2014年9月23日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Man charged in missing Va. student case

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:46 PM PDT

Missing UVa StudentPolice have charged 32-year-old Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. with abduction with intent to defile.


Holder: Al-Qaida cell was nearing attack

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 01:08 PM PDT

Eric Holder with Katie CouricAG to Yahoo's Katie Couric: Khorasan is "capable" of being a greater concern than IS.


3 Afghan soldiers in U.S. immigration custody

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 01:44 PM PDT

A United States Boarder Patrol car sits next to the entrance to the United States from Canada on the Rainbow Bridge that connects Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. Three Afghanistan National Army officers who went missing during a training exercise at a Cape Cod military base were detained Monday at the U.S.-Canadian border, Massachusetts law enforcement officials said. (AP Photo/The Niagara Gazette, Dan Cappellazzo) BUFFALO NEWS OUT; BATAVIA DAILY NEWS OUTBOSTON (AP) — Three Afghanistan National Army officers who vanished during training in Massachusetts were placed in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday after being detained on the Canadian border, authorities said.


Secret Service interviewed accused W.H. intruder twice

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 02:25 PM PDT

This Sept. 21, 2009 photo provided by Jerry Murphy shows Omar Gonzalez, who was married to Murphy's mother, Samantha, until they divorced in 2012. Authorities have identified Gonzalez as the man who got into the White House after scaling a fence on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Courtesy Jerry Murphy)In both cases, the Secret Service concluded there was no evidence that Omar Gonzalez was a security threat: U.S. official.


After 13 years, Belgian 9/11 victim identified

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 02:07 PM PDT

White roses at the World Trade Center North Pool during memorial observances on the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York, on September 11, 2014More than 13 years after the September 11 attacks in New York City, one Belgian victim has finally been identified.


House candidate saws neighbor's garage in half: lawsuit

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 08:56 AM PDT

Minnesota House candidate saws neighbor's garage in halfNeighbor is seeking $40K, including $20K to fix the garage, and a portion of politician's property.


Ariz. fugitive captured after months on run

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 02:53 PM PDT

Arizona Jail EscapeFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A former personal trainer who broke free from an Arizona jail by hoisting himself atop a basketball hoop and pulling apart a security fence is back in custody after months on the run, authorities said Tuesday.


UPS gunman had been fired before attack

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:40 PM PDT

A UPS warehouse has police cars and tape surrounding it on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, in Birmingham, Ala. A UPS employee opened fire Tuesday morning inside one of the company's warehouses in Alabama, killing two people before taking his own life, police said.(AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)Police: Man who killed 2, himself at an Ala. UPS facility had been fired a day earlier.


Fire at memorial to slain teen adds to tensions in Ferguson

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 12:48 PM PDT

A fire burns Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 at a memorial in Ferguson, Mo., on the site where a Missouri police officer fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown. Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson says the cause is under investigation. He says the first officer to arrive tried to extinguish the blaze but couldn't. The Fire Department eventually put it out. (AP Photo/Jacob Crawford)City leaders in Ferguson, Missouri, faced heightened tensions on Tuesday after an early morning fire destroyed a makeshift memorial honoring the black teenager killed last month by a white police officer. The memorial for 18-year-old Michael Brown that caught fire was erected in a grassy area alongside the road where Brown died. A larger memorial, which runs down the center lane of the road, was untouched by the fire. Still, neighborhood residents who have been protecting and building on the memorials since Brown was killed Aug. ...


Mont. prosecutor seeks 10 years for teacher rapist

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 02:14 PM PDT

FILE- A Sept. 12, 2013 file photo released by the Montana State Prison shows Stacey Rambold, a 54-year-old teacher who is serving a 30-day sentence in prison for raping a former student who later killed herself. The Montana Supreme Court has denied Rambold's request to reconsider a ruling that's likely to send him back to prison to serve more time for the rape. (AP Photo/Montana State Prison)BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana prosecutor is seeking 10 years in prison for a teacher who raped a 14-year-old student, after the Supreme Court rejected a one-month sentence from an earlier judge whose comments pinned some responsibility on the victim.


White House vulnerability study in 1990s warned of fence jumpers

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 08:08 AM PDT

A member of the Secret Service Uniformed Division with a K-9 walks along the perimeter fence along Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. The Secret Service tightened their guard outside the White House after Friday's embarrassing breach in the security of one of the most closely protected buildings in the world. A man is accused of scaling the White House perimeter fence, running across the lawn and entering the presidential mansion before agents stopped him. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)The man who jumped the White House fence, ran across the North Lawn, up the stairs and through the front door before he was stopped by the Secret Service last week shocked security experts and lawmakers.


Obama: War on Islamic State will ‘take time’

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 07:51 AM PDT

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, A-18C Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 87, prepares to launch from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) to conduct strike missions against Islamic State group targets, in the Arabian Gulf, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. Syria said Tuesday that Washington informed President Bashar Assad's government of imminent U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State group, hours before an American-led military coalition pounded the extremists' strongholds across northern and eastern Syria. (AP Photo/Robert Burck, U.S. Navy)President says fight is not just the U.S.'s alone; Arab coalition played key role.


Obama: No nation has 'free pass' on climate change

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 10:48 AM PDT

United States President Barack Obama addresses the Climate Summit, at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Pres. Obama warns that the globe's climate is changing faster than efforts to address it.


Somali pirates release U.S.-German hostage

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 09:33 AM PDT

Michael Scott MooreMogadishu (AFP) - Somali pirates on Tuesday freed a German-American journalist and writer, Michael Scott Moore, two and a half years after he was kidnapped in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation, officials said.


More insurers to join Obamacare in 2015

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 11:08 AM PDT

Thousands of ObamaCare enrollees may lose coverageThe number of insurers offering individual health plans on the Obamacare exchanges will increase about 25 percent in 2015 and that should keep down prices, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday in a report. More than 7 million people signed up for health insurance through the exchanges in 2014, which were created under President Barack Obama's national healthcare reform law and offer income-based subsidies. Next year, there will be 63 additional issuers in the 44 states for which it has data, the agency said in a report. ...


Sierra Leone: 130 Ebola cases found during lockdown

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 11:18 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2014, file photo, a Nigerian health official wearing a protective suit waits to screen passengers for the Ebola virus at the arrivals hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. Six months into the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, scientists say they've learned more about how the potentially lethal virus behaves and how future outbreaks might be stopped. The first cases of Ebola were reported in Guinea by the World Health Organization on March 23 before spreading to Sierra Leone, Liberia and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)Sierra Leone says 130 confirmed cases of Ebola were found during a three-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the disease. Officials are awaiting tests on about 70 more suspected cases.


Bin Laden son-in-law sentenced to life in U.S. prison

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 12:33 PM PDT

Still image taken from an undated video of Suleiman Abu GhaithBy Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A seemingly unrepentant Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday in New York following his conviction on terrorism charges. A Manhattan federal jury in March found the Kuwaiti-born 48-year-old guilty of conspiring to kill Americans, conspiring to provide material support for terrorists and providing such support, after a trial that offered a rare glimpse of bin Laden in the hours following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. U.S. ...


Obama's Syria war carries risks for him at home and abroad

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:06 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama meets in New York with representatives of Arab nations that contributed in air strikes against Islamic State targets in SyriaBy Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Appearing relaxed enough to crack a joke, U.S. President Barack Obama took to the world stage on Tuesday after launching airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State militants but he is still facing huge political risks at home and abroad. The reason for Obama's good humor? His diplomacy paid off this time, with military contributions from five Arab states. One of his first items of business after arriving in New York for meetings at the United Nations was to personally thank representatives from the five. ...


U.S. security officials issue bulletin on Syria-based threat

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:31 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. security agencies issued an intelligence bulletin on Tuesday about threats from Syria-based al Qaeda operatives, a Homeland Security spokeswoman said. The Department of Homeland Security and FBI alerted state, local and federal law enforcement to the latest threats, said to DHS spokeswoman Marsha Catron. "Recent intelligence indicated that senior Syria-based AQ operatives were nearing the execution phase for an attack in Europe or the homeland," she said. U.S. ...

U.S.: Terror group was nearing attack

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:13 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about the participation of five Arab nations in airstrikes against militants in Syria., Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, on the South Lawn the White House, in Washington, before heading to the United Nations. The president said the participation of five Arab nations in airstrikes against militants in Syria "makes it clear to the world this is not America's fight alone." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)U.S. bombed cell of al-Qaida militants in northwestern Syria of whom few have heard.


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