2012年11月23日星期五

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UPDATE 3-Soccer-World Cup hosts Brazil fire national team coach

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 03:39 PM PST

* Menezes sacked as Brazil look for fresh start * New coach to be chosen in early January * Scolari, Ramalho and Braga among favourites (re-casts) SAO PAULO, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Brazil fired Mano Menezes on Friday, little more than 18 months before the country hosts the 2014 World Cup and just as the coach seemed close to finding his ideal team after two years of experimenting. The five-times world champions have won six of their last eight games, scoring 26 goals in the process, and the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said the surprise decision had little to do with results. ...

DC on pace for fewer than 100 homicides in 2012

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 03:14 PM PST

FILE - This Aug. 15, 2012 file photo shows Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier meeting with reporters in Washington. Washington's murder rate was approaching nearly 500 slayings a year in the early 1990s, the annual rate has gradually declined to the point that the city is now on the verge of a once-unthinkable milestone. The number of 2012 killings in the District of Columbia stands at 78 and is on pace to finish lower than 100 for the first time since 1963, police records show. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)The crack epidemic that began in the 1980s ushered in a wave of bloodletting in the nation's capital and a death toll that ticked upward daily. Dead bodies, sometimes several a night, had homicide detectives hustling between crime scenes and earned Washington unwelcome monikers such as the nation's "murder capital." At the time, some feared the murder rate might ascend to more frightening heights.

Syria says Turkey's bid for NATO missiles "provocative"

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 11:06 AM PST

Turkish soldier takes up his position near the border with Syria as seen from the Turkish border town of CeylanpinarBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria on Friday condemned Turkey's request for NATO to deploy Patriot defense missiles near their common border, calling it "provocative", after a spate of clashes there that has raised fear of the Syrian civil war embroiling the wider region. The 20-month-old uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has turned increasingly bloody and heavy fighting has often erupted right along Syria's northern border with Turkey. Ankara has repeatedly scrambled fighter jets and responded in kind to stray shells and mortars flying into its territory. ...

Norway mass killer criticizes prison conditions

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 09:41 AM PST

FILE This Tuesday May, 29, 2012 file photo shows confessed mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik looking at this own notes as he sits inside court as the trial against him continues in Oslo, Norway. Breivik, who is serving a 21-year sentence for killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage last year, has complained that he is being held in inhumane conditions and is being denied freedom of expression, his lawyer said Friday Nov. 9, 2012. "He has written a long complaint that he is being held in a section with particularly high security," Tord Jordet told The Associated Press. "He is today the only one in this ward and the security regime is the strictest in Norway." (AP Photo / Heiko Junge, NTB scanpix, file) NORWAY OUTNorwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik accused prison officers of trying to drive him to suicide in conditions he describes as "a mini Abu Ghraib."

9 more Iraq, Afghan war veterans joining Congress

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 07:56 AM PST

FILE This Nov. 6, 2012 file photo shows Iraq war veterans Rep.-elect Tulsi Gabbard in Honolulu. Veterans groups say the influx of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in Congress is welcome because it comes at a time when the overall number of veterans in Congress is on a steep and steady decline. In the mid-1970s, the vast majority of lawmakers tended to be veterans. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)As Tammy Duckworth sees it, her path to Congress began when she awoke in the fall of 2004 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She was missing both of her legs and faced the prospect of losing her right arm.

Is Middle East Peace a Mirage?

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 09:06 PM PST

With the truce in the week-long Gaza war, Barack Obama is being prompted by right and left to re-engage and renew U.S. efforts to solve the core question of Middle East peace.

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