2012年11月10日星期六

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FBI probe of Petraeus began with 'suspicious emails'

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 02:50 PM PST

File photo of General David Petraeus gesturing during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in WashingtonThe FBI investigation that led to the discovery of CIA Director David Petraeus' affair with author Paula Broadwell was sparked by "suspicious emails" that initially did not contain any connection to Petraeus, U.S. law enforcement and security officials told Reuters on Saturday. But the CIA director's name unexpectedly turned up in the course of the investigation, two officials and two other sources briefed on the matter said. It was "an issue with two women and they stumbled across the affair with Petraeus," a U.S. government security source said. ...


Four days later, Obama wins Florida

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 10:30 AM PST

El presidente Barack Obama hace una pausa durante su discurso en la fiesta de noche de elección en McCormick Place, en Chicago, el miércoles 7 de noviembre de 2012. En un discurso por radio e internet, Obama dijo el viernes 10 que no aceptará un plan para evitar el llamado abismo fiscal que no exija a los ricos a pagar más en impuestos. (Foto AP/Carolyn Kaster, archivo)The president was declared the winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes Saturday, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin.


Frustrated residents protest outside New York utility

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 03:15 PM PST

In the Dark: Long Island's Power Problems PersistEven as the lights came for many who lost power in New York and New Jersey during the superstorm and a later nor'easter, hundreds of residents protested Saturday outside a Long Island utility, frustrated ...


Across U.S., Veterans Day commemorations under way

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 03:16 PM PST

Crowds wave to Navy Capt. Jim Minta as he participates in the 31st annual Veterans Day Parade in downtown Atlanta, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/David Tulis)Saturday marked the first of what will be three days of Veterans Day commemorations across the United States.


Syrian opposition debates forming U.S.-backed assembly

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 12:17 PM PST

Youths try to lower a Syrian flag in the northern Syrian town of Ras al-Ain as seen from the Turkish border town of CeylanpinarHost nation Qatar, backed by the United States and the United Arab Emirates, on Saturday pressed the Syrian opposition to form a united leadership to pursue its war against Bashar al-Assad. At talks in Doha bringing together various opposition groups, the Islamist-flavoured Syrian National Council (SNC) has been concerned that it might be sidelined in a new broad coalition. ...


Rove defends his $300 million election disaster

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 11:21 AM PST

Karl Rove Defends His $300 Million DisasterKarl Rove boasted on the eve of Tuesday's election that all signs pointed towards an electoral college landslide. He was right about the result, just wrong about the candidate. And now it's up to Rove to explain to donors why.


BBC director general resigns over 'shoddy journalism'

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 02:12 PM PST

BBC director general George Entwistle speaks to the members of the media after appearing before a Culture and Media Committee hearing at Parliament in LondonBBC Director General George Entwistle resigned on Saturday, just two months into the job, after the state-funded broadcaster put out a programme denounced by the corporation's chairman as shoddy journalism. The BBC, reeling from revelations that one of its former stars was a paedophile, brought further problems on its head when a flagship news programme aired a mistaken allegation that a former senior politician sexually abused children. ...


4.3 magnitude earthquake reported in Kentucky

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 10:11 AM PST

New Seismograph Shows EarthquakeThe U.S. Geological Survey is reporting that an earthquake centered in Kentucky also rattled at least three other states. The USGS website says the epicenter of the 4.3 magnitude earthquake on Saturday afternoon was about 10 miles west of Whitesburg. Residents in eastern Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee reported feeling the temblor. National Weather Service spokesman Jeff Carico says employees at the office in Jackson, which is about 60 miles northwest of Whitesburg, felt the ground shake for about 15 seconds. He says the office has gotten numerous calls, but so far no one has reported any serious damage.


Florida's West refuses to relinquish seat in Congress to Murphy

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 02:11 PM PST

Allen West Will Not Go Quietly Into that Good NightMath says Allen West lost his Florida congressional seat to Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy. West begs to differ. 


International prosecutor probes new cases in Libya

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 02:09 PM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 file photo, intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, right, whispers to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in Sabha, Libya. A government statement read on national radio states that Mauritania has agreed to extradite Moammar Gadhafi's former spy chief, months after he tried to slip into Mauritania wearing a disguise and traveling on a fake passport. An official said Al-Senoussi is already on a plane headed to Libya. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany, File)AP Interview: International Court prosecutor collects evidence for new cases in Libya


How 'poor judgment' felled military star Petraeus

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 10:06 AM PST

FILE - In this March 1, 2008 file photo, then-top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, center left, talks to players during a youth soccer tournament in central Baghdad, Iraq. Petraeus, the retired four-star general who led the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigned Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair. (AP photo/Dusan Vranic, File)David Petraeus was a star on the battlefield, commanding the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but was undone by "poor judgment" in engaging in an extramarital affair that led to his downfall as CIA director. Just two days after his 60th birthday, Petraeus stepped down from the spy agency where he had held the top office since September 6, 2011. "After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. ...


GOP showing in Calif. worries party strategists

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 03:48 PM PST

FILE - This Feb. 24, 2012 file photo shows Kay Aaron waiting for customers at a booth selling pictures of Republican leaders and icons during the California Republican Party convention in Burlingame, Calif. If the future happens first in California, the Republican Party has a problem. The nation's most populous state _ home to one in eight Americans _ has entered a period of Democratic political dominance so far-reaching that the dwindling number of Republicans in the Legislature are in danger of becoming mere spectators at the statehouse. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)If the future happens first in California, the Republican Party has a problem.


Afghan victims say only one U.S. soldier attacked

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 03:22 AM PST

File-In this detail of a courtroom sketch, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, center, is shown Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, during a preliminary hearing in a military courtroom at Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington state. An Afghan National Army guard who reported seeing a U.S. soldier outside a remote base the night 16 civilians were massacred in March said the man did not stop even after being asked three times to do so. The guard, named Nematullah, testified by live video from Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Friday Nov. 9, 201 during an overnight session for a hearing in the case against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales. At right is Investigating Officer Col. Lee Deneke, and at left is Bales' attorney, Emma Scanlan. (AP Photo/Lois Silver) TV OUTTACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - An Afghan villager and two of his sons, who survived a night-time shooting rampage in March, testified on Saturday that they saw only one U.S. soldier attacking their compound, backing the U.S. government's account. Military prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, accusing him of killing 16 villagers, mostly women and children, when he ventured out of his remote camp on two revenge-fueled forays over a five-hour period in March. ...


High court to take new look at voting rights law

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 12:33 AM PST

People line up for admission at the U.S. Supreme Court in WashingtonThe Supreme Court will consider eliminating the government's most potent weapon against racial discrimination at polling places since the 1960s. The court acted three days after a diverse coalition of voters propelled President Barack Obama to a second term in the White House.


Gaza flares as Israel hits back killing five

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 01:50 PM PST

An Israeli tank in Beer Milcha, near the border between Egypt and IsraelGAZA (Reuters) - Israeli tank fire killed four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after militants blew up an Israeli army jeep with an anti-tank missile, wounding four soldiers. Palestinian fighters retaliated by firing rockets into southern Israel and an Israeli air strike targeted a rocket crew, killing a Palestinian militant, the Israeli army said. The flareup carried the risk of further escalation. Explosions were audible and projectiles lit up the sky over Gaza shortly before midnight, but no further details were immediately available. ...


Was Petraeus affair linked to lax Libya response?

Posted: 09 Nov 2012 03:00 PM PST

File photo of General David Petraeus gesturing during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in WashingtonThe CIA director abruptly resigned, citing an extramarital affair and needing to sort out "personal and professional issues."


'Disaster after the disaster': Unwanted donations

Posted: 09 Nov 2012 06:03 PM PST

FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 file photo, volunteers at Hoboken High School sort through clothing donations intended for distribution to the public, in Hoboken, N.J. Donations are rolling into New York and New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy, but some relief experts say the things being given are not always what's needed. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo, File)Superstorm Sandy has brought out generosity far and wide in the biggest U.S. relief effort for the American Red Cross and other groups since Hurricane Katrina swamped the Gulf Coast in 2005.


Pentagon releases Benghazi timeline, defends response

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 12:20 AM PST

People stand near a burnt car at the U.S. consulate, which was attacked and set on fire by gunmen yesterday, in BenghaziWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pentagon leaders knew of the September 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi an hour after it began, but were unable to mobilize reinforcements based in Europe in time to prevent the death of the U.S. ambassador, according to a timeline released on Friday. Senior defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, rejected criticism accusing the Pentagon of failing to move quickly to send reinforcements to relieve the consulate or using armed aerial drones to fire on the attackers. ...


'Tunnel of lights' dazzles spectators

Posted: 09 Nov 2012 07:00 AM PST

'Tunnel of lights' dazzles spectators

Sotheby's to sell Mick Jagger's love letters

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 09:01 AM PST

FILE - This Saturday, July 5, 1969 file photo shows Mick Jagger, lead singer of The Rolling Stones, singing during a free, five-hour concert before nearly 250,000 fans in Hyde Park in London, England. Handwritten letters from Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to his former lover Marsha Hunt will be auctioned in London next month. Hunt is an American-born singer who was the inspiration for the Stones' 1971 hit "Brown Sugar" and bore Jagger's first child. Sotheby's says the "passionate and articulate" letters sent in the summer of 1969 show a "poetic and self-aware" 25-year-old Jagger. The auction house said Saturday Nov. 10, 2012 that the collection, which includes song lyrics and a Rolling Stones playlist, is expected to fetch between 70,000 and 100,000 pounds ($111,300 and $159,000) and will go under the hammer on December 12. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp) B/W ONLYHandwritten letters from Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to his former lover Marsha Hunt will be auctioned in London next month.


U.S. computer graphics scientist wins Kyoto Prize

Posted: 10 Nov 2012 12:53 AM PST

In this May 10, 2012 photo released by the Inamori Foundation, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi, a molecular biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology is shown. Ohsumi, 67, was awarded Japan's annual Kyoto Prize for his work in the basic sciences Friday, June 22, 2012. (AP Photo/The Inamori Foundation) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAn American regarded as a father of computer graphics, an Indian literary critic and a Japanese molecular cell biologist have received the Kyoto Prize, Japan's highest private award for global achievement.


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