Thursday, September 13, 2012

Obama vows to "bring to justice" ambassador's killers

Obama vows to "bring to justice" ambassador's killers

Obama vows to "bring to justice" ambassador's killers

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 11:37 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally in Las VegasWASHINGTON/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday to "bring to justice" the Islamist gunmen responsible for a ferocious assault that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans - an attack that may have been organized in advance. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the other Americans died after the gunmen attacked the lightly fortified U.S. consulate and a safe house refuge in Benghazi on Tuesday night. The attackers were part of a mob blaming America for a film they said insulted the Prophet Mohammad. ...

Actress says was duped, as anti-Islam film details emerge

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:53 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The origins of a crudely made anti-Muslim movie that sparked violent protests in Egypt and Libya began to slowly emerge on Wednesday, with an actress in the California production saying she was duped and was unaware it was about the Prophet Mohammad. Cindy Lee Garcia of Bakersfield, California, who appears briefly in clips of the film posted online, said she answered a casting call last year to appear in a movie titled "Desert Warrior." "It looks so unreal to me, it's like nothing that we even filmed was there. ...

Dutch PM wins election; set for tough coalition talks

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 11:43 PM PDT

Dutch Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Rutte hands out flyers in The HagueAMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's Liberals won a closely contested election, but he faced the prospect of having to form a government with his arch-rivals from the Labour party on Thursday. In what was by the standards of the last decade a very clear result, voters handed pro-European parties a sweeping victory, shunning the radical fringes and dispelling concerns eurosceptics could gain sway in a country viewed as a core member of the euro zone family. ...

China's Xi cited in state media as health rumors fly

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 01:14 AM PDT

China's Vice President Xi Jinping speaks with Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People, in BeijingBEIJING (Reuters) - China has issued the first comments attributed to president-in-waiting Xi Jinping since his disappearance from the public eye over 10 days ago ignited rumors over his health, but there was no public sighting or new photograph of him. Xi, who has skipped meetings with visiting foreign leaders over the past week, was cited by state media late on Wednesday night as expressing condolences to the family of a veteran Communist Party official who died last week. ...

China says tensions with Japan likely to hurt trade

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 10:02 PM PDT

A man walks past posters of disputed islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, made by Tokyo metropolitan government at a subway station in TokyBEIJING (Reuters) - China warned on Thursday that trade with Japan could be hurt by the sudden flare-up in tension over a small group of disputed islands that is threatening relations between Asia's two biggest economies. The United States earlier this week urged both sides to tone down their increasingly impassioned exchanges over an issue that has been simmering for years. ...

Analysis: Netanyahu risks overplaying hand in Iran dispute

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 08:19 AM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks during a joint news conference with his Bulgarian counterpart Borisov in JerusalemJERUSALEM (Reuters) - The public row between Israel and the United States this week will make it hard for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to launch a unilateral strike against Iran and risks undermining his domestic standing. Despite years of warning about the dangers of Iran gaining nuclear weapons, the Israeli leader has failed to convince any major world power of the need for military action and has yet to persuade his domestic audience that Israel should go it alone. ...

Mexican Navy says captures top drug boss "El Coss"

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 11:59 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican Navy said on Wednesday it had captured one of Mexico's most wanted drug bosses, the head of the Gulf Cartel, in what would mark a major victory in President Felipe Calderon's crackdown on organized crime. The Navy said it would give more details about the arrest of the man it believed to be Jorge Costilla, alias "El Coss," when it parades him in front of the media early on Thursday. A government security official said Costilla, 41, was detained in Tampico in northeastern Mexico, where the cartel is active, without putting up a fight. The U.S. ...

Mob burns Guatemalan suspected of killing children with machete

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 06:26 PM PDT

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Angry villagers in Guatemala killed a man by setting fire to him after he hacked two children to death with a machete in a school. The villagers in Tactic, about 50 miles north of Guatemala City, grabbed the 35-year-old suspect, identified as Julio Saquil, doused him with gasoline and set him ablaze, local authorities said on Wednesday. "He walked into to one of the classrooms and assaulted the students, completely beheading a 13-year-old boy and slitting the throat of an 8-year-old girl with a machete," Tactic firefighter Wilson Cahuec said. ...

Supporters throw stones in Venezuela pre-election clash

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 07:15 PM PDT

Rival supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and opposition candidate Henrique Capriles clash in Puerto CabelloCARACAS (Reuters) - Rival supporters in Venezuela's presidential election fought and threw stones on Wednesday before a campaign stop by opposition leader Henrique Capriles less than a month before the October 7 vote. Both sides blamed each other for the worst flare-up since the campaign began in July. Several people were hurt as dozens clashed around an airport in Puerto Cabello - even chasing each other across the runway - where Capriles had been due to land. One pickup truck carrying opposition campaign materials was set on fire, and at least one other car was smashed up. ...

Australian man detained in counter-terror raids: police

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 08:26 PM PDT

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian police have detained a 23-year-old man, who they said on Thursday they expect to charge under counter-terrorism laws, after raids on about a dozen homes during which an unspecified number of weapons were seized. The raids were conducted by state and national police on 11 homes in Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city and the capital of southern Victoria state, on Wednesday. Computer equipment, including a memory stick containing violent material, was seized along with a number of registered firearms and fake weapons, police said. ...

US, allies set to launch anti-mine naval exercises

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:11 AM PDT

A photo provided by the U.S. Navy, 5th Fleet and dated Aug. 29, 2012, shows USS Navy mine counter measure ships, from right to left, USS Dexrous and USS Sentry get in line to conduct an astern replenishment-at-sea. The United States and more than two dozen allies are gearing up for the largest naval exercises ever in the Middle East focused on countering the threat of anti-ship mines. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Toni Burton)The United States and more than two dozen allies are gearing up for the largest naval exercise ever in the Middle East focused on countering the threat of anti-ship mines. A wary Iran says it will be watching closely.

Ruling Dutch party claims victory in elections

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 06:41 PM PDT

Dutch Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader Mark Rutte is interviewed after casting his ballot for parliamentary elections in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday Sept. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte claimed victory early Thursday for his conservative VVD party in national elections widely seen as a referendum on the Netherlands' commitment to Europe.

US sends Marines to Libya after deadly attack

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:43 PM PDT

Broken pots and rubble lie at the burned-out entrance to the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, following an attack the night before by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad. The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in the attack. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri)The U.S. dispatched an elite group of Marines to Tripoli on Wednesday after the mob attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. Officials were investigating whether the rampage was a backlash to an anti-Islamic video with ties to Coptic Christians or a plot to coincide with the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.

Jailing made Colombian relive kidnapping trauma

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:23 AM PDT

In this Aug. 30, 2012 photo, former regional lawmaker Sigifredo Lopez gestures during an interview at his home in Cali, Colombia. Prosecutors ordered Lopez freed from house arrest on Aug. 14, three months after ordering him jailed for allegedly helping leftist rebels plan the kidnapping of 11 colleagues who were later killed. Lopez had also been kidnapped by rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, in the 2002 raid on the regional assembly in Cali. (AP Photo/Juan Bautista Diaz)Sigifredo Lopez personally paid the cost of Colombia's bloody civil war when he was kidnapped by rebels along with 11 other legislators, held captive for seven years and became famous as the lone survivor of a notorious massacre of his captive colleagues.

Perceived insults to Islam trigger Muslim anger

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 02:19 PM PDT

Muslim anger over perceived Western insults to Islam has exploded several times, most recently in protests this week against U.S. diplomatic posts in the Middle East. The violence, fueled mostly by religious zealots, reflects the tension between Muslims and the secular West that followed the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Cambodia genocide defendant ruled unfit for trial

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:24 AM PDT

One of the leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime will be set free after a court in Cambodia ruled Thursday that she was medically unfit to stand trial for genocide, a decision survivors called shocking and unjust.

Rock throwing erupts at Venezuela campaign event

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 08:08 PM PDT

Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez hurl stones at supporters of opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, who were hurling stones back, outside the International airport in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. Violence broke out at the opposition campaign event as Chavez supporters blocked a road and a campaign truck was torched. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)Violence erupted at an opposition campaign event Wednesday as supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez blocked a road and a campaign truck was torched. Both sides hurled rocks, and police said at least 14 people were hurt.

US embassies step up security after Libya attack

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:19 AM PDT

A security guard walks in front of the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 as it's flag is on half mast following the death of US diplomats in Libya. Manila police tightened security in the area following the attack that killed the U.S. envoy and other diplomats in Libya. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)Security was increased at U.S. embassies and consulates around the world, and at least one cemetery for American veterans, on Thursday following an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador in Libya.

China's absent VP mentioned in news report

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 09:56 PM PDT

In this May 4, 2012 photo, Chinese vice Premier Li Keqiang, center, stands up while Zhou Yongkang, left, and Li Changchun, right, both Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee members, clap at a conference to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of Chinese Communist Youth League at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Xi Jinping, China's vice president, has not been seen in public since Sept. 1, fueling speculation that he suffered a health crisis that forced him to cancel meetings with Hillary Clinton and others. Much attention will likely turn to Executive Vice Premier Li Keqiang, who many had picked as Hu Jintao's preferred successor before Xi emerged in late 2007 as a choice more acceptable to the party's factions. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)China's missing leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, was mentioned Thursday in an official newspaper report, state media's only reference to him since he dropped from sight 12 days ago, sparking rumors of illness.

Pope's Lebanon visit made urgent by Syria's war

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 11:40 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XV blesses faithful at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)The brutal civil war in Syria and this week's slaying of the U.S. ambassador to Libya have given a sense of urgency to Pope Benedict XVI's trip this week to Lebanon, a mission he describes as a pilgrimage of peace for the entire region.
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