2014年5月28日星期三

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East Ukraine city largely calm after battle, rebels seek Russian help

Posted: 28 May 2014 11:36 AM PDT

Miners from around the region walk during a demonstration in support of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" in DonetskBy Gabriela Baczynska DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Relative calm returned to the streets of Donetsk on Wednesday after the biggest battle of the pro-Russian separatist uprising in eastern Ukraine, a conflict transformed by the landslide election of a pro-European leader who vowed to crush the revolt. However, this appeared minor compared with on Monday and Tuesday when government forces killed dozens of rebel fighters in an assault to retake Donetsk International Airport, which the rebels had seized the morning after Ukrainians overwhelmingly elected Petro Poroshenko as president. On Wednesday their leader Denis Pushilin appealed again for Russia's help. "The residents of the Donetsk People's Republic are on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe," he said.


Obama fights foreign policy critics, pledges aid to Syria groups

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:58 PM PDT

By Steve Holland WEST POINT, N.Y., Reuters) - President Barack Obama fought back against critics of his foreign policy on Wednesday by insisting U.S. reliance on diplomacy over military intervention was working to resolve global crises like Ukraine and Iran, and he pledged to ramp up support for Syria's opposition. In the commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, Obama laid out his approach to foreign affairs for the rest of his presidency built on a commitment to act in concert with other nations, and he shifted the fight against terrorism from Afghanistan to more diffuse threats globally. Obama, stung by unrelenting criticism that he has been passive and indecisive as a world leader, spent a large section of his address countering Republicans in Congress and foreign policy experts in Washington who argue for a more aggressive approach to crises from Ukraine to Syria.

Egypt's Sisi heads for big win in early provisional count

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:31 PM PDT

An election worker waits for voters in front of a ballot box at a polling station in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Egyptian authorities scrambled to rescue the country's presidential election from the embarrassment of a low voter turnout, but few people trickled to the polls on Wednesday even after the balloting was extended for a third day. A low turnout will likely rob the all-but-certain winner, former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, of the overwhelming show of public support he sought in the vote. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)By Yasmine Saleh and Michael Georgy CAIRO (Reuters) - Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former army chief who toppled Egypt's first freely elected leader, was on course for a sweeping victory in the country's presidential election on Wednesday, early provisional results showed. But a lower than expected turnout figure raised questions about Sisi's credibility after his supporters had idolized him as a hero who can deliver political and economic stability. Sisi captured 92.2 percent of votes cast in more than 50 percent of polling stations, judicial sources said. His only rival, leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi, gained 3.2 percent while 4.6 percent of votes were declared void.


At least 54 killed in Iraqi violence

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:52 PM PDT

Mourners carry coffins of victims killed by suicide bomber attack inside Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad, during a funeral in NajafViolence rocked Iraq on Wednesday as at least 54 people died in car bombings, suicide attacks and assassinations around the country. The bloodshed hit mostly Shi'ite sections of Baghdad and the troubled northern city of Mosul, where an al Qaeda breakaway faction, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), holds sway. The bombings and killings were a reminder in the month since national elections were held that the pace of bloodshed has shown no signs of diminishing In one attack in Baghdad's Sadr City, a minivan pulled into a line of taxis and the driver abandoned the vehicle minutes before it exploded, police said. Four people were killed and 14 were wounded, police and medical sources said.


U.S. Navy official says 'pings' unlikely from missing Malaysia jet: CNN

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:50 PM PDT

A crew member sits in the cockpit of a RNZAF AP-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft as it continues searching for MH370 in the southern Indian OceanA U.S. Navy official said four acoustic pings at the center of the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared in March, are no longer believed to be from the aircraft's black boxes, according to a report by CNN. Australian search authorities narrowed the search for the missing jet last month after picking up a series of pings near where analysis of satellite data put the last location of the Boeing 777, some 1,600 km off Australia's northwest coast. CNN said authorities now almost universally believe the pings did not come from the onboard data or cockpit voice recorders, but instead came from some other man-made source unrelated to the jetliner that disappeared on March 8, according to Michael Dean, the U.S. Navy's deputy director of ocean engineering. "Our best theory at this point is that (the pings were) likely some sound produced by the ship ... or within the electronics of the Towed Pinger Locator," Dean said.


Japan & Australia consider submarine deal that could rattle China

Posted: 28 May 2014 02:12 PM PDT

By Tim Kelly and Matt Siegel TOKYO/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Japan will get the chance to pursue an unprecedented military export deal when its defense and foreign ministers meet their Australian counterparts in Tokyo next month. Japan is considering selling submarine technology to Australia – perhaps even a fleet of fully engineered, stealthy vessels, according to Japanese officials. Any agreement would take months to negotiate and remains far from certain, but even a deal for Japan to supply technology would likely run to billions of dollars and represent a major portion of Australia's overall $37 billion submarine program. Experts say a Japan-Australia deal would send a signal to Asia's emerging superpower of Japan's willingness, under nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to export arms to a region wary of China's growing naval strength, especially its pursuit of territorial claims in the East and South China seas.

AP Source: Shelly Sterling reviewing Clippers bids

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:54 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2010 file photo, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling, right, sits with his wife Shelly during the Clippers NBA basketball game against the Detroit Pistons in Los Angeles. Donald Sterling has agreed to surrender his stake of the Clippers to his wife, and she is moving forward with selling the team. A person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press Friday. May 23, 2014, that the couple made the agreement after weeks of discussion. The individual wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the agreement. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shelly Sterling was reviewing bids from five groups interested in buying the Los Angeles Clippers, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday.


UN Security Council urges Mali to implement ceasefire

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:54 PM PDT

Malian soldiers patrolling in Kidal, on July 29, 2013United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The UN Security Council urged Mali Wednesday to implement fully a ceasefire between the government and armed rebel groups following fresh fighting in the northern desert town of Kidal. Members "urged signatories to implement the ceasefire fully" and reiterated their "full support" in contributing towards the stabilization of Mali and the launching of peace talks. The Mali presidency earlier Wednesday appointed a retired air force colonel as defense minister after the predecessor resigned over last week's deadly rebel takeover of Kidal. Armed groups including the Tuareg separatist National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) humiliated the army in a deadly offensive across the northern desert.


Mexico vigilantes urge more 'self-defense' groups

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:50 PM PDT

Father Alejandro Sololinde holds up a broom marked with a green ribbon as he urges people to support vigilante groups' efforts to sweep clean the country, during a national meeting of self-defense groups, in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Other speakers at the meeting included Michoacan vigilante leaders Jose Manuel Mireles, left, and Hipolito Mora, second left, as well as Ernesto Ruffo, right. Activists and social representatives announced Wednesday their intention to form a network of self-defense forces on a national scale that will denounce and confront violence. The network will shun the use of weapons. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Human rights activists and vigilante leaders who rose up to fight a drug cartel in western Mexico on Wednesday urged Mexicans to form "self-defense" groups to demand public security and justice.


Former Man Utd owner Glazer died at 85

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:49 PM PDT

El dueño de los Buccaneers de Tampa Bay, Malcolm Glazer, festeja tras ganar el Super Bowl el 26 de enero de 2003 en San Diego. Glazer falleció el miécoles, 28 de mayo de 2014. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)TAMPA, Florida (AP) — Malcolm Glazer, the self-made billionaire who led the takeover of English football's Manchester United and owned the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has died. He was 85.


Kerry to Snowden: 'Man up' and come home

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:44 PM PDT

FILE - This Thursday, June 6, 2013, file photo, shows a sign outside the National Security Administration campus in Fort Meade, Md. The U.S. government is close to ending the NSA's nationwide bulk collection of American phone records with an overwhelming House vote that is the most significant demonstration to date of leaker Edward Snowden's impact on the debate over privacy versus security. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday called National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden a fugitive and challenged him to "man up and come back to the United States." Snowden says in an interview that he would like to go home.


Hagel: Afghan anti-terror planning still underway

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:41 PM PDT

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks with members of his military staff before boarding his plane prior to his departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Hagel is traveling on a 12-day trip to Asia and Europe, his fourteenth international trip, to discuss key regional and global issues with leaders of several countries. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez, Pool)ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday it was not clear yet how many troops the U.S. will use to battle terrorists in Afghanistan in the coming two years, but he expressed some confidence that the Afghan forces will improve enough to secure and govern their own country.


Acoustic pings at heart of MH370 hunt 'not likely from black box'

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:37 PM PDT

Koji Kubota of the Japan Coast Guard keeps watch for debris on board the Japan Coast Guard Gulfstream V aircraft whilst in the search zone for debris from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on April 1, 2014Four acoustic transmissions that have been the focus of the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are no longer believed to have come from the plane's black box, a US navy official said Thursday. The Navy's deputy director of ocean engineering Michael Dean told CNN there was now broad agreement that they came from some other man-made source unrelated to the jet that disappeared on March 8 carrying 239 people. He said it was not possible to absolutely exclude that the pings came from the black boxes, but there was no evidence now to suggest they did. A series of signals it picked up promoted Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to say he was "very confident" they were from the black box from the plane that vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.


30 percent of world is now fat, no country immune

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:27 PM PDT

FILE- In this file photo dated Tuesday, June 26, 2012, two overweight women hold a conversation in New York, USA. Almost a third of the world population is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis released Thursday May 29, 2014, led by Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, USA, and paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Researchers reviewed more than 1,700 studies covering 188 countries covering over three decades and found more than 2 billion people worldwide classified as overweight or obese. The highest rates of obesity were found in the Middle East and North Africa, with the U.S. having about 13 percent of the world's fat population. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, FILE)LONDON (AP) — Almost a third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.


Super Rugby teams seek certainty in playoff race

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:24 PM PDT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Teams still in the race for the playoffs in Super Rugby will try to strengthen their positions in this weekend's 16th round before the tournament breaks for a month for June test matches.

Egypt: El-Sissi way ahead in presidential poll

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:23 PM PDT

A man uses beads for prayer as he sits outside a polling center in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Egyptian authorities scrambled to rescue the country's presidential election from the embarrassment of a low voter turnout, but few people trickled to the polls on Wednesday even after the balloting was extended for a third day. A low turnout will likely rob the all-but-certain winner, former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, of the overwhelming show of public support he sought in the vote. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's former military chief appeared well on his way to a landslide victory over his sole opponent, according to partial election results announced late Wednesday, after voting was extended for a third day in an attempt to prevent an embarrassment over low turnout.


UN: Syria won't meet deadline to destroy chemicals

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:21 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has informed the U.N. Security Council that the June 30 deadline for totally eliminating Syria's chemical weapons will not be met.

Man U and NFL team owner Glazer dies at 85

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:21 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2003 file photo, Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer celebrates the Bucs' 48-21 victory over the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII in San Diego. Glazer, the self-made billionaire who owned the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers and English soccer's Manchester United, has died. He was 85. The Bucs said Glazer died Wednesday, May 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Malcolm Glazer, a self-made billionaire who shunned the spotlight while leading the takeover of English soccer's Manchester United and transforming the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers into Super Bowl champions, died Wednesday. He was 85.


Egypt's Sisi wins overwhelming majority: early poll count

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:21 PM PDT

A supporter of Egyptian presidential candidate and former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi walks between cars holding an Egyptian flag with the portrait of Sisi in a street in Cairo on May 28, 2014Egypt's ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was headed on Thursday for an overwhelming victory in a presidential election touted as a plebiscite on his ouster of the elected Islamist leader last year. With almost 15 percent of polling stations accounted for, the retired field marshal led with about 93 percent of votes cast over the three-day election, trouncing his sole rival Hamdeen Sabbahi. The outcome had never been in doubt, with Sisi riding on a wave of support for a potential strongman who can restore stability after several years of tumult. But the army-installed government and Sisi were eyeing a large turn out as an endorsement of the overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last July, and the subsequent crackdown on his supporters.


Asia pivot absent from Obama foreign policy speech

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:19 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama laid out a sweeping vision for U.S. foreign policy on Wednesday but made no mention of what has been a signature tune of his administration's diplomacy: the "pivot" to Asia.

Chile miners seek to give boost to World Cup team

Posted: 28 May 2014 04:19 PM PDT

Chile's soccer players warm up for a training session in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Chile will play a friendly match with Egypt in Santiago on Friday prior to competing at the World Cup in Brazil in June. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Chilean miners who survived trapped underground longer than anyone else before have a message for their country's World Cup team: Don't fear the "group of death."


Australia the first team to arrive for World Cup

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:58 PM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Australia landed in Brazil on Wednesday, the first foreign team to arrive for a World Cup that starts in two weeks.

$650M settlement reached over blood thinner

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:57 PM PDT

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim said Wednesday it has agreed to pay $650 million to settle thousands of U.S. claims questioning the marketing and safety of its popular blood thinner Pradaxa.

Nigeria comes back twice to draw 2-2 with Scotland

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:54 PM PDT

Nigeria's Michael Uchebo, second left, scores a goal during the international friendly soccer match between Nigeria and Scotland at Craven Cottage Stadium in London, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)LONDON (AP) — A 90th minute strike from substitute Uche Nwofor saw Nigeria come from behind for the second time to draw 2-2 with Scotland in a friendly international match in London on Wednesday.


Quake rattles Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:54 PM PDT

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck in the waters between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico on Wednesday, shaking buildings in both places. There were no reports of injuries or damage.

Chile miners breathe new life to World Cup team

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:50 PM PDT

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The Chilean miners who survived trapped underground longer than anyone else before have a message for their country's World Cup team: Don't fear the "group of death."

Glazer death met with subdued response in Manchester

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:48 PM PDT

Malcolm Glazer, the principal owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, watches the game against the San Francisco 49ers at Raymond James Stadium on November 21, 2004 in Tampa, FloridaLondon (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Manchester United fans on Wednesday paid muted respect to owner Malcolm Glazer, who has died aged 85, as deep resentment still lingers over his debt-ladened takeover. Disgruntled supporters even set up a new club, called F.C. United of Manchester. A popular chant heard at F.C. United games looked forward to Glazer's passing, and although attitudes softened as the Premier League giant enjoyed one of its most succesful spells, supporters remain angry about the club's finances. Manchester United Supporters' Trust vice-chair Sean Bones said: "It would be inappropriate for me to make any comment about the death of Malcolm Glazer as I didn't know him or his family personally.


Venezuela implicates US envoy in opposition plot

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:43 PM PDT

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Venezuela alleged on Wednesday that the U.S. ambassador to Colombia has plotted to destabilize President Nicolas Maduro's rule, adding to tensions between the two countries as the U.S. House approved a measure calling for sanctions on officials in the South American nation over human rights abuses.

Australia arrives _ first team in for World Cup

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:42 PM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Australia landed in Brazil on Wednesday, the first foreign team to arrive for a World Cup that starts in two weeks.

Muslim rebels attack Central African Rep. church

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:39 PM PDT

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Muslim rebels stormed a Catholic church compound in the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, launching grenades and spraying civilians with gunfire, witnesses said. At least five bodies were brought to area hospitals, though some witnesses said the death toll could be as high as 30.

BP asks U.S. Supreme Court justice to block Gulf spill payments

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:38 PM PDT

File photo of fire boat response crews battling the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon off LouisianaBy Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc on Wednesday asked Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to allow the company to avoid making payments to businesses demanding compensation for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill while litigation continues. The company acted after the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction earlier in the day that had prevented payments being made. Last week, the court had decided not to revisit a decision rejecting BP's bid to block payments to businesses that could not trace their economic losses to the disaster. In the new court filing, BP's lawyers say that if the payments are not blocked, "countless awards totaling potentially hundreds of millions of dollars will be irreparably scattered to claimants that suffered no injury traceable to BP's conduct." The appeals court in March voted 2-1 to authorize payments on so-called business economic loss claims, and said the injunction preventing payments should be lifted.


Woods withdraws from the US Open

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2013 file photo, Patrick Rodgers tees off on the third hole during the Walker Cup Match golf tournament held at the National Golf Links of America in Southampton, N.Y.Rodgers heads to the NCAA men's golf championships this week tied with Tiger Woods for the most wins in Stanford history. Setting the record will take conquering venerable Prairie Dunes and one of the deepest fields in years. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek, File)DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Tiger Woods withdrew from the U.S. Open on Wednesday as he recovers from back surgery that has kept him out of golf for nearly three months.


Lifting World Cup can boost country's stock market

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:30 PM PDT

FILE _ This is a file photo of Spain's goalkeeper Iker Casillas, center, as he holds up the World Cup trophy with team members as they celebrate their victory at the end of the World Cup final soccer match between the Netherlands and Spain at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa. Winning the soccer World Cup can bring instant rewards to that country's stock market investors. But they better be quick as the post-victory rally doesn't last long. That's the conclusion of investment bank Goldman Sachs, which published a wide-ranging report late Tuesday May 27, 2014 on the World Cup and its economic impact. Goldman Sachs analysts found LONDON (AP) — Winning the soccer World Cup can bring instant rewards to that country's stock market investors. But they better be quick as the post-victory rally doesn't last long.


U.S. industry gears up to fight Obama's climate rules

Posted: 28 May 2014 03:28 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama delivers announcement on future U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan from the White House Rose Garden in WashingtonThe Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose on Monday new rules to crack down on power plant emissions as part of President Barack Obama's efforts to combat climate change. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a report on Wednesday that predicted the regulations would cost consumers $289 billion more for electricity through 2030 and crimp the economy by $50 billion a year. The EPA called the report "nothing more than irresponsible speculation" and said it was based on unfounded assumptions about future requirements for natural gas plants. "The chamber is using the same tired play from the same special interest playbook that is engineered to continue polluting and stall progress," EPA spokesman Tom Reynolds said in a statement.


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