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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


At Koch group summit, a restrained enthusiasm for Trump

Posted: 22 Aug 2015 11:56 AM PDT

Donald Trump draws largest crowd yet in AlabamaWhile thousands streamed into a football stadium Friday evening in Mobile, Alabama to see Donald Trump, a much smaller crowd of committed conservatives unwound at a bar and mused over the good, the bad and the unknown of the unlikely Republican presidential front-runner. According to AFP, 3,600 people came to this year's annual Defending the American Dream Summit from around the country Friday and Saturday, taking in appearances by a handful of the 17 Republican presidential candidates. Trump was not invited.


Biden consults with Warren as he mulls 2016 presidential bid

Posted: 22 Aug 2015 01:18 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 16, 2015 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden speaks in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington. Although Biden has yet to make a decision on a run for the presidency, his advisers say the discussions taking form in the last several weeks are serious enough that the vice president and his associates have started gaming out mechanics like fundraising, ballot deadlines and an early primary state strategy. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)Tucked away at his family home in Delaware, Vice President Joe Biden has been huddling with longtime aides and family members, evaluating what it would take to launch a viable presidential campaign against well-funded Democratic opponents with a huge head start.


France train attacker 'went to Syria', was known to police

Posted: 22 Aug 2015 04:12 PM PDT

Forensics police officers inspect the crime scene in a Thalys train of French national railway operator SNCF at the main train station in Arras, France, on August 22, 2015A suspected jihadist gunman overpowered by passengers on a packed Amsterdam-Paris train had visited Syria and was known to intelligence services in several European countries, officials said Saturday. The suspect, who has been named as 25-year-old Moroccan national Ayoub El Khazzani, was wrestled to the floor by three American passengers after opening fire with an assault rifle on Friday evening, and is now being interrogated by counter-terrorist officials near Paris. A Spanish counter-terrorism source said he had lived in Spain for seven years until last year and had travelled to Syria from France.


Rival Koreas' high-level meeting adjourned

Posted: 22 Aug 2015 02:07 PM PDT

A South Korean amy soldier stands guard behind a barricade on Unification Bridge, which leads to the demilitarized zone, near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015. The letters at a banner read " Disapproved Vehicles". South Korea and North Korea agreed Saturday to hold their first high-level talks in nearly a year at a border village to defuse mounting tensions that have pushed the rivals to the brink of a possible military confrontation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)South Korea and North Korea hold their first high-level talks in nearly a year.


Congressman says NYC federal building gunman got 'raw deal'

Posted: 22 Aug 2015 11:02 AM PDT

Officers work at the scene following a shooting at a federal building, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015, in New York. Police said a man walked into the building and opened fire before shooting himself. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)NEW YORK (AP) — A man who gunned down a security guard at a federal building in Manhattan before killing himself was a whistleblower who had been given "a raw deal" by the agency that fired him, a New Jersey congressman who took up the man's case said Saturday.


Jimmy Carter focuses on faith as cancer treatment begins

Posted: 22 Aug 2015 10:38 AM PDT

Jill Stuckey places "Jimmy Carter for Cancer Survivor" signs in front of the Jimmy Carter presidential campaign headquarters in downtown Plains, Ga., on Thursday afternoon, Aug. 20, 2015, in advance of the former president's return to his hometown. Carter announced the day before that he has cancer is on four small spots on his brain and he will immediately begin radiation treatment, saying he is "at ease with whatever comes." (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter always goes home to Plains, Georgia. The tiny town he calls a "haven" was there when he got out of the Navy, when he left the governor's office and when he lost the 1980 presidential election.


State media report blast at chemical plant in eastern China; no casualties reported yet

Posted: 22 Aug 2015 08:06 AM PDT

BEIJING (AP) — State media report blast at chemical plant in eastern China; no casualties reported yet.

France train gunman identified as known Islamist militant

Posted: 22 Aug 2015 01:29 PM PDT

Map locates Arras, France where a suspected gunman was detained following an attack on a train; 1c x 3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76 mm;A gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France on Friday was known to European authorities as a suspected Islamist militant, provided the identity he has given interrogators is correct, France's interior minister said. "It is important to be careful about his identity which is not yet established with certainty," Cazeneuve said. "If the identity he has declared is confirmed, he is a 26-year-old man of Moroccan nationality identified by the Spanish authorities to French intelligence services in February 2014 because of his connections to the radical Islamist movement." He said inquiries in collaboration with other European authorities "should establish precisely the activities and travels of this terrorist".


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'Give me back my gun,' train attacker pleaded with Americans

Posted: 22 Aug 2015 02:15 AM PDT

A police officer stands by as a passenger receives medical attention in Arras, northern France, after being injured on August 21, 2015 when a gunman opened fire on a trainA gunman tackled by young Americans on a train between Amsterdam and Paris pleaded with them to hand back his Kalashnikov after they overpowered him, one of the group said. "Everything happened very fast," Anthony Sadler, a student travelling with friends Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone, both members of the US military, told France's BFMTV. My friends and I got down and then I said 'Let's get him'," said Skarlatos, a 22-year-old member of the National Guard in Oregon, who has recently returned from service in Afghanistan.


Gunman slays guard at NYC federal building, kills himself

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 07:09 PM PDT

Police investigate the scene of a shooting at a federal office building in Lower Manhattan, New YorkA gunman shot and killed a security guard at a federal building in Lower Manhattan on Friday before killing himself, and investigators are seeking a motive, police said. Police identified the gunman as Kevin Downing, a 68-year-old former federal employee from Fort Lee, New Jersey. The New York Daily News said he was a retired Army Reserve captain outraged over being fired by the Department of Labor.


Judge rules U.S. government must swiftly release immigrant children in detention

Posted: 22 Aug 2015 12:47 AM PDT

By Victoria Cavaliere LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the government to swiftly release immigrant children held at detention centers, affirming a July ruling that said some minors who crossed the border illegally were being detained in violation of a long-standing settlement. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles gave the administration of President Barack Obama until Oct. 23 to comply with her order to release hundreds of unauthorized immigrant children, and in some cases their mothers, "without unnecessary delay." Gee's ruling comes amid debate by U.S. presidential candidates over illegal immigration and follows an influx of immigrants from Central America across the U.S.-Mexico border.

North, South Korea officials meet at DMZ in bid to ease tension

Posted: 22 Aug 2015 01:43 PM PDT

South Korean soldiers talk next to barricades at a checkpoint on the Grand Unification Bridge which leads to the truce village Panmunjom, just south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in PajuThe meeting raises hopes for an end to a standoff that put the two sides on the brink of armed conflict.


Korean talks on averting conflict push past midnight

Posted: 22 Aug 2015 08:25 AM PDT

A truck carrying South Korean soldiers passes through the border village of Yeoncheon near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), on August 22, 2015Top officials will meeting as tensions increase over a dispute about loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts.


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