2014年5月10日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Deadly Va. hot air balloon crash

Posted: 10 May 2014 01:21 PM PDT

HOT-AIR BALLOON CRASHThe balloon hit a power line and caught fire near Richmond, Virginia, authorities say.


Boy Scouts rescue TV journalist Ann Curry on N.J. hiking trail

Posted: 10 May 2014 02:15 PM PDT

NBC News Anchor Ann Curry Speaking At St. Luke's SchoolThe NBC journalist had broken her leg while hiking on a trail in New York State.


St. Louis Rams pick Michael Sam in NFL draft

Posted: 10 May 2014 04:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2014, file photo, Missouri's All-American defensive end Michael Sam claps during the Cotton Bowl trophy presentation at halftime of an NCAA college basketball game between Missouri and Tennessee in Columbia, Mo. Sam was selected in the seventh round, 249th overall, by the St. Louis Rams in the NFL draft Saturday, May 10, 2014. The Southeastern Conference defensive player of the year last season for Missouri came out as gay in media interviews this year. (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Sam was picked by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the NFL draft Saturday, becoming the first openly gay player drafted by a pro football team.


Nigeria refused help to search for kidnapped girls

Posted: 10 May 2014 10:54 AM PDT

Activist Dr. Delois Blakely chants while holding a flower and the flag of Nigeria during a rally in front of the Nigerian consulate, Saturday, May 10, 2014, in New York. Dozens gathered to join the international effort to rescue the 276 schoolgirls being held captive by Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria. As the worldwide effort got underway the weakness of the Nigerian military was exposed in a report issued by Amnesty International. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The president of Nigeria for weeks refused international help to search for more than 300 girls abducted from a school by Islamic extremists, one in a series of missteps that have led to growing international outrage against the government.


Insurgents blow up 2nd bridge, abduct wife, 2 kids

Posted: 10 May 2014 01:44 PM PDT

Demonstrators arrive in front of the Nigerian consulate after marching from Harlem during a rally, Saturday, May 10, 2014, in New York. Dozens gathered to join the international effort to rescue the 276 schoolgirls being held captive by Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria. As the worldwide effort got underway the weakness of the Nigerian military was exposed in a report issued by Amnesty International. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists blew up a bridge, killed an unknown number of people and abducted the wife and two children of a retired police officer in northeast Nigeria, residents said Saturday amid mounting condemnation by Muslims of the Nigerian terrorist network that abducted more than 300 schoolgirls nearly a month ago.


Arkansas issues same-sex marriage licenses

Posted: 10 May 2014 12:45 PM PDT

Jennifer Rambo, right, of Fort Smith, Ark., kisses her partner Kristin Seaton, left, of Jacksonville, Ark., following their marriage ceremony in front of the Carroll County Courthouse as Sheryl Maples, far left, the lead attorney who filed the Wright v. the State of Arkansas lawsuit, looks on Saturday, May 10, 2014, in Eureka Springs, Ark. Rambo and Seaton were the first same-sex couple to be granted a marriage license in Eureka Springs after a judge overturned Amendment 83, which banned same-sex marriage in the state of Arkansas. (AP Photo/Sarah Bentham)EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Gay marriage arrived in the Bible Belt on Saturday, beginning with two women who had traveled overnight to ensure they'd be first in line.


U. of Richmond athletic staffer was on Va. balloon

Posted: 10 May 2014 04:09 PM PDT

DOSWELL, Va. (AP) — A University of Richmond women's basketball team staff member was one of three occupants on a hot air balloon that crashed in Virginia, a family spokeswoman said Saturday.

Ukraine's leader gains stature with honest image

Posted: 10 May 2014 01:57 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 29, 2014 file photo, Ukrainian Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, speaks to lawmakers during a session at the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev. Yatsenyuk's interim government is seeking to carry out sweeping reforms to break from a culture of self-interest, cynicism and corruption that left the country on the verge of bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov, File)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — When new Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk invited anti-corruption activists to his apartment in Kiev last month, the first thing he showed off was his toilet. "See for yourself," Yatsenyuk joked. "It's not gold."


Eastern Ukraine's vote: a key moment

Posted: 10 May 2014 08:45 AM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) — People in two regions of restive eastern Ukraine — Donetsk and Luhansk — will vote Sunday on declaring sovereignty. The plebiscites, hastily arranged by pro-Russia insurgents who have seized government buildings over the past month, are denounced both by the central government in Kiev and the West, and it is unclear whether they will be recognized by Moscow in light of Russian President Vladimir Putin's call for the vote to be postponed. Issues of legitimacy aside, the vote is sure to add to tensions in an area already gripped by rebellion and sporadic clashes between militants and Ukrainian forces.

Thousands of Syrians enter Homs after rebels leave

Posted: 10 May 2014 12:08 PM PDT

Residents return to the al-Hamidiyeh neighborhood of Homs, Syria, Saturday, May 10, 2014. Thousands of Syrians streamed into war-battered parts of the central city of Homs for the first time in nearly two years Saturday, many making plans to move back just days after rebels surrendered their strongholds to pro-government forces. The surrender deal is widely seen as a victory for Assad weeks ahead of a presidential election on June 3 that he is expected to win, giving him a mandate to continue his violent crackdown on rebels in the Syrian civil war, which activists say has killed more than 150,000 people. (AP Photo)HOMS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of Syrians returned to war-battered parts of the central city of Homs Saturday, many making plans to move back as opposition activists expressed bitterness over the rebels' surrender of their strongholds to pro-government forces and vowed they will return.


Egypt to try 200 suspected of terrorist attacks

Posted: 10 May 2014 01:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, Egyptian policemen stand guard at the scene of a powerful explosion, believed to be a car bomb, at a police headquarters building that killed at least a dozen people, wounded more than 100, and left scores buried under the rubble, in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, 110 kilometers (70 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt. On Saturday May 10, 2014. Egypt's chief prosecutor's office says it has charged 200 suspected militants with carrying out terrorist attacks that killed 40 policeman and 15 civilians, and of conspiring with al-Qaida and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in one of the country's largest terrorism-related cases. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ashraf, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's chief prosecutor charged 200 suspected militants Saturday with carrying out over 50 terrorist attacks, killing 40 policemen and 15 civilians and conspiring with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, in the first mass trial of a Jihadi group since the country's recent turmoil.


NFL DRAFT: Big name QBs finally hear names

Posted: 10 May 2014 04:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2013, file photo, Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron (10) throws a pass against Texas A&M during the second quarter of an NCAA college football game in College Station, Texas. McCarron was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the fifth round, 164th overall, in the 2014 NFL Draft on Saturday, May 10, 2014.(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)NEW YORK (AP) — It took a few hours on the final day of the NFL draft for A.J. McCarron, Aaron Murray and Zach Mettenberger to finally hear their names called.


9/11 remains returned to World Trade Center site

Posted: 10 May 2014 10:02 AM PDT

A flag-draped casket is lifted out of a police vehicle during the ceremonial transfer of unidentified remains of those killed at the World Trade Center from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to the World Trade Center site, Saturday, May 10, 2014, in New York. The remains will be transferred to an underground repository in the same building as the National September 11 Memorial Museum. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)The unidentified remains of those killed on Sept. 11 returned to the World Trade Center site in a solemn procession on a foggy Saturday morning.


Arkansas clerk issues 1st gay marriage license

Posted: 10 May 2014 09:29 AM PDT

Jennifer Rambo, right, of Fort Smith, Ark., kisses her partner Kristin Seaton, left, of Jacksonville, Ark., following their marriage ceremony in front of the Carroll County Courthouse as Sheryl Maples, far left, the lead attorney who filed the Wright v. the State of Arkansas lawsuit, looks on Saturday, May 10, 2014, in Eureka Springs, Ark. Rambo and Seaton were the first same-sex couple to be granted a marriage license in Eureka Springs after a judge overturned Ammendment 83, which banned same-sex marriage in the state of Arkansas. (AP Photo/Sarah Bentham)EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Two women were married on a sidewalk outside a county courthouse in Arkansas on Saturday, breaking a barrier that state voters put in place with a constitutional amendment 10 years ago.


Support for kidnapped girls continues to grow

Posted: 09 May 2014 07:28 PM PDT

Demonstrators hold banners as they protest about the kidnapping of girls in Nigeria, near the Nigerian High Commission in London, Friday, May 9, 2014. British experts arrived in the Nigerian capital on Friday to help find at least 276 girls being held by Islamic militants in northeastern Nigeria as an international effort began taking hold. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)Celebrities and political leaders join the movement to help secure the return of the Nigerian girls.


Michelle Obama 'outraged' over Nigeria kidnapped girls

Posted: 10 May 2014 06:27 AM PDT

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama speaks as she presents the 2014 National Medal for Museum and Library Service at the White House in WashingtonU.S. first lady Michelle Obama took the rare step of delivering her husband President Barack Obama's weekly radio address on Saturday to express outrage over the kidnapping of some 200 girls in Nigeria last month. \"Like millions of people across the globe, my husband and I are outraged and heartbroken over the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls from their school dormitory in the middle of the night,\" Mrs. Obama said in the address. \"This unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education - grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls.\" Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday he believed the girls, abducted by militant Islamist group Boko Haram, were still in his country. The United States offered this week to send a team of experts to Nigeria to support the government's response effort, which has been criticized for being slow.


Rubio: Democrats threaten American dream

Posted: 09 May 2014 06:59 PM PDT

In this Jan. 8, 2014 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Fighting to revive his political prospects, Rubio is returning to the presidential campaign circuit and beefing up a political organization that could lay the groundwork for a White House bid in 2016. In the clearest sign yet of his interest in a presidential run, the Florida Republican will visit New Hampshire on May 9. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)NEW CASTLE, N.H. (AP) — Reaffirming his national political ambitions, Sen. Marco Rubio accused Democrats on Friday of threatening the American dream as he campaigned across New Hampshire, appearing in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state for the first time in 18 months.


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