vendredi 27 septembre 2013

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Watch live: Obama statement on gov't shutdown fight

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 12:38 PM PDT

Obama Hails UN Deal on Syria's Chemical WeaponsThe president comments after Senate rolled back Obamacare funding cuts.


10 things to waste your time with this weekend

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 11:22 AM PDT

Procrastinaut logoThe Procrastinaut is back, with a level-headed chicken and nine decades of Bigfoot sightings!


Senate puts Obamacare funding back into spending bill

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 11:06 AM PDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., left, confers with Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, as Senate Democratic leaders told reporters that conservative Republicans are to blame for holding up a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running. Senate passage of the spending bill — stripped of the With a shutdown looming, House Republicans must respond before Tuesday


Colo. immigrants face uncertainty after floods

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:50 AM PDT

EVANS, Colo. (AP) — Immigrants living in the U.S. illegally returned to their mobile home parks in flood-ravaged Colorado to find that there was little left to salvage — not the water-damaged cars, not the old family pictures and not the sheds carried away by the rushing waters.

'If you build it, they will come'?

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:19 AM PDT

Get Covered America buttons are seen during a training session in ChicagoA poll shows nearly half of Americans have never heard of health care exchanges.


Miss World drama fueled by host country Indonesia

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:17 AM PDT

In this Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 photo, Muslim women hold posters reading: Indonesia is not America, left, and Reject Miss World, during a protest demanding the cancellation of the Miss World pageant, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Beauty queens and backstage drama may seem inevitable, but at this year's Miss World competition, something more serious than hair-pulling and name-calling has come from host country Indonesia: Muslim hardliners have threatened to hijack the competition despite major concessions from the government and organizers. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Beauty queens and backstage drama may seem inevitable, but at this year's Miss World competition, something more serious than hair-pulling and name-calling has come from host country Indonesia: Muslim hardliners have threatened to hijack the competition despite major concessions from the government and organizers.


Stocks fall on debt limit worries

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 09:01 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, file photo, traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. World stocks drifted on Friday Sept. 27, 2013, with markets in China edging slightly higher as investors stayed cautious ahead of a major holiday and details from the highly anticipated unveiling of a free trade zone in Shanghai. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)Stocks fell on Friday as investors focused on the risk that the U.S. government could shut down next week.


8 dead, dozens missing in India building cave-in

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 08:14 AM PDT

Rescue workers carry a girl out from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The apartment building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai early Friday, killing people and sending rescuers racing to reach dozens of people trapped in the rubble. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)MUMBAI, India (AP) — Rescuers pulled a small girl alive from a collapsed apartment building in India's financial capital nearly 12 hours after the structure caved in Friday, killing at least eight people and leaving dozens trapped under the rubble.


NSA workers spied on significant others, says watchdog

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:58 AM PDT

An undated aerial handout photo shows the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters building in Fort Meade, MarylandBy Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least a dozen U.S. National Security Agency employees have abused secret surveillance programs in the past decade, most often to spy on their significant others, according to the latest findings of the agency's internal watchdog. In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Republican, Charles Grassley, NSA Inspector General George Ellard outlined 12 instances of "intentional misuse" of the agency's intelligence gathering programs since January 1, 2003. ...


Sudan: New protests demanding regime fall

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:43 AM PDT

Sudanese boys walk amid burned vehicles after rioters torched a fuel station in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Sudanese authorities have deployed troops around vital installations and gas stations in Khartoum following days of deadly rioting over gas price hikes. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Security forces opened fire on Sudanese protesters Friday, witnesses said, as thousands marched through the streets of the capital in an opposition push to turn a wave of popular anger over fuel price hikes into an outright uprising against the 24-year rule of President Omar al-Bashir.


Syrian chemical weapons arsenal inspections to begin

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:15 AM PDT

In this image taken from Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, video obtained from the Sham News Network, Syrian opposition fighters fire at government forces near Daraa customs in Daraa al-Balad, Syria. Russia offered on Thursday to provide troops to guard facilities where Syria's chemical weapons would be destroyed, as U.N. inspectors prepared to continue their probe on the use of such agents in the country's civil war. (AP Photo/Sham News Network via AP video)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The inspectors responsible for tracking down Syria's chemical arms stockpile and verifying its destruction plan to start in Syria by Tuesday. They will face their tightest deadlines ever and work right in the heart of a war zone, according to a draft decision obtained Friday by The Associated Press.


Rights groups say 50 dead after Sudanese protests

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 07:02 AM PDT

Sudanese men pick through debris after rioters torched a fuel station in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Sudanese authorities have deployed troops around vital installations and gas stations in Khartoum following days of deadly rioting over gas price hikes. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)By Khalid Abdelaziz and Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of Sudanese demanding the resignation of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir after rights groups accused security forces of shooting dead at least 50 people in the worst unrest in Sudan's central region for years. Around 3,000 people, angered by a police crackdown on protests against the lifting of fuel subsidies, took to the streets after Friday prayers in Khartoum's twin-city Omdurman across the Nile, shouting "freedom, freedom" and "the people want the fall of the regime". ...


Disturbing number of British pilots admit falling asleep, survey says

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 06:39 AM PDT

A Japan Airlines airplane takes off during a groundbreaking ceremony for a second terminal of the Incheon Airport in IncheonBy Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - More than half of British airline pilots say they have fallen asleep in the cockpit, a survey said, ahead of an EU vote on flying hours which a pilots' association said could compromise flight safety. According to the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA), 56 percent of 500 commercial pilots admitted to being asleep while on the flight deck and, of those, nearly one in three said they had woken up to find their co-pilot also asleep. ...


Plan: Syria arsenal inspections by Tuesday

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 05:53 AM PDT

President of the Opposition Syrian Coalition, Ahmad Jarba, left, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, center, and American Secretary of State John Kerry attend a Ministerial Meeting of the Group of Friends of the Syrian people, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The inspectors responsible for tracking down Syria's chemical arms stockpile and verifying its destruction plan to start work in Syria by Tuesday. They will face their tightest deadlines ever and work right in the heart of a war zone, according to a draft decision obtained Friday by The Associated Press.


Kenyan forces caused mall collapse, official says

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 05:22 AM PDT

This photo released by the Kenya Presidency shows the collapsed upper car park of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Working near bodies crushed by rubble in a bullet-scarred, scorched mall, FBI agents continued fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis to help determine the identities and nationalities of victims and al-Shabab gunmen who attacked the shopping center, killing more than 60 people. (AP Photo/Kenya Presidency)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A top-ranking government official tells The Associated Press that Kenya's military caused the massive collapse of three floors during the terrorist siege on Nairobi's Westgate Mall.


Baby rescued hours after Mumbai building collapse

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 05:09 AM PDT

A local and Indian Fire officials look for survivors from the debris of a collapsed building in Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. The multi-story residential building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai early Friday, killing at least three people and sending rescuers racing to reach dozens of people feared trapped in the rubble. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)MUMBAI, India (AP) — Rescuers have pulled a baby alive from the rubble of a building 11 hours after it collapsed in Mumbai, India's financial capital.


Obama knocks his 'desperate' fat-cat critics

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 04:36 AM PDT

Second term slump for Obama, or worse?The president also says they watch too much Fox News.


Building collapse kills four in India's Mumbai, scores trapped

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 04:05 AM PDT

A woman prays for her relatives trapped under the rubble at the site of a collapsed residential building in MumbaiBy Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI (Reuters) - A five-storey apartment block collapsed on Friday in the Indian financial centre of Mumbai, killing at least four people and trapping scores in the latest accident to underscore shoddy building standards in Asia's third-largest economy. The building collapsed at about 5:45 a.m. (0015 GMT) and more than 110 people were still trapped by early afternoon, said Ram Barot, a official of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. The corporation's employees were housed in the building. ...


Official: Car used by Kenya mall attackers found

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 03:47 AM PDT

This photo released by the Kenya Presidency shows the collapsed upper car park of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Working near bodies crushed by rubble in a bullet-scarred, scorched mall, FBI agents continued fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis to help determine the identities and nationalities of victims and al-Shabab gunmen who attacked the shopping center, killing more than 60 people. (AP Photo/Kenya Presidency)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A top Kenyan government official says investigators have recovered a vehicle believed to have been used by the terrorists who attacked Nairobi's Westgate Mall.


Iran plays down prospects for quick IAEA nuclear deal

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 03:43 AM PDT

IAEA chief nuclear inspector Nackaerts arrives for a meeting about Tehran's disputed nuclear programme at the Iranian embassy in ViennaBy Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran played down prospects for a quick breakthrough in talks with the U.N. nuclear agency on Friday over a stalled inquiry into its atomic work, the first such meeting under the new relatively moderate Iranian government. The discussions in Vienna, home of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), started at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT), a day after separate but related talks at the United Nations in New York, where Iran and the United States held their highest-level talks in a generation. ...


Watchdog plan: Syria arsenal inspections by Oct. 1

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 02:29 AM PDT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog is calling for inspections of Syria's chemical arsenal to begin by Tuesday.

Senators: Limit NSA snooping into US phone records

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 01:57 AM PDT

Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.,center, talks with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, left, and Deputy Attorney General James Cole on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, prior to the start of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and National Security Agency (NSA) call records. Lawmakers who oversee US intelligence agencies are working to expand the government's spying powers to allow the FBI to immediately begin electronically monitoring terror suspects who travel to the United States and who already were under surveillance overseas by the NSA. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)WASHINGTON (AP) — Leading senators unveiled proposed changes to the way the National Security Agency gathers U.S. records in its hunt for overseas terrorists or spying targets, and top intelligence officials said they would cooperate to try to win back the public trust, following disclosures about the extensive NSA collection of telephone and email records of millions of Americans.


Climate panel: warming 'extremely likely' man-made

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 01:44 AM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2009 file photo, steam and smoke rises from a coal power station in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Scientists are more confident than ever that pumping carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels is warming the planet. By how much is something governments and scientists meeting in Stockholm will try to pin down with as much precision as possible Friday Sept. 27, 2013 in a seminal report on global warming. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)STOCKHOLM (AP) — Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global warming observed since the 1950s, a new report by an international scientific group said Friday.


Chemical weapons watchdog to meet to discuss Syria

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 12:59 AM PDT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog has scheduled a meeting to approve a U.S.-Russian brokered plan to rapidly verify, secure and then destroy Syria's arsenal of poison gas and nerve agents.

In heart of the Rim Fire, regeneration has begun

Posted: 27 Sep 2013 12:43 AM PDT

TUOLUMNE CITY, Calif. (AP) — In the midst of a foreboding canyon scorched bare by the Sierra Nevada's most destructive fire in centuries, tiny ferns unfurl along a spring, black oaks push through charred soil normally blanketed with pine needles and a hawk soars above towering dead and denuded trees.

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