2014年6月23日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News


Kerry promises 'intense and sustained' support for Iraq

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 12:50 PM PDT

Ammar al-Hakim, head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in BaghdadBy Lesley Wroughton and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday promised "intense and sustained" U.S. support for Iraq, but said the divided country would only survive if its leaders took urgent steps to bring it together. Hours before Kerry arrived in Baghdad, Sunni tribes who have joined a militant takeover of northern Iraq seized the only legal crossing point with Jordan, security sources said, leaving troops with no presence along the entire western frontier which includes some of the Middle East's most important trade routes. U.S. President Barack Obama has offered up to 300 American advisers to Iraq but held off granting Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite Muslim-led government's request for air strikes to counter the two-week advance by Sunni militants. Officials have meanwhile called for Iraqis to form an inclusive government.


Egypt jails Al Jazeera journalists, U.S. calls sentences 'chilling'

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 01:37 PM PDT

Al Jazeera journalists Mohammed Fahmy, Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed stand behind bars at a court in CairoBy Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Three Al Jazeera journalists were jailed for seven years each by an Egyptian judge on Monday, in what Washington called "chilling, draconian sentences" that must be reversed. Cairo defended the journalists' convictions - for aiding a "terrorist organisation" - and rejected the widespread condemnation as "interference in its internal affairs". The three, who all denied the charge of working with the now banned Muslim Brotherhood, included Australian Peter Greste and Canadian-Egyptian national Mohamed Fahmy, Cairo bureau chief of Al Jazeera English. The third defendant, Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed, was given an extra three years for possessing a single bullet, at the hearing attended by Western diplomats, some of whose governments summoned Egypt's ambassadors over the case.


Russia asks Twitter to block a dozen accounts

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 02:20 PM PDT

A portrait of the Twitter logo in VenturaRussia asked Twitter on Monday to block access to a dozen accounts it deems "extremist", the head of the country's telecoms watchdog said, as Moscow seeks greater control over Internet sites based beyond its borders. The request to block the sites was made by the head of communications watchdog Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, at a meeting with Colin Crowell, Twitter's head of global public policy where the two men discussed new Internet regulations.


Israel detains 37 more Palestinians in West Bank crackdown

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 11:42 AM PDT

Bat-Galim and Ofir Shaer, parents of Gil-Ad, one of three missing teens, walk towards their home after addressing the media in TalmonBy Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) - Israel's army said on Monday it had detained another 37 Palestinians overnight as it searched for three missing teenagers and extended a crackdown on the Hamas Islamist group it accuses of kidnapping them. There were no reports of clashes between the soldiers and Palestinians in the raids in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where the military says it has detained 361 people since the Israeli students went missing on June 12. The crisis has aggravated tensions in the West Bank which, along with East Jerusalem and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, the Palestinians want as part of a future state. The disappearance of the students - Gil-Ad Shaer and U.S.-Israeli dual national Naftali Fraenkel, both aged 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19 - after they left a Jewish settlement where they were studying has been celebrated by Hamas.


U.S. ship to start loading Syrian chemical agents next week

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:02 PM PDT

An American cargo ship converted into a mobile chemical weapons destroyer is expected to take charge of some of Syria's most dangerous materials next week, a U.S. defense official said. Syria on Monday handed over the remaining 8 percent of a total 1,300 tonnes that Syria declared to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The handover had faced repeated delays, leaving the Cape Ray docked in southern Spain awaiting a green light to proceed. The cargo will then be transferred from the Danish ship to the Cape Ray in a pier-side operation next week.

Suicide car bomber wounds 19 in south Beirut

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:37 PM PDT

Suicide bomber detonates car in southern BeirutA suicide bomber blew up his car in southern Beirut on Monday night near an army checkpoint, killing himself and wounding several people watching the soccer World Cup in a nearby cafe. The bombing came just three days after a failed attempt to kill one of the top security officials in Lebanon, which has suffered a wave of sectarian violence linked to the civil war in neighbouring Syria. Monday's explosion, shortly before midnight (2100 GMT), killed the bomber and wounded 19 people, Lebanon's civil defence force said. Windows in nearby buildings were shattered by the blast, which occurred in a mainly Shi'ite Muslim district of southern Beirut inhabited by supporters of the Shi'ite group Amal, an ally of the militant movement Hezbollah.


Colombia no longer mourning absence of Falcao

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:48 PM PDT

Colombia's James Rodriguez (10) celebrates with teammate Colombia's Juan Cuadrado after scoring his side's first goal during the group C World Cup soccer match between Colombia and Ivory Coast at the Estadio Nacional in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)CUIABA, Brazil (AP) — After 12 days of competition, Colombia has already achieved more than it could ever have imagined at the World Cup in Brazil.


Holidays, lost business in Brazil WCup's lazy days

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:46 PM PDT

Soccer fans celebrate as they watch on a big screen television, the second goal scored by Brazil's Neymar in the World Cup match against Cameroon, in Manaus, Brazil, Monday, June 23, 2014. Brazil's Neymar scored twice in the first half to lead Brazil to a 4-1 win over Cameroon on Monday, helping the hosts secure a spot in the second round of the soccer World Cup. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Lucky students in Chile went home early, many Brazilian offices and stores went dark, and across the megalopolis of Mexico City traffic was as calm as midnight. With three Latin American countries playing for their World Cup futures Monday, fans across the region succumbed to soccer fever, slowing regular business to a crawl.


Australia wants reporter back from Egypt 'quickly'

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:45 PM PDT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says his government will work to get an imprisoned Australian journalist returned from Egypt "as quickly as possible," adding that Egypt's new president might intervene.

ON THIS DAY: Argentina beats Brazil in 1990

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 24, 1990 file photo, Argentina's Claudio Caniggia, right, scores, as the Brazilian goalkeeper Claudio Taffarel watches helplessly, during the World Cup second round soccer match, in Turin, Italy. On this day: Against the run of play, Argentina beats rival Brazil 1-0 to progress to the quarterfinals. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)On June 24 in history: Claudio Caniggia slots late winner as Argentina beats Brazil in Turin, Italy, in 1990.


Body identified in Panama as missing Dutch tourist

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:40 PM PDT

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — Panamanian authorities confirmed Monday that human remains discovered last week belong to one of two missing Dutch tourists.

Brazil beats Cameroon 4-1, reaches 2nd round

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:36 PM PDT

Brazil's Neymar runs past Cameroon's goalkeeper Charles Itandje after scoring his side's first goal during the group A World Cup soccer match between Cameroon and Brazil at the Estadio Nacional in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Neymar lived up to the weighty expectations of the World Cup host nation Monday, setting Brazil on course to clinch its place in the knockout stage with two precision first-half goals in a 4-1 rout of Cameroon.


Seattle council OKs city's 1st female police chief

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:35 PM PDT

SEATTLE (AP) — A former leader of Boston's police force was sworn in Monday to run a Seattle department that has been struggling to carry out a reform agreement under federal oversight.

Kenya protest over 'grass cutter' gang rape case

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:30 PM PDT

Protestors march towards police headquarters on October 31, 2013 in Nairobi to deliver a petition of over a million names demanding justice after men accused of brutally gang raping a schoolgirl cut grass as punishmentHundreds of protesters marched through a Kenyan town Monday demanding justice for a schoolgirl who was brutally gang raped, ahead of the trial of suspects who were originally punished by being made to cut grass. "We have come out to demand justice for our girls," said Jennifer Lucheli, 45, mother of five, as she marched through the streets of the western Kenyan town, near the border with Uganda. The 16-year-old victim, known by the pseudonym Liz, was reportedly attacked, beaten and then raped by six men as she returned from her grandfather's funeral in western Kenya in June 2013.


Kagawa searches for central role

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:09 PM PDT

Japan's forward Shinji Kagawa walks on the pitch during an official training session at The Pantanal Arena in Cuiaba on June 23, 2014Cuiabá (Brazil) (AFP) - Two years ago Shinji Kagawa seemingly had the world at his feet, earning a big-money move to Manchester United after an impressive stint with German giants Borussia Dortmund. Coming to Brazil he had the chance to be the main man again after a season of struggles in England under the now-departed David Moyes, during which he was a bit-part player in a disastrous campaign.


In Grenada, British man charged in wife's murder

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:06 PM PDT

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A British national has been charged with killing his wife after her body was found buried in a shallow grave on the Caribbean island of Grenada, police officials said Monday.

Mexico beats Croatia 3-1, advances in World Cup

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:02 PM PDT

Mexico's Oribe Peralta reacts after missing a chance during the group A World Cup soccer match between Croatia and Mexico at the Arena Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil, Monday, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)RECIFE, Brazil (AP) — Mexico surged into the World Cup's knockout stage for a sixth straight time Monday with a 3-1 win over Croatia.


UN says Bolivia coca acreage down to 12-year low

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:02 PM PDT

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The area under coca cultivation in Bolivia in 2013 dropped to its lowest in 12 years, decreasing 9 percent from 2012, the United Nations reported Monday.

Neymar leads Brazil; Mexico also through

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:00 PM PDT

Brazil's Neymar runs past Cameroon's goalkeeper Charles Itandje after scoring his side's first goal during the group A World Cup soccer match between Cameroon and Brazil at the Estadio Nacional in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil relied on its star Neymar for two early goals to beat Cameroon 4-1 Monday and reach the World Cup's knockout stage for a South American showdown against Chile, a 2-0 loser to the Netherlands.


Guinea-Bissau's new president pledges stability

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:57 PM PDT

Gambian President Yahyah Jammeh arrives to attend the inauguration ceremony of the new president of Guinea-Bissau in a stadium in the capital Bissau on June 23, 2014Guinea-Bissau's new president Jose Mario Vaz on Monday vowed to fight poverty and bring stability to the impoverished west African nation as he was sworn into office. The 57-year-old is Guinea-Bissau's first elected leader since the army mutinied in 2012, plunging into chaos a state already in the grip of powerful cocaine cartels and beset by political violence. Standing before a crowd of 15,000 and leaders from across west Africa in the capital Bissau, Vaz pledged to work with other political groups to bring stability to the fragile nation of 1.6 million. Vaz, from the dominant African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC), won an overwhelming 62 percent of the vote against independent rival Nuno Gomes Nabiam in a May election.


Japan not ready to be World Cup spectators

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:56 PM PDT

Japan's Makoto Hasebe speaks during a press conference at the Arena Pantanal in Cuiaba, Brazil, Monday, June 23, 2014. Japan play in group C of the 2014 soccer World Cup. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)CUIABA, Brazil (AP) — Japan's players insisted Monday they will fight to the bitter end as long as they have a shred of a chance to advance to the knockout stages of the World Cup in Tuesday's final group stage game against Colombia.


World Cup Capsules

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:54 PM PDT

Brazil's Neymar, center, chats with his teammates Fred, right, and Ramires after a 4-1 win over Cameroon during the group A World Cup soccer match between Cameroon and Brazil at the Estadio Nacional in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Neymar lived up to the expectations of the World Cup host nation Monday, scoring two goals as Brazil routed Cameroon 4-1 to reach the knockout stage as the top team in Group A.


Sunni tribesmen seize Iraqi border crossing with Jordan: sources

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:53 PM PDT

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Sunni tribesmen took control of a border crossing between Iraq and Jordan after Iraq's army pulled out of the area following clashes with rebels, Iraqi and Jordanian intelligence sources said on Monday. It was not immediately clear if the tribesmen's seizure of the Turaibil crossing, the only legal crossing point between Iraq and Jordan, late on Sunday was part of the broader advance by Sunni militants led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The militants earlier overran posts further north along Iraq's border with Syria, pursuing their goal of forming a "caliphate" straddling both countries that has raised alarm across the Middle East and in the West. The withdrawal of the Iraqi army from the Turaibil border crossing left it with no presence along the entire western frontier, which includes some of the Middle East's most important trade routes.

US changes mind about deporting Missouri woman

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:53 PM PDT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri woman who faced deportation to her native Thailand after losing her green card over a felony theft conviction will remain in the U.S. following a last-minute reversal by immigration officials.

Dutch beat Chile 2-0 to top Group B

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:52 PM PDT

Netherlands' Memphis Depay celebrates scoring his side's second goal during the group B World Cup soccer match between the Netherlands and Chile at the Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)SAO PAULO (AP) — Two substitutes, two goals.


Top court mostly upholds Obama bid to curb carbon emissions

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:51 PM PDT

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday largely upheld the Obama administration's authority to curb greenhouse gases from major emitters like power plants and refineries in a ruling that nonetheless exempted some smaller sources from the regulation. On a 7-2 vote, the court rejected an industry-backed argument that most emitting facilities should not be regulated for greenhouse gases under one particular air pollution program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Some landfills, pulp and paper facilities, electronics manufacturing plants, chemical production plants and beverage producers are among the small industrial sources likely to be exempted, an EPA spokesman said. "It bears mention that EPA is getting almost everything it wanted in this case," Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion, read from a statement in court.

Kerry hands dire warning to Iraqis over future

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:49 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, at the Prime Minister's office in Baghdad on Monday, June 23, 2014. Kerry flew to Baghdad on Monday to meet with Iraq's leaders and personally urge the Shiite-led government to give more power to political opponents before a Sunni insurgency seizes more control across the country and sweeps away hopes for lasting peace. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)BAGHDAD (AP) — Warning of the "existential threat" posed by Sunni militants, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the U.S. is prepared to take military action even if Baghdad delays political reforms, noting that the risks of letting the insurgency run rampant threaten dangers beyond Iraq's borders.


Separatists in Ukraine agree to ceasefire until June 27

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:48 PM PDT

Pro-separatists attempt to block a car with participants heading to meeting between leaders of Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic in DonetskBy Aleksandar Vasovic DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Separatist leaders in two main areas of Ukraine's east have agreed to observe a ceasefire with Ukrainian forces until June 27, one of them, Alexander Boroday, said on Monday. The truce is to run parallel to a unilateral Ukrainian military ceasefire declared by President Petro Poroshenko on Friday as part of a peace plan to end the insurgency by pro-Russian separatists in the Russian-speaking east that threatens the dismemberment of the former Soviet republic. The separatists' announcement, after talks which also involved a senior Russian diplomat and a former Ukrainian president, came after a day of high diplomacy in which the West urged Russia to use its influence to defuse the conflict in Ukraine's rebellious east. Volodymyr Chepovy, an official of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, said that from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. no incidents of weapons use were recorded.


Obama presses Putin on Ukraine, warns of further 'costs'

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:48 PM PDT

President Barack Obama urged Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday to support peace in Ukraine and said Moscow would face further sanctions if it did not take steps to reduce tensions in the country, the White House said on Monday. "The president spoke to President Putin and once again urged him to support peace instead of allowing the provision of arms and materiel across the border and continuing support for militants and separatists who are further destabilizing the situation in Ukraine," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters. Putin and Obama discussed proposals for peace in Ukraine, after Ukraine's leader announced a ceasefire in military operations in the east, the Kremlin said in a statement.

Car bomb explodes in Beirut suburb: security source

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:39 PM PDT

Fire take over cars at the site of a car bomb attack in the mainly Shiite populated Shayyah neighborhood of a Beirut southern suburb, early on June 24, 2014A car bomb, an apparent suicide attack, exploded in a southern suburb of Beirut populated mainly by Shiites, a security services source said early Tuesday. "It was a car bomb and there is a strong possibility that it was a suicide attack," the security source told AFP. The car bombing came three days after a suicide attack in the east of the country which left one person dead and 30 wounded. The area of south Beirut, a stronghold of Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah, has been the target of attacks for many months.


Geometry's basic line gets fresh exposure in Milan

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:38 PM PDT

Modelos presentan piezas de la colección primavera verano 2015 de Emporio Armani en la Semana de la Moda de Milán en Milán, Italia, el lunes 23 de junio de 2014. (Foto AP/Luca Bruno)MILAN (AP) — The line, long under-rated as one of geometry's most basic form, is getting a lot of exposure on the Milan menswear runway.


Sudan court frees woman sentenced to death for changing faith

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:32 PM PDT

A 27-year-old woman who was sentenced to death in Sudan last month for converting to Christianity from Islam was freed on Monday after what the government said was "unprecedented" international pressure. Mariam Yahya Ibrahim, who is married to a Christian American, was ordered by a Sudanese court last month to return to Islam and was sentenced to 100 lashes and to death. "The appeal court ordered the release of Mariam Yahya and the cancellation of the (previous) court ruling," Sudan's SUNA news agency said. "Her family had been threatened before and we are worried that someone might try to harm her," the lawyer, Mohaned Mostafa, told Reuters.

Suicide attacker strikes near cafe south of Beirut

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:32 PM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed vehicle near a checkpoint and a cafe in a neighborhood south of Lebanon's capital early Tuesday, causing several casualties, a Lebanese security official and witnesses said.

Tourists recount fear during Guam crash-stabbing

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:31 PM PDT

HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — A 74-year-old woman testifying Monday about a deadly rampage in Guam said the day started with a family beach trip and ended with her son-in-law dead and four other relatives taken to a hospital.

Palestinians unable to return to Syria camp despite truce

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:21 PM PDT

A man walks between bullet riddled buildings at the Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus on June 23, 2014Convinced they would be able return to Yarmuk in southern Damascus after a truce and ceasefire, Palestinians went to the embattled camp's entrance Monday but their wait was in vain. Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been laying siege to Yarmuk since last year. On Saturday evening, an agreement was struck under which rebel fighters were to vacate the camp, according to Anwar Abdel Hadi, political director of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Syria.


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