2013年10月11日星期五

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Obama, GOP talks leading back to deficit debate

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 03:06 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Suddenly it's about the deficits. As a deal moves toward ending the partial government shutdown, raising the nation's line of credit, and abandoning the drive to upend the 3-year-old health care law, Washington's attention is turning to spending and the red ink side of the government's ledger.

Kerry, Karzai narrowing differences over security deal

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:45 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes off in a black hawk helicopter in KabulBy Lesley Wroughton KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai narrowed differences in initial talks on Friday on terms for a future U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after 2014, a U.S. official said. Washington says it wants a deal done by the end of October but talks have stumbled over two issues that have become deal breakers for Kabul. Karzai has declared it can wait until after presidential elections in April next year, further straining what has become a rocky relationship between the allies. ...


Twelve people drown in migrant boat accident off Egypt

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:34 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Twelve people died when a boat carrying illegal migrants and Syrian refugees sank off Egypt's northern coast on Friday, security and medical sources said. "The Egyptian coast guards saved 72 Palestinians, 40 Syrians and four Egyptians," one security source said. The circumstances of the accident and the nationalities of the deceased were not yet known. More than 2 million refugees have fled Syria's civil war, mainly to neighbouring Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. ...

General in charge of nuclear missiles is fired

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:34 PM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows Maj. Gen. Michael J. Carey. The Air Force is firing Carey, the two-star general in charge of all of its nuclear missiles, in response to an investigation into alleged personal misbehavior, officials told The Associated Press on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Carey is being removed from command of the 20th Air Force, which is responsible for three wings of intercontinental ballistic missiles — a total of 450 missiles at three bases across the country, the officials said. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force fired the general in charge of its nuclear missiles on Friday, just two days after a Navy admiral with top nuclear weapons responsibilities was sacked. Both men are caught up in investigations of alleged personal misconduct, adding to a cascade of turmoil inside the nation's nuclear weapons force.


Dan Harris in for Bill Weir as 'Nightline' anchor

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this publicity image released by ABC, ABC News anchor Dan Harris, is shown. ABC News says Harris is replacing Bill Weir as a co-anchor of NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News says Dan Harris is joining "Nightline" as a co-anchor, succeeding Bill Weir, who's headed to CNN.


Syria jihadists accused of 'execution' war crimes

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:03 PM PDT

Syrian rebels take position with a Soviet-made T-55 tank on the Jabal al-Turkman mountain in Syria's northern Latakia province on February 5, 2013Damascus (AFP) - Jihadist fighters were accused Friday of war crimes over the killing of 190 civilians from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, in the largest atrocity ever attributed to rebels.


Kerry drops into Kabul to prod Karzai on US withdrawal deal

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:58 PM PDT

Secretary of State John Kerry's unannounced meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul Friday had one chief purpose: to accelerate stalled security talks dealing with the timing and circumstances of the US withdrawal from a costly war that's gone on for 12 years.

Rights group accuses Syrian rebels of war crimes

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this file image taken from Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a rebel fighter fires a gun in a valley in an unidentified location in Latakia province, Syria. Jihadi-led rebel fighters in Syria killed at least 190 civilians and abducted more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages, committing a war crime, an international human rights group said Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP Video, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian villagers described watching rebels advance on their homes, as mortars thudded around them. By the end of the August attack, 190 civilians had been killed, including children, the elderly and the handicapped, a human rights group said Friday in its most detailed account of alleged war crimes committed by those fighting the Damascus regime.


Peace Prize goes to chemical-weapons watchdog

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, citizen journalism file image provided by the United Media office of Arbeen, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, investigators take samples from sand near a part of a missile that was suspected of carrying chemical agents, according to activists, in the countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a watchdog group, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/United Media Office of Arbeen, File)BEIRUT (AP) — The watchdog agency working to eliminate the world's chemical weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a powerful endorsement of the inspectors now on the ground in Syria on a perilous mission to destroy the regime's stockpile of poison gas.


This Nobel Peace Prize was only half right

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:08 PM PDT

This year's Nobel Peace Prize puts a worthy spotlight on the job of ridding the world of one type of weapon of mass destruction. The award went to an international body that is now trying to clear Syria of chemical weapons and has been tasked under a 1997 treaty to eliminate these weapons everywhere.

Russia says Syria rebels received Afghan training

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 11:59 AM PDT

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looks on in Moscow, on October 11, 2013, as he meets his visiting Kuwaiti counterpart Sheik Sabah Khalid al-Hamad al-SabahMoscow (AFP) - Russia on Friday accused Syrian rebels of receiving chemical weapons training in lawless regions of Afghanistan and planning attacks on the territory of Iraq.


Live Twitter Chat with Tahar Boumedra Raises Awareness of Seven Hostages

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 10:47 AM PDT

Former senior UN official calls on International Community to Take Action and Demands Release of HostagesWASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- IranNewsUpdate.com – Yesterday Dr. Tahar Boumedra, the former Head of Human Rights Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq responded to real-time questions about the September 1, 2013 attack on Camp Ashraf and the status of the seven hostages taken by the Iraqi government.  Dr. Boumedra was responsible for the Ashraf dossier for more than three years.A resounding theme of Dr. ...

General in charge of ICBMs fired

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 10:14 AM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by the US Air Force shows Maj. Gen. Michael J. Carey. The Air Force is firing Carey, the two-star general in charge of all of its nuclear missiles in response to an investigation into alleged personal misbehavior, officials told The Associated Press on Friday. Carey is being removed from command of the 20th Air Force, which is responsible for three wings of intercontinental ballistic missiles — a total of 450 missiles at three bases across the country, the officials said. (AP Photo/US Air Force)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force said Friday it fired the two-star general in charge of its nuclear missiles in response to an investigation into alleged personal misbehavior. It was the second sacking this week of a senior commander of nuclear forces.


A look at the impact of recent Nobel Peace Prizes

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 10:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday Sept. 7, 2011 file photo Ahmet Uzumcu, director general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) comments on Libya during a press conference in The Hague . The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)STOCKHOLM (AP) — By honoring the global chemical weapons watchdog, the Nobel Peace Prize committee stuck to its tradition of not just awarding past achievements, but highlighting a cause, movement or process it hopes can promote world peace.


OPCW: Will Nobel Peace Prize help wipe out chemical weapons?

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:47 AM PDT

In the 16 years since its creation, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been quietly going about its work, cataloging and destroying chemical weapons arsenals around the world.

New report says Syrian rebels committed war crimes

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:28 AM PDT

A handcuffed Syrian soldier with his eyes covered, is seen on a pick up truck after he was captured by FSA fighters during what the FSA say is an offensive against forces loyal to Syria's President Assad, in Qobtan village in AleppoBEIRUT (AP) — Jihadi-led rebel fighters in Syria killed at least 190 civilians and abducted more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages, committing a war crime, an international human rights group said Friday.


Lawmakers Urge the U.S. to Save 7 Camp Ashraf Hostages, Protect Camp Liberty-Iraq, and Resettle MEK Members in America as Political Refugees, says OIAC

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:07 AM PDT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a Congressional briefing, a bipartisan group of lawmakers called on the United States Government to accept a significant number of the residents of Camp Liberty, members of the main Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI), as political refugees.Rep. ...

Libya needs outside help to avoid perpetual war

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:04 AM PDT

Early on Thursday, Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was taken from his hotel in Tripoli at gunpoint. Though he was released a few hours later, the kidnapping is a sad commentary on the state into which Libya has fallen in the two years since Muammar Qaddafi's death – and a harbinger of an ominous future ahead. Mr. Zeidan's kidnapping also points to the difficulties that have plagued the West's relationship with the country that NATO warplanes helped free from Qaddafi in 2011.

Global chemical watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 08:12 AM PDT

Global chemical watchdog wins Nobel Peace PrizeEfforts to eliminate chemical weapons won a Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for the global watchdog trying to destroy Syria's stockpiles of nerve gas and other poisonous agents. By giving its prestigious prize ...


Air raids and clashes near Syrian chemical weapons site

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 07:46 AM PDT

A man stands in front of buildings damaged by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, as smoke rises in the background in the besieged area of HomsBy Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian air force warplanes bombarded rebel-held targets close to a major chemical weapons facility on Friday in fighting that highlights the perils facing an international mission to eliminate President Bashar al-Assad's chemical arsenal. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, is due to visit 20 sites across Syria to verify the destruction of 1,000 tons of chemical agents and precursors. ...


Nobel Peace Prize rewards chemical watchdog's perseverance

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 07:46 AM PDT

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) director-general Ahmet Uzumcu speaks during a press conference in The Hague on October 11, 2013The Hague (AFP) - The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is a body that has spent years trying to rid the world of chemical weapons in relative obscurity and was recently thrust into the limelight by the Syrian crisis.


US oil boom drives new supplies, says energy agency

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 07:20 AM PDT

Photo taken August 21, 2013 shows a pumpjack (also known as a nodding donkey) at an oil field near Tioga, North DakotaParis (AFP) - Global oil demand this year is being slightly boosted by recovery of European economies, and new production is building up fast in a rapidly changing oil market, the IEA said on Friday.


Chemical weapons watchdog wins Nobel Peace Prize for Syrian mission

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 05:55 AM PDT

By Balazs Koranyi and Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - The global chemical weapons watchdog working to eliminate chemical arms stockpiles around the battlefields of Syria's civil war won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a relatively small organisation with a modest budget, dispatched experts to Syria after a sarin gas attack killed more than 1,400 people near Damascus in August. Their deployment under a U.N. mandate helped avert a U.S. ...

Nobel Peace Prize win highlights work of chemical arms group OPCW

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 05:47 AM PDT

Director General of the OPCW, Ahmet Uzumcu comments on the organization being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, during a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday Oct. 11, 2013. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced on Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the Hague, Netherlands-based global chemical watchdog "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons." (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)The Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), already in the news for its fast-moving effort to rid Syria of chemical arms, received a boost today in the form of the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.


U.N. urges Iraq to halt executions seen breaching international law

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 05:27 AM PDT

A United Nations logo and flag are seen during the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New YorkGENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations called on Iraq on Friday to halt all executions after 42 people were hanged this week in what it said were most probably illegal mass executions ordered by Baghdad's "seriously flawed" justice system. They were executed for mass killings and other offences on Wednesday and Thursday - which was World Day against the Death Penalty. The world body called on Iraq to stop the executions and commute the sentences of the hundreds of other people believed to be on death row. ...


New Women's History Book Credits Women for Saving Whiskey

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 05:00 AM PDT

Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch and Irish WhiskeyLINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Potomac Books announces the first book written on the history of women in whiskey—Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey. The title is available in bookstores nationwide and select Costco warehouses October 15.In Whiskey Women, Wall Street Journal-bestselling author Fred Minnick dispels the masculine myths that whiskey is a man's drink. Minnick argues whiskey may not exist without female contributions. ...

Syrian army retakes two Damascus suburbs from rebels: activists

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:49 AM PDT

A Free Syrian Army fighter carries his weapon as he moves towards his position at the Jabal al-Akrad area in Syria's northwestern Latakia provinceBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian army troops and Shi'ite militia fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad captured two southern suburbs of Damascus on Friday, killing at least 70 people, opposition activists said. The fighters, including some from the Lebanese Shi'ite movement Hezbollah and Iraqi Shi'ites backed by Syrian army tanks, searched al-Thiabiya and Husseiniya, a Palestinian refugee camp, for pockets of resistance after overrunning them, the sources said. ...


Gold-laced Kiswa graces haj shrine, then gets cut up

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:17 AM PDT

By Amena Bakr MECCA (Reuters) - More than 200 men have been laboring in a Saudi factory for eight months to produce the gold-embroidered, black-dyed Kiswa, a silk cover for the square building called the Kaaba that is a focal point of the annual haj pilgrimage to Mecca. The ornate protective covering produced at the Mecca factory will be draped over the Kaaba at the start of the haj, which this year is expected to begin on October 14. ...

UN rights office condemns 'obscene' Iraqi executions

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:17 AM PDT

Executions in Iraq are usually carried out by hangingGeneva (AFP) - The UN rights office Friday condemned Iraq's "obscene" execution of 42 convicts within a week, saying the country's justice system was too flawed to allow any use of capital punishment.


Western allies have little chance of influencing Libya

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 03:23 AM PDT

By Myra MacDonald LONDON (Reuters) - With Libya sliding into anarchy - its prime minister was briefly kidnapped by militiamen on Thursday - Western countries are repeating their commitment to help the North African country complete its transition to democracy after its 2011 revolution. But they have few good options to back up those promises beyond hoping the Libyan people themselves can eventually agree on a system of governance to reduce fighting between the country's many ethnic, tribal and regional factions. ...

What is the OPCW and what does it do?

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:22 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday Sept. 27, 2013 file photo a car arrives at the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW, in The Hague, Netherlands. The OPCW were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Organization for the Probition of Chemical Weapons was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its work to rid the world of such weapons. Here's a look at the OPCW and the work it has been doing over the past 15 years:


Iraq, Swiss firm sign $6B oil refinery contract

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 02:14 AM PDT

Iraq's prime minister says his country has signed a $6 billion contract with Swiss company Satarem to build and run an oil refinery in southern Iraq. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office announced the ...

Afghan President Karzai's brothers to offer him role if elected

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 10:48 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a news conference in KabulBy Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) - As President Hamid Karzai's brothers began a campaign this week to take power in war-shattered Afghanistan, they left open the prospect that the incumbent will be able to use family ties to remain in government after his second term ends next April. Despite the years of feuding that has riven the hugely wealthy clan, the Karzai brothers plan to offer the outgoing president, who is constitutionally barred from running again, a position in their government. ...


Syrian rebels killed 190 civilians in August dawn raid: HRW

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 09:07 PM PDT

A Free Syrian Army fighter and a civilian look up from a window as they stand inside a room in Deir al-ZorBy Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels killed at least 190 civilians and took more than 200 hostage during an offensive in Latakia province in August, Human Rights Watch said on Friday, in what it calls the first evidence of crimes against humanity by opposition forces. HRW said many of the dead had been executed by militant groups, some linked to al Qaeda, who overran army positions at dawn on August 4 and then moved into 10 villages nearby where members of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect lived. ...


Real Captain Phillips warns cuts could hit Pentagon shipping program

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 06:08 PM PDT

By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An American merchant marine captain made famous by a Tom Hanks movie after being kidnapped by Somali pirates warned on Thursday that looming U.S. budget cuts could sink part of a program that keeps U.S.-flagged ships ready to ferry military supplies and aid around the world. Richard Phillips, who was held hostage after Somali pirates seized his vessel in 2009, is backing a campaign to halt the budget cuts, saying they could reduce by a third the size of the 60-strong U.S. commercial fleet that regularly carries cargo for the military. ...

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