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Clinton: U.S. 'failure' led to rise of militants

Clinton: U.S. 'failure' led to rise of militants


Clinton: U.S. 'failure' led to rise of militants

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 07:14 AM PDT

President Obama Attends A Cabinet MeetingThe former first lady appears to be distancing herself from Obama's foreign policy.


Israel accepts Egypt's Gaza cease-fire proposal

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 10:06 AM PDT

Smoke from an Israeli strike rises over Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. Egyptian-brokered talks between Israel and Hamas on a new border deal for Gaza were thrown into doubt Saturday after senior officials said an Israeli team would not rejoin negotiations in Cairo unless rocket fire from Gaza stops. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has accepted an Egyptian proposal for a new 72-hour cease-fire with Gaza militants.


Stewart pulls out of race after fatal crash

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 07:45 AM PDT

In this Friday, Aug. 8, 2014 photograph, Tony Stewart stands in the garage area after a practice session for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Watkins Glen International, in Watkins Glen N.Y. Stewart struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr., 20, a sprint car driver who had climbed from his car and was on the track trying to confront Stewart during a race at Canandaigua Motorsports Park in upstate New York on Saturday night. Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero said his department's investigation is not criminal and that Stewart was "fully cooperative" and appeared "very upset" over what had happened. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton)The decision comes hours after the NASCAR champ struck and killed a sprint car driver.


Kurdish forces retake 2 towns in northern Iraq

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 10:37 AM PDT

Displaced Iraqis ride on a truck on a mountain road near the Turkish-Iraq border, outside Dahuk, in Iraq Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014 Islamic militants attacked the towns of Sinjar and Zunmar a few days ago. The extremist group's capture of a string of towns and villages in the north has sent minority communities fleeing for their lives. The Islamic state views members of the Yazidis minority and Shiite Muslims as apostates, and has demanded Christians either convert to Islam or pay a special tax. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)BAGHDAD (AP) — Kurdish forces retook Sunday two towns from the Sunni militants that have seized large parts of northern Iraq, said a senior Kurdish military official, amid a building international response that has included air drops of aid and airstrikes.


Gaza's wounded: Living reminder of ravages of war

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 11:55 PM PDT

In this photo made on Wednesday, Aug 6, 2014, Shaker Abu Shawqah, wounded during a shelling in Nusseirat refugee camp in his legs and arm, rests in a basement of a building in Gaza City. More than 9,000 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians and nearly a third among them children, have been wounded in the month long Gaza war. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — When an Israeli airstrike hit the Gaza home for the handicapped where she was staying, Sally Saqr was left shattered. Her pelvis, both legs and an arm were broken, her skull fractured, much of her body burned. In the hospital, doctors couldn't put her limbs in casts because multiple other wounds had to heal first.


Police: Black teen shot in Missouri was unarmed

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 10:42 AM PDT

Protestors confront police during an impromptu rally, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 to protest the shooting of Michael Brown, 18, by police in Ferguson, Mo. Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. Brown died following a confrontation with police, according to St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar, who spoke at a news conference Sunday. (AP Photo/Sid Hastings)FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — An unarmed 18-year-old black man was shot and killed by police in suburban St. Louis after an altercation that involved two people and an officer, authorities said Sunday while hundreds of protesters demanded answers outside.


Tunisia's fishermen save rising tide of migrants

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 01:44 AM PDT

In this image taken from TV Tunisian fisherman Chamseddine Bourrassine paints his boat in Zarzis Tunisia Monday Aug. 5, 2014. Zarzis is like many other costal towns in Tunisia, it relies heavily on it's fishing industry, which employs many of the local men.The fishermen are netting a catch of a different kind too - migrants who attempt to cross the waters, trying to get in to Europe by sea. Many of these migrants have their sights set on a better life, fleeing conflicts in their home countries. (AP Photo/Associated Press Television)ZARZIS, Tunisia (AP) — The fishermen of this small North African port are used to catching sea bass and sea bream in their nets, but lately they've been hauling in something else: shipwrecked migrants fleeing war-ravaged Libya on flimsy boats.


Teen Choice Awards to honor young stars

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 08:10 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2013 file photo, Tyler Posey arrives at the Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles. Posey of LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tyler Posey of "Teen Wolf" and Sarah Hyland of "Modern Family" are hosting Sunday night's 2014 Teen Choice awards, with musical groups Magic and Rixton performing.


A year later, protest's bloody end divides Egypt

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 06:00 AM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 9, 2013 file photo, a supporter of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, with a national flag, gestures to army soldiers on guard at the Republican Guard building in Nasr City, Cairo. A year after hundreds were killed in the biggest massacre in modern Egyptian history, the division is even stronger, now drawn in blood, between Egypt's traditional two strongest powers: A military aiming to restore its old order, and the Muslim Brotherhood trying to survive after being ousted from power. That rivalry likely locks Egypt into continued conflict, with fears democracy will be the loser. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)CAIRO (AP) — Around 6:30 a.m., police armored vehicles rumbled up to the barricades at the edges of the anti-government sit-in where thousands of Islamists had camped out for weeks in a Cairo square.


California debates 'yes means yes' sex assault law

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 08:39 AM PDT

New students at San Diego State University watch a video on sexual consent during an orientation meeting Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, in San Diego. Defining consensual sex is a growing trend by universities under pressure to do more to protect victims. Throughout the country, schools have been adopting policies on their own that set the parameters for distinguishing when consent was given for a sexual activity and when it was not. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)SAN DIEGO (AP) — College students have heard a similar refrain for years in campaigns to stop sexual assault: No means no.


Ukraine demands that rebels in Donetsk surrender

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 10:01 AM PDT

Ukrainian fire fighters have a break as they put out the fire at the destroyed building after shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. Fighting raged Sunday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk despite a request from the pro-Russian rebels there for a cease-fire to prevent a "humanitarian catastrophe." One person was killed and 10 injured in shelling that started early Sunday morning and continued into the day, city council spokesman Maxim Rovinsky told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Fighting raged in the city of Donetsk on Sunday, as government forces continued to close in on the rebel stronghold and pro-Russian insurgents backed away from an unconditional cease-fire offer that they announced just the day before.


Netanyahu: No Gaza talks while Israel under fire

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 10:47 AM PDT

Men salvage belongings from the ruins of a home that residents say was hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza CityIsrael said on Sunday it would not return to Egyptian-mediated ceasefire talks as long as Palestinian militants kept up cross-border rocket and mortar fire.


Ca-ching! Florida workers find 2,000 silver coins during home demolition

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 08:51 AM PDT

Police in Florida have seized 60 pounds of silver coins that had been stashed for decades inside the walls of recently demolished home.

Iran official: 39 killed, 9 hurt in plane crash

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 02:58 AM PDT

Iranian Revolutionary Guards stand alert at the site of the wreckage of a passenger plane crash near the capital Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. An Iranian passenger plane crashed Sunday while taking off from an airport near the capital, Tehran, killing tens of people onboard, state media reported. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian transportation official says 39 people were killed and nine wounded when a regional passenger plane crashed Sunday while taking off from the capital, Tehran.


Manager: Tony Stewart to race in N.Y. after accident

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 04:44 AM PDT

In this April 11, 2014, photo, Tony Stewart stands in the garage during practice for a NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Darlington Speedway in Darlington, S.C. Authorities are investigating a serious crash that injured one person Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, at a New York dirt track where Stewart was racing on the eve of a NASCAR race. (AP Photo/Mike McCarn)A manager for NASCAR driver Tony Stewart's racing team says Stewart will race in an event Sunday in upstate New York.


NASCAR's Stewart hits, kills driver on NY track

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 06:39 AM PDT

In this April 11, 2014, photo, Tony Stewart stands in the garage during practice for a NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Darlington Speedway in Darlington, S.C. Authorities are investigating a serious crash that injured one person Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, at a New York dirt track where Stewart was racing on the eve of a NASCAR race. (AP Photo/Mike McCarn)CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP) — Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart struck and killed a sprint car driver who had climbed from his car and was on the darkened dirt track trying to confront Stewart during a race in upstate New York on Saturday night.


U.S. launches 4 airstrikes against Iraqi militants

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 04:30 PM PDT

U.S. AIRSTRIKES IN IRAQThe U.S. military says American jet fighters and drones have conducted four more airstrikes on Islamic militants in Iraq, taking out armored carriers and a truck that were firing on civilians.


West warns Russia against 'illegal' invasion of Ukraine

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 01:13 PM PDT

The West warned Russia on Saturday that any attempt to enter Ukraine on "humanitarian" grounds would be considered an "illegal" invasion after Kiev claimed Russian troops had tried to cross the border in the guise of aid workers. Moscow denied the claim, saying "Russian troops made no attempt to penetrate" Ukraine, where pro-Russian rebels in the east admitted that their stronghold Donetsk had been surrounded by Kiev's troops. "We have difficulty understanding what the Ukrainians are talking about," Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told the Interfax news agency.

Weakened typhoon lashes Japan; 1 dead, dozens hurt

Posted: 10 Aug 2014 12:27 AM PDT

A big sea wave hit against a concrete wall to a road in Kushimoto, western Japan, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. Typhoon Halong is lashing Japan as it enters a holiday week, injuring six people and causing authorities to order the evacuation of half a million people near swollen rivers. Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a special warning for heavy rain in Mie prefecture in central Japan, prompting two towns to order about 500,000 residents to evacuate due to a fear of flooding from swollen rivers. The agency said heavy rain in the area would continue overnight. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUTTOKYO (AP) — A tropical storm was moving out into the Sea of Japan on Sunday after lashing the country with rain and winds, leaving one person dead, more than 50 injured and prompting evacuation alerts for about 1.2 million residents near swollen rivers.


Pro-Palestinian activists march to UN headquarters

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 04:19 PM PDT

Supporters of ending the violence in Gaza yell at a rally near Columbus Circle during a protest in New York, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)NEW YORK (AP) — A sea of Palestinians and their sympathizers lined Manhattan streets Saturday, marching to the United Nations and shouting that Israel's response to missile attacks was genocide that took children's lives.


Gaza talks on hold, Israeli delegation stays home

Posted: 09 Aug 2014 12:12 PM PDT

Smoke rises in Gaza City after an Israeli airstrike Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)JERUSALEM (AP) — Egyptian-brokered talks between Israel and Hamas on a new border deal for Gaza were thrown into doubt Saturday after senior officials said an Israeli team would not rejoin negotiations in Cairo unless rocket fire from Gaza stops.


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