2013年4月7日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Politicians fed up with North Korea

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 01:17 PM PDT

North Korea Could Launch Missile On Anniversary of Country's FoundingPoliticians and pundits painted a pretty bleak picture of the situation in North Korea on the Sunday talk-show circuit, with South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham predicting a "major war" breaking out if Kim Jong Un attacks South Korea. "The North Koreans need to understand if they attack an American interest or an ally of this [...]


Suspects booked on murder in Nev. official's death

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 04:10 PM PDT

This photo released by the Carson City Sheriff's Office shows William McCune. A sheriff says a body believed to be that of Nevada's chief insurance examiner, McCune, was found Saturday April 6, 2013, in a river in Carson City, and four suspects were arrested in connection with his disappearance. (AP Photo/Carson City Sheriff's Department)Investigators believe four suspects stole property in the apartment of Nevada's chief insurance examiner before killing him and dumping his body in a river, authorities said Sunday.


Lilly Pulitzer: Fashion designer, socialite dies at 81

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 11:50 AM PDT

Lilly Pulitzer: Fashion Designer, Socialite Dies at 81Lily Pulitzer Rousseau, the fashion designer whose vibrant shift dresses and tennis skirts defined preppy style, has died at the age of 81.


China warns against 'troublemaking' on Korean peninsula

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 04:15 PM PDT

North Korean soldiers take part in a shooting drill in an unknown locationChina warned against "troublemaking" on its doorstep, in an apparent rebuke to North Korea, and the United States said it was postponing a missile test to help calm high tension on the divided Korean peninsula


U.S. diplomat killed in Afghanistan 'loved the work she was doing'

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 11:32 AM PDT

Anne Smedinghoff, U.S. Diplomat Killed in Afghanistan 'Loved the Work She Was Doing'Anne Smedinghoff, a 25-year-old Foreign Service Officer killed in a car bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, was described by friends and family as vivacious and loving. She was one of five Americans killed in a suicide bomb attack in Qalat, Zabul.


One dead, many wounded in Cairo cathedral clashes

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 04:14 PM PDT

Christians scuffle with a police officer outside the Coptic Church in CairoBy Asmaa Waguih and Ulf Laessing CAIRO (Reuters) - One person was killed and more than 80 wounded in clashes at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in central Cairo on Sunday after a funeral service for four Egyptian Christians killed in sectarian violence with Muslims, state media said. Christian-Muslim confrontations have increased in Muslim-majority Egypt since the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 gave freer rein to hard line Islamists repressed under his autocratic rule. ...


5,000 NYC pay phones will take you back to 1993

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 01:11 PM PDT

In this Friday, April 5, 2013 photo, a pedestrian walks past a pay phone advertising the New Museum's "NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star" exhibit. The New Museum has launched an exhibit called "NYC 1993,Want to journey to a grittier time in New York City's not-too-distant past, when the murder rate was sky-high, Times Square was a crossroads of crime and porn, Starbucks had yet to arrive, and hardly anyone owned a cellphone?


AP source: FBI eyes possible extortion at Rutgers

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 04:18 PM PDT

AP source: FBI eyes possible extortion at RutgersThe FBI is investigating whether a former Rutgers basketball employee tried to extort the university before he made videos that showed ex-coach Mike Rice shoving and kicking players and berating them with gay slurs.


Conn. gov faults gun lobbyists over restrictions

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 01:25 PM PDT

In this April 4, 2013, photo, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, center, signs legislation at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., that includes new restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines, a response to last year's deadly school shooting in Newtown. Neil Heslin, behind left, father of Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis, Nicole Hockley, right, mother of Sandy Hook School shooting victim Dylan, and Conn. Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, left, watch. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy harshly criticized gun industry lobbyists on Sunday, saying they are doing too little to halt gun violence.


Kerry struggles to get Turkey to mend Israel ties

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 11:24 AM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a news conference with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, unseen, in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 7, 2013. Kerry is in the Middle East, his third trip to the region in two weeks, in a fresh bid to unlock long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. And in Istanbul, the first leg of a six-nation trip that goes on to Europe and East Asia, Kerry will coordinate with Turkey's Prime Minister and other Turkish officials on efforts to halt the violence in neighboring Syria's civil war.(AP Photo)ISTANBUL (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry struggled Sunday to convince Turkey's leaders they should promptly restore full diplomatic ties with Israel, two American allies counted on by President Barack Obama to help calm the turbulent Middle East.


Pfeiffer: Obama won't enact 'Romney economic plan'

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 10:24 AM PDT

Dan Pfeiffer: President Obama Won't Enact 'Romney Economic Plan'Reacting to an early rejection of the expected details of the White House's budget proposal by Speaker John Boehner, President Obama's senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer pushed back this morning on "This Week," saying that the president would not enact "the Romney economic plan." "What this...


Mom: 'Buckwild' star a Christian, now in heaven

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 04:46 PM PDT

The body of David Dwight Gandee is carried from the Charleston Municipal Auditorium after funeral services Sunday, April 7, 2013 in Charleston, W.Va. Shain, 21, and David Dwight Gandee, 48, along with Donald Robert Myers, 27, were found dead in a vehicle near Sissonville, W.Va. last week. (AP Photo/The Daily Mail, Brad Davis)For all his on-camera carousing and cussing, "BUCKWILD" reality TV star Shain Gandee was a publicly proclaimed and baptized Christian, and his mother told hundreds of mourners Sunday that she will see him again.


Cold case arrest prompts cross-country probe

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 01:33 PM PDT

In this Monday, March 4, 2013 photo, Samuel Little, a suspected serial killer, appears at Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles. Little, 72, was arrested in Louisville, Ky., in September by U.S. Marshals on an unrelated narcotics warrant while investigators built their case. He later waived extradition and was brought to Los Angeles, where he was charged with three murder counts and the special circumstance allegation of multiple murders. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Los Angeles cold case detectives caught up with Samuel Little this past fall, he was living in a Christian shelter in Kentucky, his latest arrest a few months earlier for alleged possession of a crack pipe. But the LA investigators wanted him on far more serious charges: The slayings of two women in 1989, both found strangled and nude below the waist — victims of what police concluded had been sexually motivated strangulations.


Russia needs active civil society, Merkel tells Putin

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 01:44 PM PDT

German Chancellor Merkel and Russian President Putin pose before officially opening Hanover Messe in HanoverBy Maria Sheahan and Alexei Anishchuk HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Germany on Sunday to protests over his human rights and democracy record and a warning from German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Russia needed an active civil society to flourish. Putin's visit to Germany and the Netherlands, Moscow's biggest trade partners in Europe, was supposed to focus on trade but comes at an awkward time after a wave of state inspections of foreign-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Russia, much criticized abroad. ...


Republican senator sees Obama budget offer as positive

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 11:44 AM PDT

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks to the press following his private meeting with United States U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice about the attack on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday became the first prominent Republican to publicly praise, however lukewarm, the budget proposal the White House outlined last week.


China reports 3 more cases of new bird flu virus

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 08:14 AM PDT

A worker carries a cage to catch pigeons at the People's Square as a precautionary measure against bird flu in Shanghai on Saturday April 6, 2013. Shanghai has reported two more cases of human infection of a new strain of bird flu, raising the number of cases in eastern China to 20. Six of the people who contracted the virus have died. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTBEIJING (AP) — China reported three more cases of human infection of a new strain of bird flu on Sunday, raising the total number of cases to 21.


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