2016年9月29日星期四

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Former Australian government minister visits Iraq front line

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 05:35 PM PDT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A former Australian government minister was branded "stupid" by the prime minister on Friday for visiting the Iraqi front line in a battle between the Islamic State movement and Kurdish Peshmerga.

U.S. lawmakers may change Sept. 11 law after rejecting veto

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 04:20 PM PDT

U.S. Speaker of the House Ryan holds a news conference on Capitol Hill in WashingtonBy Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers expressed doubts on Thursday about Sept. 11 legislation they forced on President Barack Obama, saying the new law allowing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia could be narrowed to ease concerns about its effect on Americans abroad. A day after a rare overwhelming rejection of a presidential veto, the first during Obama's eight years in the White House, the Republican leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives opened the door to fixing the law as they blamed the Democratic president for not consulting them adequately. "I do think it is worth further discussing," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters, acknowledging that there could be "potential consequences" of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, known as JASTA.


U.S. lawmakers may change September 11 law after rejecting veto

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 03:05 PM PDT

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks at the Republican National Convention in ClevelandBy Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers expressed doubts on Thursday about Sept. 11 legislation they forced on President Barack Obama, saying the new law allowing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia could be narrowed to ease concerns about its effect on Americans abroad. A day after a rare overwhelming rejection of a presidential veto, the first during Obama's eight years in the White House, the Republican leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives opened the door to fixing the law as they blamed the Democratic president for not consulting them adequately. "I do think it is worth further discussing," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters, acknowledging that there could be "potential consequences" of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, known as JASTA.


US 'on verge' of ending Syria talks with Russia: Kerry

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 01:38 PM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov he would end talks unless Moscow halts the assault on AleppoUS Secretary of State John Kerry warned Thursday that Washington is on the brink of ending its talks with Russia on the Syrian conflict over the assault on Aleppo. "I think we are on the verge of suspending the discussion because, you know, it's irrational in the context of the kind of bombing taking place, to be sitting there, trying to take things seriously," Kerry said. "There is no notion or indication of seriousness of purpose with what is taking place right now," he told a conference in Washington.


For French protester, a surprising discovery in Calais migrant 'Jungle'

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 01:14 PM PDT

Amid friends' stories of pick-pocketing by migrants in town and attacks on truck drivers heading out of it, Nicole Cordier didn't hesitate to join a protest earlier this month in Calais, the port city aside the French terminus of the Channel Tunnel. Hundreds of protesters accompanied by truck drivers and farm tractors blocked highways to call for the teeming migrant camp on the city's edge, known as the Jungle, to be closed down. Hours later, however, she found herself in the center of the migrant camp, after she met an NPR reporter covering the protest who offered to take her to see the Jungle for herself.

Army names new Fort Riley commander to replace fired officer

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 12:05 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army on Thursday named a new commander at Kansas' Fort Riley to replace an officer fired three days earlier, just weeks before soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division deploy to Iraq.

US eyes trove of intelligence after Mosul fight

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 12:02 PM PDT

IS seized Mosul along with other areas in June 2014, but Iraqi forces have since regained significant ground from the jihadists and are readying for a drive to retake Iraq's second-largest cityThe Pentagon hopes to obtain a raft of intelligence on the Islamic State group, including its foreign networks, during its planned offensive to retake Mosul from the fighters, a military spokesman said Thursday. Many of the 615 additional soldiers Washington is sending to Iraq are intelligence specialists who will help the Iraqis use any intelligence gathered from the northern city as quickly as possible. "When you free a city like Mosul, you can expect a tremendous lot of intelligence," Colonel John Dorrian, a coalition spokesman, said in a videoconference from Baghdad.


Mimicking Nature to Fight Climate Change

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 11:15 AM PDT

Report: New Technology Can Minimize Impacts of Industrial Fish FarmsCan nature teach us to how to mitigate the effects of climate change, or even to reverse it? The competition is the latest iteration of the institute's ongoing Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, which most recently asked teams to submit ideas for products composed of living elements. Biomimicry has a lot of potential in the area of climate change, said Megan Schuknecht, director of design challenges for the Biomimicry Institute.


In Central Europe, a Nationalist Turn to the Right

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 11:10 AM PDT

PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Recently, a group of 20 people gathered at a shady corner outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy in the Czech capital, preparing to stage a particularly controversial brand of protest.

A look at some of Israel's prime ministers

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 11:03 AM PDT

File - In this March 10, 1967 file photo, David Ben-Gurion, former Prime Minister of Israel, sits during a press conference in Chicago's City Hall. Israel's founding father and first prime minister. He served from Israel's founding in 1948 to 1963 with a two-year hiatus in 1954-55. He was renowned for declaring Israel's independence and building the country's military might. (AP Photo/Charles Knoblock, File)JERUSALEM (AP) — Shimon Peres, who died Wednesday, was both a former president and prime minister, the only person in Israel to hold both jobs. Of Israel's 12 prime ministers, three are still living: current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; his predecessor, Ehud Olmert, who is in prison after a bribery conviction; and Ehud Barak, who appears to be plotting a comeback.


The OPEC Production Cut Might Not Happen — and Might Not Matter

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 10:46 AM PDT

The OPEC Production Cut Might Not Happen — and Might Not MatterWednesday's report that OPEC officials had agreed, in principle, to their first output cut in eight years sent crude prices surging 5.3 percent to $47.05 a barrel, their best one-day gain since April. The price of crude slipped Thursday morning before climbing back above $48, swayed by uncertainty about just what the OPEC news might mean. The agreement in principle would see OPEC cut output by between 200,000 and 700,000 barrels per day from the 33.2 million pumped in August.


Arab responses to 9/11 bill point to US interventions abroad

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 10:26 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, April 9, 2003, an Iraqi man, bottom right, watches Cpl. Edward Chin of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, cover the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling the statue in downtown in Baghdad, Iraq. A bill passed by Congress allowing the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government has reinforced to some in the Arab world a long-held view that the U.S. only demands justice for its own victims of terrorism, despite decades of controversial U.S. interventions around the world. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A bill passed by Congress allowing the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government has prompted reactions of outrage and ridicule among some in the Arab world. Many critics say the bill reinforces a long-held perception in the Middle East that the U.S. only demands justice for its own victims of terrorism, despite decades of controversial U.S. interventions around the world.


Pope visits Georgia, Azerbaijan with peace message

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 10:11 AM PDT

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is wrapping up a Caucasus pilgrimage that began in June in Armenia and ends this weekend with a visit to two other countries with tiny Catholic communities: the Orthodox Christian bastion of Georgia and the largely Shiite Muslim nation of Azerbaijan.

Air strikes kill 18 Islamic State 'leaders' in last month: U.S.

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 09:33 AM PDT

Air strikes by the United States and its allies have killed 18 Islamic State "leaders" in the last 30 days, 13 of them in Mosul, the group's de facto Iraqi capital, a U.S. military spokesman said on Thursday. Earlier this week the Pentagon announced that the United States would send around 600 new troops to Iraq to assist Iraqi forces in the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants, who control parts of Iraq and Syria.

U.N. says may struggle to accommodate refugees from Mosul battle

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 09:17 AM PDT

By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - More than a million people could flee the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul when the Iraqi army launches an assault on the city, the United Nations said, warning it lacked facilities to house about 400,000 of them. Bruno Geddo, chief of the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR in Iraq, said Emergency camps would include 18,000 tents in open areas, and those not lucky enough to get a tent might get one of 50,000 emergency shelter kits. "An emergency shelter kit is a sack of 15kg which includes hammer, rope, wire, nails, plastic sheeting and timber.

Wife of officer charged in shooting details threats, bills

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 09:15 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday Sept. 20, 2016, file photo, defendants Keith Sandy, former Albuquerque Police Department detective and former Repeat Offender Project officer, left, and Dominique Perez, right, former Albuquerque police officer and SWAT member are seen in court in Albuquerque, N.M. Sandy and Dominique Perez are charged with the 2014 fatal shooting of an armed, homeless man, James Boyd. Defense attorneys have argued that Boyd, who was mentally ill and had history of violence against law enforcement, was a threat. Perez's legal team began laying out its case Wednesday, Sept. 28, saying he was obligated to shoot to protect the life of a K-9 handler. (Jim Thompson/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, Pool, File)ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The telephone death threats to the home of Officer Dominique Perez began soon after he and an Albuquerque police detective ended a hillside standoff by opening fire on a homeless man who died after being hit in the arms and back.


700,000 will need aid once Mosul offensive starts: UN

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 09:02 AM PDT

The Iraqi army is deploying thousands of soldiers to a northern base in preparation for operations to retake the Islamic State (IS) group's hub of MosulThe UN said Thursday it expected at least 700,000 people in Iraq's second city of Mosul would need assistance once an expected offensive on the Islamic State group stronghold begins. "Mosul has the potential to be one the largest... disasters of many, many years," warned Bruno Geddo, the United Nation's refugee agency's main representative in Iraq. Iraq is already facing one of the world's biggest displacement crises, with around 3.3 million people forced to flee their homes in the country since 2014.


UN warns of 'disaster' once Iraqi troops take on IS in Mosul

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 08:56 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 file photo, UNHCR representative in Baghdad Bruno Geddo addresses the media on the humanitarian situation in Iraq at the UN Regional Information Centre in Brussels. A looming Iraqi military operation against the Islamic State group in Mosul could spark GENEVA (AP) — A looming Iraqi military operation against the Islamic State group in Mosul could spark "one of the largest man-made disasters" in years, the U.N. refugee agency's top official in Iraq warned Thursday, urging the international community to keep up support for displaced Iraqis before a battle that could mark a turning point for the war-ravaged country.


Congress Passes Bill to Help Wounded Veterans Start Families

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 07:52 AM PDT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Veteran service organizations (VSOs) and other advocates are congratulating Congress for approving fertility coverage for wounded veterans and their families. Without this coverage, an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 veterans would be unable to start or grow their family due to their injuries sustained in service to our country. While the Department of Defense offers fertility treatment for service members injured while on active duty, this benefit was not previously available to wounded veterans.

Iraq PM tells Kurds not to use Mosul battle to expand territory

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 07:09 AM PDT

Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi of Iraq addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New YorkIraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi asked Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani not to exploit the war on Islamic State to expand the Kurds' territory, according to a government statement published after their meeting on Thursday in Baghdad. The meeting discussed the preparation for the battle to dislodge Islamic State from Mosul, the largest city under the ultra-hardline Sunni group's control, in northern Iraq. Barzani's Kurdish Regional Government has already expanded its control to Kirkuk, an oil-rich region historically claimed by the Kurds, after the Iraqi army collapsed in the face of Islamic State's sweeping advance two years ago.


Iraq's OPEC revolt shows Saudi-Iran oil deal fragility

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 05:20 AM PDT

A man walks past an OPEC logo ahead of an informal meeting between members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in AlgiersBy Rania El Gamal and Alex Lawler ALGIERS (Reuters) - For years, debates in the OPEC conference room were dominated by clashes between top producer Saudi Arabia and arch-rival Iran. Iraq overtook Iran as the group's second-largest producer several years ago but kept its OPEC agenda fairly low-profile. What it did, however, pleased neither Saudi Arabia nor Iran.


UNIDOHappiness Founder "Safe, Alive and Well" as Massive Airstrikes, New Ground Assault Pound Aleppo, Syria

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 04:54 AM PDT

ALEPPO, Syria, Sept. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- United Nations International Day of Happiness Founder and CEO at Illien Global Public Benefit Corporation Jayme Illien is 'safe, alive and well' as Syrian Government, Russia launch massive aerial bombardment and biggest ground assault since the 2011 beginning of Syria Civil war to retake Aleppo.Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160929/413265LOGOPhoto - http://photos.prnewswire. ...

Exclusive: Genel Chairman Tony Hayward to step down next year - sources

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 04:40 AM PDT

Hayward, Chairman of Glencore and Genel Energy responds to questions during a panel debate at the Institute of Directors annual convention in London, BritainTony Hayward, the former BP boss, is set to step down next year as chairman of Genel Energy, which he founded in 2011 and became the biggest oil and gas producer in Iraqi Kurdistan, three sources close to the company said. Today, Genel is struggling with a drop in oil prices, regional conflict and a large reserves downgrade. "Genel is committed to having a strong board and, as you would expect, carefully considers succession planning in order to ensure a smooth transition of key roles at appropriate times," the company said.


Iraqi activist Yanar Mohammed wins Norway rights prize

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 04:25 AM PDT

Head of the Rafto Prize Committee Martin Paulsen announces the Rafto Prize to Yanar Mohammed (on screen) in Bergen, Norway on September 29, 2016Norway's Rafto Prize for human rights was on Thursday awarded to Yanar Mohammed of Iraq for her efforts to help minorities and women subjected to sexual abuse in the war-torn country, the jury said. Mohammed, 55, a journalist and feminist fighting for democratic principles and human rights, is the co-founder and head of the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq, which provides protection to women victims of violence. "Sexual violence is often part of battle plans, and Iraq is just one of many places where women's rights are sacrificed for political and military objectives," the Rafto Foundation said.


Pope urges greater efforts for peace in the Middle East

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 04:15 AM PDT

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is urging the world not to look the other way from war and suffering in the Middle East and appealed to leaders "for greater and renewed efforts to achieve peace throughout the Middle East."

Tumult to tranquility: Migrant family finds peace in Germany

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 03:56 AM PDT

In this Friday, Sept. 16, 2016 photo, Samir Qasu, 46, center, a Yazidi migrant from Sinjar, Iraq, laughs while speaking on his mobile phone as he and his wife Bessi Qasim, 43, left, and his son Dildar Qasu, 11, enjoy their time at a cafe in Freiburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)ELZACH, Germany (AP) — They fled Iraq just ahead of an Islamic State group onslaught in which thousands of their fellow Yazidis were enslaved or slaughtered. Months as refugees on the fringes of Turkish society, a nearly fatal trip across the Aegean and a long trek through the Balkans and Austria north to Germany came next.


Saudi Arabia may still fight back against 9/11 lawsuit bill

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 02:58 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, as seen from the New Jersey Turnpike near Kearny, N.J., smoke billows from the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York after airplanes crashed into both towers. Saudi Arabia and its allies are warning that legislation allowing the kingdom to be sued for the 9/11 attacks will have negative repercussions. The kingdom maintains an arsenal of tools to retaliate with, including curtailing official contacts, pulling billions of dollars from the U.S. economy, and enlisting its lockstep Gulf allies to scale back counterterrorism cooperation, investments and U.S. access to important regional air bases. (AP Photo/Gene Boyars, File)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia's lobbying and warnings to Congress were not enough to blunt the passing of legislation allowing families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the kingdom for the attacks.


The Iraqi Fighter Who's Either a War Hero or a War Criminal

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 01:00 AM PDT

The Iraqi Fighter Who's Either a War Hero or a War CriminalIt's hard to know which characters matter in the soup of Iraqi politics. This guy? He does - and quite the character he is.


Kurdish militants kill three Turkish militia members: sources

Posted: 28 Sep 2016 11:45 PM PDT

Kurdish militants killed three members of a state-backed militia in a firefight in southeastern Turkey on Thursday, security sources said. Members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fired on a "village guard" unit patrolling a rural area of Hakkari province, which borders Iraq and Iran, the sources said. Village guards are local residents who are armed and funded by the state and sometimes fight alongside security forces in their battle against the autonomy-seeking PKK, which took up arms in 1984.

The son of Baghdad who fathered Iraqi Frankenstein

Posted: 28 Sep 2016 11:34 PM PDT

Iraqi writer Ahmed Saadawi poses with his book "Frankenstein in Baghdad"When Ahmed Saadawi finished writing "Frankenstein in Baghdad", a dark fantasy about the war that tore Iraq apart a decade ago, he thought his novel dealt with the past. A fresh wave of violence in Iraq and the region has given renewed relevance to the novel, which was published in 2013, as the Arab Spring gave way to chaos and before a third of Saadawi's native Iraq fell to ultra-violent jihadists. Saadawi won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2014 and became one of the new stars of the regional literary world.


Iraq questions OPEC method on oil output estimates

Posted: 28 Sep 2016 10:01 PM PDT

Iraq on Wednesday questioned one of the two methods OPEC is using to estimate the oil production of its members, signaling the issue could be a problem for the country to join output limits that the group agreed to start implementing this year. OPEC uses two sets of figures for output estimates - submissions by the countries themselves and estimates by secondary sources, which are usually lower but are seen as better reflecting real output. "These figures (secondary sources) do not represent our actual production," Iraqi Oil Minister Jabar Ali al-Luaibi said.

Today in History

Posted: 28 Sep 2016 09:01 PM PDT

Today in History

New Yorkers to Get Special Look at Ang Lee's Hyper-Realistic Football Movie

Posted: 28 Sep 2016 09:00 PM PDT

The Oscar-winning filmmaker promises 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk' will look like nothing anyone's ever seen before, and Big Apple festgoers will be the first to see it.

Obama defends Syria policy in face of renewed criticism

Posted: 28 Sep 2016 08:21 PM PDT

A Syrian boy carries a toy gun past a destroyed building in the northeastern Syrian city of QamishliPresident Barack Obama defended his refusal to use military force to end Syria's brutal civil war Wednesday, as diplomatic efforts faltered and a humanitarian crisis of historic proportions unfolded in Aleppo. With just months left in office, the besiegement and bombardment of Syria's second city has put Obama's polices back under the spotlight and exposed deep unease within his administration. "There hasn't been probably a week that's gone by in which I haven't reexamined some of the underlying premises around how we're dealing with the situation in Syria," Obama told a CNN town hall debate.


U.S. to send more troops to Iraq ahead of Mosul battle

Posted: 28 Sep 2016 06:03 PM PDT

Members of the Shi'ite Badr Organisation undergo training before the upcoming battle to recapture Mosul in Diyala provinceBy Stephen Kalin and Yeganeh Torbati BAGHDAD/ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) - The United States will send around 600 new troops to Iraq to assist local forces in the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State that is expected later this year, U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Wednesday. The new deployment is the third such boost in U.S. troop levels in Iraq since April, underscoring the difficulties President Barack Obama has had in extracting the U.S. military from the country. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a statement that his government asked for more U.S. military trainers and advisers.


10 Things to Know for Thursday

Posted: 28 Sep 2016 06:03 PM PDT

Members of law enforcement investigate an area at Townville Elementary School on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, in Townville, S.C. A teenager opened fire at the South Carolina elementary school Wednesday, wounding two students and a teacher before the suspect was taken into custody, authorities said. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Thursday:


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