Potts burned with the desire to change the world. Nothing really turned out the way he planned.

Gold leads superb Skate Canada women's field

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 03:51 PM PDT

Gracie Gold of the United States skates during the ladies short program at the ISU GP 2013 Skate Canada International at Harbour Station on October 25, 2013 in Saint John, New Brunswick, CanadaSaint John (Canada) (AFP) - Gracie Gold's fist pump at the end of her short program spoke volumes about the near flawless performance she delivered Friday to seize the women's lead at Skate Canada.

Wenger wouldn't rule out Fergie retirement U-turn

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 03:41 PM PDT

Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger (R) looks on before the UEFA Champions League Group F football match between Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund at the Emirates Stadium, north London, on October 22, 2013London (AFP) - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger on Friday said he wouldn't be surprised to see Alex Ferguson go back on his decision to retire.

Car bomb at Syria mosque killed 40, including children: NGO

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 03:36 PM PDT

An image taken from a video uploaded on YouTube and provided by Nabad al-Aasima (Capital Pulsation) non profit organization on October 25, 2013 allegedly shows a car burning on the site of a car bombing near DamascusBeirut (AFP) - The toll from a car bomb explosion at a mosque in Suq Wadi Barada near Damascus Friday soared to at least 40, including seven children, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Clashes between rebels, army resume in DR Congo

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:47 PM PDT

Goma (DR Congo) (AFP) - Fighting resumed Friday between the army and rebels in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, both sides and the United Nations said, just days after the latest effort at peace talks fell apart.

Tests prove Roma couple are mystery girl's parents

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:43 PM PDT

Mother Sasha Ruseva holds two-year-old Penka, one of her ten children, whom she claims is albino talks to journalists in the town of Nikolaevo , Bulgaria, Thursday Oct. 24, 2013. DNA tests have confirmed that a Bulgarian Roma couple living in the impoverished village with their nine other children are the biological parents of the girl found in Greece with another Roma couple, authorities said Friday. Genetic profiles of Sasha Ruseva, 35, and her husband, Atanas, matched that of Maria, Interior Ministry official Svetlozar Lazarov said Friday. Ruseva says she gave birth to a baby girl four years ago in Greece while working as an olive picker but gave the child away because she was too poor to care for her. She since has had two more children after Maria. Maria has been in a charity's care since authorities raided a Roma settlement in Greece last week and found she was not related to the Greek Roma couple she was living with. (AP Photo/BGNES) BULGARIA OUTNIKOLAEVO, Bulgaria (AP) — The mystery is solved — but the future of the young girl known only as Maria is still uncertain.

Obama chides Republicans on spending cuts at school event

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:17 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama speaks about immigration reform next to U.S. Vice President Biden in the East Room at the White House in WashingtonBy Mark Felsenthal NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned congressional Republicans on Friday that their next budget negotiations will need to be about more than just spending cuts after a fiscal stalemate that resulted in a 16-day government shutdown. Visiting a school that offers students a fast track to technology jobs to underline his point, Obama said some tax loopholes need to be eliminated to create more tax revenue for the government that can be used to trigger more job growth. ...

Berlusconi relaunches Forza Italia

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:12 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 file photo, Silvio Berlusconi gestures as he speaks on a mobile phone prior to a parliament debate, at the Senate in Rome, Italy. Berlusconi is among the world leaders who are trying to cope following allegations of massive electronic monitoring by the U.S. National Security Agency (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File)MILAN (AP) — Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Friday formally relaunched Forza Italia, the center-right party that catapulted him to power 20 years ago, but the long-expected announcement was clouded by signs of internal divisions.

Syria says al-Qaida linked group's leader killed

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:04 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, dead bodies of Syrian rebels are seen on the ground after fighting with Syrian government forces according to SANA, near the Otaiba area, near Damascus, Syria, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. Syrian government troops on Friday ambushed rebels near the capital, Damascus, killing at least 40 opposition fighters, state media reported. The ambush was part of the military's offensive against rebel strongholds around President Bashar Assad's seat of power. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state-run TV claims the leader of the powerful al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra has been killed.

Chile court freezes Glencore hydro project to weigh appeal

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:03 PM PDT

The logo of commodities trader Glencore is pictured in front of the company's headquarters in BaarSANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean appeals court has preventively blocked a recently approved $733 million hydroelectric dam to weigh an environmental appeal, a surprise setback for owners Origin Energy and Glencore Xstrata PLC. Opponents of the 640-megawatt Rio Cuervo project planned in the remote southern Aysen region say it would harm the environment and would be built above a geological fault line in highly-seismic Chile. Lawyers from the environmental prosecutor's office lodged the appeal, claiming the plant's environmental permit granted last month was not legal. ...

Madagascar votes in first post-coup election

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Madagascar presidential candidate Andry Rajoelina gets ready to cast his vote in Antananarivo on October 25, 2013Antananarivo (AFP) - Madagascar voted in presidential elections Friday to restore democracy following a 2009 coup as international observers hailed a calm and transparent poll despite isolated incidents of violence.

Oscar-Worthy Documentary Shows How Egypt’s Revolution Fell Apart

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 01:55 PM PDT

When it happened, Egypt's February 2011 revolution seemed an epochal global event. If Cairo was not the birthplace of the Arab Spring, it was its apogee. The people of the Arab world's most populous, most important nation, long oppressed, had finally found their voice. Braving bullets, tanks and tear gas, they overthrew the entrenched dictatorship of three-decade President Hosni Mubarak. ...

7.3-magnitude quake rocks Japan; no damage reports

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 01:42 PM PDT

Map locates where a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan; 1c x 3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76 mm;TOKYO (AP) — An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck early Saturday off Japan's east coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said, triggering small tsunamis but causing no apparent damage.

ICC says Kenya's Ruto must attend trial

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 01:36 PM PDT

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (L) speaks with Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Amina Mohammed (R), and Attorney General Githu Mungai (2-R) at the African Union ahead of talks on the the International Criminal Court on October 12, 2013The Hague (AFP) - The International Criminal Court ruled on Friday that Kenyan Vice President William Ruto must attend his crimes against humanity trial, as the country's president asked for his own trial to be postponed.

UK politician Jack Straw to quit after next vote

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 01:25 PM PDT

FILE- In this Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 file photo, former British Foreign Secretary and Justice Secretary, Jack Straw arrives at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre in London for the Iraq Inquiry. Jack Straw, a former British foreign secretary and elder statesman of the opposition Labour Party, says he will stand down as a member of Parliament in the next general election, it was announced on Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. Straw, 67, has sat in Britain's House of Commons for 34 years. In addition to serving as foreign secretary between 2001 and 2006 in the Labour government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, Straw also served as Britain's home secretary and justice secretary. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)LONDON (AP) — Jack Straw, a former British foreign secretary and an elder statesman of the opposition Labour Party, said Friday that he will not seek re-election to Parliament.

Renewed fighting breaks out in east Congo

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 12:53 PM PDT

A Congolese army soldier moves forward under fire in the rebel-occupied Kasanza hill area, north of Goma, Congo, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013. The Congolese government and M23 rebels say that violence has resumed Friday between the two sides in the country's volatile east. Each side accused the other of sabotaging the peace process after days of high-level peace talks in the Ugandan capital failed to yield a breakthrough. (AP Photo/Joseph Kay)GOMA, Congo (AP) — The Congolese government and M23 rebels say that violence has resumed between the two sides in the country's volatile east.

UN calls for greater Syria aid 'pressure'

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 12:53 PM PDT

Syrian-Kurdish refugee families queue to get food at the Quru Gusik refugee camp, 20 kilometres east of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 29, 2013UNITED NATIONS (United States) (AFP) - The United Nations humanitarian chief on Friday called on the UN Security Council to put "sustained pressure" on the Syrian government and rebel groups to let in desperately needed relief.

EU under fire as 700 migrants saved off Italy

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 12:47 PM PDT

Map locating Sicily, where 700 refugees were rescued off the coastBrussels (AFP) - EU leaders came under fire Friday for failing to take immediate action to stop more boat people drowning in the Mediterranean as Italy reported 700 people plucked to safety off Sicily overnight.

South Sudan jails 10 soldiers for rights abuses

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 12:33 PM PDT

South Sudanese soldiers march with their national flag during a military parade in Juba on July 9, 2011 as part of celebrations marking South Sudan's independence as it became the world's newest nationJuba (AFP) - Ten South Sudanese soldiers were imprisoned for human rights abuses perpetrated during a 2012 campaign to disarm fighters from warring communities, an army spokesman said Friday.

West African neighbors pledge to support Mali

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 12:21 PM PDT

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — West African leaders pledged their support Friday to Mali's newly elected president as the country emerging from months of war and rebellion faces an uptick in attacks blamed on the jihadists forced from power.

Left eyes power as Czechs vote in snap election

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 12:16 PM PDT

Two members of the Electoral Commission carry a portable ballot box as they go visit voters in the outskirts of Kyjov, southern Czech Republic on October 25, 2013Prague (AFP) - Vexed by years of graft and austerity Czechs began voting on Friday in a two-day snap election that the left-wing opposition is poised to win, but a majority government is unlikely.

Officials: Bombings in central Iraq kill 13 people

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 12:09 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombings in central Iraq that targeted a market, a cafe and the homes of police officers killed 13 people Friday, officials said, the latest attacks in a wave of violence roiling the country.

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