2013年4月28日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Mother of Boston Marathon bomb suspects found deeper spirituality

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 03:44 PM PDT

In this image taken from a video, an undated family photo provided by Patimat Suleimanova, the aunt of USA Boston bomb suspects, shows Anzor Tsarnaev left, Zubeidat Tsarnaev holding Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Anzor's brother Mukhammad Tsarnaev. Now known as the angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Zubeidat Tsarnaev is drawing increased attention after federal officials say Russian authorities intercepted her phone calls, including one in which she vaguely discussed jihad with her elder son. In another, she was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, U.S. officials said. (AP Photo/Patimat Suleimanova)In photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased like a 1980s rock star.


EPA methane report further divides fracking camps

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 12:57 PM PDT

EPA methane report further divides fracking campsThe Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate ...


Pattern seen in alleged chemical arms use in Syria

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 12:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday March 19, 2013 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian victim who suffered an alleged chemical attack at Khan al-Assal village according to SANA, receives treatment by doctors, at a hospital in Aleppo, Syria. The purported instances in which chemical weapons have been used in Syria have been relatively small in scale: nothing along the lines of Saddam Hussein's 1988 attack in Kurdish Iraq. That raises the question of who would stand to gain as President Bashar Assad's regime and the opposition trade blame for the alleged attacks and definitive proof remains elusive. Analysts say the answer could lie in the past the regime has a pattern of gradually introducing a weapon to the conflict to test the international community's response. (AP Photo/SANA, File)The instances in which chemical weapons are alleged to have been used in Syria were purportedly small in scale: nothing along the lines of Saddam Hussein's 1988 attack in Kurdish Iraq that killed thousands.


Homeland security chairman: FBI checking training angle in bombing

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 11:19 AM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, April 27, 2013 file photo, visitors pause at a makeshift memorial in Copley Square for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, in Boston. Rep. Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, says he believes the Boston Marathon bombing suspects had some training in carrying out their attack. McCaul is citing the type of device used in the attack, the shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs, and the weapons' sophistication as signs of training. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that the FBI is investigating in the United States and overseas to determine whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing received training that helped them carry out the attack.


Lawmakers: Syria chemical weapons could menace U.S.

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 11:21 AM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighters take up firing positions in the Khan al-Assal area, near AleppoSyria's stockpile of chemical weapons could be a greater threat after that nation's president leaves power and could end up targeting Americans at home, lawmakers warned Sunday as they considered a U.S. response that stops short of sending military forces there.


Manchin: Gun bill to be reintroduced

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 10:05 AM PDT

Manchin: Without NRA pressure, background check proposal would get 70 votesOne of the architects of failed gun control legislation says he's bringing it back.


Owner of collapsed building captured in Bangladesh

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 01:30 PM PDT

Owner of collapsed building captured in BangladeshThe fugitive owner of an illegally constructed building that collapsed and killed at least 377 people was captured Sunday by a commando force as he tried to flee into India. At the disaster site, meanwhile, ...


More bombing victims leave Boston hospitals

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 12:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo, emergency personnel assist a wounded person on the sidewalk after an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston. In a rebuttal to the terrorists and a tribute to stellar medical care, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts one week ago who made it to a hospital alive now seem likely to survive. (AP Photo/Kenshin Okubo, File)Boston hospitals say the number of patients being treated for injuries sustained in the marathon bombing continues to drop, two weeks after the attack that killed three and hurt more than 260.


Police say 4 people stabbed at Albuquerque church

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 04:51 PM PDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police say a 24-year-old man stabbed four people at a Catholic church in Albuquerque as a Sunday mass was nearing its end.

3 Taliban bombs target Pakistani politicians

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 10:27 AM PDT

Pakistani police officers and volunteers visit the site of an explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, April 28, 2013. Pakistani Taliban detonated bombs at the campaign offices of two politicians in the country's northwest on Sunday, police said, killing many people in an escalation of attacks on secular, left-leaning political parties. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) — Taliban bombs targeting politicians in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday killed 11 people, the latest in a series of attacks meant to disrupt next month's parliamentary election, police said.


Fatal stabbing of girl, 8, prompts NorCal manhunt

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 04:05 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Residents of a rural Northern California county were being told Sunday to keep their doors locked and report anyone considered suspicious as authorities continued the search for the killer of an 8-year-old girl.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's handwritten ledger online

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 01:01 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, March 26, 2013 photo, Elizabeth Sudduth, director of the Ernest F. Hollings Library and Rare Books Collection at the University of South Carolina, points at items in a ledger owned by author F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Columbia, S.C. The university has digitized the ledger and put it online for scholars. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An intriguing peek into the daily scribbles and life of author F. Scott Fitzgerald is now available online, just weeks before the opening of the movie "The Great Gatsby."


2 policemen shot in Rome as Italy gets new govt

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 10:11 AM PDT

A wounded Carabinieri paramilitary police officer lies on the ground after being shot outside the Chigi Premier's office, in Rome, Sunday, April 28, 2013. Two paramilitary police officers were shot and wounded Sunday in a crowded square outside the Italian premier's office as the new leader Enrico Letta was sworn in about a kilometer (half-mile) away. It was unclear if there was any connection between the events. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)ROME (AP) — An unemployed bricklayer shot two Italian policemen in a crowded square outside the premier's office Sunday just as Italy's new government was being sworn in, investigators said.


Man stabs 4 people at church in Albuquerque

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 03:05 PM PDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police say a man stabbed four people at a Catholic church in Albuquerque as a Sunday mass was nearing its end.

Boston suspects' father postpones trip to U.S.

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 08:33 AM PDT

The father of the two Boston bombing suspects, Anzor Tsarnaev speaks at a news conference in Makhachkala, the southern Russian province of Dagestan, Thursday, April 25, 2013. The father of the two Boston bombing suspects said Thursday that he is leaving Russia for the United States in the next day or two, but their mother said she was still thinking it over. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)The father of the two Boston bombing suspects says he is postponing a trip to the United States because of poor health.


Iceland seeks end to austerity with new center-right government

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 11:17 AM PDT

Officials count ballot papers during Iceland's general elections in Reykjavik City HallBy Balazs Koranyi and Robert Robertson REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Iceland's center-right parties began talks on Sunday to form a new government, promising to end years of austerity and provide debt relief to households, and only arguing about which one of them should lead the government. Fed up with years of belt tightening and soaring debt, Icelanders ousted the Social Democrats on Saturday, handing the biggest defeat to any ruling party since independence from Denmark in 1944 and offering a new chance to the very parties that presided over its economic rise and collapse. ...


How earthquakes in Chile have permanently deformed Earth

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 10:01 AM PDT

How Earthquakes in Chile Have Permanently Deformed EarthEarthquakes can permanently crack the Earth, an investigation of quakes that have rocked Chile over the past million years suggests.


Pakistan Taliban bomb politicians' offices, kill 9

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 05:57 AM PDT

Pakistani police officers and volunteers visit the site of an explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, April 28, 2013. Pakistani Taliban detonated bombs at the campaign offices of two politicians in the country's northwest on Sunday, police said, killing many people in an escalation of attacks on secular, left-leaning political parties. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani Taliban detonated bombs at the campaign offices of two politicians in the country's northwest on Sunday, police said, killing at least nine people in an escalation of attacks on secular, left-leaning political parties.


Iraq pulls licenses of Al-Jazeera, other channels

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 05:51 AM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center right, Iraqi acting Defense Minister Sadun al-Dulaymi, center left, government officials, and parliament members, attend the funeral procession of five slain soldiers at the headquarters of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, April 28, 2012. Gunmen killed 10 people in Iraq, including five soldiers near the main Sunni protest camp west of Baghdad on Saturday, the latest in a wave of violence that has raised fears the country faces a new round of sectarian bloodshed. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)Iraqi authorities announced Sunday that they had revoked the operating licenses of pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera and nine other satellite TV channels, alleging that they are promoting a sectarian agenda as the country grapples with a wave of violence.


Obama jokes about aging during second term

Posted: 28 Apr 2013 12:38 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel, Saturday, April 27, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama joked Saturday that the years are catching up to him and he's not "the strapping young Muslim socialist" he used to be.


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