2014年11月28日星期五

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Top Asian News at 12:30 a.m. GMT

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 04:33 PM PST

HONG KONG (AP) — At age 14, he stepped into the spotlight to take on — and ultimately help defeat — Hong Kong authorities' plans to launch a "national education" curriculum, calling it a ploy to brainwash the city's youth with unquestioned support for the Chinese Communist Party. Now, at 18, Joshua Wong is helping spearhead a mostly student-led protest movement that is pressing for greater democratic reforms in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.

Three dead in attack and Islamist protests in Egypt

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 04:00 PM PST

Army soldiers take their positions during clashes with supporters of Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in the Cairo suburb of MatariyaCAIRO (Reuters) - Three people including an army general were killed and at least 28 wounded on Friday in militant attacks, some claimed by a group loyal to Islamic State, and clashes at Islamist protests around Egypt, security sources and health officials said. Police were out in force at the demonstrations, organized by a hardline Salafi group calling for removal of the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the ex-army chief who led the overthrow of elected Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in July 2013. ...


Tunisia's outgoing premier backs broad coalition

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 12:45 PM PST

Tunisia's outgoing Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa speak during a interview in the city of Dakar, Senegal, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Tunisia's outgoing prime minister says the country needs a broad coalition government in order to continue with the necessary economic reforms. Jomaa said Friday in Dakar that his interim technocrat cabinet has started the reform process but that the next government must have broad support to implement further changes. (AP Photo/Jane Hahn)DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Tunisia's next government should be a broad as possible coalition so that it has the necessary support to implement difficult economic reforms, the outgoing prime minister said Friday in an implicit backing of an Islamist-secular alliance.


Rebels push forward in southern Syria

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 11:24 AM PST

FILE - In this March 18, 2013, file image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, free Syrian Army fighters fire at Syrian army soldiers during a fierce firefight in Daraa al-Balad, Syria. Syrian rebels backed by the United States are making their biggest gains yet south of the capital Damascus, capturing a string of towns from government forces and aiming to carve out a swath of territory leading to the doorstep of President Bashar Assad's seat of power. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels backed by the United States are making their biggest gains yet south of the capital Damascus, capturing a string of towns from government forces and aiming to carve out a swath of territory leading to the doorstep of President Bashar Assad's seat of power.


INSIDE KOBANI: Devastation mixed with optimism

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 11:06 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 photo, fighters from the Free Syrian Army, left, and the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), center, join forces to fight Islamic State group militants in Kobani, Syria. Here, Kurdish fighters backed by small numbers of Iraqi peshmerga forces and Syrian rebels, are battling what they see as an existential battle against the militants who swept into their town in mid-September as part of a summer blitz that saw the group seize large chunks of territory in Syria and neighboring Iraq. (AP Photo/Jake Simkin)KOBANI, Syria (AP) — Blocks of low-rise buildings with hollow facades, shattered concrete, streets strewn with rubble and overturned, crumpled remains of cars and trucks. Such is the landscape in Kobani, where the sounds of rifle and mortar fire resonate all day long in fighting between Islamic State extremists and the Syrian town's Kurdish defenders.


Pope urges more Muslim opposition to IS in Turkey

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 10:37 AM PST

Pope Francis follows Turkish soldiers as they hold a wreath at the mausoleum of the Turkish republic's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in Ankara on Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Pope Francis is on a three-day official visit in Turkey. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Pope Francis urged Muslim leaders to condemn the "barbaric violence" being committed in Islam's name against religious minorities in Iraq and Syria as he arrived in neighboring Turkey Friday for a delicate visit aimed at improving interfaith ties.


Pope condemns 'barbaric violence' of Islamic State

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 09:11 AM PST

Pope Francis addresses to media at the presidential palace in AnkaraBy Philip Pullella and Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Friday fighting hunger and poverty, rather than military intervention alone, were key to stopping Islamist militants carrying out "barbaric violence" in Syria and Iraq. In a speech to Turkey's top cleric, Francis said "an extremist and fundamentalist group" had subjected entire communities in Turkey's southern neighbors to "barbaric violence simply because of their ethnic and religious identity. ...


Fifteen Islamic State targets hit by U.S., allies since Wednesday: U.S.

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 07:06 AM PST

People walk on rubble as they inspect a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria's President al-Assad in RaqqaWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military and its allies hit Islamic State forces with 15 air strikes in Iraq and Syria during a three-day period, the U.S. Central Command said on Friday. Thirteen attacks were carried out in Iraq since Wednesday and two more targeted Islamic State in Syria. The air strikes in Syria hit an Islamic State fighting position and staging area near Kobani and a tactical unit near Aleppo, Central Command said. ...


Abu Dhabi crown prince in Qatar to seal reconciliation before summit

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 05:43 AM PST

DUBAI (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi's crown prince paid a brief visit to Qatar on Friday, official media said, to cement reconciliation between the two Gulf Arab states before a regional summit they are to hold in Doha next month. The trip by Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan was the first since the United Arab Emirates along with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar in March, accusing Doha of undermining their domestic security through its support of the Muslim Brotherhood. The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain agreed at an emergency meeting in Riyadh on Nov. ...

Jail term of over four years sought for German Islamic State suspect

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 04:41 AM PST

Accused member of Islamic State Kreshnik B., waits for start of his trial in FrankfurtBy Jonathan Gould FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A state prosecutor on Friday demanded a prison term of over four years for a 20-year-old German man accused of fighting with Islamic State insurgents in Syria, in the first trial of its kind in Germany. The defendant, identified only as Kreshnik B., who was born in Germany to parents from Kosovo, has shown no remorse about his actions, prosecutor Dieter Killmer told the court. ...


India believes its abducted workers in Iraq alive

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 04:41 AM PST

The Indian government believes 39 workers abducted nearly six months ago by the Islamic State group in Iraq are alive despite claims by one who escaped that the others had been killed. Efforts are continuing ...

India says no contact with 39 men held by Islamic State in Iraq

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 04:11 AM PST

Relatives pose with the photographs of Indian workers, who have been kidnapped in Iraq, in front of the holy Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple, in AmritsarBy Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has had no contact with 39 men missing in Iraq since June, but believes them to be alive, the foreign minister said on Friday, distancing herself from a report that suggested they had been killed by Islamic State militants. India has grown concerned about the fate of the construction workers believed to have been kidnapped from the militant-controlled city of Mosul, along with a group of 46 nurses. ...


Attacks kill 9 people in Iraq

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 03:42 AM PST

BAGHDAD (AP) — Authorities in Iraq say bombings and a shooting have killed nine people around the capital, Baghdad.

Will the Real Rand Paul Finally Stand Up

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 03:30 AM PST

Time recently called Sen. Rand Paul "The Most Interesting Man in Politics" in a cover story, but the publication might have more accurately called him "The Most Conflicted Man in Politics."  In his quest ...

Eurozone inflation dips again as energy costs tank

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 03:19 AM PST

German Economy Minister and Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, right, and French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, pose before a press conference in Paris, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014, to present a report promoting deepened integration with common social reforms entitled Reforms, Investment and Growth. The economic ministers presented their report to propose economic reforms for France, Germany and for Europe, to avoid the "stagnation trap" where growth is barely noticeable and inflation is dangerously low. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)LONDON (AP) — A fall in energy costs as a result of dramatic declines in oil markets has pushed inflation across the 18-country eurozone down to 0.3 percent in the year to November, official figures showed Friday.


Syria denies targeting civilians, tells U.S. to criticize militants instead

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 01:23 AM PST

Children play in front of damaged buildings along a deserted street in Maaret al-Naaman town in Idlib provinceBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria rejected as "fabricated" U.S. accusations that its forces are targeting civilians with air strikes and said Washington would do better to criticize hardline Islamic State militants who have killed American citizens. The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday it was "horrified" by Syrian government bombings in Raqqa province which it said had killed "dozens of civilians and demolished residential areas". "The Syrian Arab Army does not target civilians and will not do so," state news agency SANA quoted Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi as saying late on Thursday. ...


India still searching for 39 workers abducted in Iraq: minister

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 12:51 AM PST

Iraqi pro-government forces take part in a major operation against Islamic State group jihadists to retake the areas around the Hamrin dam in the Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, on November 26, 2014India said Friday it was still searching for 39 construction workers abducted in Iraq in June, denying a report claiming they had been executed by the Islamic State group.


Today in History

Posted: 27 Nov 2014 09:00 PM PST

Today is Friday, Nov. 28, the 332nd day of 2014. There are 33 days left in the year.

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