2014年10月5日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Texas Ebola patient struggling to survive

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 02:46 PM PDT

Hazardous material cleaners prepare to hang black plastic outside the apartment in Dallas, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas stayed last week. The family living there has been confined under armed guard while being monitored by health officials. (AP Photo/LM Otero)Thomas Duncan is not receiving any of the experimental medicines for the virus.


U.S. military officials feared dead in typhoon

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 03:27 PM PDT

Security workers stand by a closed road approaching Mount Ontake at Otaki village, Japan, October 3, 2014, as a typhoon looming off the coast threatened to further delay the stalled recovery operationA strong typhoon was churning toward Japan's main island on Monday, leaving four people dead or missing including three US military officials, according to media reports.


British hostage released in Libya after five months

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 12:42 PM PDT

A general view of the eastern Libyan port city of Benghazi on the Mediterranean Sea on November 1, 2012London (AFP) - British schoolteacher David Bolam has been released after nearly five months of captivity in Libya, reportedly after payment of a ransom to his Islamist captors.


Two NFL players arrested for trespass in separate incidents

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 04:56 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Minneapolis arrested two professional football players on trespassing and other charges, authorities and local media reported Sunday. The arrests of Miami Dolphins defensive end Derrick Shelby and Minnesota Vikings tackle Tom Johnson came as the National Football League has come under nationwide scrutiny following a domestic violence incident involving one of its players. In Fort Lauderdale, Shelby, 25, was charged with trespass and resisting arrest without violence after an apparent incident at a local nightclub, police said. ...

No signs of foul play seen in Pennsylvania 9/11 memorial fire

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 02:40 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Investigators have found no signs of foul play or arson in a fire at a 9/11 memorial complex in Pennsylvania which destroyed a U.S. flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 11, 2001, authorities said on Sunday. Also lost in Friday afternoon's blaze were personal items belonging to the passengers and crew members who were on United Airlines Flight 93 when it crashed as one of four hijackings by al Qaeda militants on Sept. 11, 2001. ...

Egypt jihadist group releases video of beheadings

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 03:53 PM PDT

A camel stands on the Israeli side of the border with Egypt near an Egyptian military post in the Sinai Peninsula on March 25, 2009A video released Sunday showed the execution of four men accused of spying for the army and for Israel's Mossad intelligence service.


Nebraska hospital prepares for arrival of Ebola patient

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 09:03 AM PDT

Dr. Mark Rupp, chief of the division of infectious diseases in the department of internal medicine at the Nebraska Medical Center, speaks at a news conference in Omaha, Neb., Friday Sept. 5, 2014, on the condition of ebola patient Dr. Rick Sacra, 51, who is treated at the center. Sacra, who served with North Carolina-based charity SIM, is the third American aid worker infected by the Ebola virus. He will begin treatment in the hospital's 10-bed special isolation unit, the largest of four such units in the U.S. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)(Reuters) - A Nebraska hospital is preparing for the expected arrival of an Ebola patient who contracted the disease in Liberia, a spokesman said on Sunday. Nebraska Medical Center spokesman Taylor Wilson would only identify the patient as a male U.S. citizen expected to arrive on Monday. But the father of Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance NBC cameraman who contracted Ebola in Liberia, told Reuters on Friday that his son was going to Nebraska for treatment. The Nebraska hospital last month treated and released Dr. Rick Sacra, an American missionary who also contracted Ebola in Liberia. ...


Hong Kong protesters agree to remove some barricades

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 10:12 AM PDT

A student pro-democracy protester sleeps on the street near government headquarters, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014, in Hong Kong. Pro-democracy protesters were defiant in the face of attacks by opponents and warnings by the Hong Kong government to clear the streets, staging a massive rally Saturday evening in the downtown business district they've occupied for a week. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists agreed Sunday to remove some barriers blocking roads and sidewalks ahead of the government's deadline to scale back their protests. But the demonstrators appeared to be divided, and others refused to budge, with only hours to go.


Ex-Haiti dictator 'Baby Doc' Duvalier dead at 63

Posted: 05 Oct 2014 06:29 AM PDT

Former Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier "Baby Doc" greets people on March 29, 2011 in Port au PrincePort-au-Prince (AFP) - Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who ruled the impoverished Caribbean nation with an iron fist from 1971 until his ouster in 1986, died of a heart attack. He was 63.


Mass grave found near Mexico town hit by violence

Posted: 04 Oct 2014 08:18 PM PDT

A Mexican navy marine guards the road that leads to the site where an alleged clandestine mass grave was found near the city of Iguala, Mexico, Saturday Oct. 4, 2014. Mexican officials said a clandestine grave holding an undetermined number of bodies was found outside a town where violence last weekend resulted in six deaths and the disappearance of 43 students. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)IGUALA, Mexico (AP) — A clandestine grave site with multiple burial pits was found outside this city where violence last weekend resulted in six deaths and the disappearance of 43 students after protesters clashed with police, Mexican officials said Saturday.


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