2012年6月3日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


George Zimmerman back in jail

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:02 AM PDT

George Zimmerman arrives at jail after having his bond revokedGeorge Zimmerman surrendered to authorities in Florida on Sunday and has been taken into custody at the Seminole County Jail, two days after a judge revoked his $150,000 bond and ordered him to turn himself in. Judge Kenneth R. Lester Jr. said on Friday that Zimmerman and his family [...]


Passenger plane crashes in Nigeria

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:10 AM PDT

Plane crashes into building in NigeriaA passenger plane thought to be carrying at least 140 people crashed in Lagos, Nigeria, on Sunday, emergencies officials there said. The Dana Air flight from Abuja to Lagos crashed in a densely-populated area of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, causing several house fires, reports said. Police told Agence France-Press that the plane crashed into a [...]


Britain celebrates Diamond Jubilee with river pageant

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:43 AM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth waves from the Spirit of Chartwell during the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant on the River Thames in LondonThe River Thames became a royal highway Sunday, as Queen Elizabeth II led a motley but majestic flotilla of more than 1,000 vessels in a waterborne pageant to mark her Diamond Jubilee.


Assad: ‘Not even monsters’ would have carried out massacre

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:40 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, as he delivers a speech at the parliament in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. The president's first comments on the massacre expressed horror over the deaths of more than 100 people, nearly half of them children. U.N. investigators say there are strong suspicions that pro-government gunmen carried out the killings, but Assad denied that. (AP Photo/SANA)Syrian President Bashar Assad said on Sunday that, despite deep suspicion from the United Nations, the Syrian government had nothing to do with last week's massacre in Houla, where more than 100 people--many of them children--were killed.


Toronto police say they know identity of mall shooter

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:43 PM PDT

Police stand guard in front of the Toronto Eaton Centre shopping mall where a shooting occurred in TorontoToronto police said on Sunday they think they know the identity of the shooter who killed one person and wounded six others on Saturday in a rare outburst of major violence at the city's main downtown mall. Police also named the man killed: 24-year-old Toronto resident Ahmed Hassan, who they said may have had some gang affiliation.


Firefighters make progress against New Mexico blaze

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:57 AM PDT

Crew members from the Granite Mountain Hotshots of Prescott, Ariz., cut a fire line along a mountain ridge outside Mogollon, N.M., Saturday, June 2, 2012, in an effort to manage and contain the Whitewater-Baldy fire which has burned more than 354 square miles of the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. Unlike last year's megafires in New Mexico and Arizona, this blaze is burning in territory that has been frequently blackened under the watchful eye of the Gila's fire managers. (AP Photo/U.S. Forest Service, Tara Ross)Firefighters battling New Mexico's largest-ever blaze gained ground on Sunday and officials said they would begin to allow evacuated residents to return home on Monday. The Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire, which has burned 241,701 acres in the Gila National Forest, is now 17 percent contained with progress being made by the hour, said Fire Information Officer Heather O'Hanlon. Residents of the historic mining town of Mogollon, which was evacuated last Saturday, will be allowed to return starting on Monday, she said. ...


Egyptian prosecutor to appeal Mubarak trial verdicts

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 07:58 AM PDT

Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak lays on a gurney inside a barred cage in the police academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 2, 2012. Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison Saturday for his role in the killing of protesters during last year's revolution that forced him from power, a verdict that caps a stunning fall from grace for a man who ruled the country as his personal fiefdom for nearly three decades.(AP Photo)Egypt's top prosecutor is appealing the verdicts in the trial of Egypt's ousted president and others, acquitting Hosni Mubarak and his two sons on corruption charges and clearing senior police officers of complicity in killing protesters, an official said on Sunday.


Romney campaign: Obama lacks executive experience

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 07:28 AM PDT

El presidente Obama insta al Congreso a que trabaje por la economía de EE.UU.Mitt Romney's campaign says President Barack Obama's policies aren't working in large part because Obama lacks executive leadership experience.Romney campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstrom says Americans turned ...


Police investigate reported sightings of wanted porn star

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 12:48 PM PDT

This surveillance image provided by Interpol shows who authorities believe is Luka Rocco Magnotta at a security checkpoint area. A state prosecutor says police are investigating two claimed French capital sightings of the Canadian porn actor wanted in connection with a gruesome murder in Montreal. (AP Photo/Interpol)A state prosecutor's office says police are investigating two claimed sightings in the French capital of a Canadian porn actor wanted in connection with a grisly murder in Montreal.


Few November clues to be found in Wisconsin recall

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:26 AM PDT

Spectators hold up signs at a rally held by the Racine Tea Party PAC in Gorney Park in Caledonia, Wis. near Racine on Saturday, June 2, 2012. The rally was held in opposition to the Tuesday, June 5, recall election in which Democratic opponents are running against incumbents Gov. Scott Walker, Kleefisch and state Sen. Van Wanggaard of Racine. (AP Photo/Mark Hertzberg)Five months before Election Day, you'd think there would be no better harbinger about who will win the White House than a contentious statewide vote in a critical battleground state that never moved on from the 2010 campaign.


Biden releases photo from daughter's wedding

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 04:31 AM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden Releases Photo From Daughter's WeddingVice President Joe Biden daughter Ashley Biden, 30, tied the knot with Dr. Howard Krein Saturday night in a private ceremony in Wilmington, Del. "We're happy to welcome Howard into our family, and we wish them all the best in their new life together," Vice President...


Obama writes fifth-grader's excuse note

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:11 AM PDT

President Obama Writes Fifth Grader's Excuse NoteABC News' Nick Schifrin reports: For as long as there have been teachers, students have had excuses: my dog ate my homework, my computer crashed, I had food poisoning. But 11-year-old Tyler Sullivan of Minnesota isn't one to make excuses. He's a good kid. "If...


Clinton draws no conclusions on Iranian warning

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 08:34 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodam Clinton, left, and Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt at Vaxholm Island near Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday June 3, 2012. Clinton and Bildt took a boat from Stockholm to the 16th Century fortress town to pick up Swedish Defense Minister Karin Enstrom (not shown) for a meeting on the boat trip back to the city. (AP Photo/Maja Suslin) SWEDEN OUTU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she's not drawing any conclusions about what effect the latest hash words from Iran might have on the potential success of upcoming nuclear talks in Moscow.


'Family Feud' TV host Richard Dawson dies at 79

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:09 AM PDT

FILE - This June 1978 file photo shows Richard Dawson, host of "Family Feud" in character. Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who was among the schemers in the 1960s sitcom "Hogan's Heroes" and a decade later began kissing thousands of female contestants as host of the game show "Family Feud" died Saturday, June 2, 2012. He was 79. (AP Photo, File)Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who was among the schemers in the 1960s sitcom "Hogan's Heroes" and a decade later began kissing thousands of female contestants as host of the game show "Family Feud" has died. He was 79.


3 injured, 4 homes destroyed in New Jersey fire

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 05:08 PM PDT

An intense, fast-moving fire destroyed four connected homes and seriously injured three people, including an infant.

Photos: Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:07 PM PDT

Photos: Queen Elizabeth's Diamond JubileeRoyal rowbarge Gloriana leads manpowered craft towards Westminster Bridge during Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames in London June 3, 2012. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

Pope celebrates open-air Mass for 1 million

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:15 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI waves after celebrating a Mass in Bresso, near Milan, Italy, Sunday, June 3, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI has celebrated an open-air Mass before some 850,000 followers as part of three days of activities in Milan aimed at showing support for families. The pope in his homily Sunday took issue with modern economic thinking that he said "creates ferocious competition, strong inequalities, degradation of the environment" and reduces family relationships "to fragile convergences of individual interests" that undermine the social fabric. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)Pope Benedict XVI celebrated an open-air Mass for 1 million cheering faithful Sunday, capping a weekend visit to Milan viewed as a respite from a Vatican scandal, but fresh leaks of Holy See documents have only fueled the intrigue.


Gymnast Shawn Johnson ends comeback, retires

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 01:42 PM PDT

Shawn Johnson of the U.S. waits after her routine on the balance beam the women's individual all-around artistic gymnastics final at the Beijing 2008 Olympic GamesThe knee injury that sparked Shawn Johnson's comeback put an end to it, too.


Sandusky strategy may pivot on accuser credibility

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:38 AM PDT

FILE - This April 5, 2012 file photo shows Jerry Sandusky arriving at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. Sandusky, facing trial next week on charges he sexually abused 10 boys, on Thursday asked a state appeals court to review his case and to delay the criminal proceedings against him. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)The case against Jerry Sandusky, whose trial begins Tuesday with jury selection, could boil down to a simple question: Will the young men who claim the former Penn State assistant football coach sexually abused them be viewed as credible witnesses?


Ohio crash kills 3 teens, one on graduation day

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 03:42 PM PDT

A car carrying five teenagers went airborne as it sped over railroad tracks in northeast Ohio early Sunday and crashed, killing the 18-year-old driver hours before his high school graduation and two of his passengers, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.

Body of kidnapper goes unclaimed in Mississippi

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 10:35 AM PDT

Mississippi officials are trying to determine what to do with the body of a man who abducted two young Tennessee girls after he killed their mother and oldest sister.

Panetta wants more U.S. access to Vietnam harbor

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 04:58 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, left, speaks to crew members as he visits the USNS Richard E. Byrd in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, Sunday, June 3, 2012. Panetta toured the former U.S. air and naval base in the bay, becoming the most senior American official to go there since the war ended. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)From the flight deck of the USNS Richard E. Byrd, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta could look out across Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay towards the South China Sea.


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