samedi 18 janvier 2014

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Police: 2nd Philly school suspect surrenders

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST

Police walk to the Delaware Valley Charter School Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in Philadelphia. Police say two students have been shot at a Philadelphia high school. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)A boy charged with aggravated assault and related crimes surrendered to police Saturday in connection with a shooting that wounded two students inside a Philadelphia high school gymnasium, authorities said.

Madonna apologizes for racial slur

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 11:30 AM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 file photo, Madonna's son, Rocco Ritchie, foreground, attends the world premiere of NEW YORK (AP) — Madonna is apologizing for using a racial slur to refer to her white son on Instagram.

Syrian opposition to attend peace conference

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 10:44 AM PST

Palestinian children attend a rally in solidarity with Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk refugee camp in the suburbs of the Syrian capital of Damascus, in Gaza City, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. The Yarmouk camp once housed some 160,000 Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war in Israel known by Palestinians as ISTANBUL (AP) — The main, western-backed Syrian opposition group voted Saturday in favor of attending next week's peace conference aimed at ending the country's bloody civil war.

Police: 2nd Philly school suspect to surrender

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST

Police walk to the Delaware Valley Charter School Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in Philadelphia. Police say two students have been shot at a Philadelphia high school. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police say a boy charged with aggravated assault was expected to surrender Saturday in connection with a shooting that wounded two students at a high school gymnasium.

Many remain wary of W.Va. water as smell lingers

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 09:30 AM PST

Sarah Bergstrom poses for a photo with her son Blake, 4, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in her home in Charleston, W.Va. The 29-year-old nurse who is 4 months pregnant with her second child was devastated when she learned after a ban on tap water was lifted days after a chemical leak that health officials urged pregnant women not to drink tap water until the chemical is entirely undetectable. (AP Photo/John Raby)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The smell lingers — the slightly sweet, slightly bitter odor of a chemical that contaminated the water supply of West Virginia's capital more than a week ago. It creeps out of faucets and shower heads. It wafts from the Elk River, the site of the spill. Sometimes it hangs in the cold nighttime air.

Obama: 2014 can be breakthrough year for US

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 08:16 AM PST

President Barack Obama signs the $1.1 trillion spending bill that funds the federal government through the end of September, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 at Jackson Place, a conference center near the White House. Obama signed the measure the day before federal funding was set to run out and was joined by aides who did much of the work negotiating it. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he believes 2014 can be a breakthrough year for the country.

Obama fuels reform on some but not all NSA spying

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 08:16 AM PST

In this Jan. 17, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama Talks about National Security Agency surveillance at the Justice Department in Washington. Obama's orders to change some U.S. surveillance practices put the burden on Congress to deal with a national security controversy that has alarmed Americans and outraged foreign allies. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's orders to change some U.S. surveillance practices put the burden on Congress to deal with a national security controversy that has alarmed Americans and outraged foreign allies. Yet he avoided major action on the practice of sweeping up billions of phone, email and text messages from across the globe.

Playboy sues mag over photos of model Kate Moss

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 08:16 AM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Playboy magazine are suing Harper's Bazaar publisher Hearst Communications over its online use of photos of fashion model Kate Moss.

UN team in Iran to oversee landmark nuclear deal

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 05:42 AM PST

Iranian students form a human chain during a rally to defend their country's nuclear programme outside the Fordo Uranium Conversion Facility in Qom, in the north of the country, on November 19, 2013Inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog arrived in Tehran Saturday to oversee implementation of process that puts temporary curbs on Iran's nuclear program, state media reported.

Obama's proposed changes in NSA spy programs

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 04:56 AM PST

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)The president is calling for major changes in the way the U.S. intelligence community collects and stores information about people in the U.S. and abroad.

Syria proposes cease-fire in Aleppo, prisoner swap

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 04:26 AM PST

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and his Syrian counterpart Walid al-Moallem arrive for talks in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. Syria's Foreign Minister said Friday that his country is prepared to implement a cease-fire in the war-torn city of Aleppo and exchange detainees with the country's opposition forces as confidence building measures ahead of a peace conference opening next week in Switzerland. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's government Friday proposed a cease-fire in the embattled city of Aleppo and a prisoner exchange with the opposition, a move that appeared aimed at presenting President Bashar Assad as a responsible partner less than a week before an international peace conference.

Indonesian floods kill 23, displace thousands

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 03:56 AM PST

Vehicles drive on a flooded road in Jakarta on January 17, 2014The death toll in days of floods and landslides in Indonesia has climbed to 23, an official said Saturday, as torrential rain pounded the capital. Families in Jakarta neighbourhoods waded through murky chest-high flood waters, clutching their belongings, while others were ferried to safety in rubber dinghies, local TV stations showed. "Five people have died in Jakarta so far from drowning or electrocution in the floods," National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nurgoho told AFP. Meanwhile the death toll rose to 18 late Friday in the northern part of Indonesia's Sulawesi island, which has suffered flash floods and landslides.

Crews make progress on destructive California fire

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 03:24 AM PST

A fire crew works on a fire line as a wildfire burns just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora, Calif., on Thursday, Jan 16, 2014. Southern California authorities have ordered the evacuation of homes at the edge of a fast-moving wildfire burning in the dangerously dry foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)GLENDORA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters were chasing flare-ups Friday morning in a damaging wildfire that was largely tamed but kept thousands of people from their homes in the foothill suburbs northeast of Los Angeles.

Embassy: At least 2 U.S. citizens killed in Kabul attack

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:38 AM PST

Afghan security forces walk near a damaged vehicle outside a Lebanese restaurant, the site of a suicide attack, in KabulThe IMF's representative in Afghanistan and four United Nations staff were also killed in a Taliban assault.

Putin: Gay 'propaganda' law doesn't discriminate

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:08 AM PST

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Olympic volunteers in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. Russia has trained 25 thousand volunteers to work at the upcoming Winter Games. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin sought Friday to reassure gay visitors to the Sochi Games that they are welcome in Russia despite a law banning gay "propaganda" to minors, but added they must "leave the children in peace."

Syria says ready for cease-fire, prisoners swap

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 02:08 AM PST

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem enter a hall hand in hand for their talks in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. The Syrian authorities are ready to pool efforts with the opposition to fight terrorists, Muallem said in Moscow on Friday. (AP Photo/Pool)BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's foreign minister said Friday his country is prepared to implement a cease-fire in the war-torn city of Aleppo and exchange detainees with the country's opposition forces as a confidence building measure ahead of a peace conference opening next week in Switzerland.

As LA-area fire wanes, dangerous conditions remain

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 12:22 AM PST

An aircraft drops fire retardant on the Colby Fire on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, near Azusa, Calif. Firefighters were chasing flare-ups Friday morning in the damaging wildfire that was largely tamed but kept thousands of people from their homes in the foothill suburbs northeast of Los Angeles.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)A wildfire in the suburbs of Los Angeles was a smoldering shadow of its former self, but hundreds of residents of a foothill neighborhood remained evacuated.

Porn production moves to Vegas after condom law

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 11:52 PM PST

Studio owner and porn film director Lee Roy Myers talks about moving his business to Las Vegas during an interview on a classroom set at his studio, Mission Control Studios, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, in Las Vegas. With increasing costs of doing business and a Los Angeles law requiring male actors to wear condoms, Myers moved his studio to Las Vegas last Spring and is part of the new boom in X-rated production in Sin City. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lee Roy Myers has everything you'd expect to find in the nation's porn capital in Southern California: sets of a classroom, hospital room, locker room and a bedroom, as well as a list of porn stars waiting to perform.

Putin: Gays must 'leave children in peace'

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 10:35 PM PST

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Olympic volunteers in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. Russia has trained 25 thousand volunteers to work at the upcoming Winter Games. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin sought Friday to reassure gay visitors to the Sochi Games that they are welcome in Russia, but added that they must "leave the children in peace."

UN staff among dead in Kabul restaurant attack

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:59 PM PST

Afghan security forces arrive at the scene of an explosion in KabulUp to 15 people killed in dinnertime suicide bombing in area popular with expatriates.

NTSB: Pilots confused by wrong airport's lights

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 04:55 PM PST

Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 sits at the M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport in Hollister, Mo., Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. The plane was supposed to land at the nearby Branson Airport on Sunday evening, but instead landed at Clark Airport, also known as Taney County Airport, which has a much shorter runway than at Branson, about 7 miles away. (AP Photo/Springfield News-Leader, Valerie Mosley)Southwest pilots landed a 737 at landing strip about half the size of destination airport.

Afghanistan suicide attack kills up to 15

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 04:09 PM PST

Four U.N. staff members are missing after a dinnertime bombing killed between 13 and 15 at a popular Kabul restaurant.

Judge spikes photo ID requirement for Pa. voters

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 03:39 PM PST

Gov. Tom Corbett listens to a question during a news conference Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in Philadelphia. Gov. A nearly 2-year-old requirement that almost all of Pennsylvania's 8.2 million voters must show photo identification before casting a ballot was struck down Friday by a state judge, setting the stage for a courtroom showdown before the state's highest court. The law, one of the strictest in the nation, was approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by Corbett in March 2012 over the protests of every single Democratic lawmaker. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania judge on Friday struck down a requirement that nearly all of the state's 8.2 million voters show photo identification at the polls, saying it imposes an unreasonable burden on the right to vote and that officials failed to demonstrate the need for it.

French president visits hospitalized first lady

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 03:39 PM PST

FILE - In this May 5, 2012 file photo, French Socialist Party candidate for the presidential election Francois Hollande, right, offers a rose to his companion Valerie Trierweiler, in Tulle, southwestern France. The woman considered France's first lady was hospitalized after a report the president is having an affair with an actress, her office said Sunday, as a poll was released showing the French shrugging off any liaison as none of their business. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File)PARIS (AP) — President Francois Hollande has visited France's first lady for the first time since she was hospitalized late last week after a gossip magazine reported he was having an affair with an actress.

Daughter: Ohio execution most awful moment of life

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 03:07 PM PST

FILE-In this undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Dennis McGuire. A condemned Ohio killer facing a never-tried lethal injection method has arrived at the state death house a day ahead of his scheduled execution. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction plans to use a combination of a sedative and a painkiller to put McGuire to death for the 1989 rape and fatal stabbing of Joy Stewart in Preble County in western Ohio. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, File)DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The daughter of an Ohio inmate whose execution took an usually long time says watching her father die was the most awful moment of her life.
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