EU's Ashton to go to Balkans because Serbia waits discussions judgement
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will visit the Western Balkans this week, when the European Commission is due to decide whether to recommend the start of EU membership talks with Serbia and possibly Macedonia. Ashton's trip will take her to Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia, an EU statement said on Sunday. It said further stops on the tour would be announced later, leaving open the possibility that Serbia could be included. "I travel to the Western Balkans to reinforce the EU's commitment to the European perspective for the countries in the region. I will encourage the leaders in the region to continue the reform process and promote good neighbourly relations," Ashton said in the statement. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, is expected to issue a progress report on the Western Balkans on Tuesday, when it will decide whether to recommend the start of accession talks with Serbia and possibly Macedonia. The report is also expected to cover Kosovo's prospects for a closer relationship with the EU. Serbia's rejection this month of an EU-brokered plan to tackle the ethnic partition of its former province of Kosovo was a setback to Belgrade's hopes of starting membership talks. However, Serbia's coalition government called last week for the urgent continuation of negotiations on Kosovo, chaired by Ashton, and a Kosovo government adviser has said there could yet be one more push for an agreement before the EU releases its report. Kosovo broke away from Serbia in a 1998-99 war and declared independence in 2008. The West wants Belgrade to cede its fragile hold on a northern, Serb-populated pocket of Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians are the 90-percent majority - an ethnic partition that frequently flares into violence and has frustrated NATO plans to cut back its now 6,000-strong Kosovo peacekeeping force. In a U-turn, Serbia has offered to recognise the authority of Pristina over the entire territory of Kosovo, but wants broad autonomy for the 50,000 Serbs living in the north. Croatia, Serbia's wartime foe during the collapse of Yugoslavia, is set to become the EU's 28th member on July 1, joining Slovenia which is already part of the club. Montenegro has begun talks on joining the EU and Macedonia, like Serbia, is a candidate for membership. However, Macedonia's efforts to join the EU and NATO have been blocked by a dispute with neighbouring Greece over Macedonia's name, which it shares with a northern Greek province. Greece wants it changed. Albania has so far been denied EU candidate status because of its failure to pass necessary legislation, while Kosovo has yet to apply for accession. EU enlargement commissioner Stefan Fule said last week that Bosnia's bid to join the EU faced being "frozen" and a planned election next year declared invalid without urgent reform of its constitution. |
Beijing reviews very first situation of recent chicken influenza stress
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese capital Beijing reported on Saturday its first case of a new strain of bird flu, state news agency Xinhua said, the first time it has been found in a human outside of eastern China. The seven-year-old child is in a stable condition in a Beijing hospital, the report said. Two people who have had close contact with the child have shown no signs of being infected so far, Xinhua added. A total of 11 people have died of the H7N9 bird flu strain since it was confirmed in humans for the first time last month, with 44 infections in all having been reported to date. Shanghai and the eastern provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui had been the only confirmed locations of infection until the Beijing case. The source of infection remains unknown, though samples have tested positive in some birds in poultry markets that remain the focus of investigations by China and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. The new virus has caused severe illness in most of the people affected, leading to fears that if it becomes easily transmissible, it could cause a deadly influenza pandemic, though there has been no indication of that happening. In a bid to calm public jitters over the virus, Chinese authorities have detained a dozen people for spreading rumours about the spread of bird flu. |
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Reports of China : new bird flu death, infections - Xinhua
BEIJING (Reuters) - Another person died from a new strain of bird flu in China on Friday, state media said, bringing to 11 the number of deaths from the H7N9 virus. The latest victim was in the commercial hub of Shanghai, where two new cases were confirmed on Friday, the official Xinhua news agency reported. A total of 40 infections have been reported so far - all in eastern China. The source of infection remains unknown, though samples have tested positive in some birds in poultry markets that remain the focus of investigations by China and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation. The new virus has been severe in most of the people affected, leading to fears that if it becomes easily transmissible, it could cause a deadly influenza pandemic, though there has been no indication of that happening. In a bid to calm public jitters over the virus, Chinese authorities have detained a dozen people for spreading rumours about the spread of bird flu. |
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Evaluation -- Recession-weary Portugal assessments limitations associated with austerity
| COSTA DA CAPARICA, Portugal (Reuters) - Back in 2008, the 500 or so slum dwellers of Terras do Lelo were finally looking forward to a better life. The authorities had decided where they would relocate the mainly Portuguese-speaking immigrants and Roma from their plywood and corrugated iron shacks that disfigure the fringes of one of south Lisbon's smartest beach resorts. And then the financial crisis struck. Five years on, as Portugal slashes its budget to please international lenders that provided a 78 billion euro bailout in 2011, there are no longer any public funds to erase the scar of shanties that would not look out of place in Mumbai or Soweto. "Right now the state has no money to move people from here, but they should at least provide us with minimum conditions," said Euclides Fernandes, 33. The slums have no legal electricity, no sewerage and no running water. "The emergency in the neighbourhood is water," said Fernandes, who lost his construction job when the sector slumped. "With unemployment everything gets worse. We're feeling it. Families who were paying rent and now don't have an income are coming back here." The poverty of Terras do Lelo may be extreme, but the one-two punch of budget austerity and recession is being felt across Portugal, a nation of 10.6 million. Tiago Saraiva with the Lisbon architectural practice Ateliermob, which is working to improve conditions in the slums, says teachers at his daughter's school have to pay out of their own pockets to photocopy exam papers. LOOKING FOR CUTS More cuts are baked in the cake: the government is scrambling to come up with 1.3 billion euros in savings, amounting to 0.8 percent of GDP, after the constitutional court last week rejected plans to reduce public workers' benefits. The finance ministry responded with a freeze on non-essential spending, generating front-page headlines on Thursday that everything from school lunches to police patrols and health inspections were being curtailed. Under orders from its troika of lenders - the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank - Portugal has to make 4 billion euros in permanent savings between 2013 and 2015. What was already a huge task for Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho is now even more complicated due to the court's ruling that measures singling out civil servants are unfair. "The cuts have to be done. It will not be easy. The job will have to be thorough and well thought-out," said Rui Constantino, an economist at Santander in Lisbon. The public sector wage bill and pensions make up 60 percent of state spending, but analysts expect the government to find cuts that pass muster with the court by taking the axe to areas such as health and education. The question for the government - and for financial markets, which have so far taken the court ruling in their stride - is how the next slug of spending cuts will be judged in the court of public opinion. Hundreds of thousands of Portuguese have taken part in two anti-austerity protests in recent months. The demonstrations were peaceful but the message was clear: people are getting fed up with ever-rising unemployment - 16.9 percent last quarter - and never-ending cutbacks. "The country is in chaos. It has hit rock bottom. There is little the people can do," said pensioner Manuela Ferreira, 67. The consensus among political analysts in Lisbon is that Coelho, who survived a no-confidence motion last week, will soldier on. But his room for manoeuvre is shrinking. Jose Augusto Silva, 64, head of a neighbourhood association in northeast Lisbon, wishes his countrymen had more of a "culture of action" rather than passively accepting their fate. "The situation is very hard. There are many pensioners on 200-odd euros a month here and now their children and grandchildren are unemployed and come and ask their grandparents for money," he said. Like many people in bailed-out countries on the euro zone periphery, Silva is critical of euro zone paymaster Germany for the harsh terms of Portugal's bailout. "Germany ended up beating us not by war but by the force of money," Silva said. HOSTAGE TO FORTUNE At a meeting in Dublin starting on Friday, euro zone finance ministers are likely to agree in principle to give Portugal - and Ireland - more time to repay loans from Europe's bail-out funds. Stretching out loan repayments will help in the medium term but will not address the immediate imperative of growth. The economy shrank 3.2 percent in 2012 and the troika has pencilled in a further contraction of 2.3 percent this year. Portugal hopes to regain full bond market access this year. But the unarticulated fear is that, without a return to vigorous growth, investors will baulk at the prospect that Portugal's debt, already 123 percent of GDP, will fail to stabilise. Investment has fallen about 40 percent from its pre-crisis peak, while banks and households are paying down debt. With the public sector shrinking, the only bright spot has been exports. Companies have done better than expected to diversify away from their home market, but exports need to be an ever-bigger driver of the economy, said Kathrin Muehlbronner, who covers Portugal for Moody's Investors Service. Yet here too, Portugal is not master of its own fate. "The export sector has to be the anchor to start a recovery, but for that you need a recovery in the wider euro zone and the global economy. That's very clear," she said. Back in the waterless slums of Terras do Lelo, things are not looking up for Miguel Bemba da Silva. "We don't have work. Life is bad," the 43-year-old Zairean said. Except da Silva does have work of sorts. He earns a few euros for hauling plastic jerrycans of water from a public fountain half a kilometre away. "Water is what we miss," he said. "It's better to do this than going around thieving." |
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Police force killings, ambushes fit Mozambique tranquility with borders
| MAPUTO (Reuters) - The deadliest attacks in Mozambique in more than a decade by suspected opposition gunmen have rekindled memories of a 1975-1992 civil war and put pressure on the ruling party to rethink the marginalisation of its main political foe. Four policemen and three civilians were killed in ambushes of a truck and two buses at the weekend - a tactic widely used by guerrillas in the 1980s - raising fears that the mineral-rich southern African nation's two-decade peace may be under threat. Renamo, the guerrilla movement founded around independence in 1975 with the backing of white-ruled Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa to take on the Marxist Frelimo party which has ruled the country ever since, has denied it attacked civilians. But the group - which has seats in parliament but is effectively excluded from power in what is a de facto one-party state - is widely suspected. Military chief Paulino Macaringue was quoted as saying the army was awaiting orders from President Armando Guebuza to strike back. However, several newspaper editorials said that instead of a military clamp-down, Guebuza should offer an olive branch to Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama, who has been pushed into the political wilderness by Frelimo's stranglehold on politics and the economy since the war ended with a shaky truce. "The President of the Republic has a vast array of options, that he doesn't use, to come to an agreement with the leader of Renamo and make Renamo feel included in the democratic process," the Magazine Independente said. Analysts say Renamo is in no shape to launch widespread attacks, with at most 1,000 veteran guerrillas at its disposal and popular support that amounted to only 16 percent of the vote in 2009 elections. "It is seriously doubtful that these people could actually wage a war," said Joseph Hanlon, a Mozambique analyst at Britain's Open University. But many Mozambicans are worried that even the slightest violence could upset the relative political stability that has underpinned an unprecedented economic boom based on massive foreign investment in coal mining and natural gas exploration. The off-shore Rovuma field is believed to hold enough gas to supply Germany, Britain, France and Italy for 15 years, and mining giants Vale and Rio Tinto have invested nearly $10 billion (6.5 billion pounds) in mines in Tete province, home to some of the world's largest untapped coal deposits. ELECTION THREAT The source of the fiercest Frelimo-Renamo tension in over a decade stems from preparations for next year's presidential election and Renamo's thwarted attempts to reduce Frelimo's control of the National Election Commission. Foreign observers criticised the former Portuguese colony's last two elections as not fair and lacking transparency. Dhlakama retreated to the Renamo stronghold, the remote Gorongosa Mountains, in October, threatening to open guerrilla training camps. Renamo leaders vowed to sabotage the polls after their electoral reform drive in parliament failed. Although the presidential election is not until October 2014, voter registration starts next month and municipal polls are due in November. The security forces responded to those threats last week when police raided Renamo headquarters in the central town of Muxungue, arresting 15 people and tear-gassing bystanders. The next day, Renamo gunmen killed four policemen and one of their own members died in an assault on the Muxungue police station. Two days later gunmen shot up a gasoline truck and two buses in the same district, killing three people. Renamo security chief Osufo Madate said the party had finally got fed up with being brushed aside by Frelimo, which controls 191 of the 250 seats in parliament and dominates nearly every aspect of public life in the nation of 23 million. "If we continue with our peaceful behaviour, it will mean the end of us. From now on, whenever we are attacked, we will retaliate adequately," he told Reuters. Speaking to reporters this week in the Gorongosa Mountains, Dhlakama said he had talked to President Guebuza by telephone but turned down a face-to-face meeting because it "would not result in anything". Since the ambushes, police have deployed armed escorts for vehicle convoys on the highway near Muxungue - an alarming echo of the civil war on the main road running down the spine of the country. South African bus company Intercape, one of whose vehicles was attacked, said it had suspended its service along the route. Worryingly for the mining companies in the northern province of Tete, the Sena line - the only rail link from the coal fields to the Indian Ocean - runs through former Renamo strongholds and was frequently attacked and blown up during the war. "This is not how the country will attract new investment," Mozambican analyst Fernando Lima said. "It is not possible for the country to maintain this spiral of growth and foreign investment and have this type of news of armed conflict and photographs of people bleeding." |
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To the north Korea employees avoid statement with regard to work on combined commercial recreation area -- statement
| To the north Korean language labourers failed to are accountable to function in early stages Wednesday in the Kaesong commercial area this with each other works along with Southern Korea, Yonhap information company documented, each day right after Pyongyang stated it might take away employees as well as postpone procedures consistently. Isolated and impoverished North Korea suspended work at Kaesong, its sole remaining major project with the south, on Monday amid what has become one of the most serious crises on the Korean peninsula since the end of the Korean War in 1953. It is the first stoppage since the Kaesong industrial project began shipments in 2004. Tensions have been rising since the United Nations imposed new sanctions against the North after Pyongyang carried out its third nuclear test in February. Speculation has increased it will carry out some sort of provocative action -- either another nuclear test or a missile launch -- deeply worrying South Korea and its major ally the United States. A South Korean government official could not immediately confirm the Yonhap report on Tuesday and said authorities were investigating. The Kaesong complex employs more than 50,000 North Koreans and is one of the North's few sources of ready cash. On Monday, the North's official news agency KCNA cited senior official Kim Yang Gon as saying North Korea would decide later whether it would continue to operate the zone. About 475 South Korean workers remain in Kaesong a week after North Korea banned all South Koreans from entering the complex. The South's Unification Ministry said 77 South Korean workers were expected to return home on Tuesday. Thirteen factories have stopped operations in Kaesong due to lack of raw materials, according to the Unification Ministry. A total of 123 South Korean companies generate more than $80 million (52.3 million pounds) a year in cash in wages at the complex. An executive at a South Korean apparel firm running a factory in Kaesong said late on Monday his employees had told him they would stay on at the factory. "I don't know what to do, honestly. I can't simply tell my workers to leave or stay," said the executive, who requested anonymity. (Additional reporting by Ju-min Park; Editing by Paul Tait) |
France to create ministers' resources because scandal deepens
| France's Socialist federal government guaranteed upon Mon to create information on person ministers' resources in a few days since it screwed up in order to originate the deepening scandal over the previous spending budget minister's key overseas banking account. Jerome Cahuzac quit his post in March and was placed under formal investigation for alleged tax fraud last week as he acknowledged he had been caught "in a spiral of lies" over his previous denials of holding a Swiss bank account. The affair risks upsetting President Francois Hollande's economic reform effort, with even left-wing allies criticising his handling of the scandal. Hollande's opinion poll ratings are already at record lows for his failure to tackle unemployment. While government opponents are calling for more heads to roll, one minister said a hasty reshuffle would be unwise and it was more likely to happen a few weeks from now. "We find ourselves in a more complicated situation than before in dealing with a difficult economic situation. We will probably have to have a reshuffle, but not right away," the minister told reporters, asking not to be quoted by name. The Cahuzac affair has dealt a grave blow to a 10-month-old government Hollande had promised would be beyond reproach. Weekend surveys found 60 percent of the public want Hollande to reshuffle his team and three-quarters view most politicians and elected officials as corrupt. "To begin with, wealth declarations of all the members of government will be made public by April 15," Jean-Marc Ayrault, Hollande's Prime Minister, said in a statement. Ayrault said the move - which echoes requirements in the United States and elsewhere for public officials to make asset declarations - would be followed by a law in the coming months setting out moral standards in public life. Threatening an escalation of the Cahuzac scandal, Swiss RTS TV reported on Sunday, citing banking sources, that the minister had sought to transfer 15 million euros (13 million pounds) from one Swiss account to another - far more than the 600,000 euros he said last week he had in an undeclared foreign account. Reached by Reuters on Monday, Cahuzac's French lawyer declined to comment. BFM TV quoted his Swiss-based lawyer, Didier Bottge, as saying the report was "balderdash". Separately, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius firmly denied local media speculation that he may also hold a Swiss account. CALLS FOR ACTION The fact the man in charge of state coffers was cheating the tax authorities will not help Hollande's efforts to convince a sceptical outside world that he has public finances under control as France falls short on its growth and deficit goals. Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici, to whom Cahuzac reported, has rejected criticism from that he was too ready to believe Cahuzac's denials and did not adequately investigate the matter. Calls for protest action from Socialist Party allies betrayed a rift that could hamper Hollande's efforts to pass labour and pension reforms deemed vital for the sickly economy. Maverick far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon - a bugbear for Hollande since his rallies drew some of the biggest crowds of the 2012 election campaign - has called for a May 5 march to demand a "Sixth Republic" to be set up with a new constitution. Ex-Greens Party head Eva Joly, a former anti-corruption judge still influential in a party the ruling Socialists count on as a parliamentary ally, said she would march with him. Hollande features a thin parliamentary vast majority therefore might proceed regulations without having far-left as well as Eco-friendly support. Good results . their authorization rankings as little as 22 %, loud protests might restrict the actual range associated with their laws. |
Bali Courtroom Upholds Briton's Demise Charges
| A good Indonesian courtroom offers upheld the actual demise phrase associated with Lindsay lohan Sandiford, an english grandma discovered doing trafficking cocaine. The 56-year-old Sandiford was sentenced to the capital punishment by a court in Bali in January for taking almost 5kg (10.6lb) of cocaine on to the island. The Bali High Court, sitting in the island's capital Denpasar, said the original sentence was "accurate and correct" and confirmed it. She now has 14 days to appeal to the Supreme Court. If the court rejects her initial appeal, she can seek a judicial review of the decision from the same court. After that, only the president can grant her a reprieve. The sentence would see her shot by a firing squad. Sandiford, from Cheltenham. Gloucestershire, was arrested in May 2012 at Bali airport when customs officers found the drugs, worth £1.6m, in her luggage. She said she had been forced to smuggle the drugs into Bali from Thailand by a criminal gang and that the safety of her children was at risk She has cooperated with the police and local authorities, which has led to other arrests. January's death sentence came as a shock because prosecutors had recommended a 15-year imprisonment. Sandiford's lawyer has said the punishment is out of proportion, given she has admitted her crime, expressed regret and helped police in the investigation. But the court ruled that she had damaged Indonesia's hard-line stance on drugs as well as Bali's reputation as a tourism destination. Indonesia enforces rigid fines with regard to medication trafficking, however demise charges phrases are generally commuted in order to lengthy prison phrases. |
Shrine in order to mourn as well as commemorate Venezuela's Chavez
| CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — From the very humble location, nestled together the loud road within a Caracas slum which looks out to Venezuela's presidential structure much beneath as well as, past, the actual towering Avila hill. This people's shrine — its name, "Saint Hugo Chavez del 23," inscribed in white paint — has been visited by tens of thousands of Venezuelans to pay homage to a president for some, a saint for others. Beneath a simple tin roof, there are sunflowers and votive candles, their dried wax drippings a testament to the many who've come since Chavez died of cancer on March 5. They still come to the 23rd of January barrio, just steps away from an army barracks used by a young Chavez, then an army paratroop commander, in a failed coup attempt on Feb. 4, 1992. On a wall is a poster showing Jesus Christ bearing a crucifix, paired with Chavez, in uniform and red beret, saluting. "God is with us. Who is against us?" it reads. Venezuela's Roman Catholic church has objected to comparisons of Chavez to Jesus Christ or descriptions of him as a saint. No matter. There are no such objections here. "He is our saint of the poor," says Eva Garcia, 45, who tends to the shrine each day after her shift at the local municipal offices as a community organizer. Elizabeth Torres, 48, a mother of six, places a tiny cup of freshly brewed coffee on the ground before a small statue of Chavez. The late president famously sipped, and savored, cup after cup of coffee during his frequent marathon speeches to the nation. "It's because of that that I bring coffee for him. Every day. And from the heart," Torres said. She briefly dances to music blaring from a passing truck that urges residents to vote for Chavez's chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, in the presidential election. Blue, yellow and red Chavez earrings, and a red rosary adorned with Chavez's face, bounce on her frame. "He's still our supreme commander," Torres says with a relaxed smile that suggests that the initial trauma of Chavez's death has passed, and that the memories — and his social programs — endure. She wears a "4-F" armband to commemorate Chavez's failed uprising. "4-F" also adorns the army barracks nearby. "The fourth of February was the day Chavez began opening our eyes," said Garcia. To each and every visitor, Garcia hands out a copy of Chavez's official agenda for the 2013-2019 presidential term he won't complete. She also offers a handbill with Chavez's last public remarks in December, in which he named Maduro his chosen successor. Within 1992, Chavez's vicissitude try towards Leader Carlos Andres unsuccessful. This individual notoriously made an appearance upon tv to inform area which their motion experienced unsuccessful -- "for right now. inch Jailed for 2 many years, Chavez decide on the route which shipped your pet towards the obama administration within 99 as well as, possibly, transformed Venezuela permanently. "When Chavez that day said 'for now,' he really meant forever," Garcia said. "He opened our eyes. He taught us about revolution, socialism, ideology. Chavez lives." |
Résistant kills seven, kidnap four in attack within Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Several dozen militants armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a power grid station in northwestern Pakistan before dawn Tuesday, killing seven people and taking four hostage, police said.
The attack on the outskirts of Peshawar city occurred at around 2 a.m., said the local police chief in the area, Granullah Khan. The militants first killed two people at the scene of the attack and took nine with them, he said.
The militants then killed five of the hostages as they were fleeing and were pursued by police, said the police chief. The bodies were found about a kilometer (half a mile) away from the grid station. Four of the abducted were still missing.
The dead included three policemen and four government power workers, said Khan. The men still missing are all power workers.
The grid that was attacked is located near Khyber, part of Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal region bordering Afghanistan, the main sanctuary for the Taliban in the country. It supplies electricity to a large part of Peshawar, and many areas of the city were still without power on Tuesday morning because the station was damaged in the attack.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. But Taliban militants waging a bloody insurgency against the government have staged scores of attacks against security officials, government personnel and civilians.
The Pakistani military has launched dozens of operations against the Taliban in the tribal region, but the militants continue to carry out frequent attacks. The group has also made recent gains in an area of Khyber called the Tirah Valley, which potentially provides them easier access to Peshawar.
There are concerns the militants could step up attacks in the run-up to parliamentary elections on May 11 in an attempt to derail the vote.
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