2014年12月10日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism

CIA report casts pall over 'Zero Dark Thirty'

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 11:40 AM PST

FILE - In this May 3, 2011 file photo, local residents gather outside a house, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. After U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama bin laden in Pakistan in May 2011, top CIA officials secretly told lawmakers that information gleaned from brutal interrogations played a key role in what was one of the spy agency's greatest successes. CIA director Leon Panetta repeated that assertion in public, and it found its way into a critically acclaimed movie about the operation, Zero Dark Thirty, which depicts a detainee offering up the identity of bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmad al- Kuwaiti, after being tortured at a CIA Director Kathryn Bigelow claims torture was a part of the story that couldn't be ignored.

Photographer's awe-inspiring video shows severe weather in a new light

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 10:58 AM PST

Incredible storm chaserNicolaus Wegner, who produced a mesmerizing time-lapse video of thunderstorms and supercells swirling in the northern Great Plains last year, is back with another awe-inspiring film.

Delays plague Hillary Clinton's State Dept. files

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 11:42 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2014 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at Georgetown University in Washington. The State Department is withholding documents covering Clinton's tenure as secretary of state ahead of her presumptive presidential campaign. The Associated Press asked for files under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, including one request it made four years ago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has failed to turn over government documents covering Hillary Rodham Clinton's tenure as secretary of state that The Associated Press and others requested under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act ahead of her presumptive presidential campaign. They include one request AP made four years ago and others pending for more than one year.

Chicago proposes chokehold ban in wake of U.S. protests

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 09:21 AM PST

Protesters march against the New York City grand jury decision to not indict in the death of Eric Garner in Oakland, CaliforniaBy Mark Guarino CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago city council members have proposed a ban on the use of chokeholds by police officers working within city limits in an expansive proposal coming in the wake of the chokehold death of an unarmed black man being arrested in New York. The proposal, which includes all security personnel such as deputy sheriffs, U.S. Marshals and private security guards, is the first among U.S. municipalities attempting to regulate arrest techniques after a grand jury last week declined to indict a New York City police officer in a chokehold death. ...

Body of U.S. hostage killed in rescue attempt in Yemen arrives in U.S.

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 12:16 PM PST

A man, who identified himself as Luke Somers, speaks in this still image taken from video purportedly published by Al Qaeda's Yemen branchABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - The body of Luke Somers, an American held by an al Qaeda unit in Yemen who was killed on Saturday when U.S. special forces tried to rescue him, was flown to the United States on Wednesday, a U.S. defense official said. The body of the photo journalist landed shortly after noon EST (1700 GMT) aboard a C-17 U.S. military aircraft in Dover, Delaware, and there was a "dignified transfer" with Somers' family present, the official said. No media representatives were present. U.S. ...

For CIA, fallout from Senate report looks far from over

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 03:06 PM PST

Senate Intelligence Committee chair Senator Dianne Feinstein talks to reporters after coming out of the Senate in WashingtonBy Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As outcry grows over its now-defunct brutal interrogation program, America's spy agency appears caught in the crossfire of debate over its methods in the ongoing U.S. battle against Islamic militants and whether it has changed its ways. Inside the Central Intelligence Agency, intelligence officials expressed resentment over what they said was the unfairness of a Senate Intelligence Committee report released on Tuesday that harshly criticized the spy agency's detention and questioning of militant suspects. ...

Harry Reid eviscerates GOP leaders in interview

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 07:41 AM PST

The outgoing senate majority leader lets lose on Republicans.

Giving away ‘Anatoly Z.’

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 04:01 AM PST

A tiny handful of adoption professionals in the U.S. specialize in finding new homes for children whose original adoptive parents give them up. Technically this is called "disruption" (if the interruption comes before the adoption is finalized) and "dissolution" (if it comes after). Those who are appalled by the very thought often call it "rehoming," as if with a pet. Those who believe it has been the dirty little secret of the adoption world for far too long prefer "second chance adoption."

King James commits personal foul with royal touch

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 11:30 AM PST

LONDON (AP) — When King James touched the future queen of England on the shoulder after a basketball game, royal watchers cried foul.

UN expert calls for prosecution over torture

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 10:33 AM PST

George W. Bush on gentle soul dad and future president Jeb?Members of Bush's national security team must be prosecuted, says a UN official.

Israel minister says US censure slows settlements

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 11:58 AM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, May 15, 2014, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon speaks during a joint press conference with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel following a meeting at the Israeli Defense Force headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel. U.S. criticism of Israel's settlement policies has slowed down construction in the West Bank, Yaalon said in comments broadcast Wednesday, Dec. 10, adding that he hopes the slowdown will be "temporary" because the Obama administration "won't be around forever." (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool, File)JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. criticism of Israel's settlement policies has slowed down construction in the West Bank, Israel's defense minister said in comments broadcast Wednesday, adding that he hopes the slowdown will be "temporary" because the Obama administration "won't be around forever."

Torture report: Harsh tactics didn't net bin Laden

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 12:24 AM PST

This undated file photo shows al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. After U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama bin laden in Pakistan in May 2011, top CIA officials secretly told lawmakers that information gleaned from brutal interrogations played a key role in what was one of the spy agency's greatest successes. CIA director Leon Panetta repeated that assertion in public, and it found its way into a critically acclaimed movie about the operation, Zero Dark Thirty, which depicts a detainee offering up the identity of bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmad al- Kuwaiti, after being tortured at a CIA A Senate report says harsh CIA interrogations did not lead to the killing of bin Laden.

Malala vows to fight on as she shares Nobel Peace Prize

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 11:01 AM PST

Nobel Peace Prize laureates Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai's pairing carries the extra symbolism of linking neighbouring countries that have been in conflict for decades, December 10, 2014 in OsloMalala Yousafzai vowed Wednesday to struggle for every child's right to go to school as she became the youngest ever Nobel laureate, sharing the peace prize with Indian campaigner Kailash Satyarthi. "I will continue this fight until I see every child in school," the 17-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl told an audience in Oslo City Hall after receiving the award. Malala became a global icon after she was shot and nearly killed by the Taliban in October 2012 for insisting that girls had a right to an education. "The so-called world of adults may understand it, but we children don't.

19 arrested in 4th night of California protests

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 02:29 PM PST

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Northern California arrested at least 19 people as protesters angered by the killings of unarmed black men by white police officers rallied for a fourth night.

Hundreds march as California protests continue

Posted: 09 Dec 2014 09:09 PM PST

A protesters raises his arms as California Highway Patrol Officers stand in front of him as protesters block traffic on Highway 80 in Berkeley, Calif., Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. in response to police killings in Missouri and New York. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of protesters angered at the killing of unarmed black men by white police officers marched through downtown Berkeley streets Tuesday night as protests continued in Northern California.

Attorneys: Darren Wilson should be banned from policing in Missouri

Posted: 09 Dec 2014 02:15 PM PST

FILE- In this Nov. 25, 2014 file photo, protesters gather with signs along an illuminated walkway in Mount Vernon Square, in Washington. A grand jury in Ferguson, Mo., on Nov. 24, declined to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. No firm statistics can say whether a spate of officer-involved deaths is a growing trend or simply a series of coincidences generating a deafening buzz in news reports and social media.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)Darren Wilson, who shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown, may have resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, but a group of attorneys wants the controversial officer stripped of his right to carry a badge anywhere in Missouri.

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