2014年6月28日星期六

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Benghazi attacks suspect pleads not guilty

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 03:10 PM PDT

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protestA Libyan militia leader pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court on Saturday to a terrorism charge in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi that killed four Americans. Ahmed Abu Khatallah was transferred to the U.S. District Court in Washington on Saturday morning from a Navy warship where he had been held since his June 15 capture by U.S. special operations forces in Libya. He was charged at an afternoon hearing with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists resulting in death in the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi. The Sept. 11, 2012, attack triggered a political firestorm for President Barack Obama, with Republicans accusing his administration of misrepresenting the circumstances and of lax protection for diplomats.


Mars 'flying saucer' splashes down after NASA test

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 03:49 PM PDT

This image provided by NASA shows the launch of the high-altitude balloon carrying a saucer-shaped vehicle for NASA, to test technology that could be used to land on Mars, Saturday June 28, 2014 in Kauai, Hawaii. Saturday's experimental flight high in Earth's atmosphere is testing a giant parachute designed to deliver heavier spacecraft and eventually astronauts. (AP Photo/NASA)LOS ANGELES (AP) — A saucer-shaped NASA vehicle launched by balloon high into Earth's atmosphere splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, completing a successful test on Saturday of technology that could be used to land on Mars.


Arizona wildfire passes lines; shelter opens

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 12:18 PM PDT

A helicopter battles the blaze with lake water as smoke rises from the trees of the San Juan fire near Vernon, Az., on Friday, June 27, 2014. Authorities say communities mostly populated with summer homes are under mandatory evacuation orders as of Thursday evening due to the growing wildfire. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Patrick Breen) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALESVERNON, Ariz. (AP) — Fire crews are hoping that lighter winds on Saturday will spur progress against a wildfire that has charred more than 8 square miles in eastern Arizona's White Mountains and prompted crews to set up a shelter for evacuees.


Iraqi troops push to retake Tikrit from rebels, parties pursue talks

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 09:49 AM PDT

Shi'ite volunteers, who have joined the Iraqi army to fight ISIL, march during a graduation ceremony in NajafParty leaders planned delicate talks that could end Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's divisive rule after a top Shi'ite cleric called for a new premier to be chosen without delay to tackle Islamist rebels threatening to tear apart the country.


High court poised to decide birth-control dispute

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 06:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this May 22, 2013, customers enter and exit a Hobby Lobby store in Denver. The Supreme Court is poised to deliver its verdict in a case that weighs the religious rights of employers and the right of women to the birth control of their choice. Employers must cover contraception for women at no extra charge among a range of preventive benefits in employee health plans. Dozens of companies, including the arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby, claim religious objections to covering some or all contraceptives. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is poised to deliver its verdict in a case that weighs the religious rights of employers and the right of women to the birth control of their choice.


Iraq launches push for militant-held northern city

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 09:43 AM PDT

A burned police truck is left behind in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, Friday, June 27, 2014. Two weeks has passed since the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took over the country's second largest city. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Mideast nations on Wednesday against taking new military action in Iraq that might heighten already-tense sectarian divisions, as reports surfaced that Syria launched airstrikes across the border and Iran has been flying surveillance drones over the neighboring country. (AP Photo)Iraqi troops backed by helicopter gunships launched an operation early Saturday aimed at dislodging Sunni militants from the northern city of Tikrit.


Benghazi suspect pleads not guilty before judge

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 03:29 PM PDT

This artist's rendering shows United States Magistrate, Judge John Facciola, swearing in the defendant, Libyan militant Ahmed Abu Khatallah, wearing a headphone, as his attorney Michelle Peterson looks on during a hearing at the federal U.S. District Court in Washington, Saturday, June 28, 2014. The hearing of the Libyan accused of masterminding deadly Benghazi attacks, lasted ten minutes; he pled not guilty to conspiracy Saturday at his first appearance in U.S. court. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Libyan militant accused of masterminding the deadly 2012 Benghazi attacks that have become a flashpoint in U.S. politics appeared briefly for the first time in an American courtroom, pleading not guilty Saturday to a terrorism-related charge nearly two weeks after he was captured by special forces.


Iraq forces launch push for insurgent-held city

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 01:37 PM PDT

Iraqi federal policemen patrol in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib suburb, Iraq, Saturday, June 28, 2014. Iraqi troops backed by helicopter gunships launched an operation early Saturday aimed at dislodging Sunni militants from the northern city of Tikrit, one of two major urban centers they seized in recent weeks in a dramatic blitz across the country. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi government launched its biggest push yet to wrest back ground lost to Sunni militants, as soldiers backed by tanks and helicopter gunships began an offensive Saturday to retake the northern city of Tikrit.


Warrant: Man did Web search on kids dying in cars

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 03:44 PM PDT

Two people embrace as they arrive to a funeral service for Cooper Harris at the University Church of Christ on Saturday, June 28, 2014, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Cooper Harris, 22 months old, died in Georgia on June 18 after he was left in his fathers' SUV for seven hours. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man charged with murder after his 22-month-old son died in a hot SUV searched online for information about kids dying in cars and told police he feared it could happen, according to documents released Saturday as the boy's family held his funeral in Alabama.


US takes gay rights global, despite unsure welcome

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 11:13 AM PDT

Participants of the Christopher Street Day parade through Berlin, Saturday June 21, 2014, with a float depicting the Statue of Liberty. The Obama administration has taken the U.S. gay rights revolution global, using American embassies across the world as outposts in a struggle that still hasn't been won at home. Sometimes U.S. advice and encouragement is condemned as unacceptable meddling. And sometimes it can seem to backfire, increasing the pressure on those it is meant to help.(AP Photo/dpa, Joerg Carstensen) GERMANY OUT AUSTRIA OUT SWITZERLAND OUTWARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Barack Obama has taken the U.S. gay rights revolution global, using American embassies across the world to promote a cause that still divides his own country.


Bosnia marks end of Europe's violent century

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 01:43 PM PDT

A man walks past a mosaic depicting Gavrilo Princip, the Bosnian-Serb nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, and other members of "Mlada Bosna" movement in the Bosnian town of Visegrad,140 kilometers east of Sarajevo, Saturday, June 28, 2014. Marking the centennial of the beginning of World War I in their own way, Bosnian Serbs in Visegrad on Saturday unveiled a mosaic of the man who ignited the war by assassinating the Austro-Hungarian crown prince on June 28, 1914. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Artists and diplomats declared a new century of peace and unity in Europe on Saturday in the city where the first two shots of World War I were fired exactly 100 years ago.


From Morocco to Jakarta, Muslims mark Ramadan

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 11:34 AM PDT

A Palestinian vendors displays food, including pickled vegetables and olives, in preparation for Ramadan at a market in the West Bank city of Hebron, Saturday, June 28, 2014. Muslims throughout the world are preparing themselves for the holy month of Ramadan, when the observant fast from dawn till dusk. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)BEIRUT (AP) — Across a wide belt that stretches halfway around the globe, the world's estimated 1.6 billion Muslims will mark the beginning of Ramadan this weekend. The holy season is marred by unprecedented turmoil, violence and sectarian hatreds that threaten to rip apart the Middle East, the epicenter of Islam.


US man rows across Atlantic, reaches Caribbean

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 12:19 PM PDT

In this Friday morning June 27, 2014 photo provided bt GC Media, Victor Mooney, 48, of Flushing, Queens, New York lays in his hospital bed after arriving in Saint-Martin Friday. Mooney set off Feb. 19 in a 24-foot boat from Maspolamas, Gran Canaria. His journey is being done in honor of a brother who died of AIDS in 1983. Mooney has tried the same feat three other times, without success. (AP Photo/GC Media)SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Three times, Victor Mooney tried to row across the Atlantic. Three times he failed. One boat sank. Another lost its freshwater system. A third sprang a leak and left him drifting on a life raft for two weeks. As he planned for a fourth attempt, his wife made it clear it would be the last.


BRAZIL BEAT: Spidey Bear travels the world

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 04:42 PM PDT

Spidey Bear sits on a table in front of U.S. Soccer's Neil Buethe at the Sao Paulo Futebol Clube, Brazil, Saturday June 28, 2014. Spidey Bear turned from his perch toward the television and sat intently and quietly (as usual) on a table some 8 feet from the big screen as Brazil took penalty kicks and salvaged its World Cup with a thrilling 3-2 win over Chile. It has been quite an adventure tour this summer for the stuffed black bear from Iowa City belonging to the nephews of Buethe, 6-year-old Graeme Thomas and little brother Miles, 3. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)SAO PAULO (AP) — Spidey Bear sat intently and quietly (as usual) on a table some 8 feet from the TV as Brazil went into a shootout and salvaged its World Cup with a win over Chile.


Thai coup leader denies conspiracy with protesters

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 12:00 AM PDT

Thai junta chief General Prayut Chan-O-Cha, pictured during a meeting with businessmen, at the Army headquarters in Bangkok, on June 19, 2014Thailand's junta-leading Army Chief has dismissed allegations he plotted to seize power for years before May's coup, issuing an apparent rebuke to the leader of the protests that crippled the former government. "It is not true" General Prayut Chan-O-Cha said, addressing accusations that he had discussed uprooting the divisive Shinawatra clan from politics with firebrand protest chief Suthep Thaugsuban. Supporters of ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra have blamed a coalition of establishment-linked forces -- including the army and judiciary -- for colluding to overthrow the government, the second such army putsch in eight years. He has imposed martial law on the kingdom, suspended the constitution, muzzled dissent and detained or arrested hundreds of people -- mainly supporters of the former government.


Russia accuses US of fueling Ukrainian crisis

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 08:57 AM PDT

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, welcomes his Fijian counterpart Inoke Kubuabola for the talks in Moscow, Russia, Friday, June 27, 2014. Lavrov and Kubuabola discuss prospects for deepening bilateral cooperation and "compare notes" on international problems, Russia's Foreign Ministry official said.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's foreign minister on Saturday accused the United States of encouraging Ukraine to challenge Moscow and heavily weighing in on the European Union.


Monsoon floods kill 11 in India, maroon thousands

Posted: 28 Jun 2014 01:48 AM PDT

An Indian woman wades through the floodwaters in Gauhati, India, Friday, June 27, 2014. Several people were killed due to electrocution and landslides triggered by incessant rains in India's northeastern state of Assam, according to local reports. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)Indian authorities rush food and drinking water to thousands marooned by monsoon rains and mudslides.


Soul legend Bobby Womack dead at 70

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The legendary soul singer, known for hits like "It's All Over Now," has died at age 70.


Venezuela blackout hits much of country

Posted: 27 Jun 2014 06:06 PM PDT

People try to find other modes of transportation after subway services were cut off during a blackout in CaracasA power plant failure knocked out electricity across a big swath of Venezuela on Friday, darkening the lights at a nationally televised presidential ceremony and forcing a suspension of subway and train services around the country


6 killed in fiery crash in Kentucky

Posted: 27 Jun 2014 04:45 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Thursday, June 26, 2014, rescue personnel and police investigate a deadly two-vehicle crash on U.S. 27 in Nicholasville, Ky. Six people, including three children, are dead and four are injured after the fiery head-on collision in central Kentucky. Nicholasville police patrolman Todd White says a station wagon was traveling northbound when it lost control, crossed the median and collided head-on with a van. (AP Photo/The Lexington Herald-Leader, Mark Cornelison)A station wagon lost control on a busy highway, crossed the median and plowed head-on into a minivan, sparking a fiery crash that killed six people — including three children — in central Kentucky.


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