New Zealand quake toll 71, no more survivors found

New Zealand's earthquake death toll was confirmed at 71, but Prime Minister John Key said on Thursday that the country must expect that number to rise.

The 6.3-magnitude quake devastated Christchurch, the country's second-biggest city, and rescue teams combed through rubble for a second night under searchlights. Searchers found no more survivors from Tuesday's earthquake.

"We do have to brace ourselves that while the official toll is 71 that number will rise today and tomorrow," Key told Television 3.

The death toll was previously put at 75 but officials revised that. "We have currently in morgues across the city 71 people confirmed dead, we are aware there are other bodies but we haven't got a number on that," Civil Defense Minister John Carter told reporters.

He said early reports of up to 300 other people missing was speculation and it was not known how many were unaccounted for.

Carter said around 2,500 people have been injured, 164 seriously.

Police said they were still holding out hope that people were still alive in wrecked buildings.

"Experts tell me that there are pockets within a number of these buildings, and providing people haven't been crushed there's no reason that we will not get people out of there," shift commander Russell Gibson said.

However, he said signs were not good for finding anyone alive in a flattened building that housed a local television channel and an English language school, which had many Japanese students, with as many as 100 people still in the building.

TEETERING BUILDING

Rescue operations have focused on the city's central business district, which bore the brunt of the quake which struck early afternoon on Tuesday when streets and shops were filled with lunchtime crowds.

Fears that the 26-story Grand Chancellor Hotel, one of the city's tallest buildings, might collapse at any moment triggering a domino-effect with other unstable buildings has been hampering rescue efforts.

"It's incredibly dangerous...if it hits the ground it will create a significant shock wave," local mayor Bob Parker said.

The city has been shaken by more than 100 aftershocks since the initial magnitude 6.3 shake, bringing down more debris.

In the city center, roads were buckled, buildings toppled and large pools of water welled up from broken pipes and sewers.

In places, roads had collapsed into a milky, sand-colored lake beneath the surface, the result of Christchurch's sandy foundations mixing with subterranean water under the force of the quake. Officials call it "liquefaction" of the ground.

Investment bank J.P. Morgan has estimated that the quake could cost insurers $12 billion, while catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide Estimates said the insurance industry faces damage claims of between NZ$5 billion ($3.5 billion) and NZ$11.5 billion ($8 billion).

Key on Wednesday said the estimates could neither be backed up or dismissed, but said the country could afford to rebuild the city.

INTERNATIONAL REINFORCEMENTS

Rescuers from the United States, Britain, Taiwan and Japan are expected to join the operation on Thursday. More than 1,000 workers were expected to comb though shattered Christchurch buildings on Thursday.

The new rescue teams would allow the search of wrecked buildings to be widened.

A national state of emergency has been declared and the central city has been under curfew with soldiers patrolling in armored personnel carriers.

Thousands of people spent a second night in emergency shelters set up in local schools, sports grounds, and at a race course. Fresh water supplies were being distributed from schools and portable toilets set up around the city as services were disrupted.

(Additional reporting by Mantik Kusjanto in WELLINGTON; Writing by Gyles Beckford; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

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US: Pirates held for 4 US deaths may face trial

A U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday it was possible that 15 pirates detained after the killing of four American yacht enthusiasts could be sent to the United States to face trial.

The military, FBI and Justice Department are working on the next steps for the pirates, said Bob Prucha, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command in Florida. The 15 are currently being held on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, which is in the waters off East Africa.

A pirate aboard the hijacked yacht Quest on Tuesday fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a U.S. warship that had responded to last Friday's hijacking. Then gunfire broke out aboard the yacht. When Navy special forces reached the Quest, they found the four American hostages had been shot and killed.

The FBI is investigating the killings of Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle of Seattle, Washington, and Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey, near Los Angeles, who had made their home aboard their 58-foot yacht Quest since December 2004.

Prucha couldn't say whether the FBI had yet interviewed the 15 suspects.

The killings came less than a week after a Somali pirate was sentenced to more than 33 years in prison by a New York court for the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama. That hijacking ended when Navy sharpshooters killed two pirates holding the ship's captain.

Pirates reacted angrily to the sentencing and have since vowed that they will kill hostages before being captured during military raids and being sent to face trial.

That could represent a serious change from the time when pirates were believed to be disgruntled and financially motivated Somali fishermen angry that international trawlers were illegally fishing Somalia's waters.

Criminal gangs now dominate the piracy trade, and have begun systematically torturing hostages, including tying them upside down and dragging them in the sea, locking them in freezers and beating them. Pirates have also used the hostages as human shields.

"What we're seeing is that because of the business model the pirates have adopted is so lucrative that you're now getting organized criminal gangs involved as opposed to fisherman who just decided to have a go at piracy," Wing Commander Paddy O'Kennedy, spokesman for the European Union's anti-piracy force.

"Criminal gangs are more violent than your average fisherman who's turned to piracy," O'Kennedy said.

Piracy has plagued the shipping industry off East Africa for years, but the violence used during the attacks — and the money demanded in ransoms — have increased in recent months. Pirates now hold some 30 ships and more than 660 hostages.

The average ransom now paid to pirates is in the $5 million range, a huge leap from only three or four years ago when it was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, said Roger Middleton, a piracy expert at the London-based think tank Chatham House. One ransom paid last year was just shy of $10 million.

"It's really gone up, really an enormous amount," Middleton said. "If you think you can get a $9.5 million ransom, I suppose the logic is that you try any means possible to get there, and if that means scaring some crews and owners more, I guess that's what you do," he said, alluding to the recent reports of torture.

Industry experts warned Wednesday that there is still a key piece of missing information after the deaths of the four Americans on Tuesday, and it's not clear if the deaths will require a wholesale change in the way the shipping industry and the militaries patrolling the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean operate.

The U.S. military said a pirate fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a Navy warship, and that gunfire was heard on board the Quest. Why that violence broke out — whether because of an internal pirate fight or an attempted escape by the hostages — is not publicly known.

"For us it's too soon. We don't know what happened yesterday so we're not going to make any knee-jerk decisions," O'Kennedy said. "But our policy remains the same. Nothing is off the table. All options are open to us as a military force."

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Oil prices top $110 for first time since 2008

Oil prices topped $110 on Wednesday for the first time since early September 2008 after news that a Libyan fighter pilot had disobeyed orders to bomb opposition stronghold of Benghazi, analysts said.

The news immediately stoked fears over the position in Libya itself, where many Western oil companies have suspended operations, and in the wider Middle East where many countries face protests for change.

In afternoon deals, Brent North Sea crude for delivery in April rallied as high as $110.35, the highest level since September 2, 2008.

At the same time, New York's light sweet crude for April, known as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), jumped to $97.97, a level last witnessed on October 2, 2008.

"Following news that a Libyan air force plane crashed near Benghazi after its crew bailed out as they refused to carry out orders to bomb the city, crude oil prices spiked and Brent surged above $110 per barrel, while WTI almost tested $98-levels," Sucden analyst Myrto Sokou told AFP.

"The oil market reacted straight away to the news that raised further worries and frustration about the political unrest in the MENA (Middle East North Africa region)."

A fighter pilot disobeyed orders on Wednesday to bomb Benghazi and ditched his plane after he and his co-pilot ejected, a Libyan newspaper reported on its website.

The Russian-made Sukhoi 22 came down near Ajdabiya, 160 kilometres (100 miles) west of the city which has fallen to anti-regime protesters, a military source said, quoted in Quryna newspaper.

"Pilot Abdessalam Attiyah al-Abdali and co-pilot Ali Omar al-Kadhafi ejected with parachutes after refusing orders to bomb the city of Benghazi."

On Monday, the pilots of two Libyan fighter jets landed in Malta and defected after they had been ordered to attack protesters in Benghazi.

Moamer Kadhafi's regime has lost vast swathes of Libya's east to an insurrection, it emerged Wednesday as pressure mounted on the strongman to step down amid growing evidence of a "bloodbath."

In recent weeks, oil prices have soared on the back of violent unrest in the Arab world, with protestors toppling the autocratic leaders of Tunisia and Egypt.

The unrest in the key oil-producing MENA region which includes Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Iran -- all of which have seen uprisings -- has stoked fears of disruption to supplies, analysts said.

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