2010年11月20日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Merkel urges calm after German terror warning (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 09:17 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2010, photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel waves after her speech during a party meeting of Christian Democratic Union in Karlsruhe, Germany. The White House said on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010, that President Barack Obama will award Merkel the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor in a ceremony early next year. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)AP - Chancellor Angela Merkel sought to reassure Germans on Saturday after her government alerted the country to a heightened terrorist threat, saying everything is being done to ensure people's security.


Deal settles most lawsuits over WTC toxic dust (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 12:13 AM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2001 file photo, firefighters and emergency personnel remove debris from the site of the World Trade Center towers' collapse in New York. More than 10,000 people have joined a legal settlement that will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to workers exposed to the tons of toxic dust that blanketed Lower Manhattan after the World Trade Center fell, officials announced Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, File)AP - A deal reached by New York City and workers exposed to toxic dust that blanketed ground zero after Sept. 11 will resolve an overwhelming majority of the lawsuits over the city's failure to provide protective equipment to the responders.


NATO targets terrorism, cybersecurity as central to 21st century mission (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 03:01 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - NATO on Friday adopted a “plan of action” for 21st-century security threats that draws on both the recent lessons of Afghanistan and the alliance’s longer experience with defense by deterrence.
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