2013年9月24日星期二

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US does about-face on Afghan War ally's visa

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 02:06 PM PDT

Army veteran Matt Zeller and his Afghan interpreter Janis Shinwari in 2008. (Photo courtesy of Matt Zeller)Janis Shinwari was an interpreter for the military for nearly seven years.


Clinton Global Initiative blends policy, celebrities and political intrigue

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 02:19 PM PDT

Former U.S. Secretary of State and former first lady Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea share a laugh while former U.S. President Clinton speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative 2013 (CGI) in New YorkA day in the life of former President Bill Clinton's annual confab, where policy meets celebrity.


Cruz vows to speak until he's "no longer able to stand" on Obamacare

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 12:41 PM PDT

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas leaves the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, after a testy exchange with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., at the start of legislative business. Cruz and fellow tea party conservatives on Sunday said President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies would be to blame if they don't accede to GOP demands to strike down the national health care law. Conservatives in the House on Friday approved legislation to keep the government running but at the cost of wiping out the Affordable Care Act, popularly known at "Obamacare." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Papers in hand, the Texas lawmaker begins a filibuster-esque speech.


Cruz vows to speak till he can't against Obamacare

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 03:32 PM PDT

This image from Senate video show Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaking on the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Cruz says he will speak until he's no longer able to stand in opposition to President Barack Obama's health care law. Cruz began a lengthy speech urging his colleagues to oppose moving ahead on a bill he supports. The measure would prevent a government shutdown and defund Obamacare. (AP Photo/Senate TV)WASHINGTON (AP) — Tea party conservative Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday vowed to speak in opposition to President Barack Obama's health care law until he's "no longer able to stand," even though fellow Republicans urged him to back down from his filibuster for fear of a possible government shutdown in a week.


Mass starvation feared in Syria; 'We have no food'

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 12:52 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens gather at the scene of a car bomb exploded in the residential al-Tadhamon neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Syrian state media say a car bomb has exploded in Damascus, killing and wounding a dozen people. Damascus has been hit by a wave of explosions over the past leaving scores of people dead. (AP Photo/SANA)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian opposition groups and international relief organizations are warning of the risk of mass starvation across the country, especially in the besieged Damascus suburbs where a gas attack killed hundreds last month.


Pakistan quake kills 39 as houses collapse

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 01:50 PM PDT

A Pakistani woman speaks on her mobile phone after rushing out of her apartment following a major earthquake that struck Baluchistan province in southwest Pakistan, 693 Kilometers (430 miles) from Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. A deadly earthquake struck Tuesday in southwestern Pakistan sending poeople fleeing into the streets and praying for their lives as buildings swayed, officials said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of Pakistanis ran into the streets praying for their lives Tuesday as a powerful earthquake rocked a remote area in the southwest, killing at least 39 people and possibly creating a small island off the coast.


6 more people found alive, well after Colo. floods

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 01:58 PM PDT

Colorado FloodsDENVER (AP) — The final six people who were unaccounted for after massive flooding in Colorado have been found safe and well, authorities said Tuesday, but new spills were reported in water-damaged oilfields.


Benedict defends abuse record in letter to atheist

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 03:10 PM PDT

In this Saturday, March 23, 2013 photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, left, meets Pope emeritus Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo Saturday, March 23, 2013. Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has emerged from his self-imposed silence inside the Vatican to publish a lengthy letter to one of Italy's most well-known atheists. In it, he defends his record on handling sexually abusive priests and discusses everything from evolution to theology to the figure of Jesus Christ. Excerpts of the letter were published Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 by La Repubblica, the same newspaper which just two weeks ago published a similar letter from Pope Francis to its own atheist publisher. The letters indicate the two men in white, who live across the Vatican gardens from one another, are pursuing a collaborative campaign of sorts to engage non-believers. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, Files)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Seven months after leaving the papacy, emeritus Pope Benedict XVI broke his self-imposed silence Tuesday by releasing a letter to one of Italy's best-known atheists in which he denied covering up for sexually abusive priests and defended Christianity to non-believers.


What 95% certainty of warming means to scientists

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 12:13 PM PDT

FILE - Smoke pours from a chimney at a cement plant in Binzhou city, in eastern China's Shandong province, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Scientists from around the world have gathered in Stockholm in September 2013 for a meeting of a U.N. panel on climate change and will probably issue a report saying it is "extremely likely" - which they define in footnotes as 95 percent certain - that humans are mostly to blame for temperatures that have climbed since 1951. (AP Photo)WASHINGTON (AP) — Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real, man-made threat as they are that cigarettes kill.


99-year-old Iowa woman gets high school diploma

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 11:59 AM PDT

In this Sept. 23, 2013, Audrey Crabtree, 99, left, smiles as Sarah Dierks pins a 1972 East High homecoming pin onto her jacket during an during an education board meeting in Waterloo, Iowa, where she received an honorary diploma. Crabtree dropped out of a Waterloo high school in 1932 due to an injury and to care for her grandmother. She went on to run her own business for nearly three decades. (AP Photo/Waterloo Courier, Tiffany Rushing)WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A 99-year-old Iowa woman who dropped out of a high school more than 80 years ago despite needing only one credit to graduate has finally received her diploma.


Officials: US, Russia still at odds over Syria

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 04:25 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during the 68th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. and Russian negotiators remain at odds on a U.N. Security Council resolution that would hold Syria accountable if it fails to live up to pledges to dismantle its chemical weapons stockpiles, American officials said Tuesday, as President Barack Obama warned the world body that it risks its credibility and reputation if it does not act.


Russia to file piracy charges against Greenpeace

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 03:59 PM PDT

Greenpeace ship 'Arctic Sunrise' is escorted by a Russian coast guard boat, in Kola Bay at the military base Severomorsk on the Kola peninsula in Russia, at dawn Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Russia has filed piracy charges against Greenpeace activists who tried to board an offshore drilling platform in the Arctic owned by state-controlled natural gas company Gazprom. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)MURMANSK, Russia (AP) — Russia's top investigative agency said Tuesday it will prosecute Greenpeace activists on piracy charges for trying to climb onto an Arctic offshore drilling platform owned by the state-controlled gas company Gazprom.


Iran president ready for nuclear negotiations

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 03:36 PM PDT

Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, right, meets with French President Francois Hollande during the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's new president held open the possibility of negotiations on his country's disputed nuclear program and talks with the United States in his first speech on the world stage Tuesday. But he was also highly critical of how the U.S. projects its power.


Obama: Syrian chemical weapon ban must be enforced

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 03:12 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during the 68th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged the U.N. Security Council to hold Syria accountable if it fails to live up to pledges to dismantle its chemical weapons stockpiles. He said the United Nations' credibility and reputation is at stake.


Cops: Wounded gang member behind Chicago shooting

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 02:00 PM PDT

This family handout photo provided by Rev. Corey Brooks shows 3-year-old Deonta Howard with his mother, Shamarah Leggett, recovering from a gunshot wound Monday, Sept. 23, 2013 at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Chicago. Howard was among 13 people shot Thursday night, Sept. 19, 2013, at Cornell Square Park on Chicago's southwest side. Two men were charged Monday with attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in the shooting. (AP Photo/Family photo via Rev. Corey Brooks)CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man who was clipped in the leg by gunfire went looking for revenge, leading fellow gang members to a crowded park, where one of them unleashed more than a dozen bullets from an assault rifle in a shooting that wounded 13 people, including a 3-year-old boy, authorities say.


Lohan's mom pleads not guilty to DWI charge in NY

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 02:57 PM PDT

Dina Lohan leaves court in Hempstead, N.Y. on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 after pleading not guilty to drunken driving charges. The mother of actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested on Sept. 12, accused of driving with more than double the legal limit of alcohol in her system. She has pleaded not guilty. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman)HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Her license suspended, Dina Lohan left a suburban New York courthouse in a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce on Tuesday after entering a not guilty plea on speeding and drunken driving charges.


Kenya says mall militants 'defeated'

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 03:30 PM PDT

Kenya mall attackBut it's unclear if the siege is over or if any attackers are still at large.


'Too complicated' for Obama, Iranian president Rouhani to meet

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 12:17 PM PDT

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, gives a speech during an annual military parade in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept, 22, 2013. On the eve of landmark trip to gather alongside Western leaders, Iran's president offered Sunday his most expansive vision that a deal to settle the impasse over Tehran's nuclear program could open doors for greater cooperation on regional flash points such as the Syrian civil war. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)Iranians felt it was "too complicated," U.S. officials say.


Long, strange trip ending for lovable VW Bus

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 12:44 PM PDT

Long, strange trip ending for lovable VW BusThe front of a VW bus is seen during the 29th annual "MaiKaeferTreffen" (May Beetle meeting) in Hanover, May 1, 2012. Around 3.500 air-cooled Volkswagen vehicles took part in this event hosted by the Maikaeferteam Hannover car association. (REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz)

Quake kills 45 in Pakistan, creates new island off coast

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 12:16 PM PDT

Pakistan quakeBy Gul Yusufzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A major earthquake hit a remote part of western Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 45 people and prompting a new island to rise from the sea just off the country's southern coast. Tremors were felt as far away as the Indian capital of New Delhi, hundreds of miles to the east, where buildings shook, as well as the sprawling port city of Karachi in Pakistan. The United States Geological Survey said the 7.8 magnitude quake struck 145 miles southeast of Dalbandin in Pakistan's quake-prone province of Baluchistan, which borders Iran. ...


Israel delegation to snub Iran president's U.N. speech

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 11:31 AM PDT

Iraniani President Hassan Rowhani delivers a speech in Tehran, on September 22, 2013JERUSALEM (AFP) - The Israeli delegation will boycott Iranian President Hassan Rowhani's address to the UN General Assembly later Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced.


In U.N. speech, Brazil lashes out at U.S. spy program

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 02:10 PM PDT

Brazil's President Roussef addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly in New YorkBrazil's president delivered a stinging rebuke Tuesday to the United States over its surveillance program that has swept up data from billions of telephone calls and emails that have passed through Brazil ...


The political paradoxes of Obamacare

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 10:26 AM PDT

Worries mounting over ObamaCare as implementation loomsThe Republican intraparty warfare over Obamacare is just one part of the confusion the health care law has triggered.


Obama: Wary but ‘encouraged’ by Iran's tone

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 08:32 AM PDT

U.S. President Obama addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly in New YorkThe president also had tough words for the U.N. on Syria.


Navy Yard shooter lied about previous arrest, debts

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 08:43 AM PDT

FILE - This undated cell phone photo provided by Kristi Kinard Suthamtewakul shows a smiling Aaron Alexis, the gunman in the Monday, Sept. 16, 2013 shooting rampage at at the Washington Navy Yard that killed 12, in Fort Worth, Texas. Alexis lied about a previous arrest when he applied for a security clearance in the Navy, and also failed to disclose thousands of dollars in debts, according to Navy report released Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Kristi Kinard Suthamtewakul, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Navy Yard shooter lied about a previous arrest and failed to disclose thousands of dollars in debts when he applied for a security clearance in the Navy.


Major quake hits Pakistan, killing at least 39

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 08:13 AM PDT

Pakistan quakeISLAMABAD (AP) — An official says the death toll has risen to 39 in a major earthquake in southwestern Pakistan.


Clinton initiative worker dies in Kenya attack

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 06:47 AM PDT

Yavuz and ClintonElif Yavuz, a senior vaccines researcher based in Tanzania, was nine months pregnant.


Cherokee girl transferred to adoptive parents

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 09:10 AM PDT

RE-TRANS WITH UPDATED INFO - FILE - This July 21, 2013 file photo provided by Shannon Jones, attorney for Dusten Brown, shows Brown with his daughter, Veronica. The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Monday, Sept. 23, 2013 said it won't intervene in an adoption dispute involving Veronica, a Cherokee girl, and dissolved a court order that was keeping her with Brown, her biological father. Cherokee Nation spokeswoman Amanda Clinton later confirmed that Veronica was handed over to her adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco of South Carolina on Monday night. (AP Photo/Courtesy Shannon Jones, File)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The South Carolina couple who adopted a Cherokee girl at the center of a yearslong custody dispute came to Oklahoma last month vowing not to leave without the child.


Floods may forever change funky Colorado towns

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 09:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2013 file photo, water rushes through her destroyed home as resident Holly Robb, left, and her neighbor Pam Bowers salvage belongings after storms that raged through the Rocky Mountain foothills in this photo made in Lyons, Colo. Two low-lying trailer parks in the small town, 20 minutes to the north of Boulder, bore the brunt of the recent flooding. LYONS, Colo. (AP) — The storms that raged through the Rocky Mountain foothills instantly remade the landscape and disrupted thousands of lives. They may have also changed the character of the funky mountain hamlets that dot the Front Range.


Kenya mall attackers threaten more violence

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 06:16 AM PDT

Al-Shebab spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage speaks during a press conference near Afgoye, Somalia on October 17, 2011The insurgents behind ongoing mall siege want Kenyan troops out of Somalia.


Obama, Bill Clinton reunite to perform health care duet

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 06:34 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by former President Bill Clinton are seen at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Health care is reuniting President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton. The two are set to appear together Tuesday to discuss Obama's health care law at a session sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative, the former president's foundation. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Health care is reuniting President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton.


Watch Live: Obama addresses U.N. on Syria, Iran

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 07:07 AM PDT

U.S. President Obama addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly in New YorkExpect to hear the president discuss chemical weapons and the new government in Tehran.


Obama to address Iran, Syria in U.N. speech

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 06:11 AM PDT

U.S. President Obama speaks during his meeting with Nigeria's President Jonathan in New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will make clear on Tuesday that he wants to pursue a diplomatic path to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear program in a U.N. General Assembly speech that will also cover events in Syria and the Middle East. In a speech scheduled for 10:10 a.m. EDT (1410), a White House official said Obama will lay out U.S. views in three areas: efforts to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, the international effort to gain control of Syria's chemical weapons and the search for Israeli-Palestinian peace. ...


Mexico storms, flooding reveal human errors

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 06:19 AM PDT

Rescuers search for victims of a landslide in La Pintada, Guerrero state, Mexico on September 23, 2013MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Human nature is sharing the blame with Mother Nature in Mexico for the destruction spawned by twin storms, with critics pointing to shoddy construction, endemic corruption and political wheeling-and-dealing.


Family, record company fight over legendary bluesman's photos

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 03:59 PM PDT

In this box cover image released by Sony Music Entertainment/Legacy, "Robert Johnson: The Complete Original Masters. Centennial EditionJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A legal battle over profits from the only two known photographs of legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson — who is said to have sold his soul to the devil for prowess on the guitar — now rests with the Mississippi Supreme Court.


Kenyan forces defusing explosives in mall

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 07:23 AM PDT

A Kenyan police officer on September 23, 2013 at the entrance of a building near the beseiged Westgate shopping mallThe devices were set by militants who claim to still hold hostages, police say.


Militants say hostages alive in Kenya mall

Posted: 24 Sep 2013 04:17 AM PDT

Kenyan army soldiers and police officers patrol near the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Kenyan security forces battled al-Qaida-linked terrorists in an upscale mall for a third day Monday in what they said was a final push to rescue the last few hostages in a siege that has left at least 62 people dead. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)The group behind the deadly attack says its fighters are "still holding their ground."


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