dimanche 30 novembre 2014

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Canada 'aware' of reports that citizen kidnapped in Syria

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 01:23 PM PST

A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter talks on a phone during fighting against Islamic State (IS) group in the Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, on November 8, 2014Canada said Sunday it was "aware of reports" that one of its nationals may have been kidnapped in Syria, amid suggestions it could have been a woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Kobane.

Bomb threat on American Air flight in New York proves false alarm

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 12:51 PM PST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An American Airlines airplane that was evacuated at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport after a bomb threat has been searched and cleared for service, an official said on Sunday. American Flight 67 en route from Barcelona, Spain, landed in New York at around noon, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, and was promptly evacuated of passengers and crew. The threat was phoned into the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police at 12:07 p.m. (1707 GMT), said Joe Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority, which operates the airport. ...

Pope calls on Muslim leaders worldwide to condemn terrorism

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 12:35 PM PST

Pope Francis touches his face during a press conference aboard the flight towards Rome, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014. Francis kicked off his final day in Turkey with a lengthy, two-hour liturgy alongside Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in the Orthodox Church of St. George, where incense mingled with hypnotic chants and prayers on an important feast day for the Orthodox Church. (AP Photo/Filippo Monteforte, pool)Pope Francis on Sunday called on Muslim leaders to issue a global condemnation of terrorism, saying it would help to dispel the stereotype that equates Islam with terror.

No bomb found on Spain-to-NY flight after threat

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 11:47 AM PST

JFK International bomb threatAuthorities at John F. Kennedy International Airport are investigating a bomb threat made to an American Airlines flight from Barcelona that landed safely in New York City.

LGBT baby boomers face tough retirement hurdles

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 11:12 AM PST

In this Oct. 16, 2014 photo, Jim Albaugh talks about his living arrangements in the New York apartment he shares with two roommates. Albaugh could be thought of as just one of the working poor, untold millions in the baby boomer generation who are not prepared for retirement. But he represents something more as one of thousands of gay and lesbian baby boomers confronting a retirement of greater financial hardship than his straight peers. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)Marriage without benefits, low earnings are a few of the challenges that make gay boomers more vulnerable.

Ferguson mayor: No severance package for Wilson

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 10:26 AM PST

A Glance at Developments in FergusonFerguson police Officer Darren Wilson did not receive any severance package when he resigned over the weekend, the St. Louis suburb's mayor said Sunday. Wilson, 28, won't receive any further pay or benefits, ...

FAA drone rules to address aircraft certification and operation

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 09:06 AM PST

By Amanda Becker (Reuters) - U.S. aviation officials have seen hundreds of cases in which unmanned aircraft may have posed a danger to planes, and new rules on drones expected this year are designed to prevent collisions and other accidents, the top aviation official said on Sunday. "The thing that we are most concerned about is to ensure that any aircraft in this system do not come into conflict with one another," Michael Huerta, who leads the Federal Aviation Administration, said on CNN's "State of the Union. ...

Hong Kong protesters face off with police

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 08:50 AM PST

Pro-democracy protesters scuffle with police officers on the main road outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong Sunday, Nov.30, 2014. Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters faced off with Hong Kong police late Sunday, stepping up their movement for genuine democratic reforms after being camped out on the city's streets for more than two months. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters faced off with Hong Kong police late Sunday, stepping up their movement for genuine democratic reforms after being camped out on the city's streets for more than two months.

Coalition airstrikes pound IS stronghold in Syria

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 07:48 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 photo, a Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighter shows the extent of the damage from a truck bomb in Kobani, Syria. Here, Kurdish fighters backed by small numbers of Iraqi peshmerga forces and Syrian rebels, are battling what they see as an existential battle against the militants who swept into their town in mid-September as part of a summer blitz that saw the group seize large chunks of territory in Syria and neighboring Iraq.(AP Photo/Jake Simkin)U.S.-led coalition warplanes carried out as many as 30 airstrikes overnight against Islamic State militants in and around the group's de facto capital in northeastern Syria, activists said Sunday.

Justices weigh limits of free speech over Internet

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 05:36 AM PST

FILE - This Oct. 7, 2014, file photo shows a police officer dwarfed amid the marble columns of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. Anthony Elonis claimed he was just kidding when he posted a series of graphically violent rap lyrics on Facebook about killing his estranged wife, shooting up a kindergarten class and attacking an FBI agent. But his wife didn't see it that way. Neither did a federal jury. In a far-reaching case that probes the limits of free speech over the Internet, the Supreme Court on Monday is considering whether Elonis' Facebook posts, and others like it, deserve protection under the First Amendment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthony Elonis claimed he was just kidding when he posted a series of graphically violent rap lyrics on Facebook about killing his estranged wife, shooting up a kindergarten class and attacking an FBI agent.

Online threats case to show if U.S. justices are down with rap

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 05:20 AM PST

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A case before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning threats that a Pennsylvania man made toward his estranged wife and others on Facebook could hinge on how the nine justices interpret the sometimes violent imagery in rap lyrics. The justices, not known for their pop culture bona fides, are set on Monday to hear a one-hour oral argument in an appeal filed by Anthony Elonis. He was convicted for making threats aimed at his wife, law enforcement officers and others after posting statements on Facebook in 2010 soon after his wife left him. ...

Data: Bricks-and-mortar holiday sales edge lower, online surges

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 04:47 AM PST

Black Friday advertisements are seen in the bottom of a shopping cart outside a shopping area in Westbury, New York(Reuters) - U.S. shoppers spent slightly less money at brick-and-mortar stores on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday than across the same two days in 2013, while online sales surged to record highs, data showed on Saturday. Sales at retail stores totaled about $12.29 billion on Thursday and Friday, down 0.5 percent from the $12.35 billion spent last year, according to estimates by ShopperTrak. The research firm stuck by its forecast for November and December sales to increase 3.8 percent. ...

Pope: Islamist violence a 'grave sin against God'

Posted: 30 Nov 2014 02:55 AM PST

Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople speak to faithful after the Divine Liturgy at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in IstanbulBy Philip Pullella and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Pope Francis said Islamic militants were carrying out a "profoundly grave sin against God" in Syria and Iraq, calling on Sunday for inter-religious dialogue and action against poverty to help end conflicts there. The pope spoke on the last day of his weekend trip to Turkey, which is sheltering nearly 2 million refugees from Syria, thousands of Christians among them. ...

U.S. lawmaker's aide draws ire over first daughter scolding

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 08:06 PM PST

US President Barack Obama pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey A US lawmaker's communications director was facing social media calls she be sacked after her Facebook rant about President Barack Obama's daughters prompted widespread anger. Elizabeth Lauten, spokeswoman for Republican Congressman Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, wrote a scathing post to her Facebook account scolding Malia and Sasha Obama, 16 and 13, for looking bored while attending a public event with their father on Wednesday. In the post, since deleted but widely reproduced in screen grabs, Lauten tells the girls to "try showing a little class.

Ferguson officer Darren Wilson resigns

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 04:34 PM PST

FILE- This undated file photo released by the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's office on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, shows Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson during his medical examination after he fatally shot Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo. The white police officer who killed Michael Brown has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, nearly four months after the confrontation that fueled protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the U.S. Wilson has been on administrative leave since the Aug. 9 shooting. His resignation was announced Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014, by one of his attorneys, Neil Bruntrager. Bruntrager said the resignation is effective immediately. (AP Photo/St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, File)The officer who fatally shot Michael Brown will leave the force, his attorney says.

Missouri police officer who killed black teen resigns: report

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 04:18 PM PST

Ferguson, Missouri officer Darren Wilson seen in St. Louis County Prosecutor's Office undated evidence photo(Reuters) - Officer Darren Wilson has resigned from the Ferguson, Missouri, police force, nearly four months after he fatally shot an unarmed black teenager and a week after a grand jury decided not to indict him, the Associated Press reported, citing Wilson's attorney. The Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown triggered sometimes violent protests in the St. Louis suburb and ignited a national debate over race relations and the use of police force in the United States. Attorneys for Wilson were not immediately available for comment. ...

Surgeon who died of Ebola eulogized at Maryland service

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 02:57 PM PST

Family members and mourners hold funeral for Sierra Leone-born Dr Salia who died of Ebola, in Landover HillsBy Tom Ramstack LANDOVER HILLS, Md. (Reuters) - Martin Salia, a surgeon from Sierra Leone who died in a Nebraska hospital earlier this month after contracting Ebola in his homeland, was remembered as a humanitarian and a hero at his funeral in Maryland on Saturday. The 44-year-old doctor was born and raised in Sierra Leone and lived as a permanent resident of the United States with his wife and two sons in New Carrollton, Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C. ...

Missouri governor seeks more money for Ferguson security

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 01:54 PM PST

Police officers and National Guard soldiers watch protesters gathered to demand justice for the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, outside the Ferguson Police Department in Ferguson, Missouri(Reuters) - Missouri Governor Jay Nixon on Saturday called for more funding to maintain security in Ferguson after months of violent protests over the shooting of a black teenager by a white policeman depleted emergency appropriations. The state assembly needs to approve more money to pay salaries for the National Guard by Dec. 15, Nixon said in a statement. Dec. 15 is the date of the next payroll, said Scott Holste, a spokesman for Nixon. Dec. 15 is the date of the next National Guard payroll, Holste said. ...
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Obama and daughters hit bookstore for Small Business Saturday

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 12:15 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama and his daughters Sasha and Malia shop at Politics and Prose bookstore in WashingtonBy Elvina Nawaguna WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his teenaged daughters, Sasha and Malia, went to an independent book store in Washington to buy books as a way to promote Small Business Saturday, an event aimed at boosting small businesses. "Do I get a discount for that?" the president asked jokingly while unloading a bunch of books from his shopping basket at the Politics and Prose book store on Saturday. "Maybe a neighbor's discount," the clerk joked back. It is not clear whether Obama would have taken the discount, if offered. ...

Teenage boy missing four years found alive, hidden behind wall near Atlanta

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 11:27 AM PST

By Richard McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) - A 13-year-old boy who had been reported missing four years ago was discovered alive, hidden behind a fake wall of a home near Atlanta, Georgia, and reunited with his mother early on Saturday, police said. Five people living in the home in Jonesboro, 17 miles (28 km) south of Atlanta, were taken into custody, among them two adults who face charges of false imprisonment and cruelty to children, said Sgt. Kevin Hughes of the Clayton County police. Three juveniles also in the home were facing obstruction charges, Hughes said. ...

At Portland's Ferguson protest, boy hugs officer

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 10:21 AM PST

In this Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 photo provided by Johnny Nguyen, Portland police Sgt. Bret Barnum, left, and Devonte Hart, 12, hug at a rally in Portland, Ore., where people had gathered in support of the protests in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Johnny Huu Nguyen)A touching photo of a white police officer hugging an African-American boy at a Portland protest this week has drawn heavy attention on social media.

Taliban hit Kabul aid workers' compound, breach Camp Bastion in south

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 08:57 AM PST

Taliban Storms Guesthouse in KabulTaliban gunmen stormed a guest house for aid workers in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday and were fighting Afghan soldiers inside former U.S. and British base Camp Bastion in the south, just a month after foreign troops left.

New York man collecting food for needy killed as thief steals his car

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 08:09 AM PST

(Reuters) - A Long Island, New York, man collecting food for a soup kitchen was killed when a car thief stole his car from outside a convenience store and ran him over, police said on Saturday. Before dawn on Friday, Dionel Ramirez parked his Hyundai car in the lot at a 7-Eleven store in North Bay Shore, about 35 miles east of New York City, Suffolk County Police said in a statement. The 69-year-old Ramirez was there to pick up excess food to give to the less fortunate the day after Thanksgiving, and he left the car running with the door open, police said. ...

Nigeria: Kano mosque blasts death toll above 102

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 06:13 AM PST

People gather at the site of a bomb explosion, in Kano, Nigeria, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. An explosion tore through the central mosque in Nigeria's second-largest city on Friday, and officials feared the casualty toll would be high. Capt. Ikechukwu Eze said the Friday blast occurred at the main mosque in the city of Kano. Hundreds had gathered to listen to a sermon in a region terrorized by attacks from the militant group Boko Haram. (AP Photo/Muhammed Giginyu)KANO, Nigeria (AP) — More than 102 people were killed in the bomb explosions at the central mosque in this city, said a hospital worker.

A glance at national protests, cleanup in Ferguson

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 05:07 AM PST

About 200 people demonstrate at a plaza near the historic water tower, located along Chicago's Michigan Avenue, on Friday, Nov. 28, 2014, in Chicago. The protestors called on people to boycott shopping on Black Friday as a show of solidarity with protesters in Ferguson Missouri. At one point the demonstrator lay down on the cold ground in a silent protest. (AP Photo/Sara Burnett)ST. LOUIS (AP) — Protesters turned out in several U.S. cities on one of the busiest shopping days of the year Friday in response to a grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Exclusive: U.S. CEOs threaten to pull tacit Obamacare support over 'wellness' spat

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 04:19 AM PST

Park of Cambridge wears cast for her broken wrist with By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Leading U.S. CEOs, angered by the Obama administration's challenge to certain "workplace wellness" programs, are threatening to side with anti-Obamacare forces unless the government backs off, according to people familiar with the matter. Major U.S. corporations have broadly supported President Barack Obama's healthcare reform despite concerns over several of its elements, largely because it included provisions encouraging the wellness programs. ...

Egypt court drops charges against Mubarak

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 01:54 AM PST

In this image made from video broadcast on Sada el-Balad via Egypt's State Television, ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sits in the defendant cage during his trial at a court in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 29. Egypt court dismissed criminal charges against Mubarak in the killing of more than 900 protesters during the 2011 uprising against his rule. (AP Photo/Sada el-Balad via Egypt's State Television)CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Saturday dismissed criminal charges against former president Hosni Mubarak in connection with the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ended his nearly three-decade reign.

15 arrested as demonstrations return to Ferguson

Posted: 29 Nov 2014 12:33 AM PST

A protester is taken into custody Friday, Nov. 28, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Several protesters have been taken into custody during a demonstration outside the police department. Tensions escalated late Friday during an initially calm demonstration after police said protesters were illegally blocking West Florissant Avenue. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Disrupting commerce, transit and traffic became focal points for demonstrators across the country days after the announcement that a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri declined to indict the police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Washington state woman shoots man trying to enter home: TV station

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 10:54 PM PST

(Reuters) - A woman shot a 22-year-old man trying to barge into her home early on Thanksgiving morning in a Seattle suburb, and he may have been drinking and gone to the home by mistake, a television station reported. The 33-year-old mother of three woke to the sound of banging on her front door at about 3 a.m. on Thursday in Edmonds, a suburb north of Seattle, the station, KING 5, said. It quoted police as saying the man pushed open the door but the woman met him at the entrance and tried to shut it. Growing concerned she might lose the struggle, she shot him in the abdomen, it added. ...

New York boys buried in snow pile heard rescuers calling

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 09:32 PM PST

Nine-year-old Jason Rivera, left, and Elijah Martinez, 11, appear at a news conference, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014, at Westchester Medical Center's Maria Fareri Children's Hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. The boys spent seven hours trapped in the snow the night before until an alert police officer saw a shovel half buried and started to dig. (AP Photo/Times Herald-Record, Leonard Sparks)Two boys were trapped in a snow pile for about seven hours after a plow buried them.

Two shot, one killed in Chicago Nordstrom store: Chicago Tribune

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 08:46 PM PST

(Reuters) - Two people were shot, and one of them killed, in a Chicago Nordstrom on Friday, sending Black Friday shoppers scattering from the store, the Chicago Tribune reported. Police discovered two people suffering from gunshot wounds when they responded to the call around 8:30 p.m., said Chicago Police spokesman Officer Thomas Sweeney. Police said it appeared to have been a domestic violence incident, and a shooter was not believed to be on the loose. They gave no further details. ...

Judge orders Wal-Mart to let NYC church challenge gun sales

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 06:22 PM PST

A Wal-Mart Stores Inc company distribution center in BentonvilleBy Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - A federal judge ordered Wal-Mart Stores Inc to let shareholders vote on a proposal to force tighter oversight of its sale of high-capacity guns and other potentially offensive products. U.S. District Judge Leonard Stark in Wilmington, Delaware on Wednesday said the world's largest retailer wrongly excluded such a proposal from Trinity Church, a historic Wall Street church, from its June 6 annual meeting. ...

St. Louis-area mall closes on Black Friday as Ferguson protests spread

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 05:01 PM PST

A protester holds a sign outside a burning Walgreens drug store after a grand jury returned no indictment in the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MissouriBy Daniel Wallis and Edward McAllister FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - Demonstrators shut down a shopping mall near Ferguson, Missouri, at the start of the holiday shopping season on Friday as protests over the killing of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer turned on some retailers around the country. After a quiet Thanksgiving Day, protesters were out in force again to vent their anger at Monday's decision by a grand jury not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb. ...

'Gray Thursday' makes for smoother Friday shopping

Posted: 28 Nov 2014 01:29 PM PST

Target shoppers wait to check out on Black Friday, Nov. 28, 2014, in South Portland, Maine. The store opened at midnight. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)Those hunting for bargains at Minnesota retailers Friday morning found that Black Friday's steady slide back into Thanksgiving Day made for smoother shopping. By sunrise Friday, it was clear that the post-Thanksgiving ...
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