2014年11月27日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Pope to urge tolerance in Turkey visit as Middle East wars rage

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 02:06 PM PST

By Nick Tattersall and Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Pope Francis begins a visit to Turkey on Friday with the delicate mission of strengthening ties with Muslim leaders while condemning violence against Christians and other minorities in the Middle East. His three-day trip comes as Islamic State insurgents have captured swathes of Iraq and Syria just over Turkey's southern borders, declaring an Islamic caliphate and killing or driving out Shi'ite Muslims, Christians and others who do not share their ultra-radical brand of Sunni Islam. ...

For 600 migrants, harrowing sail ends in Greece

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 10:52 AM PST

A local resident and a dog are silhouetted as a crippled freighter, left, carrying hundreds of refugees trying to migrate to Europe is towed by a Greek navy frigate at the coastal Cretan port of Ierapetra, Greece, on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014. A smuggling ship carrying more than 700 men, women and children that broke down in gale-force winds while trying to reach Europe was towed Thursday to the Greek island of Crete. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)IERAPETRA, Greece (AP) — Hour after hour, the coast guard boats shuttled from the crippled freighter to a concrete pier, discharging a steady flow of humanity: Families with small children, black-clad elderly women, battered-looking youths with backpacks.


ICRC seeks record $1.7 billion for humanitarian work in 2015

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 10:40 AM PST

By Katie Nguyen LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) appealed on Thursday for a record 1.6 billion Swiss francs ($1.67 billion) to respond to humanitarian crises next year in Syria, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and other hotspots. The ICRC said its most costly operation in 2015 will be Syria, where more than three years of fighting have uprooted 7.2 million people inside the country and led 3.3 million to flee abroad, mainly to neighboring states like Lebanon and Jordan. ...

Saudis block OPEC output cut, sending oil price plunging

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 10:38 AM PST

OPEC Secretary-General al-Badri waits for the start of a meeting of OPEC oil ministers at OPEC's headquarters in ViennaVIENNA (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia blocked calls on Thursday from poorer members of the OPEC oil exporter group for production cuts to arrest a slide in global prices, sending benchmark crude plunging to a fresh four-year low.


Pope condemns Islamic State violence

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 09:28 AM PST

JERUSALEM (AP) — On the eve of a trip to the Middle East, Pope Francis is urging religious and political leaders to speak out against attacks on Christians by Islamic State extremists.

Oil prices tank as OPEC leaves output unchanged

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 09:27 AM PST

People are reflected on an electronic stock indicator of a securities firm in Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014. Asian shares were mostly higher Thursday on hopes for more stimulus in China. Japan's Nikkei 225 dropped 0.3 percent to 17,333.52. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)LONDON (AP) — Oil companies saw their shares take a beating Thursday as crude prices slid to their lowest in over four years in the wake of OPEC's decision to maintain production levels even though prices have fallen sharply in recent weeks.


Falling oil prices deal bigger economic blow to Africa than Ebola

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 08:47 AM PST

A general view of part of the South African Petroleum Refinery (SAPREF) is seen in DurbanBy Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Plunging world oil prices have dealt a blow to Africa far greater - in purely economic terms - than Ebola, setting back investment in exploration and plans to industrialise. The highest profile victim so far has been Africa's top producer, Nigeria, which was forced to devalue its naira currency by 8 percent this week after the central bank admitted dwindling reserves were making it hard to defend it. ...


Mosul residents: IS group cuts phones in Iraq city

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 07:43 AM PST

BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants from the Islamic State group blocked all mobile phone networks in the largest Iraqi city they control, Mosul, accusing informants in the city of tipping off coalition forces to their whereabouts, residents told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Low expectations for oil output cut as OPEC meets

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 04:58 AM PST

Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister al-Naimi talks to journalists before a meeting of OPEC oil ministers at OPEC's headquarters in ViennaBy Shadia Nasralla and David Sheppard VIENNA (Reuters) - Gulf oil producers led by Saudi Arabia are expected to press the case on Thursday for not yet cutting OPEC output, despite calls from several members of the group to bolster sagging prices by removing surplus crude from the market. Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi and his United Arab Emirates counterpart, Suhail bin Mohammed al-Mazroui, said on Wednesday they expected the oil market to stabilise itself. A Gulf OPEC delegate told Reuters the Gulf producers had reached a consensus not to cut output. ...


France: Police arrest 2 over jihadi propaganda

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 04:26 AM PST

PARIS (AP) — French authorities have detained two people suspected of selling jihadi DVDs and other propaganda, under a new anti-terrorism law aimed at stopping French extremists from joining fighters abroad.

Red Cross seeks $1.68 billion for 2015

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 03:49 AM PST

GENEVA (AP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross is asking donors for $1.68 billion next year to help people caught up in armed conflicts, its biggest request ever and 25 percent larger than the current budget.

Pope visits Turkey amid Christian-Muslim tensions

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 03:31 AM PST

FILE - In this May 25, 2014 file photo, Pope Francis stands with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I as they meet outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem's Old City. Pope Francis travels to Turkey on a three day visit beginning Friday Nov. 28, 2014, amid new Muslim-Christian tensions and a violent war next door, with Islamic State militants seizing chunks of territory in Iraq and Syria and sending 1.6 million refugees across the border into Turkey. Francis is due to visit the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, Patriarch Bartholomew I. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)VATICAN CITY (AP) — When a pope last visited Turkey — Benedict XVI in 2006 — Muslim-Catholic tensions were so high that the Vatican added a stop at Istanbul's famed Blue Mosque at the last minute in hopes of showing Benedict's respect for Islam.


Greece tows migrant-packed ship to safety off Crete

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 03:10 AM PST

A container ship is being towed by a Greek Navy frigate as a coast guard officer looks on, at open sea a few miles southeast from the island of CreteATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek frigate has towed a disabled cargo ship packed with 700 migrants to safety just off the island of Crete on Thursday, in one of the biggest sea rescues mounted by the Mediterranean nation, coastguard officials said. The Kiribati-flagged MV Baris issued a distress call on Tuesday after developing engine problems 30 nautical miles (45 km) southeast of Crete. A Greek frigate dispatched to the scene spent over 24 hours fighting off strong winds and waves to tow the ship close to the southeastern port of Ierapetra, where boats had begun transferring migrants to the town. ...


How OPEC's Vienna Meeting is Playing Out So Far

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 03:09 AM PST

There's certainly grumbling among members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries as they meet at the cartel's headquarters in Vienna to discuss tumbling oil prices.

Iraq finance minister urges battle against graft in military

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 02:31 AM PST

Iraq's Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari speaks during a news conference in BaghdadBy Michael Georgy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's finance minister called for deep-rooted reforms to stamp out corruption in a military that collapsed in the face of an Islamic State advance, as he prepares to spend nearly a quarter of the 2015 budget on defense. Hoshiyar Zebari will push for about 23 percent of a proposed 2015 budget of $100 billion to be poured into defense and security when it is presented to Iraq's cabinet "very soon". Iraq has not published spending figures for this year, but according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Baghdad spent $7. ...


With incentives and brute force, IS subdues tribes

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 01:28 AM PST

This undated image posted on AlKeir_News, a Jihadist militant Twitter page, in November 2014, shows, according to them, Sunni Muslim prisoners from the Syrian Shueitat tribes, held by the Islamic State group at unknown place in Syria. The Islamic State group is employing a broad range of strategies to subdue the Sunni Muslim tribes in Syria and Iraq, wooing some with everything from cars to animal feed while brutally suppressing those that resist its rule with mass killings and home demolitions. The militants' ability to co-opt the tribes will play a significant role in deciding whether the extremists can retain control of the vast stretch of territory they controls spanning Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/AlKeir_News)BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group is employing multiple tactics to subdue the Sunni Muslim tribes in Syria and Iraq under its rule, wooing some with gifts — everything from cars to feed for their animals — while brutally suppressing those that resist with mass killings.


US 'horrified' by Syrian regime raids, slams Assad

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 09:59 PM PST

Rescue workers remove a body following air strikes reportedly by Syrian government forces in the Islamic State (IS) group controlled Syrian city of Raqa, on November 25, 2014The bombing Tuesday was the deadliest by President Bashar al-Assad's air force since Islamic State jihadists seized the city last year and declared it their capital. It was not clear how many Islamic States members were killed, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than half of the dead were civilians. The US State Department condemned the strikes, and said the regime had no value for human life. "We are horrified by the reports that the Assad regime's airstrikes yesterday in Raqa, Syria killed dozens of civilians and demolished residential areas," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement, released Wednesday.


Bulgaria charges radical imam with supporting Islamic State

Posted: 26 Nov 2014 05:52 PM PST

Ahmed Mussa sits inside a court as 12 Bulgarian men, most of them Muslim prayer leaders, and one woman are charged for preaching radical Islam, in PazardzhikBy Angel Krasimirov SOFIA (Reuters) - A Bulgarian imam and six others detained during a special operation by security forces earlier this week have been charged with supporting the ultra-radical militant group Islamic State, Bulgarian prosecutors said on Wednesday. Charges against Muslim prayer leader Ahmed Mussa, five men and one woman include propagating an anti-democratic ideology and incitement to war, both verbally and with videos and images, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Borislav Sarafov said. ...


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