2013年4月13日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Goal on N. Korea tests U.S.-China ties

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 03:00 PM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry conducts a press conference answering questions from US and Chinese media, Saturday April 13, 2013, in Beijing, China. Kerry arrived in Beijing Saturday to seek Chinese help in persuading North Korea to halt its nuclear and missile testing program. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards)The U.S. and China agree to try to rid the nation of nuclear weapons.


In White House, Newtown mom pleads for gun control

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 03:36 PM PDT

Families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., meet with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., after he announced a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more gun buyers, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. From left are David and Francine Wheeler, who lost their 6-year-old son Ben in the shooting, Katy Sherlach and her father Bill Sherlach, whose wife Mary Sherlach was killed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)The mother of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Connecticut school shooting used the opportunity to fill in for President Barack Obama during the weekly radio and Internet address to make a personal plea from the White House for action to combat gun violence.


Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad resigns

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 03:17 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 28, 2011 file photo, Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian officials say Fayyad has officially submitted his resignation, and is waiting for a reply from President Mahmoud Abbas.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)The move comes just as the U.S. is launching a push for Mideast peace.


Ex-official arrested in probe of prosecutor slayings

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 03:05 PM PDT

Handout photo of Former Kaufman County Justice of the Peace Eric WilliamsA former justice of the peace has been arrested on suspicion of threatening violence, officials said.


Obama's budget plan limits his bargaining power

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 02:41 PM PDT

FILE - This April 8, 2013 file photo shows copies of President Barack Obama's budget plan for fiscal year 2014 prepared for delivery at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington. President Barack Obama's budget overtures to Republicans, aimed at getting the GOP back to the negotiating table on a grand deficit reduction deal, may leave him with little bargaining power if such talks ever occur. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)By putting entitlement cuts on the table, Obama has no other gambit to win tax increases.


Prisoners, guards clash over Guantanamo Bay raid

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 02:41 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2007 file photo, Guantanamo guards keep watch over a cell block with detainees in Camp 6 maximum-security facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Guards clashed Saturday, April 13, 2013 with prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison as the military sought to move hunger strikers out of a communal section of the detention center, officials said. The confrontation occurred after the commander decided to move prisoners into single, solid-walled cells so that prison authorities could monitor them more closely during the hunger strike, the military said.. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)Increased tension at the prison boils over as the military closes a section of the facility.


N.Y. teacher who assigned Nazi letter put on leave

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 01:57 PM PDT

Albany Public Schools Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard speaks about a Nazi-themed assignment given to students during a news conference on Friday, April 12, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Vanden Wyngaard said a high school English teacher could face disciplinary action for giving the writing assignment that asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)A high school English teacher had students pretend to be Nazis in a writing assignment.


5 bodies found after northern Idaho house fire

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 03:49 PM PDT

Authorities in northern Idaho say five bodies have been found inside a house that caught fire Saturday morning.

3 missing in 2 avalanches east of Seattle

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 04:06 PM PDT

Authorities in Washington state say three people are missing after two avalanches in the mountains near Snoqualmie Pass.

Anti-Thatcher party in London's Trafalgar Square

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 02:23 PM PDT

People sing and dance during a party to mark her death in central London's Trafalgar square, Saturday, April 13, 2013. Thatcher's most strident critics had long vowed to hold a gathering in central London on the Saturday following her passing, and the festivities were an indication of the depth of the hatred which some Britons still feel for their former leader. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)Hundreds of opponents of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher partied in London's Trafalgar Square to celebrate her death, sipping Champagne and chanting "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead."


Activists say Syrian airstrike kills 20 people

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 01:57 PM PDT

This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows buildings damaged in a government airstrike and shelling at Bostan Pasha district in Aleppo, northern Syria, Friday, April 12, 2013. The airstrikes come a day after a U.S.-based human right group accused the Syrian air force of carrying out indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas around the country — attacks the group claims amount to war crimes. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)A Syrian government airstrike on a town in the country's northwest killed at least 20 people Saturday, shattering store fronts, setting cars ablaze and sending a giant plume of black and gray smoke into the sky.


San Francisco cable car accidents costs millions

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 11:57 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo from Jan. 21, 2011, from left, Franco Garavanno, Gustavo Ferrari and German Garavanno, who are visiting from Buenos Aires, ride a cable car up Hyde Street in San Francisco. In this city of innumerable tourist attractions, the clanging cable cars stand out as a top draw. They also stand out for the inordinate number of accidents and the millions of dollars annually the city pays out to settle lawsuits for broken bones, severed feet and bad bruises caused when 19th Century technology runs headlong into 21st Century city traffic and congestion. Recently, five passengers and two workers were injured after an inch-long bolt in the track caused their cable car to slam to a sudden stop. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)In this city of innumerable tourist attractions, the clanging, hill-conquering cable cars stand out as a top draw.


Fur flying in Florida as cat lovers push law to protect strays

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 08:11 AM PDT

A feral cat looks out from the underbrush in this undated handout photoCat lovers are pushing the Florida legislature to pass a law protecting strays, over the objection of environmental lobbyists who say the furry creatures are a murderous menace to Mother Nature.


Convicted NY designer: 'Truth will surface'

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 11:44 AM PDT

In this Nov. 13, 2008 file photo, fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander appears at his sexual assault trial in Los Angeles. Alexander, already serving 59 years to life in California for molesting would-be models, was sentenced in New York, on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, to five years in a similar case in a courtroom full of his supporters who blew him kisses. Alexander was once a burgeoning fashion designer on the brink of fame and fortune, living a fast life of women, celebrities and travel, until allegations surfaced that he had raped aspiring models. The 38-year-old says from his jail cell that he believes new evidence will help overturn his conviction on charges he sexually assaulted women, and his sentence of 59 years to life. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander has been portrayed as a predator and monster in coast-to-coast cases accusing him of raping aspiring models he lured to his apartment with the promise of fame.


Music purchases predicted by brain activity

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 06:14 AM PDT

Music Purchases Predicted by Brain ActivityActivity in certain regions of the brain can predict whether you'll like a new song enough to buy it, whether it's indie rock like Florence + The Machine's "Drumming Song" or experimental electronica like Ratatat's "Neckbrace."


Boston mayor fractures leg, in hospital again

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 10:07 AM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 5, 2012 file photo shows Boston Mayor Tom Menino during a campaign event for Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren in Boston. Spokeswoman Dorothy Joyce says Menino twisted his ankle on his way to an event Friday morning, April 12, 2013, and an X-ray revealed a fracture. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)Thomas Menino has fractured a bone in his lower leg, the latest in a series of health issues that have dogged the city's longest-serving chief executive.


Medicare hike could also hit some in middle class

Posted: 13 Apr 2013 02:20 AM PDT

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, left, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, speaks during a news conference at the Health and Humans Services (HHS) Department in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2013, to discuss the Health Department's fiscal 2014 budget. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired as a city worker, Sheila Pugach lives in a modest home on a quiet street in Albuquerque, N.M., and drives an 18-year-old Subaru.


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