2015年6月27日星期六

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Terror on the beach: Tourists recount Tunisia attack horrors

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 03:48 PM PDT

Tunisian army soldiers guard the street near the attacked Imperial Marhaba hotel in Sousse, Tunisia, Saturday, June 27, 2015. The morning after a lone gunman killed dozens of people at a beach resort in Tunisia, busloads of tourists are heading to the nearby Enfidha-Hammamet airport hoping to return to their home countries. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)Tunisia's postcard destination for tourists is reeling from the terror that blighted another day of play at the Mediterranean seaside resort of Sousse. A man armed with a Kalashnikov and grenades gunned down tourists on a private beach, and then moved methodically through the grounds of a luxury hotel — to the swimming pool, reception area and offices.


Iran, US warn of 'hard work' at tough nuclear talks

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 01:17 PM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) talks to reporters next to US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman as they meet with the Iranian delegation at a hotel in Vienna on June 27, 2015Iran and the US showed little sign Saturday of an early breakthrough in last-ditch nuclear talks with both sides warning of "hard work" ahead and France stressing key issues remain unresolved. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met twice during the day for what is set to be the final push to seal an accord curtailing Tehran's nuclear programme after almost two years of negotiations.


Baltimore police open probe into new shooting of unarmed black man

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 11:36 AM PDT

Suspect Dead BaltimorePolice have opened an investigation into the killing of an unarmed black man by law enforcement officers outside Baltimore, authorities said on Saturday, two months after the city was rocked by protests over the death of another African-American who was taken into custody. The latest incident unfolded in the Baltimore suburb of Owing Mills, where three officers fired at least 19 rounds and killed Spencer Lee McCain, 41, during a domestic disturbance on Thursday. The Baltimore County police's homicide unit is investigating, police said in a statement Saturday.


Fire injures scores attending party at Taiwan water park

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 12:08 PM PDT

Emergency rescue workers and concert spectators tend to injured victims from an explosion during a music concert at the Formosa Water Park in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Saturday, June 27, 2015. The New Taipei City fire department says 200 people were injured in an accidental explosion of colored theatrical powder Saturday night near a performance stage where about 1,000 people were gathered for party. (AP Photo) TAIWAN OUTA fire on a music stage spread into a crowd of spectators at a party Saturday night at a Taiwan water park, injuring more than 200 people, authorities said.


French terror suspect took selfie with beheaded victim

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 02:20 PM PDT

Police officers guard the road leading to a plant in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, southeast of Lyon, France, Saturday, June 27, 2015, where an attack took place yesterday June 26. A spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor's office says one of the four suspects detained over an explosion and beheading in southeast France has been released, while the suspected assassin isn't speaking to investigators. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)A detained truck driver with a history of radical Islamic ties is refusing to speak to police investigators over his implication in an explosion and beheading in southeastern France, a French official said Saturday, adding that one of the other suspects initially arrested has been released without charge.


Greece's future in balance as creditors reject aid extension

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 02:21 PM PDT

Dutch Finance Minister and chair of the eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem speaks during a media conference after a meeting of eurogroup finance ministers in Brussels on Saturday, June 27, 2015. Anxiety over Greece's future swelled on Saturday after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' call to have the people vote on a proposed bailout deal. (AP Photo/Thierry Monasse)Greece's place in the euro currency bloc looked increasingly shaky on Saturday after eurozone nations rejected a monthlong extension to its bailout program and the prime minister called for a risky popular vote on the country's financial future.


Charleston suspect's life a troubled road to radicalization

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 09:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 19, 2015 file photo, Dylann Storm Roof appears via video before a judge, in Charleston, S.C., Friday, June 19, 2015. Roof is accused of killing nine people inside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. (Centralized Bond Hearing Court via AP)The people who know Dylann Storm Roof — the people who watched his progression from a sweet child to a disturbed man — are struggling with guilt. How could they have missed the signs? Could they have done something to prevent the deaths of nine innocents at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church?


Shaken tourists flee Tunisia after seaside massacre

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 03:27 PM PDT

Tourists leave Tunisia at the Enfidha International airport after a shooting in the resort town of Sousse, a popular tourist destination 140 kilometres south of the Tunisian capital, on June 27, 2015Planeloads of shocked foreign tourists flew home from Tunisia Saturday after a beachside massacre claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed 38 people and prompted a major security clampdown. Britain said that at least 15 of its citizens were killed in Friday's gun assault in the popular resort of Port el Kantaoui and that the number "may well rise". The attack represents Britain's worst loss of life in a terror incident since the 2005 London bombings.


Police: Surviving escapee could face a harder time alone

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 03:47 PM PDT

A law enforcement official stands guard on Studley Road where the search for convicted murderer David Sweat continues, Saturday, June 27, 2015, in Duane, N.Y. Convicted murderer Richard Matt was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent in a wooded area about 30 miles from the Clinton Correctional Facility on Friday. Sweat is on the run, authorities said. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)The shooting death of one escaped killer brought new energy to the three-week hunt for a second escaped murderer as helicopters, search dogs and hundreds of law enforcement officers converged on a wooded area 30 miles from the prison.


Cosby lawyer: Unsealing court docs 'terribly embarrassing'

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 08:51 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2014, file photo, comedian and Navy veteran Bill Cosby speaks during a Veterans Day ceremony in Philadelphia. A lawyer for Cosby says it would be "terribly embarrassing" if documents from a 2005 sex-assault lawsuit were unsealed in Philadelphia. Cosby's lawyer on Friday, June 26, 2015, fought efforts by The Associated Press to unseal documents from a lawsuit he settled with a former Temple University employee. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A lawyer for Bill Cosby argued Friday that it would be "terribly embarrassing" for the comedian if documents from a 2005 sex-assault lawsuit were unsealed.


Jim Obergefell on historic gay marriage ruling

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 12:09 PM PDT

Supreme Court OKs Same Sex MarriageThe Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Friday that same-sex marriage must be legal nationwide. Yahoo global news anchor Katie Couric spoke to Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the case that challenged the ban on same sex marriages.


Dozens killed in attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 07:16 PM PDT

Bodies are covered on a Tunisian beach, in Sousse, Friday June 26, 2015. A young man unfurled an umbrella and pulled out a Kalashnikov, opening fire on European sunbathers in an attack that killed at least 28 people at a Tunisian beach resort — one of three deadly attacks from Europe to the Middle East on Friday that followed a call to violence by Islamic State extremists. (Jawhara FM via AP)SOUSSE, Tunisia (AP) — A young man pulled a Kalashnikov from a beach umbrella and sprayed gunfire at European sunbathers at a Tunisian resort, killing at least 39 people — one of three deadly attacks Friday from Europe to North Africa to the Middle East that followed a call to violence by Islamic State extremists.


Landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizes gay marriage nationwide

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 01:58 AM PDT

Glenda Vieira, Mary Ayers and Tina Vieira celebrate the United States Supreme Court's landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage throughout the country in San Francisco, CaliforniaBy Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement. The court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex marriages. With the landmark ruling, gay marriage becomes legal in all 50 states.


New York manhunt for prison escapee heats up after accomplice killed

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 03:37 PM PDT

Law enforcement officers stand along County Route 41 during a search for an escaped prisoner south of MaloneHundreds of law enforcement officers hunting for a convicted murderer who escaped from a New York state maximum security prison scoured an area of near the Canadian border on Saturday, a day after a fellow escapee was killed. About 1,200 federal, state and local law enforcement officers on Saturday were searching a 22 square-mile (57 square-km) area along state route 30 between the towns of Malone and Duane in northern New York state, New York State Police said in a statement. After Richard Matt was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol officers, a tight security perimeter was set up in the area, where Sweat was believed to be holed up.


Activist takes down Confederate flag outside South Carolina capitol

Posted: 27 Jun 2015 11:33 AM PDT

Demonstrator holds a sign at a rally outside the State House to get the Confederate battle flag removed from the grounds in ColumbiaAn activist climbed a flagpole outside the South Carolina state capitol early on Saturday and took down the Confederate flag, state officials said, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama called the banner a symbol of racial oppression. Two people were arrested and charged with defacing a monument, the South Carolina Department of Public Safety said in a statement. The department identified them as 30-year-olds Brittany Ann Byuarim Newsome and James Ian Tyson, from North Carolina.


Bitter dissents in gay marriage case reveals deep divide in high court

Posted: 26 Jun 2015 06:03 PM PDT

Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy testifies before a House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services hearing to review the FY 2016 budget request of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)Justice Anthony Kennedy almost always votes alongside his four conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court. But when he doesn't, it's often in big, transformative cases, like Friday's gay marriage decision. His defection clearly has made his conservative peers hopping mad.


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