2015年8月21日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


North Korea goes on war footing against South Korea as deadline looms

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 02:51 PM PDT

North Korea orders troops on war footing after exchange of fire with SouthBy Ju-min Park and James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea put its troops on a war footing on Friday as South Korea rejected an ultimatum to stop propaganda broadcasts or face military action, prompting China to voice concern and urge both sides to step back after an exchange of artillery fire. North Korea's Foreign Ministry said the country's military and the public stood ready to safeguard its regime even if it meant fighting an all-out war, and rejected the idea of restraint in an apparent rebuff to China's call. North Korea's official media said its military was not bluffing, and the deputy North Korean ambassador to the United Nations, An Myong Hun, reiterated Pyongyang's threat of "strong military counter-action" if the South Korean broadcasts did not stop.


Far left splits from Tsipras as Greece heads to elections

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:41 AM PDT

Greek PM Tsipras leaves the presidential palace after meeting President Pavlopoulos in AthensBy George Georgiopoulos and Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Rebels opposed to Greece's international bailout walked out of the leftist Syriza party on Friday, formalising a split after its leader Alexis Tsipras resigned as prime minister and paved the way for early elections. Greece's president gave the conservative opposition a chance to form a new government following Tsipras's resignation on Thursday, but the country appears almost certain to be heading for its third election in as many years next month. Tsipras is hoping to strengthen his hold on power in a snap election after seven months in office in which he fought Greece's creditors for a better bailout deal but had to cave in and accept more onerous terms.


White House: Islamic State second-in-command killed in U.S. air strike

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:16 PM PDT

By Jeff Mason and Warren Strobel EDGARTOWN, Mass./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The second-in-command of the Islamic State militant group was killed during a U.S. air strike in Iraq on Tuesday, the White House said on Friday, dealing a blow to the group that has sought to form a caliphate across the Muslim world. "Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, also known as Hajji Mutazz ... was killed in a U.S. military air strike on August 18 while traveling in a vehicle near Mosul, Iraq, along with an ISIL media operative known as Abu Abdullah," White House spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.

Guatemala prosecutors seek to impeach president after ex-VP's arrest

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 01:24 PM PDT

Journalists wait outside a hospital where former Guatemalan VP Roxana Baldetti was arrested while receiving medical treatment, in Guatemala CityBy Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Prosecutors sought to impeach Guatemalan President Otto Perez on Friday over a corruption scandal that led to the arrest of his former vice president, deepening a government crisis ahead of presidential elections next month. Perez's conservative administration has spent the past few months mired in public protests and scandals over corruption allegations against senior officials, several of whom the retired general fired during a cabinet purge in May. Prosecutor Thelma Aldana said at a press conference that it was "highly probable" that recordings of telephone conversations of people involved in the customs corruption racket had referred to Perez. Earlier on Friday, former vice president Roxana Baldetti was arrested while she was receiving treatment at a hospital.


U.S. soldier wounded helping to overpower gunman on train in France

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:50 PM PDT

French police stand over a man who is apprehended on the platform at the Arras train station after after shots were fired on the Amsterdam to Paris Thalys high-speed train where several people were injured in ArrasBy Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - A machine gun-toting attacker wounded three people on a high-speed train in France on Friday before being overpowered by passengers who included an American soldier. The wounded were the soldier, French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, and a Briton. Local media reported that U.S. Marines were among those who brought down the gunman.


Greece moves refugees to mainland, crush builds on border

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 01:12 PM PDT

By Michele Kambas ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece ferried hundreds of refugees to its mainland on Friday to relieve the pressure on outlying islands that have been overwhelmed by thousands of people arriving by boat to flee Syria's civil war. At the same time, crowds of migrants massed on the Greek border with Macedonia, preparing to travel north across a continent that is struggling to cope with the influx of desperate people escaping from conflict and poverty.

Obama praises U.S. service members' action on French train: White House

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 04:41 PM PDT

President Barack Obama expressed his gratitude on Friday for the "courage and quick thinking" of the passengers on a high-speed train in France, including U.S. service members, who overpowered a gunman. French authorities said the machine gun-toting attacker wounded three people on the Paris-bound train before being overpowered by passengers who included an American soldier. "The President expressed his profound gratitude for the courage and quick thinking of several passengers, including U.S. service members, who selflessly subdued the attacker," the White House said in a statement.

France: 2 Americans subdue gunman on high-speed train

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 04:34 PM PDT

French judicial police stand on the train platform near gun cartridges and a backpack in Arras after shots were fired on a Thalys high-speed trainPARIS (AP) — A gunman opened fire on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday, wounding two people before two American passengers subdued him, officials said.


Top Asian News at 11:30 p.m. GMT

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 04:32 PM PDT

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday declared his front-line troops in a "quasi-state of war" and ordered them to prepare for battle a day after the most serious confrontation between the rivals in years. South Korea's military on Thursday fired dozens of artillery rounds across the border in response to what Seoul said were North Korean artillery strikes meant to back up a threat to attack loudspeakers broadcasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda.

MLB, players' union announce domestic violence policy

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 04:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 21, 2015, file photo, baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks during a news conference in New York. Major League Baseball can suspend players with pay when legal charges are pending in "exceptional cases" under a new domestic violence policy signed Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball can suspend players with pay when legal charges are pending in "exceptional cases" under a new domestic violence policy signed Friday.


Yemen's president calls for cease-fire and rebel withdrawal

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 04:24 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Yemen's president is proposing a 15-day cease-fire that would coincide with the withdrawal of Shiite rebel militias from all government institutions and military installations and all cities and provinces — even the province they call home.

Ashley Madison faces $578M Canadian class-action lawsuit

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 04:12 PM PDT

TORONTO (AP) — Two Canadian law firms have filed a $578 million class-action lawsuit against the companies that run Ashley Madison after a hacker group's data breach exposed some 39 million memberships in the adultery website earlier this week.

US stocks tumble on global slowdown fears

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 04:01 PM PDT

Investors monitor stock prices at a brokerage in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. Asian stocks fell further Friday after a survey showed Chinese manufacturing weakened this month. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)NEW YORK (AP) — Growing concerns about a slowdown in China shook markets around the world on Friday, driving the U.S. stock market to its biggest drop in nearly four years.


Wildfires force new evacuation orders in Washington state

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:56 PM PDT

Firefighters flee as the Twisp River fire advances unexpectedly near Twisp, WashingtonBy Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Emergency officials extended evacuation orders on Friday to additional towns threatened by a deadly array of wildfires in north-central Washington state as dozens of blazes swirled across the drought-parched Pacific Northwest and surrounding regions. President Barack Obama signed a federal declaration of emergency for Washington state on Friday, authorizing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate relief efforts in 11 counties and several Indian reservations hard hit by wildfires.


Aid group makes dramatic plea, day after 65 killed in Yemen

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:53 PM PDT

Tribal fighters, against Shiite rebels known as Houthis, carry a boy who was killed during fighting between the two groups, in Taiz, Yemen, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2015. In Taiz, Yemen's third largest city, at least 11 civilians were killed and more than 35 injured by shelling that started on Wednesday, independent local officials, witnesses and medical officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters. They all said the shelling was by Houthi fighters who were attacking areas controlled by pro-government forces. (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A leading international aid group on Friday made a dramatic appeal to Yemen's warring factions to halt attacks on civilians, a day after heavy fighting in a key city killed more than 65 people and wounded at least 23.


NCAA champion DeChambeau reaches US Amateur semifinals

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:50 PM PDT

In a photo provided by the USGA< Bryson DeChambeau plays his tee shot on the 11th hole during a match-play round at the U.S. Amateur golf tournament at Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Ill., on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. (Chris Keane/USGA via AP)OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. (AP) — NCAA champion Bryson DeChambeau beat Ireland's Paul Dunne 3 and 2 on Friday at Olympia Fields to advance to the U.S. Amateur semifinals.


U.S. citizens "courageous" in French train shooting-minister

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:50 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - France's anti-terrorism prosecutor is investigating a shooting that left three people wounded on a train between Paris and Amsterdam on Thursday, and in which two U.S. citizens helped disarm the attacker, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. In a news conference near the scene at a railway station in Arras, northern France, Cazeneuve said the two unnamed Americans were "particularly courageous and showed extreme bravery in extremely difficult circumstances." (Reporting by Andrew Callus; Editing by Michel Rose)

Zaragoza singles home Leon, Mexico beats Canada 1-0 in LLWS

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:41 PM PDT

Mexico's Raul Leon celebrates after scoring the game-winning run on a single by Daniel Zaragoza during the sixth inning of an international pool play baseball game against Canada at the Little League World Series, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015, in South Williamsport, Pa. Mexico won 1-0. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Daniel Zaragoza singled home Raul Leon in the bottom of the sixth inning to give Mexico a 1-0 victory over Canada in their opening game Friday in the Little League World Series.


Coahuila becomes 3rd Mexican state to adopt bullfight ban

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:35 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A third Mexican state has banned bullfighting after a concerted campaign by animal rights groups.

German police disperse far-right protesters at refugee home

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:34 PM PDT

Hundreds of migrants wait outside of the reception center for refugees and asylum-seekers in Berlin, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber).BERLIN (AP) — German police used pepper spray Friday to disperse dozens of far-right protesters blocking the road leading to a planned shelter for refugees.


US passengers overpower gunman who fired in Amsterdam-Paris train

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:33 PM PDT

Police inspect a crime scene inside a Thalys train of French national railway operator SNCF at the main train station in Arras, northern France, on August 21, 2015A heavily-armed man opened fire in a "terrorist attack" on a high-speed train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday, injuring at least two people before he was overpowered by two American passengers. The suspect, who was arrested at a railway station in the northern French town of Arras, was a 26-year-old from Morocco or of Moroccan origin who was known to the intelligence services, French investigators said. France has been on high alert since Islamist gunmen went on the rampage in January, killing 17 people in Paris.


Israel pounds Syria targets in response to rocket fire

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:29 PM PDT

Israeli soldiers in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on June 28, 2015Israel said it carried out an air raid Friday that killed up to five Iran-backed militants it said were behind a rare rocket attack from across the border in Syria. The strike came a day after Israel launched a dozen air raids on the Syrian-side of the occupied Golan Heights, raising concerns about a possible escalation. Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said Friday's raid hit members of a unit behind Thursday's rocket fire on the northern Galilee region and the zone Israel occupies on the Golan.


First cargo docks in Aden since war came to south Yemen's ex-capital

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:29 PM PDT

A UN aid ship docked in Yemen's devastated port city of Aden on July 21, 2015A commercial ship docked in Aden on Friday, the first to reach the former southern capital since Yemen's devastating war came to the port city in March. The Venus, operated by United Arab Shipping Co, carried a cargo of 350 containers of products ordered by businesses in Aden, said port deputy director Aref al-Shaabi. "This signals the return of life to the port of Aden and this will benefit the city and southern provinces," Shaabi told AFP.


Clashes as Macedonia becomes latest migrant crisis flashpoint

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:27 PM PDT

Police are seen as migrant and refugee families try to cross the Macedonian-Greek border near the town of Gevgelija, Macedonia, on August 21, 2015Macedonian riot police on Friday fired stun grenades to drive back thousands of mostly Syrian refugees stuck in no-man's land between Greece and Macedonia, the latest flashpoint in Europe's escalating migrant crisis. At least eight people were hurt near the Greek border village of Edomeni as the police in riot gear beat the migrants back with truncheons and threw the stun grenades, devices that produce a blinding flash of light and a huge noise to disorient their targets. Rights group Amnesty International blasted the police response, saying it had received reports that officers fired into the air in "an unacceptable push-back in violation of international law".


US woman, 2 minors detained, Mexico probes possible abuse

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:27 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The government's human rights commission said Friday it is investigating claims that Mexican immigration agents illegally detained a U.S. woman and two 17-year-old boys and tried to extort money from them.

Mexico says it is committed to reducing sea turtle deaths

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:25 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is objecting to a U.S. decision to negatively certify it for not doing enough to reduce the deaths of endangered sea turtles in fishing nets.

Guatemalan president was 'Number One' in graft scheme: officials

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:20 PM PDT

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina speaks during the swearing in ceremony of the new Defence Minister William Mancilla, in Guatemala City, August 14, 2015Prosecutors accused Guatemalan President Otto Perez on Friday of being one of the ringleaders of a corruption scandal shaking the country, as police arrested his former vice president. With just over two weeks to go to general elections, prosecutors and officials from a UN investigative commission said they had uncovered extensive evidence implicating Perez and ex-vice president Roxana Baldetti in a massive, highly organized scheme to reduce importers' customs duties in exchange for bribes. The multimillion-dollar fraud case has upended Guatemalan politics since it erupted in April, felling numerous high-ranking officials, forcing Baldetti's resignation and now reaching the country's highest office.


US briefly suspended exercise after North Korean fire

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:18 PM PDT

Military guard posts of South Korea (bottom) and North Korea (top) stand opposite each other as seen from in the border city of Paju on August 21, 2015US forces briefly suspended exercises in South Korea on Thursday after North Korean artillery fired several rounds across the border, the Pentagon said Friday. Assistant Secretary of Defense David Shear said US forces have since resumed scheduled joint exercises with the South Korean military, but remained in an "enhanced" state of readiness. "We suspended part of the exercise temporarily in order to allow our side to coordinate with the ROK (South Korea) side on the subject of the exchange of artillery fire across the DMZ," said Shear, who is assistant secretary for Asian and Pacific security affairs.


Islamic State mortar fragments show traces of chemical arms: U.S. general

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:16 PM PDT

By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fragments from mortars fired by Islamic State militants at Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq earlier this month tested positive in a U.S. military field analysis for sulfur mustard, a chemical weapons agent, a U.S. general said on Friday. Marine Corps Brigadier General Kevin Killea, chief of staff for operations against the group, said the test was not conclusive proof of chemical weapons use, and the fragments would be further tested to confirm the finding. Killea said that in addition to the Aug. 11 mortar attack, he was aware of at least two other claims of chemical weapons use by Islamic State.

Mexico's first lady returns mansion after scandal broke out

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2014 file photo, a worker stands outside a $7 million mansion that belongs to Mexico's first lady Angelica Rivera, located at Sierra Gorda 150, in Mexico City. Rivera returned the mansion she bought from a firm that had won lucrative contracts with the administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico's Public Administration Department said Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)MEXICO CITY (AP) — First lady Angelica Rivera has returned the $7 million mansion she bought from a firm that won lucrative contracts with the administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico's Public Administration Department said Friday.


Argentine in wheelchair dances at World Tango Championships

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:02 PM PDT

Argentine dancer Pablo Rafael Pereyra dips his partner Gabriela Fernanda Torres, as part of their dance routine in the stage category at the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. Torres strikes a truly unique pose among the hundreds of dancers at the World Cup of Tango. The 37-year-old says she was paralyzed in a car accident when she was 2 years old, but nonetheless grew up with a love of dancing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Gabriela Fernanda Torres strikes a unique pose as she competes with hundreds of other dancers in this year's World Tango Championships in Argentina. The 37-year-old Argentine uses a wheelchair.


Montoya starts final drive for IndyCar title at Pocono

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:01 PM PDT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Juan Pablo Montoya turned the Philadelphia Eagles' training camp parking lot into a showcase for some pace-car burnouts.

Pro-Israel lobby group elects Muslim to head college units

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 03:00 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A dovish pro-Israel lobby in the U.S. that has struggled for acceptance by more established Jewish groups has elected an American Muslim as president of a core initiative — its chapter program on college campuses, where debates rages over Israel and Palestinians.

Top-ranked Djokovic, Serena Williams reach Cincy semifinals

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 02:59 PM PDT

Serena Williams returns the ball to Ana Ivanovic, of Serbia, during a quarterfinal match at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015, in Mason, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)MASON, Ohio (AP) — Novak Djokovic played his best match. Serena Williams? Well, she needed to pull a Serena to move on.


As Trump surges, Republican rivals struggle to parry

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 02:52 PM PDT

Donald Trump, pictured on August 17, 2015, has snatched up the lion's share of the attention, interest and support of Republican votersDonald Trump steamrolls into Alabama for potentially the biggest US campaign rally of the year Friday, leaving Republican rivals flummoxed over how to contain the political brute now turning the presidential race on its head. The billionaire real estate mogul has snatched the lion's share of the attention, interest and support of Republican voters, using a combative tone to lash out at other candidates with a coarseness rarely seen at the top tier of American campaigns. With more than five months before Iowa and New Hampshire cast the early votes in the party nominating process, Trump leads in polls across the board, leaving the remaining 16 Republican candidates in his dust.


U.S. resumes South Korea exercises in midst of border tensions

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 02:51 PM PDT

The United States resumed its annual military exercise with South Korea after a temporary halt to coordinate with Seoul over shelling across the border with North Korea, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. "That exercise was suspended temporarily, I believe the day before yesterday, in order to allow the U.S. side to coordinate with the South Korean side on the ... exchange of artillery," David Shear, assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, said at a news briefing. "That exercise has resumed as planned," Shear said.

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