2016年12月26日星期一

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Trump targets U.N. on Twitter

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 04:15 PM PST

Trump says the U.N. is just a club for people to "have a good time." (Dario Lopez-Mills/AP)The president-elect calls the humanitarian and peace-keeping organization a club for people to "have a good time."


Deadly Colombian crash blamed on human error

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 03:44 PM PST

Rescue workers at the crash site. (AP)Authorities say human mistakes caused the accident that killed 71 people, including most of a Brazilian soccer team.


Obama doubted his campaign slogan and logo

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 12:57 PM PST

Barack Obama campaigning in 2008. (AP)The president acknowledges that he originally deemed his famed "yes, we can" battle cry too simplistic.


Japanese PM on verge of Pearl Harbor visit

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 05:06 PM PST

Japan's Shinzo Abe greeted by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy. (AP)Shinzo Abe will be the first Japanese leader to visit the memorial honoring sailors and Marines killed in the attack.


Netanyahu rallies Israelis against Obama

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 01:00 PM PST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. (Dan Balilty/Pool/AP)The Israeli prime minister has been unrelenting in criticism of the U.S.'s choice to abstain from vetoing a U.N. resolution on settlement-building.


Trump's controversial pick for Israel post

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 03:13 PM PST

David Friedman is Donald Trump's choice to be ambassador to Israel. (Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP and Oded Balilty/AP)David Friedman strongly opposes Palestinian statehood and is a fervent supporter of Israeli settlements.


Germans urge honor for hero slain in attack

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 06:41 AM PST

The truck that drove through a Christmas market in Berlin. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)Lukasz Urban, a Polish truck driver, is believed to have saved many lives during the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.


GOP split on health law replacement

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 06:35 AM PST

GOP split on health law replacement. (Getty Images)Republicans are united on repealing President Obama's health care law, but agreeing on what to replace it with won't be easy.


Falwell: Trump Cabinet like '92 Dream Team

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 08:42 AM PST

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., right, presents Donald Trump with a sports jersey at the university's Vines Center, Jan. 18, 2016, in Lynchburg, Va. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Liberty University's president says Trump's picks remind him of the U.S. men's basketball team at the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.


U.S. elections still vulnerable to hacking

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 09:13 AM PST

A technician works to prepare voting machines. (Matt Rourke/AP)It is hard to know if old machines accurately record individual votes — or if anyone has tampered with the count.


Obama confident he could have won third term

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 05:30 PM PST

Obama confident he could have won the White House again. (AP)"I could've mobilized a majority of the American people to rally," the president says in an interview.


Blizzards, ice storms hit northern plains

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 01:29 PM PST

Firefighters clear snow in North Dakota. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)The freezing rain, snow and high winds caused widespread power outages in the Dakotas, Nebraska and Iowa.


Cuban President faces deep problems in 2017

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 04:55 AM PST

Next year will likely be Castro's toughest year in office since he took power in 2006. (Ramon Espinosa/AP)The country faces a possible recession and a U.S. president-elect who may undo Obama's normalization.


Fake news leads to nuclear threat

Posted: 25 Dec 2016 11:48 PM PST

Pakistan Defense Minister Khawaja Asif (AFP)Pakistan's defense minister vows nuclear retaliation against Israel after apparently being tricked by a story on a fake news site.


Terrorism not focus of Russian crash probe

Posted: 26 Dec 2016 10:04 AM PST

Russian rescue workers collect wreckage from the crashed plane at a pier just outside Sochi, Russia. (Viktor Klyushin/AP)Pilot error or a technical fault is likely to be the cause of the military plane crash into the Black Sea, officials said.


Engineer in deadly NYC crash gets full pension

Posted: 24 Dec 2016 05:18 PM PST

In this Dec. 1, 2013, file photo, emergency personnel work the scene of a Metro-North passenger train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP)The sleeping engineer who caused a 2013 derailment that killed four will receive a lifetime disability pension.


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