samedi 2 août 2014

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Israel warns Hamas against continued rocket fire

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:56 PM PDT

A Palestinians looks for his belongings after a house was destroyed in an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. Israel bombarded Rafah on Saturday as troops searched for an officer they believe was captured by Hamas in an ambush that shattered a humanitarian cease-fire and set the stage for a major escalation of the 26-day-old war. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Hamas on Saturday that it will "pay an intolerable price" if it continues to fire rockets at Israel, but also hinted that Israel would reassess its operations in the Gaza war once troops have demolished Hamas tunnels under the Gaza-Israel border.


Israel to keep up Gaza assault 'as long as necessary': PM  

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:50 PM PDT

A Palestinian woman holds the hand of her child as they make their way back to their house in the northern Gaza Strip district of Umm al-Nasser on August 2, 2014Israel will keep up its military campaign in the Gaza Strip for as long as needed and with as much force as necessary, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday. "From the beginning, we promised to return the quiet to Israel's citizens and we will continue to act until that aim is achieved. He also pledged to do whatever necessary to bring home 23-year-old soldier Hadar Goldin, who Israel believes was captured by Palestinian militants during an ambush in southern Gaza early on Friday. "Israel will continue to make every effort to bring its missing sons home," he pledged in remarks made just after the missing soldier's mother made an emotional appeal demanding there be no troop withdrawal until her son is found.


Netanyahu warns Hamas against more rocket fire

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:25 PM PDT

Smoke billows from the rubble of the Imam Al Shafaey mosque, destroyed in an overnight Israeli strike in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister has warned Hamas that it will "pay an intolerable price" if it continues to fire rockets at Israel and that Israeli troops will operate as long as necessary to restore calm for Israeli citizens.


Water being sent to Ohio city from across state

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 12:10 PM PDT

Aundrea Simmons stands next to her minivan with cases of bottled water she bought after Toledo warned residents not to use its water, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 in Toledo, Ohio. About 400,000 people in and around Ohio's fourth-largest city were warned not to drink or use its water after tests revealed the presence of a toxin possibly from algae on Lake Erie. (AP Photo John Seewer)TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The mayor of Ohio's fourth-largest city says water will be flowing into the Toledo area from all corners of the state to help the 400,000 people who are being warned not to drink the city's water.


More human remains recovered at Ukraine site

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:39 AM PDT

Australian and Dutch investigators examine pieces of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane crash in the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. The investigators from the Netherlands and Australia plus officials with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe traveled from the rebel-held city of Donetsk in 15 cars and a bus to the crash site outside the village of Hrabove. Then they started setting up a base to work from at a chicken farm. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)AMSTERDAM (AP) — Investigators using sniffer dogs recovered more human remains and personal belongings at the Malaysia Airlines wreckage site in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, the head of an international recovery mission said.


Ohio's 4th-largest city: Don't drink the water

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 10:22 AM PDT

Aundrea Simmons stands next to her minivan with cases of bottled water she bought after Toledo warned residents not to use its water, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 in Toledo, Ohio. About 400,000 people in and around Ohio's fourth-largest city were warned not to drink or use its water after tests revealed the presence of a toxin possibly from algae on Lake Erie. (AP Photo John Seewer)TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Toxins possibly from algae on Lake Erie fouled the water supply of the state's fourth-largest city Saturday, forcing officials to issue warnings not to drink the water and the governor to declare a state of emergency as worried residents descended on stores, quickly clearing shelves of bottled water.


Israel says 'no point' in negotiating Gaza truce

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 10:07 AM PDT

Smoke billows from the rubble of the Imam Al Shafaey mosque, destroyed in an overnight Israeli strike in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli Cabinet minister says there is "no point" in trying to reach a Gaza truce with Hamas and that Israel won't send a delegation to planned cease-fire talks in Cairo.


Toxins in water force state of emergency in Toledo

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 09:52 AM PDT

Aundrea Simmons stands next to her minivan with cases of bottled water she bought after Toledo warned residents not to use its water, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 in Toledo, Ohio. About 400,000 people in and around Ohio's fourth-largest city were warned not to drink or use its water after tests revealed the presence of a toxin possibly from algae on Lake Erie. (AP Photo John Seewer)TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's governor is declaring a state of emergency in northwest Ohio, where about 400,000 people are being warned not to drink the water.


US doctor with Ebola arrives in Atlanta

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 09:36 AM PDT

An ambulance departs Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014, in Marietta, Ga. Officials at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta expect an American that was infected with the Ebola virus to be transported today. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)NEW YORK (AP) — An Air Force spokesman says a patient infected with Ebola in Africa has arrived at a military air base outside Atlanta and is being brought to a hospital in the city.


Toledo warns residents not to drink the water

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 08:49 AM PDT

Aundrea Simmons stands next to her minivan with cases of bottled water she bought after Toledo warned residents not to use its water, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 in Toledo, Ohio. About 400,000 people in and around Ohio's fourth-largest city were warned not to drink or use its water after tests revealed the presence of a toxin possibly from algae on Lake Erie. (AP Photo John Seewer)TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — About 400,000 people in and around Ohio's fourth-largest city were warned Saturday not to drink its water after tests revealed the presence of a toxin possibly from algae on Lake Erie.


US doctor with Ebola 1st en route to Atlanta

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 08:34 AM PDT

This Oct. 7, 2013 photo provided by Jeremy Writebol show his mother, Nancy Writebol, with children in Liberia. Writebol is one of two Americans working for a missionary group in Liberia that have been diagnosed with Ebola. Plans are underway to bring back the two Americans from Africa for treatment. (AP Photo/Courtesy Jeremy Writebol)NEW YORK (AP) — An American doctor infected with the Ebola virus is the first being flown to the U.S. for treatment and expected to arrive Saturday in Atlanta, a missionary group said.


US doctor with Ebola 1st to arrive in Atlanta

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 08:18 AM PDT

This Oct. 7, 2013 photo provided by Jeremy Writebol show his mother, Nancy Writebol, with children in Liberia. Writebol is one of two Americans working for a missionary group in Liberia that have been diagnosed with Ebola. Plans are underway to bring back the two Americans from Africa for treatment. (AP Photo/Courtesy Jeremy Writebol)NEW YORK (AP) — An American doctor infected with the Ebola virus is the first being flown to the U.S. for treatment and expected to arrive Saturday in Atlanta, a missionary group said.


Syria rebels raid Lebanese town, capture soldiers

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 07:46 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, July 29, 2014 photo, Islamic militants parade in Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, Iraq. Last month's rapid advance of the Islamic State group, which captured Iraq's second largest city of Mosul, has plunged the country into its worst crisis since the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011 with more than a million Iraqis now classified as internally displaced or refugees. (AP Photo)BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese army general says Syrian rebels have crossed into Lebanon, raided a border town and captured several soldiers.


Honduran man waits for asylum after 12-year fight

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 07:31 AM PDT

In this Saturday, July 26, 2014, photo, Celvyn Mejia Romero looks out an office window before an interview at the Greater Boston Legal Services in Boston. Romero is still fighting to stay in America. His tenacious and unusually long bid for asylum offers a singular glimpse into the complex world of immigration law and rules that many legal experts say are fiendishly difficult for anyone, especially kids, to negotiate. And yet at 22, Mejia Romero, who has lived longer in the U.S. than in his native Honduras, is hoping he'll prevail. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)When he arrived at the Texas border, Celvyn Mejia Romero was a scared 10 year old, with a machete scar and memories of a murdered uncle as reminders of why he'd embarked on a long, perilous journey from Honduras.


Muslim movement accepts once-taboo causes

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 06:59 AM PDT

American Muslim Omar Akersim's books the Progressive Muslim is viewed next to The Quran, the Muslim holy book at his home in Los Angeles Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. Nearly 40 percent of the estimated 2.75 million Muslims in the U.S. are American-born and the number is growing, with the Muslim population skewing younger than the U.S. population at large, according to a 2011 survey by the Pew Research Center. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Omar Akersim prays regularly and observes the dawn-to-dusk Ramadan fast. He is also openly gay.


Obama hosts Africa summit with an eye on legacy

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 06:27 AM PDT

FILE - This July 1, 2013, file photo shows President Barack Obama speaking at a business forum aimed at increasing investment in Africa, in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. President Barack Obama is gathering nearly 50 African heads of state in Washington for an unprecedented summit aimed in part at building his legacy on a continent where his commitment has been questioned. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is gathering nearly 50 African heads of state in Washington for an unprecedented summit aimed in part at building his legacy on a continent where his commitment has been questioned.


5 things to know about Ebola outbreak in W. Africa

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 06:11 AM PDT

Two Americans who had been working to treat Ebola patients in Africa have been stricken by the disease. Officials say they will be taken to Atlanta's Emory University Hospital in a tightly sealed isolation unit. The first is expected to arrive Saturday, and the other a few days later, according to hospital officials.

Hate crime case resurrects racial wounds in NYC

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 05:40 AM PDT

FILE - This photo released by the New York City Police Department in this May 16, 2008 file photo shows Yitzhak Shuchat. The extradition of a white Orthodox Jewish man to New York City to face hate crime charges over a black man's attack has renewed questions about the case. Supporters of Shuchat say there's no evidence of racial hatred in the 2008 street encounter he had with Andrew Charles. (AP Photo/NYPD, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Yitzhak Shuchat, a white member of a civilian patrol group, and Andrew Charles, the black son of a police officer, came face to face in 2008 in a neighborhood with a history of racial strife — that much is certain.


Ebola: Liberians dying of ignorance, say aid workers

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 04:52 AM PDT

A staff member of the Christian charity Samaritan's Purse disinfects the premises outside the ELWA hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia on July 24, 2014 as cases of Ebola mountIt is a sweltering morning in the over-stretched Ebola clinic in the Liberian capital Monrovia, and Kendell Kauffeldt scowls in frustration as a jeep pulls up with a new patient. Kauffeldt, the director in Liberia of Christian aid group Samaritan's Purse, is at the forefront of the country's battle with the worst outbreak of Ebola that the world has ever seen. Ebola is a terrifying spectre for the people of Liberia's remote forests, who have seen relatives die in agonising pain.


Blast at China car parts plant kills 68, hurts 187

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 04:04 AM PDT

This photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency shows the site of an explosion at an eastern Chinese automotive parts factory in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. Dozens of people were killed Saturday by the explosion at the factory that supplies General Motors, state media reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wang Hengzhi) NO SALESBEIJING (AP) — Sixty-eight people were killed and nearly 200 others injured, most with severe burns, after an explosion Saturday at an automotive parts factory in eastern China that supplies General Motors, officials said.


Obama: Congress left town with unfinished business

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 03:32 AM PDT

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. The president spoke on various topics including the economy, immigration, Ukraine and the Middle East. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he's taking action on his own because Congress is doing so little for working families.


Netanyahu to US: Don't second guess me on Hamas

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 02:29 AM PDT

Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Ya'alon, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attend the cabinet meeting at the defense ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, pool)WASHINGTON (AP) — Following the quick collapse of the cease-fire in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the White House not to force a truce with Palestinian militants on Israel.


Fires force evacuations in West Coast states

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 01:42 AM PDT

This Monday, July 28, 2014 photo released Thursday, July 31, 2014 by the U.S. Forest Service, shows flames and smoke in the Sierra National Forest, Calif. On Thursday, Fire crews are battling a blaze in Sierra National Forest about 60 miles northeast of Fresno, Calif. that was creeping closer to the Mammoth Pool Reservoir, a popular recreation spot that supplies drinking water. (AP Photo/U.S. National Forest Service, Burt Stalter)ALTURAS, Calif. (AP) — Wildfires burning through dry terrain in West Coast states have forced scores of evacuations as fire teams worked to corral the blazes.


US aid workers headed to Atlanta for Ebola care

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 01:10 AM PDT

This Oct. 7, 2013 photo provided by Jeremy Writebol show his mother, Nancy Writebol, with children in Liberia. Writebol is one of two Americans working for a missionary group in Liberia that have been diagnosed with Ebola. Plans are underway to bring back the two Americans from Africa for treatment. (AP Photo/Courtesy Jeremy Writebol)NEW YORK (AP) — When two U.S. aid workers sick with Ebola arrive in Atlanta from Africa, they will be whisked into one of the most sophisticated hospital isolation units in the country.


Car parts plant blast in China kills 65, hurts 100

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 11:52 PM PDT

Medical personnel transport a victim at a hospital after an explosion at a factory in KunshanBEIJING (AP) — Sixty-five people were killed and dozens seriously burned Saturday by an explosion at an eastern Chinese automotive parts factory that supplies General Motors, state media reported.


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