2015年6月30日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Obama to announce U.S., Cuba deal to reopen embassies

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The shift is part of the president's drive to wipe away Cold War-era tensions with Havana.


IMF: Greece misses $1.8 billion loan payment

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 03:22 PM PDT

Demonstrators gather during a rally organized by supporters of the YES vote for the upcoming referendum in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. At midnight central Europe-time on Tuesday, the country is set to become the first developed nation to miss a debt repayment to the International Monetary Fund, as Greece sinks deeper into a financial emergency that has forced it put a nationwide lockdown on money withdrawals. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest news on Greece's financial woes (all times local):


Chris Christie launches 2016 presidential bid

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 06:51 AM PDT

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie arrives to speak to supporters during an event announcing he will seek the Republican nomination for president, Tuesday, June 30, 2015, at Livingston High School in Livingston, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)Yahoo's Bianna Golodryga and guests look at the N.J. governor's chances in a crowded GOP field.


Obama's approval rating hits two-year high

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 07:41 AM PDT

In this June 26, 2015, photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. The Obama administration will propose requiring overtime pay for workers who earn nearly $1,000 per week, three individuals familiar with the plan said Monday, June 29. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)According to a new CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday, 50 percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling his presidency — up 5 points over the most recent survey and his highest approval rating since May 2013.


KKK plans South Carolina rally as Confederate flag debate continues

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 02:51 PM PDT

A Confederate flag is held up by a man at a rally outside the State House to get the Confederate flag removed from the grounds in ColumbiaThe Ku Klux Klan plans to hold a pro-Confederate flag rally at South Carolina's capitol, where a statue of a former state governor who championed white supremacy was vandalized on Tuesday amid scrutiny of symbols associated with slavery. The Civil War-era flag and related monuments have become flashpoints after nine black men and women were gunned down at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina. The suspected shooter, Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white man, had posed with a Confederate battle flag in photos posted on a website that displayed a racist manifesto attributed to him.


Oklahoma to quickly resume executions after Supreme Court decision

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 12:43 PM PDT

A police officer patrols the plaza in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington(Reuters) - Oklahoma is looking to resume executions as soon as August after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that a drug used in the state's lethal injection mix was appropriate and legal, officials said on Tuesday.


U.S. Justice Dept. cites missteps by police during Ferguson unrest

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 02:35 PM PDT

Police officers point their weapons at demonstrators protesting against the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MissouriPolice responding to race-related protests and riots in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer made a series of missteps, including antagonizing crowds with attack dogs and military-style tactics, according to a U.S. Justice Department report. A Justice Department representative said the "after-action assessment ... will convey the findings and lessons learned." The report focuses on the tactics of police from Ferguson, St. Louis, St. Louis County and the Missouri Highway Patrol. All four agencies tried to quell the protests and riots that broke out after a white Ferguson police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, on Aug. 9, 2014.


Little hope of survivors in Indonesian military plane crash

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 09:04 AM PDT

Firefighters and military personnel inspect the site where an Air Force cargo plane crashed in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, tuesday, June 30, 2015. An Indonesian Air Force Hercules C-130 plane with 12 crew aboard has crashed into a residential neighborhood in the country's third-largest city Medan. (AP Photo/Gilbert Manullang)An aircraft crashes into a residential neighborhood in Indonesia's third-largest city.


Official: Prison chief, 11 others put on leave after escape

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 02:38 PM PDT

FILE - This combination of file photos released by the New York State Police shows David Sweat, left, and Richard Matt. Matt, who staged a brazen escape from an upstate maximum-security prison with Sweat and had been hunted for three weeks was shot and killed Friday, June 26, 2015. Sweat was shot and captured on Sunday, June 28. (New York State Police via AP, File)ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The superintendent at the prison where two killers broke out has been placed on leave along with his security chief and 10 other staff members amid an internal investigation into how the inmates pulled it off, a state official said Tuesday.


Crunch time for Greece as IMF debt looms and bailout ends

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 04:15 PM PDT

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras prepares for a TV interview at the State Television (ERT) in Athens, Monday, June 29, 2015. Anxious pensioners swarmed closed bank branches Monday and long lines snaked at ATMs as Greeks endured the first day of serious controls on their daily economic lives ahead of a July 5 referendum that could determine whether the country has to ditch the euro currency and return to the drachma. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — It's crunch time for Greece, with the European part of its international bailout expiring Tuesday and with it any possible access to the remaining rescue loans that it needs to pay its debts.


Why Chris Christie has to run for president to stay afloat in New Jersey

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The only thing keeping him politically afloat at home is the prospect of a presidential campaign.


How state fights against same-sex marriage may backfire

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Efforts by some states to challenge the Supreme Court ruling will likely prove futile.


In Supreme Court loss, death penalty foes see an opening

Posted: 30 Jun 2015 02:35 PM PDT

Danielle Fulfs, 24, of Seattle, with the Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, hands out materials about the death penalty outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday June 29, 2015. A deeply divided Supreme Court upheld the use of a controversial drug in lethal-injection executions Monday, even as two dissenting justices said for the first time they think it's "highly likely" the death penalty itself is unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)ATLANTA (AP) — A strongly worded dissent in the U.S. Supreme Court's narrow decision this week upholding the use of an execution drug offered a glimmer of hope to death penalty opponents in what they considered otherwise a gloomy ruling. One advocate went so far Tuesday as to call it a blueprint for a fresh attack on the legality of capital punishment itself.


Survey shows enough votes to remove Confederate flag in SC

Posted: 29 Jun 2015 05:05 PM PDT

Supporters of keeping the Confederate battle flag flying at a Confederate monument at the South Carolina Statehouse wave flags during a rally in front of the statehouse in Columbia, S.C., on Saturday, June 27, 2015. Gov. Nikki Haley and a number of other state leaders have called for the removal of the flag following the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners in a church in Charleston. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A survey of South Carolina legislators shows there is enough support to remove the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds if all supporters cast a vote.


At end of contentious term, justices go out with a bang on lethal injection case

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The justices will most likely need to cool off before the term begins again in October.


Supreme Court justice wonders whether death penalty violates Constitution

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