2016年11月15日星期二

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Islamic State kills civilians in Mosul to deter support for army

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:59 AM PST

Iraqi special forces soldiers point guns at part of Mosul controlled by Islamic State fighters in IraqBy Dominic Evans and John Davison BAGHDAD/QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) - Islamic State has summarily killed 21 civilians in Mosul it accused of collaborating with U.S.-backed security forces, which said their offensive to recapture the city from the jihadists had made further advances. The killings, reported on Tuesday by a medical source, indicate that the ultra-hardline group has maintained its ability to police Mosul, more than four weeks after the start of the offensive on the northern Iraqi city. Counter terrorism forces breached Islamic State defenses in the east of the city two weeks ago but have faced resistance from the militants who have deployed suicide car bombs, snipers and waves of counter-attacks.


Air strikes pound rebel-held east Aleppo after weeks-long pause

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 01:33 PM PST

Still image shows Russian Bastion coastal missile launchers launching Oniks missiles at unknown location in SyriaBy Ellen Francis and Angus McDowall BEIRUT (Reuters) - Intense air strikes resumed in rebel-held districts of eastern Aleppo after a weeks-long pause on Tuesday, killing at least three people, residents and a war monitor said. Syrian state television said the Damascus government's air force took part in strikes against "terrorist strongholds" in Aleppo's Old City while Russia said it had struck Islamic State and former Nusra Front sites elsewhere in Syria, without mentioning Aleppo.


Air strike targeting militants kills seven in southern Libya: official

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 02:57 PM PST

An air strike targeting Islamist militants has killed at least seven people near the southwestern Libyan city of Sabha, a local official and media reports said on Tuesday. Gunmen later seized the remains of the suspected militants from a morgue, said the official, who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisals. The early morning strike hit three houses in Gardah, northwest of Sabha, destroying two of them and damaging the third, said the official.

France, U.N. tell Trump action on climate change unstoppable

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 04:45 PM PST

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks with French President Francois Hollande during a lunch at the Royal Palace during the UN Climate Change Conference 2016 in MarrakechBy Nina Chestney and Alister Doyle MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - France and the United Nations on Tuesday stepped up warnings to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump about the risks of quitting a 2015 global plan to combat climate change, saying a historic shift from fossil fuels is unstoppable. French President Francois Hollande, addressing almost 200 nations meeting in Morocco on ways to slow global warming, said that inaction would be "disastrous for future generations and it would be dangerous for peace". Both he and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Trump, who has called man-made global warming a hoax, to drop a campaign pledge to cancel the global 2015 Paris Agreement that aims to shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energies.


U.S. says war crimes probe of U.S. forces in Afghanistan unwarranted

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 04:37 PM PST

An International Criminal Court investigation of possible war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan is not "warranted or appropriate," the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday after prosecutors in The Hague found initial grounds for such a probe. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said the United States was not a party to the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court in The Hague and had not consented to ICC jurisdiction.

Polls, Macron campaign launch throw French presidential election wide open

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 03:44 PM PST

French politician Francois Fillon, member of the conservative Les Republicains political party, arrives to attend a political rally as he campaigns for his party presidential primary in StrasbourgBy Andrew Callus PARIS (Reuters) - France's presidential election campaign, until now apparently sleepwalking towards victory for ex-Prime Minister Alain Juppe, jolts into life on Wednesday as a far younger man launches his bid for the job and polls show the 71-year-old losing his lead. Juppe has fought his campaign so far on a centrist platform to the left of his main rival for the centre-right ticket, Nicolas Sarkozy. Since the weekend, opinion polls have been showing Francois Fillon, the prime minister under Sarkozy's first presidency between 2007 and 2012, gaining ground fast as the "third man" in the Les Republicains ticket contest.


De Kooning painting fetches record $66.3M in NYC

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:38 PM PST

FILE - In a Friday, Nov. 4, 2016 file photo, William de Kooning's "Untitled XXV" is displayed at Christie's, in New York. Christie's predicts that NEW YORK (AP) — A large painting from one of Willem de Kooning's most productive periods sold for $66.3 million at Christie's auction of contemporary art.


UN committee flags Iran over human rights

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:24 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. committee on Tuesday urged Iran to cease enforced disappearances and the widespread use of arbitrary detention and has expressed serious concern about severe limitations on freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief.

Nicaragua ruling party widens majority in Congress after vote

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:20 PM PST

Daniel Ortega speaks to the media as his wife Rosario Murillo looks on after casting their vote at a polling station during Nicaragua's presidential election in ManaguaNicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega's party strengthened its majority in the country's Congress after his landslide re-election earlier this month, the country's electoral authority said on Tuesday. Ortega, a former Marxist guerilla and the head of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party, won his third consecutive term in the election on Nov. 6, as voters cheered years of solid economic growth and overlooked criticism he is installing a family dynasty. The electoral authority, which needed more than a week to tally results from across the country including isolated communities, said Ortega's Sandinistas won 71 of the 92 seats in Congress, up from the 63 seats they won in the 2011 election.


Energy companies lead indexes higher as oil price soars

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:19 PM PST

A pair of traders work in their booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. U.S. stocks are rising Tuesday as the price of oil soars, sending energy companies higher. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks climbed Tuesday as the price of oil made its biggest jump in seven months and energy companies rose with it. Technology stocks like Microsoft and Google's parent Alphabet traded higher and bond yields slipped, a break with the pattern since last week's election.


Klinsmann stays with same lineup vs Costa Rica, but in 4-4-2

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:42 PM PST

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann stayed with basically the same starting lineup against Costa Rica that opened Friday's 2-1 loss to Mexico but switched to a conventional 4-4-2 formation.

How the Dow Jones industrial average fared on Tuesday

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:17 PM PST

U.S. stocks climbed Tuesday as the price of oil made its biggest jump in seven months and energy companies rose with it. Technology stocks like Microsoft and Google's parent Alphabet traded higher and bond yields slipped, a break with the pattern since last week's election.

Eagles of Death Metal singer makes appearance at tribute show

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:14 PM PST

Jesse Hughes, singer of American rock group Eagles of Death Metal, arrives at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, on November 13, 2016, for a ceremony to mark the first anniversary of terror attacksEagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes on Tuesday made a surprise performance at a London tribute concert to his "dear friend" Nick Alexander, the roadie killed in last year's Paris attacks. The US rocker performed a solo set and joined in a mass singalong of Neil Young's classic hit "Rockin' in the Free World" with other artists including British indie group Maximo Park and solo artists Gaz Coombes and Frank Turner. Alexander, a 36-year-old Briton, was selling merchandise at the band's concert at Paris' Bataclan concert hall on November 13 last year when he was killed by Islamic terrorists.


Court defends Venezuela president against trial threat

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:05 PM PST

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro (R) speaks during his radio broadcast 'La Hora de la salsa' (Salsa Time), in Caracas, on November 15, 2016Venezuela's high court ordered the opposition on Tuesday to drop plans for a political trial against President Nicolas Maduro, whose rivals blame him for food shortages in the volatile country. The opposition majority in the legislature had vowed to stage a kind of impeachment trial against Maduro, who has resisted its other efforts to remove him from office. It ruled that the notion of a political or impeachment trial does not exist in the Venezuelan constitution.


China holds officials to account for sloppy environmental efforts

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 04:52 PM PST

A policeman, wearing a mask to protect from severe pollution, secures the area near the Great Hall of the People before the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in BeijingChina has called more than 1,500 government officials to account for recent major environmental problems across three provinces, after recent inspections found insufficient implementation of pollution control efforts, the environmental ministry said. The Ministry of Environmental Protection said late on Tuesday that it had received feedback from inspection teams dispatched to Heilongjiang, Henan and Jiangsu provinces, the first group among eight regions the government plans to check. The country has stepped up its efforts to crackdown on pollution as public anger grows over damaging smog levels and environmental degradation and the ministry has in the past year punished numerous factories and polluting industries.


Deaths by firearms reach record highs in Mexico: study

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 04:50 PM PST

Murder by firearms in Mexico have hit record levels under the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto as the death toll from gang violence worsens, a study showed on Tuesday. The months of July to September have seen the highest murder tolls since Pena Nieto took office in December 2012 pledging to curb gang violence that rose sharply under his predecessor. August and September, the latest months for which data are available, were also the worst two months for deaths by firearm ever registered, according to the National Citizen Observatory (ONC), a civil group monitoring justice and security in Mexico.

Dakota Access pipeline protests spread, firms fight back

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 04:42 PM PST

Protesters block a highway during a protest in Mandan against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, North DakotaBy Liz Hampton HOUSTON (Reuters) - Demonstrators fanned out across North America on Tuesday to demand the U.S. government halt or reroute the Dakota Access pipeline as the companies behind the controversial project asked a federal court for permission to complete it. In what organizers said were the largest demonstrations to date against the pipeline, thousands of people rallied outside Army Corps of Engineers offices, banks and energy companies, a day after the Obama administration delayed granting a permit needed to finish the project. There were arrests in North Dakota, where the most heated protests took place.


Top Asian News 12:41 a.m. GMT

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 04:41 PM PST

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. and Philippine special forces will begin annual combat exercises on Wednesday in a sign such joint drills are continuing despite vocal opposition by the Philippine president. The U.S. military says that so far there's been no reduction in cooperation with the Philippines, a longstanding U.S. ally, despite President Rodrigo Duterte's threats to do so and his expressed desire to expand security ties with China and Russia. But in a sign of a possible restriction, Philippine army spokesman Col. Benjamin Hao said Tuesday both the U.S. and the Philippines have agreed to forego live-fire drills in the field during the month-long Balance Piston exercises which will take place in the western province of Palawan.

Astros name Alex Cora bench coach, replacing Trey Hillman

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 04:34 PM PST

HOUSTON (AP) — Alex Cora has been hired as bench coach for the Houston Astros.

Both sides accused of abuses in battle for Mosul

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 04:31 PM PST

Islamic State militants summarily killed 21 civilians in Mosul in the last three days, most of them accused of collaborating with the Iraqi forces who are attacking the city, a medical source in Mosul said. No bodies have emerged, unlike last week when 20 corpses were strung up across Mosul in a public warning against cooperating with the army. Human Rights Watch meanwhile said that Iraqi soldiers, militiamen and civilians had mutilated the bodies of Islamic State militants south of Mosul.

Ex-Naval attache admits securing clearances for bribes

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 04:31 PM PST

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former U.S. Naval attache to the U.S. embassy in the Philippines illicitly secured diplomatic clearances for a Malaysian defense contractor in exchange for luxury watches and the services of prostitutes, pleading guilty to bribery charges Tuesday in the Navy's worst corruption scandal.

UN committee votes to condemn Russian occupation of Crimea

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 04:06 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A key U.N. committee approved a resolution Tuesday condemning Russia's "temporary occupation" of Crimea and reaffirming the United Nations' commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty over the Black Sea peninsula.

England freezes twice as Spain snatches 2-2 draw

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 03:59 PM PST

England's Jamie Vardy, center, and Raheem Sterling, right, celebrate after Vardy scored his side's second goal passing Spain's goalkeeper Jose Reina, left, during the international friendly soccer match between England and Spain at the Wembley stadium, London, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)LONDON (AP) — When England's players froze on the field at the start of the second half against Spain, it was to celebrate Jamie Vardy establishing a two-goal lead by contributing to the mannequin challenge.


Canada's Trudeau visits Cuba to reboot ties

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 03:52 PM PST

Canada First Minister Justin Trudeau places a wreath at the Jose Marti monument at Revolution Square in Havana, on November 15, 2016Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Cuba Tuesday to boost ties as a breakthrough in the communist island's US relations hung in the balance following Donald Trump's presidential election win. After arriving at Havana airport, Trudeau headed straight to the city's iconic Revolution Square and laid a wreath, an AFP photographer saw. The two-day visit is the first stop on a tour that will also take Trudeau to Argentina and to Peru for the APEC Asia-Pacific trade summit.


'Mollycoddled' Aussie cricketers face backlash

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 03:47 PM PST

South Africa's Quinton de Kock (C) plays a defensive shot off Australia's paceman Josh Hazlewood (2nd L) on the third day's play of the second Test cricket match between Australia and South Africa in Hobart remained on November 14, 2016Australia's media lashed out at the country's "mollycoddled" cricketers Wednesday, saying they were a "disgrace" and heads should roll after crashing to a fifth successive Test defeat. The tabloid Sydney Daily Telegraph called the team "a bunch of amateurs", with cricket writer Robert Craddock saying they had become pampered and lost their backbone. "Australian cricket is facing its greatest crisis in 30 years, and it only has itself to blame," he said, adding that there were no longer any of the "flint hard Test players that once did our nation proud".


4 months on, Italy-Germany ends scoreless in Milan

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 03:38 PM PST

Italy's national players stand together for the team picture prior an international friendly soccer match between Italy and Germany, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)MILAN (AP) — Four months proved to be a long time in international football as Italy drew 0-0 against Germany on Tuesday in a match which bore little resemblance to their enthralling encounter at the European Championship.


US won't turn away from Asia: admiral

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 03:34 PM PST

Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr, (L), Commander of United States Pacific Command, is welcomed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) during a courtesy call at Abe's official residence in Tokyo on July 26, 2016The United States will not end up turning away from Asia in coming years, a top US military official said Tuesday, as Donald Trump's White House win kept regional allies fretting. Trump annoyed Japan by saying it was not paying enough in the US-Japanese military relationship. "It would be inappropriate for me to speculate on a potential policy initiative of the next administration or certainly for me to wade in politics," said Admiral Harry Harris, commander of US Pacific Command.


Syria's Assad: must wait and see if Trump lives up to promises to fight militants

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 03:28 PM PST

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al Assad said on Tuesday Damascus would have to "wait and see" if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump would change Washington's policy on Syria but that he was ready to cooperate with him in fighting militants. In his first comments on Trump's election victory, Assad said the Republican leader had made promising comments on the need to battle Islamists in Syria's war but "can he deliver?" "We don't have a lot of expectations because the U.S. administration is not only about the President ... So we have to wait and see when he embarks on his new mission as president in two months' time," he said. "What about the countervailing forces within the (U.S.) administration?" Assad told a Portuguese television channel in remarks released by Syrian state television, pointing to what he said were rival "lobbies and powers" that traditionally influence any incumbent U.S. president.

UN condemns Syria over civilian attacks

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 03:23 PM PST

The UN rights committee has voted every year to condemn Syria over the human rights crisis since the war began in March 2011UN member states on Tuesday overwhelmingly condemned escalating attacks against civilians in Aleppo and called for a ceasefire to pave the way to a settlement of the five-year war in Syria. A resolution drafted by Saudi Arabia, which is backing rebels fighting the Syrian government, was adopted by a vote of 116 to 15, with 49 abstentions, in the General Assembly's human rights committee. Russia and Iran, Syria's allies in the war, were among the 15 who voted against the measure, which is expected to go to the full assembly next month.


Djokovic wins again, reaches semifinals at ATP finals

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 03:17 PM PST

Serbia's Novak Djokovic plays a return to Canada's Milos Raonic during their ATP World Tour Finals singles tennis match at the O2 arena in London, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)LONDON (AP) — Novak Djokovic edged a bit closer to the year-end No. 1 ranking.


Philippe Sands' history of war crimes wins nonfiction prize

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 03:11 PM PST

FILE- In this Monday, March 31, 2014 file photo, human rights lawyer Philippe Sands, listens to General Counsel Bill Campbell (not pictured) as they wait for the International Court of Justice to deliver its verdict in The Hague, Netherlands. Sands won Britain's leading nonfiction literary award on Tuesday for a book about the fight to prosecute war crimes that blends historical investigation and family memoir. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis, File)LONDON (AP) — Human rights lawyer Philippe Sands won Britain's leading nonfiction literary award on Tuesday for a book about the fight to prosecute war crimes that blends historical investigation and family memoir.


Key Venezuela lawmakers step down in concession to government

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 03:10 PM PST

Deputies of MUD Guzamana, Ygarza, Guarulla, and the governor of the Amazonas state Guarulla attend to a meeting at the Supreme Court in CaracasThree opposition lawmakers at the center of a dispute between Venezuela's congress and its top court stepped down on Tuesday following an agreement meant to ease a political standoff between the opposition and President Nicolas Maduro. Lawmakers Julio Ygarza, Nirma Guarulla and Romel Guzamana submitted their resignations in writing to congress on Tuesday. The lawmakers, two from the Amazonas jungle state and one who represents indigenous groups, were key to handing the opposition a super majority in December 2015's legislative elections.


Djokovic beats Raonic to book last four spot at Tour Finals

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 03:10 PM PST

Serbia's Novak Djokovic "I managed to hang in there mentally and stay strong and believed that the opportunities would come and that I could take them," Serbia's Novak Djokovic said after booking his place in the semi-finals of the ATP Tour FinalsNovak Djokovic booked his place in the semi-finals of the ATP Tour Finals with an emotional 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (7/5) victory over Milos Raonic on Tuesday. Despite having a spiritual guru in his camp these days, Djokovic has been anything but serene lately and once again the defending champion cut an angst-ridden figure for long periods of a tense clash in the prestigious season-ending event at London's O2 Arena. Djokovic had reacted furiously after being grilled by the media about a potentially dangerous incident when he slammed a ball into the stands during his win against Dominic Thiem on Sunday.


GOP senator declares US 'reset' with Russia unacceptable

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 03:04 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading Republican voice on national security matters has declared as "unacceptable" any attempt by the incoming Trump administration to reset relations with Russia.

Navy reaches quake-hit New Zealand town

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 02:59 PM PST

Travellers at the Base backpackers hostel in Wellington eat pizza while waiting to leave the cityBy Lincoln Feast and Charlotte Greenfield WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Two New Zealand navy vessels on Wednesday reached a small South Island town cut off for more than two days by a devastating earthquake, bringing supplies of food and water and plans to evacuate hundreds of stranded tourists and residents. Prime Minister John Key went to Kaikoura by helicopter to inspect damage to roads that cut off the seaside tourist town after the 8 magnitude tremor that struck just after midnight on Sunday. The quake buffeted much of central New Zealand and left two people dead.


DRCongo transfers mining royalties to Kabila ally: NGO

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 02:52 PM PST

Global Witness says Gecamines signed away royalties from Swiss mining giant Glencore for a copper project in the country's southeast to an anonymous Cayman Islands company called Africa Horizons Investment LimitedThe Democratic Republic of Congo's state mining firm has signed away the royalties from the country's most lucrative mining project to a company owned by a close friend of President Joseph Kabila, Global Witness said on Tuesday. The NGO, which fights corruption and environmental and rights abuses, said Gecamines signed away royalties from Swiss mining giant Glencore for a copper project in the country's southeast to an anonymous Cayman Islands company called Africa Horizons Investment Limited. It said the January 2015 contract "does not explain what, if anything, Congo's state mining company received in compensation for handing over these rights" from the Kamoto mines.


Tour going from lasers to cameras to track shots on greens

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 02:52 PM PST

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The laser machines that have been tracing shots at PGA Tour events for more than a decade were getting old and needed to be replaced. That led tour officials to ask if there was a better method to collect data.

U.S. says war crimes probe of U.S. forces in Afghanistan unwarranted

Posted: 15 Nov 2016 02:45 PM PST

An International Criminal Court investigation of possible war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan is not "warranted or appropriate," the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday after prosecutors in The Hague found initial grounds for such a probe. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said the United States was not a party to the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court in The Hague and had not consented to ICC jurisdiction.

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