2014年5月10日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Iraq


Insurgents blow up 2nd bridge, abduct wife, 2 kids

Posted: 10 May 2014 01:44 PM PDT

Demonstrators arrive in front of the Nigerian consulate after marching from Harlem during a rally, Saturday, May 10, 2014, in New York. Dozens gathered to join the international effort to rescue the 276 schoolgirls being held captive by Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria. As the worldwide effort got underway the weakness of the Nigerian military was exposed in a report issued by Amnesty International. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists blew up a bridge, killed an unknown number of people and abducted the wife and two children of a retired police officer in northeast Nigeria, residents said Saturday amid mounting condemnation by Muslims of the Nigerian terrorist network that abducted more than 300 schoolgirls nearly a month ago.


Thousands of Syrians enter Homs after rebels leave

Posted: 10 May 2014 12:08 PM PDT

Residents return to the al-Hamidiyeh neighborhood of Homs, Syria, Saturday, May 10, 2014. Thousands of Syrians streamed into war-battered parts of the central city of Homs for the first time in nearly two years Saturday, many making plans to move back just days after rebels surrendered their strongholds to pro-government forces. The surrender deal is widely seen as a victory for Assad weeks ahead of a presidential election on June 3 that he is expected to win, giving him a mandate to continue his violent crackdown on rebels in the Syrian civil war, which activists say has killed more than 150,000 people. (AP Photo)HOMS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of Syrians returned to war-battered parts of the central city of Homs Saturday, many making plans to move back as opposition activists expressed bitterness over the rebels' surrender of their strongholds to pro-government forces and vowed they will return.


Bombings kill 19 people in Iraq; shelling kills 11

Posted: 10 May 2014 11:04 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of bombings in Iraq killed 19 people Saturday, a day after army shelling killed 11 civilians and gunmen in the militant-held city of Fallujah, authorities said.

Islamic bloc chief: Nigeria kidnappings barbaric

Posted: 10 May 2014 09:42 AM PDT

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The secretary-general of the world's largest bloc of Islamic countries said Saturday that the kidnapping of more than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls is a "barbaric" and "inhumane" act.

'Over 100,000 civilians' flee jihadist clashes in Syria

Posted: 10 May 2014 08:46 AM PDT

Rebel fighters from the al-Sham Brigade (Liwa al-Sham) take part in a training session in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor, on March 25, 2014More than 100,000 civilians have fled the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor because of fierce clashes between rival jihadist groups, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday. The British-based monitoring group also said the clashes between Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and the rival Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had killed 230 militants in the last 10 days. ISIL was initially welcomed by some of the Syrian opposition, but its abuses of civilians and rebel forces sparked the backlash that begin this year.


Bombings kill 14 people in Iraq; shelling kills 11

Posted: 10 May 2014 04:01 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of bombings in Iraq killed 14 people Saturday, as army shelling killed 11 civilians and gunmen in the militant-held city of Fallujah a day earlier, authorities said.

2 bombings kill 11 people north of capital in Iraq

Posted: 10 May 2014 03:13 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Authorities in Iraq say two bombings, including a suicide attack at a security checkpoint, have killed 11 people north of the capital, Baghdad.

Shelling 'kills 11' in Iraq's Fallujah

Posted: 10 May 2014 01:58 AM PDT

A masked Iraqi policeman handles a machine gun mounted on the back of a pick up truck during fighting against insurgents on the outskirts of Fallujah on May 7, 2014Shelling killed 11 people on Saturday in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which has been held by anti-government fighters for more than four months, a doctor said. The bombardment and twin shootings that killed two people in Nineveh province in the north were the latest in a protracted surge of violence that has killed more than 3,100 people this year. They came with the count still under way from a April 30 general election, Iraq's first since US troops withdrew in late 2011, A further 20 people were wounded by the Fallujah bombardment, Doctor Ahmed Shami of the city's main hospital said.


U.S. FDA approves 'Star Wars' robotic arm for amputees

Posted: 09 May 2014 05:59 PM PDT

DARPA handout image shows the DEKA Arm SystemBy Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a robotic arm for amputees that is named for the \"Star Wars\" character Luke Skywalker and can perform multiple, simultaneous movements, a huge advance over the metal hook currently in use. The FDA said on Friday it allowed the sale of the DEKA Arm System after reviewing data, including a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs study in which 90 percent of people who used the device were able to perform complex tasks. The prosthetic arm was developed by New Hampshire-based DEKA Research and Development Corp, founded by Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway and other devices. The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said it provided more than $40 million in funding to DEKA to develop the robotic arm as part of a $100 million project to improve prosthetics.


Presidential checklist: preparations in motion

Posted: 09 May 2014 05:57 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 18, 2013 file photo shows the White House in Washington. Getting ready to run for president means working through a hefty checklist of activities long before most people are paying attention to the contest ahead. Prep work, positioning and auditioning don't wait for the primary season. And the pace is picking up. Of more than a dozen prospective candidates, most have been going through the necessary motions for months. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest prep work for a presidential campaign, Rand Paul is conspicuously courting moderate and establishment Republicans while Ted Cruz keeps up a travel schedule that has 2016 written all over it.


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