2014年7月8日星期二

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Hamas rockets land deep in Israel as it bombards Gaza Strip

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:51 PM PDT

Israeli soldiers ride atop a tank outside the southern Gaza StripIsrael launched an aerial offensive in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, calling it part of a campaign named "Operation Protective Edge" targeting Hamas Islamist militants firing rockets at the Jewish state. The military urged Israelis within a 40-km (24-mile) radius of the southern coastal territory to stay within reach of protected areas and ordered summer camps shut as a precaution against rocket fire. Palestinian officials said two air strikes were launched before dawn against homes in southern Gaza, one of which was identified by a neighbour as belonging to a Hamas member. The Palestinian Health Ministry said nine neighbours were wounded by debris from that strike.


Somali presidential compound attacked, president safe

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:13 PM PDT

By Feisal Omar and Abdirahman Hussein MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist militants attacked Somalia's presidential compound on Tuesday with a car bomb and gunmen broke through a perimeter wall but were repulsed by security forces, and the president was not there at the time, the interior ministry said. Up to five members of the al Shabaab Islamist group, which claimed responsibility, were killed, Interior Minister Abdullahi Godah Barre told Reuters. The assault was the most dramatic in a string of attacks in the capital Mogadishu by al Shabaab since it launched a campaign during the current Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. It was the second time since February that al Shabaab had attacked the sprawling compound, which includes the presidential buildings and other government offices.

Iraq tells U.N. 'terrorist groups' seized former chemical weapons depot

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:38 PM PDT

Militant Islamist fighters on a tank take part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa provinceIraq's government has lost control of a former chemical weapons facility to "armed terrorist groups" and is unable to fulfill its international obligations to destroy toxins kept there, the country's U.N. envoy told the United Nations. In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, made public on Tuesday, Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim said the Muthanna facility north of Baghdad was seized on June 11. He said remnants of a former chemical weapons program are kept in two bunkers there. "The project management spotted at dawn on Thursday, 12 June 2014, through the camera surveillance system, the looting of some of the project equipment and appliances, before the terrorists disabled the surveillance system," Alhakim wrote in the letter dated June 30.


Iran's supreme leader calls for more nuclear enrichment capacity

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 09:36 AM PDT

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks live on television after casting his ballot in the Iranian presidential election in TehranBy Michelle Moghtader and Fredrik Dahl DUBAI/VIENNA (Reuters) - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran would need to significantly increase its uranium enrichment capacity, highlighting a gap in positions between Tehran and world powers as they hold talks aimed at clinching a nuclear accord. Iran and six major powers - the United States, Russia, France, Germany, China and Britain - have less than two weeks to bridge wide differences on the future scope of Iran's enrichment program and other issues if they are to meet a self-imposed July 20 deadline for a deal. Iran's capacity to refine uranium lies at the center of the nuclear stalemate and is seen as the hardest issue to resolve. Iran insists it needs to expand its capacity to refine uranium to fuel a planned network of atomic energy plants.


U.S. warns Afghans not to form 'parallel government'

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 08:40 AM PDT

Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah shout slogans during a gathering in KabulBy Mohammad Aziz and Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - The United States warned on Tuesday that it would withdraw financial and security support from Afghanistan if anyone tried to take power illegally, as supporters of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah rallied in Kabul for a parallel government. Preliminary results announced on Monday gave Ashraf Ghani, a former World Bank official, 56.44 percent in the run-off on June 14, but Abdullah immediately rejected the outcome, saying the vote had been marred by widespread fraud. Thousands of Abdullah's supporters gathered in the capital Kabul, demanding that he form a parallel government, a move likely to plunge a country already beset by deep ethnic divisions into even greater disorder. Underscoring the magnitude of the crisis, Abdullah said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who is currently in Beijing, would visit Kabul on Friday.


India's onion crisis: shortages after the best-ever harvest

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:04 PM PDT

A labourer spreads onions for sorting at a wholesale vegetable market in ChandigarhBy Rajendra Jadhav PACHORE WANI India (Reuters) - Indian farmer Ranganath Watpade made a killing last year by putting off selling his onions until four months after he harvested them. The country has produced a record harvest, but many farmers in the onion bowl of India's western state of Maharashtra have lost a large share of their crop damaged in storage, adding to the country's inflation woes. Unseasonal weather, hoarding and price manipulation have in the past led to dramatic price rises, and the new administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is anxious to avoid the political fallout that has hit other governments over the cost of the food. It also underlines the irony of high food costs in India, which after China is the world's biggest fruit and vegetable producer.


Obama tells Afghan candidates fraud charges merit review

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:52 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama spoke with Afghan presidential contender Abdullah Abdullah on Monday night and rival Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday to urge calm and to call for a review of fraud charges in that country's election, the White House said. "With both, the president stressed that the United States expects a thorough review of all reasonable allegations of fraud to ensure a credible electoral process," the White House said in a statement on Tuesday. "He reiterated that all parties should avoid steps that undermine Afghan national unity and should come together to work toward a resolution that represents the will of the Afghan people and produces a government that can bring Afghanistan together," it said. The White House said Obama made clear there was "no justification" for resorting to violence and said such a move would lead to the end of U.S. support for the country.

Brazil's defense falls apart without Thiago Silva

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:50 PM PDT

Brazil's David Luiz is consoled by teammate Thiago Silva as they walk off the pitch after the World Cup semifinal soccer match between Brazil and Germany at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Germany has routed host Brazil 7-1 and advanced to the final of the World Cup. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, Pool)BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — Forget Neymar for a second and consider just how badly Brazil missed Thiago Silva in defense.


Israel, Hamas face off in new Gaza conflict

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:50 PM PDT

Palestinian men inspect the site of an Israeli military strike in Gaza City on July 8, 2014Israeli warplanes pounded targets in the Gaza Strip Wednesday as a major campaign to stop volleys of Palestinian rocket fire entered its second day. A strike on a home in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza, claimed the lives of a commander of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, his parents, a woman and two children, emergences services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. The deaths brought to 28 the toll of dead since the launch of Israel's Operation Protective Edge early on Tuesday. Air strikes took the lives of 24 and Israeli forces killed four Hamas militants who staged a beachfront assault Tuesday on an army base just north of the besieged Strip.


Scoring spree of severe margins stuns even Germany

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:45 PM PDT

Germany's Toni Kroos celebrates after scoring his side's third goal during the World Cup semifinal soccer match between Brazil and Germany at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — Chance after chance was offered, and the Germany players just kept on taking them with clinical efficiency to the degree that even they could scarcely believe the 7-1 World Cup semifinal win over Brazil.


Obama urges calm in Afghan presidential election

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:44 PM PDT

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen smiles as he meets with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has taken the unusual step of intervening in a foreign election, asking both candidates in Afghanistan's disputed presidential race to allow the process for investigating fraud claims to go forward and threatening a cutoff in U.S. aid if "extra-constitutional measures" are taken.


Colombia's capital weighs easing drinking curfew

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:38 PM PDT

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Partiers in Colombia's capital may soon be able to extend their late-night revelry thanks to the easing of a drinking curfew widely credited with reducing violence.

Klose scores vs. Brazil to set World Cup record

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:31 PM PDT

Germany's Bastian Schweinsteiger, left, and Miroslav Klose celebrate after the World Cup semifinal soccer match between Brazil and Germany at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Germany won the match 7-1. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — Miroslav Klose found perhaps the only way to make matters worse for Brazil.


Telecom giant America Movil to sell some assets

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:23 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The telecom company America Movil says it will divest some assets to reduce its market share in the face of Mexico's telecommunications reform designed to break up monopolies.

ON THIS DAY: Zidane headbutts Materazzi in 2006

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, July 9, 2006, file photo, France's Zinedine Zidane, left, looks on as Italy's Marco Materazzi lies injured, and Italy's Fabio Cannavaro reacts, during extra time in the World Cup final soccer match between Italy and France, at the Olympic Stadium, in Berlin. On this day: Zidane is sent off minutes before the end of the final after head-butting Italy defender Materazzi. Italy wins ensuing penalty shoot-out to claim its fourth World Cup. (AP Photo/Jasper Juinen, File)On July 9 in World Cup history: Zinedine Zidane loses his cool as Italy beats France to win 2006 final in Berlin.


North Korea again fires projectiles into sea

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:20 PM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched two projectiles Wednesday morning into the sea off its east coast, in an apparent continuation of a recent series of missile and artillery test launches, a South Korean defense official said.

Iraq says 'terrorists' seize chemical weapons site

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:11 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iraq said the Islamic State extremist group has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where 2,500 chemical rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin or their remnants were stored along with other chemical warfare agents.

North Korea again fires projectiles into water

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:08 PM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean military official says North Korea has launched two projectiles into its eastern waters in an apparent continuation of a recent series of missile and artillery test launches.

NY jury acquits ex-hedge fund founder's brother

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:08 PM PDT

Rengan Rajaratnam, left, exits Manhattan federal court in New York with his attorney Daniel Gitner Tuesday, July 8, 2014 after he was acquitted of conspiracy to commit securities fraud. Prosecutors had alleged that Rajaratnam, 43, joined with his brother, Raj Rajaratnam, to cheat in the stock market in 2008 on the securities of two technology companies. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)NEW YORK (AP) — The brother of an imprisoned ex-billionaire hedge fund founder has been acquitted of conspiracy.


Van Persie has stomach complaint ahead of semi

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:08 PM PDT

Netherlands's Robin van Persie arrives for a training session one day before their World Cup semifinal soccer match against Argentina at the Paulo Machado de Carvalho Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)SAO PAULO (AP) — Dutch captain and all-time top scorer Robin van Persie is in doubt for the World Cup semifinal against Argentina after succumbing to a stomach problem.


Seoul says North Korea launches projectiles into its eastern waters in apparent test-fire

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:02 PM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Seoul says North Korea launches projectiles into its eastern waters in apparent test-fire.

Germany routs Brazil 7-1, reaches World Cup final

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:52 PM PDT

Germany's Mesut Ozil, left, and Brazil's Maicon go for a header during the World Cup semifinal soccer match between Brazil and Germany at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — With Neymar out injured, just about everyone in Brazil knew it would be tough against Germany.


Charges: Russian stole data from restaurants, zoo

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:52 PM PDT

SEATTLE (AP) — A Russian man recently arrested on bank fraud and other charges hacked into computers at restaurants in Western Washington, hundreds of other retail businesses, and even the Phoenix Zoo, U.S. authorities allege.

AP PHOTOS: Argentine WCup fans follow team on bus

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:47 PM PDT

In this Sunday, July 6, 2014 photo, Argentine Jose Ribeti, 29, sweeps the stairs of his bus "Carnavalito," in the Granja do Torto parking lot used by traveling World Cup soccer fans as a campground, in Brasilia, Brazil. Ribeti is part of a group of Argentine men who has spent the last month traveling all over Brazil in a converted bus to watch their national soccer squad's progress during the World Cup. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)SAO PAULO (AP) — Talk about commitment to your sports team.


AIDS research team in US loses $1.38M grant

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 1, 2014 file photo, former Iowa State University researcher Dong-Pyou Han leaves the federal courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa. An AIDS research team at Iowa State University will not get $1.4 million it had been awarded from the National Institutes of Health after Han, a team member, admitted to faking research results last year. Han has pleaded not guilty in federal court to four counts of making false statements in research reports. He is free on bond awaiting trial. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An AIDS research team at Iowa State University will not get the final $1.38 million payment of a National Institutes of Health five-year grant after a team member admitted last year to faking research results, the NIH said Tuesday.


Fortress Europe puts migrant lives at risk, says Amnesty

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:29 PM PDT

The Italian military ship "Chimera" with around 350 would be immigrants onboard, arrives on June 30, 2014 in the port of Pozzallo, SicilyEU efforts to seal off Europe's borders to illegal migrants have also shut off access to refugees from conflict, thus putting their lives at risk, Amnesty International said Wednesday. "The effectiveness of EU measures to stem the flow of irregular migrants and refugees is, at best, questionable," said Amnesty's John Dalhuisen. The report says the European Union spent nearly two billion euros protecting its external borders between 2007 and 2013, but only 700 million euros on improving the situation for asylum-seekers and refugees in the EU in the same period.


Brazil's World Cup dream shattered against Germany

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:26 PM PDT

Brazil players sink to their knees after the World Cup semifinal soccer match between Brazil and Germany at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Germany won the match 7-1. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — It was a humiliating home defeat of record proportions that no Brazilian could have seen coming.


Polls open in Indonesian presidential election

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:25 PM PDT

Ballot boxes are delived by Becak transport, traditional Indonesian public commuter ride, to voting centers in Yogyakarta in central Java island on July 8, 2014Jakarta (AFP) - Polls opened in Indonesia on Wednesday in the country's most divisive presidential election since the fall of a decades-long dictatorship.


Factbox: Indonesians elect a president

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:23 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Indonesia's third direct presidential election kicked off on Wednesday. The race to lead Southeast Asia's biggest economy is closely contested by ex-general Prabowo Subianto and Jakarta governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo. Current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is in the last year of his second term and is barred by the constitution from running again. DATES July 9 - Presidential election. Vote counting starts after polls close at 0600 GMT (2 a.m. EDT). July 9 - Independent agencies provide a quick tally of votes counted across the country, by around 1200 GMT (8 a.m. ...

Moscow accuses US of 'abducting' Russian MP's son

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:21 PM PDT

A Russian national accused of hacking into US retail computer systems was arrested and ordered to face criminal charges, officials said MondayMoscow accused Washington on Tuesday of abducting the son of a Russian lawmaker who was arrested in the Maldives on suspicion of being one of the world's most prolific traffickers of stolen credit card details. A Russian legislator who admitted to being the suspect's father expressed fear that Roman Seleznev, who is now being held in the American territory of Guam, will be accused of all sorts of sins including "killing Kennedy." The US Justice Department said Monday that Seleznev, 30, was detained at the weekend and charged with hacking into US retail computer systems in a scheme that cost banks over $1.1 million (800,000 euros) in losses.


Land dispute erupts among ultra-wealthy in Bahamas

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:17 PM PDT

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — A land development dispute between some of the world's wealthiest people in one of the world's most exclusive communities has escalated on a small island in the Bahamas.

Brazil fans crushed by 7-1 loss to Germany

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:16 PM PDT

A Brazil soccer fan cries as Germany scores against her team at a semifinal World Cup match as she watches the game on a live telecast in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Bruno Magalhaes)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The tears started flowing before half time, and by the end of a 7-1 shellacking in the World Cup semifinal, millions across Brazil were in dazed, damp-eyed disbelief.


Girl raped, killed on overnight train in Thailand

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:15 PM PDT

BANGKOK (AP) — The rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl, who was shoved off a moving train on an overnight trip from southern Thailand, has sparked public outrage and calls for capital punishment for rapists.

Nigeria: 'Good news' soon on kidnapped girls

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:13 PM PDT

FILE-In this file photo taken Monday, May 19, 2014, Solome Ishaya, sister of kidnapped school girls Hauwa Ishaya stands outside their family house in Chibok, Nigeria, on Tuesday, July 8, 2014, council commended Nigeria's military and security agents, who have been roundly criticized at home and abroad for their failure to swiftly rescue the girls and to curb an escalating Islamic uprising by Boko Haram that has killed thousands. Some 276 schoolgirls were abducted April 15 from a school in northeast Chibok town. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba,File)ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's National Council of State is promising to deliver "some good news" very soon about more than 200 schoolgirls held captive by Islamic extremists for nearly three months.


Rockets hit Israeli heartland as offensive begins

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:04 PM PDT

Smoke rises following an Israeli strike on Gaza, as seen from the Israel-Gaza Border, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. The Israeli military launched a major offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking more than 100 sites and mobilizing troops for a possible ground invasion in what Israel says is an operation aimed at stopping a heavy barrage of rocket attacks from the Palestinian territory.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Tuesday launched its largest offensive in the Gaza Strip in nearly two years, carrying out a blistering aerial assault on scores of targets and killing 25 people in what officials called an open-ended operation aimed at ending weeks of heavy rocket fire. As Gaza militants unleashed salvos on cities including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel mobilized forces along the border for a possible ground invasion.


Holder: Threat from Syria endangers Europe, US

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:03 PM PDT

Norway's Minister of Justice Anders Anundsen, right, looks on as US Attorney General Eric Holder, speaks to the media in Oslo Tuesday July 8, 2014 . Holder is in Norway to make a major address on international efforts to confront the security threat posed by violent extremists traveling to and from Syria. (AP Photo/Terje Bendiksby/ NTB Scanpix)Attorney General Eric Holder called on European nations Tuesday to deal more aggressively with the threat posed by the thousands of Westerners who have traveled to Syria to join the fighting there.


Obama taps donor to be ambassador to Costa Rica

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:03 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is nominating one of his longtime donors to be the next U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica.

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