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Minggu, 18 Oktober 2015

Biggest news you missed this weekend


Trump, Jeb Bush continue war of words over 9/11
Donald Trump and Jeb Bush took their verbal scrap over Trump's 9/11 comments - in which he seemingly blamed Jeb's brother George W. Bush for the attacks — to the Sunday talk shows. "Look, look, Jeb said we were safe with my brother — we were safe," the Republican front-runner Trump told Fox. "Well, the World Trade Center just fell down! Now, am I trying to blame him? I'm not blaming anybody. But the World Trade Center came down." Bush, who has called Trump's comments "pathetic," told CNN's State of the Union: "Look, my brother responded to a crisis, and he did it as you hope a president would do." Bush also said Trump's response reveals a weakness on foreign policy.
1 killed, 4 wounded at ZombiCon shooting in Florida

A manhunt was underway Sunday after a shooting rampage at a zombie-themed festival left one person dead and four wounded in downtown Fort Myers, Fla. The sound of When gunshots at 11:45 p.m. ET brought chaos at ZombiCon, an annual event that draws around 20,000. "We didn't know if it was real or fake," Haley Delmonte of Naples told WBBH-TV. "Heard gunshots right in front of me. Saw people running and my mind was everywhere. It was so scary."
Michigan State pulls off miracle win over rival Michigan
Fans who watched Saturday's Michigan-Michigan State contest won't ever forget it. Michigan State's Jalen Watts-Jackson grabbed a flubbed punt and ran it in for a touchdown on the game's final play to give the Spartans a 27-23 victory. The Wolverines were just seconds away from entering the national championship conversation. Instead, the Spartans remained unbeaten at 7-0, 3-0 in the Big Ten. "It's crazy," Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio said. "It's crazy."
Shark attacks wreak havoc in Hawaii
Could shark attacks close beach fun in Hawaii? Emergency officials were deciding Sunday whether to close beaches in Oahu, Hawaii, after a pair of weekend shark attacks sent two victims to the hospital with severe injuries. The attacks occurred within hours of one another and brought to seven the number of shark attacks off Hawaii's shores this year.
Amy Schumer goes for raunchy laughs on HBO
Comedian Amy Schumer (Trainwreck) headlined her first HBO stand-up special, Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, directed by Chris Rock. During the one-hour performance, taped in May at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater, Schumer runs through a variety of topics, including body image, body parts, ignorance of the news, alcohol and casting differences between New York and Hollywood.

Sabtu, 17 Oktober 2015

Palestinians pitch in to help wherever they can during upheaval


BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Red-faced men and women tumble into Mohammed Najar's home, choking on the tear gas that whitens the air outside.
Najar stands back while medics rush to treat them. He doesn't know any of the people involved in the chaos that erupted in his living room, but he cares for each one like family.
As clashes between young Palestinians and Israeli forces have become a daily occurrence, community members in the West Bank have banded together, with everyone playing a different part, from the women who brings fresh sandwiches to the woodworker crafting new slingshots.
"Our door is open to anyone that needs help," Najar, 52, who is retired, told USA TODAY. "Palestine needs all of us to do something to help keep each other safe."
Over the past month, nine Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks, most of them stabbings, while 41 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire, including 20 labeled by Israel as attackers, and the rest in clashes with Israeli troops.
The outbreak was fueled by rumors that Israel was planning to take over Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site to both Jews and Muslims. Jews call it the Temple Mount, and the site is also home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest shrine and a key national symbol for the Palestinians.
Israel adamantly denies the allegations, saying it has no plans to change the status quo at the site, where Jews are allowed to visit but not pray. Israel accuses the Palestinians, including Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, of inciting violence through the false claims.

Jumat, 16 Oktober 2015

Violence unabated, Kerry to meet with Netanyahu, Abbas


Secretary of State John Kerry said he will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas this week as a wave of deadly violence intensified Sunday across Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Kerry, speaking in Paris, said he will meet with Netanyahu in Germany and then with Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah in Jordan. Hours later, three people died and several were wounded in an attack at the central bus station in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba.
The attacker killed an Israeli soldier and took his semiautomatic assault rifle, firing it into a group of police officers and others, the Israeli news website Arutz Sheva said, citing police. The shooter was killed; another man also was shot and killed by officers, although police later said he may not have been involved in the attack, the website said.
The slain soldier was identified as 19-year-old Omri Levy, a corporal in the Israeli Defense Forces.
About 40 Palestinians and nine Israelis have died in the month-long surge in violence. Many Israelis have been victims of knife attacks.

The latest attack came as 300 soldiers were deployed Sunday to help police patrol public transportation stations, buses and major traffic arteries in Jerusalem. Other recent security measures include concrete barriers separating Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and random checkpoints near some Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem.
The leader of Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah group, Hassan Nasrallah, on Sunday called the unrest a “renewed intifada," or uprising, carried out by a new generation of Palestinians who believe in resistance.