IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 10/7/2013

U.S. special forces hit extremists behind Africa attacks

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, al-Shabab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. Foreign military forces carried out a pre-dawn strike Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 against foreign fighters in the same southern Somalia village where U.S. Navy SEALS four years ago killed a most-wanted al-Qaida operative, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor, File)

A mission leads to the capture of a wanted terrorist linked to 1998 embassy attack.

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Shutdown leaves tourists stranded near Yellowstone

The closing of roads near Yellowstone has left some tourists stranded (Reuters)

About 15 tourists are staying in Cooke City, one of several tiny gateway towns leading into Yellowstone National Park. Hopefully they are enjoying their visit. That’s because thanks to the ongoing federal government shutdown, the tourists are literally trapped inside Cooke City.

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Fox News host falls for fake Obama story

Exploring the George Washington presidential library

In a story about the monument closure, Fox News host Anna Kooiman fell pray to a false report from a parody site, which claimed that President Obama had offered to keep the International Museum of Muslim Cultures open with cash from his own pocket.

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4 US soldiers killed in south Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S.-led international military coalition says four of its service members have been killed in southern Afghanistan and a military official confirms all were Americans killed by an improvised explosive device.

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Arab world searches for democratic future

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 file photo, a trampled poster of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi is seen on the ground outside the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where supporters of Morsi had a protest camp in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. Arabic reads,

CAIRO (AP) — "For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability... We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations." — President George W. Bush in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Sept. 21, 2004

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Use of force to be studied in DC police chase

CORRECTS AMY CAREY TO AMY CAREY-JONES - Amy Carey-Jones, center, sister of Mariam Carey, listens as her sister Valarie, left, takes questions from the media outside her home in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, in New York. Law-enforcement authorities have identified Miriam Carey, 34, as the woman who, with a 1-year-old child in her car, led Secret Service and police on a harrowing chase in Washington from the White House past the Capitol Thursday, attempting to penetrate the security barriers at both national landmarks before she was shot to death, police said. The child survived. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in Washington are reviewing the use of officers' deadly force in the killing of a woman who tried to ram her car through a White House barrier, a shooting her family says was unjustified.

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String of attacks in Iraq kills at least 66

Map locates Baghdad and other sites of violence across Iraq; 1c x 4 inches; 46.5 mm x 101 mm;

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of Shiite pilgrims passing through a mainly Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad and another detonated his explosives inside a cafe north of the capital, the deadliest of several attacks across Iraq on Saturday that killed at least 66 people.

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In Kenya, attackers used 'less is more' strategy

In this photo taken from footage from Citizen TV, via the Kenya Defence Forces and made available Friday, Oct. 4 2013, a man reported to be Umayr, one of the four armed militants walking in a store at the Westgate Mall, during the four-day-long siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya which killed more than 60 people last month. A Kenyan military spokesman has confirmed the names of four attackers as Abu Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, Khattab al-Kene and Umayr. (AP Photo/ Kenyan Defence forces via Citizen TV)

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Salim Massebellah had just reached the parking lot at Nairobi's premiere mall. Private guards inspected his trunk, then passed a mirror underneath his vehicle, checking for the exposed wires that would indicate a bomb. That was the weapon of choice of al-Shabab, the terrorist group Kenyans had been warned might one day target their capital.

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Karen weakens to depression off La. coast

Rhonda Etienne of Davant,La., holds her niece Nevaeh Etienne, three months, in an evacuation shelter in Belle Chasse, La., in anticipation of Tropical Storm Karen, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. The East Bank of Plaquemines Parish has been under a mandatory evacuation, which has been downgraded to a voluntary evacuation. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Karen lost more of its punch late Saturday and fell below tropical-storm status while stalling off the Louisiana coast.

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Vogt's single in 9th lifts A's over Tigers 1-0

Oakland Athletics' Stephen Vogt gets a Gatorade shower after making the game-winning hit to beat the Detroit Tigers 1-0 in Game 2 of the American League baseball Division Series in Oakland, Calif., Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A pair of Oakland rookies, one heralded and the other a relative unknown, provided everything the Athletics needed to tie their AL division series with Detroit at one game apiece.

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Official: NY undercover cop present at bike rally
$This undated photo provided by his family's attorney on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 shows Edwin Mieses Jr. after he was struck by an SUV during a motorcycle rally in New York that turned violent on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. He suffered a broken spine, fractured ribs, a punctured lung and a torn aortic valve, his defense attorney, Gloria Allred, said Friday. His injuries may have left him paralyzed. (AP Photo/Family Photo via Gloria Allred)$ NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether an undercover police officer present at a motorcycle rally witnessed a violent confrontation between an SUV driver and a swarm of bikers and didn't immediately report it, a law enforcement official said Saturday.

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Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez welcome baby boy
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's a boy for Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez.

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AP PHOTOS: Heavy snows hit Great Plains

Chad Hoffman clears snow from the entrance to his apartment building in Rapid City, S.D,, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. South Dakota emergency agencies are asking snowmobile operators in the Rapid City area to help find motorists stranded by an autumn storm. The National Weather Service says the storm dumped at least three and a half feet of wet, heavy snow in the Black Hills. Rapid City had 21 inches, but 31 inches was recorded just a mile southwest of the city. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Chris Huber)

The weather is so bad in the Great Plains that even plow trucks are getting stuck.

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NYPD arrests another biker in NYC biker-SUV brawl
$This undated photo provided by his family's attorney on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013 shows Edwin Mieses Jr. after he was struck by an SUV during a motorcycle rally in New York that turned violent on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. He suffered a broken spine, fractured ribs, a punctured lung and a torn aortic valve, his defense attorney, Gloria Allred, said Friday. His injuries may have left him paralyzed. (AP Photo/Family Photo via Gloria Allred)$ NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department has arrested another man in connection with the videotaped beating of a New York City SUV driver by a gang of bikers.

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Pentagon: US forces take al-Qaida leader in Libya
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says American forces have captured an al-Qaida leader in Libya who is linked to the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in east Africa.

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Louisiana coast readies for Tropical Storm Karen

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tropical Storm Karen stalled off the Louisiana coast Saturday night as a weakened system that still threatened to bring strong wind and heavy rain to vulnerable low-lying areas.

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