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Hunt for female suspect in Paris attacks

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 01:39 PM PST

CORRECTS FIRST NAME OF SUSPECT This photo provided by the Paris Police Prefecture Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 shows Hayat Boumddiene the suspect in the kosher market attack. A police official says the man who has taken at least five people hostage in a kosher market on the eastern edges of Paris Friday appears linked to the newsroom massacre earlier this week that left 12 people dead. Paris police released a photo of Amedy Coulibaly as a suspect in the killing Thursday of a policewoman, and the official named him as the man holed up in the market. He said the man is armed with an automatic rifle and some hostages have been gravely wounded. He said a second suspect, a woman named Hayet Boumddiene, is the gunman's accomplice. (AP Photo/Prefecture de Police de Paris)Hayat Boumeddiene left France several days before the shootings, a source says.


Muslim worker at Paris grocery store saved customers from gunman

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 01:45 PM PST

Flowers and candles lay near a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris, on January 10, 2015 a day after four people were killed there by jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly during a hostage-takingA worker at the kosher market Hyper Cacher in Paris helped protect customers from a gunman by hiding them in a walk-in freezer.


Thousands march to honor victims of Paris attacks

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 12:39 PM PST

Thousands march to honor victims of Paris attacksSeveral thousand people gather to pay tribute to the victims following a shooting by gunmen at the offices of the satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo during a demonstration in Marseille, January 10, 2015. French police searched for a female accomplice to militant Islamists behind deadly attacks on the satirical Charlie Hebdo weekly newspaper and a kosher supermarket and maintained a top-level anti-terrorist alert ahead of a Paris gathering with European leaders and demonstration set for Sunday. In the worst assault on France's homeland security for decades, 17 victims lost their lives in three days of violence that began with an attack on the Charlie Hebdo weekly on Wednesday and ended with Friday's dual hostage-taking at a print works outside Paris and kosher supermarket in the city. REUTERS/Philippe Laurenson (FRANCE - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

U.S. prosecutors seek longer sentences for Madoff aides

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 04:38 PM PST

JoAnn Crupi, former Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC employee, exits the Manhattan Federal Court house in New YorkBy David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors plan to ask an appeals court to review the prison sentences given to five former employees of Bernard Madoff, after earlier questioning whether the sentences were too short, according to court filings. In filings late on Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, prosecutors gave notice that they would be appealing the sentences to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York but did not elaborate further. ...


Obama turns focus to Internet security, privacy

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 11:54 AM PST

Obama speaks during a visit to KnoxvilleBy Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will highlight plans next week to protect American consumers and businesses from cyber threats, a month after the most high-profile hacking attack on a U.S. company. Internet security became a national focus after a cyberattack on Sony Pictures that Washington blamed on North Korea. The attack and subsequent threats of violence against theaters prompted Sony to scale back its release of "The Interview", a comedy film that depicts the fictional assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. ...


Man acquitted in Trayvon Martin case charged in domestic dispute

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 10:51 AM PST

George Zimmerman listens to judge during a first-appearance hearing in Sanford, FloridaBy Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted in a fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in 2013, was charged with aggravated assault on Saturday after his arrest in connection with a domestic disturbance in Florida. Zimmerman was arrested by Lake Mary police on Friday night after allegedly throwing a wine bottle in his girlfriend's direction earlier in the week, his attorney Donald West said. West appeared at Zimmerman's side in a Seminole County court Saturday morning. ...


Obama to focus on cybersecurity issues next week

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 10:47 AM PST

Obama speaks during a visit to KnoxvilleContinuing the break with State of the Union tradition, President Barack Obama will spend most of the coming week previewing more of the proposals he will outline in the address, including on identity theft, electronic privacy and cybersecurity, the White House announced Saturday.


Netanyahu to French Jews after attacks: 'Israel is your home'

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 02:19 PM PST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on January 4, 2015Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Saturday told Jews in France, after 17 people were killed there in Islamist attacks, that Israel is their home and his government wants them to immigrate. "To all the Jews of France, all the Jews of Europe, I would like to say that Israel is not just the place in whose direction you pray, the state of Israel is your home," he said in a statement, referring to the Jewish practice of facing Jerusalem during prayer. Four of the fatalities in France's three-day wave of violence were Jews killed in an attack on a kosher supermarket hours before the start of the Jewish Sabbath on Friday. "This week, a special team of ministers will convene to advance steps to increase immigration from France and other countries in Europe that are suffering from terrible anti-Semitism.


French police seek slain terror suspect's widow

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 12:33 PM PST

In this combination photo provided by the Paris Police Prefecture, Amedy Coulibaly, left, and Hayet Boumddiene, two suspects named by police as accomplices in a kosher market attack on the eastern edges of Paris on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. A police official says the man who has taken at least five people hostage in a kosher market on the eastern edges of Paris Friday appears linked to the newsroom massacre earlier this week that left 12 people dead. Paris police released a photo of Amedy Coulibaly as a suspect in the killing Thursday of a policewoman, and the official named him as the man holed up in the market. He said the man is armed with an automatic rifle and some hostages have been gravely wounded. He said a second suspect, a woman named Hayet Boumddiene, is the gunman's accomplice. (AP Photo/Prefecture de Police de Paris)Hayat Boumeddiene is considered the possible key to helping authorities dismantle what could be a terrorist network.


George Zimmerman arrested on aggravated assault charge

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 12:15 PM PST

This booking photo provided by the Seminole County Public Affairs shows George Zimmerman on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015. The Seminole County Sheriff's Office says Zimmerman, 31,was arrested on an aggravated assault charge in Lake Mary about 10 p.m. Friday and is being held at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility. Zimmerman was acquitted in 2013 of a second-degree murder charge for shooting an unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin. (AP Photo/Seminole County Public Affairs)Florida authorities say George Zimmerman, whose acquittal of murdering an unarmed black teen sparked a national debate on race and self-defense laws, has been arrested for allegedly throwing a wine bottle at his girlfriend.


AirAsia jet's tail lifted from sea, but no black boxes found

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 05:27 AM PST

Portion of the tail of AirAsia Flight 8501 floats on the water as Indonesian navy divers conduct search operations for the black boxes of the crashed plane in the Java Sea, Indonesia, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015. Investigators searching for black boxes in the crashed AirAsia plane lifted the tail portion out of the Java Sea on Saturday, two weeks ago after it went down, killing all 162 people on board. (AP Photo/Adek Berry, Pool)PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — A tail section from the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea late last month, killing all 162 people on board, became the first major wreckage lifted off the ocean floor Saturday, but the all-important black boxes were not found inside.


North Korea hints at nuclear test moratorium

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 07:40 AM PST

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides a recoilless gun firing contest in in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News AgencySEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has told the United States that it is willing to impose a temporary moratorium on its nuclear tests if Washington scraps planned military drills with South Korea this year, the North's official news agency said Saturday.


France works to avert new terror attacks

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 04:20 PM PST

FILE - In this Wednesday Jan. 7, 2015, file photo, an injured person is transported to an ambulance after a shooting at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris, France. Though it is impossible to gauge in any tangible way the effect the deadly attack on a Paris newspaper will have on recruitment by extremist groups - and there is no evidence so far that it is mobilizing large numbers of would-be jihadis - experts believe the perceived professionalism of the brothers' assault and their subsequent showdown with police could rally more supporters to militant ranks. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)French President Francois Hollande calls for "extreme vigilance."


2 men die in Catholic parade in Manila ahead of pope's visit

Posted: 09 Jan 2015 07:11 PM PST

Filipino devotees cling to kiss the cross of the Black Nazarene during a raucous procession to celebrate its feast day Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 in Manila, Philippines. The raucous celebration drew tens of thousands of devotees in a barefoot procession around Manila streets. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A raucous Roman Catholic procession in which up to a million Filipinos packed the streets of the capital for a chance to get close to a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ left two men dead and about 1,000 hurt, officials said Saturday, in a prelude to a much larger turnout expected during next week's visit by Pope Francis.


U.S. warns of global 'terror' threat after French attacks

Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:51 PM PST

Police forces gather together at Porte de Vincennes, east of Paris, after at least one person was injured when a gunman opened fire at a kosher grocery store on January 9, 2015 and took at least five people hostageThe U.S. warned Americans to beware of "terrorist actions and violence" all over the world.


Sources: Romney considering 3rd run for White House

Posted: 10 Jan 2015 07:21 AM PST

FILE - In this July 2, 2014, file photo, Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential nominee, addresses a crowd of supporters while introducing New Hampshire Senate candidate Scott Brown at a farm in Stratham, N.H. Romney told a small group of Republican donors that he's eying a third run at the White House. The GOP's last presidential nominee held a private meeting with prominent donors in New York on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. He told the group he's seriously considering launching another presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — In a move that surprised his most loyal supporters and former staff, Mitt Romney told several donors Friday he is seriously considering a third run for the White House.


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