2013年9月21日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

39 dead in Kenya mall attack; hostages still held

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 04:37 PM PDT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Terrified shoppers huddled in back hallways and prayed they would not be found by the Islamic extremist gunmen lobbing grenades and firing assault rifles inside Nairobi's top mall Saturday. When the way appeared clear, crying mothers clutching small children and blood-splattered men sprinted out of the four-story mall.

Five real impacts of a government shutdown

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 01:41 PM PDT

Five Real Impacts of a Government ShutdownWASHINGTON — Congress appears to be moving closer and closer to a government shutdown. On Friday, with 10 calendar days to go until the Sept. 30 deadline, the Republican controlled House of Representatives passed a budget bill to fund the government. Oh, and defund President...

Tentative deal in dispute over NY heiress' will

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 02:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 1930, file photo, Huguette Clark, a copper magnate from Montana, poses for a photo in Reno, Nev. A person familiar with the case tells The Associated Press on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013, that Clark's relatives have reached a tentative settlement with a hospital, a nurse and others over the distribution of her roughly $300 million estate. (AP Photo, File)NEW YORK (AP) — A tentative deal has been reached in a New York court fight over the will of a reclusive Montana copper mining heiress that would give more than $30 million of her $300 million estate to her distant relatives, a person familiar with the case said Saturday.

Analysis: UN may see big action on Syria, Iran

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 08:42 AM PDT

This combination made with file photos shows, from left, President Barack Obama, Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, Syrian President Bashar Assad, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. After years of estrangement, the United States and Russia are joined as partners in a bold plan to rid Syria of chemical weapons. More surprising yet, American and Iranian leaders _ after an exchange of courteous letters _ may meet in New York for the first time since the Islamic revolution swept Iran nearly 35 years ago. (AP File Photos)WASHINGTON (AP) — After years of estrangement, the United States and Russia are joined as partners in a bold plan to rid Syria of chemical weapons. More surprising yet, American and Iranian leaders — after an exchange of courteous letters — may meet in New York for the first time since the Islamic revolution swept Iran nearly 35 years ago.

Pope's blunt remarks pose challenge for bishops

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 12:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 15, 2013 photo made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis is greeted by Cardinal Timothy Dolan as he meets the Cardinals for the first time after his election at the Vatican. In an interview published Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 in 16 Jesuit journals worldwide, Pope Francis called the church's focus on abortion, marriage and contraception narrow and said it was driving people away. Now, the U.S. bishops face a challenge to rethink a strategy many considered essential for preserving the faith. Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said he thought the pope was telling everyone - inside and outside the church - to focus less on divisive social issues. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)NEW YORK (AP) — In recent years, many American bishops have drawn a harder line with parishioners on what could be considered truly Roman Catholic, adopting a more aggressive style of correction and telling abortion rights supporters to stay away from the sacrament of Communion.

Health law separates potential GOP 2016 contenders

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 02:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 16, 2013, file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker gestures as he speaks at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. The potential GOP presidential candidate says a shutdown of the federal government would violate government's chief responsibility to run, and run efficiently. He views the next round of congressional campaigns in 2014 as a referendum on the federal health care law passed three years and two elections ago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — A clear divide over the health care law separates the emerging field of potential GOP candidates for the 2016 presidential race, previewing the battles ahead as they try to rebuild their party and seize the White House.

AP PHOTOS: Festivals around the world

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 12:48 PM PDT

A Hindu devotee arrives on a truck to participate in the immersion of idols of elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha in the River Yamuna in New Delhi on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. The immersion marks the end of the 10-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival that celebrates the birth of the Hindu God of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal, File)AP highlights the best photos from festivals held around the world this week. This collection includes revelers celebrating at the Holi Festival of Colors in Lisbon, rounds of beer at Oktoberfest in Munich, devotees participating in Ganesh Chaturthi festival celebrations in India and more.

Assault on Iraq funeral, other attacks kill 96

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 12:56 PM PDT

People inspect the site of a double suicide bomb attack, in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr city in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, hit a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks around Iraq that killed at least 92 on Saturday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)BAGHDAD (AP) — Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, struck a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks around Iraq that killed at least 96 people on Saturday.

Pakistan releases top Afghan Taliban prisoner

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 08:52 AM PDT

FILE - This March 4, 2001, file photo shows Taliban's then-Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Muttawakil, who served as foreign minister when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, hailed Pakistan's release of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's former deputy leader, on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan freed the Afghan Taliban's former deputy leader on Saturday after years of detention in a move that many officials in Islamabad and Kabul hope will aid Afghanistan's struggling peace process.

Testimony concludes in 21st week of Jackson trial

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead:

Lawmaker: Taliban abduction left her 'even braver'

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 04:17 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 photo, Afghan lawmaker Fariba Ahmadi Kakar speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan. Since July, several prominent women have been attacked in Afghanistan. Among them: two police officers who were killed in the south, an Indian author living in eastern Afghanistan who was killed years after her memoir about 1990s life under Taliban rule became a Bollywood film; and a senator who was wounded in an ambush. These and other attacks on female leaders in recent years have generally been blamed on the Taliban, though the Afghan militant group, mindful of cultural sensitivities, usually does not admit to targeting women. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban kidnappers moved her to at least 13 homes, made her sleep on the ground, and kept asking where she'd been, what she'd done and whom she knew. Every few days, she would be given a chance to call her family.

Israeli soldier abducted, killed by Palestinian

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 01:04 PM PDT

A Palestinian boy walks by shadows cast by members of the Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam militia, the military wing of Hamas during a march in Nuseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013. Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam militia are marching through the neighborhood to parade their weapons and show their strength. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian lured an Israeli soldier to a village in the West Bank and killed him with the intention of trading the body for his brother jailed for terror attacks, Israel's intelligence agency said Saturday, in a slaying that casts another shadow on U.S. mediated peace talks that restarted this summer.

39 dead in Kenya mall attack claimed by militants

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 01:53 PM PDT

Armed police leave after entering the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. Gunmen threw grenades and opened fire Saturday, killing at least 22 people in an attack targeting non-Muslims at an upscale mall in Kenya's capital that was hosting a children's day event, a Red Cross official and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Jonathan Kalan)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's president says that 39 people have been killed and more than 150 injured by armed terrorists who attacked an upscale mall in Nairobi.

Actor deserves individual Emmy tribute, son says

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 10:00 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 15, 2008 file photo, Jack Klugman arrives at the 62nd annual Tony Awards, in New York. The Emmys will honor the late actors Klugman and Larry Hagman as part of an in memoriam package, but the two are not among those singled out for separate tributes. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The exclusion of Jack Klugman from an Emmy Awards tribute that includes Cory Monteith is an insult to the memory of the late TV veteran and three-time Emmy winner who starred in "The Odd Couple" and "Quincy M.E.," Klugman's son says.

30 dead in Kenya mall attack claimed by militants

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 01:06 PM PDT

Armed police leave after entering the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. Gunmen threw grenades and opened fire Saturday, killing at least 22 people in an attack targeting non-Muslims at an upscale mall in Kenya's capital that was hosting a children's day event, a Red Cross official and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Jonathan Kalan)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Terrified shoppers huddled in back hallways and prayed they would not be found by the Islamic extremist gunmen lobbing grenades and firing assault rifles inside Nairobi's top mall Saturday. When the coast was thought to be clear, crying mothers clutching small children and blood-splattered men sprinted out of the four-story mall.

Assault on Iraq funeral, other attacks kill 92

Posted: 21 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT

People inspect the site of a double suicide bomb attack, in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr city in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, hit a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks around Iraq that killed at least 92 on Saturday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)BAGHDAD (AP) — Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, hit a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks around Iraq that killed at least 92 people on Saturday.

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