2012年9月15日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - China


California man linked to anti-Islam film may have violated probation

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:36 AM PDT

Nakoula May have Violated Probation by Making MovieFederal probation officers interviewed Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a California filmmaker responsible for creating an anti-Islam film that sparked protests in more than 30 countries, late last night.


Al-Qaida praises Libya consulate attack and urges more killings

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:05 AM PDT

Al Qaeda Praises Libya Consulate Attack as Anti-American Protests SubsideAl Qaeda's branch in Yemen praised the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya as a "great event" today, and urged followers to kill other American diplomats across the Muslim world.


Sudan rejects U.S. request to send 50 Marines to country

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:28 AM PDT

Sudanese protesters chant slogans during a protest in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Germany's Foreign Minister says the country's embassy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum has been stormed by protesters and set partially on fire. Minister Guido Westerwelle told reporters that the demonstrators are apparently protesting against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.(AP Photo/Abd Raouf)Sudan has rejected a U.S. request to send 50 Marines to that country to help boost security at  the American embassy in Khartoum, a U.S. official confirms. With the Marines en route to Sudan on Friday night, a U.S. official said at the time that...


Teen charged with trying to blow up Chicago bar

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 03:44 PM PDT

FILE-This Friday, June 15, 2012, file photo, shows the Chicago skyline. The Chicago area's jobless rate improved to 9.4 percent in June from 10.9 percent a year earlier. Sales of foreclosed homes have been climbing. The region's supply of bank-owned homes is now nearly 19 months. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old American man who tried to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors said Saturday.


Obama: U.S. won't tolerate efforts to harm Americans

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:56 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally in Golden, ColoradoPresident Barack Obama on Saturday rejected any denigration of Islam but said there is no excuse for attacks on U.S. embassies, insisting he will never tolerate efforts to harm Americans. "I have made it clear that the United States has a profound respect for people of all faiths," Obama said in his weekly radio address. "Yet there is never any justification for violence .... There is no excuse for attacks on our embassies and consulates." Angry anti-American protests have swept the Muslim world in response to a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad. An attack on the U. ...


Wisconsin AG aims to enforce union law during appeals

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 04:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 25, 2012 file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a news conference in Chicago. A Wisconsin judge struck down Walker's law ending most collective bargaining for public workers. Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, that the law violates both the state and U.S. Constitution and is null and void. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)Wisconsin's attorney general said Saturday he would seek court permission to keep enforcing a state law that effectively ended collective bargaining for public employees while his office appeals a judge's ruling striking it down.


Chicago teachers rally after tentative labor deal

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 03:47 PM PDT

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis leaves a press conference on the fifth day of their strike in ChicagoCHICAGO (Reuters) - Thousands of striking Chicago teachers rallied on Saturday to keep the pressure on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to wrap up an agreement with their union to end a strike that has closed the nation's third largest school district for a week. The rally brought labor leaders, community activists and thousands of striking teachers to Chicago's Union Park for one of the largest demonstrations against Emanuel's education reforms since the strike began on Monday. ...


Taliban claims responsibility on Afghan base assault

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 05:57 AM PDT

FILE- A British armored vehicle patrols on the periphery of the camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan, in this Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007 file photo. The Taliban claimed responsibility on Saturday Sept 15 2012 for an attack against the sprawling British base in southern Afghanistan that killed two U.S. Marines and wounded several other troops, saying it was to avenge an anti-Islamic film which insulted the Prophet Muhammad and also because Britain's Prince Harry is serving there.The camp Bastion, which is the middle of the Afghanistan desert, locally called Dasht-e-Margo or 'the desert of death' houses some 3,500 British servicemen and provides logistic supports to all the troops for their various operations in Southern Afghan. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)The Taliban claimed responsibility Saturday for an attack on a sprawling British base in southern Afghanistan that killed two U.S. Marines and wounded several other troops, saying it was to avenge an anti-Islamic film that insulted the Prophet Muhammad and also because Britain's Prince Harry is serving there.


With 7 weeks to go, Obama-Romney race still tight

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaks during a Transfer of Remains Ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. Middle East violence is shaking up a U.S. presidential race that otherwise looks stubbornly stable _ and tight: President Barack Obama holds a tiny edge, Republican Mitt Romney seeks a break-through message, and three debates loom in the campaign's final seven weeks. Republicans and Democrats agree the election is likely to be decided on Obama's jobs-and-economy record, and both campaigns are entering a new campaign week working to shift the focus back to that issue. But foreign policy leaped to forefront of the campaign in recent days, as protestors attacked U.S. diplomats and missions in the Middle East. It's unclear when it will abate. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)Middle East violence is shaking up a presidential race that otherwise looks stubbornly stable, and tight. President Barack Obama holds a tiny edge, Republican Mitt Romney is seeking a breakthrough message, and three debates are ahead in the campaign's final seven weeks.


Afghan policeman kills two British soldiers

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:54 PM PDT

KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan policeman killed two British soldiers from the NATO-led force in southern Afghanistan on Saturday before he was himself shot dead, security and coalition officials said. The incident brought to 47 the number of foreign military personnel killed in insider attacks this year. The gunman was returning from a security operation in Helmand with coalition soldiers when he turned his gun on them, a security source told Reuters. He killed the two soldiers and wounded three others. ...

Egyptian police clear protesters near U.S. mission

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 01:47 PM PDT

CAIRO (Reuters) - Riot police stormed into Cairo's Tahrir Square and rounded up hundreds of protesters early on Saturday after four days of clashes sparked by a film denigrating the Prophet Mohammad. Security forces secured the square, just a few hundred yards from the U.S. embassy, and formed cordons in the surrounding roads. Plain-clothes officers patrolled the area, grabbing anyone they saw as suspicious. There was no sign of protests by mid-morning and traffic through Tahrir resumed. ...

Israeli official signals no war is imminent with Iran

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 10:56 AM PDT

A senior Israeli official signaled on Saturday that there would be no unilateral attack on Iran in the coming weeks, saying that international pressure had kept Tehran's controversial nuclear program in check. Speculation that Israel might attack Iranian atomic facilities alone, and soon, has soared given an unusually public dispute with the United States about how much time to allow for negotiations and sanctions to run their course before considering military action. ...

Pope Benedict: Time for Muslims, Christians to come together

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 10:24 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI stands next to Lebanese President Michel Suleiman as he waves to the crowd at Rafik Hariri international airport, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Lebanon on Friday to urge peace at a time of great turmoil in the Middle East, saying the import of weapons to Syria during the country's civil war is a "grave sin." The three-day visit comes at a time of turmoil in the region — the civil war in neighboring Syria and in the aftermath of a mob attack that killed several Americans in Libya, including the U.S. ambassador. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)Pope Benedict XVI told Syrians at a rally for young people Saturday that he admired their courage and that he does not forget those in the Middle East who are suffering.


Superbug kills 7th person at Maryland hospital

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 01:49 PM PDT

A deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics has killed a seventh person at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland.

Topless Kate photos published in Ireland, Italy next

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:49 AM PDT

Prince William, left, and his wife Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge walk through the rainforest in Danum Valley Research Center in Danum Valley, Sabab, Malaysia, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/ Vincent Thian, Pool)The British royal family faced a multinational battle to contain the spread of topless photos of Prince William's wife Kate, as an Irish tabloid published them Saturday and an Italian gossip magazine planned to do the same despite the threat of legal action.


Neighbor: N.Y. rape suspect terrorized W.Va. women

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 10:05 AM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections, inmate David Albert Mitchell is shown. Mitchell was charged Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 with rape and assault after the victim identified him as the person who raped and beat her in New York's Central Park. (AP Photo/Virginia Department of Corrections)The man accused of raping an elderly woman in New York's Central Park frightened people for years in his tiny West Virginia hometown, where a neighbor says residents were so terrified after his release from prison last year they bought guns to protect themselves.


911 tapes of New Jersey supermarket shooting released

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 06:14 AM PDT

911 Tapes of New Jersey Pathmark Supermarket Shooting ReleasedEmployees Tell 911 Dispatcher They Hid From Shooter


Anti-Putin protest draws tens of thousands

Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:53 AM PDT

Opposition supporters gather for a protest rally in Moscow, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. Thousands of protesters marched across downtown Moscow on Saturday in the first major rally in three months against President Vladimir Putin, while defying the Kremlin's ongoing efforts to crackdown on opposition. Color balloons with the words Freedom to Pussy Riot refer to the three members of the punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in prison for performing an anti-Putin song inside Moscow's main cathedral. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)The first major protest against President Vladimir Putin after a summer lull drew tens of thousands of people, determined to show that opposition sentiment remains strong despite Kremlin efforts to muzzle dissent.


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