2013年7月3日星期三

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Obama leery of intervention in Mideast

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 04:25 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 file photo, anti-government protesters gathered in Tahrir (Liberation) Square, watch a screen showing U.S. President Barack Obama live on a TV broadcast from Washington, speaking about the situation in Egypt. U.S. officials say the Obama administration delivered pointed warnings Tuesday, July 2, 2013 to three main players in the latest crisis to grip Egypt as hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded Tahrir Square in Cairo to demand President Mohammed Morsi's ouster over his hard-line Islamist policies. The powerful Egyptian military appeared poised to overthrow him. The administration stopped short of demanding that Morsi take specific steps, the officials said, and instead offered strong suggestions that are backed by billions of dollars in U.S. aid to ease the tensions. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)WASHINGTON (AP) — From Egypt to Syria to Iraq and beyond, the Obama administration is determined to show it will only go so far to help save nations in chaos from themselves.

Friends, family share stories of fallen Hotshots

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 02:34 PM PDT

This undated photo provided by the Crown King Fire Department shows firefighter Anthony Rose. Rose, 23, was one of 19 firefighters killed while battling an out-of-control wildfire in Yarnell, Ariz., on June 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Crown King Fire Department)PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, based in Prescott, were killed Sunday when a windblown wildfire overcame them north of Phoenix. It was the deadliest single day for U.S. firefighters since 9/11. Fourteen of the victims were in their 20s. Here are the stories of those who died:

SCOTUSblog, Time, USA Today, ABC among National Press Club Journalism Award winners

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 02:11 PM PDT

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SCOTUSblog won the Breaking News Award for its coverage of the Supreme Court's health care ruling, while Time Magazine's Michael Scherer won a top award for political analysis this year in the National Press Club Journalism contest.(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO)USA Today won awards for online journalism and its coverage of the aviation industry. ...

Why the Herbal Stimulant 'Khat' Was Banned

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 02:05 PM PDT

Why the Herbal Stimulant 'Khat' Was BannedThe British government has decided to ban the import and use of khat, after years of turning a blind eye to the herbal stimulant.

Vast war letter collection shows sacrifice

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 11:46 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 photo, historian Andrew Carroll poses for a photograph, in Washington, with one of his war letters that has a bullet hole in it. The letters, recently given to Chapman University, include one written home by a U.S. soldier on Adolf Hitler's personal stationery. The collection stretches from letters written home by fighters in the French and Indian War to modern-day wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and those by people who are now quite famous, including Sen. John McCain, Gary Trudeau and Kurt Vonnegut. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Horace Evers was setting up a command post in Munich with other Allied soldiers in the final days of World War II when he stumbled across sheets of Adolf Hitler's personal stationery in the dictator's abandoned apartment.

Officials: Insurgents kill 17 people across Iraq

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 08:59 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide attacks, bombings and shootings erupted across Iraq Wednesday, killing at least 17, officials said, the latest in a surge of attacks that has raised concerns about all-out sectarian fighting.

Syrian conflict putting al Qaeda militants closer to Europe: UK

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 08:38 AM PDT

Free Syrian Army members rest with their weapons on a lookout point beside the Shi'ite villages of Nubbul and Al-Zahraa that they plan to siege in Aleppo countrysideBy Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - The conflict in Syria has brought al Qaeda fighters closer to Europe and in greater numbers than ever before, profoundly changing the nature of the terrorism threat, Britain's top security official said on Wednesday. Hundreds and possibly thousands of al Qaeda-linked people had been drawn to the two-year-old uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, said Charles Farr, Director General of Britain's Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism. "Syria is a very profound game-changer," Farr told a security conference in London. ...

SLU Recruits Dept. of Homeland Security's Former Chief Medical Officer

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 05:13 AM PDT

ST. LOUIS, July 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The former Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs and Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Homeland Security is joining the faculty of Saint Louis University's College for Public Health and Social Justice.Alexander Garza, M.D., MPH, will become associate dean for public health practice and associate professor of epidemiology at SLU this fall. ...

Bomb kills 7 in Iraqi capital; 3 workers slain

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 02:54 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say a roadside bomb has killed at least seven people in a Baghdad suburb while the bodies of three construction workers were found elsewhere in the Iraqi capital.

America's New Cold War: Why the Allies Side With Snowden

Posted: 03 Jul 2013 12:00 AM PDT

There is a depressing statistical comparison that should shame all of us who voted twice for Barack Obama's ascent to the White House. Our man, a former constitutional law professor who pledged to reverse the Bush administration's abuses of national security concerns, has charged seven government whistle-blowers, including Edward J. Snowden, with violating the Espionage Act. That's more than double the combined three charged with leaking classified information by all previous presidents, George W. Bush included.

The Africa Continuum

Posted: 02 Jul 2013 11:26 PM PDT

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania—Presidents Obama and Bush met here to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Osama bin Laden's first coordinated murderous assault on America.Neither was president when suicide truck bombs blew up in front of the U.S. embassies here and in Nairobi, Kenya. As president, both have coped with what those hideous attacks—11 dead and 85 injured here and 212 dead and 4,000 injured in Nairobi—foreshadowed.Bush was the first American president to preside over thousands of civilian deaths in a battle that's never had a name and never offered a country to vanquish. ...

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