2013年9月29日星期日

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Ted Cruz: Harry Reid 'holds the American people hostage'

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 08:44 AM PDT

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas talks to reporters as he emerges from the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept 25, 2013, after his overnight crusade railing against the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as "Obamacare." Cruz ended the marathon Senate speech opposing President Barack Obama's health care law after talking for 21 hours, 19 minutes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)He claims the Senate Majority Leader refuses to compromise on Obamacare.


Biden pens Obamacare op-ed for Iowa paper

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 03:29 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden speaks during Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin's annual fundraising steak fry dinner, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013, in Indianola, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)In a move that should stir even more speculation about his plans for 2016, Vice President Joe Biden penned an op-ed for the Des Moines Register on Sunday, extolling the virtues of Obamacare in the state where the race for the White House will begin with the Iowa Caucuses.


Iranian foreign minister: 'Holocaust is not a myth'

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 09:10 AM PDT

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif: Holocaust a 'Heinous Crime' and a 'Genocide'In an exclusive interview this morning on "This Week," Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif condemned the Holocaust as a "heinous crime" and a "genocide," dismissing as a poor translation the appearance of the word "myth" about the Holocaust on the Iranian Supreme Leader's English website....


Foreign minister: Iran open to negotiations

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 10:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2013 file photo, seated at the table from left, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton attend a meeting of the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany during the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. Always scrutinized, Iran now will be under even greater watch as the U.S. looks for signals the Islamic Republic's new president is serious and powerful enough to pursue detente with Washington and an end to the painful economic penalties imposed over its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran would open its nuclear facilities to international inspectors as part of broad negotiations with the United States that could eventually restore diplomatic relations between the adversaries and those talks have the backing of the nation's supreme leader, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Sunday.


States resist, build nascent insurance markets

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 10:59 AM PDT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — With new online health insurance exchanges set to launch Tuesday, consumers in many Southern and Plains states will have to look harder for information on how the marketplaces work than their counterparts elsewhere.

Nigeria: Militants kill students in college attack

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 08:06 AM PDT

A grab made on July 13, 2013 from a video obtained by AFP shows the leader of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram Abubakar ShekauPOTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms, the school's provost said, reporting the latest violence in northeastern Nigeria's ongoing Islamic uprising.


Nairobi morgue's last victim from mall is ID'd

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 11:35 AM PDT

A gravedigger digs additional graves with a shovel, in anticipation of an increased number of burials both of Westgate Mall attack victims and of those deceased from other causes, at the main cemetery in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Kenya's military caused the collapse of three floors of the Westgate Mall in the deadly terrorist siege, a top-ranking official disclosed Friday, while the government urged patience with the pace of an investigation that has left key questions unanswered. (AP Photo/David Rising)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Karen Wambui walked slowly through the Nairobi city morgue's turquoise and yellow iron gates, still trying to process what she had seen inside.


Thousands protest as Sudan officials promise cash

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:08 PM PDT

Sudanese anti-government protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets in night march in the capital Khartoum late Sunday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets of the capital Khartoum late Sunday, chanting "freedom" and renewing calls for their longtime autocratic president to resign after dozens of protesters were killed in a week of demonstrations sparked by austerity measures.


AP PHOTOS: A look at the career of NY's Mo Rivera

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:09 PM PDT

File-This Sept. 26, 2013 file photo shows New York Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera, left, handing the ball to Andy Pettitte as Derek Jeter, right, watches during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium in New York. The Rays defeated the Yankees 4-0 in Rivera's final home game with the team. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File)After 19 stellar seasons and a record 652 saves, the career of Yankees closer Mariano Rivera ended Sunday.


New commercial supply ship reaches space station

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 10:15 AM PDT

This framegrabbed image provided by NASA-TV shows the Cygnus spacecraft at the 30 meter hold point from the International Space Station Sunday Sept. 29, 2013 as both cross over the Atlantic Ocean. (AP Photo/NASA-TV)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's newest delivery service made its first-ever shipment to the International Space Station on Sunday, another triumph for the booming commercial space arena that has its sights set on launching astronauts.


Who'll blink? Democrats, GOP in shutdown staredown

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 01:02 PM PDT

An empty hallway in the U.S. Capitol Sunday morning, Sept. 29, 2013, as a government shutdown looms, in Washington. The political and economic stakes mounting with each tick of the clock, the White House and congressional Democrats say a House-approved delay in President Barack Obama's health care law does nothing but push Washington to the brink of the first government shutdown in 17 years. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)WASHINGTON (AP) — As the government teeters on the brink of a partial shutdown, congressional Republicans vowed Sunday to keep using an otherwise routine government funding bill to try to attack "Obamacare."


Marlins' Alvarez throws odd no-hitter vs Tigers

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 02:06 PM PDT

Miami Marlins' Henderson Alvarez, center, celebrates with teammates after pitching a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers in an interleague baseball game on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013, in Miami. The Marlins won 1-0. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)MIAMI (AP) — With the bases loaded, two outs and the score 0-0 in the bottom of the ninth, Henderson Alvarez stood in the Miami Marlins' on-deck circle, bat in hand, hoping to complete his no-hitter.


Marlins' Alvarez throws crazy no-hitter vs Tigers

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 01:22 PM PDT

Detroit Tigers' Justin Verlander pitches to the Miami Marlins in the first inning of an interleague baseball game on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)MIAMI (AP) — Henderson Alvarez pitched a no-hitter with a most bizarre ending, celebrating in the on-deck circle when the Miami Marlins scored on a two-out wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the AL Central champion Detroit Tigers 1-0 Sunday.


Syria's Assad vows to comply with UN resolution

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 10:35 AM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's president vowed Sunday to abide by the U.N. resolution calling for the country's chemical weapons stockpile to be destroyed.

US bracing for government shutdown no one wants

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 09:06 AM PDT

An empty hallway in the U.S. Capitol Sunday morning, Sept. 29, 2013, as a government shutdown looms, in Washington. The political and economic stakes mounting with each tick of the clock, the White House and congressional Democrats say a House-approved delay in President Barack Obama's health care law does nothing but push Washington to the brink of the first government shutdown in 17 years. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States braced for a partial government shutdown Tuesday that no one in the seat of democracy seems to want or believes is good for the country, yet the only point of agreement in Washington is that the other political party is to blame.


Car bomb kills 40 in northwest Pakistan

Posted: 29 Sep 2013 11:28 AM PDT

A Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a blast shortly after a car exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. A car bomb exploded on a crowded street in northwestern Pakistan Sunday, killing scores of people in the third blast to hit the troubled city of Peshawar in a week, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A car bomb ripped through a crowded street in Peshawar's oldest bazaar Sunday, killing 40 people in the third blast to hit the troubled Pakistani city in a week, officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.


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