2013年4月20日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Suspect could provide key terror intel

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:38 AM PDT

Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect in Custody'Lone wolf' or small cells are difficult to detect by law enforcement.


Public defender to represent Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 02:07 PM PDT

Law enforcement officials investigate the scene of the Boston Marathon bombings in BostonThe Federal Public Defender Office said Saturday it will represent Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, once charges are filed.


Texas residents returning to homes near blast site

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 12:41 PM PDT

Law enforcement personnel patrol the scene Saturday, April 20, 2013, three days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. The massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. Wednesday night killed at least 14 people and injured more than 160. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Leaking gas tanks damaged by Wednesday's explosion are fueling small fires.


Tight security, black ribbons for Boston at London Marathon

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 02:56 PM PDT

A police officer patrols the Mall a day before the London MarathonRunners at Sunday's race will observe a 30-second silence to honor the Boston victims.


Boston and West, two towns united in tragedy

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 01:12 PM PDT

Lauretta Cvikel has her own problems. On Wednesday, she was knocked over by the explosion at West Fertilizer Plant, noting, "I never thought I'd be able see air move!" For another 20 minutes "that felt like forever" she didn't know the whereabouts of her pre-teen son, Allen, who was eventually found safe.

Iraqis go to polls for first time since US pullout

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 01:20 PM PDT

An Iraqi woman, the last voter in a polling center in the Karrada neighborhood, polling center casts her ballot just before polls closed in the country's provincial elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 20, 2013. Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and razor-wire cordons to vote in the country's first vote since the U.S. military withdrawal, marking an important test of the country's stability. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq carried out its first election since the U.S. military withdrawal without major bloodshed Saturday in a major test for Iraqi security forces as they face a reviving al-Qaida insurgency. But delayed elections in two provinces wracked by anti-government protests and complaints about missing names on voter rolls overshadowed the vote.


On Columbine anniversary, survivor says gun bill fight isn’t over yet

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 08:14 AM PDT

Columbine survivorKatie Lyles was a sophomore in high school when her class was interrupted by gunfire.


The Finish Line: What the bombing was like

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 11:31 AM PDT

This Monday, April 15, 2013 photo provided by Mark Fratto shows his wife, runner Courtney Fratto, and their son Gavin, 3, at mile 20 during the Boston Marathon in Boston. Fratto finished the race just seconds before the first bomb exploded. When the bomb went off just after she crossed the finish line, she ran for safety instead of to the injured. Fratto, a nurse who is the coordinator of intestinal transplants in the Pediatric Transplant Center at Boston Children's Hospital, wishes she could have reacted the way a number of others did. "I could see there was mass casualties," she said. "I have this very horrible guilt that I didn't run and help them.'' (AP Photo/Mark Fratto)The woman wearing bib No. 19,255 was a flute instructor from Utah, listening to her son singing through her headphones as if the sound of his voice could somehow will her body the last few yards to the finish line.


Texas plant blast evokes memories of Waco

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 09:12 AM PDT

Waco Branch Davidian blastTwenty years ago, a raid on a cult compound ended with a massive explosion.


Suspect alarmed relatives with extremist views

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 09:36 AM PDT

Boston Bomb Suspect Alarmed Russian Relatives With Extremist ViewsTamerlan Tsarnaev was kicked out of a family member's home during a visit.


Another bird flu death in China as number of infected grows to 95

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 05:19 AM PDT

A woman wearing a mask walks outside the Ditan Hospital, where a child with a new strain of bird flu is undergoing treatment, in BeijingSHANGHAI (Reuters) - China reported another death and four new infections from a new strain of bird flu on Saturday, raising the death toll to 18, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The H7N9 virus has been found in 95 people, mostly in eastern China. The latest victim is a 69-year old man surnamed Xu from Zhejiang province who passed away Friday night after emergency treatment failed, Xinhua said. Zhejiang province reported three new infection cases with all three patients in critical condition. The eastern costal province of Jiangsu also reported another bird flu infection. ...


'What's going on?": America hit by wave of tragedies

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 10:40 AM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 17, 2013 file photo, a mourner reacts during a candlelight vigil at City Hall in Cambridge, Mass. in the aftermath of Monday's Boston Marathon explosions. Event after nail-biting event, America was rocked this week, in rare and frightening ways, with what felt like an unremitting series of tragedies. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)Moment after nail-biting moment, the events shoved us through a week that felt like an unremitting series of tragedies: Deadly bombs. Poison letters. A town shattered by a colossal explosion. A violent manhunt that paralyzed a major city, emptying streets of people and filling them with heavily armed police and piercing sirens.


‘Bending Steel' explores the obscure art form

Posted: 20 Apr 2013 07:29 AM PDT

'Bending Steel'Chris Schoeck wants to be a strongman like the vaudeville performers at Coney Island.


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