ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq freed eight captured Turkish soldiers and officials on Wednesday as part of peace efforts between Turkey and the rebel group aimed at ending a decades-long conflict, a legislator said.
The rebels handed over six soldiers, a trainee local administrator and a police officer to a group of pro-Kurdish legislators and human rights activists who traveled to northern Iraq, where the rebels maintain bases, Adil Kurt, one of the lawmakers, told The Associated Press by telephone.
The group crossed into Turkey through Habur, the main border crossing with Iraq, where they were to be reunited with their families.
Five of the captives had been held by the rebels for more than a year, while three others were kidnapped in August. Some were abducted by the rebels who stopped cars in makeshift roadblocks in southeast Turkey, carried out identity checks and took state officials or soldiers hostage.
The rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has been fighting for self-rule in southeastern Turkey since 1984, often using bases in northern Iraq to stage hit-and-run attacks. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and the group is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
Turkey's government announced late last year that its intelligence agency was talking to the rebels' jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan with the aim of persuading the group to disarm.
Turkish officials have not disclosed details of the talks but Ocalan reportedly outlined his peace proposal in a letter delivered to rebel commanders in northern Iraq. News reports and officials said under the plan, the rebels would declare a cease-fire this month and lay down arms and begin retreating from Turkey in the summer.
Under the proposal, Turkey would ensure that Kurdish rights are safeguarded in a new constitution and that local administrations are granted increased powers, according to media reports.
Turkish officials welcomed news of their release but renewed a call for the group to end its armed campaign.
"We are happy that our citizens who had been away from their country for so long, and from whom we had not received any news, are returning," the state-run Anadolu Agency quoted President Abdullah Gul as saying during a visit to Sweden.
"If the violence and guns stop, then it will be easier (for Turkey) to move from a security policy to one of reforms," Gul said.
The officials' and soldiers' release follows a call by Ocalan, which was relayed by Kurdish legislators who were allowed to visit him last month on his prison island off Istanbul, as part of the peace process.
"We are handing over these people in response to Mr. Ocalan's call and instructions from (the Kurdish rebels)," Bawer Dersim, a rebel commander said during the handover, according to private Dogan news agency video footage. "We hope that the release will contribute to the process for a democratic solution."
"We are calling on the Turkish people ... to seize on this meaningful effort by our leader and to give support to the process for peace and democracy," Dersim said.
The video showed the freed soldiers and officials, all clean-shaven and wearing similar checkered shirts and casual jackets, standing in a line, while the delegation from Turkey and the rebels sat behind a table and signed and exchanged papers.
None of the captives were tortured or ill-treated, according to Ozturk Turkdogan, the head of the Ankara-based Human Rights Association, who was part of the delegation that traveled to northern Iraq.
Kurt, the legislator, told reporters after crossing into Turkey that the rebels were still holding "a number" of other civilians, including two government-paid village guards, and said he had asked that they be released too.
The household carbon emission per capita in Northwestern China is only 2.05 tons CO2 per yearPublic release date: 11-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: YAN Bei yanbei@scichina.org 86-106-400-8316 Science China Press
The current international climate policy framework is mainly based on the national and regional level of macroscopic carbon emissions data, such as the regional per capita carbon emissions are often used as the indicator to measure the fairness of carbon emission rights. However, the per capita emissions based on regional macro data can not accurately reveal the low carbon emissions of the poor within the region, and cover up the emission differences among people intra-country and intra-region, the household carbon emission data based on field surveys could compensate for this deficiency well.
The research group for Regional Carbon Emission and Reduction Quotas from Scientific Information Center for Resources and Environment/Lanzhou Branch of the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences undertaked the family interview surveys from the summer of 2011 to the spring of 2012, selecting 1523 urban and rural families in 24 cities and counties of Gansu, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Qinghai in Northwestern China, in order to reveal the pattern of household carbon emissions in Northwestern China. The research paper Household Carbon Emission Differences and their Driving Factors in Northwestern China has been published on Chinese Science Bulletin, 2013, No.3.
Family is the basic unit of social system. Household carbon emission is one of the important sources of the anthropogenic greenhouse gas which is closely related with the family income and household consumption Surveying and assessing the household carbon emissions from the basic family activities, which includes the direct carbon emissions generating from fossil fuel and the indirect carbon emissions caused by household consumption expenditure, could more accurately quantitative analysis the contribution of household activities and find their differences among different regions and families.
The study established an evaluation index of Household Carbon Emission. Based on a >1 year's survey of the main domestic energy consumption and consumption expenditure data of urban and rural households in Northwestern China, the group discovered the status of household carbon emissions in Northwestern China. The results showed the household carbon emission per capita in Northwestern China was only 2.05 tons CO2 per year. The direct carbon emissions generating from fossil fuel usage accounted for 39.29%, and the indirect carbon emissions caused by household consumption expenditure on electricity and other activities comprised 60.71%. Household carbon emission was mainly from coal, electricity and food consumption, which accounted for 62.85% which is necessary for the natural human demands, followed by carbon emission generated by oil, education, culture, entertainment and clothing consumption, and carbon emission caused by water and LPG consumption was at the least, only accounting for 1.20% (Figure1). Carbon emissions varied between urban and rural households, as well as between households in different provinces. Household carbon emission was mainly affected by geographic environment, family size and income, and household age structure. Family size had the most prominent effect on the per capita household carbon emission, the bigger the family size, the lower the per capita household carbon emission (Figure2).
The fact, that the household carbon emission in Northwestern China is at a relatively low level, has important reference value for the international discussion on the carbon reduction responsibility which has great influence on the poverty population's rights, and will be helpful for the development of the regional energy-saving emission reduction targets.
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This study was supported by the "Strategic Priority Research Program Climate Change: Carbon Budget and Related Issues" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences?Grant No. XDA05140100.
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The household carbon emission per capita in Northwestern China is only 2.05 tons CO2 per yearPublic release date: 11-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: YAN Bei yanbei@scichina.org 86-106-400-8316 Science China Press
The current international climate policy framework is mainly based on the national and regional level of macroscopic carbon emissions data, such as the regional per capita carbon emissions are often used as the indicator to measure the fairness of carbon emission rights. However, the per capita emissions based on regional macro data can not accurately reveal the low carbon emissions of the poor within the region, and cover up the emission differences among people intra-country and intra-region, the household carbon emission data based on field surveys could compensate for this deficiency well.
The research group for Regional Carbon Emission and Reduction Quotas from Scientific Information Center for Resources and Environment/Lanzhou Branch of the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences undertaked the family interview surveys from the summer of 2011 to the spring of 2012, selecting 1523 urban and rural families in 24 cities and counties of Gansu, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Qinghai in Northwestern China, in order to reveal the pattern of household carbon emissions in Northwestern China. The research paper Household Carbon Emission Differences and their Driving Factors in Northwestern China has been published on Chinese Science Bulletin, 2013, No.3.
Family is the basic unit of social system. Household carbon emission is one of the important sources of the anthropogenic greenhouse gas which is closely related with the family income and household consumption Surveying and assessing the household carbon emissions from the basic family activities, which includes the direct carbon emissions generating from fossil fuel and the indirect carbon emissions caused by household consumption expenditure, could more accurately quantitative analysis the contribution of household activities and find their differences among different regions and families.
The study established an evaluation index of Household Carbon Emission. Based on a >1 year's survey of the main domestic energy consumption and consumption expenditure data of urban and rural households in Northwestern China, the group discovered the status of household carbon emissions in Northwestern China. The results showed the household carbon emission per capita in Northwestern China was only 2.05 tons CO2 per year. The direct carbon emissions generating from fossil fuel usage accounted for 39.29%, and the indirect carbon emissions caused by household consumption expenditure on electricity and other activities comprised 60.71%. Household carbon emission was mainly from coal, electricity and food consumption, which accounted for 62.85% which is necessary for the natural human demands, followed by carbon emission generated by oil, education, culture, entertainment and clothing consumption, and carbon emission caused by water and LPG consumption was at the least, only accounting for 1.20% (Figure1). Carbon emissions varied between urban and rural households, as well as between households in different provinces. Household carbon emission was mainly affected by geographic environment, family size and income, and household age structure. Family size had the most prominent effect on the per capita household carbon emission, the bigger the family size, the lower the per capita household carbon emission (Figure2).
The fact, that the household carbon emission in Northwestern China is at a relatively low level, has important reference value for the international discussion on the carbon reduction responsibility which has great influence on the poverty population's rights, and will be helpful for the development of the regional energy-saving emission reduction targets.
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This study was supported by the "Strategic Priority Research Program Climate Change: Carbon Budget and Related Issues" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences?Grant No. XDA05140100.
Corresponding author
QU Jiansheng
jsqu@lzb.ac.cn
Source?
QU J S, ZHANG Z Q, ZENG J J, et al. Household carbon emission differences and their driving factors in Northwestern China (in Chinese). Chinese Science Bulletin, 2013, 58(3): 260-266.
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LANSING (AP) - Gov. Rick Snyder?s attempt for legislative approval of a new health insurance market in Michigan has been one-year odyssey ? and it?s not over yet.
The GOP-led Senate quickly got behind his state-run marketplace, or online exchange, in 2011 so the state could have more say in a key component of the federal health care law that will help people shop for required insurance. But House Republicans opposed to the law resisted throughout 2012, even after President Barack Obama?s re-election.
With Plan B, the governor pitched a partnership website controlled almost entirely by the federal government. The House assented to spending $31 million in federal money for the exchange ? reasoning the contentious law is here to stay ? only now support may be fading among Senate Republicans.
?I just won?t play their shell game. I won?t drink their Kool-Aid. I won?t agree to take their funny money,? said Sen. Mike Green, R-Nashville.
It?s an about face for Green, who voted for an exchange in November 2011.
With pressure from conservatives and tea party groups mounting, Senate leadership may have to break with custom to send Snyder the spending measure.
Votes typically are not allowed unless legislation has backing from a majority of the majority party. The first time around, the number of Republicans in support was narrow, 13-12, and it appears more in the GOP now may be against it than for it. All 12 Democrats backed the state-run exchange, too.
Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, R-Monroe, is considering whether to hold a vote and said he will not be rushed. His caucus heard the pros of partnering with federal officials from a Snyder cabinet member on Thursday, the same day the Obama administration conditionally approved Michigan?s plan. The state has to submit a proposal for consumer outreach and assistance at month?s end, a difficult task without authorization to spend money, according to state officials.
?It?s in a different form,? Richardville said of the partnership market as opposed to a state-run exchange. ?But I think this is a tough thing for any conservative that doesn?t like the idea of some kind of mandated federal Big Brother health care. And so it?s difficult for people to now have to accept that it?s forced upon them and we have to try and make it work.?
The website and accompanying call center are supposed to make it easier for people to shop for the insurance they must have in 2014 ? or pay a penalty. Also open to small businesses, the Expedia-like exchange will be used in part to determine people?s eligibility for Medicaid and, if they buy private insurance through the website, whether they qualify for income-based federal aid to help pay their premiums.
A partnership would let Michigan handle some customer service functions and approve insurers wanting to offer health plans on the exchange, which Snyder argues would save them from an extra layer of regulation and prevent the state from having to spend its own money.
?It is the choice to support our own businesses here in Michigan,? said Sen. Roger Kahn, a Republican from Saginaw Township. ?If we reject this, it is a federal-only exchange. ? We lose our seat at the table on making decisions going forward.?
But Sen. John Pappageorge, R-Troy, who voted for the state exchange in 2011, is having second thoughts.
?Having read the fine print, I realize that the only thing we?re going to be in charge of is the complaint department of an act we don?t much care for. So it is perfectly consistent to say yes to a state-run Orbitz-type organization and no to one where the feds actually run the store and call it a cooperative arrangement.?
One big reason some senators are hesitating is outside pressure.
Conservative organizations, tea party supporters and other vocal opponents of the federal health law are calling and emailing lawmakers.
One leading the opposition is Jack Hoogendyk, a former state House member and U.S. Senate candidate who runs the Citizens? Alliance for Life & Liberty and the Madison Project Michigan PAC.
He says an exchange will be put in place, but there is no reason Michigan needs to help do it.
?Anytime you take money from somebody, there?s a string attached,? he said, calling the $31 million grant a ?bribe.?
Some speculate that some Republicans are worried about facing 2014 primary challenges if they vote in favor of the insurance market. Yet Hoogendyk said his focus is finding conservatives for open races, not to ?take somebody out because of a couple of bad votes.?
At least 364,000 Michigan residents are expected to get private insurance through the exchange in 2014, with many receiving government help to pay premiums. Depending on how many businesses use the website, a maximum of nearly 1.4 million people could be enrolled next year, according to the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs.
?We?re getting less and less input every day that goes by that we don?t assert ourselves,? said Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing. ?We have a duty to our constituents. They deserve to have their voice in how this is run.?
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ? Venezuelans will vote April 14 to choose a successor to Hugo Chavez, the elections commission announced Saturday as increasingly strident political rhetoric begins to roil this polarized country.
The constitution mandated the election be held within 30 days of Chavez's March 5 death, but the date picked falls outside that period. Critics of the socialist government already complained that officials violated the constitution by swearing in Vice President Nicolas Maduro as acting leader Friday night.
Some people have speculated Venezuela will not be ready to organize the vote in time, but elections council chief Tibisay Lucena said the country's electronic voting system was fully prepared.
Lucena announced the date on state television while a small inset in the picture showed people filing past Chavez's coffin at the military academy in Caracas, where his body has lain in state since Wednesday.
Chavez's boisterous state funeral Friday often felt like a political rally for his anointed successor, Maduro, who eulogized him by pledging eternal loyalty and vowing Chavez's movement will never be defeated. Maduro is expected to run as the candidate of Chavez's socialist party.
Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, coordinator of the opposition coalition, immediately followed the election announcement by offering his bloc's presidential candidacy to Henrique Capriles, the governor of Miranda state who lost to Chavez in October. A Capriles adviser said the governor would announce his decision Sunday.
David Smilde, an analyst with the U.S.-based Washington Office on Latin America, said the opposition needs to run a candidate in the presidential election even though he believes it will almost certainly lose.
Smilde said he wasn't sure Capriles will accept the candidacy.
"If he says he doesn't want to run I could totally understand that," Smilde said. "He is likely going to lose, and if he loses this election, he's probably going to be done."
In that case the opposition would be wise to run someone such as Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledesma or Henry Falcone, governor of Lara state and one of just three opposition governors, he said.
That would give the opposition an opportunity to clearly articulate its platform and vision.
"Really what this campaign would be about is allowing the opposition to put themselves in position for the future, to show that they have some ideas for the country," Smilde said.
In his speech after his swearing-in Friday, Maduro took shots at the United States, the media, international capitalism and domestic opponents he often depicted as treacherous. He claimed the allegiance of Venezuela's army, referring to them as the "armed forces of Chavez," despite the constitution barring the military from taking sides in politics.
The opposition has denounced the transition as an unconstitutional power grab, while the government moves to immortalize Chavez. Since his death, the former paratrooper has been compared to Jesus Christ and early-19th century Venezuelan liberator Simon Bolivar, and the government announced that his body would be embalmed and put on eternal display.
Edith Palmeira, a 47-year-old Caracas resident at a park Saturday in central Caracas, said she would vote for Maduro, but made clear her allegiance was based purely on her love of Chavez.
"Imitations are never as good as the original," Palmeira said. "But I think he must have grown as a person during so much time at the president's side. He must have learned to be a president."
Elvira Orozco, a 31-year-old business owner, said she planned to sit out the vote to protest Maduro's swearing-in Friday.
"What they want is to say that here there's a democracy, but here they violate the constitution and there's no authority who says anything," Orozco said.
Observers voiced mounting concern about the deep political divide gripping Venezuela, with half of it in a near frenzy of adulation and the other feeling targeted.
"Everything that happened yesterday (with the funeral and Maduro's speech) are outward signs of a fascistic aesthetic, complete with armbands," said Vicente Gonzalez de la Vega, a professor of law at Caracas' Universidad Metropolitana. "It is the cult of the adored leader, an escape from reality. ... They are trying to impose on the rest of the country a new pagan religion."
He said the ruling party was playing with fire with its strong nationalistic rhetoric and the implication that a vote against Maduro was somehow subversive.
Capriles, too, has used emotionally charged language in his public comments. On Friday he denounced Maduro as a shameless liar who had not been elected by the people, and condescendingly referred to him as "boy."
Opposition figures have said they are concerned about the election's fairness, particularly given the public vows of allegiance to Chavez from senior military officials. Capriles lost to Chavez in Oct. 7 elections, but he garnered 45 percent of the vote, which was the most anyone had ever won against the late president.
A boycott of 2005 legislative elections was widely seen as disastrous for the opposition, letting Chavez's supporters win all 167 seats and allowing him to govern unimpeded by any legislative rivals.
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Associated Press writers Frank Bajak, Jorge Rueda and Vivian Sequera contributed to this report.
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People read local newspapers with the headline 'We've killed 7 foreign hostages' on a street in Kano, Nigeria, on March 10.
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By Gavin Jones and Renee Maltezou, Reuters
ROME/ATHENS ? Seven foreign hostages kidnapped last month by a Nigerian Islamist group from a construction firm's compound have been killed, the Italian and Greek Foreign Ministries said on Sunday.
Al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansaru said on Saturday it had killed the hostages seized on February 7 in the northern state of Bauchi because of attempts by Nigerian and British forces to free them.
It published grainy photos purporting to show the bodies of a Briton, an Italian, a Greek and four Lebanese workers snatched from the Lebanese firm Setraco.
Foreign governments had not been able to confirm the killings until Sunday. Italy and Greece denied any attempt to rescue them had been made by any of the governments involved. Nigeria had no confirmation of the killings.
"Our checks conducted in co-ordination with the other countries concerned lead us to believe that the news of the killing of the hostages seized last month is true," an Italian Foreign Ministry statement said.
"There was never any military attempt to rescue the hostages by any of the governments concerned," it said, adding the president had sent his condolences to the Italian's family.
Security has become a top concern for oil and infrastructure companies across the region after gunmen loyal to al Qaeda's north African franchise stormed an Algerian gas plant in January. Up to 37 foreigners died during an attempted rescue mission by Algerian forces.
The risk posed by Islamists across west and north Africa has greatly increased since France sent troops to Mail to wrest control of its northern territory from al Qaeda linked rebels.
Islamist groups have also spread across the north and centre of Nigeria, Africa's top oil producer, where they have become the main security threat after an amnesty ended an uprising by armed groups in the oil-producing southeastern Niger Delta.
Britain said it was "likely" the Briton was killed along with the six others, with Foreign Secretary William Hague saying: "This was an act of cold-blooded murder, which I condemn in the strongest terms."
Greece confirmed its citizen was dead, adding the Foreign Ministry had informed his family. Lebanon declined to comment.
Nigerian authorities continued to say they had no evidence, after doubting the veracity of the Ansaru statement on Saturday.
"We have launched a full investigation to find out what has really happened, but for now we really cannot way whether this report is true or not," police spokesman for Bauchi state Hassan Mohammed Auyo said by telephone.
SECURITY THREAT
Western security officials say growing links between Nigerian Islamists and Saharan groups such as al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has led them to increasingly seek Western targets, rather than local security forces or civilians.
French intervention in Mali has also heightened the risk to Western interests in Nigeria, analysts say, and French oil major Total moved its staff from the Nigerian capital Abuja, where the main insurgent group Boko Haram operates, in January.
Kidnappings - including some targeting foreigners - have been rife in the southeast for many years, but the gangs there usually seek a payout and hostages tend to be released quickly, while Islamist kidnappings in the north are often fatal.
The hostage-taking at the compound in the remote town of Jama'are was the largest number of foreigners seized in the mostly Muslim north since an Islamist insurgency intensified two years ago.
Ansaru declared itself a separate group from Boko Haram in January, although security officials believe them to be closely linked.
Its full name is Jama'atu Ansarul Musilimina Fi Biladis Sudan or "vanguards for the protection of Muslims in Black Africa".
Ansaru was suspected of being behind the killing of a British and Italian hostage a year ago in northwest Nigeria during a botched attempt to rescue them by British and Nigerian forces. Britain has labeled it a terrorist organization.
It also claimed responsibility for the kidnapping in December of a French national, still missing.
Nigerian authorities are still looking for a French family of seven kidnapped in northern Cameroon and moved over the border by militants who said they were from Boko Haram.
Additional reporting by Inusa Jaba in Bauchi and Tim Cocks in Lagos
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VATICAN CITY (AP) ? The Vatican's penchant for secrecy has won out over American-style transparency.
The U.S. cardinals in Rome for the conclave to elect the next pope canceled their popular daily press briefings Wednesday after some details of the secret proceedings under way ahead of the election were purportedly leaked to Italian newspapers.
The Vatican denied it had exerted any pressure on the American cardinals to keep quiet. But the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, made clear that the Holy See considered this week's pre-conclave meetings, in which cardinals are discussing the problems of the church, to be secret and part of a solemn process to choose a pope.
"The College (of Cardinals) as a whole has decided to maintain a line of an increasing degree of reserve," he said.
The spokeswoman for the U.S. cardinals, Sister Mary Ann Walsh, said Wednesday's briefing was canceled after concern was expressed by other cardinals Wednesday morning "about leaks of confidential proceedings reported in Italian newspapers."
She said as a precaution, all interviews had been canceled.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Walsh said Italy's La Stampa newspaper had on Monday and Tuesday reported details of comments individual cardinals made in the closed-door meetings that were cited as a violation of their oath of secrecy. That prompted the decision to observe a media blackout.
She dismissed speculation that the Vatican and cardinals from other countries simply didn't appreciate the openness of the Americans, saying: "I don't think anyone was angry at the Americans, they were angry at La Stampa."
"In true old-style Catholic school teacher fashion, someone talks and everybody stays after school," Walsh said. She added that the Americans had been assured that the Vatican was pleased with their briefings.
Italian newspapers and international media, including The Associated Press, have reported on the unique briefings the Americans were providing, and how they contrasted with the near-silence from other cardinals and the comparatively sedate Vatican briefings.
In a press conference Tuesday, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Texas and Sean O'Malley of Boston held a lively and informative 30-minute chat with some 100 reporters and two dozen television crews from around the globe.
They revealed no details of their closed-door discussions. But they nevertheless provided journalists with insight about the process from two people actually involved.
"We're trying to help people have a greater understanding of what the process is and the procedures and background information," O'Malley told reporters. "Right now that's about all we can share with you but we're happy to try to do it."
The Americans were the only cardinals who were holding daily briefings; other individual cardinals have given occasional interviews to individual media.
Separately Wednesday, the Vatican said only one voting-age cardinal remained absent, Vietnamese Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man. Lombardi said he was expected Thursday, meaning a date for the start of the conclave could be decided then.
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Associated Press reporter Rachel Zoll contributed to this report.
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