2015年3月22日星期日

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


McCain to Obama: ‘Get over your temper tantrum, Mr. President’

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 07:56 AM PDT

Israeli PM Netanyahu meets U.S. Senator McCain in JerusalemJohn McCain rips Barack Obama over his response to Netanyahu's election win.


Lee Kuan Yew, founder of modern Singapore, dies at 91

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 04:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 20, 2013, file photo, Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew attends the Standard Chartered Singapore Forum in Singapore. Singapore's first and longest-serving prime minister Lee Kuan Yew died Monday, the prime minister's office said. He was 91. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)SINGAPORE (AP) — Lee Kuan Yew, who founded modern Singapore and was both feared for his authoritarian tactics and admired for turning the city-state into one of the world's richest nations, died Monday, the government said. He was 91.


Cruz to become first major candidate to jump into 2016 race

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 01:31 PM PDT

U.S. Senator Cruz to announce presidential runTexas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz plans to kickoff his presidential campaign Monday.


Tunisian president says third suspect in museum attack on the run

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 11:28 AM PDT

Tunisian police officers guard the entrance of the National Bardo Museum in TunisTunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi said on Sunday that a third gunman involved in an attack that killed 23 people, mostly foreign tourists, at a Tunis museum last week was on the run. The shootings at the museum inside Tunisia's parliament compound was one of the worst militant attacks in Tunisian history and brought to light the threat posed by Islamist militants to the young democracy, four years after its "Arab Spring" revolt. Some had recently returned from fighting for Islamist militant groups in Syria and Libya. "For sure there were three because they have been identified and filmed on surveillance cameras," Essebsi said in a televised interview with Europe 1 radio, iTELE and Le Monde newspaper.


Use of hot plates eyed after Brooklyn fire kills 7 siblings

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 04:18 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — An ultra-Orthodox Jewish community shattered by the deaths of seven siblings in a house fire carried out their funerals Sunday, a day after a hot plate left on for the Sabbath is believed to have sparked the fire that killed them.

Sheriff: Airport attacker had machete, Molotov cocktails

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 08:59 AM PDT

This drivers license image released by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office shows Richard White. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's office said in a statement that 63-year-old White was pronounced dead Saturday, March 21, 2015, at a local hospital. Sheriff Newell Normand said White — who was shot three times by one of Normand's lieutenants Friday after approaching a security checkpoint at New Orleans' international airport, spraying insecticide and brandishing a machete — was also carrying a bag loaded with six Molotov cocktails: six Mason jars with cloth wicks soaked in gasoline. (AP Photo/Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office)KENNER, La. (AP) — A machete-wielding attacker who died hours after being shot by a sheriff's deputy who stopped his rampage at New Orleans' international airport had a bag loaded with Molotov cocktails, authorities say.


Report: Sen. Ted Cruz to announce presidential run

Posted: 21 Mar 2015 11:09 PM PDT

Senator Ted Cruz greets supporter Earl Spruce at the Strafford County Republican Committee Chili and Chat in BarringtonThe first-term senator from Texas will forgo the traditional path of forming an exploratory committee, a news report says.


Father says seven children who died in NYC fire were 'so pure'

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 03:28 PM PDT

Mourners escort a car carrying the remains of one of seven children killed in a Brooklyn fire in New YorkBy Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - The father of seven Orthodox Jewish children killed in a Brooklyn house fire told hundreds of mourners at their funeral on Sunday that the only way he can survive the tragedy was "complete, utter and total surrender" to his religious beliefs. The grieving man, Gabriel Sassoon, spoke at a packed funeral chapel where white curtains separated hundreds of men wearing black hats and yarmulkes from women in modest dress. Only an eighth child, 15-year-old Siporah, and S wife, Gayle Sassoon, 45, survived the blaze, which the Fire Department blamed on a malfunctioning hot plate that observant Jews use to heat food without violating the Sabbath rules. Around the corner from the charred home, the Fire Department handed out pamphlets titled "Fire Safety for Jewish Observances" as well as smoke alarms and batteries.


Florida mother skips hearing on charges of murdering two children

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 10:56 AM PDT

Jessica Lacey McCarty is pictured in this undated booking photo(Reuters) - A Florida mother waived her right to attend a first court hearing on Sunday to face charges of murdering two of her young children and attempting to murder her five-month-old baby, an official at Brevard County Detention Center said. Jessica Lacey McCarty, 33, of Palm Bay was represented by a public defender, with a judge setting arraignment for April 21, the official said. McCarty was ordered held without bond and remains under medical watch at Brevard County Detention Center, the official said. The medical examiner's office on Sunday will perform autopsies on McCarty's two older children, ages 7 and 6, to determine how they died.


Helicopter crashes into Florida home, starting fire: report

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 12:28 PM PDT

(Reuters) - A helicopter crashed into a home in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday, sparking a fire that sent plumes of smoke over a residential neighborhood, local media reported. There was no immediate word on injuries. The helicopter went down around 2:15 p.m. EDT, according to WESH-TV. Aerial photos showed a large stream of smoke coming from the home and dozens of firefighters battling the blaze. (Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere; Editing by Frank McGurty and Jonathan Oatis)

Shiite rebel leader vows to fight rivals in Yemen's south

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 01:15 PM PDT

ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's Shiite rebel leader escalated his attack Sunday against the country's embattled president, vowing to send fighters to the south where Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi has taken refuge. The fiery speech came hours after his militia seized the third- largest city of Taiz, an important station in its advance.

Islamic State calls on backers to kill 100 U.S. military personnel

Posted: 21 Mar 2015 02:00 PM PDT

Islamic State has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of 100 American military service members, and called upon its "brothers residing in America" to kill them. In the posting, a group referring to itself as the "Islamic State Hacking Division" wrote in English that it had hacked several military servers, databases and emails and made public the information on 100 members of the U.S. military so that "lone wolf" attackers can kill them. The Times quoted officials as saying the list appeared to have been drawn from personnel mentioned in news articles about air strikes on Islamic State. The posting, addressed to disbelievers, Christians and "crusaders" in America, included what the group said were the names, military service branch, photos and street addresses of the individuals.
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