2013年7月7日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Official: Asiana flight tried to abort landing

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:40 PM PDT

Parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport, at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday July 7, 2013. Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal safety official said Sunday the cockpit voice recorder from Asiana Flight 214 showed the jetliner received a warning that it could stall because it was flying too slowly and tried to increase its speed before it crashed.


Secretary of State's wife hospitalized in Mass.

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:13 PM PDT

FILE - In a Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 file photo, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, left, talks with his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry while watching election results at a hotel in Boston, in Boston. A hospital spokesman says Teresa Heinz Kerry is hospitalized Sunday, July 7, 2013 in critical but stable condition in a hospital on the island of Nantucket, Mass. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)BOSTON (AP) — Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, is in critical but stable condition in a hospital in Nantucket, Mass.


Russia official: Venezuela last chance for Snowden

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 01:05 PM PDT

Indian protestors show their support for NSA leaker Edward Snowden at India Gate in New Delhi, India, Sunday, July 7, 2013. Snowden has found supporters in Latin America, including three countries who have offered him asylum. But many obstacles stand in the way of the fugitive NSA leaker from leaving a Russian airport - chief among them the power and influence of the United States. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)MOSCOW (AP) — An influential Russian parliament member who often speaks for the Kremlin encouraged NSA leaker Edward Snowden on Sunday to accept Venezuela's offer of asylum.


Convoy takes remains of fallen Arizona firefighters home

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:27 PM PDT

A motorcade of hearses carrying the remains of members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots firefighting team, who were killed fighting the Yarnell Fire, departs from Maricopa County Medical Examiner's office in PhoenixBy Tim Gaynor PHOENIX (Reuters) - A solemn procession of 19 white hearses carrying the remains of firefighters killed battling an Arizona wildfire left Phoenix accompanied by police motorcycle outriders on Sunday on a final journey passing through the crew's hometown. An honor guard of firefighters and police officers stood to attention as the caravan pulled slowly away from the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's office shortly after midday as bagpipers played a dirge. The convoy passed beneath a large U.S. ...


Doctor: At least 2 paralyzed in SF plane crash

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 11:48 AM PDT

Official: Asiana flight flew too slow before crashPolice officers threw utility knives up to crew members inside the burning wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 so they could cut away passengers' seat belts. Passengers jumped down emergency slides, ...


Procession brings home fallen Ariz. firefighters

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:36 PM PDT

A procession of 19 hearses carrying the bodies of 19 firefighters who died in a wildfire a week ago drives through the desert, Sunday, July 7, 2013, outside Phoenix. The elite crew of firefighters were overtaken by the out-of-control blaze as they tried to protect themselves from the flames under fire-resistant shields. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Nineteen firefighters killed in a wildfire a week ago went home for the last time on Sunday, their bodies traveling in individual white hearses in a somber procession for 125 miles through Arizona cities and towns.


Official: Asiana flight flew too slow before crash

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:43 PM PDT

Parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport, at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday July 7, 2013. Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pilots of Asiana Flight 214 were flying too slowly as they approached San Francisco airport, triggering a warning that the jetliner could stall, and then tried to abort the landing seconds before crashing, according to federal safety officials.


AP: Kerry Heinz wife moved to Boston hospital

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:46 PM PDT

FILE - In a Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 file photo, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, left, talks with his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry while watching election results at a hotel in Boston, in Boston. A hospital spokesman says Teresa Heinz Kerry is hospitalized Sunday, July 7, 2013 in critical but stable condition in a hospital on the island of Nantucket, Mass. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)BOSTON (AP) — A person in close contact with the family says Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, has been transferred to a hospital in Boston.


Quebec police: 5 dead in oil train derailment

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:23 PM PDT

Burnt buildings are seen following a train derailment causing explosions of railway cars carrying crude oil Sunday, July 7, 2013 in Lac Megantic, Quebec. Two more bodies were discovered overnight after a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed in eastern Quebec, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed a town's downtown center. The confirmed death toll is now three, and is expected to rise further. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul ChiassonLAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) — As firefighters doused still burning oil tanker cars, more bodies were recovered Sunday in this devastated town in eastern Quebec, raising the death toll to five after a runaway train derailed, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed the downtown district. With dozens of people reported missing, authorities feared they could find more bodies once they reached the hardest-hit areas.


Talks on Egypt leaders hit Islamist block

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:20 PM PDT

Supporters of the Tamarrod or "Rebe"l movement wave Egyptian flags in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday 7, 2013 . Egypt's new leadership wrangled over the naming of a prime minister, as both the Muslim Brotherhood and their opponents called for new mass rallies Sunday, renewing fears of another round of street violence over the military's ousting of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The calls for competing rallies come after clashes two days ago between the rival camps left at least 36 dead and more than 1,000 injured nationwide. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)CAIRO (AP) — Secular and liberal factions trying to install one of their own as Egypt's new prime minister collided into strong resistance Sunday from the sole Islamist faction that backed the military's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, reflecting the difficulties in building a broad coalition behind a new leadership.


Pilots faced challenges landing in San Francisco

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:42 PM PDT

An investigator looks at the tail of Asiana Flight 214 on Sunday, July 7, 2013, after the passenger jet crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco on Saturday. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)WASHINGTON (AP) — San Francisco International Airport, with its tightly spaced runways that extend right up to the water, requires more skill for landing than most of the nation's big airports, experienced airline pilots say. That challenge was further complicated by the shutdown of a ground-based instrument landing system and the movement of runway thresholds prior to the crash Saturday of a Korean airliner.


Egypt overthrow shakes Islamists in the region

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi rise a banner with his portrait during a protest outside the Republican Guard building in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 7, 2013. Egypt's new leadership wrangled over the naming of a prime minister, as both the Muslim Brotherhood and their opponents called for new mass rallies Sunday, renewing fears of another round of street violence over the military's ousting of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The calls for competing rallies come after clashes two days ago between the rival camps left at least 36 dead and more than 1,000 injured nationwide .(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)CAIRO (AP) — The military's overthrow of Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood's fall from power in Egypt have sent Islamist parties around the region scrambling to preserve gains made in the Middle East and North Africa as a result of the Arab Spring uprisings.


Painstaking care, honor for 19 fallen firefighters

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:51 PM PDT

This photo that appeared anonymously on Facebook on Thursday, July 4, 2013, shows what officials confirmed to The Associated Press, as the 19 dead firefighters draped in American flags by Yavapai County Sheriff Scott Mascher, shortly after they were found dead near Prescott, Ariz., on June 30, 2013. Several media outlets, including the Arizona Republic and USA Today, published the photo on Friday, July 5, 2013. Nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew died Sunday, June 30, 2013 fighting the Yarnell Hills Fire, about 40 miles southwest of Prescott. (AP Photo) AP PROVIDES ACCESS TO THIS HANDOUT PHOTO TO BE USED SOLELY TO ILLUSTRATE NEWS REPORTING OR COMMENTARY ON THE FACTS OR EVENTS DEPICTED IN THIS IMAGE. ONE TIME USE ONLY.PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — The idea to drape the bodies of 19 dead firefighters in American flags came from Yavapai County Sheriff Scott Mascher, shortly after the men were found dead.


AP IMPACT: MIA work 'acutely dysfunctional'

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 11:31 AM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, July 1, 2013, in Chapel Hill, N.C., Shelia Reese, right, holds hands with her mother Chris Tench while holding a portrait of Tench and her father Kenneth F. Reese, a soldier who is still Missing In Action from the Korean War. Tench, who was later remarried, has never known what happened to her husband. The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from "dysfunction to total failure," according to an internal study suppressed by military officials.


5 changes since the last British Wimbledon champ

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 02:58 PM PDT

FILE - In this July 2, 2005, file photo, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, center, watches a seminfinal between Andy Roddick and Thomas Johansson on Centre Court at Wimbledon. At left is Thatcher's daughter Carol Thatcher and at right is General Sir Mike Jackson. The office of prime minister changed hands 16 times between Wimbledon titles for Fred Perry and Andy Murray. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)LONDON (AP) — Five notable changes that took place in Britain in the 77 years that elapsed between Wimbledon titles for Fred Perry and Andy Murray, who ended Britain's drought on Sunday:


Murray ends Britain's 77-year wait at Wimbledon

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 03:08 PM PDT

Andy Murray of Britain poses with the trophy after defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia during the Men's singles final match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Sunday, July 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)LONDON (AP) — Andy Murray needed one more point, one solitary point, to win Wimbledon — a title he yearned to earn for himself, of course, and also for his country.


Egypt factions work on compromise on premier post

Posted: 07 Jul 2013 01:01 PM PDT

Supporters of the Tamarrod or "Rebe"l movement wave Egyptian flags in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday 7, 2013 . Egypt's new leadership wrangled over the naming of a prime minister, as both the Muslim Brotherhood and their opponents called for new mass rallies Sunday, renewing fears of another round of street violence over the military's ousting of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The calls for competing rallies come after clashes two days ago between the rival camps left at least 36 dead and more than 1,000 injured nationwide. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)CAIRO (AP) — Secular and liberal factions in Egypt's new leadership worked Sunday to reach a compromise with ultraconservative Islamists on a new prime minister, with a liberal economist emerging as a leading candidate for the post to run the country after the military's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi.


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