2014年1月7日星期二

Yahoo! News: World News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World News


Syria ships out first batch of chemical weapons materials

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 04:09 PM PST

People inspect a site hit by what activists said was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighbourhood of DamascusBy Oliver Holmes and Erika Solomon BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria has started moving chemical weapons materials out of the country in a crucial phase of an internationally backed disarmament program that has been delayed by war and technical problems. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Tuesday that "priority chemical materials" were transported to the port of Latakia and onto a Danish vessel which was now sailing towards international waters. Syria agreed to abandon its chemical weapons by June under a deal proposed by Russia and agreed with the United States after an August 21 sarin gas attack that Western nations blamed on President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Damascus blames rebels for the attack.


United States sending more troops and tanks to South Korea

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 03:38 PM PST

U.S. Army soldiers and its M2A2 Bradley fighting vehicles take part in the U.S.-South Korea joint military exercise against possible attacks by North Korea, at a shooting range near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in PajuThe United States said on Tuesday it will send 800 more soldiers and about 40 Abrams main battle tanks and other armored vehicles to South Korea next month as part of a military rebalance to East Asia after more than a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. The battalion of troops and M1A2 tanks and about 40 Bradley fighting vehicles from the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division based at Fort Hood, Texas, will begin a nine-month deployment in South Korea on February 1. "This addition of forces to Korea is part of the rebalance to the Pacific. It's been long planned and is part of our enduring commitment to security on the Korean peninsula," Army Colonel Steve Warren said.


Four U.S. Air Force helicopter crew killed in British crash

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 04:33 PM PST

By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Four crew on board a U.S. military helicopter were killed when their aircraft crashed in eastern England during a routine training operation on Tuesday, police and U.S. Air Force (USAF)officials said. The helicopter, assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing based at the nearby U.S. air base RAF Lakenheath, went down at about 1800 GMT on marshland on the north Norfolk coast, a rural area about 130 miles northeast of London. "The conditions of the four crew members are unknown at this time." Norfolk Police said in a statement that the helicopter's four occupants were thought to have died in the crash. "Sadly we believe that at this time all four of the crew are deceased," Superintendent Roger Wilson of Norfolk Police told reporters.

North Korea assembly vote set for March, to consolidate Kim's power

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 04:19 PM PST

Handout photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visiting the Aquatic Products Refrigerating FacilitiesNorth Koreans will hold elections for the country's rubber stamp parliament in March, the first such polls under Kim Jong Un's leadership, which are set to further consolidate his power after the purge of his uncle. Kim's uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was one of the most powerful figures in North Korea until his purge and execution just a few weeks ago. South Korean President Park Geun-hye has described recent events in North Korea as a "reign of terror." The reclusive North's official media said on Wednesday that the election for its Supreme People's Assembly would be held on March 9, without offering details. On New Year's day, Kim Jong Un, the third generation of his family to rule North Korea, said in his first reference to the execution of his powerful uncle, that the country's ruling party had become stronger after purging "factional filth".


Libya autonomy groups vows to sell oil from seized ports, challenges Tripoli

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 04:56 PM PST

A view of the Mellitah Oil and Gas blocked by members of the Berber minority demanding more rights complexBy Ghaith Shennib and Julia Payne TRIPOLI/LONDON (Reuters) - A heavily armed autonomy group in eastern Libya said on Tuesday it would invite foreign companies to buy oil from seized ports and protect arriving tankers, challenging Tripoli which has promised to use force to stop them. The announcement came just hours after Libya's defense ministry said it would destroy any tankers loading oil from eastern ports in the Cyrenaica region which are under control of the armed protesters. The escalation adds to chaos as the weak Tripoli government struggles to rein in armed groups that helped oust Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 but kept their guns to demand power and a bigger share of the country's oil wealth. The conflict is hurting oil revenues, which fund the OPEC nation's government and the import of wheat and other crucial food.


Turkish graft scandal deepens with more arrests, police dismissals

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 11:04 AM PST

Plain clothes police officers detain an anti-government protester at Taksim square in central IstanbulBy Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government purged hundreds of police officers overnight, media said, as part of a crackdown on a rival he accuses of trying to usurp state power by tarring him with a specious corruption investigation. Some of the officers, who included members of the financial and organized crime, smuggling and anti-terrorism units, were moved to traffic duties, according to the reports. Ankara police, chief focus of the action, declined to comment. Erdogan, facing the biggest challenge of an 11-year rule that has seen the army banished from politics, the economy booming and Ankara pressing its role in the Middle East, portrays the raids and arrests as a "dirty plot" by an Islamic cleric.


Stranded Antarctic ships break free of ice, heading to open sea

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 04:57 PM PST

A helicopter from the Xue Long Chinese icebreaker unloads rescued passengers from the ice-bound Russian ship, Akademik Shokalskiy, in East Antarctica, in this handout courtesy of Fairfax's Australian Antarctic DivisionBy Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Russian research vessel and Chinese icebreaker stranded in Antarctica have broken free from the heavy ice that gripped them and are making steady progress towards open waters, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said on Wednesday. They have since made slow progress through lighter ice conditions towards the open sea. "The Xue Long has advised RCC Australia it does not require any further assistance at this time," AMSA said in a statement. "The Akademik Shokalskiy continues to move through the ice field and RCC Australia is awaiting confirmation that it does not require any further assistance." The Russian-owned research ship, Akademik Shokalskiy, left New Zealand on November 28 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of an Antarctic journey led by Australian explorer Douglas Mawson.


Australia to buy lifeboats to return asylum-seekers

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 04:48 PM PST

Protesters carry placards at a 'Welcome Refugees' rally in Sydney on September 29, 2013Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday said "all steps necessary" will be taken to halt boatpeople amid reports that Canberra is planning to buy 16 lifeboats to ferry them back to Indonesia. Fairfax Media said the government would purchase boats similar to those carried by cruiseships to be able to get asylum-seekers intercepted at sea back to Indonesia if their own vessels were unseaworthy. Few details on how the hard-hulled boats would operate were provided, but reports said asylum-seekers would be transferred to them near Indonesian waters, with sufficient fuel and provisions for them to return to that country. It follows revelations Tuesday that the Australian navy had turned back at least one asylum-seeker boat without first informing Jakarta, prompting fresh anger in Indonesia about Canberra's tough policies on boatpeople.


Watchdog calls for UK voter ID amid S. Asian fraud fears

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 04:47 PM PST

Ballot papers are counted in Eastleigh, Hampshire, southern England on February 28, 2013Voters in Britain should have to prove their identity at polling stations, the elections watchdog said Wednesday, as it launched a study into fraud concerns around ethnic South Asian communities. The Electoral Commission said it was investigating the vulnerability of the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities to electoral fraud. However, despite the recommendation for proof of identity at all polling stations, it rejected calls to restrict access to postal voting -- which is at the heart of many allegations -- saying it would prevent many innocent people from casting their ballot. Since 2002, voters in Northern Ireland have been required to show photographic identification at polling stations.


Record freeze extends to eastern United States, at least nine dead

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 04:43 PM PST

Man walks beside frozen wall on a beach in ChicagoBy Victoria Cavaliere and Brendan O'Brien NEW YORK/MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades-old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people. Authorities have put about half of the United States under a wind chill warning or cold weather advisory. Temperatures were expected to be 25 degrees to 35 degrees Fahrenheit (14 to 19 degrees Celsius) below normal from the Midwest to the Southeast, the National Weather Service said. PJM Interconnection, the agency that oversees the electric grid supplying the mid-Atlantic and parts of the Midwest, said electricity suppliers were struggling to keep up with surging demand as the cold forced some power plants to shut.


Arctic freeze disrupts North American air travel

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 04:42 PM PST

JetBlue Airways resumed departures from New York and Boston airports after shutting down flights in those cities on Monday evening to protect crews and aircraft as it sought to recover from recent snow and low temperatures. A frigid blast of arctic air that broke decades-old records in the middle United States moved eastward on Tuesday. The cold weather froze fueling equipment for planes, forcing airlines to cancel flights. Delta Air Lines said ice and snow at its Detroit hub that disabled fuel gear led it to suspend regional flights there on Tuesday.

Ex-Miss Venezuela slain in highway robbery

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 04:30 PM PST

CORRECTS YEAR OF KILLING - FILE - This May 23, 2005 file photo released by Miss Universe shows Monica Spear, Miss Venezuela 2005, posing for a portrait ahead of the Miss Universe competition in Bangkok, Thailand. Venezuelan authorities say the soap-opera actress and former Miss Venezuela and her husband were shot and killed resisting a robbery after their car broke down. Prosecutors said in a statement that Monica Spear and Henry Thomas Berry were slain late Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela's main port. (AP Photo/Miss Universe Darren Decker, File)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A former Miss Venezuela and her ex-husband were shot and killed and their 5-year-old daughter wounded when they resisted robbers by locking themselves inside their car after tire punctures disabled it on an isolated stretch of highway, police said Tuesday.


US Air Force copter crashes in England, killing 4

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 04:23 PM PST

Undated image made available by the US Air Force Tuesday Jan. 7 2014 of a USAF HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter of the same type as one which crashed at about 6 p.m. local time Tuesday near Salthouse on the Norfolk coast of eastern England . The aircraft, assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing, and based at the Royal Air Force station in Lakenheath, Suffolk County, which hosts U.S. Air force units and personnel, was on a low-level training mission when the crash occurred. (AP Photo/ US Air Force Lakenheath)LONDON (AP) — A U.S. Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter crashed in the coastal marshes of eastern England during a training mission on Tuesday night, killing all four crew members aboard, officials said.


Four believed dead in US military 'copter crash in Britain

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 03:49 PM PST

US troops onboard an Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter leave to conduct a rescue operation in Arizona on April 21, 2010London (United Kingdom) (AFP) - A US military helicopter crashed while on a training exercise in eastern England on Tuesday, with four crew members believed dead, according to police. "A US Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter crashed at about 6.00pm (1800 GMT) today near Salthouse on the Norfolk coast," said a statement issued by the 48th Fighter Wing, which is based at nearby Royal Air Force (RAF) station Lakenheath. Norfolk Police later issued a statement saying that "four occupants are thought to have died in the crash" and that next of kin will be informed before further details on the victims are released. The force also revealed that officers were on the scene and that the aircraft may have been carrying live ammunition.


US expects UAE to free citizen after YouTube arrest

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 03:10 PM PST

A night view of the Dubai Marina in the early hours on November 19, 2013 in the United Arab EmiratesThe United Arab Emirates is expected shortly to free an American who was jailed with others over a YouTube video that mocked Dubai teenagers. Shezanne Cassim, a 29-year-old from Minnesota, will likely be freed within days, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. "We have received word that Mr. Cassim has been moved to a deportation facility for processing. Psaki said that Cassim was allowed to leave on account of good behavior as well as time he spent in detention before his trial.


Former Miss Venezuela, partner shot dead, child hurt

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 03:04 PM PST

Miss Venezuela Monica Spear during the final event of the Miss Universe 2005 in Bangkok, May 31, 2005A former Miss Venezuela and her British-born partner were shot dead while their five-year-old daughter was wounded during a suspected roadside robbery that shocked the nation, authorities said Tuesday. Monica Spear, a 29-year-old soap opera star, and Thomas Henry Berry, 39, were killed after their car broke down on a highway in northwestern Venezuela late Monday, prosecutors said in statement. Their daughter, Maya Berry Spear, was wounded in the right leg but stable after receiving medical treatment in an assault that put a spotlight on the country's soaring murder rate. Five people have been detained and are being interrogated in connection with the crime, Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez said after a televised meeting with President Nicolas Maduro.


Former Miss Venezuela shot dead in attempted robbery

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 02:44 PM PST

File photo of Miss Universe 2005 contestant Monica Spear of Venezuela, modelling during a swimwear competition in BangkokBy Diego Ore and Eyanir Chinea CARACAS (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a former Miss Venezuela and her ex-husband in the latest high profile case of violent crime in the South American nation, authorities said on Tuesday. Monica Spear, 29, a soap opera actress, and Henry Berry, 39, died in an attempted robbery on the highway between Puerto Cabello and Valencia in central Venezuela. The 2004 Miss Venezuela winner lived in the United States but was vacationing in Venezuela. Responding to a reporter's question about the incident, President Nicolas Maduro said he learned from investigators that the victims' car burst a tire after running over something on the road, apparently placed by robbers to stop traffic.


Syrian opposition undecided on Geneva peace talks

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 02:35 PM PST

ISTANBUL (AP) — Members of the main Western-backed Syrian opposition group say they have postponed a vote on whether or not to attend a peace conference in Switzerland this month.

Legion of Christ opens critical meeting on future

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 02:32 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2004 file photo, Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late father Marcial Maciel, founder of Christ's Legionaries, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the Regnum Christi movement, at the Vatican.The troubled Legion of Christ religious order this week begins electing a new leadership for the first time since its founder, held up as a model by the Vatican, was revealed to have been a pedophile and fraud. The process will formally end the Vatican's three-year rehabilitation of the order, which the Legion is touting as a success and critics have dismissed as a sham. Several former Legion priests have written Pope Francis urging him to not fall for the Legion's "supposed reform," saying the process had ignored the core issues of the congregation's dysfunction: financial duplicity, lack of an authentic religious identity and continued coverup about those who facilitated the crimes of the founder. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri, File)VATICAN CITY (AP) — The troubled Legion of Christ religious order is electing new leadership for the first time since its founder was revealed to have been a pedophile and fraud. The process starting Wednesday will formally end the Vatican's three-year rehabilitation of the movement, a reform the Legion is touting as a success and critics have dismissed as a sham.


First chemical arms material shipped out of Syria

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 02:29 PM PST

A handout picture taken on January 5, 2014 and released on January 7, 2014 shows the Danish support vessel L17 "Esbern Snare" training with the Norwegian frigate HNoMS "Helge Ingstad" in the Mediterranean SeaThe first shipment of chemical weapons materials left Latakia port Tuesday under a deal to rid Syria of its chemical arsenal, the joint mission overseeing the disarmament said. On the ground, the head of Syrian Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front urged an end to four days of clashes between rebels and the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant that has killed at least 274 people. "A first quantity of priority chemical materials was moved from two sites to the port of Latakia for verification and was then loaded onto a Danish commercial vessel today," the UN-Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (UN-OPCW) mission said. Escorted by Chinese, Danish, Norwegian and Russian naval vessels, the ship will stand offshore until more chemicals arrive at Latakia and then return to collect them.


World champ Chan, Virtue and Moir seek Olympic spots

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 02:24 PM PST

Canadian skater Patrick Chan performs during men's short program of the ISU figure skating Grand Prix Final in Fukuoka, western Japan, on December 5, 2013Three-time men's world champion Patrick Chan and reigning Olympic ice dance champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir top the line-up at the 100th anniversary Canadian Figure Skating Championships that begin on Friday. A century after Canada's capital first hosted the event, Ottawa again becomes the nation's figure skating focus with tickets even being sold for Thursday's practice sessions. Skaters will seek berths at next month's Sochi Winter Olympics with the largest line-up of Canadian figure skaters at an Olympics since the 1988 Calgary Winter Games. "Skate Canada is proud to be sending the biggest figure skating team in the world to Sochi and the largest Canadian team since 1988," Skate Canada chief executive Dan Thompson said.


Ex-Miss Venezuela slain in robbery

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 02:23 PM PST

CORRECTS YEAR OF KILLING - FILE - This May 23, 2005 file photo released by Miss Universe shows Monica Spear, Miss Venezuela 2005, posing for a portrait ahead of the Miss Universe competition in Bangkok, Thailand. Venezuelan authorities say the soap-opera actress and former Miss Venezuela and her husband were shot and killed resisting a robbery after their car broke down. Prosecutors said in a statement that Monica Spear and Henry Thomas Berry were slain late Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela's main port. (AP Photo/Miss Universe Darren Decker, File)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A former Miss Venezuela and her ex-husband were shot and killed and their 5-year-old daughter was wounded after they resisted robbers by locking the doors of their broken-down car, police said Tuesday.


US Air Force helicopter crashes in England

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 02:23 PM PST

Pave Hawk helicopterLONDON (AP) — A U.S. Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter crashed in a coastal area of eastern England on Tuesday night, an official said, and police said four people are believed to have died in the accident.


Revived rebel group Renamo accused of seeking Mozambique division

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 02:21 PM PST

A photo taken on November 8, 2012 shows fighters of the former Mozambican rebel movement "Renamo" receiving military training in Gorongosa's mountainsMozambique's defence ministry on Tuesday accused Renamo of wanting to "divide the country" as the main opposition party and revived rebel grouping was recruiting young people to carry out this strategy. Judging by Renamo's "political discourse and the situation we are witnessing, the objective is to divide the country from the Save River", Christovao Chume, national director for defence policy and security, told a press conference in Maputo. The defence ministry also confirmed the existence of armed men in Inhambane province, to the south of the river, and accused Renamo, led by Afonso Dhlakama, to recruit men in Sofala, to the north, and Inhambane. Renamo meanwhile said clashes with government forces in Pembe, in Inhambane province had resulted in dozens of dead on the side of government troops but did not give a date.


Syrian opposition postpones vote on peace talks

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 02:03 PM PST

By Dasha Afanasieva ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syria's Western-backed opposition in exile postponed until next week a decision on whether to attend talks with President Bashar al-Assad's government aimed at ending nearly three years of devastating conflict, opposition members said on Tuesday. The National Coalition is facing heavy pressure from Western powers to attend the January 22 talks, seen as the most serious effort yet to find a political solution to Syria's civil war. The latest delay came after at least a quarter of the coalition called for its newly re-elected president Ahmad al-Jarba to stand down, and threatened to resign if their demand was not met, sources at the meeting said. Saudi-backed Jarba beat former Syrian prime minister Riyad Hijab, who defected nearly 18 months ago, to win a second term as president of the coalition.

ISIL threatens Syria opposition politicians: audio

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 01:55 PM PST

A member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) speaks into a microphone urging people to join their fight against the regime, in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 13, 2013The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Tuesday called members of the opposition Syrian National Coalition a "legitimate target" in an audio message from an ISIL spokesman. Abu Mohammed al-Adnani said in the message published on a jihadist website that ISIL considers the opposition Syrian National "Coalition and national council and the chief of staff and military council (...) have declared and begun a war on it".


4 believed dead in helicopter crash in eastern UK

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 01:53 PM PST

LONDON (AP) — Police say four people are believed to have died in a helicopter crash in eastern England.

Egypt labour officials abducted

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 01:48 PM PST

A file picture taken on July 16, 2013, shows Egyptian soldiers praying as they are deployed in the northern Sinai town of Al-ArishAn Egyptian labour ministry official and three trade union activists were kidnapped in the Sinai Tuesday, the ministry said, and police were investigating whether militants were behind the abduction. In Cairo, assailants threw a bomb and opened fire on a small traffic police station without causing casualties, security officials said. It was the latest in a string of militant attacks on security forces following the overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July. Police found their abandoned car near the resort, labour ministry spokesman Alaa el-Din Mohamed told AFP.


Qaeda-linked group urges Iraq Sunnis to keep fighting

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 01:43 PM PST

Iraqi women and children, who fled Fallujah, sit in the back of a truck as they wait at an army checkpoint at Ayn al-Tamer crossing at the entrance to Karbala province on January 6, 2014Ramadi (Iraq) (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda-linked group called on Iraqi Sunnis who have seized one city and part of another to keep battling government forces, as fighting and attacks killed 56 people Tuesday. Parts of Anbar provincial capital Ramadi west of Baghdad and all of Fallujah have been outside government control since last week. "Oh Sunni people, you were forced to take up the weapon," Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, spokesman for Al-Qaeda-linked group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), said in an audio recording released Tuesday. "Do not lay the weapon down, because if you put it down this time, the (Shiites) will enslave you and you will not rise again," he urged Iraqi Sunnis, referring to the Shiite-led government in Baghdad.


Iran nuclear talks to resume Thursday in Geneva

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 01:35 PM PST

Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) reacts next to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (C) as US Secretary of State John Kerry (2nd R) embraces French FM Laurent Fabius on November 24, 2013 in GenevaIran and world powers will meet in Geneva from Thursday to iron out remaining obstacles in implementing a historic nuclear deal struck in November, Iranian and EU officials said. The two-day meeting will bring together deputy negotiators from Iran and the so-called P5+1 group of world powers, European Union foreign policy spokesman Michael Mann told AFP. Iranian officials had also announced the meeting earlier Tuesday, with Tehran's foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham telling reporters that the talks would focus on "one or two remaining issues pending a political decision" before the deal can be implemented. Technical experts from Iran and the EU-chaired P5+1 -- comprising the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany -- held two sessions in Geneva in mid and late December as they seek to fine-tune a deal reached on November 24 after their foreign ministers rushed to the Swiss city for marathon talks.


African migrants in Israel have little hope

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 01:19 PM PST

African migrants, one holding a girl on his shoulders, gather during a protest in Lewinsky park in Tel Aviv, Israel,Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014. The migrants, some of whom are menial laborers in Israel, have been on a three-day strike. About 60,000 African migrants, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, have trekked through Egypt and other Muslim countries to reach Israel in recent years. Some are fleeing violence or oppression in their home countries while others are seeking better economic opportunities. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)HOLOT DETENTION CAMP, Israel (AP) — Tumuzgee Aman fled his native Eritrea three years ago in search of a better life, making his way to Israel after a treacherous journey across Egypt's Sinai desert. But after briefly finding work in a copper mine, his dream came crashing down when Israeli immigration police threw him in jail.


Iraqi government: airstrike kills 25 militants

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 01:19 PM PST

Civilians inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014. Police said a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden truck into a police station, killing and wounding scores of people in the northern city, home to a mix of Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen, each of the ethnic groups has competing claims to the oil-rich area. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)BAGHDAD (AP) — A government airstrike killed 25 al-Qaida-linked militants in a besieged province west of Baghdad amid fierce clashes Tuesday between Iraqi special forces and insurgents battling for control of the key cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, Iraqi officials said.


Bomb thrown in drive-by attack on Cairo police

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 01:19 PM PST

Assailants threw a grenade and raked a police car with gunfire in a drive-by attack on an Egyptian traffic police checkpoint in Cairo on Tuesday, wounding one person, security sources said. Bombings and shootings targeting the security forces have become commonplace since the army deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July following mass protests against his rule. Tuesday's attack occurred on a usually busy flyover running through the heart of Cairo. It was at least the fourth in Cairo or areas north of the capital since December 24, the day a suicide car bomber killed 16 people at a police station in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura.

Phone-hacking trial told evidence was thrown away

Posted: 07 Jan 2014 01:06 PM PST

Rebekah Brooks, former News International chief executive, arrives for the phone-hacking trial at the Old Bailey court in London on November 21, 2013A personal assistant to former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks disposed of tens of her boss's archived notebooks at the height of Britain's phone-hacking scandal, a court heard Tuesday. Cheryl Carter is standing trial along with Brooks at the Old Bailey, Britain's top criminal court, charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. She is alleged to have disposed of the evidence just hours before Rupert Murdoch was forced to close flagship tabloid the News of the World. Carter told police that the notebooks dated form her time as beauty editor.


0 条评论:

发表评论

订阅 博文评论 [Atom]

<< 主页

bnzv