2013年9月16日星期一

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Northrop sees foreign sales opportunities for Global Hawk

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 05:16 PM PDT

By Andrea Shalal-Esa NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland (Reuters) - Northrop Grumman Corp on Monday said it expects expanded sales of its high-altitude unmanned Global Hawk aircraft, which passed 100,000 flight hours this month, with foreign countries including Canada, South Korea and Japan considering orders. George Guerra, who oversees Global Hawk and other unmanned high-altitude, long endurance programs for Northrop, told Reuters the company was keeping its "nose to the grindstone" to drive down the production and operating costs of the aircraft. ...

UN confirms chemical weapons used in Syria

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 04:25 PM PDT

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks to reporters after attending a Security Council meeting about Syria at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. U.N. inspectors said Monday there is "clear and convincing evidence" that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale in an attack last month in Syria that killed hundreds of people. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Careful not to blame either side for a deadly chemical weapon attack, U.N. inspectors reported Monday that rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin had been fired from an area where Syria's military has bases, but said the evidence could have been manipulated in the rebel-controlled stricken neighborhoods.


U.N. faces Syria aid challenge having cut staffing after chemical attacks

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 04:03 PM PDT

Abou Al Eizz Al-Saour, stands along a street in the Duma neighbourhood of DamascusBy Stella Dawson WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations has sharply reduced its humanitarian and development staff in Syria since last month's chemical weapons attacks, making delivery of assistance to a war-torn people even more challenging, a U.N. official said on Monday. "Our footprint has been reduced, but we have not shut down," Rebeca Grynspan, U.N. under-secretary general, said in an interview. The U.N. ...


Navy Yard shooting: What to do about attacks on US military at home?

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 03:29 PM PDT

Countless questions remain unanswered about the terrible slaughter of 12 people Monday morning at the Washington Navy Yard in the nation's capital by a 34-year-old former Navy electrician, whom authorities have identified as Aaron Alexis. But what is clear is that US military installations – and the people who work there – are increasingly being targeted inside the nation's own borders.

Emergency Nurses Convene in Nashville's "Music City" for the 2013 Emergency Nurses Association Annual Conference

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 03:21 PM PDT

2700 Emergency nurses and allied emergency professionals gather for continuing education, as well as the opportunity to discuss hot topics, best practices, and issues related to national and local emergency nursingDES PLAINES, Ill., Sept. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) will host its Annual Conference Sept. 19-21 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. ...

U.N. report photo shows confirmation of sarin in Syria attack

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 02:36 PM PDT

UN reportUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. photograph of chief U.N. chemical weapons investigator Ake Sellstrom handing over his report on an August 21 gas attack on Damascus suburbs shows that the report confirms use of the deadly nerve agent sarin. "On the basis of the evidence obtained during the investigation of the Ghouta incident, the conclusion is that chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic ... against civilians, including children, on a relatively large scale," the report said. ...


UN details 'chilling' Syria sarin attack

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 01:49 PM PDT

Ban Ki-Moon (L) speaks to the media with Ake Sellstrom (R) on September 16, 2013 at UN headquarters in New YorkThe United Nations on Monday revealed what it called "chilling" details of a sarin gas attack in Syria, leaving the major powers to battle over who was responsible.


UN: 'Convincing evidence' of Syria chemical attack

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 12:52 PM PDT

UN reportUNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. inspectors said in a report Monday there is "clear and convincing evidence" that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale in an attack last month in Syria that killed hundreds of people.


From Cairo to Geneva, Obama steps back from Mideast

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 12:46 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama walks from his residence to the Oval Office at the White House in WashingtonBy David Rohde It started as "a new beginning" and ended as "America is not the world's policeman." Between President Barack Obama's historic 2009 address to the Islamic world in Cairo to his address to the American people on Syria last week, Obama has zigged and zagged on Mideast policy, angering supporters and detractors alike. But he has stuck to a clear pattern: reduce American engagement, defer to regional players and rely on covert operations to counter terrorism. The administration has had its achievements. ...


Mayors Against Illegal Guns, National Urban League, VoteVets Release Report Showing 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Have Increased Homicides and Complicated Prosecutions

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 11:34 AM PDT

Analysis Finds Sharp Jump in Homicides – Justifiable and Overall – After Passage of NRA-Endorsed Legislation in Many States, With African Americans Affected MostSenate Judiciary Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on September 17thNEW YORK, Sept. ...

Title, release date set for Robert Gates book

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 11:29 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has a title and release date for his memoir.

Spain arrests Ceuta man accused of sending fighters to Syria

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 11:29 AM PDT

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain arrested a man in its North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday accused of recruiting fighters for rebel groups in Syria's civil war, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Spanish authorities said the man led a group that has sent dozens of people to Syria, including minors, from Ceuta and cities around Morocco. "His name is Yassin Ahmed Laarbi, who was a fugitive and wanted by the High Court for belonging to a terrorist organization," the statement said. Spain arrested eight members of the group in June in Ceuta. Laarbi eluded capture at the time. ...

Iraq attacks kill 11, wound top army officer

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 11:27 AM PDT

Iraqi children inspect a burnt-out car at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad on September 16, 2013Violence in Iraq killed 11 people on Monday as an army official escaped an assassination attempt, the latest in a surge of unrest that left more than 4,200 dead this year.


Chemical weapons and eradication efforts worldwide

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 11:05 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 1991 handout picture from the United Nations provided Friday, Feb. 27, 1998, a worker in a protective suit inspects 122mm sarin rockets at an undisclosed location in Iraq. U.N. inspectors have confirmed Monday Sept. 16, 2013 they found "clear and convincing evidence" of a sarin nerve gas attack in Syria last month, adding urgency to moves to neutralize the country's stock of chemical weapons. Only seven countries worldwide have formally admitted stockpiling chemical weapons and all are in the process of destroying them or have completed destruction. According to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Albania, India, Iraq, Libya, Russia and the United States, along with a country identified by the OPCW only as "a State Party" but widely believed to be South Korea, have declared stockpiles of chemical weapons to the Hague-based organization that polices the treaty outlawing such weapons. (AP Photo/UNSCOM, File)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — U.N. inspectors have confirmed they found "clear and convincing evidence" of a sarin nerve gas attack in Syria last month, adding urgency to moves to neutralize the country's stock of chemical weapons. Only seven countries worldwide have formally admitted stockpiling chemical weapons and all are in the process of destroying them or have completed destruction.


Insight: Kenya cases stir African backlash against ICC

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 10:43 AM PDT

Kenya's Deputy President Ruto sits in courtroom before his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The HagueBy Pascal Fletcher and Edmund Blair JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya is canvassing support for a possible walk-out by African states from the International Criminal Court, whose prosecution of elected Kenyan leaders has revived accusations on the continent that the court unfairly targets Africans. ...


Ex-U.S. officials, family members pay homage to 52 massacred Camp Ashraf residents, fault U.S. for failing to keep its promise of protection, call for release of 7 hostages and deployment of UN Blue Helmets to Protect Camp Liberty

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 10:14 AM PDT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being release by National Council of Resistance of Iran, U.S. Representatives Office (NCRI-US):Former senior U.S. officials and family members of the 52 residents of Camp Ashraf murdered execution-style by the Iraqi SWAT units acting on orders from Tehran on September 1, paid tribute to the fallen heroines and heroes and faulted the United States and the United Nations for failing to live up to their repeated and written guarantees to protect the residents of camps Ashraf and Liberty.Soona Samsami, U.S. ...

Syrian 'human shields' set up camp to defy any attack

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 08:48 AM PDT

Syrians gather in a tent on September 13, 2013 at a camp in Damascus to protest against military strikes on the countryDozens of Syrian pro-regime activists have set up a "human shield'' camp on Mount Qassioun overlooking Damascus in an effort to stop any US-led strike on their country.


Insight: After Syria, Iran laments its own chemical weapons victims

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 08:36 AM PDT

To match feature IRAN-IRAQ CHEMICALBy Marcus George DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian war veteran fell into a coma in a Tehran hospital last week after suffering respiratory failure, his lungs ravaged by mustard gas during the Iran-Iraq war 30 years ago. Hadi Kazemnejad is one of up to 1,000,000 Iranians who were exposed to chemical weapons by Saddam Hussein's Iraq, officials say. Between 10,000 and 20,000 people were killed and 100,000 of those who survived have developed illnesses, often chronic. ...


Iran's Rouhani tells Revolutionary Guards to stay out of politics

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 08:25 AM PDT

Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani gestures to the media during a news conference in TehranDUBAI (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani told Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards on Monday they should not get involved in politics, in a carefully worded speech that sought to avoid antagonizing the elite military force. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which answers directly to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei rather than to the president, has become more assertive in politics in recent years, with increasing numbers of veterans in parliament. ...


Al Qaeda leader urges restraint in first 'guidelines for jihad'

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 08:04 AM PDT

Still image from video shows Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri speaking from an unknown locationBy Myra MacDonald LONDON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has issued his first specific guidelines for jihad, urging restraint in attacking other Muslim sects and non-Muslims and in starting conflicts in countries where jihadis might find a safe base to promote their ideas. The document, published by the SITE monitoring service, provides a rare look at al Qaeda's strategy 12 years after the September 11 attacks on the United States and the nature of its global ambitions from North Africa to the Caucasus to Kashmir. ...


Is Biden trying to be the progressive's alternative to Hillary?

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 05:32 AM PDT

Striking a presidential pose.Vice President Joe Biden isn't revealing his plans for 2016, but his campaign-style speech at Sen. Tom Harkin's annual steak fry in Iowa on Sunday set off a fresh wave of speculation that he wants to make a third bid for the White House.


Bombs kill 5 soldiers in northern Iraqi city

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 04:41 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Authorities say that two separate bombings have killed five soldiers in a northern Iraq city.

The Six Point U.S.-Russian Deal to Fix Syria's Chemical Weapons Problem

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 03:02 AM PDT

The U.S. and Russia agreed on a deal to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria despite their complicated relationship status. The deal, should it work, doesn't necessarily satisfy the Syrian opposition but it does put the most international pressure on Syria since the conflict began. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the partnership Saturday morning at the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva, where they've been negotiating privately since Thursday. "There can be no room for games. ...

What Iraq taught us about the coming hunt for Assad's chemical weapons

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 12:58 AM PDT

U.S. army soldiers wearing gas masks and chemical suits huddle in a bunker in Eastern Saudi Arabia after American planes began bombing Iraq in January 1991.On Saturday, the United States and Russia announced the framework of an agreement to take control of Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons. Obama applauded the deal hashed out by Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov as "an important concrete step toward the goal of moving Syria's chemical weapons under international control." On the face of things, it looks like a major win for diplomacy over military action.


Will Janet Yellen be the next chair of the Federal Reserve?

Posted: 15 Sep 2013 11:28 PM PDT

Yellen being sworn into the Fed's Board of governors in 2010 by the man she'll likely replace as chair. On Sunday, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers withdrew his name from consideration to be the next Federal Reserve chairman. Current Chairman Ben Bernanke steps down in January 2014, and Summers was widely thought of as President Obama's top pick to replace him.


Today in History

Posted: 15 Sep 2013 09:01 PM PDT

Today is Monday, Sept. 16, the 259th day of 2013. There are 106 days left in the year.

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