2014年8月28日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Obama on ISIL: ‘We don’t have a strategy yet’

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 02:43 PM PDT

President Barack Obama listens in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, where he spoke about the economy, Iraq, and Ukraine, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Declaring "we don't have a strategy yet," President Obama poured cold water Thursday on talk that he was poised to order imminent U.S. military strikes on ISIL fighters in Syria.


Army wives urge Russia to come clean on soldiers in Ukraine

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 02:45 PM PDT

Ludmila Hohlova, Chairman of the Board of Soldiers' Mothers, gestures on August 28, 2014 near a check point in KostromaSeveral dozen women gathered outside a military base in central Russia on Thursday to demand that commanders come clean about the whereabouts of their husbands after reports of secret funerals for soldiers covertly sent to Ukraine. The women -- mostly in their 20s, a few with small children -- huddled outside a base that houses paratroopers in Kostroma, around 300 kilometres (200 miles) north of Moscow. Some 350 soldiers from the city were this month sent on military drills to the border with Ukraine and then went incommunicado, said one of the women, 26-year-old Valeria Sokolova. Commanders from the base have told her several have returned dead, she said, and around 15 wounded soldiers were also flown back this week.


UN: Ebola disease caseload could reach 20,000

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:22 PM PDT

People stand on the shoreline near a sign reading 'NO DUMPING', amongst rubbish at West Point, a area heavily effected by the Ebola virus, with residence not being allowed to leave West Point, as government forces clamp down on movement to prevent the spread of Ebola, in Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Health officials in Liberia said the other two recipients of ZMapp in Liberia — a Congolese doctor and a Liberian physician's assistant, have recovered. Both are expected to be discharged from an Ebola treatment center on Friday, said Dr. Moses Massaquoi, a Liberian doctor with the treatment team. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is accelerating and could grow six times larger to infect as many as 20,000 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The U.N. health agency unveiled a new road map for containing the virus, and scientists are fast-tracking efforts to find a treatment or vaccine.


Missouri police sued for $40M over Ferguson actions

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 02:06 PM PDT

Police walk through a cloud of smoke and tear gas as they clash with protesters Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. The protests were sparked after Michael Brown, an unarmed black man was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer on Aug. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)A group of people caught up in unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after a white officer killed a black teenager, sued local officials on Thursday, alleging civil rights violations through arrests and police assaults with rubber bullets and tear gas. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, says law enforcement met a broad public outcry over the Aug. 9 killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown with "militaristic displays of force and weaponry," (and) engaged U.S. Named as defendants are the city of Ferguson, St. Louis County, Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Delmar, Ferguson police officer Justin Cosmo, and other unnamed police officers from Ferguson and St. Louis County.


Stewart to return to competition after fatal crash

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Tony Stewart is expected to return to Sprint Cup competition Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway, ending a three-race hiatus taken after he struck and killed a fellow driver during a dirt-track race.


Body found in Jerusalem is U.S. student Aaron Sofer: police

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 03:02 PM PDT

Forensic team members work near the place where a body was found next to Ein KaremIsraeli police said on Thursday they had found the body of a 23-year-old American student who went missing last week near a forest in Jerusalem and that they did not suspect a criminal motive. Aaron Sofer, a Jewish seminary student from New Jersey, vanished last Friday while walking in woods not far from the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. His body was found earlier on Thursday. "Following a forensic examination, the body ... was identified as that of missing person Aaron Sofer.


Senator: Time to call eastern clashes 'war'

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 12:51 PM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014, local residents stand near the building where they live after a shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. Two columns of Russian tanks and military vehicles fired Grad missiles at a border post in southeastern Ukraine, then rolled into the country Thursday as Ukraine's overmatched border guards fled, a top Ukrainian official said. (AP Photo/Antoine E.R. Delaunay)It's time to call Russia-Ukraine conflict a "war," Moscow actions an "invasion," Dem says.


Obama: 'We will protect American personnel in Iraq'

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 03:22 PM PDT

Militant Islamist fighters waving flags, travel in vehicles as they take part in a military parade along streets of Syria's northern Raqqa provinceObama announced that he has requested military options for Islamic State.


Body found in search for U.S. student

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 09:32 AM PDT

Forensic team member takes a picture near the place where the body of U.S. student Aaron Sofer was found next to Ein Karem village, near JerusalemIsrael: Search for Aaron Sofer, missing since last week, leads to body in Jerusalem.


U.S.: Inaction in Ukraine 'unacceptable'

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 02:22 PM PDT

Samantha Power, the United State's ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during an U.N. Security Council emergency meeting called at Russia's request Sunday, April 13, 2014, at United Nations headquarters, to discuss the growing crisis in Ukraine. The meeting comes as the new Ukrainian government declared it would deploy armed forces to quash an increasingly bold pro-Russian insurgency in its eastern region. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on the crisis in Ukraine.


4 killed in New Mexico medical flight crash

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 03:30 PM PDT

In this Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014 photo, relatives of victims of a plane crash react after reaching the crash site a half-mile southwest of the Southern New Mexico State Fairgrounds in Las Cruces, N.M. Authorities say all four people aboard the medical flight that was headed to Phoenix were killed when the plane crashed in Las Cruces. (AP Photo/The Las Cruces Sun-News, Carlos Javier Sanchez)LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — An air ambulance carrying a cancer patient to Phoenix crashed shortly after taking off from a southern New Mexico airport, killing all four people aboard, authorities said Thursday.


U.S. to begin safety testing Ebola vaccine

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 09:12 AM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows Ebola surveillance at Kenema Governement Hospital is done by polymerase chain reaction, or PCR. On Thursday, officials at the National Institutes of Health announced that they were launching safety trials on a preliminary vaccine for Ebola. Researchers have already checked that still-not-tested vaccine against some of the more than 350 mutations in this strain of Ebola to make sure the changes the disease is making won't undercut science's hurried efforts to fight it, said Pardis Sabeti, a scientist at Harvard University and its affiliated Broad Institute. She and Gire, also at Broad and Harvard, are two of the lead authors of a study published Thursday in the journal Science that maps the killer disease strain based on specimens collected from 78 patients. (AP Photo/Stephen Gire, Science)Federal researchers next week will start testing humans with an experimental vaccine to prevent the deadly Ebola virus.


Kiev to reinstate military draft

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 10:50 AM PDT

A Ukrainian serviceman holds his rifle as he combs the area with comrades after being shot at by pro-Russian militants at their check-point near the small city of Dzerzhynsk, in the Donetsk region, on August 28, 2014Ukraine announced on Thursday that it will return to mandatory conscription in the coming months as its troops battle pro-Russian insurgents in the east. "The National Security and Defence Council has decided to restart conscription in the fall (autumn)," Mykhailo Koval, deputy head of the council, said after an emergency meeting chaired by President Petro Poroshenko. Ukraine's government decided last year to switch to a contract-based professional army, ending Soviet-style bi-annual drafts in the spring and fall for men between 18 and 25.


Minneapolis has become recruiting ground for Islamic extremists

Posted: 27 Aug 2014 10:21 PM PDT

Minneapolis is recruiting are for Islamic extremistsSlain ISIS fighter Douglas McCain was one of many who have joined Islamic fighters, and now extremists are trying to lure young women


Islamic State executes more than 160 Syrian troops

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 12:26 PM PDT

Image made available by Jihadist media outlet Welayat Raqa on July 25, 2014, claims to show members of IS (Islamic State) raising their flag over a building belonging to a Syrian army base in the northern rebel-held Syrian city of RaqaMore than 160 Syrians killed in the latest in a string of brutal attacks by the militants.


Joan Rivers hospitalized after cardiac arrest

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Joan Rivers has been rushed to a New York City hospital in critical condition after an emergency call that she was in cardiac arrest, according to a law enforcement source.


Matt Bai: Obama’s anti-doctrine doctrine

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 01:49 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 1, 2014 file photo shows President Barack Obama speaking in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. The president spoke on various topics including the economy, immigration, Ukraine and the Middle East. The White House is crafting a blame-it-on-Congress legal justification to back up President Barack Obama's impending executive actions on immigration. Facing an expect onslaught of opposition, the administration plans to argue that by failing to provide enough resources to fully enforce U.S. laws, lawmakers have ceded wide latitude to White House to prioritize deportations, administration officials and legal experts said. But Republicans, too, are exploring their legal options for stopping Obama from what they've deemed an egregious presidential overstep. (AP Photo/Connor Radnovich, File)Should such a thing as a foreign policy even exist?


Over 100 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 09:15 AM PDT

A Russian soldier stands next to a tank ready to be loaded on a truck in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region, near the border with UkraineMore than 100 Russian soldiers were killed in eastern Ukraine in a battle this month while helping pro-Russian separatists fight Ukrainian troops, two members of the Russian presidential human rights council said on Thursday, citing accounts of eye-witness and relatives of the dead. Ella Polyakova and Sergei Krivenko, both members of the council, said around 300 people were also injured in the violence on Aug. 13 near the town of Snizhnye in Donetsk Province, when a column of trucks full of ammunition they were driving was hit by a sustained volley of Grad missiles. "A column of Russian soldiers was attacked by Grad rockets and more 100 people died. Polyakova said she had also been given the same figure, of more than 100, for the number of Russian soldiers killed in the attack.


US experiences unexpected economic upswing

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 10:49 AM PDT

A construction site is seen in Silver Spring MarylandGross domestic product expanded at a 4.2% annual rate.


More bad news for Malaysia Airlines

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 10:27 AM PDT

An airport worker walks between Malaysia Airlines planes at Kuala Lumpur International AirportCrisis-stricken Malaysia Airlines said Thursday its second-quarter loss nearly doubled and forecast more red ink in the second half of the year, as two crippling air disasters sent passenger bookings tumbling. The latest results mark the sixth straight quarterly loss for Malaysia Airlines (MAS), which has struggled to stay competitive and is now in dire financial straits following the loss of MH370 and the July 18 shooting down over Ukraine of flight MH17, which killed all 298 aboard that plane. "The full financial impact of the double tragedies of MH370 and MH17 is expected to hit Malaysia Airlines in the second half of the year, where we saw a sharp decline in average weekly bookings by 33 percent immediately after the MH17 incident, with numerous flights cancelled," it said. MAS has bled money for years, losing a combined $1.3 billion over the past three calendar years before 2014, as intensifying competition from more nimble rivals like Malaysia's fast-growing budget carrier AirAsia have lured away travellers with their rock-bottom pricing.


Tsarnaev sister arrested over bomb threat

Posted: 27 Aug 2014 05:46 PM PDT

FILE- In this Oct. 13, 2014 file photo, Ailiana Tsarnaeva, sister of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, departs district court in Boston's South Boston neighborhood. Tsarnaeva has been arrested in New York City for allegedly threatening to bomb a Harlem woman. Police say that she is charged with aggravated harassment for threatening the woman over the phone on Monday, Aug. 25. She was issued an appearance ticket and is due back in court on Sept. 30. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)The sister of the accused Boston Marathon bombers was arrested in New York City for threatening a woman over the phone, saying she could "put a bomb on you," police said on Wednesday. Aliana Tsarnaev, 23, sister of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was facing charges of aggravated harassment, a New York City Police Department spokesman said. Tsarnaev, of North Bergen, New Jersey, was accused of calling a woman in New York City's Harlem neighborhood and telling her "I have people that can go over there and put a bomb on you," the spokesman said. Her brothers are accused of killing three people and wounding more than 260 after detonating pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.


Jolie and Pitt marry

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 02:17 PM PDT

Angelina Jolie, left, and Brad Pitt arrive at the OscarsNEW YORK (AP) — The wait is finally over: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Hollywood's reigning royal couple, have tied the knot.


Australia says MH370 'may have turned south earlier than thought'

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 01:43 AM PDT

File photo of co-pilot and crewmen aboard an aircraft while on search for the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 over the southern Indian OceanThe hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will focus on the southern part of the existing search zone after a new clue to the plane's possible location emerged, Australia said on Thursday. Fresh information suggested the jet "may have turned south" earlier than thought, Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said. "The search area remains the same, but some of the information that we now have suggests to us that areas a little further to the south -- within the search area, but a little further to the south -- are of particular interest and priority in the search area," he said. His comments came as Australia and Malaysia inked a memorandum of understanding in Canberra over the next phase of the hunt for the plane, which disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.


Ukraine accuses Russia of launching invasion

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:49 PM PDT

Bystanders watch a fire consuming a school in downtown Donetsk, eastern Ukraine on August 27, 2014 after it was hit by shellingPoroshenko says the conflict is worsening as Russian-backed separatists keep up offense.


Ukraine President: Russian troops are in Ukraine

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:34 AM PDT

A Pro-Russian rebel passes by a car which was hit by shrapnel from a shell after shelling in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. The Obama administration accused Russia on Wednesday of orchestrating a new military campaign in Ukraine, helping rebel forces expand their fight in the country's east and sending tanks, rocket launchers and armored vehicles toward communities elsewhere. (AP Photo / Mstislav Chernov)Ukrainian President Poroshenko said on Thursday Russian forces had been "brought into Ukraine" and he called an urgent meeting of Ukraine's security and defense council to decide the next steps to take in the crisis. "I made the decision to cancel a working visit to the Republic of Turkey in connection with the rapidly deteriorating situation in Donetsk region, in particular in Amvrosiyivka and Starobesheve, as Russian troops have actually been brought into Ukraine," he said in a statement on the presidential website.


Group trips across Grand Canyon will need permit

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:54 PM PDT

FILE- In this file photo taken Tuesday, April 28, 2009, Eliza Anti, 31, and Michael Parker, 32, of Hardwick, Vt., near the end of their days-long hiking and camping trip at the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is imposing new restrictions on hikers who are turning up in larger numbers to complete grueling "rim to rim" excursions from one end of the canyon to the other. The popularity of the hikes have created problems with litter and safety as people need to be rescued. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca, File)FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Groups of hikers and runners who want to do grueling excursions across the Grand Canyon will soon need a permit — a move officials say will cut back on overcrowding, litter and safety issues at the popular tourist attraction in Arizona.


Libya's interim government resigns under pressure

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:52 PM PDT

Smoke rises from buildings following an air strike attack early in the morning on August 27, 2014, near military camps in Libya's eastern coastal city of BenghaziBenghazi (Libya) (AFP) - Libya's toothless interim government, led by prime minister Abdullah al-Thani, announced late Thursday it had tendered its resignation to the elected parliament, days after a rival Islamist administration was created.


Cornerspotter: Hint: The Arts Thrive Now on This Busy Boulevard

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:51 PM PDT

Cornerspotter: Hint: The Arts Thrive Now on This Busy BoulevardWelcome to Cornerspotter, a weekly Curbed game in which you try to identify the location and/or identity of a particular building or streetscape in a historic photograph. Impress us and your fellow Curbed readers with your uncanny insight into Los...


Curbed Inside: Take a Tour Through Ktown's New The Vermont Rental Towers

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:51 PM PDT

Curbed Inside: Take a Tour Through Ktown's New The Vermont Rental TowersKoreatown's The Vermont is big, it's expensive, and it's called itself the "largest residential project under construction since the recession began in 2008." If the idea is to make a splash, to shout, "Ktown is coming up!" then it's...


Flipping Out: At Long Last, a Noe Valley Flip That Doesn't Completely Suck

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:49 PM PDT

Flipping Out: At Long Last, a Noe Valley Flip That Doesn't Completely SuckJust under a year ago, a Noe Valley Mediterranean built in the 1930s sold for $1.4 million. The house had lovely cathedral windows but needed some updates to areas such as the bathrooms, which sported a color scheme reminiscent...


Google spreads its wings, moving into drone deliveries

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:49 PM PDT

Google spreads its wings, moving into drone deliveriesAmazon isn't the only tech giant experimenting with drones. The search company has unveiled Project Wing, which is focusing its efforts on disaster relief, at least for now.>


Eater Inside: BTU Brasserie Now Pouring, Stir-Frying in Northeast

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:48 PM PDT

Eater Inside: BTU Brasserie Now Pouring, Stir-Frying in NortheastWho says Peking duck must be accompanied by Tsingtao? BTU Brasserie, the hybrid brewery and Chinese restaurant, is now officially open in the NE Sandy space once home to Haidu Seafood. Burnside...


Google tests using drones to deliver goods

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:47 PM PDT

A person prepares to search the internet using the Google search engine, on May 14, 2014, in LilleGoogle on Thursday said it is testing using drones to deliver items bought online, putting its own spin on similar efforts by Internet retail titan Amazon.com. Two years of research into what Google referred to as "Project Wing" was capped this month with test flights delivering candy, water, medicine, dog treats and other items to two farmers in Queensland, Australia. "Self-flying vehicles could open up entirely new approaches to moving goods," California-based Google said in a blog post disclosing the project. Project Wing drones were described as having more in common with Google's self-driving car than remote-controlled aircraft used by hobbyists.


U.S. officials reach deal with Pennsylvania on Medicaid

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:46 PM PDT

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett speaks at a news conference in State CollegeFederal officials have reached an agreement with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett over his plan to use federal funds to pay for private health insurance coverage for up to 600,000 residents, the governor said on Thursday. The deal highlights a growing number of Republican governors who are finding ways to accept money under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, despite political opposition that has so far prevented nearly half of U.S. Medicaid expansion under Obamacare has become a tool for political jockeying, with many Republicans loathe to support it. In Pennsylvania, the dispute is partly semantic.


Environmentalists ready to sue over Miami port's deep dredge

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:45 PM PDT

The great star coral (Montastraea cavernosa) is shown with over 50% mortality because of sediment from the dredge at the port of MiamiArmy Corps of Engineers after researchers found dredging to deepen the port of Miami is burying coral and could destroy the surrounding marine ecosystem for years to come. "All we're asking for is that they follow state and federal law and they're simply not doing that," said Rachel Silverstein, executive director of the Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper, a local environmental advocacy group. It is part of nearly $2 billion of infrastructure work that the port hopes will attract the larger cargo ships expected to pass through the expanded Panama Canal when it is completed.  "The situation is worsened by the fact that the (ocean floor) is now covered with a layer of sediment that will prohibit (future coral) settlement and attachment," the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) wrote earlier this month in a letter to the Army Corps.Coral is a stationary animal that slowly grows for decades on sea floors and is a key component of ocean habitats. A spokeswoman for the Army Corps, Susan Jackson, told Reuters by email that the Corps is finalizing its response to the FDEP and plans to submit it early next week.Environmental groups who sought to block the dredge during its planning phase sent a warning letter to the Army Corps in July asking them to fix the issues.


Official: Bidders compete for Uruguay pot business

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:45 PM PDT

Official: Bidders compete for Uruguay pot businessMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Uruguay's new market for legalized marijuana has attracted at least 20 companies bidding for the right to supply pot to the country's pharmacies, a government official said Thursday.


Doubts surround plane in Brazil campaign

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:42 PM PDT

Marina Silva, presidential candidate of the Brazilian Socialist Party, PSB speaks during a televised presidential debate in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. A new poll shows Silva as the leading rival to Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and would defeat her in a second-round runoff vote in October's election. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)SAO PAULO (AP) — Doubts surrounding the legality of the purchase of a small private plane used by the Brazilian Socialist Party have placed the campaign of presidential hopeful Marina Silva under scrutiny this week.


Pro-Scottish independence side gaining ground: poll

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:40 PM PDT

Protesters hold Scottish independence referendum banners from the 'Yes' campaign outside the venue where Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron was to address the CBI Scotland Annual Dinner in Glasgow on August 28, 2014Support for Scottish independence appears to be gaining ground three weeks ahead of the historic referendum, according to a poll published on Friday. The Survation survey found 47 percent of respondents would vote "Yes" to independence, compared to 53 percent who would vote "No", excluding people who were undecided. "Yes" campaign leader and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond was widely seen to have won the debate against "No" campaign leader Alistair Darling. The survey was of 1,001 people of voting age, and found 11 percent of respondents said they remained undecided, a drop of 2 percent from the previous poll.


Man shot, robbed of $70,000 in supermarket parking lot

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:39 PM PDT

Man shot, robbed of $70,000 in supermarket parking lotPolice say a man was shot and robbed of $70,000 in the parking lot of a supermarket in Northeast Philadelphia.


Obama on IS in Syria: 'We don't have a strategy yet'

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:38 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC on August 28, 2014President Barack Obama admitted Thursday he did not yet have a strategy to combat the Islamic State in Syria, quelling speculation he would imminently unleash the US military against the group in the civil-war-torn country. The president stressed though that he was developing a broad and comprehensive plan which would involve military, diplomatic and regional efforts designed to defeat IS for good, in both Syria and Iraq, not just in the short term. Obama also said that Washington did not need to choose to side with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to combat the Islamic State, which exploited a power vacuum in the middle of Syria's vicious turmoil and last week brutally executed US journalist James Foley.


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