2014年7月8日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Afghan poll feud threatens U.S. exit hopes

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:45 PM PDT

Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah speaks at a rally in Kabul on July 8, 2014The U.S. swung into action as claims of electoral irregularities threatened Afghanistan's first democratic transfer of power.


Israel, Hamas face off in new conflict on Gaza Strip

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:25 PM PDT

Palestinian men inspect the site of an Israeli military strike in Gaza City on July 8, 2014A new Gaza conflict begins after 27 Palestinians are killed on the first day of an Israeli effort to stop rocket fire.


Holder: Syria threat endangers U.S., Europe

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:03 PM PDT

Norway's Minister of Justice Anders Anundsen, right, looks on as US Attorney General Eric Holder, speaks to the media in Oslo Tuesday July 8, 2014 . Holder is in Norway to make a major address on international efforts to confront the security threat posed by violent extremists traveling to and from Syria. (AP Photo/Terje Bendiksby/ NTB Scanpix)Thousands of Westerners have traveled to Syria to join the fighting there.


Germany thrashes Brazil 7-1 to reach World Cup final

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:50 PM PDT

Brazil's defender Marcelo reacts after Germany scored during the semi-final football match between Brazil and Germany at The Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte during the 2014 FIFA World Cup on July 8, 2014Germany inflicted a historic 7-1 rout on Brazil to reach the World Cup final.


Mother charged over abandoned baby in NYC subway

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:18 PM PDT

A general view of the statue of Christopher Columbus in the middle of Columbus Circle on October 14, 2013 in New York CityA young homeless woman accused of abandoning her baby on a crowded subway platform in the heart of Manhattan was charged in a New York court Tuesday. The little girl, aged 11 months, was left in a stroller at the Columbus Circle station, one of Manhattan's busiest, on Monday. Frankea Dabbs, 20, pushed the stroller out of a train's sliding doors onto the platform but did not get off herself. She appeared before a Manhattan court charged with abandoning a child and acting in a manner injurious to a child.


Chimp attack victim seeks primate sale rules

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:28 PM PDT

Nash speaks to the media at the Legislative Office Building in HartfordA Connecticut woman blinded and disfigured by a chimpanzee attack will visit Washington this week to urge the passage of stricter rules to keep primates from being transported into states that prohibit keeping them as pets.


Germany sets World Cup record in semi-final with Brazil

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Never before has a World Cup team been able to score 5 goals in such a short period.


Ill. woman seeks clemency in buried-alive case

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:23 PM PDT

This undated file photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows Nancy Rish. On Tuesday, July 8, 2014, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board held a clemency hearing for Rish, who was convicted of helping her boyfriend kidnap Kankakee businessman Stephen Small and bury him alive in 1987. Small suffocated when a crudely fashioned breathing tube failed before a ransom could be paid. The panel is expected to vote within weeks on whether to recommend clemency. (AP Photo/Illinois Department of Corrections, File)Tearful relatives appealed for clemency Tuesday for an Illinois woman they say was wrongly convicted nearly three decades ago of taking part in in a macabre kidnap-for-ransom plot in which a businessman was lured from his home and buried alive.


At least 52 injured in S. African train crash

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 01:29 PM PDT

Ambulances in Durban on February 28, 2010S. Africa: Over 50 people were injured when 2 trains collided in the eastern city of Durban.


Klose breaks all-time record with 16th World Cup goal

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 01:31 PM PDT

Germany's Klose gestures as he walks off the field after being substituted with teammate Schuerrle during their 2014 World Cup semi-finals against Brazil at the Mineirao stadium in Belo HorizonteGermany's Miroslav Klose has become the World Cup's all-time leading scorer.


Iraq: Terrorists seized former chemical weapons depot

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:38 PM PDT

Militant Islamist fighters on a tank take part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa provinceIraq says it has lost control of a former chemical weapons facility to "armed terrorist groups."


Plea signals more possible scrutiny of Madoff son

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2008 file photo, Bernard Madoff returns to his Manhattan apartment after making a court appearance in New York. In December 2008, two of Bernard Madoff's most loyal employees met on a Manhattan street corner and fretted over a closely held secret that the rest of the world would learn about eight days later: that their boss, Madoff, was a con man for the ages. The exchange was recounted for the first time in a newly rewritten indictment this week expanding the case and charges against five defendants headed for a trial next year. The indictment brings into sharper focus the final few years of a fraud the government says dated to at least the early 1970s, two decades before Madoff claimed it began and well before 1992, when the government said in its original case against the defendants that the conspiracy began. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)U.S. prosecutors may still be building a case against imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff's only surviving son, who according to sources was one of the "co-conspirators" mentioned in a plea deal by a Madoff associate last month.


2 killed in medical complex shooting in Spokane, Wash.

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:42 PM PDT

Police: A gunman in Spokane fatally shot his wife before turning the weapon on himself.

Somali troops retake stormed presidential palace

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:28 PM PDT

Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Mogadishu, on April 12, 2014Troops have retaken the facility in the capital of Mogadishu, after it was stormed by Islamic militants.


Wash. pot customers cheer first legal sale

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:14 PM PDT

Cale Holdsworth, of Abeline, Kan., holds up his purchase after being the first in line to buy legal recreational marijuana at Top Shelf Cannabis, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, in Bellingham, Wash. Holdsworth had been in line since 4:00 a.m. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)Washington has become the second state in the U.S. to allow people to buy recreational marijuana legally.


Shebab militants attack Somalia's presidential palace

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:57 AM PDT

Somali youths look on as they walk past a Ugandan police officer serving as part of a Formed Police Unit (FPU) with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) walks past during a foot patrol in Mogadishu on November 9, 2012Somalia's Islamist Shebab rebels carried out a major bomb and armed assault against the country's presidential palace late Tuesday, penetrating the heavily-fortified complex before blowing themselves up. Officials said Somalia's internationally-backed President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed were not inside the complex at the time and were "both safe". Security sources said they were with guards from the African Union's 22,000-strong AMISOM force. A Shebab spokesman confirmed that the Al-Qaeda-linked group was behind the attack, and claimed their commandos had managed to seize the president's office inside the presidential compound known as the Villa Somalia.


Tree fell on coaster track, Calif. officials say

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 11:32 AM PDT

Members of the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park security staff monitor the situation at the exit of the park after riders were injured on the Ninja coaster, not shown, Monday, July 7, 2014, in Valencia, Calif. The roller coaster hit a tree branch dislodging the front car, leaving four people slightly injured and keeping nearly two dozen summer fun-seekers hanging 20 to 30 feet in the air for hours as day turned to night. Two of the four people hurt on the Ninja coaster were taken to the hospital as a precaution, but all the injuries were minor, fire and park officials said. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Daily News, Andy Holzman)The state agency that investigates workplace accidents says it was an entire tree — not just a branch — that fell onto a roller coaster's tracks in California, dislodging the front car and keeping nearly two dozen riders hanging for hours.


Forgotten vials of smallpox found in storage room

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 01:26 PM PDT

WHO Debates Fate of Smallpox Vials in US, RussiaA government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a research center near Washington made a startling discovery last week — decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box.


Obama seeks $3.7B to ease border crisis

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 01:14 PM PDT

In this June 19, 2014 photo, a 14-year-old Guatemalan girl traveling alone waits for a northbound freight train along with other Central American migrants, in Arriaga, Chiapas state, Mexico. The United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number of Central American migrants crossing into its territory, particularly children traveling without any adult guardian. More than 52,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended since October. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)Obama: Funds would help the U.S. cope with an influx of illegal immigrants from Central America.


Cleveland picked for 2016 U.S. Republican National Convention

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 09:22 AM PDT

In this Jan. 24, 2014 file photo, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is seen at the RNC winter meeting in Washington. Preibus acknowledges the GOP is By Gabriel Debenedetti WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Republican Party's national convention to nominate a presidential candidate in 2016 will likely be held in Cleveland, the Republican National Committee said on Tuesday. The site selection panel chose Cleveland over finalist Dallas, and the full committee is expected to approve the choice in August. Cleveland is in the influential swing state of Ohio. No candidate has won the presidency without winning Ohio since 1960, and Republicans will likely depend on the state once again as they seek to reclaim the White House in 2016.


Rick Perry declines offer to meet Obama at airport

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 06:01 AM PDT

Texas Gov. Rick Perry talks to the media Monday, June 23, 2014, in Weslaco, Texas, after touring the McAllen Border Patrol station. Perry said that the border is not secure, adding, "This is an absolute humanitarian catastrophe waiting to happen." (AP Photo/The Monitor, Gabe Hernandez)When President Barack Obama travels, he is often greeted by governors when he lands. He won't be on Wednesday in Texas.


Ted Cruz speaks out as Mississippi's Republican civil war spreads

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 06:36 AM PDT

FILE - This May 31, 2014 file photo shows Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaking in New Orleans, La. Conservative Republicans claimed victory this week in the Supreme Court ruling on religious freedom and the White House's acceptance that an immigration overhaul won't happen this year. Today's victories could haunt the GOP in two years' time, as the party's presidential nominee looks for much-needed support among women and Hispanics in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)Sen. Ted Cruz has jumped into Mississippi's political drama, a sign that the deepening dispute over the state's Republican Senate primary runoff is seeping into the national GOP. In a radio interview Monday, the conservative Texas Republican positioned himself firmly on the side of Chris McDaniel, the Mississippi state senator who lost to Sen. Thad Cochran on June 24. The tea party-backed Mr. McDaniel claims Senator Cochran "stole" the election by reaching out to Democratic voters, many of them black, who then voted "illegally" in the June 24 runoff. "These allegations need to be vigorously investigated, and anyone involved in criminal conduct should be prosecuted," Senator Cruz said on the "Mark Levin Show." "The voters of Mississippi deserve to know the truth."


Kim Jong-un takes center stage with apparent weakness

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:59 AM PDT

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun at midnight on Tuesday on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the demise of President Kim Il SungNew footage of North Korea's leader may reveal a physical problem.


Iraqi parliament to meet early next week

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:03 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's parliament Tuesday officially rescheduled its next session for early next week after criticism over initial plans for a five-week break, amid pressure for political leaders to agree on a new government that can confront militants who have overrun much of the country's north and west.

Afghan candidate rejects election results

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:50 PM PDT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah defiantly told thousands of supporters Tuesday that he will declare victory in the country's election, claiming massive fraud was responsible for preliminary results that put his rival in the lead. The United States warned both camps against trying to seize power, saying international financial and security support was at stake.

Harry Potter is back in new J.K. Rowling story

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 05:32 AM PDT

In this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, British author J.K. Rowling poses for photographers at the Southbank Centre in London. J.K. Rowling has given fans a glimpse of the grown-up boy wizard in a new story posted Tuesday July 8, 2014 on her Pottermore website. The 1,500-word story describes Harry, now 34, attending the Quidditch World Cup with his old friends Ron and Hermione and their children. Harry has "threads of silver" in his hair and a mysterious cut on his cheekbone, while Ron Weasley's red hair "appears to be thinning slightly." (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)LONDON (AP) — Harry Potter is back — mysterious, married, and going gray.


Leukemia therapy that cured 89% of patients fast-tracked

Posted: 07 Jul 2014 02:35 PM PDT

Nurses walk in a corridor on September 20, 2013 in a hospital in France89% of leukemia patients who received the therapy saw their cancers disappear.


Israel army authorized to mobilize 40,000 troops

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 06:03 AM PDT

Palestinians try to salvage what they can of their belongings from the rubble of a house destroyed by an overnight Israeli airstrike in Gaza City Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Israel launched what could be a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the military said, striking at least 50 sites in Gaza by air and sea and mobilizing troops for a possible ground invasion in order to quell rocket attacks on Israel. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government has given the military permission to mobilize up to 40,000 additional reservists as it steps up an offensive in the Gaza Strip.


UN pushes for migrants to be called refugees

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:47 AM PDT

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States and Mexico to accept tens of thousands of people currently ineligible for asylum.

Scientists closer to blood test for Alzheimer's

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 07:26 AM PDT

GERMANY-ELDERLYBritish scientists on Monday announced a major step forward in developing a blood test that could predict the onset of Alzheimer's, potentially helping the search for a cure. Researchers identified blood proteins that appear in patients subsequently diagnosed with the brain-wasting disease, the most common form of dementia. "Many of our drug trials fail because by the time patients are given the drugs, the brain has already been too severely affected," said Oxford University neuroscience professor Simon Lovestone, who led the study at King's College London. "A simple blood test could help us identify patients at a much earlier stage to take part in new trials and hopefully develop treatments which could prevent the progression of the disease.


Obama to meet Texas governor, a critic in U.S. border crisis

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 10:56 AM PDT

Texas Gov. Rick Perry listens to members of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security Thursday July 3, 2014 in McAllen, Texas. Perry said on Thursday that the tens of thousands of Central American children entering the U.S. illegally is both a humanitarian crisis and a national security one. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Gabe Hernandez) MAGS OUT; TV OUTThe president is talking to Lone Star faith leaders & local officials.


Lloyd Webber to revive "Cats" in London, hints at movie

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT

Singers and dancers perform in 'Cats' during a photo opportunity in ViennaBy Rollo Ross LONDON (Reuters) - Andrew Lloyd Webber is about to find out if felines have more than one life - and possibly a cinematic one as well - as he prepares to bring his 1980s hit musical "Cats" back to London's West End for a limited run. The creator of hit musicals including "Evita" and "Jesus Christ Superstar", announced plans this week to revive "Cats", his 1981 show based on poet T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", for a 12-week run beginning on Dec. 6. Lloyd Webber said he would also consider bringing back some of his other hits, such as "Phantom of the Opera" and "Starlight Express", and that movie versions were a possibility.     "Yes I think it's very possible that I might have a look at one or two of my shows," Lloyd Webber said. His most recent foray into the West End was "Stephen Ward", about the 1961 British politics-and-sex scandal known as The Profumo Affair which arose from a sexual liaison between the then Secretary of War, John Profumo, and aspiring model Christine Keeler.


Israel launches military offensive against Gaza

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:36 AM PDT

Israeli soldiers ride atop a tank outside the southern Gaza StripIsrael strikes at least 50 sites in Gaza and mobilizes troops for a possible ground invasion.


One dead as powerful typhoon hits Japan's Okinawa

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:50 AM PDT

NOAA handout photo shows Super Typhoon Neoguri in the Pacific Ocean, approaching Japan on its northward journeyBy Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - One man died, more than 500,000 people were urged to evacuate and hundreds of flights were canceled in Japan as a strong typhoon brought torrential rain and high winds to its southwestern islands and could bring heavy rain to Tokyo later this week. Typhoon Neoguri weakened from its original status as a super typhoon but remained intense, with gusts of more than 250 km per hour (155 mph). It was powering through the Okinawa island chain where emergency rain and high-seas warnings were in effect. The storm was at its most powerful when passing Okinawa, some 1,600 km (1,000 miles) southwest of Tokyo on Tuesday, but the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) warned of heavy rains and potential flooding in Kyushu, the westernmost of Japan's main islands, as well as heavy rain in the rest of the nation as the storm turns east later in the week.


Pistorius defense team closes case

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 01:24 AM PDT

Oscar Pistorius arrives at court in Pretoria, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel has challenged the credibility of a physician, Wayne Derman, who testified that the athlete has an anxious nature linked to his disability and could not be objective about the double-amputee runner because he had treated Pistorius over many years and traveled with him extensively. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The defense team for Oscar Pistorius closed its case in the athlete's murder trial on Tuesday, bringing a legal case that has transfixed South Africans and others around the world closer to a verdict.


Washington poised to start legal marijuana sales

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 07:58 AM PDT

George Vargas, left, takes a seat next to first-in-line customer Deb Greene in front of the recreational marijuana store Cannabis City Monday, July 7, 2014, in Seattle. The store will be the first and only store initially in Seattle to legally sell recreational pot when sales begin Tuesday. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Marijuana growers loaded trucks with boxes of packaged pot on Tuesday as lines of customers grew outside a handful of stores poised to be the first to sell recreational cannabis legally in Washington state.


Israeli military masses troops along Gaza border

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 02:18 PM PDT

Smoke rises following an Israeli strike on Gaza, as seen from the Israel-Gaza Border, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. The Israeli military launched a major offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking more than 100 sites and mobilizing troops for a possible ground invasion in what Israel says is an operation aimed at stopping a heavy barrage of rocket attacks from the Palestinian territory.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Tuesday launched its largest offensive in the Gaza Strip in nearly two years, carrying out a blistering aerial assault on scores of targets and killing 19 people in what officials called an open-ended operation aimed at ending weeks of heavy rocket fire. As Gaza militants unleashed salvos on cities including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel mobilized forces along the border for a possible ground invasion.


Obama urgently asks $3.7 billion for border crisis

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 20, 2014 file photo, immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally stand in line for tickets at the bus station after they were released from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in McAllen, Texas. Tackling what he has called a humanitarian crisis, President Barack Obama on Tuesday, July 8, 2014 asked Congress for $3.7 billion to cope with a tide of minors from Central America who are illegally crossing the U.S. border, straining immigration resources and causing a political firestorm in Washington. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama appealed to Congress on Tuesday for $3.7 billion in emergency spending to deal with the immigration crisis on the nation's southern border, where unaccompanied children have been showing up by the thousands in a human drama that's causing a political storm in Washington and beyond.


Ukraine takes aggressive stance toward separatists

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:35 PM PDT

A man speaks phone near a broken window in his house after shelling in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Local residents said it was a shelling from the Ukrainian army's side. The Ukrainian government will restart cease-fire negotiations with pro-Russian insurgents in the country's east only once the rebels lay down their weapons, the defense minister said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's government took an increasingly aggressive stance Tuesday toward the pro-Russia separatists, vowing to expunge them from their reduced area of control and imposing new conditions before peace talks can restart.


Slovyansk struggles back after rebels are routed

Posted: 08 Jul 2014 12:52 PM PDT

A woman, name not given, looks out from her damaged house in the city of Slovyansk, Donetsk Region, eastern Ukraine Monday July 7, 2014. Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko has called the capture of the Pro-Russian separatist stronghold of Slovyansk a "turning point" in the fight for control of the country's east. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — For the first time in three months, Alla Grebenkova says she can go out on the streets of this city in eastern Ukraine without fear of being recognized as Ukrainian.


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