2013年10月7日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


'This is not the way I envisioned my life'

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:23 PM PDT

Family of 5 goes without while waiting on food stampsNearly 48 million Americans, or about 1 in 7 of us, collect food assistance.


Senate could vote on debt ceiling this week

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 10:32 AM PDT

Partisan gridlock keeps government shut for 5th dayBut the bill most likely would stall when it hits the Republican-controlled House


White House dismisses timing of Africa raids as coincidence

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:12 PM PDT

Protesters burn a replica of the U.S. flag during a protest against the capture of Liby in BenghaziNo decision on whether suspected al-Qaida captive will face trial.


Stocks closes at monthly lows as Washington stalemate drags on

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:12 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, file photo, trader Richard Scardino works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stock futures are falling sharply, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, as the U.S. government heads into the second week of a partial shutdown with no signs of a budget agreement in sight. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)The stock market is closing at its lowest level in a month as the U.S. government enters a second week of being partially shut down.


Post-coup Egypt gripped by nationalist fervor

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 02:00 PM PDT

Egyptian security forces and civilians detain a supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi near Ramsis Square, Cairo, Egypt. Deadly clashes left tens dead and scores injured as rival crowds of supporters of the military and backers of Morsi poured into streets around the country Sunday, as a holiday marking the anniversary of the last war with Israel turned into a showdown between the country's two rival camps. (AP Photo/Sabry Khaled, El-Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUTCAIRO (AP) — While riots turned the neighborhoods of Cairo into deadly battlegrounds this weekend, Egypt's most powerful man — the head of the armed forces — enjoyed a star-studded show.


Steubenville rape case grand jury issues charges

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:31 PM PDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An employee in the same district where two Ohio high school football players were convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl was charged Monday with interfering with a criminal matter, the first charges brought by a grand jury investigating whether other laws we broken in connection with the rape case.

Nabbing of Libyan militant sparks fear of backlash

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 02:10 PM PDT

Dozens of supporters of the militant group, Ansar al-Shariah, burn an American flag and shout anti-American slogans denouncing the U.S. violation of Libya's sovereignty in the abduction of Abu Anas al-Libi, in the center of Benghazi, Libya, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. On Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, the U.S. Army's Delta Force captured Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaida leader linked to the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. (AP Photo/Mohammed el-Shaiky)CAIRO (AP) — The Libyan militant accused by Washington in the killing of the U.S. ambassador told The Associated Press on Monday he's not worried about being next on the list for capture by the Americans after the U.S. commando raid that spirited a senior al-Qaida suspect out of Tripoli.


2 Americans, German-American win Nobel in medicine

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 12:50 PM PDT

Karolinska Institute's Chairman of the Nobel committee for physiology or medicine Juleen Zierath talks, as images of James Rothman and Randy Schekman, of the United States, and German-born researcher Thomas Sudhof are projected on a screen, in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, as they are announced as the winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine. Rothman, Schekman and Sudhof won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how proteins and other materials are transported within cells. (AP Photo/ TT News Agency Janerik Henriksson) SWEDEN OUTNEW YORK (AP) — Two Americans and a German-American won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for illuminating how tiny bubbles inside cells shuttle key substances around like a vast and highly efficient fleet of vans, delivering the right cargo to the right place at the right time.


AP IMPACT: Tribes mishandle funds, go unpunished

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 12:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004 photo, a member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe who lives on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, attends the festivities on the National Mall for the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington. The Washington Monument is in the background. Federal agencies questioned how the Northern Arapaho government spent at least $3.4 million since 2007, but decided not to recover any of the money - and even increased funding. The Wyoming tribe is hardly unique. An Associated Press review of summaries of audits performed by private firms showed that auditors consistently raised serious concerns about 124 of 551 tribal governments, schools or housing authorities that received at least 10 years of substantial federal funds since 1997. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)ETHETE, Wyo. (AP) — American Indian tribes have been caught misappropriating tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, according to internal tribal audits and other documents. But federal authorities do little about it — due to a lack of oversight, resources or political will.


Shutdown spawns vacuum in farm market information

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 05:18 AM PDT

In this Oct. 1, 2013 photo, cows are herded into waiting trucks following an auction at the Oklahoma National Stockyard in Oklahoma City. Across rural America, farmers are feeling the effects of the federal government shutdown. During the shutdown, the USDA won't provide sales reports from Oklahoma livestock auctions that are used to help set prices on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, state Department of Agriculture employee Jack Carson said. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — When Tim Peterson finished planting his 900 acres of winter wheat last week, the usually market-savvy Kansas farmer unexpectedly found himself struggling to make critical marketing decisions without being able to access to vital agricultural reports, casualties of the federal government shutdown.


Wacha, Cardinals edge Pirates 2-1 to knot NLDS

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:26 PM PDT

St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, left, pats starting pitcher Michael Wacha right before he was lifted from the baseball game in the eighth inning in Game 4 of a National League division series against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, in Pittsburgh. Wacha had a no-hitter going until Pirates' Pedro Alvarez hit a home run in that inning. (AP Photo/Don Wright)PITTSBURGH (AP) — Michael Wacha heard the chants. Then again, when 40,000 people clad in black scream your name relentlessly for the better part of three hours, it's kind of hard to miss.


Target of SEAL raid planned attacks in Kenya

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 09:28 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, al-Shabab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. Foreign military forces carried out a pre-dawn strike Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 against foreign fighters in the same southern Somalia village where U.S. Navy SEALS four years ago killed a most-wanted al-Qaida operative, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor, File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The man U.S. Navy SEALs tried to take down in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan who had plotted to attack his country's parliament building and the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi, according to a Kenyan government intelligence report.


Attacks surge in Egypt, a day after deadly clashes

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:20 PM PDT

Smoke rises from a security headquarters building in the southern Sinai town of el-Tor, Egypt, after a car bombing there on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Monday's attack, which killed several people and wounded dozens, came a day after at least 51 people died in clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi across much of Egypt. The region of southern Sinai, which includes the popular resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, has been mostly quiet since a series of deadly attacks in 2005 and 2006. (AP Photo)CAIRO (AP) — A string of attacks killed nine members of Egypt's security and military forces and hit the country's main satellite communications station Monday, in an apparent retaliation by Islamic militants a day after more than 50 supporters of the ousted president were killed in clashes with police.


AP PHOTOS: Lone family stays in Syrian village

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 06:09 AM PDT

KFAR LATA, Syria (AP) — Grubby-faced children huddle around a small swing that was brought indoors so they could play — at least a tiny bit sheltered by the walls of their home from the relentless bombardment in the northern Syrian village of Kfar Lata.

Italy divers find 'wall' of bodies in migrant ship

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:54 PM PDT

Amsa, 16 years-old, last name not available, a migrant from Somalia, right, watches the sunset as he leaves aboard a ferry the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Italian divers recovered 17 more bodies Monday from a smugglers' boat that capsized and sank to bottom of the Mediterranean Sea with hundreds of migrants on board. That brought the confirmed death toll from Thursday's tragedy to 211 before poor weather off the southern island of Lampedusa again halted the recovery operation. Only 155 people of the estimated 500 on board survived the sinking. Scores of bodies are believed to be still trapped in the hull of the 18-meter (59-foot) boat, which is resting 47 meters (154 feet) below the surface. Monday was the first day that divers entered the hull. Coast Guard Capt. Filippo Marini estimated it would take two more days to complete the search and recovery mission. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AP) — Deep sea divers "unpacked a wall of people" from the hull of a smuggler's trawler on the sea floor near this Italian island on Monday, gingerly untangling the dead would-be migrants in the latest and most painstaking phase of a recovery operation following the ship's fiery capsizing.


White House open to short-term hike in debt limit

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 11:29 AM PDT

In this Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013, photo provided by CBS News U.S. Treasury Jacob Lew speaks on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Lew said Congress needs to quickly pass legislation re-opening the government and also a measure boosting the nation's $16.7 trillion debt limit. Lew said President Barack Obama has not changed his opposition to tying these measures to Republican demands on health care and spending cuts. "What we've seen is ... 'Unless I get my way, you know, that we'll bring these terrible consequences of shutdown or default,' " Lew said Sunday. "Those kinds of threats have to stop." (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats intend to introduce legislation by mid-week to raise the nation's debt limit without the unrelated conditions Republicans have said they intend to seek, officials said Monday, as the White House signaled it would accept even a brief extension in borrowing authority to prevent an unprecedented default.


Egypt says attack in Sinai was suicide bomber

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 11:09 AM PDT

Smoke rises from a security headquarters building in the southern Sinai town of el-Tor, Egypt, after a car bombing there on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Monday's attack, which killed several people and wounded dozens, came a day after at least 51 people died in clashes between security forces and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi across much of Egypt. The region of southern Sinai, which includes the popular resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, has been mostly quiet since a series of deadly attacks in 2005 and 2006. (AP Photo)CAIRO (AP) — A suicide bomber and unknown gunmen aiming to destabilize Egypt killed nine security men and hit the country's main satellite communications center on Monday in a string of attacks, the interior minister said.


Kerry urges new nuclear proposals from Iran

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 10:17 AM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to journalists during a press conference on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Nusa Dua on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on October 7, 2013Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday urged Iran to come up with new nuclear proposals, rebuffing Tehran's position that the onus is now on foreign powers to unblock the long-running impasse.


Curt Schilling selling items from home

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 16, 2012, file photo, former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, center, is followed by members of the media as he departs the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation headquarters, in Providence, R.I. Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein ruled Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, that the Economic Development Corp., can proceed with its lawsuit against Schilling, other former 38 Studios executives, and former EDC officials including former Executive Director Keith Stokes. The suit alleges fraud, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, racketeering and conspiracy. It says the board was misled into approving a $75 million loan guarantee for the company in 2010. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling — whose video game company collapsed into bankruptcy last year, prompting a high-profile lawsuit in Rhode Island — is selling off furniture, sports collectibles and even artificial plants from his Massachusetts home.


U.S. elite team questions captured al-Qaida leader

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:05 PM PDT

Senior al Qaeda figure Anas al-Liby is seen in an undated FBI handout photoBy Mark Hosenball and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An elite American interrogation team is questioning the senior al Qaeda figure who was seized by special operations forces in Libya and then whisked onto a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea, U.S. officials said on Monday. Nazih al-Ragye, better known by the cover name Abu Anas al-Liby, is being held aboard the USS San Antonio, an amphibious transport dock ship, the officials said. He is being questioned by the U.S. ...


Giant white diamond fetches record price at auction

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 09:48 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 file photo, a 118.28-carat white diamond is displayed by a model at a press preview at Sotheby's auction house in Hong Kong. The white diamond the size of a small egg has sold for $27.3 million dollars at a Hong Kong auction. A phone bidder bought the rock from Africa at the Monday night, Oct. 7 sale. The price edged out the previous price record for a white diamond of $26.7 million set at Christie's in Geneva in May. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)HONG KONG (AP) — A white diamond the size of a small egg sold for $30.6 million at a Hong Kong auction Monday night, although a blue diamond that was the night's other highlight with a $19 million estimate failed to sell.


Six things most people don't know about Supreme Court Justice Scalia

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 07:21 AM PDT

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks at a Reuters Newsmaker event in New YorkThe court's conservative firebrand, Antonin Scalia, gave an extensive interview to New York Magazine that reveals a few surprising things about him.


Target of failed U.S. raid in Somalia planned Kenya attacks

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 06:13 AM PDT

Map locates Barawe, Somalia; 1c x 3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76 mm;NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A United States official says the target of raid by Navy SEALs in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan man named Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir. A Kenyan government intelligence document names him as the coordinator of other planned attacks.


Syria wins cautious praise as chemical disarmament starts

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 10:02 AM PDT

By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria won foreign praise on Monday for starting to destroy its chemical arsenal, although an opposition activist said the world was merely giving President Bashar al-Assad time to kill more people with conventional weapons. An official from the international mission overseeing the stockpile's elimination said Damascus had made an excellent start on Sunday, and the United States acknowledged its rapid compliance with a U.N. resolution on destroying chemical weapons as extremely significant. ...

The Civil War in color for the first time

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 08:12 AM PDT

The Civil War in color for the first timeThree Confederate prisoners, Gettysburg, 1863 Colourisation from a black and white stereograph, wet collodion on glass substrate by Mathew Brady June or July, 1863, Gettysburg, PA., USA /Jordan J. Lloyd / Dynamichrome Taken on top of Seminary Ridge from the main eastern theatre of the war, Gettysburg in June or July, 1863. The three men remain unidentified despite numerous unverified claims on the contrary. July 2013 marked the 150th Anniversary of the most famous battle in American history. Full restoration from a damaged plate. Due to the plate being shot in orthochromatic, final post processing of the image adjusted the blue and red channels to compensate for the washed out sky of the original image (clouds added).

Malala Yousafzai: ‘I Was Spared for a Reason’

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 05:29 AM PDT

Malala Yousafzai: 'I Was Spared for a Reason'"On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine," she says.


Shutdown: No end in sight

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 07:28 AM PDT

Boehner 'Not Going to Pass a Clean Debt Limit Increase'The United States moves closer to the first default in the nation's history.


Bobby Jindal: ‘We’re all frustrated with what’s going on in D.C.’

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 04:19 AM PDT

Bobby Jindal: 'We're All Frustrated With What's Going on in DC'Politics Confidential Louisiana governor and potential 2016 Republican presidential contender Bobby Jindal says he's "frustrated" with the lack of leadership in Washington but declined to directly criticize his own party for fueling the current government shutdown. "I'm not interested in Republican fratricide," Jindal told "Politics Confidential"  when asked if he approved of the Republican Party's [...]


Supreme Court to decide if voters can kill affirmative action

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 02:36 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 27, 2012, file photo law enforcement officers set up a perimeter controls in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on the eve of the expected ruling on whether or not the Affordable Care Act passes the test of constitutionality in Washington. The Supreme Court new term, which starts on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, may be short on the sort of high-profile battles over health care and gay marriage that marked the past two years. But several cases ask the court to overrule prior decisions, bold action in an institution that relies on the power of precedent. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)The court will look at campaign finance, prayer at public meetings, and abortion rights.


2 Americans, German win Nobel medicine prize

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:52 AM PDT

Undated handout of James Rothman of Yale University, who won the 2013 Nobel medicine prizeSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Americans James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other key substances are transported within cells.


Congress enters crucial week in battles over budget, debt limit

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 03:53 PM PDT

U.S. House Speaker Boehner arrives at the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonBy Richard Cowan and Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A few faint glimmers of hope surfaced on Monday in the U.S. fiscal standoff, both in Congress and at the White House, with President Barack Obama saying he would accept a short-term increase in the nation's borrowing authority to avoid a default. Separately, a Senate aide said Republican Senator Rob Portman, an Ohioan influential on budget issues, was floating a plan to cut federal spending and reform the U.S. tax code as part of a broader deal to reopen shuttered government agencies and raise the government's debt ceiling. ...


Kerry defends US capture of Libya 'Al-Qaeda operative'

Posted: 07 Oct 2013 01:18 AM PDT

Abdullah al-Raghie (L) and Abdul Moheman al-Raghie (C), the sons of al-Qaeda suspect Abu Anas al-Libi point to where their father was kidnapped by US special forces in a commando raid in Nofliene, on October 6, 2013Nusa Dua (Indonesia) (AFP) - Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday insisted the capture of an alleged Al-Qaeda operative in Libya in a US raid was legal, after Tripoli demanded answers about the "kidnap".


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