2014年1月18日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - China

Mayor: Chris Christie aides tied Superstorm Sandy funds to project

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:59 PM PST

In this Jan. 16, 2014, photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a gathering of home owners in Manahawkin, N.J., who were affected by last year's Superstorm Sandy. Christie faces a big test this weekend following the eruption of a political scandal in his home state. He needs to reassure top financial donors that he's addressing allegations of political payback in New Jersey and remains a viable presidential contender. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)Christie's staff threatened to withhold aid unless a plan was approved, the official says.

Many remain wary of W.Va. water as smell lingers

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 12:03 PM PST

Sarah Bergstrom poses for a photo with her son Blake, 4, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in her home in Charleston, W.Va. The 29-year-old nurse who is 4 months pregnant with her second child was devastated when she learned after a ban on tap water was lifted days after a chemical leak that health officials urged pregnant women not to drink tap water until the chemical is entirely undetectable. (AP Photo/John Raby)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The smell lingers — the slightly sweet, slightly bitter odor of a chemical that contaminated the water supply of West Virginia's capital more than a week ago. It creeps out of faucets and shower heads. It wafts from the Elk River, the site of the spill. Sometimes it hangs in the cold nighttime air.

As LA-area fire wanes, dangerous conditions remain

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 10:04 AM PST

GLENDORA, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire in the suburbs of Los Angeles was a smoldering shadow of its former self, but hundreds of residents of a foothill neighborhood remained evacuated and extremely dangerous fire conditions were expected to last well into Saturday.

Sheriff: Hernandez separated for his own safety

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 03:23 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2013, file photo, former New England Patriots NFL football player Aaron Hernandez attends a pretrial court hearing in Fall River, Mass. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to killing Odin Lloyd, 27, a semi-professional football player from Boston who was dating the sister of Hernandez's girlfriend. Police wrote in a June 28, 2013 search warrant application that there was probable cause to believe that Hernandez was driving a vehicle used in a separate double slaying of Daniel Jorge Correia de Abreu and Safiro Teixeira Furtado, in Boston, and "may have been the shooter." (AP Photo/Brian Snyder, Pool, File)Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez can't watch football on TV for his own safety, the sheriff in charge of the prison said on Saturday.

Madonna apologizes for racial slur

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 10:37 AM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 file photo, Madonna's son, Rocco Ritchie, foreground, attends the world premiere of "Madonna: The MDNA Tour" at the Paris Theatre in New York. Madonna is apologizing for using a racial slur to refer to her white son Instagram. On Friday night, Jan. 17, 2014, she posted a picture of her 13-year-old son boxing and used a hashtag that contained a racial slur. When fans objected, she defiantly called them haters, but in a statement to The Associated Press on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014, she was contrite and said: "Forgive me." (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)NEW YORK (AP) — Madonna is apologizing for using a racial slur to refer to her white son on Instagram.

Police: 2nd Philly school suspect released

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:42 PM PST

Police walk to the Delaware Valley Charter School Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in Philadelphia. Police say two students have been shot at a Philadelphia high school. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Police charged a boy with aggravated assault and related crimes on Saturday in connection with a shooting that wounded two students inside a Philadelphia high school gymnasium, but released a second boy from custody without charging him.

Officials: Iranian diplomat killed in Yemen

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 06:06 AM PST

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Gunmen killed an Iranian diplomat in a drive-by shooting in Yemen's capital Saturday, security and medical officials said, the latest attack on Iran's diplomatic corps in the Middle East in recent months.

Police: 2nd Philly school suspect surrenders

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 12:26 PM PST

Police walk to the Delaware Valley Charter School Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in Philadelphia. Police say two students have been shot at a Philadelphia high school. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)A boy charged with aggravated assault and related crimes surrendered to police Saturday in connection with a shooting that wounded two students inside a Philadelphia high school gymnasium, authorities said.

Suicide attack on Afghan restaurant kills 21

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban attack against a popular Kabul restaurant killed 21 people, officials said Saturday, in the deadliest attack against foreign civilians since the war began nearly 13 years ago.

Egypt: 98.1 percent of voters approve constitution

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 11:03 AM PST

CAIRO (AP) — Voters overwhelmingly supported Egypt's military-backed constitution in a two-day election, with 98.1 percent supporting it in the first vote since a coup toppled the country's president, the election commission said Saturday.

Obama fuels reform on some but not all NSA spying

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:14 PM PST

In this Jan. 17, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama Talks about National Security Agency surveillance at the Justice Department in Washington. Obama's orders to change some U.S. surveillance practices put the burden on Congress to deal with a national security controversy that has alarmed Americans and outraged foreign allies. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's orders to change some U.S. surveillance practices put the burden on Congress to deal with a national security controversy that has alarmed Americans and outraged foreign allies. Yet he avoided major action on the practice of sweeping up billions of phone, email and text messages from across the globe.

Police: 2nd Philly school suspect to surrender

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 09:11 AM PST

Police walk to the Delaware Valley Charter School Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in Philadelphia. Police say two students have been shot at a Philadelphia high school. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say a boy charged with aggravated assault was expected to surrender Saturday in connection with a shooting that wounded two students at a high school gymnasium.

APNewsBreak: Pope defrocked 400 priests in 2 years

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:41 PM PST

A copy of an internal Vatican document used by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's U.N. ambassador in Geneva, during the Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 hearing before the U.N. committee monitoring implementation of the Convention for the Rights of the Child. Tomasi cited some of the 2012 figures contained in the document, which was prepared to help the Holy See defend itself. The document obtained by the Associated Press shows that as more than 800 new sex abuse cases poured into the Vatican in 2011-2012, the pope defrocked nearly 400 priests for molesting children. (AP Photo)VATICAN CITY (AP) — A document obtained by The Associated Press on Friday shows Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests over just two years for sexually molesting children.

Americans, U.N. officials among 21 killed in Kabul attack

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 12:35 PM PST

A Taliban suicide bomber and gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in the Afghan capital.

UN team in Iran to oversee landmark nuclear deal

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:26 AM PST

Iranian students form a human chain during a rally to defend their country's nuclear programme outside the Fordo Uranium Conversion Facility in Qom, in the north of the country, on November 19, 2013Inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog arrived in Tehran Saturday to oversee implementation of process that puts temporary curbs on Iran's nuclear program, state media reported.

Obama's proposed changes in NSA spy programs

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 01:06 AM PST

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)The president is calling for major changes in the way the U.S. intelligence community collects and stores information about people in the U.S. and abroad.

Indonesian floods kill 23, displace thousands

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 03:19 AM PST

Vehicles drive on a flooded road in Jakarta on January 17, 2014The death toll in days of floods and landslides in Indonesia has climbed to 23, an official said Saturday, as torrential rain pounded the capital. Families in Jakarta neighbourhoods waded through murky chest-high flood waters, clutching their belongings, while others were ferried to safety in rubber dinghies, local TV stations showed. "Five people have died in Jakarta so far from drowning or electrocution in the floods," National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nurgoho told AFP. Meanwhile the death toll rose to 18 late Friday in the northern part of Indonesia's Sulawesi island, which has suffered flash floods and landslides.

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