2014年5月15日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Calif. wildfire roars back to life as winds return

Posted: 15 May 2014 02:55 PM PDT

A wildfire burns near a home on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in San Marcos, Calif. Flames engulfed suburban homes and shot up along canyon ridges in one of the worst of several blazes that broke out Wednesday in Southern California during a second day of a sweltering heat wave, taxing fire crews who fear the scattered fires mark only the beginning of a long wildfire season. (AP Photo)One of nine wildfires burning in San Diego County kicks up near homes.


One big obstacle to #BringBackOurGirls? Nigeria’s government

Posted: 15 May 2014 02:28 PM PDT

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan speaks to the media on the situation in Chibok and the success of the World Economic Forum in Abuja"Brutal tactics." "Record of atrocities." "Gross violations of human rights." Top U.S. government officials spoke those words Thursday at a Senate hearing about Boko Haram's abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls. But they said them about Nigeria's government and military, not the Islamic terrorist group that burst into international consciousness with its actions last month.


Beyonce and family address video leak, say apologies were made

Posted: 15 May 2014 03:02 PM PDT

FILE - This May 5, 2014 file photo shows Jay Z, left, and Beyonce at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating "Charles James: Beyond Fashion" in New York. Beyonce, Jay Z and Solange say they have worked through and are moving on since a video leaked this week of Solange attacking Jay Z in an elevator inside the Standard Hotel after the May 5, gala. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Jay Z, Beyonce and Solange say "families have problems and we're no different" after a video leaked of Beyonce's sister attacking the rap mogul in a hotel elevator.


Matt Bai: Who's really driving the Hillary train?

Posted: 15 May 2014 02:13 AM PDT

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham ClintonPerhaps you've noticed that Democrats in Washington get a little touchy these days where Hillary Clinton is concerned. A few weeks ago, I had the temerity to suggest that Clinton wouldn't be able to run unopposed for the Democratic nomination. This prompted an immediate response in the Daily Beast from Bob Shrum, the venerable party strategist, who argued that of course Clinton would easily clear the Democratic field and waltz to the nomination, because her situation so closely resembles that of Ulysses Grant in 1868. I'm not making this up.


Moscow won't let gay activists honor Eurovision winner

Posted: 15 May 2014 12:13 PM PDT

Austrian singer Conchita Wurst attends a press conference in Vienna, Austria Sunday May 11, 2014. Bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst has made a triumphant return to Austria after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen Saturday, in what the country's president called a victory for tolerance in Europe. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow authorities have turned down gay activists' application to hold a parade honoring drag queen Conchita Wurst, winner of this year's Eurovision song contest.


Footage captures chaos, danger of San Diego wildfires

Posted: 15 May 2014 08:46 AM PDT

San Diego Wildfires Surround Carlsbad HomesThe raging wildfires that broke out in California have forced hundreds of residents in San Diego County to evacuate their homes.


Skull illuminates origins of first Americans

Posted: 15 May 2014 02:19 PM PDT

In this June 2013 photo provided by National Geographic, diver Susan Bird, working at the bottom of Hoyo Negro, a large dome-shaped underwater cave in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, brushes a human skull found at the site while her team members take detailed photographs. Thousands of years ago, a teenage girl fell into this deep hole and died. Now, her skeleton and her DNA are helping scientists study the origins of the first Americans. An analysis of her remains was released Thursday, May 15, 2014 by the journal Science. Her DNA links her to an ancient land bridge connecting Asia and North America, and suggests she shares ancestors with the modern native peoples of the Americas. (AP Photo/National Geographic, Paul Nicklen)DNA backs theory that early pioneers and today's native communities share ancestral roots.


Reid joins Senate Dems opposed to Obama court pick

Posted: 15 May 2014 02:47 PM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to reporters after a Democratic caucus lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. (AP Photo)WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, one of the Obama administration's staunchest allies in Congress, announced his opposition Thursday to Michael Boggs' nomination to the federal bench, dealing a strong if not fatal blow to the former Georgia state lawmaker's confirmation hopes.


Labor unions stage global fast-food protests

Posted: 15 May 2014 10:05 AM PDT

McDonald's employee Connie Ogletree, 55, right, leads a group of fast food workers and supporters in a chant during a protest outside a Krispy Kreme store, Thursday, May 15, 2014, in Atlanta. Calling for higher pay and the right to form a union without retaliation, fast-food chain workers in Atlanta protested Thursday as part of a wave of strikes and protests in 150 cities across the U.S. and 33 additional countries on six continents. (AP Photo/David Goldman)Mixed turnout at events aimed at turning up the pressure on chains to raise worker pay.


Five dead in worst floods to hit Serbia, Bosnia in 120 years

Posted: 15 May 2014 09:11 AM PDT

People evacuate from building during floods in the central Bosnian town of NemilaRains also forced hundreds out of their homes and cut off power to entire towns.


Media file lawsuit to challenge execution secrecy

Posted: 15 May 2014 11:31 AM PDT

File - In this April 12, 2005 file photo is the death chamber at the Missouri Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Mo. The Associated Press and four other news organizations filed a lawsuit Thursday, May 15, 2014 challenging the secret way in which Missouri obtains the drugs it uses in lethal injections, arguing the state's actions prohibit public oversight of the death penalty. The suit asks the state's department of corrections to disclose where it purchases drugs used to carry out executions along with details about the composition and quality of those drugs. (AP Photo/James A. Finley, File)ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Associated Press and four other news organizations filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the secret way in which Missouri obtains the drugs it uses in lethal injections, arguing the state's actions prohibit public oversight of the death penalty.


FCC votes to propose new 'net neutrality' rules

Posted: 15 May 2014 02:37 PM PDT

This is the most ingenious way to protest the FCC's net neutrality plansNew rules could allow paid deals between providers and content companies.


Aaron Hernandez charged in double slaying

Posted: 15 May 2014 08:41 AM PDT

Aaron Hernandez, former player for the NFL's New England Patriots football team, attends a pre-trial hearing at the Bristol County Superior Court in Fall RiverThe former New England Patriot has been indicted in a 2012 double slaying in Boston.


EU energy chief: Progress in Ukraine gas row, more talks this month

Posted: 15 May 2014 09:39 AM PDT

By Barbara Lewis ATHENS (Reuters) - Europe's energy commissioner said on Thursday he saw progress in resolving the row over gas prices between Kiev and Moscow and expected one, perhaps two more rounds of ministerial talks on the issue before the end of May. In his latest letter to EU leaders, made public on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged them to do more to help Ukraine through its economic crisis and to resolve the standoff over gas, repeating a threat to cut exports if Kiev fails to pay in advance for June deliveries. There is some progress,\" Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told Reuters on the sidelines of a meeting of EU energy ministers in Athens. Putin first wrote to EU leaders last month, suggesting three-way talks between Russia, Ukraine and the European Union. On Monday, Oettinger is meeting Russia's energy minister and the head of Gazprom in Berlin to set a date for further talks.

Car bomb kills at least 29 in northern Syria

Posted: 15 May 2014 08:54 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during his press conference after the "Friends of Syria Meeting" at the Foreign Office in London, Thursday, May 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)BEIRUT (AP) — A car bomb ripped through a crowded garage near a rebel-held border crossing between Syria and Turkey Thursday, killing at least 29 people in an area that has seen fierce fighting between rival rebel groups, an anti-government activist group said.


Crews make gains on worst of San Diego fires

Posted: 15 May 2014 12:23 PM PDT

A wildfire burns near a home on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in San Marcos, Calif. Flames engulfed suburban homes and shot up along canyon ridges in one of the worst of several blazes that broke out Wednesday in Southern California during a second day of a sweltering heat wave. (AP Photo)Winds haven't reappeared in San Diego County wildfire areas and authorities say it's a window of opportunity to make gains against flames that have scorched thousands of acres and destroyed homes.


15 crew members indicted in S. Korean ferry disaster

Posted: 15 May 2014 07:56 AM PDT

FERRY CAPTAIN FACING HOMICIDE CHARGESProsecutors indicted the captain of the sunken South Korean ferry and three crew members on homicide charges Thursday, alleging they were negligent and failed to protect more than 300 people missing or dead in the disaster. Less serious indictments were issued against the 11 other crew members responsible for navigating the vessel.


Obama at 9/11 museum: Terrorism can't break us

Posted: 15 May 2014 12:25 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, along with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton tour the Memorial Hall at the National September 11 Memorial Museum with former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Thursday, May 15, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)NEW YORK (AP) — Tears in her eyes, firefighter widow Maureen Fanning emerged Thursday from the new Sept. 11 museum deep beneath ground zero, unable to bring herself to look at all of it.


US adviser helps candidate win Panama presidency

Posted: 15 May 2014 08:15 AM PDT

Juan Carlos VarelaPANAMA CITY (AP) — It was billed as a battle royal between Latin America's top two spin doctors. In one corner, the campaign guru to such towering leftist leaders as Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. In the other, a strategist likened to Karl Rove who is credited with helping return the Institutional Revolutionary Party to power in Mexico after a 12-year-absence.


Bangladesh ferry capsizes with 200 passengers aboard; 12 bodies found

Posted: 15 May 2014 07:58 AM PDT

By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - A Bangladeshi river ferry with around 200 passengers on board capsized in a storm on Thursday, killing at least 12 people, and a rescue diver said he had seen more bodies inside the wreck. Most of the passengers were city workers and students heading home for the weekend beginning on Friday. \"We fear there will be more bodies inside the vessel and we cannot be sure of the number of passengers (on board),\" Saiful Hassan Badal, Deputy Commissioner of Munshiganj district, told Reuters by telephone from the scene. Bangladesh has a history of ferry disasters, with casualties sometimes running into hundreds due to overcrowding and lack of enforcement of safety standards such as numbers of lifeboats.

Shinseki: VA 'must do better' on patient care

Posted: 15 May 2014 08:02 AM PDT

FILE--The Phoenix VA Health Care Center in Phoenix, is seen in this Monday, April 28, 2014, file photo. A team of federal investigators swept into the city last month amid allegations of a disturbing cover-up at the veterans hospital, and began interviewing staff at the facility and poring over records, emails and electronic databases.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki says he is "as mad as hell" over allegations of treatment delays and preventable deaths at a Phoenix veterans hospital.


GM recalls 2.7M more cars; industry on record pace

Posted: 15 May 2014 02:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 31, 2013 file photo, the 2014 Chevrolet Malibu is unveiled on Belle Isle in Detroit. General Motors is recalling more than 140,000 2014 Chevrolet Malibu midsize cars to fix a problem with the power-assisted brakes. The recall affects models with 2.5-liter four-cylinder engines and stop-start technology that shuts off the engine at red lights. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)DETROIT (AP) — General Motors' efforts to root out lingering safety problems across its wide range of cars and trucks has produced another big recall — and highlights a sudden shift at GM and throughout the industry toward issuing recalls instead of avoiding them.


Turkey outraged as PM's aide kicks protester

Posted: 15 May 2014 11:10 AM PDT

Yusuf Yerkel kicks a protester already held by policeANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A video showing an aide to Turkey's prime minister kicking a protester held on the ground by special forces police sparked outrage Thursday, tarnishing the Turkish leader's image ahead of his expected run for president.


Turkish families bury miners as toll rises to 282

Posted: 15 May 2014 08:40 AM PDT

A man offers his prayers for the victims of the mining accident being buried during their funeral procession as he sits by empty graves prepared for the victims, in Soma, Turkey, Thursday, May 15, 2014. An explosion and fire at a coal mine in Soma, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Istanbul, killed hundreds of workers, authorities said, in one of the worst mining disasters in Turkish history. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)SOMA, Turkey (AP) — Women sang improvised ballads about the departed over freshly dug graves Thursday, even as backhoes carved row upon row of graves into the dirt and hearses lined up outside the cemetery with more victims of Turkey's worst mining disaster.


Obama, 9/11 kin, survivors due at museum ceremony

Posted: 15 May 2014 03:32 AM PDT

A pair of World Trade Center tridents, that once formed part of the exterior structural support of the east facade of the building, are displayed at the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum, Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in New York. The museum is a monument to how the Sept. 11 terror attacks shaped history, from its heart-wrenching artifacts to the underground space that houses them amid the remnants of the fallen twin towers' foundations. It also reflects the complexity of crafting a public understanding of the terrorist attacks and reconceiving ground zero. (AP Photo)Event marks the opening of the 9/11 museum, a monument to how the terror attacks that day shaped history.


Mass funerals, mounting anger as Turkey mourns mine workers

Posted: 15 May 2014 12:12 PM PDT

Women mourn during the funeral of a miner who died in a fire at a coal mine, at a cemetary in Soma, a district in Turkey's western province of ManisaBy Ece Toksabay SOMA, Turkey (Reuters) - Loudspeakers broadcast the names of the dead as rows of graves were filled in this close-knit Turkish mining town on Thursday, while thousands protested in major cities as grief turned to anger following the country's deadliest industrial disaster. Rescuers were still trying to reach parts of the coal mine in Soma, 480 km (300 miles) southwest of Istanbul, more than 48 hours after fire knocked out power and shut down the ventilation shafts and elevators, trapping hundreds underground. At least 283 people have been confirmed dead, mostly from carbon monoxide poisoning, and hopes are fading of pulling out any more alive of the 100 or so still thought to be inside. Anger has swept a country that experienced a decade of rapid economic growth under Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist-rooted government but still suffers from one of the world's worst records of workplace safety.


Ferry carrying 200 capsizes in Bangladesh

Posted: 15 May 2014 04:52 AM PDT

overcrowded passenger ferry in Bangladesh6 bodies have been found in the accident, reports detailed early Thursday.


17 killed in northern Syria blast

Posted: 15 May 2014 05:37 AM PDT

Lebanese army soldiers deploy in the streets of the Sunni neighborhood of Bab Tabbaneh and the neighboring Jabal Mohsen, which is mostly populated by followers of the Alawite sect, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Wednesday April, 2, 2014. In a rare day of exuberant emotion, weary residents of two warring neighborhoods greeted each other with tears and cheers as hundreds of Lebanese soldiers deployed for the first time in years throughout the area, quelling violence between them that has killed at least 200 people in three years. The Lebanese army deployment in the northern city of Tripoli is the most determined plan yet by the government to bring peace to an area that was teetering into the neighboring Syrian civil war. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)An explosion near a border crossing between Syria and Turkey killed at least 17 people and wounded many others Thursday, an activist group monitoring the Syrian civil war said.


Thousands flee raging wildfires in San Diego

Posted: 15 May 2014 06:16 AM PDT

A wild fire burns toward a Aviara Oaks Middle School Wednesday, May 14, 2014, in Carlsbad, Calif. Wind-driven flames are threatening homes in the coastal city of Carlsbad, where officials have sent mandatory evacuation notices to more than 11,000 homes and businesses. (AP Photo)Wind-driven fires covering more than 14 sq. miles scorched San Diego County Wednesday.


Up to 21 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam

Posted: 15 May 2014 06:32 AM PDT

Up to 21 people were killed in Vietnam, a doctor said on Thursday, and a huge foreign steel project was set ablaze as anti-China riots spread to the centre of the country a day after arson and looting in the south. The doctor at a hospital in central Ha Tinh province said five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed on Wednesday night in rioting, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbors fought a brief border war in 1979. China's state news agency Xinhua reported that at least two Chinese nationals had died and more than 100 were hospitalized. The Planning and Investment Ministry blamed the clashes on \"extremists\" and warned that they could seriously affect the investment environment in Vietnam.

School integration slipping 60 years after Brown

Posted: 14 May 2014 10:01 PM PDT

60 Years Later, Brown v. Board Hasn't Desegregated SchoolsWASHINGTON (AP) — Progress toward integrating America's schools since the landmark Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision 60 years ago is being chipped away, a new report finds — and it's no longer just a black-and-white issue.


Nigeria rejects swap of prisoners for schoolgirls: UK official

Posted: 14 May 2014 11:21 PM PDT

Demonstrators protest on May 14, 2014 in front of the Embassy of Nigeria in WashingtonBy Isaac Abrak MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's president has rejected an offer from Islamist rebel group Boko Haram to exchange schoolgirls it abducted for imprisoned militants, but the government is open to broader talks with the rebels, a visiting British minister said. President Goodluck Jonathan is under pressure to crush the rebels who have killed thousands in their campaign for an Islamist state and to free the girls whose abduction a month ago has sparked global outrage. Government officials initially said they were exploring all options with respect to the swap proposal and later said they were willing to negotiate with Boko Haram without specifying whether any putative talks might include an exchange for the girls. Jonathan further refined that position on Wednesday during talks with Britain's Minister for Africa Mark Simmonds.


South Korea indicts four ferry crew for homicide

Posted: 14 May 2014 09:21 PM PDT

By Ju-min Park MOKPO, South Korea (Reuters) - The captain and three senior crew members of a South Korean ferry that capsized in April, killing more than 280 passengers, many of them school children, were indicted for homicide on Thursday, a senior prosecutor said. Prosecutors also indicted the 11 other surviving crew members of the ferry Sewol on negligence charges. The crew has been under criminal investigation after they were believed to have escaped the sinking vessel before many passengers.
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