2014年8月8日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


A warning on 'torture report' release

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 04:32 PM PDT

A protester burns a U.S. flagRelease of report on CIA tactics could inflame anti-U.S. passions, U.S. intelligence memo warns.


James Brady's death ruled a homicide

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 04:56 PM PDT

FILE - This Jan. 6, 1981 file photo shows James Brady, selected by president-elect Ronald Reagan to become his press secretary, talking to reporters after the announcement was made in Washington. Brady, the affable, witty press secretary who survived a devastating head wound in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan and undertook a personal crusade for gun control, died Monday. He was 73. (AP Photo/Walt Zebowski, File)Surprise determination made by D.C. medical examiner.


Obama’s new Iraq mission: No end date, but not ‘prolonged’

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 02:16 PM PDT

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters stand guard as smoke rises after airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Iraqi Air Force has been carrying out strikes against the militants, and for the first time on Friday, U.S. war planes have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)How long will American airstrikes pummel fighters belonging to the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)? The White House said Friday that the mission is open-ended but repeatedly promised that it will not be "prolonged."


Judge sides with athletes in NCAA compensation case

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Twenty athletes involved in lawsuit that challenged the NCAA's regulation of college athletics on antitrust grounds.


Surfers take to waves as flooding hits Hawaii

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 02:34 PM PDT

Two surfers head for the waves in Honolulu on Friday, Aug, 8, 2014. High surf is expected in some spots on Oahu due to Tropical Storm Iselle. Iselle came ashore early Friday as a weakened tropical storm, while Hurricane Julio, close behind it, strengthened and is forecasted to pass north of the islands. Iselle is the first tropical storm to hit the state in 22 years. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)As the first tropical storm to hit Hawaii in 22 years passed by the islands, some coffee farmers on the Big Island began navigating flooded roads to assess damage to their crops Friday while tourists wandered the beaches of Oahu and surfers took to the waves despite driving rain and wind.


Police: Texas boy, 7, shoots 8-year-old cousin

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 11:41 AM PDT

Crime Scene GenericTexas City police say an 8-year-old boy is in critical condition but does not appear to have life-threatening injuries after being shot in the face by his 7-year-old cousin.


Ebola-infected U.S. doctor: I'm growing stronger

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 01:15 PM PDT

This undated handout photo obtained on July 30, 2014 courtesy of Samaritan's Purse shows Dr. Kent Brantly near Monrovia, LiberiaKent Brantly's first public comments since nearly dying in Africa last month.


New round of U.S. airstrikes near Irbil

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 01:27 PM PDT

Smoke rises after airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Iraqi Air Force has been carrying out strikes against the militants, and for the first time on Friday, U.S. war planes have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)Pentagon: U.S. launches second round of Iraq strikes using drones, F/A-18 fighter jets.


Center of Iselle makes landfall on Hawaii's Big Island

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 03:45 PM PDT

Hurricane Iselle and Hurricane Julio are pictured en route to Hawaii in this NASA handout satellite imageThe center of Tropical Storm Iselle made landfall on Hawaii's Big Island on Friday, bringing strong winds and heavy rain, knocking down trees and causing power outages ahead of a more powerful storm gathering strength behind it. While Iselle weakened into a tropical storm before reaching the islands, it was being closely followed by Julio, a Category 3 hurricane set to reach the area as early as Sunday morning - although the latest forecasts showed it tracking just north of the archipelago. As Iselle bore down, more than 1,200 people flocked to evacuation shelters across the Big Island, according to County of Hawaii Civil Defense, as heavy rains and strong winds pummeled eastern areas of the island from Puna to Hilo.


Sheriff: Suspect in Wash. girl's disappearance likely got muddy

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 12:05 PM PDT

Jenise Paulette WrightSEATTLE (AP) — The person who might be responsible for the disappearance of a 6-year-old Washington girl would have been "covered in mud," and authorities on Friday asked for the public's help in recalling whether they had seen anyone who fit that description over the weekend.


New round of U.S. airstrikes near Irbil

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 12:55 PM PDT

This image made from AP video shows smoke rising from airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. The Iraqi Air Force has been carrying out strikes against the militants, and for the first time on Friday, U.S. war planes have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq.(AP Photo via AP video)Pentagon: U.S. launches second round of Iraq strikes using drones, F/A-18 fighter jets.


VA apologizes for error in patient-death report

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 11:34 AM PDT

President Barack Obama, right, talks with new Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald at the Wallace Theater in Fort Belvoir, Va., Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, after the president signed H.R. 3230, the Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014. The bill gives resources to the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve access and quality of care for veterans. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)The Department of Veterans Affairs has apologized for what it called an "inadvertent" mistake that underreported the number of deaths linked to delays in cancer treatment at VA medical facilities.


Iraqi rebels hold hundreds of Yazidi women

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 01:02 PM PDT

Iraqi Yazidi women who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar sit at a school where they are taking shelter in the Kurdish city of Dohuk on August 5, 2014Iraq official: Hundreds of Yazidi women taken captive by Islamic State militants.


Ebola: Nigeria declares state of emergency

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 11:02 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2014 file photo, a Nigerian port health official uses a thermometer on a worker at the arrivals hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. As the Ebola outbreak in West Africa grows, airlines around the globe are closely monitoring the situation but have yet to make any drastic changes. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)Nigerian president approves $11.6M in emergency funds to contain virus.


Russian nuclear bombers roaming closer to U.S. airspace

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 07:50 AM PDT

Russian Nuclear Bombers Keep Roaming Closer to U.S. AirspaceRussian nuclear bombers were spotted flying near Alaska this week. Major Beth Smith, of the U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), has said "Over the past week, NORAD has visually identified Russian aircraft operating in and around the U.S. air defense identification zones." There have been about 16 Russian forays in the Alaskan and north Canadian area in the last 10 days. It is not entirely uncommon to see Russian planes in this airspace, however, the increased number of such planes seems to be triggering some concern amongst the aviation military community, particularly given the increased tension in Ukraine. The official stated "[Russian strategic nuclear forces appear to be] trying to test our air defense reactions, or our command and control systems. These are not just training missions."


21 more MH17 victims identified, experts fly home

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 10:22 AM PDT

Members of the repatriation mission for the MH17 plane crash are welcomed upon arrival at the Eindhoven airbase, on August 8, 2014Dutch forensics experts have identified 21 more victims of flight MH17, the government said on Friday, while their colleagues at the crash site began arriving home from east Ukraine where fighting has stopped the investigation. Meanwhile, Dutch forensics investigation coordinator Arie de Bruijn said around 176 "more-or-less" complete bodies had been recovered from the crash site. Another 527 body parts have also arrived at the forensic investigators' research facility southwest of Amsterdam, De Bruijn told the ANP news agency. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Wednesday that the search for body parts at the crash site was being suspended due to escalating clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists.


Prisoner to get new trial in 1990 NYC killing

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 09:48 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A man imprisoned for nearly a quarter-century in an infamous tourist killing will get a new hearing on his claim of innocence in a case that was seen as an emblem of random urban violence, a judge said Friday.

Russian Defense Ministry: Military drills near Ukraine over

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 11:22 AM PDT

Russia's Defense Ministry said late on Friday that it had finished military exercises it was conducting near the border with Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists are fighting Ukrainian government forces, Interfax news agency reported.

U.S. allies support strikes, but not helping

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 08:13 AM PDT

A fighter supporting Iraq forces in their campaign against Islamic State (IS) jihadists guards a position in the town of Taza Khurmatu on August 8, 2014The U.K., France and Germany limit their contribution to promises of aid.


China court jails British, US investigators hired by GSK

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A British investigator once hired by scandal-hit pharmaceutical giant GSK in China was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail for breaching privacy laws, a Shanghai court said Friday.


Tropical Storm Iselle slams Hawaii, knocks out power

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 09:42 AM PDT

Raw: High Winds As Iselle Approaches HawaiiHONOLULU (AP) — The National Weather Service says the eye of Tropical Storm Iselle has made landfall on Hawaii's Big Island.


Smokey Bear turns 70—there won't be candles on the cake

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 08:57 AM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 30, 2013 file photo shows former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger posing with Smokey Bear after the U.S. Forest Service named him their third honorary Forest Ranger for his leadership on climate change during a ceremony at the Department of Agriculture.in Washington. Smokey Bear is turning 70 on Saturday Aug. 9, 2014 _ but don't bring any candles to the party, please. As the friendly, huggable bear with the brimmed hat and shovel enters his golden years, he's burning up Twitter, but his message of fire prevention through personal responsibility hasn't changed _ much. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, file)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Smokey Bear is turning 70 on Saturday — but don't bring any candles to the party, please.


Man charged with starting 2013 California wildfire

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 07:39 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2013 file photo, firefighter A.J. Tevis watches the flames of the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park, Calif. Keith Matthew Emerald was charged Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014 with starting the state's third-largest wildfire, a 2013 blaze that charred hundreds of square miles of land in Yosemite National Park and the Stanislaus National Forest. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — While the flames still raced through California's Sierra Nevada last year, investigators zeroed in on a deer hunter they had rescued by helicopter an hour after the first report of the wildfire that would become the mountain range's largest in its recorded history.


US bombs militants in Iraq as crisis worsens

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 02:34 PM PDT

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take cover during airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Iraqi Air Force has been carrying out strikes against the militants, and for the first time on Friday, U.S. war planes have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The U.S. unleashed its first airstrikes in northern Iraq against militants of the Islamic State group Friday amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. The extremists took captive hundreds of women from a religious minority, according to an Iraqi official, while thousands of other civilians fled in fear.


Obama's Iraq aim: contain, not destroy, extremists

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 04:02 PM PDT

President Barack Obama listens during a phone call with Jordan's King Abdullah II Jordan, according to the White House, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's new military strategy in Iraq amounts to trying to contain, not destroy, the Islamic militant group that now controls much of the country's northern region. That leaves open the questions of how deeply the U.S. will be drawn into the sectarian conflict, and whether airstrikes alone can stop the militants' momentum.


Israel-Hamas truce collapses in new violence

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 03:24 PM PDT

Smoke, dust and debris rise over Gaza City after an Israeli strike, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, as Israel and Gaza militants resumed cross-border attacks after a three-day truce expired and Egyptian-brokered talks on a new border deal for blockaded Gaza hit a deadlock. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)JERUSALEM (AP) — A three-day truce collapsed Friday in a new round of violence after Gaza militants resumed rocket attacks on Israel, drawing a wave of retaliatory airstrikes that killed at least five Palestinians, including three children.


In Gaza, dispute over civilian vs combatant deaths

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 12:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Monday, July 21, 2014, Palestinians pray over Hamas flag-draped bodies of 17 members of the Abu Jamea immediate and extended family, killed by an Israeli strike at their house, during their funeral at the main mosque in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. In the grisly math of the Israel-Hamas war, conflicting counts of combatants and civilians killed in Gaza are emerging - with the ratio perhaps more important to shaping international opinion of the monthlong conflict than any final toll. U.N. researchers and local rights groups say three-fourth of some 1,900 dead were civilians, while the Israeli military estimates the split is closer to 50-50. Those doing the tallies use different methods and standards to make that all important determination of who is a civilian. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali, File)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — In the grisly math of the Israel-Hamas war, conflicting counts of combatants and civilians killed in Gaza are emerging — with the ratio perhaps more important to shaping international opinion of the monthlong conflict than any final toll.


Mainstream GOP upbeat after sweeping tea party

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 12:54 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mainstream conservatives ran the table in Senate Republican primaries as tea party upstarts lost all six challenges to GOP incumbents, leaving the establishment upbeat about midterm elections and the insurgent movement beaten but unbowed.

Wind, rain eases as tropical storm passes Hawaii

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 04:45 PM PDT

A boogie boarder barrels through the waves at Sandy Beach Park, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, in Honolulu. As the first tropical storm to hit Hawaii in 22 years passed by the islands, some coffee farmers on the Big Island began navigating flooded roads to assess damage to their crops Friday while tourists wandered the beaches of Oahu and surfers took to the waves despite driving rain and wind. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)HONOLULU (AP) — As the first tropical storm to hit Hawaii in 22 years passed by the islands, some coffee farmers on the Big Island navigated flooded roads to assess damage to their crops Friday while residents and tourists wandered the beaches of Oahu and surfers took to the waves as wind and rain let up.


New Ukrainian rebel leader gives Moscow distance

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 12:39 PM PDT

Alexander Zakharchenko, who has been put forward as the new prime minister of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, attends a press conference in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine,Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. Outgoing prime minister Alexander Borodai announced he was resigning Thursday and that he would act as an adviser to Zakharchenko, once he has been confirmed by the separatist legislature. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian has replaced a Russian at the helm of the insurgency in eastern Ukraine and declared that he wants "only moral support" from Moscow, as the Kremlin apparently tries to rebut Western claims that it is calling the shots among the rebels.


How Obama decided on airstrikes in Iraq

Posted: 08 Aug 2014 04:57 PM PDT

In this image released by The White House, President Barack Obama meets with the National Security Council in the Situation Room of the White House, Thursday morning, Aug. 7, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/The White House, Pete Souza)WASHINGTON (AP) — For much of the summer, President Barack Obama had watched with alarm as a brutal, al-Qaida-linked insurgency seized more and more territory in northern Iraq. But it wasn't until Thursday, when Obama learned that genocide could be imminent, that the president decided the U.S. military had to act.


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