2014年7月1日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


U.S. troops in Iraq to fly Apache helicopters, drones

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 03:21 PM PDT

An Apache helicopter hovers on August 1, 2009 in Sparta, KentuckyPentagon: The nearly 500 U.S. troops in Baghdad have been equipped with Apache attack helicopters, drones.


Belgium beats U.S. 2-1 in extra time, survives late rally to advance

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Team USA's World Cup dream ended with a 2-1 extra-time loss to Belgium in the round of 16.


Find out here how much your favorite Obama aide is paid

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 02:15 PM PDT

White House Salaries RevealedThe White House official whose job, until recently, included monitoring reporters' tweets makes $42,420. David Simas, the head of the West Wing's political office, makes $172,200. The chief calligrapher, Patricia Blair, pulls down $97,692.


1 killed, 5 injured in chemical explosion at GM plant

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 03:37 PM PDT

FILE - General Motors Orion Assembly Plant's wastewater treatment facilities are shown in this Nov. 29, 2005 file photo. Michigan is fourth in the nation in the share of its workforce associated with industries that develop freshwater technology and services or are highly dependent on plentiful and clean water, according to a report released Thursday May 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)A deadly chemical explosion rocked a Midwest General Motors metal-stamping plant.


Body of Iowa teen swept into storm drain found

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 03:59 PM PDT

In this June 30, 2014 photo Cedar Rapids firefighters open a storm sewer cover as they search for a teenager who was swept away in a storm drain after heavy rainfall overwhelmed the eastern Iowa city's storm sewer system. Officials say Logan Blake, 17, was swept away by the fast-moving water in the drain at an elementary school around 7:20 p.m. Monday. (AP Photo/The Gazette-KCRG, Liz Martin)Cedar Rapids police say the body of a teenager swept into a storm drain has been found more than a mile away in a lake.


De Niro on family, the revelation his father was gay

Posted: 27 Jun 2014 09:10 AM PDT

Robert De Niro with his father.Yahoo's Katie Couric sits down with Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro.


After state ban resurges, Indiana ordered to recognize 1 gay marriage

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 02:34 PM PDT

In this 2011 photo is Amy Sandler, right, and her wife Niki Quasney in Munster, Ind. Indiana will be required to recognize the couple's out-of-state marriage for at least a few days more as a federal judge considers whether to extend an April order that expires May 8, 2014 requiring the state to acknowledge the union. Quasney is terminally ill with advanced ovarian cancer, and the couple fear Sandler's ability to collect Social Security and other death benefits would be harmed if their marriage isn't recognized. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Jeffrey D. Nicholls)A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered Indiana to recognize the marriage of a lesbian couple, one of whom is terminally ill, on an emergency basis.


White House reveals staff salaries

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 12:47 PM PDT

White House Salaries RevealedWhite House salaries range from $42,000 to $172,000, according to annual list.


Mazursky, director of ‘Unmarried Woman,’ dies at 84

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Performer-turned-writer/director Paul Mazursky, who was Oscar-nommed five times and helmed hit movies including Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and An Unmarried Woman, has died. He was 84.


Graco recalls 1.9 million infant car seats

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 04:02 PM PDT

Regulators say Graco did not recall enough car seatsGraco Children's Products is recalling 1.9 million infant car seats, bowing to demands from U.S. safety regulators, in what is now the largest seat recall in American history.


Tens of thousands mourn slain Israeli teens

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 11:24 AM PDT

Candles placed next to a picture of three Israeli teenagers who were abducted and killed, in Tel Aviv's Rabin SquareA funeral service was held for 3 teenagers found dead in Israel after a two-week search.


T-Mobile made millions in bogus charges, the FTC alleges

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 12:31 PM PDT

T-Mobile Says 'Cheat on Your Provider' Offering Free iPhone 5sT-Mobile USA knowingly made hundreds of millions off its customers in bogus charges, a federal regulator alleged in a complaint likely to damage the reputation of a household name in wireless communications.


Over 500,000 protest to demand democracy in Hong Kong

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 12:24 PM PDT

Thousands of pro-democracy protesters gather to march in the streets to demand universal suffrage in Hong KongMarch marks largest demonstration since the city was returned to Chinese rule in 1997.


N. Korean travel tip: 'Nobody parties like the Workers Party'

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ISIL leader urges jihad on purported tape

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 09:20 AM PDT

Abu Bakr al-BaghdadiRamadan message is first since group named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi caliph of the Muslim world.


NYPD to subway dancers: Sit down, or you're going downtown

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 08:14 AM PDT

In this June 17, 2014 photo, Dashawn Martin, center, a member with the dance troupe W.A.F.F.L.E., which stands for We Are Family For Life Entertainment, performs on a subway, in New York. The subway acrobats said they're just out to entertain, make a living and put a little communal levity in New York's no-eye-contact commuting. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)NEW YORK (AP) — The underground acrobats who flip, somersault and pole-dance among New York City subway riders as trains roll are drawing a new audience — police officers.


Iraq lifts social media ban, but many news sites still blocked

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 07:17 AM PDT

In this still image posted on a militant Twitter account on Thursday, June 12, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a banner bearing a black flag used by the al-Qaida inspired lslamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) hangs from an overpass in Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi officials say al-Qaida-inspired militants who this week seized much of the country's Sunni heartland have pushed into an ethnically mixed province northeast of Baghdad, capturing two towns there. Arabic on the banner reads, "Ninevah State welcomes you. God is great and thanks to God. "(AP Photo/militant source via Twitter)By Matt Smith DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq has lifted a 17-day social media ban imposed to disrupt the communications of armed militants who have seized much of its west and north, although about 20 news websites remain blocked, industry sources said on Tuesday. One source said that Iraq had come under pressure from foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to end the ban but the state telecoms company did not explain why it had done so. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which on Sunday declared its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi caliph of the Muslim world, is the driving force behind the rebellion by Sunni Muslim groups and has used social media to publicise its agenda. The revolt, which began with the June 10 capture of Mosul, prompted state-run Iraq Telecommunications and Post Company (ITPC) to block some social media platforms on June 13, Reuters reported last month.


Pistorius trial focuses on 'screams' during shooting

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 06:29 AM PDT

South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius sits in the dock during his murder trial in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, on July 1, 2014The murder trial of South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius turned its focus on Tuesday to whether neighbours could have heard his model girlfriend screaming on the night he shot her dead. Prosecutors are trying to prove that Reeva Steenkamp screamed and that this showed the star athlete known as the "Blade Runner" knowingly gunned her down in a fit of anger after a row in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year. The defence claims Pistorius shot the 29-year-old model and law graduate four times through a locked toilet door after mistaking her for an intruder and that any screams came from him. State prosecutor Gerrie Nel attempted to show that tests conducted by engineer and acoustics expert Ivan Lin backed up the premeditated murder charge, arguing that neighbours who lived 177 metres (580 feet) from Pistorius could have been able to differentiate between a male and a female screaming.


UN food rations slashed for 800K Africans

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 08:55 AM PDT

Refugees from SudanOver half of affected refugees see rations cut by at least 50 percent amid funding crisis.


Judge overturns conviction in NYC 'cannibal cop' case

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 09:08 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2012, file courtroom drawing, federal defender Julia Gatto requests bail for her client, New York City police Officer Gilberto Valle, right, at Manhattan Federal Court in New York. A federal judge has overturned the conviction of Valle, who was accused of kidnapping, killing and eating young women. According to reports, the judge ruled late Monday, June 30, 2014, there was insufficient evidence to support Valle's conviction. He acquitted Valle of kidnapping conspiracy charges. Valle could have faced life in prison. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams, File)NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York Police Department officer was set to leave jail on Tuesday after a judge overturned his conviction in a bizarre case accusing him of plotting to kidnap, kill and eat young women.


Displaced Iraqis scramble for food as daily Ramadan fast ends

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 03:35 AM PDT

Displaced Iraqis scramble for food as daily Ramadan fast endsIn this Sunday, June 29, 2014 photo, displaced Iraqis run behind a truck as they scramble for meals to break their sunrise to sunset fast on the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, at a camp for displaced Iraqis who fled from Mosul and other towns, in the Khazer area outside Irbil, northern Iraq. The chaotic scene underscored the fearful insecurity of displaced Iraqis as they begin Ramadan in a nation threatened by conflict and political rivalries among Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

New Iraqi parliament far from choosing next PM despite militant blitz

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 03:39 AM PDT

Members of the newly elected Iraqi parliament point fingers after an argument broke out at the parliament headquarters in BaghdadSession ends without progress after most Sunni and Kurdish lawmakers skip out after break.


Hillary Clinton blasts Hobby Lobby decision: 'I find it deeply disturbing'

Posted: 30 Jun 2014 03:15 PM PDT

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waves as she arrives at a Little Rock, Ark., Wal-Mart store for a book signing event Friday, June 27, 2014. She carries a copy of her book "Hard Choices".(AP Photo/Danny Johnston)The former secretary of state blasted Monday's Supreme Court 5-4 ruling that craft chain Hobby Lobby and other "closely held" for-profit companies do not have to provide contraceptives to their employees if doing so violates their religious beliefs.


Sarkozy detained in French corruption probe

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 03:24 PM PDT

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy enters a room to meet with Spain's King Juan Carlos at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Sarkozy earlier met with Spain's Premier Mariano Rajoy. (AP Photo/Paul White)PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in police custody Tuesday, apparently under questioning in an investigation linked to allegations that he took 50 million euros ($67 million) in illegal campaign funds from Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.


Israel bombs Gaza after teens found dead

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 11:41 AM PDT

Flames and smoke are seen after a blast in the top floor of the family home of an alleged abductor in the West Bank City of HebronIsrael bombs dozens of targets hours after the bodies of three abducted teens are found.


US World Cup ends with 2-1 OT loss to Belgium

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 04:42 PM PDT

US players react after Belgium's Kevin De Bruyne, right, scored the opening goal during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Belgium and the USA at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — They captured the eyes and hearts of a suddenly awakened soccer nation, who gathered in unprecedented numbers to watch the world's game.


Militant urges Muslims to build Islamic state

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 03:10 PM PDT

A black flag used by the al-Qaida inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves over the celebrations square in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. The militant extremist group's unilateral declaration of an Islamic state is threatening to undermine its already-tenuous alliance with other Sunnis who helped it overrun much of northern and western Iraq. (AP Photo)BAGHDAD (AP) — The leader of the extremist group that has overrun parts of Iraq and Syria has called on Muslims around the world to flock to territories under his control to fight and build an Islamic state.


Regulators accuse T-Mobile of bogus billing

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 03:22 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 12, 2012 file photo shows a man using a cellphone as he passes a T-Mobile store in New York. T-Mobile USA knowingly made hundreds of millions off its customers in bogus charges, a federal regulator alleged Tuesday in a complaint that is likely to damage the reputation of a household name in wireless communications. In its complaint filed in federal court, the Federal Trade Commission claimed that T-Mobile billed consumers for subscriptions to premium text services such as $10-per-month horoscopes that were never authorized by the account holder. The FTC alleges that T-Mobile collected as much as 40 percent of the charges, even after being alerted by other customers that the subscriptions were scams. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — T-Mobile US knowingly made hundreds of millions of dollars off its customers in potentially bogus charges, federal regulators alleged Tuesday in the first lawsuit of its kind against a wireless provider.


Boy's death highlights danger of border crossings

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 04:42 PM PDT

This undated image provided by the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office shows a piece of clothing that was worn by Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez, whose decomposed body was found in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas earlier this month. When authorities found the body of the 11-year-old boy in South Texas, a phone number for his brother in Chicago was scribbled on the inside of his belt buckle. The boy, wearing "Angry Birds" jeans, black leather boots and a white rosary around his neck, had come from his home country of Guatemala and apparently got lost in the Texas brush, near the border with Mexico and less than a mile from the nearest home. (AP Photo/Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office)SAN JOSE LAS FLORES, Guatemala (AP) — The parents of a young Guatemalan migrant whose body was found in the Texas desert say he was 15 years old, not 11.


Pro-Russian rebels capture police HQ in Ukraine

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 02:19 PM PDT

People grieve over the body of their friend, a policeman killed during assault by pro-Russian fighters the Interior Ministry headquarters in downtown Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, July 1, 2014. The rebels captured the Interior Ministry headquarters in a major city after an hours-long gun battle, a day after the president said rebels weren't serious about peace talks and ended a cease-fire. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — The Interior Ministry headquarters in eastern Ukraine's largest city fell to pro-Russia separatists Tuesday after a five-hour gunbattle that erupted hours after the Ukrainian president ended a cease-fire.


As Israel buries teens, new threats against Hamas

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 02:43 PM PDT

Rachel and Avi Fraenkel, parents of U.S.-Israeli national Naftali, 16, one of the three Israeli teens who were abducted and killed in the West Bank, mourn as they sit next to Israeli President Shimon Peres during their son'ss joint funeral in the Israeli city of Modiin, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Tens of thousands of mourners converged Tuesday in central Israel for the funeral service for three teenagers found dead in the West Bank after a two week search and crackdown on the Hamas militant group, which Israeli leaders have accused of abducting and killing the young men. The deaths of Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, a 16-year-old with dual Israeli-American citizenship, have prompted angry calls for revenge and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security Cabinet for an emergency meeting to discuss a response to the killings, hours after airstrikes targeted dozens of suspected Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister threatened Tuesday to take even tougher action against Hamas following an intense wave of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, as the country buried three Israeli teens it says were kidnapped and killed by the Islamic militant group.


Justices sometimes do agree: Your privacy matters

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 01:03 PM PDT

FILE - This June 30, 2014 file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. Supreme Court justices found more common ground than usual this year, and nowhere was their unanimity more surprising than in ruling that police must get a judge's approval before searching cellphones of people they've arrested. But the conservative-liberal divide was still evident in other cases, including this week's ruling on religion, birth control and the health care law. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices found more common ground than usual this year, and nowhere was their unanimity more surprising than in a ruling that police must get a judge's approval before searching the cellphones of people they've arrested.


Belgium holds on to beat US 2-1 in extra time

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 04:40 PM PDT

Belgium's Kevin De Bruyne, center right, celebrates scoring the opening goal during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Belgium and the USA at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Kevin De Bruyne turned a heroic night for U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard into defeat on Tuesday with an extra-time goal and an assist that gave Belgium a 2-1 victory and a quarterfinal match against Lionel Messi and Argentina.


Judge strikes down Kentucky's gay marriage ban

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 03:31 PM PDT

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge in Kentucky struck down the state's ban on gay marriage on Tuesday, though the ruling was temporarily put on hold and it was not immediately clear when same-sex couples could be issued marriage licenses.
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