2016年1月15日星期五

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Suspected Islamist gunmen take hostages in attack on Burkina Faso hotel

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:31 PM PST

A motorcyclist rides along a road while fire and smoke rising from Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou where suspected Islamist fighters are holding hostages in this still image from a video grabBy Mathieu Bonkoungou and Nadoun Coulibaly OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Security forces in Burkina Faso battled suspected Islamist fighters late on Friday who were holding hostages at a hotel used by foreigners in the capital, Ouagadougou, gendarmes and witnesses said. The attack, claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), would be the first by Islamist militants in the capital of Burkina Faso. It follows a deadly raid on a hotel in Mali last November as well as attacks by militants in other countries in West Africa.


Syria tells U.N.: No one cares more about our people than us

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:34 PM PST

A Syrian national flag flutters near residents who said they have received permission from the Syrian government to leave the besieged town as they wait with their belongings after an aid convoy entered Madaya, SyriaBy Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria told the U.N. Security Council on Friday that no one cares more about the Syrian people than President Bashar al-Assad's government after the United Nations accused rival parties in the five-year conflict of war crimes by starving civilians. The Security Council met to discuss the besiegement of some 400,000 people in Syria. The United Nations says half are in Islamic State controlled areas, some 180,000 in government areas and about 12,000 in areas controlled by opposition armed groups.


North Korea says peace treaty, halt to exercises, would end nuclear tests

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 12:32 PM PST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a ceremony at the meeting hall of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of KoreaNorth Korea on Saturday called for the conclusion of a peace treaty with the United States and a halt to U.S. military exercises with South Korea to end its nuclear tests. The isolated state has long sought a peace treaty with the United States, as well as an end to the exercises by South Korea and the United States, which has about 28,500 troops based in South Korea.


Indonesia kills one militant after attack, search for more

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:18 AM PST

Indonesian police stand near a boarded up police box that was hit during yesterday's gun and bomb attack in central JakartaBy Randy Fabi and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police killed one suspected militant and arrested two more in raids across the country on Friday, a day after an attack by Islamic State suicide bombers and gunmen in the heart of the Southeast Asian nation's capital. Police chiefs across the country were on high alert, some embassies in Jakarta were closed for the day and security was stepped up on the resort island of Bali, a draw for tourists from Australia and other Asian countries. "It's clear that the (Jakarta attackers) didn't set this up themselves.


Report paving way for Iran sanctions relief likely Saturday

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 02:02 PM PST

The flag of the IAEA flies in front of its headquarters in ViennaBy Shadia Nasralla and Arshad Mohammed VIENNA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An IAEA report verifying that Iran has kept its promises under last year's nuclear deal with world powers and triggering sanctions relief for Tehran is likely to be issued on Saturday, a diplomatic source said on Friday. Under the deal, Iran agreed to shrink its atomic program in exchange for the lifting of some EU, U.S. and U.N sanctions, which would allow billions of dollars of investment to flow into the country. In a sign its implementation may be at hand, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini will meet in Vienna on Saturday, the U.S. State Department said.


China seeks investment for disputed islands, to launch flights

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:07 PM PST

Still image from United States Navy video purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly IslandsBy Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China will invite private investment to build infrastructure on islands it controls in the disputed South China Sea and will start regular flights to one of them this year, state media said on Friday, moves likely to anger other claimants. A U.S. research institute, meanwhile, said China appeared to have stepped up construction work on artificial islands it has built in the South China Sea and was close to finishing two more military-length airstrips on them. China claims almost all of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion of maritime trade passes each year.


American tourist found dead in Belize, homicide suspected

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:47 PM PST

BELIZE CITY, Belize (AP) — Belizean authorities are investigating the suspicious death of an American tourist who was vacationing in the town of Benque Viejo del Carmen on the Belize-Guatemala border.

Top Asian News 12:34 a.m. GMT

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:34 PM PST

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Voting began Saturday in Taiwan's presidential election in which the island's China-friendly Nationalist Party appears likely to lose power to the pro-independence opposition, amid concerns that the island's economy is under threat from China and broad opposition among voters to Beijing's demands for political unification. The Democratic Progressive Party's Tsai Ing-wen is poised to become the self-governing island's first female president, returning the main opposition party to power after eight years under Nationalist President Ma Ying-jeou, who is constitutionally barred from another term. The outcome of the contest for a majority in the 133-seat legislature remains uncertain, with independents and smaller parties posing a threat to both the Nationalists and the DPP.

Facts about Taiwan for Saturday presidential election

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:33 PM PST

Supporters of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen attend a rally before polling day in Banqiao district of Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. Taiwan will hold its presidential election on Jan. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Some basic information about the self-governing island democracy of Taiwan, which is holding elections for president and the 133-seat national legislature Saturdauy:


Venezuela's Maduro faces off with hostile legislature

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:30 PM PST

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (R) presents the annual report before the opposition controlled National Assembly in Caracas on January 15, 2016Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro made his first appearance before a hostile legislature Friday, hours after decreeing a two-month state of "economic emergency" in the crisis-hit, oil-rich nation. Maduro's first state of the nation address before the newly opposition-held National Assembly, which is locked in a bitter power struggle with his administration, came as Venezuela's central bank released its first official economic growth and inflation statistics in more than a year. The leftist president was alternately conciliatory and defiant as he launched into his speech, telling the opposition he was ready for dialogue to preserve the peace but chastising them for such measures as removing portraits of his late predecessor Hugo Chavez from the legislature.


Taiwan goes to polls in historic presidential vote

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:25 PM PST

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen waves to supporters at an election rally in New Taipei City on January 15, 2016Polls opened in Taiwan Saturday with the island expected to elect its first female president in a historic vote likely to end eight years of closer China ties. The boisterous democracy is expected to push back against Beijing by bringing scholar-turned-politician Tsai Ing-wen to power, unseating the China-friendly ruling party. Voters are uneasy about warming relations with Beijing and, as the economy stagnates, many are frustrated that trade pacts signed with China have failed to benefit ordinary Taiwanese.


Tsai Ing-wen, Eric Chu vying for Taiwan's presidency

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:24 PM PST

Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen waves during the final rally before polling day in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. Taiwan will hold its presidential election on Jan. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A look at the two main candidates running in Taiwan's presidential election on Saturday.


Liverpool, Man Utd look for winning balance

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:24 PM PST

Liverpool's manager Jurgen Klopp (C) applauds the fans after winning the English Premier League football match between Liverpool and Arsenal at Anfield stadium in Liverpool, England on January 13, 2016Despite starkly contrasting playing philosophies, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and his Manchester United counterpart Louis van Gaal are grappling with similar problems ahead of their meeting at Anfield on Sunday. While Klopp espouses hard-running, high-pressing, "heavy metal" football, Van Gaal is all about patient ball retention, but both men are yet to find a consistent formula for scoring goals. Liverpool's return of 22 goals from their first 20 league games this season was the worst in their history, while United have not scored so few goals at this stage of a season (27) since the 1992-93 campaign.


At least 20 dead in Burkina Faso hotel attack: hospital chief

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:20 PM PST

Army forces near Hotel Splendid, where the attackers remain with sporadic gunfire continuing in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on January 15, 2016Ouagadougou (AFP) - At least 20 people have been killed and another 15 wounded in an ongoing assault on a hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso on Friday night, a hospital chief told AFP.


First of 8,000 stranded Cuban migrants cross into US

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:19 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The first of 8,000 Cuban migrants recently stranded in Central America have crossed the Mexican border into the United States.

Russia says West 'politicizing' humanitarian crisis in Syria

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:18 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia dismissed a Security Council meeting Friday on the siege of Syrian towns as "unnecessary noise" that politicizes a humanitarian crisis and risks derailing upcoming peace talks.

Pro-China party likely to lose power in Taiwan's election

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:17 PM PST

Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen attends a rally before polling day in Banqiao district of Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. Taiwan will hold its presidential election on Jan. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Voting began Saturday in Taiwan's presidential election in which the island's China-friendly Nationalist Party appears likely to lose power to the pro-independence opposition, amid concerns that the island's economy is under threat from China and broad opposition among voters to Beijing's demands for political unification.


Honduran team unearths ceramics at 'White City' site

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:16 PM PST

This Feb. 21, 2015 handout photo provided by Benenson Productions, shows a very unusual stone, flat on top and bottom, which was wedged shaped, and with a white raised TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduran officials said Friday that archaeologists have begun excavations at a mysterious site on Honduras' Caribbean coast that may be the long-rumored "White City" ruins.


Mexico's Pena Nieto to tour Gulf states, eye on oil

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:11 PM PST

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico City on January 8, 2016Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto will depart Sunday for state visits to Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, focused on economic and energy issues, his government said. Pena Nieto, who is trying to breathe new life into Mexico's key oil sector, will seek to increase trade and investment ties with "a part of the world that is continually growing in importance," said Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu. Mexico is keen to attract investment to its oil sector after Pena Nieto undertook reforms that ended state-run firm Pemex's 77-year monopoly.


UN agency: Starving Syrian teen died 'in front of our eyes'

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:10 PM PST

A convoy of trucks loaded with humanitarian supplies are seen heading to the besieged town of Madaya, some 24 kilometers in southwest Damascus, Syria, on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016 for distribution as part of a large-scale U.N.-sponsored aid operation in the war-ravaged country. (AP Photo)BEIRUT (AP) — The U.N. children's agency said Friday that it witnessed the death of a teenager who died of starvation "in front of our eyes," as well as several cases of severe malnutrition among children trapped in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya near Damascus.


Al-Qaeda affiliate claims Ouagadougou attack: monitor group

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:02 PM PST

A Burkina Faso soldier stands near Hotel Splendid where attackers of a hotel and restaurant remain with sporadic gunfire continuing in the capital Ouagadougou on January 15, 2016An Al-Qaeda affiliate in Africa has claimed responsibility for Friday's attack on a restaurant in Ouagadougou in which a witness said several people were killed, according to a US-based jihadist monitoring group. The "mujahideen brothers" of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb "broke into a restaurant of one of the biggest hotels in the capital of Burkina Faso, and are now entrenched and the clashes are continuing with the enemies of the religion," the SITE Intelligence Group quoted an Arabic-language AQIM message as saying. A Burkina Faso official said there were victims in the ongoing attack as well as hostages, and that the government was planning a counter-assault that may include foreign forces.


Polls open in Taiwan's presidential election with China-friendly Nationalists appearing set to lose power after 8 years

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 04:01 PM PST

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Polls open in Taiwan's presidential election with China-friendly Nationalists appearing set to lose power after 8 years .

People killed in Burkina hotel attack: foreign minister

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:58 PM PST

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - People have died at a hotel in Burkina Faso's capital under attack on Friday by suspected Islamist militants who have taken hostages, the country's foreign minister Alpha Barry told Reuters. Security forces have secured a perimeter around the Splendid Hotel and await an order to begin an assault and the government does not rule out calling for help from French special forces stationed in the country, he said in a telephone interview. (Reporting by Mathieu Bonkoungou; Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg; Editing by Chris Reese)

Peterhansel, Price preserve big leads and set to win Dakar

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:50 PM PST

Peugeot driver France's Stephane Peterhansel and co-driver Jean Paul Cottret, race during the twelfth stage of the 2016 Dakar Rally, between San Juan and Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)VILLA CARLOS PAZ, Argentina (AP) — Stephane Peterhansel will take a 41-minute lead into the final stage of the Dakar Rally on Saturday, enough to win the world's toughest rally a record-extending 12th time.


Prince Ali asks FIFA to investigate vote rival Sheikh Salman

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:46 PM PST

LONDON (AP) — FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali bin al-Hussein on Friday accused rival Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al Khalifa of attempting to break election rules and asked soccer's governing body to investigate a contentious deal.

Ospreys rally past Clermont to boost European hopes

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:37 PM PST

Ospreys' New Zealand scrum-half Brendon Leonard passes the ball during the European Rugby Champions Cup group stage match between Ospreys and Clermont Auvergne at the Liberty stadium in Swansea, south Wales on January 15, 2016Sam Davies came off the bench to lift Ospreys to a gritty 21-13 comeback win over French side Clermont to top Pool 2 in the European Champions Cup on Friday. Fly-half Davies kicked 15 points after the break to put the Welsh region within touching distance of the quarter-finals. Clermont, last year's runners-up, had held the advantage until the final 15 minutes but paid for ill-discipline with their progress now out of their own hands.


Canada top court further delays new assisted dying rules

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:33 PM PST

Some form of physician-assisted dying is legal in Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland and in a handful of US statesCanada's high court gave parliament another four months Friday to rewrite the law in order to allow doctors to help gravely ill patients die upon request. The government had asked for time to amend the nation's Criminal Code after the court in February 2014 quashed a section prohibiting assisted suicide, effectively authorizing it for consenting adults with serious health problems.


Al Qaeda group claims responsibility for Burkina hotel siege

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:27 PM PST

DAKAR (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said on Friday it was responsible for an ongoing attack on a hotel in Burkina Faso's capital, SITE Intelligence Group reported. A senior member of the ultra hardline group had called in December for Muslims in several countries, including Burkina Faso, to wage jihad. AQIM, along with two other groups, also claimed responsibility for killing 20 people and taking hostages in the capital of neighboring Mali in November. (Reporting by Makini Brice; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

Burkina Faso imposes curfew from 2300 GMT to 0600 amid attack: French envoy

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:27 PM PST

A curfew has been put in place in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou from 2300 GMT (1800 ET) to 0600, France's ambassador to the country said on Saturday, as suspected Islamist gunmen held hostages at a hotel in the capital. Gilles Thibault said on his Twitter account the attack in its former colony was ongoing and that the embassy had set up a crisis unit for its citizens. Describing the assault on the Splendid Hotel in the capital's business district as a "terrorist attack," the embassy had earlier told French nationals to say at home and avoid the area.

Gunfire, explosions in 'terror attack' at Burkina Faso hotel

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:27 PM PST

Army forces near Hotel Splendid, where the attackers remain with sporadic gunfire continuing in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou on January 15, 2016Gunshots and explosions were heard coming from one of Ouagadougou's main hotels and a nearby restaurant on Friday night, with a witness saying several people had been killed in what the French embassy called a terrorist attack. Around 10 vehicles were on fire in the street where the four-star Splendid hotel and the Cappuccino restaurant opposite -- both popular with United Nations staff and westerners -- are located in a busy, central area of Burkina Faso's capital not far from the international airport. The attack comes less than two months after a jihadist hostage siege at the luxury Radisson Blu Hotel in the Malian capital Bamako in November, in which 20 people died including 14 foreigners.


Swedish citizens get 11 years in U.S. prison for al Shabaab support

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:20 PM PST

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two Swedish citizens who U.S. prosecutors said fought alongside the Islamist militant group al Shabaab in Somalia in battles to take control of the country's capital of Mogadishu were sentenced to 11 years in prison on Friday. Ali Yasin Ahmed, 31, and Mohamed Yusuf, 33, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge John Gleeson in Brooklyn, New York, in light of their guilty pleas in May to conspiring to provide material support to al Shabaab.

Jazz parades and glittery parties as fans mourn Bowie

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:17 PM PST

Floral tributes beneath a mural of David Bowie in Brixton, south London, on January 11, 2016From an outrageously costumed parade to a bacchanalian party in heaps of glitter, memorial events to David Bowie are multiplying as fans find their own ways to mourn the rock legend. Bowie -- a pioneer of glam rock at the start of a half-century career marked by constant reinvention -- apparently did not want a soppy public funeral. Arcade Fire, the Canadian indie rockers championed by Bowie when they started out, announced that the group would lead a parade Saturday through New Orleans.


Harry Potter fans raise a wand to late actor Rickman

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:17 PM PST

Floral tributes (L) to British actor Alan Rickman are seen as people pose at the Platform 9 3/4 Harry Potter display at King's Cross station in London, on January 15, 2016Fans of the Harry Potter saga paid tribute Friday to the late actor Alan Rickman at the mythical platform 9 3/4 at London's King's Cross station. One letter left among the flowers at King's Cross reflected how Rickman had made the character his own. "Dear Alan, I was so shocked to hear of your death," it read.


Representative: Singer Celine Dion's brother has cancer

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:16 PM PST

MONTREAL (AP) — Pop singer Celine Dion's representative said Friday that Dion's brother has cancer and doesn't have long to live, even as funeral arrangements were announced for Dion's husband, who died a day earlier.

Snedeker sets the target at Waialae

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:06 PM PST

Brandt Snedeker hits off the fourth tee during the second round of the Sony Open golf tournament, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)HONOLULU (AP) — Brandt Snedeker had a 5-under 65 and never came seriously close to a bogey Friday to build a one-shot lead midway through the second round of the Sony Open.


DiCaprio has 'no nerves' over Oscar nomination

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 03:06 PM PST

US actor Leonardo DiCaprio arrives for the UK premiere of "The Revenant" in London on January 14, 2016US actor Leonardo DiCaprio on Friday claimed to feel no nerves at the prospect of claiming his first Oscar for his role in "The Revenant", saying he had "done the work" and could do no more. "The Revenant" is an odyssey of survival and revenge in which DiCaprio ate raw buffalo liver, climbed snowy mountains and bathed in icy rivers as he played the legendary trapper Hugh Glass. The film, directed by Alejandro Inarritu, is up for 12 Oscars, it was announced Thursday.


Mysterious 'Zuma must fall' billboard baffles Cape Town

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 02:58 PM PST

Calls for Zuma to resign or be kicked out of office are not new, with accusations that he presides over growing corruption, unemployment and a struggling economyA giant billboard calling for President Jacob Zuma to be ousted appeared in central Cape Town Friday, startling the normally sleepy city into feverish speculation over who was behind it. Twitter lit up with speculation over suspects, with perhaps the most trenchant suggestion being that it was "Someone with big balls & deep pockets". The main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, which has repeatedly called for Zuma's impeachment, denied it was responsible.


Colombia's Nicolas Echavarria leads Latin American Amateur

Posted: 15 Jan 2016 02:52 PM PST

LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic (AP) — Colombia's Nicolas Echavarria shot a 7-under 65 on Friday to take a three-stroke lead after the second round of the Latin American Amateur Championship.

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