2016年3月30日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - China


Congress moving ahead on encryption vs. terrorism debate

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 10:45 AM PDT

Congress moving ahead on encryption vs. terrorism debateMajor tech companies must now look to Congress to address many of the disagreements that played out in the legal filings between law enforcement and Apple.


Trump walks back call to punish women who undergo illegal abortions

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 02:43 PM PDT

Trump walks back call to punish women who undergo illegal abortionsAPPLETON, Wis.—Donald Trump sparked a firestorm Wednesday when he said there should be some form of "punishment" for women who have abortions if the procedure is outlawed in the United States—a position he walked back just hours later after he came under widespread criticism, even from the anti-abortion movement. In an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews set to air Wednesday night, the Republican presidential frontrunner repeatedly asserted he is "pro-life" and that abortion should be outlawed. "Should abortion be punished?" Matthews asked.


Conservative female journalists’ open letter to Trump: Tell Lewandowski ‘You’re fired!’

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 01:37 PM PDT

A day after Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was charged with assaulting a female reporter, more than a dozen female journalists signed an open letter calling for the Republican frontrunner to fire him.

Top aide to Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley resigns amid scandal

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 04:43 PM PDT

FILE -In this Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 file photo, Republican Gov. Robert Bentley listens to a phone call as Rebekah Mason, right, announces his win for Alabama governor, in Montgomery, Ala. Bentley defeated his opponent Democrat Parker Griffith. Bentley admitted Wednesday, March 23, 2016, that he made inappropriate remarks to his senior political adviser, Rebekah Caldwell Mason. Bentley said he did not have a sexual relationship with Mason, but he apologized to his family and Mason's for his behavior. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A top political aide to Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley resigned Wednesday, a week after he publicly admitted making inappropriate remarks to her but denied the two ever had an affair.


Coalition has 'momentum' against IS group: Pentagon official

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 03:06 PM PDT

Coalition forces have been hitting IS targets since August 2014 after the extremists seized huge parts of Iraq and SyriaA top Pentagon official on Wednesday said Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria are losing the lengthy fight against the US-led coalition, even as the jihadists continue to mount attacks overseas like the one in Brussels last week. Coalition forces have been hitting IS targets since August 2014 after the extremists seized huge parts of Iraq and Syria, and critics have accused the campaign of moving too slowly. "Right now, without question, the momentum against ISIS is more than at any other time in our campaign," Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said, using an acronym for the IS group.


France charges main suspect in foiled attack plot

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 12:42 PM PDT

Paris (AFP) - France on Wednesday charged the main suspect in a foiled attack plot, who was found with an arsenal of weapons and explosives at his home, with membership of a terrorist organisation.

No charges for 2 Minneapolis officers in fatal shooting

Posted: 30 Mar 2016 03:08 PM PDT

No charges for 2 Minneapolis officers in fatal shootingTwo white police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a black man last fall will not face criminal charges, a prosecutor announced Wednesday in a decision that drew outrage from community members ...


UK man wanted hijack snap to get 'closer look' at 'suicide belt'

Posted: 29 Mar 2016 05:55 PM PDT

Cyprus police officers escort EgyptAir plane hijacking suspect Seif Eddin Mustafa, third right, to a court for a remand hearing as authorities investigate him on charges including hijacking, illegal possession of explosives and abduction in the Cypriot coastal town of Larnaca Wednesday, March 30, 2016. The Egyptian man described as "psychologically unstable" hijacked a flight Tuesday from Egypt to Cyprus and threatened to blow it up. His explosives turned out to be fake, and he surrendered with all passengers released unharmed after a bizarre six-hour standoff. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)A British man who caused online debate Wednesday after having his picture taken with the hijacker of an Egyptian plane said that he did it to take a "closer look" at his supposed suicide belt. Ben Innes, 26, posed for a photo grinning next to the hijacker during the five-hour stand-off on Tuesday aboard the EgyptAir A320 jet and sent the picture to his friends.


Trump mocks reporter allegedly assaulted by his campaign manager

Posted: 29 Mar 2016 07:52 PM PDT

Trump mocks reporter allegedly assaulted by his campaign managerHe insists Corey Lewandowski did nothing wrong when he yanked a reporter away from him at a campaign event.


Flint official: State overruled plan for corrosion control

Posted: 29 Mar 2016 11:57 PM PDT

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha testifies during a meeting of Michigan's special Joint Committee on the Flint Water Public Health Emergency, Tuesday, March 29, 2016, at the Northbank Center in Flint, Mich. (Daniel Mears/Detroit News via AP) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT; MANDATORY CREDITAn official with Flint's water plant said Tuesday he had planned to treat the drinking water with anti-corrosive chemicals.


Unions prevail as US Supreme Court deadlocks in fees case

Posted: 29 Mar 2016 09:38 AM PDT

The US Supreme Court deadlocked Tuesday in a 4-4 decision that effectively affirms the right of public employee unions to collect mandatory fees from non-members in states that allow the practice. The court had been expected to rule against the unions before the death in February of conservative justice Antonin Scalia, underscoring the impact of a vacancy that the Republican-controlled Senate has refused to fill while Barack Obama is president. In split decisions, the lower court rulings stand -- in this case, favoring unions against a challenge to state laws that allow them to collect mandatory fees from non-members.

Atlanta asks NBA to mull moving All-Star game from Charlotte

Posted: 29 Mar 2016 06:30 PM PDT

North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper speaks at a news conference in his state offices in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, March 29, 2106. Cooper announced Tuesday that his office won't defend the state's new law preventing local governments from prohibiting discrimination, calling it a "national embarrassment" that will encourage businesses to take jobs and millions of dollars out of the state. (Harry Lynch/The News & Observer via AP) MANDATORY CREDITAtlanta city leaders make their pitch after North Carolina lawmakers passed legislation criticized as limiting protections for LGBT people.


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