2014年2月15日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Oshie's 4 shootout goals lead US past Russia 3-2

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 09:11 AM PST

2014 Winter Olympic GamesSOCHI, Russia (AP) — T.J. Oshie brainstormed while he skated to center ice, desperately trying to come up with one last move to end an epic shootout. He had already taken five shots at Sergei Bobrovsky, and the Russians were still even.


UAW drive falls short amid culture clash in Tenn.

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 12:54 PM PST

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker speaks to reporters in Chattanooga, Tenn., Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, about the defeat of the United Auto Workers in a three-day election at the Volkswagen plant in the city. The multiyear effort to organize Volkswagen's only U.S. plant was defeated on a 712-626 vote Friday night amid heavy campaigning on both sides. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — The failure of the United Auto Workers to unionize employees at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee underscores a cultural disconnect between a labor-friendly German company and anti-union sentiment in the South.


Olympics: Earth's most political apolitical event

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 11:19 AM PST

Russian President Vladimir Putin wears a Team USA pin while visiting USA House in the Olympic Village during the 2014 Winter Olympics on Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Marianna Massey, USOC Pool)SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Each time an Olympics approaches, the ideal is articulated once more: The true spirit of the games, those who oversee them say, brings humanity together to promote amity and athletic excellence. It is most certainly not a place for the affairs of nations and vested interests to play out on a global stage.


UK taxi driver crushed to death in windstorm

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 11:46 AM PST

A smashed up car is seen in Kingsway opposite Holborn Tube station in central London, after a woman was killed when large chunks of masonry fell onto a Skoda Octavia vehicle she was in, London, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. The taxi driver was killed late Friday in central London opposite Holborn subway station during a heavy windstorm when her car was crushed by falling masonry from a building that partially collapsed, police said. She was identified as Julie Sillitoe, a 49-year-old with three sons. (AP Photo/PA, Laura Lean) UNITED KINGDOM OUTLONDON (AP) — Strong winds that pummeled Britain killed a taxi driver, whose car was crushed by falling chunks of masonry from a building, and an elderly man who died after a "freak wave" struck a cruise ship in the English Channel, officials said Saturday. Another 15 cruise ship passengers were injured.


Gay-marriage foes scrambling after court setbacks

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 11:21 AM PST

FILE - In a Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 file photo, former Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, E.W. Jackson, center, speaks to the media during a demonstration outside Federal Court in Norfolk, Va. Jackson spoke in favor of the law banning same sex marriage. In Virginia, Utah, Oklahoma and Kentucky, federal judges have struck down part or all of the bans on same-sex marriage that voters approved between 2004 and 2006. Each of the rulings has been stayed, pending appeals, but the trend is unsettling to the activists who oppose gay marriage. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Opponents of same-sex marriage are scrambling to find effective responses, in Congress and state legislatures, to a rash of court rulings that would force some of America's most conservative states to accept gay nuptials.


Agent: Player A in NFL report is Andrew McDonald

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 02:23 PM PST

FILE - This 2013 file photo shows Miami Dolphins' Andrew McDonald. McDonald's agent says the former Dolphins lineman, identified as Player A in the investigation of the racially charged bullying scandal, is "disappointed his name has "become associated with other players involved this story." (AP Photo/File)A former Miami Dolphins lineman identified as one of the targets of harassment in the racially charged bullying scandal, has no has no problem with the team, his agent said in a statement Saturday.


Mob attacks alleged gays in Nigerian capital

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 10:54 AM PST

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A mob armed with wooden clubs and iron bars, screaming that they were going to "cleanse" their neighborhood of gay people, dragged 14 young men from their beds and assaulted them, human rights activists said Saturday.

'Juno' actress Ellen Page comes out as gay

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 04:32 AM PST

FILE - Ellen Page arrives at the LA premiere of Fox Searchlight Pictures' "The East" presented by Piaget in this May 28, 2013 file photo taken in Los Angeles. Page, the adorable, quirky actress who enchanted movie audiences in 2007 as the pregnant teenager Juno, came out as gay Friday night Feb. 14, 2014 at a conference for educators and counselors who work with LGBTQ youth. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP/File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen Page, who won the hearts of moviegoers as the pregnant teenager in the 2007 film "Juno," has come out as gay.


Federal guidance on pot business leaves banks wary

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 12:08 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2013 file photo, marijuana is displayed at the River Rock dispensary in Denver. The federal government takes another step toward enabling a legalized marijuana industry to operate in the U.S., announcing that it will allow banks to do business with legal marijuana sellers. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)SEATTLE (AP) — For marijuana dispensaries around the country, the days of doing business in cash — driving around with bill-stuffed envelopes to pay the rent, or showing up at a state revenue office with $20,000 in paper bags for the tax man — can't end soon enough.


Ariz. inmate makes Valentine's escape

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 06:15 AM PST

This image provided by the Pinal County Sheriff's office shows the booking photo of Joseph Andrew Dekenipp an inmate of the Pinal County Adult Detention Center who escaped by climbing two walls and crawling through razor wire and was reportedly meeting his sweetheart on Valentine's Day. He was arrested in the town of Coolidge, a few hours after he escaped Friday Feb. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Pinal County Sheriff)PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona jail inmate who escaped by climbing two walls and crawling through razor wire and was reportedly meeting his sweetheart on Valentine's Day is back in custody.


5 things to know about the Sochi Olympics

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 07:45 AM PST

USA forward T.J. Oshie scores the winning goal against Russia goaltender Sergei Bobrovski in a shootout during overtime of a men's ice hockey game at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Fast Five, Saturday edition: Five things you'll want to know about the 2014 Winter Olympics.


UAW falls 87 votes short of major victory in South

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 12:07 AM PST

Frank Fischer, the chairman and CEO of the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, left, and Gary Casteel, a regional director for the United Auto Workers, hold a press conference at the Chattanooga, Tenn., facility on Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, after an announcement that workers at the plant rejected representation of the union. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Just 87 votes at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee separated the United Auto Workers union from what would have been its first successful organization of workers at a foreign automaker in the South.


Oshie's shootout goals lead US past Russia 3-2

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 08:37 AM PST

USA forward T.J. Oshie scores a goal in a shootout against Russia during a men's ice hockey game at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)SOCHI, Russia (AP) — T.J. Oshie brainstormed while he skated to center ice, desperately trying to come up with one last move to end an epic shootout. He had already taken five shots at Sergei Bobrovsky, and the Russians were still even.


Merkel, Hollande to discuss European communication network avoiding U.S.

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 10:11 AM PST

French President Hollande and German Chancellor Merkel meet at the Elysee Palace, in ParisGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday she would talk to French President Francois Hollande about building up a European communication network to avoid emails and other data passing through the United States. Merkel, who visits France on Wednesday, has been pushing for greater data protection in Europe following reports last year about mass surveillance in Germany and elsewhere by the U.S. National Security Agency. Merkel said in her weekly podcast that she disapproved of companies such as Google and Facebook basing their operations in countries with low levels of data protection while being active in countries such as Germany with high data protection.


UN envoy 'very sorry' as Syria talks break off in failure

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 10:45 AM PST

UN-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi speaks during a news conference after closing the second round of negotiation between the Syrian government and the opposition at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. Brahimi ended direct talks between the Syrian government and opposition Saturday without finding a way of breaking the impasse in peace talks. Saturday's talks, which lasted less than half an hour, left the future of the negotiating process in doubt. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)The UN's Syria envoy said he was "very, very sorry" Saturday as peace talks in Geneva broke off with no progress made and no date set for a third round. Just weeks after the warring parties sat down for the first time to seek a political settlement to the three-year conflict, a second round ended in acrimony. "I'm very, very sorry," UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi told reporters in Geneva as he announced the break-off in talks. With no guarantee the parties will return to the negotiating table, the death toll continued to mount in Syria where more than 136,000 have died and millions have been driven from their homes.


AP Exclusive: Misconduct forces more soldiers out

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 02:51 PM PST

FILE - This photo April 23, 2013 file photo shows Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. The number of U.S. soldiers forced out of the Army because of bad conduct or crimes has soared in the last several years, as the military comes out of a decade of war that put a greater focus on battle competence than character. Data obtained by The Associated Press shows that the number of officers who left the Army due to misconduct tripled in the last three years. And the number of enlisted soldiers forced out for drug, alcohol, crimes and other misconduct shot up from about 5,600 in 2007 as the Iraq war peaked, to more than 11,000 last year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of U.S. soldiers forced out of the Army because of crimes or misconduct has soared in the past several years as the military emerges from a decade of war that put a greater focus on battle competence than on character.


Obama: Calif. drought is everyone's concern

Posted: 14 Feb 2014 04:51 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at the San Luis Water District Maintenance Shop for a round table discussion on the California drought in FirebaughPresident warns of difficult choices ahead as to how America uses and conserves water.


U.S., China agree to work on climate change

Posted: 14 Feb 2014 10:16 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures during a discussion with Chinese bloggers in BeijingChina and the United States, the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases, pledged on Saturday to work together to attenuate the effects of global climate change. "China and the United States will work together ... to collaborate through enhanced policy dialogue, including the sharing of information regarding their respective post-2020 plans to limit greenhouse gas emissions," according to a U.S.-China joint statement issued at the end of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's whirlwind Beijing visit. International talks to try to agree on a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the first and only international agreement to tackle climate change, are due to be held in Paris next year. The United States never ratified the Kyoto deal.


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