2014年10月16日星期四

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Iran, U.S. say some headway made in 'difficult' nuclear talks

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 01:28 PM PDT

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif walks down an aisle at the 69th United Nations General Assembly in New YorkBy Parisa Hafezi and Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran and the United States said they made some progress in high-level nuclear talks but much work remained to clinch a breakthrough deal by a late-November deadline. Both sides said they still aimed to meet the self-imposed Nov. 24 date, despite doubts among many experts that they can reach a full agreement to end a decade-old dispute over Tehran's nuclear program with just a few weeks remaining. U.S. ...


Ramped-up air strikes stall Islamic State advance on Syrian town

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 04:41 PM PDT

Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobani, seen from near the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian borderBy Humeyra Pamuk MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - Two days of heavy air strikes by U.S. warplanes have slowed an advance by Islamic State militants against Kurdish forces defending the Syrian border town of Kobani. Turkish and U.S. officials said last week that Islamic State was on the verge of taking Kobani from its heavily outgunned Kurdish defenders, after seizing strategic points deep inside the town. The tempo of coalition air strikes has increased dramatically, with U.S. ...


Hong Kong police clear barricades in Mong Kok area, meet little resistance

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 04:19 PM PDT

Police use pepper spray as they clash with pro-democracy protesters at an area near the government headquarters building in Hong KongHONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police carried out a dawn raid to remove barricades and other obstacles erected by pro-democracy protesters around the bustling area of Mong Kok, moving in while many demonstrators were still asleep. Friday's operation, across the harbour from the main demonstration site near the office of Hong Kong's leader, was the latest to dismantle barricades after nearly three weeks of protests that have paralysed parts of the Asian financial hub. Police encountered little resistance, unlike recent days when there has been violent clashes at other protest sites. ...


Milan summit offers Putin and Poroshenko time to talk

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 04:14 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko in MinskBy Andreas Rinke and Crispian Balmer MILAN (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko are looking to patch up a faltering ceasefire in eastern Ukraine and resolve a dispute over natural gas supplies when they meet in Milan on Friday. The pair are expected to talk one-on-one on the sidelines of a Europe-Asia summit, and hold broader discussions with EU leaders alarmed at the potential for their dispute to trigger wider international unrest. ...


Britain warns of 'exceptionally high' level of anti-terrorism activity

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 04:08 PM PDT

Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley speaks to the media outside New Scotland Yard in central LondonBy Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - British police are carrying out security investigations at an "exceptionally high" pace not seen in years to disrupt potentially deadly plots directed from abroad, notably Syria, the country's top counter-terrorism officer said on Friday. Mark Rowley, Britain's national policing spokesman for counter-terrorism, said the police had made 218 arrests so far this year while dozens of vulnerable people were also being referred to de-radicalisation programs. ...


Japan PM Abe sends offering to Yasukuni Shrine for war dead: Kyodo

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 03:41 PM PDT

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses a news conference following a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in BerlinTOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine, the Kyodo news agency said on Friday, a move that might complicate his push for bilateral meetings with leaders in China and South Korea. Yasukuni is seen by critics at home and abroad as a symbol of Japan's past militarism because wartime leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal are honoured there along with millions of war dead. Abe, who is currently attending a meeting of Asian and European leaders in Milan, visited the shrine in person in December 2013. ...


Golovkin adds SoCal sellout to pugilistic feats

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 04:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 30, 2013 file photo, Gennady Golovkin, of Kazakhstan, reacts after defeating Nobuhiro Ishida, of Japan, in their WBA middleweight title fight in Monaco. Golovkin sold out the arena a month ago for his Southern California debut on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)SANTA MONICA, California (AP) — Just over two years ago, Gennady Golovkin was an unknown middleweight training far from home, desperately trying to establish a career while he still had time.


U.S. holds direct talks with embattled Syrian Kurds

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 04:41 PM PDT

By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. State Department official held direct talks for the first time last weekend with a Syrian Kurdish group involved in the fight against Islamic State in Syria, including the besieged town of Kobani, the State Department said on Thursday. Following the talks, the last three days saw an upsurge in U.S. air strikes on Islamic State forces besieging the town, and Kurdish spokesmen said their forces were giving coordinates of the militants' positions to the United States. ...

2 children hurt in petrol bomb attack in Ireland

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 03:55 PM PDT

DUBLIN (AP) — Police say two girls aged 1 and 11 have suffered serious burns after a petrol bomb was thrown through the living room window of their family home in the southeast Irish city of Waterford.

Hong Kong police clear Mongkok protest site

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 03:41 PM PDT

An elderly man looks at barricades built by members of the pro-democracy movement on a blocked road in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong on October 15, 2014Hong Kong (AFP) - Hong Kong police cleared a pro-democracy protest site in the city's densely populated Mongkok area early Friday, meeting no resistance as they removed barricades and tents.


Hong Kong police clear barricades in densely populated area of Mong Kok

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 03:10 PM PDT

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scores of Hong Kong police removed barricades early on Friday erected by pro-democracy protesters around the bustling area of Mong Kok, across the harbour from the main demonstration area next to government offices, a Reuters witness said. The police operation was the latest to dismantle barricades after nearly three weeks of protests that have paralysed parts of the Asian financial hub. The protesters, mostly students, are demanding full democracy for the former British colony. ...

Ebola neglected because it started in Africa: ex-UN head Annan

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 02:45 PM PDT

Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan attends a peace mediator conference at Loerenskog, Norway on June 18, 2014London (AFP) - Wealthy countries were slow to tackle the Ebola epidemic as it began in Africa, former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said in tough criticism of the response to the crisis on Thursday.


Hong Kong police swoop in to remove barricades at a protest zone in dawn raid

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 02:43 PM PDT

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police swoop in to remove barricades at a protest zone in dawn raid.

Zahlavova Strycova advances at Luxembourg Open

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 02:23 PM PDT

LUXEMBOURG (AP) — Fourth-seeded Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic rolled past Swedish qualifier Johanna Larsson 6-0, 6-2 to make the Luxembourg Open semifinals on Thursday.

2 US journalists detained over Russia workshop

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 02:06 PM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) — Two American journalists were briefly detained in Russia and taken to court Thursday for teaching an investigative journalism workshop. Both were found guilty of violating visa regulations, authorities said.

Venezuela, Malaysia, Angola, N.Z., Spain win U.N. Council seats

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 01:10 PM PDT

By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Venezuela, Malaysia, Angola, New Zealand and Spain won seats on the United Nations Security Council on Thursday for two years from Jan. 1, 2015. The 193-member U.N. General Assembly elected Venezuela with 181 votes, Malaysia with 187 votes, Angola with 190 votes. All three countries campaigned unopposed for their seats after being chosen as the candidates for their respective regional groups, but still needed to win the votes of two-thirds of the General Assembly to secure their spots. ...

Kurds hold out in Syria's Kobane one month into IS assault

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 12:58 PM PDT

Kurdish men walk close to the Turkish-Syrian border as smoke rises from the Syrian town of Kobane on October 16, 2014Mursitpinar (Turkey) (AFP) - Kurdish fighters backed by a flurry of US-led air strikes were still holding out Thursday against jihadists in Kobane, as an Islamic State offensive on the Syrian border town entered its second month.


Bombs go off at Muslim festival in Egypt, wound 11

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 12:58 PM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — Two bombs went off in a city in northern Egypt late Thursday, striking a Sufi Muslim religious festival and wounding 11 people, officials said, the latest in a spate of attacks that have targeted Egyptian government forces, institutions and public gatherings.

Turkey fails in bid to join UN Security Council

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 12:57 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the United Nations, Mevlut Cavusoglu, right, Foreign Minister of Turkey, attends a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/United Nations, Mark Garten)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Turkey failed in its effort to join the U.N.'s most powerful body on Thursday, while Venezuela, New Zealand, Spain, Angola and Malaysia were elected to coveted Security Council seats.


Polanski opens Paris musical based on Tate film

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 12:29 PM PDT

FILE - This 2002 file photo shows Roman Polanski, left, director of "The Pianist" with co-producer Gene Gutowski at the film festival in Cannes, France. Gutowski produced three of Polanski's now classic films in the 1960s and the two reunited decades later to make "The Pianist." On Thursday, a new documentary about Gutowski's improbable wartime survival premieres at the Warsaw Film Festival, directed and produced by his son, Adam Bardach. (AP Photo/Adam Bardach, File)PARIS (AP) — Forty-seven years after starring in the movie "The Fearless Vampire Killers" with his wife-to-be Sharon Tate, director Roman Polanski is adapting the famous musical version of the film for the Paris stage.


European clubs worry about Ebola risk

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 12:02 PM PDT

Borussia Dortmund's coach Jurgen Klopp is pictured prior to the UEFA Champions League football match RSC Anderlecht vs Borussia Dortmund on October 1, 2014 in BrusselsBerlin (AFP) - Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp on Thursday raised fears expressed by a growing number of European clubs about African players being exposed to the risk of Ebola contamination while on international duty.


Nepal blizzard, avalanche death toll rises to 27

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 11:54 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the Nepalese Army, rescue team members carry a victim of an avalanche before they airlift the body from Thorong La pass area in Nepal, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Search teams in army helicopters rescued dozens of stranded foreign trekkers and recovered more bodies of victims of a blizzard and avalanches in the mountains of northern Nepal on Thursday. (AP Photo/The Nepalese Army)KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Search teams rescued dozens of stranded foreign trekkers and recovered 10 more bodies Thursday in the wake of a series of blizzards and avalanches that battered the Himalayas in central Nepal, leaving at least 27 people dead.


'Kerry Air' grounded again, this time in Vienna

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 11:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2014 file-pool photo Secretary of State John Kerry waves as he boards his plane at Orly Airport, south of Paris, France, en route to Vienna, Austria. The US may be the mightiest military and economic power in the world but when it comes to shuttling its top diplomat around the globe, it's beginning to look like a poor orphan. For the fourth time this year _ and the second time in three months, Kerry was forced to fly home commercially when his aging Air Force Boeing 757, known in military parlance as a C-32, was grounded on Thursday with a mechanical problem in Vienna. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File-Pool)VIENNA (AP) — The United States may be the mightiest military and economic power in the world but when it comes to shuttling its top diplomat around the globe, it's beginning to look like a poor orphan.


Africa stems Ebola via border closings, luck

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 11:37 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014, file photo, a Moroccan health worker uses a thermometer to screen a passenger at the arrivals hall of the Mohammed V airport in Casablanca. Ebola has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa and wreaked havoc on the region, but some Africans see a bright side: The virus has been limited to five countries. It has even been beaten back in two of those countries. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Abdeljalil Bounhar, File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Health officials battling the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa have managed to limit its spread on the continent to five countries — and two of them appear to have snuffed out the disease.


White House condemns wave of attacks in Iraq

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 11:22 AM PDT

Civilians walk through the site of a car bomb explosion in the largely Shiite eastern neighborhood of Talibiyah in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police checkpoint Thursday in the Iraqi capital, killing more than 10 and wounding tens of people, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is strongly condemning a wave of attacks in Iraq, including some in and around the capital of Baghdad.


Red Cross delivers first medical aid in a year to Palestinians in Syria

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 11:02 AM PDT

GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday it had delivered its first medical supplies in a year to Palestinian refugees living in a camp in the Damascus suburb of Yarmouk in Syria. Around 20,000 people are believed to be living in Yarmouk, once home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees and Syrian nationals, where food and water supplies are now scarce. The camp is caught between Syrian government forces and opposition forces including al-Nusra. ...

Steenkamp cousin: Pistorius apology not genuine

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 10:18 AM PDT

Oscar Pistorius sits in court before the fourth day of sentencing proceedings in the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Yesterday saw the first family member, first cousin of the late Reeva Steenkamp, Kim Martin, testified at the double-amputee athlete's trial. Pistorius faces up to 15 years in prison after being convicted of culpable homicide, or negligent killing, for shooting Steenkamp, although he could also receive a suspended jail sentence and a fine. (AP Photo/Alon Skuy, Pool)PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius must "pay for what he's done" and his apology to the family of the girlfriend he killed was not sincere, a cousin of Reeva Steenkamp said Thursday as testimonies wrapped up.


Brazil police say they arrested serial killer

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 10:06 AM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian police say they've captured a man who has confessed to 39 murders.

McDowell loses in Match Play, Stenson rallies

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 09:33 AM PDT

Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell plays a shot during day two of the World Match Play Championship at The London Golf Club, golf course in Ash southeast England Thursday Oct. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Gareth Fuller/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUTASH, England (AP) — Defending champion Graeme McDowell's comeback fell short, while Henrik Stenson rallied from three holes down with success at the World Match Play Championship on Thursday.


Shortages hinder Venezuela's battle against fever outbreaks

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 09:32 AM PDT

People on a motorcycle ride through a cloud as fumigation is carried to help control the spread of Chikungunya and dengue fever, viruses which are carried by mosquitoes, in the Petare slum district of CaracasBy Corina Pons CARACAS (Reuters) - Shortages have complicated Venezuela's efforts to treat severe outbreaks of mosquito-borne fevers this year, creating long lines at pharmacies to buy medicines and leaving the ill without treatments for swollen joints and aching bones. Venezuela has South America's highest incidence of chikungunya, a virus of African origin that is rarely fatal but whose name comes from a Tanzanian term for being doubled-over in pain. The country has also seen an upsurge this year in the similarly harsh dengue fever. ...


Steenkamp cousin says Pistorius must 'pay' for killing

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 09:29 AM PDT

South African paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius attends on October 16, 2014 his sentencing hearing at the North Gauteng High Court in PretoriaPretoria (AFP) - A cousin of slain South African model Reeva Steenkamp made a tearful plea Thursday for Oscar Pistorius "to pay" for killing her, as prosecutors sought at his sentencing hearing to see the Paralympic athlete sent to jail.


British-led eurosceptic group in EU parliament collapses

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 09:13 AM PDT

Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) Nigel Farage address a rally to put forward the case against Scottish independence in Glasgow on September 12, 2014Brussels (AFP) - British eurosceptic leader Nigel Farage's group in the European parliament collapsed on Thursday, ending a short-lived alliance that he formed with Italian populist Beppe Grillo after elections in May.


BASF sells textile chemicals business to Archroma

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 09:01 AM PDT

BERLIN (AP) — Chemical and oil company BASF SE says it is selling its textile chemicals business to Swiss-based Archroma for an undisclosed amount.

Putin cheered in Serbia, seeks pipeline backing

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 08:58 AM PDT

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin review honor guard during a welcome ceremony in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Putin arrived in Serbia on Thursday for talks that are expected to focus on economic issues and energy, including construction of the South Stream gas pipeline that has been opposed by the European Union. (AP Photo/Vasily Maximov, Pool)BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Greeted by enthusiastic chants of "Putin! Putin!," Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a military parade Thursday in Slavic ally Serbia, where he held talks on economic issues, including on the South Stream gas pipeline opposed by the European Union.


UKIP cries foul as Latvian defection weakens hand in EU parliament

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 08:52 AM PDT

By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The UK Independence Party accused the European Parliament of blackmail and bias on Thursday after it wound up a voting bloc forged by British and Italian Eurosceptics, depriving them of funding and influence. The dissolution of the four-month-old Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group (EFDD), one of seven formal parliamentary blocs, was sparked by the loss of Latvia's Iveta Grigule, sole member of the Latvian Farmers Union, who quit to sit as an independent. ...

Sri Lanka: 85 school bowlers with suspect action

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 08:43 AM PDT

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka has identified 85 school cricketers bowling with suspected illegal actions in its campaign to clean up the cradle of the sport in the country.

Pakistani Christian loses appeal against death sentence for blasphemy

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 08:03 AM PDT

By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court upheld the death penalty on Thursday against a Christian woman accused of blasphemy, her lawyer said, in a case that drew global headlines after two prominent politicians who tried to help her were assassinated. In 2010, Asia Bibi, a mother of four, became the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law. She is alleged to have made derogatory remarks about Islam after neighbours objected to her drinking water from their glass because she was not Muslim. ...

John Spencer-Churchill dies at 88

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 07:55 AM PDT

LONDON (AP) — John Spencer-Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and a cousin and godson of British wartime leader Winston Churchill, has died. He was 88.

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