2015年2月24日 星期二

2015-02-25 U.S. World


Reuters
   
Islamic State in Syria abducts at least 150 Christians   
Reuters
AMMAN (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have abducted at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria they had raided, Christian Syrian activists said on Tuesday. A Syrian Christian group representing several NGOs inside and ...

Islamic State said to abduct at least 70 Christians in Syria   Washington Post
Scores of Syrian Christians Kidnapped by Islamic State   New York Times
Dozens of Christians abducted by ISIS in Syria   The Daily Star
Irish Independent   
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BBC News
   
Amnesty calls on UN powers to lose veto on genocide votes   
BBC News
Amnesty International has urged the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to give up their power of veto in situations of mass atrocities. In its annual report, the rights group said the global response to an array of catastrophes in 2014 had been ...

Amnesty International Report Chronicles 'Catastrophic' Year   Voice of America
Amnesty International condemns Australia's asylum seeker policies, labels ...   ABC Online
2014 — a catastrophic year for millions caught up in violence: Amnesty ...   Times of India
U-T San Diego   
Press TV   
Irish Times   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Shooter opens fire in restaurant in eastern Czech town leaving nine dead   
Sydney Morning Herald
Prague: A man shot dead eight people in a restaurant in an eastern Czech town on Tuesday and then killed himself, the town's mayor said. "I have been given information that it was a 60-year-old local man, probably mentally unstable," the mayor, Patrik ...

'Nobody believed anything like this could happen'   Irish Independent
Nine dead in Czech restaurant shooting   Irish Examiner
Nine killed in Czech restaurant shooting   DAWN.com
Times of India   
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Voice of America   
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Los Angeles Times
   
Three missing British girls believed to have crossed into Syria   
Los Angeles Times
Three British girls who left their homes to join the extremist group Islamic State are believed to have crossed into Syria, London police said Tuesday. Counter-terrorism officers said they have reason to believe that the three teenage friends are no longer in ...

Missing UK schoolgirls 'now in Syria'   Irish Independent
Missing British schoolgirls likely to have reached Syria   The Australian
Syria girls: UK police deny Turkey information delay   BBC News
Telegraph.co.uk   
CNN   
Voice of America   
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BBC News
   
Venezuelan 14 year-old killed during anti-government protest   
U.S. News & World Report
A man tries to help an injured youth lying on the ground in a pool of blood after he was shot in the head during an anti-government protest in San Cristobal, Venezuela, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. Identified by Venezuela's Ombudsman as 14-year-old Kluiverth ...

Venezuelan teenager killed in San Cristobal protest   BBC News
14-year-old is shot dead in Venezuelan protest   VOXXI
Video: Kluiver Roa, Venezuelan protester killed by cops leaked online   scallywagandvagabond
Fox News Latino   
Voice of America   
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Channel News Asia
   
Opposition keeps hammering gov't over retreat from Turkish soil in Syria   
Cihan News Agency
Opposition parties continue to slam the government over the evacuation of Turkish troops guarding a sacred tomb that is part of Turkish territory in northern Syria, saying the withdrawal and abandonment of the territory is a huge embarrassment for Turkey.
Turkish PM says exercised 'international rights' in Syrian tomb operation   Reuters
Turkey's Chief of Staff General Necdet Özel replies to criticism over Shah Fırat ...   Daily Sabah
Syrian man claims Turkey is building new tomb on his property   Today's Zaman

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TODAYonline
   
Raul Castro honors 'Cuban Five' intelligence agents   
LancasterOnline
HAVANA (AP) — President Raul Castro on Tuesday honored five Cuban intelligence agents who spent years in U.S. prisons, becoming heroes in their homeland and causing friction between the two countries that are now in the process of restoring full ...

Cuba honors 5 spies who served long prison terms in US   Daily Mail
Cuba gives medals to 'Cuban Five' spies for long prison terms in US   Malay Mail Online

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ABC Online
   
Sinkhole swallows two pedestrians in Seoul, pair survive fall with only minor ...   
ABC Online
Two pedestrians in South Korea have been rescued after falling into a sinkhole on a footpath. The pair can be seen on CCTV getting off a bus and then suddenly disappearing into the hole in Seoul's Yongsan district next to a high rise construction site.
Sinkhole swallows Seoul pedestrians on sidewalk   The Australian (blog)
Two pedestrians fall into 3m-deep sinkhole in Seoul   The Straits Times
Watch Two Unsuspecting Pedestrians Get Swallowed by a Sinkhole   TIME
USA TODAY   
NBCNews.com   
Irish Independent   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Australia and New Zealand poised to partner on Iraq training mission   
Sydney Morning Herald
The Chief of the Defence Force Mark Binskin has confirmed he has worked with his Kiwi counterpart on a further training mission to Iraq but says "no final decision" has been made by the Abbott government. As Fairfax Media reported on Saturday, the Abbott ...

No word from Australia on more troops to work with NZ in Iraq   TVNZ
Tony Abbott set to send 200 extra troops to Iraq   The Australian Financial Review
More Aust military trainers for Iraq   The Australian (blog)
ABC Online   
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France Says Frenchwoman Kidnapped in Yemen   
ABC News
A Frenchwoman working for a consultancy firm with ties to the World Bank was kidnapped Tuesday morning by gunmen in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. The 30-year-old woman was kidnapped in front of a ministry building, President Francois Hollande told a ...


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