Mes: septiembre 2019

(AP) BAGHDAD – Bombs pounded six Iraqi cities and towns Tuesday, killing at least 40 people and raising suspicion that security forces might be assisting terrorists in launching attacks on Shiite Muslims. The onslaught came just ahead of a religious pilgrimage that could attract even more violence. A senior Iraqi intelligence official said checkpoint guards may have been bribed to help al-Qaeda-linked Sunni insurgents plant bombs at Shiite marketplaces. The attacks injected new fear into Iraqis, resigned to worsening violence six months after the last American troops left the country. “We want to live a normal life, but with the current spike in violence and victims, I am personally thinking of moving,” said Hassan al-Saadi, 40, a Shiite sports equipment store owner in Baghdad who is considering pulling his four children from school for their safety. “I see the future as worse,” al-Saadi said. A spike in violence over the last month is blamed partially on Iraq’s paralyzing political crisis, which pits Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite-led government against rival Shiite politicians, Sunni Muslims and ethnic Kurds who complain they’ve been sidelined. Also, the crisis in neighboring Syria may have allowed weapons intended for the opposition to President Bashar Assad to be siphoned off to Iraqi insurgents. Iraq: At least 33 killed, 100 wounded in several blastsSurge in violence spurs new fears in IraqBombs tear through Baghdad market full...

(AP) BAGHDAD – Bombs pounded six Iraqi cities and towns Tuesday, killing at least 40 people and raising suspicion that security forces might be assisting terrorists in launching attacks on Shiite Muslims. The onslaught came just ahead of a religious pilgrimage that could attract even more violence. A senior Iraqi intelligence official said checkpoint guards may have been bribed to help al-Qaeda-linked Sunni insurgents plant bombs at Shiite marketplaces. The attacks injected new fear into Iraqis, resigned to worsening violence six months after the last American troops left the country. “We want to live a normal life, but with the current spike in violence and victims, I am personally thinking of moving,” said Hassan al-Saadi, 40, a Shiite sports equipment store owner in Baghdad who is considering pulling his four children from school for their safety. “I see the future as worse,” al-Saadi said. A spike in violence over the last month is blamed partially on Iraq’s paralyzing political crisis, which pits Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite-led government against rival Shiite politicians, Sunni Muslims and ethnic Kurds who complain they’ve been sidelined. Also, the crisis in neighboring Syria may have allowed weapons intended for the opposition to President Bashar Assad to be siphoned off to Iraqi insurgents. Iraq: At least 33 killed, 100 wounded in several blastsSurge in violence spurs new fears in IraqBombs tear through Baghdad market full...

(AP) KINSHASA, Congo – Rebels have seized a town on volatile eastern Congo after the army fled their advance, a local official said Sunday. Omar Kavota says the M23 rebels seized the town of Rutshuru Sunday. Kavota says the army looted during their retreat. “We appeal to the international community to do something to protect the civilians who fled the fighting and are living in fear,” he said. Panicked residents were fleeing Rutshuru on Friday night amid reports that the rebels had advanced within shelling distance, according to a statement from the North Kivu Civil Society. Fears were heightened by the evacuation of U.N. and independent aid agencies, followed in the late afternoon by the retreat of Congolese army soldiers, it said. An Indian peacekeeper was killed overnight on Thursday as M23 fighters attempted to take the town of Bunagana, said Madnodje Mounoubai, the United Nations spokesman in Congo. Congo’s two-year-long peace was shattered in April when an army unit led by Gen. Bosco Ntaganda defected. They fled into the bush, where they regrouped as the M23 rebels, named for the date in March 2009 when the former rebels signed a deal with the Congolese government, a deal brokered as the army was in full retreat and the dissidents threatened to take the eastern provincial capital of Goma. Under the accord, 실시간 축구 the rebels were integrated into the...

(AP) ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s new three-party coalition government won a vote of confidence in parliament early Monday, ending a period of uncertainty that led to two elections in less than two months, though the country has a long way to go to emerge from a deep recession and pay down its huge debt. There were no surprises in the vote. All 179 deputies of the three parties supporting the government — conservative New Democracy, the socialist PASOK and the moderate leftist Democratic Left — voted in favor. Voting against were the 121 deputies of the Radical Left Coalition (Syriza), the nationalist right Independent Greeks, the extreme right Golden Dawn and the Communist Party. In his concluding speech just before the vote, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said that, despite their diverse political backgrounds, the three coalition partners have a unity of purpose — to keep the country in the Eurozone and out of its deepest and longest recession, now in its fifth year. In the third quarter, the country’s GDP had its sharpest drop yet, declining 9.1 percent compared to the same period in 2011. Greece’s battered economy is forecast to shrink 6.7 percent for the whole year, far above earlier official forecasts of a 4.5 percent shrinkage. “Us three, we have admitted our past mistakes and we are now embarked in a common cause,” Samaras said, addressing the...

The world’s most famous newlyweds are halfway through their first official overseas trip, And, some protests notwithstanding, Prince William and his bride, Catherine, seem to be making friends everywhere they go in Canada. Their schedule’s been jam-packed, but they did manage to get in some private time Friday, CBS News Royal Contributor Victoria Arbiter told “Early Show” co-anchor Jeff Glor 하이 로우 on Monday. “They used it wisely on Friday,” Arbiter said. “They got a whole four hours together, but it was said to be very romantic, very private. We’re told William rowed Kate across Lake Harrington, on the outskirts of Quebec. They went to a log cabin, which is the country retreat of Canada’s prime minister (Stephen Harper). And, while they were there, they explored the park, they had a picnic. Pictures: William and Kate in Canada “Reports have been quite cheeky. They (the reports) said, if there’s a baby nine months from now, the headlines are going to read ‘Made in Canada.” ‘ William and Kate have been handling their many appearances “brilliantly,” Arbiter observed, adding, “William and Kate mania has gripped Canada, but that is entirely due to the fact the couple are interacting with the crowd so well. There’s focus. There’s eye contact. ” … Not only that, but Kate was sharing some quite personal moments with one of the army wives the day she...