2012年11月17日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Israel bombards Gaza Strip, shoots down rocket

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 02:32 PM PST

An Iron Dome missile is launched in Tel Aviv, to intercept a rocket fired from Gaza, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with nearly 200 airstrikes early Saturday, the military said, widening a blistering assault on Gaza rocket operations to include the prime minister's headquarters, a police compound and a vast network of smuggling tunnels. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)Israel destroyed the headquarters of Hamas' prime minister and blasted a sprawling network of smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, broadening a blistering four-day-old offensive against the Islamic militant group even as diplomatic efforts to broker a cease-fire appeared to be gaining steam.

Obama turns to foreign policy with Asia trip

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 01:12 AM PST

Myanmar children walk near a graffiti painted by Myanmar artist Arker Kyaw to welcome U.S. President Barack Obama on a street in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. Word of Obama's historic visit has spread quickly around Yangon, which is readying itself with legions of hunched workers painting fences and curbs, pulling weeds and scraping grime off old buildings in anticipation of the president's Monday arrival. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)In his first trip abroad since the summer heat of the re-election campaign, President Barack Obama will seek to reinforce American influence in Southeast Asia in spite of the large shadow cast by China. He will become the first U.S. president to visit Myanmar, an appreciation for its steps toward democratization, as well as Cambodia.

Democrats stiffen spine against trimming benefits

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 01:41 PM PST

FILE - This Nov. 16, 2012 file photo shows Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio looking on, speaking to reporters outside the White House in Washington following a meeting with President Barack Obama to discuss the economy and the deficit. President Barack Obama's re-election has stiffened Democrats' spine against cutting popular benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security. Their new resolve could become as big a hurdle to reaching a deal for skirting economy-crippling tax increases and spending cuts in January as Republicans' resistance raising tax rates on the wealthy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)President Barack Obama's re-election has stiffened Democrats' spine against cutting popular benefit programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Their new resolve could become as big a hurdle to a deal that would skirt crippling tax increases and spending cuts in January as Republicans' resistance to raising tax rates on the wealthy.

Republicans: GOP needs to get with the times

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 02:10 PM PST

FILE - This Nov. 7, 2012 file photo shows then-Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney taking the stage to concede his quest for president, at the Boston Convention Center in Boston. The Grand Old Party needs to get with the times. That's according to many Republicans who talked of the party's challenges following the GOP's electoral shellacking. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)To hear some Republicans tell it, the Grand Old Party needs to get with the times.

Coast Guard searches for two after oil platform fire

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 10:30 AM PST

In this image released by a oil field worker and obtained by the Associated Press, a fire burns on a Gulf oil platform Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, after an explosion on the rig, in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. An explosion and fire ripped through a Gulf oil platform Friday as workers used a cutting torch, sending at least four people to a hospital with burns and leaving two missing in waters off Louisiana. (AP Photo)Two oil workers remained lost at sea Saturday, a day after a torch being used to cut an oil pipe ignited a blaze that severely burned four others workers on a production platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

Clinton says budget deal critical to U.S. global role

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 12:40 AM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Clinton gives a speech at the Singapore Management University in SingaporeSINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday that reaching a deal to resolve America's budget crisis is critical to its global leadership and national security and would bolster efforts to project U.S. economic power around the world. Speaking in Singapore during a tour of Asia and Australia, Clinton said that when she was in Asia last year during the height of debate about the U.S. debt ceiling, leaders from across the region asked her if the U.S. Congress would actually allow the United States to default on its debt. "Let's be clear," she said. ...

Like Olympian McKayla Maroney, Obama is not impressed

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 06:44 AM PST

The President Is UnimpressedThis is a picture of the President with Olympic hero and living meme McKayla Maroney imitating her now famous facial expression from this summer's Olympics. Do you remember the Olympics? What a great time that was. Maroney rather famously came in second in her individual competition and was unimpressed with her performance. The Olympic gymnasts visited the White House on Thursday. This photo was uploaded to the President's Flickr feed on Saturday morning, though.

Thousands protest in Egypt against Israeli attacks on Gaza

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 12:33 AM PST

Egyptian protesters shout slogans against Israel's ongoing military operation in Gaza Strip, in old CairoCAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Egyptian cities on Friday against Israeli air strikes on Gaza and Egypt's president pledged to support the Palestinian enclave's population in the face of "blatant aggression". Western governments are watching Egypt's response to the Gaza conflagration for signs of a more assertive stance towards Israel since an Islamist came to power in the Arab world's most populous nation. ...

White House says didn't heavily edit Benghazi talking points

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 02:55 PM PST

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The White House did not heavily alter talking points about the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, an official said on Saturday. "If there were adjustments made to them within the intelligence community, that's common, and that's something they would have done themselves," Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser, told reporters. "The only edit ... made by the White House was the factual edit as to how to refer to the facility. ...

Dolphins found shot, slashed, stabbed with tool

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 02:33 PM PST

Authorities are investigating several attacks on dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico after some were found with gunshot wounds, cuts and missing jaws.

Palestinian officials: Arafat grave being dug up

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 11:33 AM PST

Two Palestinian officials say workers with jackhammers are opening the concrete-encased grave of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his former compound in the West Bank.

White House: 'Not near finish line' on fiscal cliff talks

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 10:59 AM PST

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet with congressional leaders in the week after Thanksgiving to discuss the "fiscal cliff" of expiring tax cuts and spending reductions, and he remains committed to fighting off a tax increase for most Americans, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Saturday. But Carney refused to provide details of the agreement Obama is negotiating with the country's top lawmakers. ...

Man accused of 'Twilight' plot was detained in 2009

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 01:38 PM PST

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Polk County, Mo. Sheriff's Department shows Blaec Lammers, who is accused of plotting to open fire inside a movie theater during a screening of the new "Twilight" film. Lammers, of Bolivar, Mo., was charged Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 with three felony counts, including making a terrorist threat. Bolivar police say his mother contacted authorities Thursday, saying she was concerned her son had purchased weapons similar to those used in the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo. (AP Photo/Polk County Sheriff's Department, File)A southwest Missouri man who confessed this week to plotting to shoot up a "Twilight" showing and a Walmart store was detained in 2009 after threatening a store clerk, police said Saturday.

Train plows into school bus in Egypt, 50 killed

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 08:59 AM PST

People gather near a train, with bloodstains, after it crashed into a school bus at Manflot in the southern city of AssuitCAIRO (Reuters) - Fifty people, mostly children, were killed when a train slammed into a school bus as it crossed the tracks at a rail crossing south of Cairo on Saturday, further inflaming public anger at Egypt's shoddy transport network. Witnesses said barriers at the crossing were open when the train hit the bus. Transport Minister Mohamed Rashad and the head of the railways authority resigned, and President Mohamed Mursi said those responsible would be held to account. The bus was broken in half by the force of the crash. ...

New satellite will be space mechanic, gas station

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 05:26 AM PST

New Satellite Will Be Space Mechanic, Gas StationNEW YORK — A young spaceflight company is building what it hopes will be the ultimate space handyman, a combination repair droid and orbital gas station to serve ailing satellites around Earth.

Sandy cleanup turns popular New York beach parking lot into dump

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 05:05 AM PST

A piece of construction equipment works on the pile of debris, collected during the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy, in the parking lot of Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaway section of the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. Sandy devastated shoreline communities in New York Oct. 29. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)NEW YORK (Reuters) - Last summer it was packed with beachgoers, a parking lot where New Yorkers stashed their cars, applied sunscreen and dragged lawn chairs, coolers and umbrellas across the blacktop toward the shore. Today it's an enormous waste collection site half a mile long and a quarter-mile wide, piled high with debris from the flooding caused by storm Sandy. Twisted steel, waterlogged wood, broken furniture and countless mattresses fill a parking lot that normally serves one of New York's most popular ocean beaches. ...

Pakistan struggles in race to develop armed drones

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 12:21 PM PST

In this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 photo, visitors look at Pakistan-made unmanned aircraft at defense exhibition in Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistan is secretly racing to develop its own armed drones, frustrated with U.S. refusals to provide the aircraft, but is struggling in its initial tests with a lack of precision munitions and advanced targeting technology. The development of unmanned combat aircraft is especially sensitive in Pakistan because of the widespread unpopularity of U.S. drone strikes against militants in the rugged tribal region bordering Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)Pakistan is secretly racing to develop its own armed drones, frustrated with U.S. refusals to provide the aircraft, but is struggling in its initial tests with a lack of precision munitions and advanced targeting technology.

Thousands march for abortion rights in Ireland

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 01:04 PM PST

An Indian man and Irish woman light candles as abortion rights protesters march through central Dublin Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, demanding that Ireland's government create a law defining when abortions can be performed to save a woman's life. Ireland has been shocked by the death of Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian dentist who died of blood poisoning after being denied an abortion in a Dublin hospital last month. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)About 10,000 people marched through Dublin and observed a minute's silence Saturday in memory of the Indian dentist who died of blood poisoning in an Irish hospital after being denied an abortion.

Report: U.S. denies visas to Iran officials for U.N. meeting

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 11:04 AM PST

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United States has denied visas to Iranian officials hoping to attend a U.N. meeting in New York, Iran's state news agency reported on Saturday. The Iranian judiciary's Human Rights Headquarters said in a statement that the United States denied visas to members of an Iranian delegation that planned to travel to a meeting of the United Nations' Third Committee, which focuses on social issues and human rights, state news agency IRNA said. "The U.S. ...

Texas town begins recovery following deaths of veterans

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 12:34 PM PST

This combination of undated family photos provided by the Show of Support, Hunt for Heroes committee show, from left: Sgt. Maj. Gary Stouffer, 37; Sgt. Maj. Lawrence Boivin, 47; Army Sgt. Joshua Michael, 34, and Sgt. Maj. William Lubbers, 43, four veterans killed when a parade float they were riding on was struck by a freight train at a crossing Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, in Midland, Texas. (AP Photo/Courtesy Show Of Support)Two days after a train suddenly plowed into a parade float, killing four war veterans, the city of Midland, investigators and the victims' families began what likely will be a long, painful recovery.

Low Mississippi River water levels may halt barges

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 08:12 AM PST

A barge powers its way up the Mississippi River Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, in St. Louis. A top Corps of Engineers official has ordered the release of water from an upper Mississippi River reservoir in an effort to avoid closure of the river at St. Louis to barge traffic due to low water levels caused by drought. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)The gentle whir of passing barges is as much a part of life in St. Louis as the Gateway Arch and the Cardinals, a constant, almost soothing backdrop to a community intricately intertwined with the Mississippi River.

U.N. attack helicopters hit rebels in eastern Congo

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 10:15 AM PST

KINSHASA (Reuters) - United Nations attack helicopters hit rebel positions in eastern Congo on Saturday after insurgents gained ground in heavy fighting with government troops, the U.N. said. The clashes to the south of the town Kibumba mean the rebels have advanced to within 30 km (18 miles) of Goma, the closest they have been to North Kivu's provincial capital since a rebellion exploded in the eastern provinces eight months ago. ...

Sandy uprooted trees by the thousands in New York, New Jersey

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 08:08 AM PST

In this Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012 photo, a tree felled by Superstorm Sandy rests against a house in New Rochelle, N.Y. The storm took down thousands of trees across the New York and New Jersey regions. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)They fell by the thousands, like soldiers in some vast battle of giants, dropping to the earth in submission to a greater force.

Hindu extremist leader Bal Thackeray dies in India

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 05:21 AM PST

FILE- In this Oct. 18, 2002 file photo, Hindu hardline Shiv Sena party leader Bal Thackeray speaks at a press conference at his residence in Mumbai, India. Thackeray, the extremist leader linked to waves of mob violence against Muslims and migrant workers, has died Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, after ailing for several weeks. He was 86. (AP Photo/Rajesh Nirgude, File)Bal Thackeray, a Hindu extremist leader linked to waves of mob violence against Muslims and migrant workers in India, died Saturday after an illness of several weeks. He was 86.

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