2015年4月2日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


World powers, Iran reach framework for nuke deal

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 10:02 AM PDT

From left, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, and U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, line up for a press announcement after the end of a new round of Nuclear Iran Talks in the Learning Center at the Swiss federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, April 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott)Iran and six world powers have agreed on the outlines of an understanding to limit Iran's nuclear programs, officials told The Associated Press Thursday. Negotiations continued on a dispute over how much of it to make public.


Prosecutors: Lubitz probed suicide methods, cockpit security

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 01:41 PM PDT

ANDREAS LUBITZ AURAIT MENTI À DES MÉDECINSBERLIN (AP) — The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have researched suicide methods and cockpit door security in the days before he flew the plane into the French Alps, killing 150 people, German prosecutors said Thursday.


Matt Bai: Marco Rubio wants his identity back

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"Someone stole my credit card," Marco Rubio said when I entered his office last week.


Indiana governor OKs changes to religious objections law

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 03:07 PM PDT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has approved changes to new law that sparked boycotts of the state amid fears that it would allow discrimination against lesbians and gays.

Robert Schuller, Crystal Cathedral megachurch founder, dies

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 03:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 1997, file photo, Rev. Robert Schuller , right, leaves Los Angeles International Airport with his wife Arvella. Arvella Schuller, who helped her pastor husband found the Crystal Cathedral megachurch and hallmark ARTESIA, Calif. (AP) — The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, a California televangelist and author who beamed his upbeat messages on faith and redemption to millions of followers from his landmark Crystal Cathedral only to see his empire crumble in his waning years, has died. He was 88.


Arkansas, Indiana enact fixes to measures seen as targeting gays

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 04:32 PM PDT

Demonstrators gather to protest a controversial religious freedom bill in IndianapolisBy Steve Barnes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Indiana and Arkansas revised on Thursday new religious freedom acts that had drawn criticism from rights groups and U.S. companies that assailed them as discriminatory against gays. Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, signed his state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law minutes after it passed in the statehouse. Indiana Governor Mike Pence, also a Republican, signed a revised religious freedom law that amended one he signed last week. The original measure catapulted the state into a firestorm because it lacked specific provisions to prevent denial of services and other discrimination against gays.


Boston bombing prosecutors ask judge to explain conspiracy to jury

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 09:11 AM PDT

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is pictured in this handout photo presented as evidence by the U.S. Attorney's Office in BostonFederal prosecutors asked a judge on Thursday to instruct the jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial that defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev need not have known all the details of the plot to be guilty.


Two New York City women accused of planning 'terrorist attack'

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 04:58 PM PDT

Court drawing of Noelle Velentzas and Asia Siddiqui in federal court after being arrested in an alleged conspiracy to wage a "terrorist attack" in BrooklynBy Ellen Wulfhorst and Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two New York City women have been arrested and accused of planning to carry out a "terrorist attack" in the United States, according to a federal criminal complaint made public on Thursday. Noelle Velentzas, 28, and Asia Siddiqui, 31, plotted to hit police, government or military targets based on their "violent jihadist beliefs," according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. It said Velentzas and Siddiqui were conspiring "to prepare an explosive device to be detonated in a terrorist attack in the United States." The complaint said Velentzas had praised al Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and said she and Siddiqui were "citizens of the Islamic State." The women, former roommates in the city borough of Queens, had researched how to build an explosive device and had read textbooks on electricity and watched online videos about soldering, it said.


Gunmen attack university in Kenya

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 02:04 PM PDT

Kenyan police officers take cover outside the Garissa University College during an attack by gunmen in Garissa, Kenya, Thursday, April 2, 2015. Gunmen attacked the university early Thursday, shooting indiscriminately in campus hostels. Police and military surrounded the buildings and were trying to secure the area in eastern Kenya, police officer Musa Yego said. (AP Photo)Masked gunmen open fire in dormitories, killing at least 15 people and wounding 60 others.


The Menendez indictment: 'Girlfriend 2,' the doctor and the senator

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New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was indicted Wednesday on federal corruption charges.


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