2014年11月11日星期二

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Mass sterilisation leads to deaths of ten Indian women

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 05:08 AM PST

A woman sweeps outside her hut in a village in central India's state of ChhattisgarhDozens more are in hospital, some in a critical condition, after a state-run program went badly wrong.


Last US Ebola patient cured

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 03:35 PM PST

Dr. Craig Spencer speaks during a news conference on November 11, 2014 at Bellevue Hospital in New YorkThe last known Ebola patient in the United States, a New York doctor who contracted the virus while treating infected people in West Africa, was released from the hospital on Tuesday after being declared cured. Craig Spencer, an emergency room doctor in New York, appeared at a press conference with Mayor Bill de Blasio to announce that he had been discharged from Bellevue Hospital -- one of a handful of US medical facilities designated to handle Ebola cases. "New York City's first and only Ebola case is successfully treated. Dr Spencer is Ebola-free and New York City is Ebola-free," de Blasio proclaimed at the hospital, to cheers and applause.


Chelsea Clinton on motherhood: 'I'm so happy'

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 10:01 AM PST

Chelsea Clinton interview with Katie CouricFor the past 24 years, Glamour has hosted the Women of the Year Awards honoring celebrities, politicians and athletes, along with other inspiring and empowering women.


New York doctor now free of Ebola discharged from hospital

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 03:26 PM PST

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio hugs Dr. Craig Spencer as he is discharged from Bellevue Hospital after being stricken by Ebola in New YorkBy Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York doctor who has recovered from Ebola left the hospital on Tuesday and urged support for U.S. health workers treating patients in West Africa so they do not face "stigma and threats" when they return home. The discharge of Dr. Craig Spencer, who worked with Ebola patients in Guinea and had been held in isolation at Bellevue Hospital Center since he was diagnosed with the virus on Oct. 23, means no one in the United States is being treated for the disease. ...


Ceremonies, concerts mark Veterans Day in U.S. capital

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 12:02 PM PST

Singer Jennifer Hudson performs the U.S. National Anthem in front of a military color guard during The Concert for Valor on the National Mall on Veterans' Day in WashingtonBy Ian Simpson ARLINGTON Va. (Reuters) - The U.S. capital marked Veterans Day on Tuesday with ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery where Vice President Joe Biden said the 23 million U.S. veterans were the backbone of the nation. The commemoration at Arlington, where more than 40,000 military personnel and their families are buried, was part of events that include a giant concert in Washington featuring such stars as Bruce Springsteen and Rihanna. A bugler played "Taps" after Biden laid a wreath at Arlington's Tomb of the Unknowns. ...


Exclusive: As cities struggle, Scranton in Pennsylvania to triple a local tax

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 04:32 PM PST

By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - The former steel and coal town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, will triple a local tax next year as it and some other U.S. cities struggle to recover from the financial crisis, the city's business administrator told Reuters on Tuesday. Scranton's local services tax, a flat tax on all who work in the city, will triple to about $3 a week from $1 a week, said administrator David Bulzoni. A judge must still approve the tax hike, which could go into effect the second quarter of 2015, but it is not clear how much money it would generate. ...

Jon Stewart's bold new project

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 09:13 AM PST

In this Nov. 7, 2014 photo, Jon Stewart poses for a portrait in promotion of his film,"Rosewater," in New York. Stewart, who hosts the political satire series "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," makes his directorial and screenwriting debut in the film about a journalist who is detained in Iran. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)NEW YORK (AP) — A bleary-eyed Jon Stewart is sitting outside his offices reflecting on his directorial debut, "Rosewater," a drama about the unjust imprisonment of journalist Maziar Bahari in Iran.


CIA allegedly paid off botched drone strike victims' families

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 01:38 AM PST

A procession of protestors following a U.S. drone strikeAfter an errant drone strike in Yemen, the CIA reportedly made 'condolence payments'


George W. Bush launches his new book

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 01:14 PM PST

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Former President George W. Bush said he and his father believe Jeb Bush should run for president but ultimately the former Florida governor must make a decision regardless of any pressure from the family.

Iran orders two new nuclear reactors from Russia

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 08:18 AM PST

Iran's nuclear programme chief Ali Akbar Salehi (left) and Rosatom director general Sergey Kirienko sign an agreement in Moscow on November 11, 2014 for the construction of two new nuclear reactorsRussia signed Tuesday a contract to build two nuclear reactors in Iran and announced plans for a total of nine, less than two weeks before a deadline on for deal on the country's disputed atomic programme. A series of agreements signed during a visit to Moscow by Iran's nuclear programme chief Ali Akbar Salehi includes a contract for two new reactors at the existing Russian-built Bushehr plant. The agreements foresee increasing the total number of Russian-built reactors in the country to nine as well as possibly transferring some sensitive technology relating to the production of fuel rod components. The announcement comes amid last-minute diplomacy before a November 24 deadline to find a solution to ease Western suspicions over Tehran's nuclear intentions as well as damaging sanctions on the Iranian economy.


Nigeria's President vows to beat Boko Haram

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 08:18 AM PST

Nigeria's President Jonathan stands for Kenya's national anthem before the Africa Union Peace and Security Council Summit on Terrorism at the KICC in NairobiBy Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - President Goodluck Jonathan promised Nigerians on Tuesday he would fight corruption and defeat the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency as he announced his bid to win a second term at the head of Africa's biggest economy in a February election. A southern Christian president heading Africa's top oil producer, Jonathan is seen as a strong incumbent despite a raft of multi-billion-dollar oil scandals and his government's inability so far to end the five-year-old insurgency waged by Boko Haram, mostly in the Muslim north. ...


Putin steals show with head-turning gesture

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 02:12 PM PST

In this Nov. 10, 2014 file photo, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, puts a shawl on Peng Liyuan, left, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping as they arrive to watch a fireworks show after a welcome banquet for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing. It was a warm gesture on a chilly night when Vladimir Putin wrapped a shawl around the wife of Xi Jinping while the Chinese president chatted with Barack Obama. The only problem: Putin came off looking gallant, the Chinese summit host gauche and inattentive. (AP Photo, File) CHINA OUTBEIJING (AP) — It was a warm gesture on a chilly night when Vladimir Putin wrapped a shawl around the wife of Xi Jinping while the Chinese president chatted with Barack Obama. The only problem: Putin came off looking gallant, the Chinese summit host gauche and inattentive.


Startling discovery about U.S. Ebola response

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 01:52 AM PST

Plane used to evacuate Ebola patients in West Africa (AP file)The U.S. State Department expedited a $4.9 million deal for medevac services, Yahoo News has learned, after two Americans infected with Ebola, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, recently had trouble being rescued from West Africa. The CDC had developed an airworthy isolation chamber for infectious patients in the past decade, but the high-tech transportation tent was in storage when Samaritan's Purse — a Christian humanitarian group — first sought help from the federal government.


John Cleese opens up

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 02:14 AM PST

521221587SV013_John_Cleese_"Monty Python." "Fawlty Towers." "A Fish Called Wanda." John Cleese has been making audiences laugh for decades. Now, in an interview with Yahoo News, he talks about his new autobiography, "So, Anyway."


Snow buries parts of Rockies, Upper Midwest

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 03:22 PM PST

A man holds his dog as he rushes across the street in downtown St. Paul, Minn., during the first snowstorm of the season on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014. Though the snow will largely stop in Minnesota by Tuesday afternoon, said Joe Calderone, senior forecaster at the National Weather Service office in Chanhassen, Minnesota, the state won't be PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — People in the Upper Midwest and Rockies woke up to frigid temperatures Tuesday, with heavy snow blanketing some areas. Other parts of the country are expecting a dose of the icy weather later this week from a powerful storm that hit Alaska with hurricane-force winds over the weekend.


Grief, rage at 36-year sentence for ferry captain

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 06:04 AM PST

Lee Joon-seok, the captain of the sunken South Korean ferry Sewol, on the bus, arrives for verdict and sentence session at Gwangju District Court in Gwangju, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014. South Korean prosecutors on Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, demanded the death penalty for the captain of the ferry that sank in April, killing more than 300 people, and life sentences to three key crew members, a court official said. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Hyung Min-woo) KOREA OUTThe captain is found guilty of negligence in the disaster that killed more than 300 people.


US officials: More work needed on Iran nuke deal

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 08:48 AM PST

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, shake hands during a meeting in Muscat, Oman, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014. Omani Foreign Minister Yussef bin Alawi bin Abdullah and European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton stand at background. (AP Photo/Nicholas Kamm, Pool)BEIJING (AP) — Two days of tough talks to limit Iran's nuclear program failed Monday to make major headway toward a final deal —a foreboding sign for years of negotiations that are set to expire in less than two weeks.


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