| Watch These Flight Attendants Stun Travelers With Beautiful Christmas Tunes Posted: 25 Dec 2017 08:32 PM PST  From America to Australia, flight attendants around the world helped holiday travelers reach their destinations.
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| Judge Rules U.S. Must Allow ACLU Access To American Held In Iraq Posted: 24 Dec 2017 10:51 AM PST  Good news, the government can't deny legal counsel to an American citizen who's being imprisoned indefinitely on no charges.
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| Six killed in IS-claimed suicide attack near Afghan spy agency Posted: 24 Dec 2017 11:55 PM PST  A suicide bomber killed six civilians in an attack near an Afghan intelligence agency compound in Kabul Monday in the latest assault claimed by the Islamic State group in the capital. The attacker struck as workers were arriving at the offices of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), a week after militants stormed an NDS training centre in Kabul.
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| Six-year-old boy shot dead by mistake as police officers open fire on suspected car thief Posted: 24 Dec 2017 10:02 AM PST  A six-year-old boy was mistakenly shot dead in Texas when police officers opened fire on a suspected car thief, US media reports. As four officers targeted Amanda Lene Jones, 30, who they believed was armed, a stray bullet pierced the wall of the mobile home where the youngster, Kameron Prescott, lived. Maria Morales, who works at Wiederstein Elementary School in Texas, paid tribute to the young victim.
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| The ultimate post-Christmas sale roundup Posted: 25 Dec 2017 09:00 PM PST  We all know the holiday season always means epic sales and just because Christmas may have to come to an end, doesn't mean the sales have too!
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| U.S. Treasury's Mnuchin sent gift-wrapped box of horse manure: reports Posted: 24 Dec 2017 10:11 AM PST ![U.S. Treasury's Mnuchin sent gift-wrapped box of horse manure: reports]( "U.S. Treasury's Mnuchin sent gift-wrapped box of horse manure: reports") (Reuters) - A gift-wrapped package addressed to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's home in a posh Los Angeles neighborhood that was suspected of being a bomb was instead filled with horse manure, police told local media. The package was found Saturday evening in a next-door neighbor's driveway in Bel Air, the Los Angeles Police Department told the Los Angeles Times and KNBC television, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles. The package also included a Christmas card with negative comments about President Donald Trump and the new U.S. tax law signed by Trump last week.
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| Most popular Yahoo News photo galleries of 2017 – The countdown Posted: 26 Dec 2017 05:00 AM PST  The countdown of photo galleries that our Yahoo readers liked the best this year! Check back in as we'll be counting down the top 10 until New Year's Eve.
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| A Bus Crashed into an Underground Passageway in Moscow, Killing Four People Posted: 25 Dec 2017 08:12 PM PST  Russian authorities say a bus careened off a road and onto steps leading into an underground passageway in Moscow, killing at least four people and leaving 13 others injured.
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| 2017's Rohingya Crisis In Photos Posted: 26 Dec 2017 03:01 AM PST  A violent, ongoing campaign of state-sanctioned persecution has driven more than 655,000 Rohingya Muslims out of Myanmar's Rakhine State in the last four months of 2017.
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| 'Forgive me' ex-Peru leader Fujimori says after pardon protests Posted: 26 Dec 2017 06:14 AM PST  Peru's ailing former leader Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday asked the public for forgiveness, two days after receiving a presidential pardon that sparked street protests. "I am aware that the results of my government were well received on one side, but I admit that I have let down other compatriots, and I ask them to forgive me with all my heart," Fujimori said in a Facebook video filmed from his hospital bed. President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski ordered the pardon of Fujimori and seven other prisoners Sunday on humanitarian grounds, placing himself in the middle of a political crisis just days after he avoided impeachment.
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| Lots of People Already Crashed Their Brand New Drones This Christmas Posted: 25 Dec 2017 01:12 PM PST  "I owned a drone for bout 5 min before it flew in the lake"
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| Winds scuttle Washington's crossing despite kids' efforts Posted: 25 Dec 2017 01:23 PM PST  WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — Despite the best efforts of some Philadelphia schoolchildren, Mother Nature blew in and scuttled the annual re-enactment of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River during the Revolutionary War.
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| Chinese report says South China Sea islands expanded 'reasonably' Posted: 24 Dec 2017 06:12 PM PST ![Chinese report says South China Sea islands expanded 'reasonably']( "Chinese report says South China Sea islands expanded 'reasonably'") China has "reasonably" expanded its islands in the disputed South China Sea and this year construction projects there including radar facilities covered about 290,000 square meters (72 acres), according to a new government report. China has conducted extensive land reclamation work on some of the islands and reefs it controls in the South China Sea, including building airports, alarming its neighbors and Washington. Beijing says the work is help provide international services such as search-and-rescue but admits there is a military purpose too.
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| Former US ambassador says Donald Trump is weakening the State Department Posted: 26 Dec 2017 07:18 AM PST  The US State Department is being "weakened and sidelined" under President Donald Trump, a former American diplomat has claimed. Nicholas Burns, who served as a senior diplomat under both Republican and Democratic administrations, told the Los Angeles Times that Mr Trump's foreign policy is "a radical departure from every president since WWII". "Trump is weak on NATO, Russia, trade, climate, diplomacy," said Mr Burns, the former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under President George W Bush.
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| A 76-Year-Old Man Has Died in a New York High-Rise Apartment Building Fire Posted: 25 Dec 2017 06:57 PM PST  Two firefighters also were injured in the fire
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| 'RHONY' Star Luann de Lesseps Apologizes After Battery Arrest Posted: 25 Dec 2017 10:30 PM PST  "Real Housewives of New York City" star Luann de Lesseps has apologized after she was arrested in Florida and charged with multiple offenses, including disorderly intoxication and felony battery of a police officer, according to arrest records.
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| Dark, desperate life without power in Puerto Rico Posted: 25 Dec 2017 09:08 AM PST  MOROVIS, Puerto Rico (AP) — Three days before Christmas, Doris Martinez and daughter Miriam Narvaez joined their neighbors in a line outside city hall in Morovis, a town of 30,000 people still living without electricity in the mountains of central Puerto Rico more than three months after Hurricane Maria battered the U.S. island.
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| Attack on Libyan crude pipeline cuts output by up to 100,000 bpd Posted: 26 Dec 2017 10:01 AM PST ![Attack on Libyan crude pipeline cuts output by up to 100,000 bpd]( "Attack on Libyan crude pipeline cuts output by up to 100,000 bpd") Armed men blew up a pipeline pumping crude oil to Es Sider port on Tuesday, cutting Libya's output by up to 100,000 barrels per day (bpd), military and oil sources said. The state-run National Oil Corporation (NOC) said in statement output had been reduced by 70,000-100,000 bpd. The attackers arrived at the site near Marada in two cars and planted explosives on the pipeline, a military source said.
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| Five dead after bus ploughs into Moscow underpass Posted: 25 Dec 2017 06:35 AM PST  Five people were killed when a city bus ploughed into a pedestrian underpass in western Moscow on Monday, traffic police said. It was not immediately clear what caused the accident as authorities said they were looking into several possibilities, including a technical malfunction. "A bus drove into a pedestrian underpass," a traffic police spokesman, Artyom Kolesnikov, told AFP. "According to preliminary information, five people died." Footage broadcast on national television showed a bus driving onto the pavement and then down the stairs of the underpass, running over several pedestrians before coming to a stop. Rescuers worked to pull the bus out Credit: AFP Moscow police said in a statement they were looking into two possible causes of the accident - the driver losing control of the vehicle and a technical problem with the bus. "The driver of the bus began movement and then changed his trajectory, which resulted in the bus going down into the pedestrian underpass," the statement said. "The driver has been detained. Police employees are working with him," the statement said. Three people have been hospitalised, the statement added. The accident happened around 3 pm (1200 GMT) near Moscow's Slavyansky Boulevard metro station, a prestigious residential area near one of the capital's main avenues. The accident occurred in a busy residential area Credit: Reuters Sirens were blaring around the metro station, with authorities preparing to pull the bus out of the underpass with a cable, an AFP correspondent at the scene said. The underpass and surrounding area were cordoned off by police, and several black body bags could be seen on the pavement, partially covered with falling snow. The emergencies ministry said two helicopters had been dispatched to the scene to help evacuate the victims. "There are dead and wounded," tweeted Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin. "We are providing emergency aid," he said, offering condolences to families of the victims. Sobyanin himself arrived at the scene, telling journalists he had ordered a full inspection of the entire Moscow bus fleet.
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| Saudi Arabia Pressured Lebanese Prime Minister To Resign: Report Posted: 25 Dec 2017 08:31 AM PST  Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced his short-lived resignation in early November under heavy duress from the Saudi Arabian government, according to a New York Times report based on the accounts of Lebanese, Western and regional officials, as well as other figures close to Hariri.
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| Philippines storm death toll climbs to 240, scores missing Posted: 24 Dec 2017 11:24 PM PST  The death toll from a storm that unleashed landslides and floods across the southern Philippines has climbed to 240 with scores of others still missing, officials said Monday. Tropical Storm Tembin on Friday struck the country's main southern island of Mindanao, which often escapes the 20 or so storms that batter the rest of the archipelago nation each year. Civil defence officials said the number of confirmed deaths from Tembin on Mindanao's Zamboanga peninsula had risen to 78, while the death toll in Lanao del Sur province on the island went up to 27.
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| Donald Trump Has Spent A Lot Of His Presidency At Trump-Owned Properties Posted: 26 Dec 2017 08:24 AM PST  President Donald Trump is spending the holidays at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, continuing a pattern that has created questions of conflicts of interest.
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| Netflix Will Once Again Help Parents Get Kids To Bed On New Year’s Eve Posted: 26 Dec 2017 06:01 AM PST  For the fourth year in a row, Netflix will have parents' backs on New Year's Eve.
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| Pardoned by Christie, woman pushes for change to US gun laws Posted: 25 Dec 2017 06:12 AM PST  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The handgun that Shaneen Allen was carrying when she was pulled over on a New Jersey highway could have sent her to prison for years if not for a pardon from Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
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| U.S. judge who oversaw Argentina debt saga dead at 87 Posted: 25 Dec 2017 04:00 PM PST ![U.S. judge who oversaw Argentina debt saga dead at 87]( "U.S. judge who oversaw Argentina debt saga dead at 87") A senior federal judge in New York who oversaw the historic sovereign debt default cases brought against Argentina by creditors, Thomas Griesa, died on Christmas Eve at the age of 87, Special Master Daniel Pollack said. Griesa, whose rulings in the Argentina case brought him notoriety on Wall Street and infamy on the streets of Buenos Aires, ultimately ruled in favor of deep-pocketed hedge funds against the successive governments of Presidents Nestor Kirchner and then his wife Cristina Fernandez.
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| Pope, on Christmas Eve, says faith demands respect of immigrants Posted: 24 Dec 2017 02:09 PM PST ![Pope, on Christmas Eve, says faith demands respect of immigrants]( "Pope, on Christmas Eve, says faith demands respect of immigrants") By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis strongly defended immigrants at his Christmas Eve Mass on Sunday, comparing them to Mary and Joseph finding no place to stay in Bethlehem and saying faith demands that foreigners be welcomed. Francis, celebrating his fifth Christmas as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, led a solemn Mass for about 10,000 people in St. Peter's Basilica while many others followed the service from the square outside.
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| Why Iran Could Be a Bigger Problem than North Korea Posted: 25 Dec 2017 05:09 PM PST  The Middle East is in a shambles, as Iranian proxy wars and other wars dominate Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Mali and Egypt. Iran is on the march in the Middle East following the P5 + 1 nuclear agreement that brought billions in sanctions relief, which means the Iranian regime is now the biggest threat to regional stability. Iranian proxies, which include Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Houthis in Yemen, allow the Iranian regime to project force on an unprecedented scale in the Middle East and emboldens other bad actors on the world stage.
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| 50 Years Ago This Week: 1967 in Review Posted: 25 Dec 2017 06:00 AM PST  Also in this issue: alcohol consumption and the end of an era
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| Donald Trump Again Falsely Credits Himself With 'Essentially' Repealing Obamacare Posted: 26 Dec 2017 05:11 AM PST  President Donald Trump on Tuesday falsely claimed that congressional Republicans' tax bill "essentially Repeals (over time) ObamaCare," perpetuating a false claim he made previously to celebrate the bill's passage.
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| Extra charges dropped against journalists jailed for flying drone in Myanmar Posted: 26 Dec 2017 03:12 AM PST  Foreign and local journalists jailed for flying a drone near Myanmar's parliament could be released from prison in early January after police dropped additional charges that carried at least three more years behind bars, their lawyers said Tuesday. Lau Hon Meng from Singapore and Mok Choy Lin from Malaysia, who were on assignment for Turkish state broadcaster TRT, were detained late October along with Myanmar journalist Aung Naing Soe and driver Hla Tin while shooting a documentary in the capital Naypyidaw. Expecting to receive a fine, they confessed to flying the drone but were instead sentenced to two months in jail under Myanmar's aircraft act.
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| Putin critic Navalny clears first hurdle in bid for Russia presidency Posted: 24 Dec 2017 10:49 AM PST ![Putin critic Navalny clears first hurdle in bid for Russia presidency]( "Putin critic Navalny clears first hurdle in bid for Russia presidency") By Polina Nikolskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Sunday cleared the first hurdle towards taking part in next year's presidential election, even though the central election commission has previously ruled him ineligible to run. Navalny, 41, is a fierce opponent of President Vladimir Putin, who is widely expected to win re-election in March, extending 17 years in power. A veteran campaigner against corruption among Russia's elite, he won the initial support of 742 people at a gathering in a district of Moscow - above the minimum 500 required to initiate a presidential bid.
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| Russia's New Husky-Class Submarine: Everything We Know (And Want to Know) Posted: 26 Dec 2017 06:44 AM PST  If the Russians realize their vision for the Husky, the new boat should provide Moscow with a design the Kremlin can build in large quantities and replace the Soviet-era vessels that still comprise the bulk of their fleet. The Russian Navy is taking a page out of the United States Navy's playbook as it develops its family of next generation nuclear submarines. Tentatively called Project Husky, the new submarines will be built in three variants—a basic attack submarine model, an expanded guided-missile submarine (SSGN) version and an enlarged ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) variant writes Ilya Kramnik, a defense reporter with Lenta.ru.
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| NYFD employee held on $1M bail in minor crash turned deadly Posted: 24 Dec 2017 01:59 PM PST ![NYFD employee held on $1M bail in minor crash turned deadly]( "NYFD employee held on $1M bail in minor crash turned deadly") MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York Fire Department employee was held on $1 million bail Sunday after authorities said he ran over a college honors student on Long Island after a minor accident.
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| Guatemala Says it Will Relocate its Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem Posted: 24 Dec 2017 06:01 PM PST  Becoming the first nation to follow the lead of President Donald Trump
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| China, Pakistan to look at including Afghanistan in $57 billion economic corridor Posted: 25 Dec 2017 11:16 PM PST ![China, Pakistan to look at including Afghanistan in $57 billion economic corridor]( "China, Pakistan to look at including Afghanistan in $57 billion economic corridor") By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Pakistan will look at extending their $57 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday, part of China's ambitious Belt and Road plan linking China with Asia, Europe and beyond. China has tried to position itself as a helpful party to promote talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan, both uneasy neighbors ever since Pakistan's independence in 1947.
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| Philippines' Duterte vows to get to truth of deadly mall blaze Posted: 26 Dec 2017 12:45 AM PST  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed Tuesday to get to the truth about a blaze in his home city that killed 37 call centre workers. "I assured them... that the truth will -- let the truth come out," Duterte said. The justice and labour departments have ordered separate investigations into Saturday's blaze.
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