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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

Kenyan forces say they rescued 'most' hostages

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 04:38 PM PDT

Trucks of soldiers from the Kenya Defense Forces arrive after dawn outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. Islamic extremist gunmen lobbed grenades and fired assault rifles inside Nairobi's top mall Saturday, killing dozens and wounding over a hundred in the attack. Early Sunday morning, 12 hours after the attack began, gunmen remained holed up inside the mall with an unknown number of hostages. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)Kenya's military launched a major operation to end a two-day standoff.

Obama says fight for gun laws 'ought to obsess us'

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 04:02 PM PDT

President Barack Obama comforts an unidentifed woman sitting in the family section at a memorial service for the victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting at Marine Barracks Washington Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. A gunman killed 12 people in the Navy Yard on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, before being fatally shot in a gun battle with law enforcement. The president and first lady Michelle Obama also visited with the victims' families. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Sunday memorialized the victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting by urging Americans not to give up on a transformation in gun laws that he argued are to blame for an epidemic of violence. "There is nothing inevitable about it — it comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make," Obama said.

Clinton 'not in any hurry' to make decision on 2016

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 06:28 AM PDT

FILE - In a Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the American Bar Association Annual Meeting Monday, Aug. 12, 2013, in San Francisco. Clinton spoke about maintaining the Voting Rights Act and received a medal from the association. The former secretary of state will receive the Elton John AIDS Foundation's first Founder's Award for her support of gay rights. In a statement Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, the foundation cited a 2011 speech in which Clinton asserted that gay rights were human rights for helping envision a world without AIDS. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)"I think it's a serious decision, not to be made lightly, but it's also not one that has to be made soon."

Suicide attack on Pakistani church kills 78 people

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 02:05 PM PDT

A Pakistani woman, center, comforts another as they mourn over the coffins of their relatives, who were killed in a suicide attack on a church, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. A suicide bomb attack on a historic church in northwestern Pakistan killed scores of people Sunday, officials said, in one of the worst assaults on the country's Christian minority in years. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up amid hundreds of worshippers at a historic church in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing 78 people in the deadliest-ever attack against the country's Christian minority.

Suicide bomber hits Iraq Sunni funeral, killing 16

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 12:23 PM PDT

People evacuate a victim at the scene of a bomb attack in Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car on Sunday morning inside a residential area in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk killing and wounding scores of people, police said . (AP Photo/Emad Matti)BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt among Sunni mourners attending a funeral in Baghdad on Sunday, killing 16 people and wounding 35 others, officials said, in the latest episode of the country's near-daily violence.

Stars begin arriving for a night of Emmy history

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 04:48 PM PDT

Cobie Smulders, from left, Allison Janney, and Anna Faris arrive at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards at Nokia Theatre on Sunday Sept. 22, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stars from the small screen began arriving Sunday for the Emmy Awards, where perhaps the biggest drama will be how Netflix's "House of Cards" does in competition with cable series "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men."

Fashion trends arrive on Emmys red carpet

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 03:58 PM PDT

Anna Chlumsky and Zosia Mamet, right, arrive at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards at Nokia Theatre on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)Emmy Awards red carpet trends seemed ripped from the runway on Sunday, with romantic lace overlays, graphic black-and-white combinations, strategic skin-baring slashes and tough-girl harnesses.

Teams dig in mud, rain for dead in Mexico slide

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 04:53 PM PDT

Mud covers houses and cars at the site of a landslide in the village of La Pintada, Mexico, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. A third body was recovered from the mud Sunday in La Pintada, the scene of the single greatest tragedy in destruction wreaked by the twin storms Manuel and Ingrid, which simultaneously pounded both of Mexico's coasts a week ago, spawning huge floods and landslides across a third of the country and leaving at least 100 people dead and 68 people missing in La Pintada.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)LA PINTADA, Mexico (AP) — Fourteen hours per body.

Merkel triumphs in German vote but allies crushed

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 04:54 PM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, chairwoman of the Christian Democratic party CDU, holds a finger on her lips on the stage at the party headquarters after the national elections in Berlin Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives triumphed in Germany's election Sunday. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)BERLIN (AP) — Official results confirm that Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have won Germany's election but indicate that they have finished short of an absolute majority. Her center-right coalition partners crashed out of Parliament.

AP PHOTOS: Hundreds die in weekend attacks

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 12:19 PM PDT

Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013: Peshawar, Pakistan_Pakistani women grieve over the coffins of their relatives, who were killed in a suicide attack on a church. The suicide bomb attack killed scores of people Sunday, in one of the worst assaults on the country's Christian minority in years. An assault by Islamic extremists at a Kenya mall, a suicide attack on a Pakistani church and assaults by suicide bombers targeting mourners at Shiite and Sunni funerals in Iraq have killed more than 250 people and injured at least 470 others since Saturday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)An assault by Islamic extremists at a shopping mall in Kenya, a suicide attack on a Pakistani church and assaults by suicide bombers targeting mourners at Shiite and Sunni funerals in Iraq have killed more than 250 people and injured at least 470 others since Saturday.

Rescuers dig in mud, rain for dead in Mexico slide

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 11:03 AM PDT

The body of a victim sits on a wheelbarrel after being recovered from the site of a landslide in La Pintada, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. The village was the scene of the single greatest tragedy in destruction wreaked by the twin st orms, Manuel and Ingrid, which simultaneously pounded both of Mexico's coasts. Using picks and shovels, soldiers and farmers removed dirt and rock from atop the cement or corrugated-metal roofs of houses looking for bodies in this town north of Acapulco, where 68 people were reported missing following Monday's slide. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)LA PINTADA, Mexico (AP) — Fourteen hours per body.

Stars being arriving for a night of Emmy history

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 04:23 PM PDT

Alfre Woodard, left, and Laura Dern arrive at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards at Nokia Theatre on Sunday Sept. 22, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stars from the small screen began arriving Sunday for the Emmy Awards, where perhaps the biggest drama will be how Netflix's "House of Cards" does in competition with cable series "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men."

SHOW BITS: Overheard in Emmy fan bleachers

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 04:23 PM PDT

Anna Gunn arrives at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards at Nokia Theatre on Sunday Sept. 22, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)Show Bits brings you the 65th annual Emmy Awards in Los Angeles through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.

'Prisoners' tops box office with $21.4 million

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 01:49 PM PDT

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Hugh Jackman, left, and Paul Dano in a scene from "Prisoners." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Wilson Webb)NEW YORK (AP) — The more adult-oriented fall moviegoing season got off to a strong start over the weekend, as the Hugh Jackman kidnapping drama "Prisoners" opened with a box office-leading $21.4 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

SKorea separated families sad over aborted reunion

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 06:11 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 photo, South Korean Chang Choon, 81, who was suppose to travel this week to North Korea to see his brother and sister for the first time in 62 years, represses his tears during an interview at his home in Namyangju, east of Seoul, South Korea. The anticipation of what he called his lifetime wish has been shattered now that North Korea abruptly canceled six days of planned reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)NAMYANGJU, South Korea (AP) — Chang Choon didn't get much sleep as he prepared to travel to North Korea this week to see his brother and sister for the first time in more than six decades. But the anticipation of what he called the wish of a lifetime was shattered after North Korea abruptly canceled planned reunions for families separated by the Korean War.

10 things to know about Somali militants al-Shabab

Posted: 22 Sep 2013 11:54 AM PDT

Kenya security personnel walk to their positions outside a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. Kenya authorities said Islamic extremist attackers remain inside the upscale Kenyan shopping mall, holding an unknown number of hostages, after killing at least 39 and injuring 150 during the Saturday's attack. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Here are 10 things to know about al-Shabab, the Somali Islamic extremist group that has claimed responsibility for the attack on Kenya's premier shopping mall that killed dozens of civilians.

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