2016年3月24日星期四

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


France says it foils advanced attack plot: minister

Posted: 24 Mar 2016 04:46 PM PDT

French Interior Minister Cazeneuve talks to journalists after a meeting about blasts in Brussels at the Elysee Palace in ParisA French national suspected of belonging to a militant network planning an attack in France was arrested on Thursday morning, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. The arrest helped "foil a plot in France that was at an advanced stage," Cazeneuve said on Thursday night in a televised address from his ministry. "The individual questioned, a French national, is suspected of high-level involvement in this plan.


Garry Shandling, comic, 'Larry Sanders Show' creator, dies

Posted: 24 Mar 2016 04:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 10, 2007 file photo, actor Gary Shandling arrives at the wrap party and DVD release for "The Larry Sanders Show" in Beverly Hills, Calif. Shandling, who as an actor and comedian pioneered a pretend brand of self-focused docudrama with "The Larry Sanders Show," died, Thursday, March 24, 2016 of an undisclosed cause in Los Angeles. He was 66. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)Garry Shandling, who as an actor and comedian masterminded a brand of self-inflicted phony docudrama with "The Larry Sanders Show," has died. Los Angeles Police officer Tony Im said Shandling died Thursday in Los Angeles of an undisclosed cause. Im said fire officials were dispatched to Shandling's Los Angeles home Thursday morning for a reported medical emergency.


Who’s really voting for Trump? Portraits beyond the polls

Posted: 24 Mar 2016 03:01 AM PDT

Who's really voting for Trump? Portraits beyond the pollsWho's really voting for Trump? Portraits beyond the polls


Obama criticized for doing tango 2 days after bombings in Brussels

Posted: 24 Mar 2016 07:26 AM PDT

Obamas bust out smooth tango moves in ArgentinaThose already furious the president attended a baseball game in Cuba following Tuesday's deadly attacks were unmoved by his dance moves.


Why #NeverTrump Will Never Work

Posted: 24 Mar 2016 02:00 AM PDT

Why #NeverTrump Will Never WorkThe problem with the #NeverTrump movement, which aims to keep Donald Trump from clinching the Republican nomination, is that you don't win campaigns solely by running against somebody else. You have to give voters something — or someone — that they can be for.


Brussels attackers were considering nuclear site, changed their minds: paper

Posted: 24 Mar 2016 10:13 AM PDT

Suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Brussels were originally considering an attack on a nuclear site in Belgium, but arrests started last week may have forced them to switch to targets in the Belgian capital, the DH newspaper said. Referring to an incident in December that prosecutors confirmed in which militants covertly filmed the home of an unidentified senior official in the nuclear industry, the paper quoted a police source as saying two of the suicide bombers, brothers Khalid and Ibrahim Bakraoui, had filmed the daily routine of the head of Belgium's nuclear research and development program. The police source did not address why investigators thought they had continued to plan to go through with the plan despite the discovery of the covert video three months ago and the ramping up of security around nuclear plants as a result.

Brussels bomb brothers latest in string of sibling attackers

Posted: 23 Mar 2016 05:01 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — The Tsarnaev brothers wreaked carnage in Boston. The Kouachi brothers attacked Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. In Brussels, officials say the El Bakraoui brothers struck the airport and metro this week, killing more than 30 people.

Iraq says it's launched offensive to recapture IS-held Mosul

Posted: 24 Mar 2016 03:39 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi military backed by U.S.-led coalition aircraft on Thursday launched a long-awaited operation to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, a military spokesman said.
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