2016年1月11日星期一

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Aid convoy reaches starving Syrian town of Madaya

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:42 PM PST

Residents who say they have received permission from the Syrian government to leave the besieged town depart after an aid convoy entered MadayaAn aid convoy entered a besieged Syrian town on Monday where thousands have been trapped without supplies for months and people are reported to have died of starvation. Trucks carrying food and medical supplies reached Madaya near the Lebanese border and began to distribute aid as part of an agreement between warring sides, the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross said. Dozens are said to have died in the town from starvation or a lack of medical care and activists say some inhabitants have been reduced to eating leaves.


U.S. may send strategic assets, but not warheads, to South Korea

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:53 PM PST

A U.S. soldier stands guard in front of their Air F-16 fighter jet at Osan Air Base in PyeongtaekBy Ju-min Park, Jee Heun Kahng and Arshad Mohammed SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and South Korea are discussing deploying more U.S. "strategic assets" to the region after North Korea's atomic test last week but not restoring U.S. nuclear arms to the South, a U.S. official said on Monday. North Korea said it tested a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday, displeasing China, its main ally, and the United States, which said it believed the blast was an ordinary atomic test rather than a much more powerful hydrogen bomb. In a show of force and support for allies in the region following North Korea's nuclear test, its fourth since 2006, the United States on Sunday sent a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber based in Guam on a flight over South Korea.


Mexico says Sean Penn meeting was 'essential' to finding kingpin Chapo

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 02:48 PM PST

A destroyed microwave oven is seen next to a wall with bullet holes in a safe house, where five people were shot dead during an operation on Friday to recapture the drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, at Jiquilpan Boulevard in Los MochisBy Dave Graham and Anahi Rama LOS MOCHIS, Mexico (Reuters) - A secret meeting that Hollywood star Sean Penn held with the world's most-wanted drug boss, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in pursuit of a magazine article was essential to finding the fugitive, Mexico's Attorney General said on Monday. Guzman, infamous head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was captured on Friday following a months-long manhunt after he tunneled out of a Mexican maximum security prison in July. Mexico has said it plans to extradite him to the United States, where he is wanted for exporting hundreds of tonnes of cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin across the border.


Venezuelan court nulls congress decisions over barred lawmakers

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:21 PM PST

Deputy of Venezuela's PSUV Cabello talks to his fellow deputy Flores during a session of the National Assembly in CaracasBy Girish Gupta and Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the new National Assembly's decisions are void unless three banned opposition lawmakers are removed from office, deepening a power struggle over the opposition's new legislative majority. Already beset by a deep economic crisis, Venezuela now seems to be sliding into a protracted period of political turmoil as both a newly-emboldened opposition and President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government play hardball with each other. The Supreme Court in December blocked four lawmakers - three opposition and one allied with the government - from taking office after the Socialist Party made allegations of irregularities during last month's legislative election.


U.N. official says starvation exists in besieged Syrian towns

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:48 PM PST

A toddler is held up to the camera in this still image taken from video said to be shot in MadayaBy Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - U.N. and relief agency workers saw starving people in two besieged Syrian areas where aid deliveries were made on Monday, a senior U.N. official said. An aid convoy entered the town of Madaya, besieged by government forces, where thousands had been trapped for months without supplies and people had been reported to have died of starvation. Yacoub El Hillo, the U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator in Syria who was in Madaya overseeing the operation to distribute food to over 40,000 people, said he had also received reports, which could not be confirmed, that at least 40 people had died of starvation.


Former China deputy security minister sentenced to 15 years jail: state TV

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 05:12 PM PST

Then vice minister of public security Li Dongsheng gestures as he speaks during a meeting in NanjingChina's former vice public security minister Li Dongsheng was jailed for 15 years for corruption offences, China Central Television reported on its official microblog account on Tuesday. Li went on trial at a court in the northeastern city of Tianjin in October, charged with illegally accepting almost 22 million yuan ($3.5 million) worth of assets and abusing power in positions he held between 1996 and 2013, the official Xinhua news agency said at the time. Li had ties with ousted Chinese security tsar Zhou Yongkang, who was jailed for life in June after a secret trial in China's most sensational graft scandal in 70 years.


Mexican drug lord's men put up fierce fight

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 05:11 PM PST

A tunnel sits under the home where marines searched for Mexican drug lord Joaquin LOS MOCHIS, Mexico (AP) — At 4:40 a.m. in a central neighborhood of the Pacific coast city of Los Mochis, 17 Mexican marines began their assault on a safe house thinking there was a good chance Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was inside. The operation was dubbed "black swan."


One in four children in conflict zones 'risk losing their future': UNICEF

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 05:08 PM PST

A boy walks near the remains of tents that were burnt in a refugee camp for Syrian refugees in Lebanon's Bekaa ValleyBy Alex Whiting LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly one in four children growing up in conflict zones are missing out on education, with South Sudan, Niger, Sudan and Afghanistan the worst-affected countries, the U.N. children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday. An estimated 24 million children of school-going age are out of school in 22 countries affected by conflict, according to the agency's research. South Sudan has the largest proportion of children out of school, 51 percent, followed by 47 percent in Niger, 41 percent in Sudan and 40 percent in Afghanistan.


Sean Penn's daring dealings with 'El Chapo' draw U.S. scrutiny

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:43 PM PST

Undated Rolling Stone handout shows actor Sean Penn shaking hands with Mexican drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman in MexicoBy Mica Rosenberg and Mark Hosenball NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. investigators will examine actor Sean Penn's interactions with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, two U.S. government sources said on Monday, but it is unclear if prosecutors would try to force the actor to turn over information about his interview with the recaptured drug kingpin. Mexico is pressing the U.S. government, which has requested Guzman's extradition, to find out more about Penn's dealings with the infamous head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, according to one U.S. government source who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the case.


Freed Guantanamo detainees say they seek peace and quiet in Ghana

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:41 PM PST

By Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA (Reuters) - Two Yemenis transferred to Ghana after their release from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba said on Monday they hoped to live peacefully and rebuild their lives in the West African country. Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih al-Dhuby were held in Guantanamo for more than a decade. Dozens of countries have received former Guantanamo Bay detainees but the transfers of Bin Atef and Dhuby were the first to Ghana.

34 Aussie Rules players banned for doping

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:39 PM PST

"We can confirm the Court of Arbitration for Sport has found 34 past and present players guilty of committing an anti-doping rule violation," Essendon chairman Lindsay Tanner said in a statementThirty-four Australian Football League (AFL) players were Tuesday slapped with lengthy bans for doping offences in a case officials called "the most devastating self-inflicted injury by a sporting club in Australian history". The Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a World Anti-Doping Agency appeal against an AFL tribunal ruling last March that cleared past and present players from the Melbourne-based Essendon club of using the banned substance thymosin beta-4. The tribunal followed an in-depth probe by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) that examined the club's player supplements and sports science programme which sent shockwaves through the game.


Venezuelan high court declares opposition congress null

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:38 PM PST

Paintings of Venezuelan independence hero Simon Bolivar decorate the stairs of the National Assembly building in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016. Venezuela's Supreme Court has ordered the country's new opposition congress to unseat three barred lawmakers and is declaring that any action the body takes in the meantime is null. The court published a decision Monday that said the congress' acts would be void while the three lawmakers were seated. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's Supreme Court on Monday declared that the new opposition-dominated congress' decisions are void until it unseats three barred lawmakers, bringing the country closer to a showdown over power in the legislature.


Tributes for iconic singer David Bowie

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:32 PM PST

A man walks to place flowers alongside other tributes beside a mural of British singer David Bowie by artist Jimmy C in Brixton, south London, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016. David Bowie, the iconic and shape-shifting British singer whose illustrious career lasted five decade with hits like "Fame," ''Heroes" and "Let's Dance," died Sunday after a battle with cancer. He was 69. The singer, who was born David Jones at the family home in the Brixton area of London, came of age in the glam rock era of the early 1970s. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)LONDON (AP) — Tributes have poured in for singer David Bowie, who died Sunday aged 69. Politicians, entertainers, actors and astronauts have expressed their sadness at his death. Here is a look at some of the reactions:


Hundreds need urgent evacuation from besieged Syria town: ambassadors

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:29 PM PST

Syrian children wait on the outskirts of the besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya, on January 11, 2016, after being evacuated from the townUnited Nations (United States) (AFP) - Some 400 people must be urgently evacuated from the besieged Syrian town of Madaya to receive medical care, the Spanish and New Zealand ambassadors to the United Nations said Monday.


Venezuela high court voids legislature's actions

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:26 PM PST

Lilian Tintori (C), wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, walks with supporters inside the Congress in Caracas on January 11, 2016Venezuela's Supreme Court ruled Monday the opposition-held National Assembly's actions are null and void after the new legislature defied its rulings, escalating the political turmoil gripping the crisis-hit country. The decision, which applies to "all acts... that have been taken or will be taken" by the current National Assembly, comes after the legislature's new speaker swore in three opposition lawmakers whose inauguration had been barred by the court over an election dispute. It declared the three lawmakers and the National Assembly's leadership in contempt of court and invalidated the legislature's actions for as long as the trio hold their seats.


Prokhorov: Easy decision to begin Nets' reset now

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:24 PM PST

Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov speaks during an NBA basketball news conference in New York, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016. The Nets reassigned their general manager and fired coach Lionel Hollins on Sunday in the midst of their worst season since moving from New Jersey. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov wanted a championship, and his team never got close.


Top Asian News 12:24 a.m. GMT

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:24 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House of Representatives House pushed ahead on legislation that seeks to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test by expanding sanctions on Pyongyang, a move with strong bipartisan support despite questions over how effective the new restrictions can be. Lawmakers are scheduled to vote Tuesday on the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act, which proposes to deny North Korea the hard currency they say it needs for its weapons programs. Holding the vote tomorrow puts it on the same day as President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address. But former State Department officials said any new sanctions won't have teeth unless China makes a major shift in policy toward its rebellious ally.

Helicopter pilot critically injured in Antarctic

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:23 PM PST

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A helicopter pilot was in critical condition at an Australian Antarctic base after falling into a crevasse, officials said Tuesday.

GPS vultures swoop down on illegal dumps in Peru

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:07 PM PST

A black-headed vulture is trained by a falconer in Lima on January 9, 2016The lowly vulture is a dirty scavenger to many, but Peruvian environmental authorities have recast the birds as superheroes and outfitted them with high-tech gear in a bid to crack down on illegal garbage dumps. Wearing GPS trackers and mini video cameras, 10 vultures with mythological names have been dispatched to lead authorities to the illegal dumps whose runoff pollutes the rivers and Pacific coastline of the Peruvian capital Lima. In a public service announcement that looks like a Hollywood action movie preview, a "vulture" describes the campaign as a life-and-death battle between the teeming city's human population and the ominous menace of disease-carrying trash.


Merkel says Europe is vulnerable in refugee crisis

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:06 PM PST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that Europe was "vulnerable" in the refugee crisis because it was not yet in control of the situation to the extent that it would like to be. "Now all of a sudden we are facing the challenge that refugees are coming to Europe and we are vulnerable, as we see, because we do not yet have the order, the control, that we would like to have," Merkel said at a business event in Mainz, near Frankfurt.

CAS imposes severe doping bans on 34 AFL players

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 04:06 PM PST

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Court of Arbitration for Sport suspended 34 current or former Essendon players for the 2016 season after ruling in favor of the World Anti-Doping Agency and setting aside the Australian Football League's initial decision to clear the athletes in the biggest doping scandal in the country's history.

The multiple indictments 'El Chapo' faces across US

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:56 PM PST

Drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted to a helicopter at Mexico City's airport on January 8, 2016 following his recaptureMexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is set to mount a tough battle against his extradition to the United States, where he faces federal charges in California, Chicago, Miami, New York and Texas. In multiple indictments stretching back 20 years, Guzman is accused of murder, drug trafficking, kidnapping and money laundering linked to his multibillion-dollar drug empire.


Mali: UN must enable peacekeepers to confront terrorists

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:46 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. peacekeepers in Mali should have a mandate to confront terrorist groups threatening a fragile process, the West African country's foreign minister said Monday.

Shock as music icon David Bowie dies at 69

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:45 PM PST

British singer David Bowie created an astonishing array of stage personas, from the sexually ambiguous Ziggy Stardust to the so-called Thin White DukeLegions of fans and musicians voiced shock Monday as David Bowie died at 69 following a secret battle with cancer, in a surprise final chapter for one of the most influential artists of his time. Brian Eno, who worked with Bowie on his legendary Berlin Trilogy of albums, said that Bowie sent him an email a week ago that was typical for its wordplay and invented names. "It ended with this sentence: 'Thank you for our good times, Brian.


U.S. aircraft bombs Islamic State cash pile in Iraq: U.S. military

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:44 PM PST

A U.S. aircraft bombed an Islamic State cash distribution site in Iraq on Monday, part of efforts by the American-led coalition to disrupt the militant group's financing of its activities, the U.S. military said. "The bulk cash distribution site was used by ISIL to distribute money to fund terrorist activities," Lieutenant Commander Ben Tisdale, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said in a statement, using an acronym for the militant group.

Judge reduces bond for mother of Texas 'affluenza' teen

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:42 PM PST

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The mother of a Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense for a deadly wreck could soon leave jail after a judge on Monday sharply reduced her bond.

With face paint and flowers, fans worldwide mourn Bowie

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:39 PM PST

A woman pays her respects outside a house, believed to be the childhood home of British singer David Bowie, following the announcement of Bowie's death, in Brixton, south London, on January 11, 2016From his birthplace in London to his adopted home in New York, David Bowie fans around the world gathered Monday to mourn a star who many said had shaped their lives. A crowd of around 2,000 people headed in the evening to the gritty south London district of Brixton where he was born -- some clutching beers, others wearing Bowie t-shirts -- to lay flowers beneath a giant mural of his face. Lines of Bowie's hit song "Space Oddity" rang through the chill winter air as fans played guitar and others sang along, several wearing the lightening bolt face makeup or shocking red mullet of "Aladdin Sane", one of Bowie's many stage personas.


Apparent security easing precedes drug lord's recapture

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:33 PM PST

In this Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 photo, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is made to face the press as he's escorted to a helicopter in handcuffs by soldiers and marines at a federal hangar in Mexico City. Guzman's second prison escape in 2015 from a top security prison though a tunnel had embarrassed President Enrique Pena Nieto and made his capture a national priority. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)LIMA, Peru (AP) — As the world's most hunted man, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman had to know the most sophisticated information and surveillance technology available was marshalled against him: satellites, unmanned aircraft, NSA and DEA eavesdroppers, malware-sowing Mexican state hackers.


Even I'm bored by United admits Van Gaal

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:30 PM PST

Manchester United's manager Louis van Gaal leaves after the match between Manchester United and Swansea City at Old Trafford on January 2, 2016Louis van Gaal admits there have been times this season when even he has been left feeling bored and angry by Manchester United's lacklustre displays. United ended an eight-match winless run by defeating Swansea nine days ago and then followed that victory up with a narrow success in the FA Cup against third tier Sheffield United. Paul Scholes branded United's style of play boring earlier this season and following Saturday's 1-0 victory in the FA Cup, the former Old Trafford great claimed both Van Gaal and his players even looked bored during the third round tie.


Iceman mummy reveals new clues about stomach bacteria

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:29 PM PST

A 5,300 year-old mummified corpse known as the Iceman, or Oetzi, is offering scientists new clues about a stomach infection. Scientists at the EURAC Institute of Mummies and the Iceman in northern Italy removed the bacteria Helicobacter pylori from the mummy and conducted a DNA analysis. It showed the Iceman had an unmixed strain of the bacteria not seen in modern humans.

Canadian tourist detained in Afghanistan since 2010 released

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:18 PM PST

FILE - This still file image from a video released by the Taliban on May 8, 2011, purports to show Canadian Colin Rutherford in captivity. Rutherford, who was captured by the Taliban in 2010, has been released, the Canadian government announced on Monday, Jan. 11, 2016. (Taliban video/The Canadian Press via AP)TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian man, held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2010, has been released, Canada's government announced Monday.


David Bowie never stopped looking ahead

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:15 PM PST

Memorabilia and bouquets of flowers are left in honor of David Bowie outside his New York apartment, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016. Bowie, the other-worldly musician who broke pop and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity, striking visuals and a genre-spanning persona he christened Ziggy Stardust, died of cancer Sunday. He was 69. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)It was hardly a coincidence that David Bowie named his greatest hits collection "Changes."


A look at the extradition process for 'El Chapo' Guzman

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:08 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — With Mexican authorities saying they're committed to extraditing Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States, it appears more likely than ever that American prosecutors will eventually get their hands on the drug lord.

Nations vow better intel sharing to halt terror attacks

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 03:02 PM PST

Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders says countries must share intelligence to prevent attacks like those in Paris that left 130 people dead on November 13, 2015, allegedly masterminded by a Belgian-born extremistForeign ministers and diplomats from over 50 nations on Monday bowed to calls for greater information sharing to stop extremists slipping across borders to carry out attacks, making concrete pledges to plug dangerous intelligence lapses. "We all agree that we need to share information better, smarter and faster," Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders told a press conference. Intel sharing "has to be more precise including in such areas as the interruption of travel plans and the financing of terror plans".


Syria's UN envoy says no starvation in Madaya

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 02:55 PM PST

Syrians wait on the outskirts of the besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya, on January 11, 2016, after being evacuated from the townSyria's envoy to the United Nations on Monday dismissed as fabrications reports that civilians were dying of starvation in a town besieged by government forces. Ambassador Bashar Jaafari spoke after a convoy of 44 trucks loaded with food, baby formula, blankets and other supplies entered Madaya, where medical charity MSF says 28 people have starved to death since December 1. "Actually, there was no starvation in Madaya," Jaafari told reporters at UN headquarters.


Strong earthquake struck off Indonesia's Talaud islands

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 02:55 PM PST

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake struck off North Sulawesi province in central Indonesia, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

Mali's jihadists draw strength from peace deal delays: army

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 02:51 PM PST

UN peacekeepers patrol in KidalDelays in implementing the security measures of a Mali peace deal signed last year is making it harder for the army to counter resurgent jihadist groups, an army chief of the West African country said on Monday. Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda who seized urban centers in Mali's desert north in 2012 were scattered by French forces a year later. "The (security) situation is complicated by the lack of control and clarity on the movements of armed groups who signed the peace deal due to multiple delays in the implementation of DDR (Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration)," said General Didier Dackouo, the army's number two official, in a speech before President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita at his palace.


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