2013年7月25日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Prosecutors: Manning abused his country's trust

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 04:10 PM PDT

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse at Fort Mead, Md, Thursday, July 25, 2013. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WikiLeaks. He faces up to life in prison. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was a traitor with one mission as an intelligence analyst in Iraq: to find and reveal government secrets to a group of anarchists and bask in the glory as a whistleblower, a prosecutor said Thursday during closing arguments.


Syrian rebels ask Kerry to send U.S. arms quickly

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 04:08 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with members of the Syrian Opposition Coalition at the United States Mission to the United Nations in New YorkBy Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - The head of Syria's opposition told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday the country's situation was "desperate" and called for the United States to arm the rebels quickly and to push harder for a political settlement. The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have been killed since Syria's civil war erupted more than two years ago pitting President Bashar al-Assad's forces against rebels seeking to end his family's four-decade rule. President Barack Obama, having withdrawn U.S. troops from Iraq and seeking to wind up the U.S. ...


RE-EXAMINING THE 'FORGOTTEN WAR'

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 03:30 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The Korean War has never exactly been the war that young men came back from whispering, "It was the greatest moment of my life." It was not the war that journalists wrote books about the second- or third-"greatest generation."It was a war spanning those ambiguous years, 1950 to 1953, sandwiched between the "Big War" of the 1940s and the confusing wars in the years afterward, from Vietnam to Iraq, that no one would accuse of being the "good wars."And yet, this weekend the armistice that ended the war in 1953 is being celebrated here. ...

Bombings and shootings kill 28 across Iraq

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 03:07 PM PDT

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - At least 28 people were killed in bombings and shootings across Iraq on Thursday, police said. In the deadliest attack, a bomb in a parked car exploded in a busy market killing 14 people in central Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of the capital Baghdad, police said. "I was sitting in my neighbor's shop when suddenly we heard a big explosion," said eyewitness Salim Aziz. "I had no time to see anything, and when I opened my eyes, I found myself at the hospital and I was injured in my right hand and left leg, surrounded by dozens of wounded people," he added. ...

Bradley Manning trial closing arguments ask: Why did he do it?

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 02:43 PM PDT

The trial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning – accused of leaking the largest trove of classified information in US history – is winding down as prosecution and defense present their arguments.

Afghan insurgents find new opening for IED attacks

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 02:24 PM PDT

FILE - This Dec. 5, 2012 file photo shows transfer cases containing the remains of Army Spc. Tyler J. Orgaard, left case, and Army Sgt. 1st Class Darren M. Linde sit on a loader during a prayer at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Orgaard, 20, of Bismark, N.D., and Linde, 41, of Sidney, Mont., both died Dec. 3, 2012 in Lashkar Gah City, Helmand province, Afghanistan of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. The shrinking US combat role in Afghanistan has had the unwanted effect of giving insurgents more time and space to plan deadlier attacks using bigger improvised bombs. So while the number of attacks has declined, attacks are more lethal, Pentagon officials say. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The shrinking U.S. combat role in Afghanistan has given insurgents an opening to devise and carry out deadlier attacks using bigger improvised bombs against U.S. and coalition military vehicles and bases, American officials say.


Officials: Cafe bombings, attacks kill 42 in Iraq

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Civilians inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A bomb exploded near a Sunni mosque in Baghdad's southern Dora neighborhood on Tuesday, killing four and wounding 12, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — Emboldened militants in Iraq set up their own checkpoint to kill drivers and bombed crowded cafes Thursday in the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed at least 42 people, authorities said.


Muted after 9/11, NSA critics find their voice

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:45 PM PDT

FILE - his June 6, 2013 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. After 9/11, there were no shades of gray. There are plenty now. The vigorous debate over the collection of phone records, and the narrow House vote to maintain the practice, buries any notion that challenging the national security efforts of the government is out of line, even unpatriotic. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — After 9/11, there were no shades of gray. There are plenty now.


Step up solutions for Syrian war's symptoms: refugees

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:13 PM PDT

Americans and their allies are reluctant to directly confront the root cause of Syria's civil war – the ruthless regime of Bashar al-Assad. But they can do more for the symptoms spilling across the Syrian border.

Iraq: Blast inside crowded cafe kills 16

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 12:24 PM PDT

Civilians inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A bomb exploded near a Sunni mosque in Baghdad's southern Dora neighborhood on Tuesday, killing four and wounding 12, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say a bomb targeting diners in a crowded cafe north of Baghdad has killed 16 people and wounded 20.


Kerry bearing good news for Syrian opposition in bid to affirm US engagement

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 12:05 PM PDT

Secretary of State John Kerry will be able to tell representatives of the Syrian opposition he meets with in New York Thursday that promised American arms should be reaching their fighters soon.

Dubai rape dispute points to wider Islamic rules

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 11:58 AM PDT

FILE - This Saturday, July 20, 2013 file photo shows sun setting behind minarets of a mosque a few minutes before Iftar, the meal served at dusk when Muslims break their day-long fast during the month of Ramadan, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai's Islamic-influenced laws on sex, morality and how they are applied are now center stage in a global debate following the legal battle of a 24-year-old Norwegian woman, Marte Deborah Dalelv. She was sentenced to 16 months in prison on unwed sex and alcohol charges last week after claiming she was raped by a co-worker in March.(AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The couple stood before a Dubai judge. The charge was sex outside marriage — illegal in the United Arab Emirates and across nearly all the Muslim world — and the magistrate offered an option: Suspended sentences to the Pakistani man and Filipino woman if they agreed to wed. The man consented, but the woman refused. They are awaiting sentencing, which could bring jail terms of several months or longer.


Iraq speaker warns of prison raid security fallout

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 11:53 AM PDT

Civilians inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. A bomb exploded near a Sunni mosque in Baghdad's southern Dora neighborhood on Tuesday, killing four and wounding 12, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's parliament speaker warned Thursday that the escape this week of hundreds of inmates during al-Qaida-claimed raids on prisons outside Baghdad will make the country's rapidly deteriorating security even worse.


Car bomb in Damascus suburb kills seven: state media

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 11:34 AM PDT

People gather around wreckage after a car bomb exploded in the Jaramana district of southeast DamascusBEIRUT (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least 10 people and wounded around 62 on Thursday when it exploded on the edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, state media said. State news agency SANA said the bomb hit the al-Siyouf Square in Jaramanah. It blamed the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham, an al Qaeda-linked group fighting alongside rebels in the two-year-old civil war against President Bashar al-Assad. Bombs have previously hit Jaramanah, a religiously mixed area that houses supporters and opponents of Assad but which is under army control. ...


Prosecutors say U.S. WikiLeaks soldier was seeking notoriety

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 11:14 AM PDT

U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse at Fort Meade in Maryland, July 18, 2013.By Medina Roshan FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - Military prosecutors said the U.S. soldier accused of the largest leak of classified information in the nation's history was hoping to make a name for himself by releasing documents on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. As the court-martial of Private First Class Bradley Manning winds down, prosecutors in closing arguments on Thursday said that the 25-year-old intelligence analyst had betrayed the trust his nation put in him. "The only human PFC Manning ever cared about was himself," said Major Ashden Fein, the lead prosecuting attorney. ...


Prosecutors: Manning wanted attention for leaks

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 10:43 AM PDT

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse for his court marial at Fort Mead, Md, Thursday, July 25, 2013. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WIkiLeaks. He faces up to life in prision. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen))FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning betrayed his country's trust and spilled government secrets to make a name for himself, and he knew the material would be seen by al-Qaida, including its former leader Osama bin Laden, prosecutors said Thursday in closing arguments.


Insight: 'Crude for blood' - return of sectarian war hits Iraq's oil exports

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 08:04 AM PDT

Policemen inspect the wreckage of a vehicle after a car bomb attack in KirkukBy Ahmed Rasheed and Ziad al-Sanjary BAGHDAD/MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's Sunni insurgents are targeting its main northern oil pipeline, undoing plans for a massive increase in exports as violence reaches levels unseen since the darkest days of civil war. Iraq's ambitious plans to ramp up its oil output have been held back by poor maintenance and technical problems. Violence is making the situation worse, and, if it continues to escalate, could have a measurable impact on global supply. ...


To end Syria civil war, West must guarantee minorities' safety with peacekeeping force

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 07:39 AM PDT

Though Syria's civil war rages on, Western leaders may have the power to help end the bloody conflict. And it's not by arming the rebels.

Bradley Manning's trial nears closing arguments

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 06:59 AM PDT

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse for his court marial at Fort Mead, Md, Thursday, July 25, 2013. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WIkiLeaks. He faces up to life in prision. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen))FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — The court-martial of a U.S. Army private who leaked reams of classified information is heading toward closing arguments.


Road ahead darkens in Iraq after highway executions

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 06:04 AM PDT

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Kuwait's ruling emir puts diplomacy first

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 05:05 AM PDT

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah talks during UNFCCC in DohaBy Sylvia Westall KUWAIT (Reuters) - Hours after Qatar's emir abdicated in favor of his son, Kuwait's ruler jumped on a plane to Doha to embrace the new young emir in person rather than sending a congratulatory cable as other Gulf Arab leaders did. The direct diplomatic gesture was a classic move for Kuwait's 84-year-old hereditary emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah. Sheikh Sabah has been dubbed the "dean of Arab diplomacy" for his efforts to strengthen Kuwait's relations in the Middle East after Iraq's 1990 invasion of his country. ...


Exclusive: Syria's war halves wheat harvest, erodes state share

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 04:06 AM PDT

Man inspects an area of a burned wheat field which activists said was caused by shelling by the Syrian regime in Aleppo's countrysideBy Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Civil war in Syria has cut the wheat harvest to its worst level in nearly three decades and the government's share of the crop is being further eroded as it struggles to procure grain from rebel-held farming areas. Estimates collated by Reuters from more than a dozen grain officials and local traders suggest the harvest could be as low as 1.5 million tons, less than half the pre-conflict average and well below forecasts from a United Nations food agency. ...


Militants in Iraq ambush truck convoy, kill 14

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 02:45 AM PDT

Protesters chant anti-Iraqi government slogans during a protest in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. The protesters were calling on the government to provide security and better services. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants ambushed a truck convoy with Iraqi Shiites in a remote area in the country's north and killed 14 drivers, police said Thursday, the latest in a series of brazen attacks aiming to further destabilize the nation.


Police: Militants ambush truck convoy, kill 14

Posted: 25 Jul 2013 01:56 AM PDT

Protesters chant anti-Iraqi government slogans during a protest in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. The protesters were calling on the government to provide security and better services. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi police official says militants have ambushed a truck convoy with Shiites in a remote area in the north and killed 14 people.


Analysis: Mexico to rewrite 'sacred' text in long-awaited energy reform

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:02 PM PDT

A fuel burner is seen at Mexico's state-run oil monopoly Pemex platform "Ku Maloob Zaap" in the Northeast Marine Region of Pemex Exploration and Production in the Bay of CampecheBy Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - How far Mexico goes to overhaul its oil industry this year hinges largely on a single sentence in the constitution that has stood as a bulwark against private capital for more than 50 years. Article 27 of the constitution bans the government from granting private sector concessions for oil or gas, making their exploitation the sole preserve of the Mexican state. ...


AP names Edelsten to top China editorial position

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 06:39 PM PDT

AP names Edelsten to top China editorial positionThe Associated Press has named veteran Asia-based journalist and video producer Miles Edelsten to the new position of news director for Greater China. The appointment was announced Wednesday by John Daniszewski, ...


House rejects bid to curb spy agency data collection

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 06:05 PM PDT

An undated aerial handout photo shows the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, MarylandBy David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. spy program that sweeps up vast amounts of electronic communications survived a legislative challenge in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, the first attempt to curb the data gathering since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed details of its scope. The House of Representatives voted 217-205 to defeat an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that would have limited the National Security Agency's ability to collect electronic information, including phone call records. ...


189 survive boat sinking, Indonesia looks for lost

Posted: 24 Jul 2013 05:51 PM PDT

A police officer carries a child who appears to be unconscious after a boat carrying asylum seekers sank off Java island, in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Rescuers were searching Wednesday for dozens of asylum seekers still believed missing after their boat sank in Indonesian waters on the way to Australia. More than 150 survivors were brought to safety and three bodies were recovered. (AP Photo)BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers were searching for several asylum seekers believed to be missing from a boat that sank off Indonesia while heading to Australia. Nearly 190 survivors were brought to safety and nine bodies were recovered.


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