2015年2月15日星期日

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Video purports to show IS militants beheading hostages

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST

This image made from a video released Sunday Feb. 15, 2015 by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State group purportedly shows Egyptian Coptic Christians in orange jumpsuits being led along a beach, each accompanied by a masked militant. Later in the video, the men are made to kneel and one militant addresses the camera in English before the men are simultaneously beheaded. The Associated Press could not immediately independently verify the video. (AP Photo)The mass killing of Coptic Christian hostages has been released by militants in Libya.


Naht again! Another massive blizzard buries Boston

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 12:36 PM PST

Brian Vallely shovels snow on Beacon Hill in Boston, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. A blizzard warning was in effect for coastal areas from Connecticut to Maine on Saturday for a fourth major storm in less than a month, promising heavy snow and powerful winds to heap more misery on a region that has already seen more than 6 feet of snow in some areas. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)In what's becoming a weekly, expletive-inducing experience for millions of New Englanders, a blizzard buried parts of the northeast Sunday, bringing high wind gusts and heavy snow to the winter-weary region.


Poet laureate Philip Levine dies at age 87

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 12:36 PM PST

FILE - This April 27, 2006 file photo shows poet Philip Levine at the San Joaquin River Center in Fresno, Calif., where he recited many of his poems. Levine, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose intimate portraits of blue-collar life were grounded in personal experience and political conscience, died Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015. He was 87. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian, File)FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Philip Levine, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose intimate portraits of blue-collar life were grounded in personal experience and political conscience, died Saturday. Levine was 87.


Boehner ready to let funding lapse for Homeland Security agency

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 08:20 AM PST

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) speaks after a House Republican caucus meetingJohn Boehner, the Republican House of Representatives speaker, said he is willing to let funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapse as part of a Republican push to roll back President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration.


Police say Copenhagen gunman had criminal record, gang past

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 03:30 PM PST

In this image, made from a video provided by Ronni Abergel, police seal off the scene near a train station where a man was shot and killed by police following several shootings in Copenhagen, Denmark, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. The shootings at a free speech event featuring an artist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad and a second shooting hours later outside a synagogue left two dead and five police officers wounded in Copenhagen, stirring fears that another terror spree was underway in a European capital a month after 17 people were killed in Paris attacks. (AP Photo/Ronni Abergel) MANDATORY CREDITOfficers shoot the man they believe is the sole suspect at the attacks.


Montana lawmaker claims yoga pants ban was a joke

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 10:34 AM PST

Bill aims to outlaw yoga pants, speedos in MontanaA Montana lawmaker who suggested that wearing yoga pants in public should be illegal while introducing a bill to expand the state's decency laws now says he was joking about a ban on the popular form-fitting workout attire.


Carnival parade in Germany canceled because of terror threat

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 07:11 AM PST

Carnival parade organizers and police discuss in Braunschweig, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. Police in Braunschweig cancelled a popular carnival street parade because of fears of an imminent Islamist terror attack. Police spokesman Thomas Geese said police received credible information that there was a Police in the German city of Braunschweig cancelled a popular Carnival street parade on Sunday because of fears of an imminent Islamist terror attack.


Ukraine rebels disavow ceasefire at encircled town

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 03:05 PM PST

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko talks to military staff in KievBy Anton Zverev and Gleb Garanich DONETSK/ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine's rebels disavowed a new truce on Sunday hours after it took effect, saying it did not apply to the town where most fighting has taken place in recent weeks. Guns fell abruptly silent at midnight across much of eastern Ukraine in line with the ceasefire agreement, reached after a week of diplomacy led by France and Germany. "Of course we can open fire (on Debaltseve). In a four-way telephone conversation with the leaders of Germany, France and Russia's Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the position of the four at peace talks last week in Belarus had been for a ceasefire on all the front lines including at Debaltseve.


Scorpion stings woman on plane, delaying flight at LAX

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 09:01 AM PST

ScorpionAn Alaska Airlines flight en route to Portland had to return to the gate at Los Angeles International Airport Saturday night after a woman was stung by a scorpion, airline officials said.


Israel's Likud claims vote for left will benefit IS

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 02:27 AM PST

A supporter leans over a poster of Israeli Prime Minister and Likud party leader at a Jerusalem hotel on February 8, 2015Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party claims in a contentious new campaign ad that a vote for the left in Israel's March election would benefit jihadists from the Islamic State group. The ad drew fire from the left-wing coalition opposing Likud, the Zionist Union, which accused Netanyahu of "colossal" security failures. The Zionist Union, formed in December as an electoral alliance of Israel's Labour Party and the centre-left Hatnuah, denounced the ad and "the colossal failure of Benjamin Netanyahu in the field of security". Security will be a key issue in Israel's March 17 general election, which was called early after the collapse of Netanyahu's ruling coalition.


Freighter backlog worsens outside major West Coast ports

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 02:32 PM PST

Cranes and containers are seen at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California in this aerial imageBy Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Growing numbers of freighters were backed up around the two busiest U.S. cargo hubs on Sunday because of a dispute between shipping companies and dockworkers that has led to a partial shutdown of ports along the West Coast. With cargo delays rippling through the U.S. economy, Japanese carmaker Honda Motor Co Ltd said it planned to slow production at some of its North American plants starting on Monday because of a lack of parts from Asia. Under pressure to address the months-long strife, President Barack Obama on Saturday dispatched U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez to California to help broker an agreement. By Sunday morning, 34 container ships, tankers and other cargo vessels were waiting to dock at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, up from 32 on Saturday, said Lee Peterson, a spokesman for the port of Long Beach.


New Jersey woman found frozen to death near her home

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 03:35 PM PST

(Reuters) - A New Jersey woman was found frozen to death in the snow near her home on Sunday morning, authorities said. Olivia Benito, 66, had stopped by a neighbor's house for drinks after they left a benefit event at an Elks Club in Lakewood, New Jersey, Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County prosecutor's office, said in a news release. The neighbor told police that Benito had some alcoholic beverages during the course of the evening, Della Fave said. The neighbor said she discovered Benito face down in snow when she went out to clear her car of snow at about 7 a.m. on Sunday, Della Fave said.

Draft U.S. rules on commercial drones keep some limits on use

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 03:50 PM PST

A man looks over a 360Heros drone at the Intel booth during the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las VegasBy Alwyn Scott NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. aviation regulator proposed rules on Sunday for commercial drone flights that would lift some restrictions but would still bar activities such as the delivery of packages and inspection of pipelines that have been eyed by companies as a potentially breakthrough use of the technology. The long-awaited draft rules from the Federal Aviation Administration would require unmanned aircraft pilots to obtain special pilot certificates, stay away from bystanders and fly only during the day. The rules also say pilots must remain in the line of sight of its radio-control drone, which could limit inspection of pipelines, crops, and electrical towers that are one of the major uses envisioned by companies. "This rule does not deal with beyond line of sight, but does allow for the use of a visual observer to augment line of sight by the operator of the unmanned aircraft," FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said in a conference call with reporters on Sunday.


Autopsy shows New York Times writer Carr died of lung cancer

Posted: 14 Feb 2015 05:53 PM PST

Dean Baquet, right, Executive Editor of The New York Times, listens as Bruce Headlam, Managing Editor for Video, speaks during a memorial for media columnist David Carr at the Times headquarters, Friday, Feb. 13, 2015, in New York. Carr, who wrote the Media Equation column for the Times and penned a memoir about his fight with drug addiction, collapsed at his office and died on Thursday. He was 58. (AP Photo/The New York Times, Sara Krulwich) NO SALESNEW YORK (AP) — New York Times media columnist David Carr died of complications from metastatic lung cancer, according to autopsy results released Saturday.


Both sides claim violations after Ukraine cease-fire starts

Posted: 14 Feb 2015 06:34 PM PST

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks as he issues the order to start a cease-fire in the east during a meeting with defense officials in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. The cease-fire period for fighting in Ukraine began one minute after midnight Sunday, but there are no immediate indications of whether either side in the conflict that has killed more than 5,300 people is observing it. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A cease-fire was declared in eastern Ukraine at a minute after midnight Sunday, kindling slender hopes of a reprieve from a conflict that has claimed more than 5,300 lives.


Deadly shootings within hours in Copenhagen; 5 wounded

Posted: 15 Feb 2015 01:13 PM PST

Forensic investigators are seen at the site of a shooting in CopenhagenDanish police later shoot dead a man during an intensive manhunt.


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