2014年2月18日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Ukraine capital bursts into battlefield

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:50 PM PST

Anti-government protesters carry a wounded policemen during clashes with riot police in Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Thousands of angry anti-government protesters clashed with police in a new eruption of violence following new maneuvering by Russia and the European Union to gain influence over this former Soviet republic. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Protesters light barricades against police after deadliest day in struggle over nation's identity.


Activist nun, 84, sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 04:36 PM PST

FILE - In this Monday, May 6, 2013, file photo, anti-nuclear weapons activists, from left, Michael Walli, Sister Megan Rice and Greg Boertje-Obed arrive for their trial in Knoxville, Tenn. All three were convicted on May 8, 2013, of interfering with national security when they broke into a nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee and defaced a uranium processing plant. The activists will learn Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, whether they will spend the next six to nine years in prison. (AP Photo/Knoxville News Sentinel, J. Miles Cary, File)KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An 84-year-old nun was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison for breaking into a nuclear weapons complex and defacing a bunker holding bomb-grade uranium, a demonstration that exposed serious security flaws at the Tennessee plant.


Ex-soldier convicted of killing Iraqi family dies in prison

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:12 PM PST

FILE - In this April 29, 2009 file photo, former 101st Airborne Division Pfc. Steven Dale Green is escorted to the courthouse on the third day of his trial in Paducah, Ky. Green, convicted of raping and killing a teenage Iraqi girl and using a shotgun to kill her family, died Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014 in prison in Arizona, likely of suicide. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) — A former soldier convicted in 2009 of raping and killing a teenage Iraqi girl and using a shotgun to gun down her family died in an Arizona prison over the weekend in what officials suspect was a suicide.


Minimum wage study replenishes both sides of debate

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 02:46 PM PST

OBAMA MAKES GOOD ON PROMISEWASHINGTON (AP) — Boosting the federal minimum wage as President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are proposing would increase earnings for more than 16.5 million people by 2016 but also cut employment by roughly 500,000 jobs, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst said Tuesday.


Real 'Monuments Man' to join Clooney and Damon at White House

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 02:03 PM PST

Real 'Monuments Men' and Women Preserve Cultural HeritageHarry Ettlinger was a 19-year-old Army private when he was recruited to be one of the original "Monuments Men." Now, Ettlinger will join President Obama and Hollywood stars like Matt Damon and George Clooney at a White House screening of the movie.


Feds get involved after shaking 'pandemonium' aboard flight

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 12:51 PM PST

Severe turbulence on United Airlines flight injures 5BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal authorities are looking into severe turbulence that triggered "pandemonium" aboard a United Airlines flight into Billings, Mont., and sent five people to hospitals.


Cuba shares trove of Hemingway documents with U.S.

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 10:52 AM PST

This photo released Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, shows a ticket stub from a bullfighting match attended by Ernest Hemingway, one of many new items from Hemingway's former estate in Cuba being made available at the museum. To date, the Kennedy Library has the world's largest collection of Hemingway's life and work, containing most of his manuscript material. (AP Photo/John F. Kennedy Library and Museum) NO SALES.Cuba has released to US researchers copies of more than 2,000 documents related to Ernest Hemingway, media reported Tuesday in Havana, the American literary giant's home during the 1940s and 1950s. "More than 2,000 documents held at the Finca Vigia Museum in Havana are now available for the first time for researchers in the United States after having been digitized and sent to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum," the Cuba Contemporanea magazine wrote on its website. Now a museum, Finca Vigia, which means "lookout house" is located in the town of San Francisco de Paula just outside Havana.


Work-around to Iowa abortion rule draws mixed feelings

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 10:38 AM PST

Unusual Iowa abortion rule has surprising resultWhile many states passed sweeping abortion laws last year, the Iowa General Assembly endorsed just one — a perplexing measure befitting one of the few legislatures under divided control. The GOP-led House ...


NSA leaker Snowden elected student body rep at UK university

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 11:33 AM PST

FILE - In this June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. Compared with their more moderate Republican or Democratic peers, tea party supporters and liberals are significantly more likely to oppose the collection of millions of ordinary citizens' telephone and Internet data, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows. By a 2-to-1 margin, both tea party supporters and liberals say the government should put protecting citizens' rights and freedoms ahead of protecting them from terrorists. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)LONDON (AP) — Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden was elected Tuesday as the official representative of the student body at the University of Glasgow.


N.J. mayor rebuffs Christie lawyer's request

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 08:56 AM PST

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks during a luncheon by the Economic Club of ChicagoFORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — The mayor of the New Jersey town where allies of Gov. Chris Christie created traffic jams last fall has refused a request to be interviewed by a lawyer representing the governor.


Argh! Northeast gets more of that wintry white stuff

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 10:21 AM PST

A man walks through the snow in New YorkPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A quick-moving storm brought several inches of snow as well as rare "thundersnow" to parts of the winter-weary East Coast, prompting speed restrictions on Pennsylvania highways on Tuesday, days after the Southeast and Northeast were paralyzed with heavy snow, ice and massive power outages.


Even from space, California's extreme drought looks bad

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 07:09 AM PST

California droughtThe historic drought that's devastated much of the American West this year is visible in NASA satellite imagery.


Ukraine's festering unrest turns deadly

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 10:02 AM PST

Anti-government protesters clash with riot police outside Ukraine's parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Thousands of angry anti-government protesters clashed with police in a new eruption of violence following new maneuvering by Russia and the European Union to gain influence over this former Soviet republic. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Two police officers and seven civilians die in anti-government demonstrations in Kiev.


Iran won't scrap its nuclear facilities

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 12:10 PM PST

European Union foreign policy chief Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif wait for the start of a conference in ViennaThe Islamic nation draws a red line on how far it would go at landmark talks.


Mass killer Breivik threatens hunger strike for bigger gym

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 09:42 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2012 file photo, mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, makes a salute after arriving in the court room at a courthouse in Oslo. Breivik, who admitted killing 77 people in Norway last year, was declared sane and sentenced to prison for bomb and gun attacks. Convicted Norwegian mass-killer Breivik has threatened to go on hunger strike unless he gets access to better video games, a sofa and a larger gym. n a letter received by The Associated Press Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014, Breivik writes the hunger strike will continue until his demands are met or he dies. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Convicted Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has threatened to go on a hunger strike unless he gets access to better video games, a sofa and a larger gym.


Oliver Stone's libertarian streak

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 02:58 AM PST

61st San Sebastian Film Festival: Oliver Stone PhotocallOscar-winning film director knocks Obama; dishes on Hillary, hearts Ron Paul.


Former U.S. congressman arrested in Zimbabwe on porn charges

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 10:26 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2012, file photo, former U.S. Rep. Melvin Reynolds announces that he's joining the increasingly crowded field running for the 2nd District seat vacated by Jesse Jackson Jr. A Zimbabwean immigration official told The Associated Press, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, that Reynolds has been arrested in the African country and is being investigated. The state-controlled The Herald newspaper reported Tuesday that Reynolds was arrested for allegedly possessing pornographic material and violating immigration laws. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Just over a year ago, former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds tried to shed past disgrace with a potent campaign slogan: "Redemption."


Reports: 3 protesters dead outside Ukraine parliament

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 06:27 AM PST

Anti-government protesters clash with riot police outside Ukraine's parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Thousands of angry anti-government protesters clashed with police in a new eruption of violence following new maneuvering by Russia and the European Union to gain influence over this former Soviet republic. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A lawmaker for a Ukrainian opposition party and a coordinator for the protesters' medical team say three protesters have died in clashes with police outside the parliament building in central Kiev.


Europe's role in chronic US execution dilemma: Won't ship drugs

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Dennis McGuire. In Ohio, in January 2014, McGuire took 26 minutes to die after a previously untested mix of chemicals began flowing into his body, gasping repeatedly as he lay on a gurney. There's one big reason why the United States has a dearth of execution drugs so acute that some states are considering solutions such as firing squads and gas chambers: Europe's fierce hostility to capital punishment. The phenomenon started nine years ago when the EU banned the export of products used for execution, citing its goal to be the BRUSSELS (AP) — There's one big reason the United States has a dearth of execution drugs so acute that some states are considering solutions such as firing squads and gas chambers: Europe won't allow the drugs to be exported because of its fierce hostility to capital punishment.


2 ex-Pussy Riot women: 'Shoved' in Sochi arrests

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 06:03 AM PST

2 Ex-Pussy Riot Women Tell ABC They Were 'Shoved,' Detained in SochiActivists Say They Were Harassed by Officers


Report: U.S. wants to negotiate with Taliban for captive soldier

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 10:20 PM PST

Still image provided by IntelCenter shows the Taliban associated video production group Manba al-Jihad's December 7, 2010 release of someone that appears to be US soldier Bowe Bergdahl (L)Washington will attempt to resume talks with the Taliban on exchanging a US soldier held captive by insurgents since 2009 for Guantanamo Bay prisoners, The Washington Post reported. The move is an attempt to free Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl before the majority of US forces leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the report said, citing current and former officials. The swap would trade Bergdahl for five Taliban members who would be released from Guantanamo Bay into protective custody in Qatar, the Post reported. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told AFP that she could not discuss details of US efforts but that "there should be no doubt that we work every day -- using our military, intelligence and diplomatic tools -- to try to see Sergeant Bergdahl returned home safely."


Russian punk band members detained by police in Sochi

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 06:21 AM PST

Russian punk band Pussy Riot members Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova pose after winning a trophy in the category "Most Valuable Documentary of the Year" at the "Cinema for Peace" charity gala in BerlinBy Mike Collett-White SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Pussy Riot protest band members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were detained on Tuesday in connection with a theft in the Winter Olympics host city of Sochi, less than two months after their release from prison under an amnesty. The pair were held for around three hours at a police station in the Adler district of Sochi, before appearing with other women on the steps outside wearing summer dresses, colored leggings and their trademark balaclava masks. The women were in Sochi with other members of Pussy Riot to record a musical film called "Putin will teach you to love the motherland". Russian President Vladimir Putin has staked his reputation on the Sochi Games, hoping they would show the world Russia's modern face more than two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union.


Latest storm to bring more snow to East Coast

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 11:29 PM PST

Josh Davis, Bloomsburg, Pa., and his sons Kaden, front, 5, and Cole, 8, ride a toboggan downhill at Josh's cousin Barry J. Davis' home near Bloomsburg, Pa., on Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. Josh and Barry constructed the downhill toboggan run for their boys to enjoy on the Presidents Day holiday. (AP Photo/Bloomsburg Press Enterprise, Bill Hughes)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A quick storm was expected drop several inches of snow on the East Coast before rain and warmer temperatures give worn out residents a reprieve from shoveling and shivering, days after storms paralyzed the Southeast and Northeast with heavy snow, ice and massive power outages.


Okla. pharmacy won't give drug for Mo. execution

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 10:33 AM PST

In this handout photo from the Missouri Correctional offices, Michael Anthony Taylor of Kansas City is shown. The Apothecary Shoppe, of Tulsa, submitted a sealed response to Taylor's lawsuit accusing it of illegally providing Missouri with a made-to-order drug to be used in his lethal injection. The company hasn't publicly acknowledged that it supplies a compounded version of pentobarbital to Missouri for use in lethal injections, as Taylor alleges, and says it can't because of a Missouri law requiring the identities of those on the state's execution team to be kept confidential. (AP Photo/Missouri Correctional Office)TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma pharmacy has agreed not to provide a drug for a scheduled execution next week in Missouri as part of a settlement with the death row inmate's attorneys. But it's unclear whether the deal will prevent or delay the lethal injection.


Venezuela tense ahead of dueling demonstrations

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 07:13 PM PST

Students shout slogans against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during a march to the Venezuelan Telecommunications Regulator Office or CONATEL in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Feb17, 2014. More students, who've spent the past week on the streets alternating between peaceful protests by day and battles with police at night, marched on Monday to Venezuela's telecom regulator to demand it lift all restrictions on media's coverage of the unfolding political crisis. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra)CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A crowd of anti-government activists wrested free an opposition politician as he was being hauled away in handcuffs by security forces following a raid on the party headquarters of President Nicolas Maduro's biggest foe.


Loud music trial shooter: 'I was the victim'

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 07:09 PM PST

'I Was the Victim,' Says Loud Music Trial Shooter in Jailhouse Phone CallProsecutors release jailhouse phone calls by Florida man who fatally shot teenager.


AP sources: DOE to OK $6.5B for Georgia nuke plant

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:27 PM PST

FILE -In this Dec. 11, 2012, file photo, part of the containment vessel for a new nuclear reactor at the Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant is under construction in Augusta, Ga. The Energy Department is poised to approve $6.5 billion in lending for two nuclear reactors under construction in Georgia. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is expected to announce the deal at a speech in Washington on Wednesday, a day before he visits the $14 billion Vogtle nuclear plant being built by Southern Co. and several partners about 30 miles southeast of Augusta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department is poised to approve $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees for the first nuclear power plants built from scratch in this country in more than three decades.


Obama struggling to find winning formula in Syria

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 02:56 PM PST

White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Carney answered questions including ones on Syria and North Korea. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — With peace talks failing, Syria's government on the offensive and moderate rebels pushed aside by al-Qaida-linked militants, the Obama administration is struggling for new ideas to halt a savage civil war.


Music death suspect compared self to rape victim

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 01:57 PM PST

Defendant Michael Dunn is brought into the courtroom just before 5 p.m., where Judge Russell Healey announced that the jury was deadlocked on charge one and have verdicts on the other four charges as they deliberate in the trial of Dunn, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, for the shooting death of Jordan Davis in November 2012. Dunn is charged with fatally shooting 17-year-old Davis after an argument over loud music outside a Jacksonville convenient store. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Bob Mack, Pool)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida software designer accused of killing a black teenager during an argument over loud music compared himself to a rape victim, telling his fiancee in a recorded jailhouse phone call that the police were trying to blame him for the shooting when he was only defending himself.


Soldiers mugging around empty casket sparks furor

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:37 PM PST

This photo posted to the instagram account belonging to Spc. Terry Harrison shows a dozen soldiers clowning around a casket draped in a flag at a National Guard training facility in Arkansas. The Wisconsin National Guard on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 announced that it had suspended Harrison from honor guard duties after she apparently posted the photo. (AP Photo)MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Wisconsin National Guard announced Tuesday that it had suspended a member from honor guard duties after she apparently posted to social media a photograph of soldiers mugging around an empty, flag-draped casket.


Wise wins on halfpipe for another American gold

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 02:02 PM PST

France's Kevin Rolland competes during the men's freestyle skiing halfpipe qualification at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — David Wise won the gold medal in the Olympic debut of halfpipe skiing Tuesday, cutting through heavy snow to easily outclass the field.


With kids grown, Washington wants more stage roles

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:37 PM PST

Denzel Washington appears at a press opportunity for the upcoming Broadway production of "A Raisin in the Sun" on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)NEW YORK (AP) — Now that his children are grown, you can expect to see a lot more of Denzel Washington on Broadway.


Shortage of execution drugs becomes more acute

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:30 PM PST

In this handout photo from the Missouri Correctional offices, Michael Anthony Taylor of Kansas City is shown. The Apothecary Shoppe, of Tulsa, submitted a sealed response to Taylor's lawsuit accusing it of illegally providing Missouri with a made-to-order drug to be used in his lethal injection. The company hasn't publicly acknowledged that it supplies a compounded version of pentobarbital to Missouri for use in lethal injections, as Taylor alleges, and says it can't because of a Missouri law requiring the identities of those on the state's execution team to be kept confidential. (AP Photo/Missouri Correctional Office)ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation's shortage of execution drugs is becoming increasingly acute as more pharmacies conclude that supplying the lethal chemicals is not worth the bad publicity and the legal and ethical risks.


Lottery winners urged to avoid big purchases

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:08 PM PST

The $400 miliion Powerball jackpot tops the list of lottery payouts in this convenience store in the Minneapolis skyway system, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Jackpots like Wednesday's anticipated $400 million Powerball can grant a lot of wishes. Should a winner have but one chance to blow all that money on a single purchase and ignore the cautious advice of accountants and money managers, real estate listings, auction houses and even simple web searches are full of ideas to separate someone and their newfound wealth.(AP Photo/Jim Mone)ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jackpots like Wednesday's anticipated $400 million-plus Powerball can grant a lot of wishes. But what if you were the only winner, and you had but one chance to blow all that money on a single purchase?


Utah mom says shirts are 'indecent,' buys them all

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 03:16 PM PST

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A mother upset about "indecent" T-shirts on display at a Utah mall found a quick if not especially convenient way to remove them: She bought every last one.

Fallon's 'Tonight' debut gets 11.3 million viewers

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 12:40 PM PST

In this photo provided by NBC, Jimmy Fallon appears with Will Smith, left, during his "The Tonight Show" debut on Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, in New York. Fallon departed from the network's LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jimmy Fallon's start as host of "The Tonight Show" is a ratings winner for NBC.


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