2014年7月21日星期一

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MH17: Pro-Russian rebels call cease-fire

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:22 PM PDT

UN Scrambles To Protect Flight 17 Crash SiteSeparatists also handed over black boxes from the downed airliner to Malaysian experts.


Police: Retired couple strangled, killed by hired workers

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 01:40 PM PDT

In this undated photo combination provided by the Philadelphia Police Department, Justen Smith, left, and Terry Ballard are shown. Authorities in Philadelphia say a retired couple were strangled by two men hired to do household chores after the wife caught one trying to steal money. Police on Monday, July 21, 2014 charged 26-year-old Terry Ballard and 19-year-old Justen Smith with murder, robbery and related offenses. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department)A retired Philadelphia couple was strangled by two men hired to do household chores after the wife caught one trying to steal money, authorities said Monday.


Britain and U.N. host 1st summit to end child marriages, female genital mutilation

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:28 PM PDT

In this Friday, May 6, 2011 photo, child brides Chinti Bai, 12, left, and Anita, 12, sit outside the Maa Jalapa Devi temple after their marriage ceremony in Rajgarh, about 155 kilometers (96 miles) from Bhopal, India. Ignoring laws that ban child marriages, several young children, are still married off as part of centuries-old custom in some Indian villages. India law prohibits marriage for women younger than 18 and men under age 21. (AP Photo/Prakash Hatvalne)LONDON (AP) — More than 700 million women alive today were married before they turned 18, the United Nations' children agency said Tuesday, as it co-hosts a London summit calling for more progress to end child marriages and the practice of female genital mutilation.


Widow: Jury sent Big Tobacco a $23B message

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 03:41 PM PDT

Widow: Jury sent tobacco company a $23B messageA Florida widow awarded $23.6 billion in the death of her chain-smoking husband on Monday called the massive verdict a message to Big Tobacco, even though she likely won't see much if any of the money. ...


19-year-old charged with murder in Calif. bank robbery

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:45 PM PDT

This Thursday, July 17, 2014 booking photo provided by the Stockton Police Department shows Jaime Ramos, 19, who was booked on suspicion of homicide, kidnapping, robbery and attempted murder in a Stockton, Calif. bank robbery that led to a high speed chase. Two other suspects were killed and two of the hostages were wounded during the ensuing chase. The third hostage, who police believe was used as a human shield, was found dead in the SUV after the shootout.. (AP Photo/Stockton Police Department)A 19-year-old California man was charged Monday with three counts of murder in the deaths of a hostage and two accomplices, and 22 counts of attempted murder of police officers in a bank robbery and running gun battle.


MH17: Rebels hand over black boxes

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:20 PM PDT

Armed pro-Russian separatists stand guard in front of the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, near the village of Grabove, in the region of Donetsk on July 20, 2014A separatist leader has handed over black boxes from downed MH17 to Malaysian experts.


Pregnant teen strangled, man decapitated in online sex case

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 01:24 PM PDT

Wyoming police Chief James Carmody holds a press conference about the triple homicide of Charles Oppenneer, Brooke Slocum and her unborn child at the Wyoming, Mich., Police Department Monday, July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Cory Morse)WYOMING, Mich. (AP) — A pregnant Michigan teenager was strangled and her boyfriend was decapitated after apparently connecting with a stranger through the online service Craigslist for a sexual encounter, police said Monday.


Americans from Texas, Calif. killed in Gaza

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 03:23 PM PDT

This 2012 photo provided by Rabbi Asher Hecht, shows Nissim Sean Carmeli, left, with Hecht in Jerusalem. The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday, July 20, 2014, in a statement that Carmeli was killed in combat in the Gaza Strip. Carmeli was from South Padre Island, Texas, said Deputy Consul General of Israel to the Southwest Maya Kadosh. (AP Photo/Rabbi Asher Hecht via Chabad of the Rio Grande Valley)Max Steinberg and Nissim Sean Carmeli grew up in America and had a passion for Israel.


15,000 Nigerians displaced after Boko Haram raid

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 01:44 PM PDT

A screengrab taken on July 13, 2014 from a video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and obtained by AFP shows the leader of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau (C)A massive assault by Boko Haram in the northeast Nigerian town of Damboa displaced more than 15,000 people, an official said Monday, as the security forces sent reinforcements to flush out the Islamist fighters. The attack on Damboa began late Thursday but continued through the weekend, with witnesses saying that civilians were left defenceless by the security forces who withdrew from the area earlier this month. Officials from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) were struggling to establish a death toll amid multiple reports that Boko Haram fighters were still occupying the town, having hoisted their flag above a public building. Abdulkadir Ibrahim of NEMA told journalists that at least 15,204 people had fled Damboa to escape the Islamist onslaught.


Missing teen home after 9 months

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 03:35 PM PDT

Missing New Hampshire Teen's Mom Pleads 'Come Home for Christmas'A 15-year-old New Hampshire girl who disappeared while on her way home from school nine months ago is safely home with her family, the state attorney general said Monday.


Russia backs MH17 investigation

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 03:35 PM PDT

Ukrainian State Emergency Service employees search through debris at the site of the crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Grabove, in rebel-held east Ukraine on July 20, 2014U.N. resolution demands unimpeded international access to the plane crash site in Ukraine.


S. Korean police: Body found could be ferry disaster fugitive's

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 11:02 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 17, 2014 file photo, South Korean Coast Guard officers search for missing passengers aboard sunken ferry Sewol in the waters off the southern coast near Jindo, South Korea. The anger, grief and deep remorse at Danwon High School in Ansan, outside of Seoul, was a reflection of what many South Koreans have felt since the April 16 sinking of the ferry that left more than 300 people dead or missing. Of the 325 students on a class trip to the southern holiday island of Jeju, 75 were rescued, 245 died and 5 are still missing. Two of those rescued had already returned to school, officials said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)South Korean police are trying to confirm the identity of a body they believe may have been the fugitive head of the family that owned the operator of a ferry that capsized in April, killing more than 300 people, a police official told Reuters. Yoo Byung-un is accused of embezzlement, negligence and tax evasion and has been the subject of a two-month nationwide manhunt. A police official said the body was found last month in a plum field in the southern city of Suncheon near a retreat where police have suspected Yoo may have been hiding, and that forensics examinations had found that the body's DNA resembled Yoo's. Further examination was underway, the official said.


Soldier mauled by bear in Alaska

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 12:01 PM PDT

Brown BearAn Alaska National Guard soldier was mauled by a bear while participating in a training exercise at a military base, officials said.


Medal of Honor recipient: This belongs to comrades

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 11:14 AM PDT

Ryan Pitts, of Nashua, N.H. talks about his battle and being wounded in Afghanistan Thursday June 26, 2014 in Concord, N.H. Pitts will wear the nation's highest award, the Medal of Honor for combat valor after he continued to fight after being wounded in one of Afghanistan's bloodiest battles. He insisted that the medal belongs to all of his comrades who fought and died that day. Pitts will receive the medal next month at the White House.(AP Photo/Jim Cole)CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Ryan Pitts will wear the nation's highest award for combat valor, but the humble and soft-spoken Medal of Honor recipient who continued to fight after being wounded in one of Afghanistan's bloodiest battles insisted Thursday that the medal belongs to all of his comrades who fought and died that day.


Marathon suspect's friend guilty of impeding investigation

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 11:53 AM PDT

This undated photo added on April 18, 2013 to the VK page of Dias Kadyrbayev shows, from left, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, from Kazakhstan, with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Times Square in New York. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, two college buddies of Tsarnaev, were jailed by immigration authorities the day after Tsarnaev's capture. They are not suspects, but are being held for violating their student visas by not regularly attending classes, Kadyrbayev's lawyer, Robert Stahl said. They are being detained at a county jail in Boston. (AP Photo/VK)BOSTON (AP) — A college friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) has been convicted of impeding the investigation into the attack.


President Obama on statehood for D.C.: I'm for it'

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 11:39 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about the My Brother's Keeper Initiative, at the Walker Jones Education Campus in Washington, Monday, July 21, 2014. President Obama announced that leaders of 60 of the largest school systems have pledged to expand minority boys' access to better preschools and advanced classes and to try to prevent grade retention, suspensions and expulsions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)President Barack Obama says he supports statehood for the nation's capital.


MH17: Malaysia, Ukraine rebels reach 'safe access' deal

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 10:20 AM PDT

Ukrainian State Emergency Service employees search through debris at the site of the crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Grabove, in rebel-held east Ukraine on July 20, 2014Malaysian PM: Agreement will permit "safe access" to the crash site to begin a full probe.


Washington wildfire claims first fatality, weather improving

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:59 PM PDT

A firefighting plane drops water from Fishtrap Lake on a stubborn fire burning near the lake in Lincoln County, Sunday, July 20, 2014, near Cheney, Wash. The fire started Saturday afternoon and spread to several thousand acres, driven by high winds. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Jesse Tinsley) COEUR D'ALENE PRESS OUTCalmer winds and cooler temperatures were allowing firefighters to go on the offensive Monday against a destructive wildfire that has charred hundreds of square miles of terrain in Washington State.


Obama voices concern about Mideast casualties

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 12:50 PM PDT

President Barack Obama makes a statement on the situation in Ukraine and Gaza, at the White House in Washington, Monday, July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)President Barack Obama called Monday for the international community to focus on ending the fighting in the Gaza Strip, as Secretary of State John Kerry headed to the Middle East to make a renewed push for a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel.


Auction hopes to net $10K for 'longest' ancient dung fossil

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 09:43 AM PDT

'Longest' Fossilized Poop Drops at Auction HouseA lumpy fossil — billed as possibly the longest known specimen of ancient excrement — will hit the auction block next week at the I.M. Chait Gallery. Chait and his colleagues said they don't know what kind of creature passed the impressive load, which has been separated into four pieces and mounted on black marble.


Pro-Russia rebels hamper MH17 recovery

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 08:54 AM PDT

President Barack Obama makes a statement on the situation in Ukraine and Gaza, at the White House in Washington, Monday, July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)President Obama bluntly accused pro-Moscow fighters in Ukraine of stealing evidence, removing bodies.


Train with bodies from MH17 aboard leaves for rebel-held town

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 01:42 PM PDT

A members of the OSCE mission to Ukraine uses a chemical to combat the smell of decomposing bodies while inspecting along with Holland's National Forensic Investigations Team a refrigerated train loaded with the bodies of passengers in Torez, eastern Ukraine, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Monday, July 21, 2014. Another 21 bodies have been found in the sprawling fields of east Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed last week, killing all 298 people aboard. International indignation over the incident has grown as investigators still only have limited access to the crash site and it remains unclear when and where the victims' bodies will be transported. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — A refrigerated train carrying Malaysia Airlines victims' bodies pulled away Monday from a rebel-held town in eastern Ukraine, one small step forward in easing the agony of their grieving families.


Texas to send 1,000 guardsmen to border, says lawmaker

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 11:51 AM PDT

Texas Gov. Rick Perry talks to the media before speaking to a meeting of local party activists, Saturday, July 19, 2014, in Algona, Iowa. After his presidential bid crashed in 2012, Iowans now have to decide whether to give Perry another spin. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to deploy as many as 1,000 National Guard troops to South Texas to bolster security along the Mexico border, a local lawmaker confirmed Monday.


1 killed, 2 hurt in separate Wisconsin skydiving accidents

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 08:35 AM PDT

A member of Falcon Skydiving of Kansas City, Kan., descends to Phil Welch Stadium with the U.S. flag before the St. Joseph Mustangs game at Phil Welch Stadium in St. Joseph, Mo., Thursday, July 3, 2014. (AP Photo/The St. Joseph News-Press, Sait Serkan Gurbuz)One person died and two others were injured in separate weekend skydiving accidents in southern Wisconsin.


U.S. to send $47M in aid to Gaza

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 08:31 AM PDT

Palestinian medics carry a man injured in Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood that came under fire as Israel widened its ground offensive against Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, July 20, 2014. Tens of people were killed in Shijaiyah and many more bodies were believed buried under the rubble of homes, health officials said. They are the latest casualties in a nearly two-week conflict that has killed some 380 Palestinians and seven Israelis. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)The U.S. is sending $47 million in humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip.


Hamas says Israeli soldier captured in Gaza

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 06:19 AM PDT

Israeli soldier holds up his weapon outside the northern Gaza StripBy Noah Browning GAZA (Reuters) - Residents of the Gaza Strip, mostly house-bound and fearful after 13 days of Israeli bombardment, lit fireworks and chanted "God is great!" into the early morning darkness on Monday after Hamas said it had captured an Israeli soldier. Abu Ubaida, the masked and camouflaged spokesman of the Palestinian Islamist militant group's armed wing, announced that a soldier named as Shaul Alon was seized in heavy fighting on the Gaza border on Sunday. Israel's envoy to the United Nations denied the claim but its army has neither confirmed nor denied the report and a spokesman said on Monday: "We still cannot rule it out." The report buoyed weary Gazans' flagging morale. If confirmed, it would fulfill long-standing promises by Hamas to grab troops in hopes of trading them for Palestinian prisoners, raising its popularity.


Airlines had warnings to avoid Ukraine

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 06:42 AM PDT

Who shot down Malaysia Airlines MH17?Passenger aircraft do overfly war zones, but airlines were cautioned to avoid east Ukraine.


UN watchdog: Iran's been living up to its end of nuclear deal

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 08:45 AM PDT

A UN weapons inspector disconnects a cascade at Iran's nuclear power plant in Natanz, on January, 20, 2014Iran has eliminated all its most sensitive nuclear material in line with an interim deal struck with world powers, a new UN atomic agency report showed Monday. Days after a deadline to reach a lasting nuclear deal was pushed back four months, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran was continuing to comply with its international commitments, in a report seen by AFP. Under a Geneva agreement with world powers reached in November, the Islamic republic vowed to freeze certain nuclear activities for six months in return for some relief from hard-hitting sanctions. As of the July 20 deadline, Tehran had indeed cut half of its stock of 20-percent enriched uranium down to five-percent purity, while the rest has been converted into uranium oxide, the IAEA said.


Dutch experts examine bodies at 'shambolic' Ukraine crash site

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 08:25 AM PDT

Monitors from OSCE and members of a forensic team inspect a refrigerator wagon at a railway station in TorezDutch forensic experts on Monday were examining bodies from the MH17 plane disaster being held at an east Ukraine train station as Kiev and insurgents wrangled over the fate of the remains. As world leaders deplored the "shambolic" state of the crash site left in the hands of the rebels and accused Russia of supplying the weapons allegedly used to shoot down the passenger jet, Moscow hit back and sought to shift the blame to Kiev. On the ground, the animosity between Ukraine's warring sides was underlined by intense shelling rained down in the rebel stronghold Donetsk, a city just 60 kilometres (about 40 miles) from the station where the bodies are being held in refrigerated wagons. Four people were killed and terrified civilians fled, as Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko quickly ordered his troops to hold fire within a 40-kilometre radius around the crash site, where forensic experts were heading.


Tourist frenzy on Cape Cod follows shark sightings

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 05:40 AM PDT

In this July 2, 2014 photo, a bin is filled with plastic toy sharks in a souvenir shop in Chatham, Mass. With growing sightings of great white sharks off Cape Cod, local entrepreneurs are feeding the frenzy with their shark-themed memorabilia and apparel. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) — In "Jaws," the fictional mayor tried to protect the summer tourism season by keeping a lid on reports of the man-eater lurking offshore. As sightings of great white sharks mount off Cape Cod in real life, however, businesses in the Massachusetts town of Chatham are embracing the frenzy.


Massive tobacco judgment unlikely to stick

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 03:31 PM PDT

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyDecision by Florida jury Friday to impose $23.6 billion damages on RJ Reynolds won't stand, say experts.


Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 500

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 02:03 AM PDT

Smoke from Israeli strikes rises over Gaza City , northern Gaza Strip, Monday, July 21, 2014. The first major ground battle in two weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting exacted a steep price Sunday: It killed 65 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers and forced thousands of terrified Palestinian civilians to flee Gaza City's Shijaiyah neighborhood, reportedly used to launch rockets at Israel and now devastated by the fighting. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)he U.N. chief and the U.S. secretary of state headed to Cairo on Monday to try to end two weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting.


Why the US is not as 'good' as Ireland, or Finland

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 05:55 AM PDT

BONO AT GEORGETOWNSimon Anholt, creator of the Good Country Index, discusses what makes a country "good" and why Ireland ranks No. 1.


McDonald's, KFC in China face new food scandal

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 09:38 AM PDT

File photo of a woman outside a McDonald's outlet in BeijingTV report said supplier was repackaging old meat to sell to chains.


Open mic catches Kerry on Gaza as toll tops 500

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 03:12 AM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to criticize Israel in candid remarks caught on an open microphone between television interviews Sunday. Kerry was heard talking about Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza to a State Department official identified as Jonathan Finer just before appearing on the "Fox News Sunday" political talk show. The Palestinian death toll topped 500 on Sunday as Israel pressed a ground offensive into the densely packed Gaza Strip after two weeks of aerial attacks. When confronted over the remarks by Fox host Chris Wallace, Kerry reiterated Israel's right to self-defense.

U.S. working on case against Russia on downed plane

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 12:11 AM PDT

A piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 lies in the grass near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Rebels in eastern Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and the U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin make sure rebels give international investigators full access to the crash site.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)WASHINGTON (AP) — Video of a rocket launcher, one surface-to-air missile missing, leaving the likely launch site. Imagery showing the firing. Calls claiming credit for the strike. Recordings said to reveal a cover-up at the crash site.


Disturbing hand-washing habits at hospitals

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 01:27 AM PDT

Operation Clean HandsOne might think that it would be all right for a nurse or tech in a hospital to ask, "Doc, did you wash your hands?" But it's actually taboo because the culture dictates who is in charge and who follows orders. It is estimated that an astounding 40 percent of doctors do not wash their hands before coming into contact with patients, putting them at significant risk of infection. But a team of doctors at the Vanderbilt University Hospital found innovative ways to boost hand washing, reduce infections and create a culture of safety.


Rebels release train with bodies from downed jet

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:26 PM PDT

A members of the OSCE mission to Ukraine uses a chemical to combat the smell of decomposing bodies while inspecting along with Holland's National Forensic Investigations Team a refrigerated train loaded with the bodies of passengers in Torez, eastern Ukraine, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Monday, July 21, 2014. Another 21 bodies have been found in the sprawling fields of east Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed last week, killing all 298 people aboard. International indignation over the incident has grown as investigators still only have limited access to the crash site and it remains unclear when and where the victims' bodies will be transported. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Bowing to international pressure Monday, pro-Moscow separatists released a train packed with bodies and handed over the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, four days after it plunged into rebel-held eastern Ukraine.


Vital evidence feared withheld by Ukraine's rebels

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:22 PM PDT

Lieutenant-General Andrey Kartopolov, head of main operational department of Russian military's General Staff, left, speaks to the media during a news conference in Moscow, Monday, July 21, 2014. Russian officials offered evidence Monday, showing photos they said proved that Ukrainian surface-to-air systems were operating in the area in the days before the crash. Russian officials also offered evidence that a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet had flown LONDON (AP) — "What exactly are they trying to hide?" President Barack Obama asked Monday as he demanded that Ukrainian rebels give investigators access to the wreckage of the downed jetliner.


Israeli mood turns dark with mounting casualties

Posted: 21 Jul 2014 02:25 PM PDT

Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of Staff Sgt. Moshe Melako, 20, during his funeral at the Mount Herzel military cemetery in Jerusalem, Monday, July 21, 2014. Melako was one of 13 soldiers killed in several separate incidents in Shijaiyah on Sunday, as Israel-Hamas fighting exacted a steep price, killing scores of Palestinians and more than a dozen Israeli soldiers. In Israel, a country where military service is mandatory for most citizens, military losses are considered every bit as tragic as civilian ones. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)JERUSALEM (AP) — For almost two weeks, Israel practically bristled with confidence and pride: The Iron Dome air defense system was dependably zapping incoming Hamas rockets from the skies, the military was successfully repelling infiltration attempts on the ground and from the sea, and the conflict with Hamas was causing almost no casualties in Israel.


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