2015年1月11日星期日

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


World leaders walk arm-in-arm as millions protest Paris attacks

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 01:36 PM PST

People hold up placards as they stand for a memorial gathering for the victims of the recent terrorist attacks in France, in Trafalgar Square, London, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. The gathering is in solidarity with the victims of terrorist shootings at the offices of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo, and other sites around Paris. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)At least 3.7 million took part in the nation's largest public demonstration.


Thousands in tent cities 5 years after Haiti quake

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 11:08 AM PST

Yahoo News Special Report: Haiti: 5 Years LaterThis Monday marks five years since a catastrophic, magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, claiming at least 230,000 lives. It was January 12, 2010, just before 5 p.m., when the world came crashing down for millions of Haitians. Bodies lined the streets, and entire communities were reduced to piles of rubble.


Attorney General Holder concerned about lone wolf attacks in U.S.

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 10:43 AM PST

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (R) welcomes US Attorney General Eric Holder on January 11, 2015 at the Interior Ministry in ParisEric Holder said he's concerned about so-called lone wolf attacks by Islamist militants in the U.S. Holder met with his European counterparts in Paris on Sunday to discuss ways to prevent violent extremism, after Islamist militants killed 17 people in several attacks in the French capital. ...


North Dakota county feels Bakken boom ebb away as oil falls

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 06:14 AM PST

An oil drilling rig near a home outside WillistonBy Ernest Scheyder CROSBY, N.D. (Reuters) - Just over a decade ago, this sleepy farming community on the fringe of North Dakota's Bakken shale formation hosted the state's first horizontal oil well to be hydraulically fractured, or fracked, helping set in motion an economic revolution that shook the world. Today, Divide County may be another vanguard for the state, this time ominous, as the first to feel the full effect of a collapse in prices that has lopped more than 50 percent off the price of oil since the summer. ...


Christie may reach for reset button in New Jersey state of state

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 05:34 AM PST

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (C) and U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (R) applaud as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New JerseyBy Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, under pressure to decide whether to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2016, has a chance next week to reset his governorship after being stymied all year by national controversies and home-grown fiscal crises.     On Tuesday, Christie will deliver his state of the state address, potentially the biggest speech he'll make before announcing his presidential intentions, a decision that could come by the end of the month. ...


Police say gunman in Idaho shooting spree had multiple weapons

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 12:14 PM PST

By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A 29-year-old man who killed three people and critically wounded another during a shooting spree in the northern Idaho city of Moscow had five weapons in his car, police said on Sunday. John Lee, 29, was arrested after the Saturday shootings when he crashed his car during a high-speed chase with police. Inside his Honda Fit, authorities later found three handguns, a shotgun and a rifle, said Moscow Police Chief David Duke. Lee has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one court of attempted murder, Duke said. ...

Millions rally for unity against terrorism in France

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

Members of the Union of French Jewish students hold posters with the first names of the victims during a demonstration outside a kosher grocery store where four hostages were killed on Friday in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015. Hundreds of thousands of people marched Saturday in cities from Toulouse in the south to Rennes in the west to honor the victims, and Paris expects hundreds of thousands more at Sunday's unity rally. More than 2,000 police are being deployed, in addition to thousands already guarding synagogues, mosques, schools and other sites around France. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)Protected by an unparalleled level of security, the event will honor the victims of three days of bloodshed in Paris.


Indonesia confident AirAsia fuselage discovered, zero in on black box

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 01:40 AM PST

Parts of AirAsia Flight 8501 is seen on the deck of rescue ship Crest Onyx at Kumai port in Pangkalan Bun, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. A day after the tail of the crashed AirAsia plane was fished out of the Java Sea, the search for the missing black boxes intensified Sunday with more pings heard. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)By Kanupriya Kapoor and Charlotte Greenfield PANGKALAN BUN/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian search teams believe they have found the fuselage of an AirAsia airliner that crashed in the Java Sea two weeks ago, and divers hope calmer waters on Monday will allow them to retrieve the black box flight recorders. Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control in bad weather on Dec. 28, less than halfway into a two-hour flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. None of the 162 people on the aircraft survived. ...


Firebombing at German paper that ran Charlie Hebdo cartoons

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 09:42 AM PST

Firefighters gather in the courtyard of German regional newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost editorial office in Hamburg, northern Germany, on January 11, 2015A German tabloid that reprinted cartoons from the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo lampooning the Prophet Mohammed was targeted in firebombing Sunday, police said. With security services on high alert after a killing spree in Paris by Islamic extremists, police in the northern German port city of Hamburg said no one was injured in the blaze at the headquarters of the regional daily Hamburger Morgenpost, which caused only slight damage. Whether there was a connection between the Charlie Hebdo cartoons and the attack was the "key question", the spokesman said, adding that it was "too soon" to know for certain.


New York artist remembers friend slain in Charlie Hebdo shooting

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 03:08 PM PST

Georges Wolinski and Felipe GalindoA New York cartoonist mourning a fellow artist killed when gunmen stormed the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris Wednesday says he is confident the attack will not silence the beliefs his friend championed.


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