2016年9月16日星期五

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Russia says U.S. refuses to share Syria truce deal with U.N. council

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:38 PM PDT

Smoke rises over a damaged site as Civil Defence members try to put out a fire after an airstrike on al-Jalaa street in the rebel held city of IdlibBy Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday that a U.N. Security Council endorsement of a Syria ceasefire deal between Moscow and Washington appeared unlikely because the United States does not want to share the documents detailing the agreement with the 15-member body. Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin and U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power had been due to brief the council behind closed-doors on Friday but that was canceled at the last minute. "The main problem ... which in my mind makes it impossible to produce any resolution, is that they are refusing to give those documents to members of the Security Council or even to read those documents to the members of the Security Council," Churkin told reporters.


TNT traces on EgyptAir plane debris split investigators: Le Figaro

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 02:17 PM PDT

The EgyptAir plane scheduled to make the following flight from Paris to Cairo taxies on the tarmac at Charles de Gaulle airport in ParisInvestigators from France's institute for criminal research found traces of the explosive material TNT last week in Cairo on debris from an EgyptAir plane that crashed in May, triggering a dispute between French and Egyptian authorities, French newspaper Le Figaro reported on Friday. The origin of these traces remains unclear and Egyptian judicial authorities did not allow French investigators to examine the debris in detail, Le Figaro said, citing a source close to the investigation.


Obama to meet with Iraq, Nigeria, Colombia leaders at U.N. Assembly

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 03:50 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 39th Annual Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Public Policy Conference and Annual Awards GalaPresident Barack Obama will meet with the leaders of Iraq, Nigeria and Colombia on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly gathering next week, the White House said on Friday. Obama will hold separate sessions with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters on a call.


Divided European leaders struggle with post-Brexit vision

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 01:02 PM PDT

European Union leaders pose for a family photo during the European Union summit- the first one since Britain voted to quit- in Bratislava, SlovakiaBy Noah Barkin and Jason Hovet BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - European leaders, struggling to overcome an historic crisis following Britain's vote to leave the EU, agreed on Friday to explore closer defense cooperation and boost security at their external borders, but could not hide deep divisions over refugees and economic policy. Meeting in the Slovak capital with the British conspicuously absent, the 27 other EU members unveiled a six-month "road map" of measures designed to restore public confidence in Europe's ailing common project. "I'm not satisfied with the (summit) conclusions on growth or on immigration," said Renzi, apparently miffed at being excluded from a joint news conference given by Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Francois Hollande at the end of the summit.


Riots erupt in Congo opposition stronghold: report

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:41 PM PDT

Protesters calling for Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila to resign and hold elections burned tires on Friday in the streets of the opposition stronghold of Lubumbashi, and police fired tear gas to disperse them, U.N.-backed Radio Okapi reported. Elections were scheduled for November but the electoral commission said last month that Congo's voter registry will not even be complete until July 2017. Kabila's opponents accuse him of stalling the vote to cling to power, though his supporters deny the charge.

Exclusive: U.N. inquiry blames Syrian military for chlorine bomb attacks - source

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 09:13 AM PDT

A file photo of a still image taken on September 7, 2016 from a video posted on social media said to be shot in Aleppo's Al Sukari on September 6, 2016, shows a boy breathing with an oxygen mask inside a hospital, after a suspected chlorine gas attackBy Anthony Deutsch, John Irish and Michelle Nichols THE HAGUE/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - An international inquiry has identified two Syrian Air Force helicopter squadrons and two other military units it holds responsible for chlorine gas attacks on civilians, a Western diplomat told Reuters. The finding by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the global chemical weapons watchdog, is based on Western and regional intelligence, the diplomat said. "It was the 22nd Division, the 63rd Brigade and the 255 and 253 squadrons of the Syrian government," the envoy said.


Henry to replace Southee in NZ team for India tests

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 05:51 PM PDT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Fast bowler Matt Henry has been called into the New Zealand cricket team for its three-test series against India as a replacement for the injured Tim Southee.

Andrew "Beef" Johnson takes Boise Open lead

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 05:45 PM PDT

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Andrew Johnson shot an 8-under 63 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead in the Albertsons Boise Open, putting the bearded Englishmen in position to wrap up a PGA Tour card.

Loud noises! You bet at Vikings' new stadium

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 05:38 PM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, US Bank Stadium, the new home of the NFL Minnesota Vikings football team, is shown in Minneapolis. The Vikings will host the Green Bay Packers in the first regular season game in the new stadium Sunday, Sept. 18. The Vikings are expecting the $1.1 billion translucent building to be a significant advantage for them with 66,000 roaring fans packing the place all fall. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings sought an innovative and unique look for their new stadium that could be instantly recognized on national television.


Liverpool beats Chelsea 2-1 in English Premier League

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 05:28 PM PDT

Liverpool's Jordan Henderson, left, scores his side's second goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Liverpool at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)LONDON (AP) — London has made Liverpool feel right at home.


US to Russia: Syria military cooperation not guaranteed

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 05:26 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States warned Russia on Friday that potential military cooperation envisioned by a cease-fire deal in Syria will not happen unless humanitarian aid begins to flow into Aleppo and other besieged communities. The warning came as President Barack Obama's top national security aides continued to wrangle over whether and how to cooperate militarily with the Russians in the event those conditions are met.

U.S. designates Syria insurgent, Hamas official as terrorists

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 05:19 PM PDT

The U.S. State Department said on Friday it had designated the leader of a group of French foreign fighters in Syria and a senior Hamas official as specially designated global terrorists, a move that freezes their U.S. assets. The State Department described the first man, Omar Diaby, as the leader of a group of about 50 foreign fighters in Syria that has taken part in terrorist operations with Nusra Front, an insurgent group that has renamed itself Jabhat Fateh al-Sham. The second man, identified as Fathi Ahmad Mohammad Hammad, is a former Hamas interior minister, a position he used to coordinate terrorist cells, the department said in a separate statement.

Price starting for Canada, Weber expected to play vs Czechs

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 05:05 PM PDT

Team Canada goaltender Carey Price takes a break during a training session ahead of the World Cup of Hockey in Toronto on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)TORONTO (AP) — Canada is turning to Carey Price to start the World Cup of Hockey.


Nigeria's Buhari admits to plagiarizing line from Obama speech

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 05:04 PM PDT

Prime Minister David Cameron Hosts Anti-Corruption SummitNigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari plagiarized quotes from U.S. President Barack Obama in a speech promising change in the West African country, his office said on Friday. Last week, Buhari gave a speech to launch a campaign titled "Change begins with me," part of his credo to end graft in Africa's biggest economy which is gripped by mismanagement and poverty despite sitting on vast energy reserves. "It was observed that the similarities between a paragraph in President Obama's 2008 victory speech and what President Buhari read in paragraph nine of the 16-paragraph address... are too close to be passed as coincidence," Buhari's office said in a statement.


Russia, U.S. seek to prolong Syria truce but aid blocked, violence spreads

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 05:02 PM PDT

A general view shows Castello road in AleppoBy Lisa Barrington and Osman Orsal BEIRUT/CILVEGOZU, Turkey (Reuters) - The United States and Russia said on Friday they wanted to extend the four-day-old ceasefire in Syria they have co-sponsored, although the agreement looked increasingly shaky, undermined by increasing violence and a failure to deliver aid. Washington and Moscow, which support opposite sides in the war between President Bashar al-Assad and insurgents, have agreed to share targeting information against jihadist fighters that are their common enemies, if the truce holds. Russia said on Friday that U.N. Security Council endorsement of the ceasefire, which Moscow hoped would occur next week during an annual U.N. meeting of world leaders, appeared unlikely because the United States did not want to share documents detailing the agreement with the 15-member body.


U.S. meeting on ocean conservation nets $5.3 billion in pledges

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:53 PM PDT

Obama speaks at the Our Ocean Conference in WashingtonInternational participants at a high-level conference on the world's oceans pledged more than $5.3 billion for conservation and designated vast areas as protected waters, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday. More than 90 countries took part in the two-day conference, the third of its kind, in an effort to galvanize attention to the dangers that pollution, climate change and over-fishing may pose to the world's oceans. "This ocean conference, in order to protect marine eco-systems, to prevent pollution, to address the crippling impacts of climate change, has committed over $5.3 billion of money and initiatives in order to achieve those goals," Kerry said at the meeting's closing session.


Mourinho expects United revival at Watford

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:49 PM PDT

Manchester United's Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho gestures during the UEFA Europa League football match between Feyenoord Rotterdam and Manchester United on September 15, 2016Jose Mourinho insists Manchester United will get back on track at Watford in the Premier League on Sunday after successive defeats ruined a promising start to his reign. United won the Community Shield and reeled off three consecutive Premier League wins to raise hopes Mourinho's influence had quickly revitalised a team that stumbled to a fifth-place finish under Louis van Gaal last season.


Ricky Taylor takes IMSA pole at Circuit of The Americas

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:42 PM PDT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Ricky Taylor took the pole position Friday for the 2-hour, 40-minute IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race Saturday at Circuit of The Americas .

Jury can't decide sanity of German who set Los Angeles fires

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:42 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial Friday over whether a German man was sane when he set dozens of fires across Los Angeles during three nights of terror nearly five years ago.

Russia says UN meeting cancelled over US objections

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:41 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A hastily scheduled Security Council meeting was canceled because the U.S. does not want to make public details of the Syrian cease-fire deal, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations said Friday.

38 Boko Haram fighters killed in south Niger: army

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:30 PM PDT

Niger's army convoy arrives in the city of Bosso following attacks by Boko Haram fighters in the regionThirty-eight Boko Haram Islamist fighters have been killed during military search operations carried out by Niger and Chad troops in the Diffa region of southeast Niger this week, an official said Friday. 38 terrorists killed," Niger defence ministry spokesman Moustapha Ledru said on state television. Substantial quantities of weapons and munitions were also seized, Colonel Ledru added.


Blaze destroys much of 16th century Peru church

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:29 PM PDT

Firefighters and police inspect the famed 16th century San Sebastian church after it was partially destroyed by fire in Cuzco, Peru, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. The blaze that burned into Friday morning destroyed the ornate, gilded altar and about two dozen paintings at the Temple of San Sebastian. (AP Photo/Percy Hurtado)LIMA, Peru (AP) — A fire has ruined much of a famed 16th century church in the Peruvian city of Cuzco, authorities said Friday.


False clues make it tough to find WADA hackers

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:27 PM PDT

A screenshot of the Fancy Bears website fancybear.net seen on a computes screen in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. Confidential medical data of gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams and other female U.S. Olympians was hacked from a World Anti-Doping Agency database and posted online Tuesday Sept 13, 2016. WADA said the hackers were a "Russian cyber espionage group" called Fancy Bears. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)LONDON (AP) — Medical data from some of the world's leading athletes has been posted to the web and the World Anti-Doping Agency says Russians are to blame. Even the hackers seem to agree, adopting the name "Fancy Bears" — a moniker long associated with the Kremlin's electronic espionage operations.


Puerto Rico to install 200 slot machines at airport

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:21 PM PDT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's government says it plans to install 200 slot machines at the island's main international airport to boost revenues amid a dire economic crisis.

Trump finally backs off Obama birth claim, falsely says Clinton started it

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:13 PM PDT

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump walks through atrium of his new Trump International Hotel in WashingtonBy Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday abandoned his false claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States after spending five years peddling conspiracy theories that the country's first African-American president started life as a foreigner. Trump, who has won back some ground in opinion polls and made the White House race more competitive after he went through a summer slump, made his announcement in an attempt to clear the air as he prepares for the first of three televised presidential debates with Clinton on Sept. 26.


South Korea opens 14-stroke lead in Mexico

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:12 PM PDT

RIVIERA MAYA, Mexico (AP) — Hye Jin Choi shot a 4-under 68 on Friday to help push South Korea's lead to 14 strokes Friday in the Women's World Amateur Team Championships.

Obama says concerned Syrian government blocking humanitarian aid: White House

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:11 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama expressed deep concern that the Syrian government continues to block the flow of humanitarian aid despite decreased violence in the country following a truce arranged by the United States and Russia, the White House said on Friday. Obama, in a meeting with his national security aides, also "emphasized that the United States will not proceed with the next steps in the arrangement with Russia until we see seven continuous days of reduced violence and sustained humanitarian access," the White House said in a statement.

Two-man refugee team appreciates Paralympic experience

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:10 PM PDT

Syrian refugee Ibrahim Al Hussein of the Independent Paralympic Athletes walks out of the pool after competing in heat 1 of the men's 50-meter freestyle - S9 swimming event at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium, during the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. (Simon Bruty/OIS, IOC via AP)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Of the nearly 4,000 athletes competing in the Rio Paralympics, all but two are doing so for their country.


American men who died fighting Islamic State come home

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:08 PM PDT

Katie Shirley of Arvada, Colo., joins her father, Russ, back, of Rapid City, S.D., in touching the casket bearing the body of her brother and his son, 24-year-old Levi Shirley, as the bodies of Shirley and Jordan MacTaggart were unloaded from an Amtrak train at Union Station early Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, in Denver. The two young American men, along with a third William Savage, died separately in combat after joining the People's Protection Units — the main Kurdish guerrilla group battling the Islamic State in Syria. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)DENVER (AP) — The bodies of two young Americans who died fighting the Islamic State group in Syria were returned to their sobbing families early Friday in simple, gray caskets that were pulled from an Amtrak train in Denver as throngs of sleepy passengers watched.


Powell discusses secret Israeli nukes in leaked 2015 email

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 04:05 PM PDT

In this photo taken Nov. 9, 2011, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks in New York. In a leaked 2015 email exchange, former Secretary of State Colin Powell discussed Israel's nuclear weapons with a friend, saying the country has 200 warheads. (AP Photo/Eric Reichbaum)WASHINGTON (AP) — In a private email exchange last year leaked this week by hackers, former Secretary of State Colin Powell discussed Israel's nuclear weapons capability with a friend, saying the country has 200 warheads.


Residents of Haiti city protest ex-leader's visit

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 03:52 PM PDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Some residents of a Haitian city demonstrated against a campaign visit by polarizing ex-leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide who is supporting the presidential hopeful of the political faction he founded decades ago.

V&A Museum chief quits to fight nationalism post-Brexit

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 03:45 PM PDT

Director Martin Roth speaks infront of the press at The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' Hollywood Costume Press Preview at Wilshire May Company BuildingMartin Roth, the outgoing director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, said Friday he was leaving to throw his weight into fighting nationalism across Europe, following Britain's vote to quit the EU. "I really like this country -- I like London, I like to live here," the 61-year-old said.


Mel Gibson's girlfriend pregnant with star's 9th child

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 03:45 PM PDT

FILE - in this May 22, 2016, file photo, actor Mel Gibson, right and Rosalind Ross pose for photographers upon arrival at the awards ceremony at the 69th international film festival in Cannes, southern France. 's publicist confirmed Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, that Ross is pregnant with the actor-director's ninth child. Gibson has seven children with his ex-wife, Robyn, and a 6-year-old daughter with his ex-girlfriend, musician Oksana Grigorieva. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mel Gibson is preparing to be a dad for the ninth time.


Education is civil rights struggle of our age: U.N. envoy Gordon Brown

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 03:40 PM PDT

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks at a "Britain Stronger in Europe" rally at Birmingham University in BirminghamBy Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ensuring every child gets a good education is the "civil rights struggle of our generation", United Nations education envoy Gordon Brown said on Friday ahead of launching a plan for the largest educational expansion in history. "We will be betraying half our future if we do not take action," he told a media briefing at the United Nations. Young people denied school are more likely to end up victims of child marriage, child labor or fall into the hands of traffickers, he said.


Bombing in northwest Pakistan mosque kills 24, wounds 28

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 03:39 PM PDT

A Pakistani child who was injured in a suicide bombing is treated at a local hospital in Khar, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. A suicide bomber attacked a Sunni mosque in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing dozens of worshippers and wounding many others, officials said. Several children were also among those killed or wounded in the deadly attack. (AP Photo/Anwarullah Khan)KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber attacked a Sunni mosque in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 24 worshippers and wounding 28 others, officials said. Several children were also among those killed or wounded in the deadly attack.


Top Asian News 10:39 p.m. GMT

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 03:39 PM PDT

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber attacked a Sunni mosque in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 24 worshippers and wounding 28 others, officials said. Several children were also among those killed or wounded in the deadly attack. A breakaway Taliban group later claimed responsibility for the bombing. The attacker shouted "God is Great" as he entered the mosque in the village of Ambar in Pakistan's Mohmand tribal region, government administrator Naveed Akbar told The Associated Press. He said rescuers had transported the dead and wounded to nearby hospitals, where some of the wounded were listed in critical condition.

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