2015年11月15日星期日

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


France bombs Islamic State HQ, hunts attacker who got away

Posted: 15 Nov 2015 03:23 PM PST

Attacks in ParisAs police launched an international manhunt for a key suspect in the Paris attacks on Sunday, French officials told The Associated Press that police had already found him near the border, but released him after an ID check.


Paris attacks: Video shows firefight outside Bataclan

Posted: 15 Nov 2015 08:55 AM PST

A police officer takes cover behind a car while a rescue worker runs outside the Bataclan theater in Paris, France, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2015. Several dozen people were killed in a series of unprecedented attacks around Paris on Friday, French President Francois Hollande said, announcing that he was closing the country's borders and declaring a state of emergency. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)An award-winning French photographer captured dramatic video footage of police as they surrounded the Bataclan concert hall, where at least 89 people were killed during Friday's terror attacks in Paris.


Donald Trump: ‘O’Malley is a clown’; ‘Hillary is owned by Wall Street’

Posted: 15 Nov 2015 10:53 AM PST

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Sunshine Summit in Orlando, Fla., Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/John Raoux)During Saturday's Democratic debate, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley called Donald Trump an "immigrant-bashing carnival barker."


Belgian connection: At least 3 held in Brussels over Paris attacks

Posted: 15 Nov 2015 04:44 AM PST

French soldiers patrol at the Eiffel Tower which remained closed on the first of three days of national mourning in Paris, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015. Thousands of French troops deployed around Paris on Sunday and tourist sites stood shuttered in one of the most visited cities on Earth while investigators questioned the relatives of a suspected suicide bomber involved in the country's deadliest violence since World War II. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)Officials pursue emerging links between the Paris attacks and an Islamist bastion in France's northern neighbor.


Clinton wobbled on foreign policy in debate

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College student from California studying abroad killed in Paris attacks

Posted: 15 Nov 2015 09:44 AM PST

Undated handout photo by California State University shows student Nohemi GonzalezA California university student who was studying design in France was killed in an attack on a restaurant in Paris, making her the first American confirmed dead in the assault at several sites in the French capital, school officials said on Saturday. Nohemi Gonzalez, 23, was a junior at California State University, Long Beach, just south of Los Angeles, and was studying for a semester at the Strate College of Design in a suburb of Paris, said CSULB spokesman Michael Uhlenkamp. On Friday night, several sites around Paris were targeted in a coordinated assault by gunmen and bombers in what the Paris public prosecutor said killed at least 129 people and wounded more than 350, of whom nearly 100 remain in critical condition.


About 1,500 Mormons resign from church in protest of same-sex policy

Posted: 15 Nov 2015 01:40 PM PST

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and their supporters walk near the Salt Lake Temple after mailing their membership resignation to the church in Salt Lake City, UtahAbout 1,500 Latter-day Saints have submitted letters of resignation from the Mormon Church to protest a new policy barring children of married same-sex couples from being baptized until they are adults, movement organizers said on Sunday. More than 1,000 people gathered on Saturday near the Salt Lake City headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) to protest the policy they see as discriminatory and harmful to families, with many standing in long lines to submit their resignations, they said. A similar protest called "The Utah Rally for Love, Equality, Family and Acceptance" is set for next Saturday in the same area.


U.S. death penalties, executions slow as capital punishment is squeezed

Posted: 15 Nov 2015 06:57 AM PST

File photo of the death chamber is seen through the steel bars from the viewing room at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, TexasCapital punishment in the United States has moved into the slow lane, with the number of executions and new death sentences likely to hit lows not seen for more than 20 years. The last two executions of the year are set to be carried out next week, with Texas scheduled to put convicted murderer Raphael Holiday to death on Wednesday and Georgia scheduled to execute convicted murderer Marcus Johnson on Thursday. If those lethal injections proceed, there will have been 27 executions in the United States in 2015.


Clinton cites 9/11 in defending Wall Street donations

Posted: 15 Nov 2015 12:38 AM PST

Hillary Clinton tried to deflect an attack on her political donations from Wall Street bankers by saying that they stemmed from her connection, as a U.S. senator from New York, to the downtown Manhattan community devastated by the Sept. 11, 2001, attack.

Sanders scores applause for Eisenhower quip

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Sanders campaign claims victory in CBS dispute

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Paris attacks may lead to US military anti-IS escalation

Posted: 14 Nov 2015 02:58 PM PST

A woman is being evacuated from the Bataclan theater after a shooting in Paris, Friday Nov. 13, 2015. French President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency and announced that he was closing the country's borders. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Paris terrorist attacks seem likely to compel President Barack Obama to consider military escalation against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. But that probably will not mean dramatic moves like launching a U.S. or international ground offensive or accelerating aerial bombing in hopes of eliminating the global threat of violent extremism.


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