2014年10月27日星期一

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Canada must do more to thwart radical threat, security officials say

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 02:24 PM PDT

RCMP Commissioner Paulson prepares to testify before a Senate committee in OttawaBy Randall Palmer, David Ljunggren and Richard Valdmanis OTTAWA (Reuters) - The head of Canada's national police told a parliamentary committee on Monday the government must do more to stop homegrown radicals, such as those who killed two soldiers on home soil last week, from going overseas for militant training. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Bob Paulson said last week's killings in Ottawa and outside Montreal, which he said appeared to be carried out with minimal planning or preparation, show the nation faces a "serious" threat. ...


Suicide bomber kills 27 militiamen south of Iraqi capital

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 01:10 PM PDT

By Michael Georgy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 27 Shi'ite militiamen outside the Iraqi town of Jurf al-Sakhar on Monday after security forces pushed Islamic State militants out of the area over the weekend, army and police sources said. The attacker, driving a Humvee vehicle packed with explosives and likely stolen from defeated government troops, also wounded 60 Shi'ite Muslim militiamen, who had helped government forces retake the town just south of the capital. ...

Mexico arrests four gang members in students' disappearance

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 04:30 PM PDT

Relatives of missing students of the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College, Raul Isidro Burgos, participate in a march as they carry crosses with the names of three students who were killed during clashes with police in late September, in IgualaMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities on Monday said they had arrested four drug gang members involved in the kidnapping of dozens of student teachers who disappeared last month and are feared massacred. The announcement came as local media reported that a mass grave has been discovered in a trash dump outside mountain town of Cocula, near Iguala in the southwestern state of Guerrero, where 43 students disappeared after they clashed with police and masked men on Sept 26. ...


Spain central government moves to block new Catalan vote

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 02:10 PM PDT

Catalan pro-independence demonstrators gather at Catalunya square during a rally in BarcelonaMADRID (Reuters) - Spain's central government took the first step on Monday towards blocking a "consultation of citizens" that the Catalonia region intends to hold next month in the place of a full referendum on independence from Spain that was barred by a court. The wealthy, northeastern region earlier this month dropped plans to hold the referendum planned for Nov. 9, but said it would still stage a non-binding vote that would be open to anyone who wanted to cast their ballot. ...


U.S. and EU hail pro-West election outcome in Ukraine, Russia guarded

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 11:31 AM PDT

Ukrainian President Petro PoroshenkoBy Richard Balmforth and Timothy Heritage KIEV (Reuters) - Pro-Western parties will dominate Ukraine's parliament after an election handed President Petro Poroshenko a mandate to end a separatist conflict and to steer the country further away from Russia's orbit towards mainstream Europe. U.S. President Barack Obama hailed Sunday's election as "an important milestone in Ukraine's democratic development" while top European Union officials said on Monday it represented a "victory of the people of Ukraine and of democracy". ...


Netanyahu to expedite plans for 1,000 new settler homes

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 11:47 AM PDT

A woman pushes a pram as she walks in a Jewish settlement near Jerusalem known to Israelis as Har Homa and to Palestinians as Jabal Abu GhneimBy Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will expedite planning for some 1,000 settler homes in East Jerusalem, a government official said on Monday, in a bid to placate a restive coalition ally without further aggravating a dispute with Washington. The ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party, led by Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, has been issuing veiled threats to sever its political partnership with Netanyahu unless he agrees to its call for 2,000 new building tenders in settlements in the occupied West Bank. ...


Cardinals stunned by Taveras' death

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 04:57 PM PDT

In this handout photo provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Agency shows the heavily damaged vehicle in which Dominican baseball player Oscar Taveras was killed along with a young woman passenger, near the city of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Oct. 26, 2014. St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras, a 22-year-old slugger who was regarded as one of the majors' top prospects. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Transportation Agency)Mike Matheny needed some time to figure out what to say. Like the rest of the St. Louis Cardinals, the manager was leveled by the sudden death of Oscar Taveras.


Man guilty of murder in attack on Chinese students

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 04:54 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who was recorded confessing to the killings of two Chinese graduate students near the University of Southern California was convicted Monday of first-degree murder.

Rio given deadline on Olympic golf course changes

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 04:43 PM PDT

SAO PAULO (AP) — A judge has given the city of Rio de Janeiro and a local developer a deadline to decide whether they are willing to make changes to the Olympic golf course, which could help settle a legal dispute that is threatening its completion in time for the 2016 Games.

US Army troops isolated after Africa duty tour

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 04:42 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army two-star general and 11 of his staff are being isolated at the base in Italy upon returning from serving in West Africa to help with the Ebola fight.

Jordan to request emergency UN meeting on Israel

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 04:35 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A spokesman for Jordan's mission to the United Nations says his country will request an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on behalf of the Palestinians, who have written to the council president about "dangerously escalating tensions" in east Jerusalem.

US official: Welcome home medics fighting Ebola

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 04:34 PM PDT

American ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks to media in the city of Freetown , Sierra Leone, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. The United States will help fight Ebola over "the long haul," the American ambassador to the United Nations said on a trip to the West African countries hit by the outbreak. Samantha Power, who is visiting Sierra Leone on Monday, met Sunday with religious leaders in Guinea, where the Ebola outbreak was first identified in March. (AP Photo/ Michael Duff)FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Health care workers who go to West Africa to fight Ebola must be welcomed home and nothing should be done to impede fighting the disease "at its source," the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Monday.


Army troops isolated after Africa duty tour

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 04:31 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army two-star general and 11 of his staff are being isolated at the base in Italy upon returning from serving in West Africa to help with the Ebola fight.

N. Korea, UN investigator meet on possible visit

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 04:30 PM PDT

File- This March 11 2013, file photo shows United Nations Special Rapporteur on North Korea, Marzuki Darusman, deliveringhis report, during the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. North Korean officials said Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, they met for the first time with a United Nations special investigator on human rights and UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korean officials said Monday they met for the first time with a United Nations special investigator on human rights and "envisage" him visiting their country. A U.N. official confirmed the meeting.


Peru families receive bodies of dirty war victims

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 04:12 PM PDT

Dionisia Huamani Quispe, left center, and Eusebia Palomino Arome, right center, witness how forensic anthropologists arrange in a coffin the remains of their relatives, slain three decades ago during the country's dirty war, in a forensic laboratory in Huamanga, Peru, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014. Hundreds arrived in the Ayacucho state capital for Monday's handover of 80 sets of remains. Simple white coffins bore the bones of fathers, mothers, wives, children and brothers. Forensic teams have been exhuming victims of Peru's 1980-2000 internal conflict since 2006, recovering 2.925 sets of remains. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)HUAMANGA, Peru (AP) — The small farmers came from remote mountains and jungle valleys to receive the exhumed remains of loved ones slain three decades ago during Peru's dirty war.


France says Armenia, Azerbaijan to hold more talks on Nagorno-Karabakh

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 04:11 PM PDT

Armenia's President Sargsyan and Azerbaijan's President Aliyev leave after a dinner at the Elysee Palace in ParisPARIS (Reuters) - Armenian and Azeri leaders have agreed to pursue talks over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region after resuming direct contacts at a meeting in Paris on Monday, the French government said. "Status quo is not sustainable," the office of French President Francois Hollande said after he hosted talks between Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev and Armenia's Serzh Sargsyan, following an increase in clashes over the region during the summer. The two leaders agreed to exchange information about people who have gone missing in the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, Hollande's office said. ...


Australian teenager features in second IS video

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 04:05 PM PDT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian teenage runaway, dubbed the Ginger Jihadist by the media, has been featured in a second Islamic State propaganda video.

Poland in defense shift as anti-Russia mood grows

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 04:01 PM PDT

Poland's Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak tells the Associated Press in an interview in his office in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, that the country will move thousands of troops toward its eastern borders in a historic realignment of a military structure built in the Cold War. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is planning a major realignment of its military structure because of the conflict in neighboring Ukraine, the country's defense minister said Monday, a move that could shift thousands of troops to its eastern border.


Sam Querrey beats 2012 runner-up Jerzy Janowicz

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 03:57 PM PDT

PARIS (AP) — American qualifier Sam Querrey reached the second round of the Paris Masters by beating 2012 runner-up Jerzy Janowicz 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4 Monday.

Worker dies after Veolia industrial blast in Canada

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 03:42 PM PDT

The headquarters of French international utility group Veolia Environment in Paris on February 20, 2012A Veolia worker who was injured during a weekend blast at an industrial plant in Canada died Monday, officials said. Four other staff also were hospitalized Saturday in the as-yet-unexplained explosion that collapsed the roof at the Veolia ES Canada Industrial facility in Sarnia, Ontario. France-based Veolia, an industrial cleaning and maintenance firm, said the employee died of "burn injuries related to Saturday's incident," adding they are "hopeful for the speedy recovery" of the others. Veolia said the cause of the incident was unknown.


Austin powers QPR to crucial victory

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 03:35 PM PDT

Queens Park Rangers' English striker Charlie Austin celebrates after scoring his team's first goal during the English Premier League football match between Queens Park Rangers and Aston Villa in London on October 27, 2014London (AFP) - Charlie Austin eased the pressure on Harry Redknapp as the QPR forward struck twice to lift his side off the bottom of the Premier League with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Monday.


Rousseff must fight graft to placate angry Brazil

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 03:34 PM PDT

Re-elected Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff delivers a speech following her win in Brasilia on October 26, 2014Brasília (AFP) - Having won re-election, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff must now deliver on her pledge to crack down on corruption or be dogged by the scandals that nearly derailed her campaign. Along with economic woes, corruption was the central issue in a campaign rocked by allegations that the incumbent knew about embezzlement at state oil giant Petrobras, which she once chaired. The Petrobras scandal erupted in the middle of the election campaign with the arrest of the firm's former refineries director on money-laundering charges. Paulo Roberto Costa, who was appointed under Rousseff's predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, turned state's witness after his arrest.


QPR beats Aston Villa 2-0 in Premier League

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 03:27 PM PDT

Queens Park Rangers' Bobby Zamora, left, and Aston Villa's Ashley Westwood in action during the English Premier League soccer match at Loftus Road in London, Monday Oct. 27, 2014. (AP Photo / John Walton, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVESLONDON (AP) — Charlie Austin scored twice to lift Queens Park Rangers off the bottom of the Premier League with a 2-0 victory over Aston Villa on Monday that eased some of the pressure on manager Harry Redknapp.


Slim chances of Iran nuclear deal by deadline: diplomat

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 03:16 PM PDT

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani waves as he leaves a press conference in Tehran on August 30, 2014A deal on Iran's contested nuclear programme before a November 24 deadline is highly unlikely, a Western diplomat close to negotiations said on Monday. "The ball is in Iran's court" and Tehran would have to make "significant gestures," the diplomat added. The six powers in the talks with Iran -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States plus Germany, known as the P5+1 -- have set November 24 as the deadline for a comprehensive deal. US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has spoken of "a forest of distrust" between the West and Iran.


Colombia leader seeks Europe's help for 'last chance' peace

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 03:12 PM PDT

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos smiles during an interview with AFP at Narino Palace in Bogota on October 24, 2014Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says he hopes Europe can provide funds to help him strike a "last chance" deal with leftist guerrillas after half a century of conflict. During a lightning tour of six countries in five days next week, Santos will lobby for the creation of a European fund for the post-conflict period, should his government clinch a historic deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). "It's the oldest conflict in the Western world," Santos told AFP in an interview at the presidential palace in Bogota -- his first with an international news agency since his re-election in June. "If we manage to secure peace, it will have an impact far beyond Colombia's borders."


UN concerned by Iran 'surge of executions'

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 03:09 PM PDT

Iranian officials prepare the noose for an execution in the northern city of Nowshahr on April 15, 2014At least 850 people have been executed in Iran in the past 15 months as part of a worsening human rights situation under reformist President Hassan Rouhani, a UN official said Monday. Ahmed Shaheed, the rights rapporteur for Iran, described a "surge in executions," giving Iran the world's the highest death penalty rate per capita. The rapporteur said he was "shocked" by the hanging over the weekend of 26-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari who was convicted of murdering a former intelligence officer she claimed had tried to sexually assault her.


Sheriff: School shooter invited victims to lunch

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 03:04 PM PDT

MARYSVILLE, Washington (AP) — A popular student responsible for a shooting at a Washington state high school on Friday invited his victims to lunch by text message, then shot them at their table, investigators said Monday.

UN envoy says it's time for investment in DR Congo

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 02:58 PM PDT

Martin Kobler (R), head of the United Nations mission in the DR Congo, speaks with mayor of Beni Masumbuko Nyonyi Bwanakawa (L) on October 23, 2014 in BeniThe UN envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo called Monday for a major injection of private investment to shore up peace and turn the country into "the economic heart of Africa." "It is time for Congo's money abroad to come home and for that money, and more, to be invested in the DRC," said Martin Kobler, the head of the UN mission in the DRC. The special envoy for the Great Lakes region, Said Djinnit, told the council that a "substantial portfolio" of investment projects are to be approved at a regional meeting in Luanda in early December.


Funeral for Oscar Taveras in Dominican hometown

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 02:49 PM PDT

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Funeral services are being planned for Oscar Taveras in his hometown in the Dominican Republic following his death in a weekend car crash

Tropical Storm Hanna soaks Nicaragua, Honduras

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 02:47 PM PDT

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Tropical Storm Hanna made landfall near the Nicaragua-Honduras border Monday, bringing heavy rains to an already waterlogged area.

As Marines depart Afghanistan, legacy lingers

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 02:42 PM PDT

This handout photo provided Defense Department shows Marines and sailors with Marine Expeditionary Brigade – Afghanistan load onto a KC-130 aircraft on the Camp Bastion, Afghanistan flightline, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. The handover of the U.S. Marines' main base to Afghan control in the hardscrabble Helmand province is more than a signal that America's longest war is ending. It is a reminder of the enormous loss and sacrifice by Marines who swept in as part of President Barack Obama's surge of forces against a resurgent Taliban in 2009. (AP Photo/Staff Sgt. John Jackson, Defense Department, US Marines)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Marines' handover of Camp Leatherneck to the Afghans is more than a signal that America's longest war is ending. It is a reminder that the Marines' battlefield gains were tempered by losses: 378 killed, nearly 5,000 wounded.


Niger cholera outbreak kills 51 people

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 02:39 PM PDT

A child sits near the ruins of his parents' home on September 5, 2013, in Niamey, Niger, where floods caused 26 casualities and affected 75,347 peopleNiger has seen more than 1,300 cases of cholera since the beginning of the year, with 51 people dying of the disease, the United Nations said Monday. In September alone there were 38 reported deaths from cholera, said the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the capital of Niamey on its website. The spike in the number of cholera deaths was due in part of heavy flooding which has inundated Niger since June. Steps are being taken "to contain the illness" and "prevent it from appearing in new places," said OCHA, noting that cholera has broken out in four of Niger's eight regions.


Canada cop killer faces 75 years in prison

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 02:36 PM PDT

A police cruiser sits in Ottawa on October 23, 2014A man who killed three Canadian police officers on the streets of a New Brunswick city appeared in court Monday, facing a possible 75 years in prison. Prosecutors asked for Justin Bourque, 24, to serve three consecutive life sentences -- an unprecedented penalty in Canada -- for the rampage that also wounded two officers. The June 4 shooting in Moncton, in the eastern province of New Brunswick, shocked Canada, which prides itself on being largely free of the gun violence that regularly plagues cities in the neighboring United States. It was the worst tragedy to hit the Royal Canadian Mounted Police since 2005, when four of its federal agents were killed in Alberta in the west.


Poroshenko faces hurdles despite big Ukraine vote win

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 02:34 PM PDT

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks to media at a polling station during Ukraine's parliamentary elections in Kiev on October 26, 2014Grad rockets roaring from the pro-Russian rebel bastion of Donetsk the day after Ukrainian voters backed President Petro Poroshenko's high-stake talks with Moscow underscored the deadly obstacles facing his search for peace in the separatist east. A visibly-upbeat Poroshenko called the strong showing by moderates in Sunday's parliamentary election a sign that war-weary Ukrainians favour "those political forces that support the president's peace plan". Voters turned their backs on hawkish parties that demand a military triumph and oppose Poroshenko's offer of limited self-rule for the insurgents in return for an end to six months of bloodshed in which 3,700 have died. The 49-year-old chocolate baron added that the drubbing handed to pro-Russian parties demonstrated "strong and irreversible backing to Ukraine's path to Europe."


10 Cuban migrants found near Miami, 3 missing

Posted: 27 Oct 2014 02:33 PM PDT

Chief of Miami-Dade Air Resue Antonio Hernandez, right, talks to reporters during a news conference as U.S. Coast Guard commander Respond Sector Chief Richard Hartley, left, looks on, in Miami, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. In total, ten Cuban migrants have been found and three more remain unaccounted for in the waters off Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)MIAMI (AP) — A raft carrying Cuban migrants broke apart a few miles (kilometers) from Miami, leaving survivors clinging to debris for hours in the night. Ten were rescued or managed to swim to shore while three remained missing Monday afternoon.


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