Thursday, January 1, 2015
Shanghai 殺到 kills dozens as glittery 花火s, parties どこかよそで 示す 2015
Revelers converged on the beaches of Brazil, the 超高層ビルs of Dubai and New York's Times Square to say good riddance to a 騒然とした 2014 marred by terror woes, Ebola 突発／発生s and a horrific 一連の 航空機による 災害s.
But 悲劇 struck in Shanghai, Baghdad was on 辛勝する／優位 and 抗議する人s in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs planned a sobering 思い出の品 of one of the year's biggest stories.
A look around the world:
STAMPEDE IN SHANGHAI
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AP PHOTOS: A 選択 of our favorite New Year's images from around the world
Millions of revelers converged on the beaches of Brazil, the streets of ソウル, South Korea, and New York's Times Square to say good riddance to a 騒然とした 2014 marred by terror woes and Ebola 突発／発生s.
世界的な people gathered to remember those lost in 2014 and 申し込む／申し出 blessings for the new year. But as always, the ありふれた thread for the major 祝賀s in congested downtowns and public squares was 花火s ― and トンs of them.
In Dubai, 花火s surrounded the world's tallest building, the 2,722-foot Burj Khalifa, which flashed with colored lights and images of the country's leaders as 組織者s went for a Guinness World 記録，記録的な／記録する for the largest LED-illuminated facade.
Sydney's famed オペラ House 供給するd a 素晴らしい background for a trademark glittery 祝賀 replete with a 熱帯の-s tyle 花火s 陳列する，発揮する featuring gold and silver palm tree pyrotechnic 影響s.
And in New York partiers eager to （人命などを）奪う，主張する 位置／汚点／見つけ出すs to （犯罪の）一味 in 2015 in Times Square arrived hours 早期に, 耐えるing 氷点の 気温s and a scarcity of restrooms before the glittering ball 減少（する） at midnight at the 十字路／岐路 of the World.
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36 killed, 47 負傷させるd in 殺到 at New Year's event on historic Shanghai waterfront
SHANGHAI (AP) ― People unable to 接触する friends and 親族s streamed into hospitals Thursday, anxious for （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） after a 殺到 during New Year's 祝賀s in Shanghai's historic waterfront area killed 36 people in the worst 災害 to 攻撃する，衝突する one of 中国's showcase cities in 最近の years.
The Shanghai 政府 said 47 others received hospital 治療, 含むing 13 who were 本気で 負傷させるd, after the 大混乱 about a half-hour before midnight. Seven of the 負傷させるd people had left hospitals by Thursday afternoon.
The Shanghai 政府 （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） office said one Taiwanese was の中で the dead, and two Taiwanese and one Malaysian were の中で the 負傷させるd.
The deaths and 傷害s occurred at Chen Yi Square in Shanghai's popular riverfront Bund area, an avenue lined with art deco buildings from the 1920s and 1930s when Shanghai was home to international banks and 貿易（する）ing houses. The area is often jammed with people during major events.
At one of the hospitals where the 負傷させるd were 存在 扱う／治療するd, police brought out photos of 身元不明の dead 犠牲者s, 原因（となる）ing dozens of waiting 親族s to （人が）群がる around. Not everyone could see, and young women who looked at the photos broke into 涙／ほころびs when they 認めるd someone.
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控訴，上告s 法廷，裁判所 in Egypt orders retrial in 事例／患者 of 拘留するd 3 Al-Jazeera English 新聞記者／雑誌記者s.
CAIRO (AP) ― An Egyptian 控訴，上告s 法廷，裁判所 ordered a retrial Thursday in the 事例／患者 of three Al-Jazeera English 新聞記者／雑誌記者s held for over a year, overturning the 判決，裁定 in a 事例／患者 that ensnared the reporters in a wider 衝突 between Egypt and Qatar.
The 決定／判定勝ち（する） by Egypt's 法廷，裁判所 of Cassation （機の）カム after a 審理，公聴会 that lasted いっそう少なく than half an hour. However, Canadian-Egyptian Mohammed Fahmy, Australian 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Peter Greste and Egyptian Baher Mohammed, who have been held their 逮捕（する） in December 2013, were not 解放（する）d on 保釈（金）.
The three 新聞記者／雑誌記者s did not …に出席する the 簡潔な／要約する 審理，公聴会 that began around 9 a.m. 地元の time (0700 GMT, 2 a.m. EST) in Cairo. Reporters gathered to 報告（する）／憶測 on the 審理，公聴会 were not 許すd in for those arguments, but later entered the 法廷，裁判所.
弁護 lawyers said they believed a retrial for the three men would be held within a month and that they hoped for 迅速な 裁判，公判 given a changing political 気候 between Egypt and Qatar ― believed to be underpinning the whole 事例／患者. The Al-Jazeera 衛星 news 網状組織 is based in Qatar, a country which recently 約束d to 緩和する 緊張s in the greater Middle East by dropping its support for Islamist groups throughout the 地域, like Egypt's 無法者d イスラム教徒 Brotherhood.
弁護 lawyers 表明するd 救済 over the retrial, though family members of those 拘留するd said they hoped for their loved ones' 即座の 解放（する）. 合法的な 専門家s said 解放（する）ing the men was outside of 力／強力にする of the 法廷，裁判所 of Cassation.
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Family buries AirAsia flight attendant, 1st 犠牲者 ID'd from Indonesia 衝突，墜落; 8th 団体／死体 設立する
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) ― An AirAsia flight attendant identified by the 指名する tag on her red uniform became the first 犠牲者 of AirAsia Flight 8501 to be returned to her family Thursday, one of many painful 再会s to come, as search 乗組員s struggled against 勝利，勝つd and 強い雨 to find more than 150 people still 行方不明の.
Hayati Lutfiah Hamid's 身元 was 確認するd by 指紋s and other means, said Col. Budiyono of East Java's 災害 犠牲者 身元確認，身分証明 部隊.
Her 団体／死体, in a dark polished casket topped with flowers, was 手渡すd over to her family at a 簡潔な／要約する 儀式 at a police hospital in Surabaya, the Indonesian city where the 計画（する） had taken off. A family member cried as she put both 手渡すs on the 棺.
After a イスラム教徒 聖職者の said a 祈り for the 死んだ, the casket was すぐに taken to a village and lowered into a muddy 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な, に引き続いて イスラム教徒 義務s 要求するing 団体／死体s to be buried quickly. An imam said a simple 祈り as about 150 people gathered in the 霧雨ing rain, and red flowers were ぱらぱら雨d over the 塚 of wet dirt with a small white tombstone.
Flight 8501 衝突，墜落d into the Java Sea on Sunday with 162 people 船内に. Eight 団体／死体s have been 回復するd, 含むing one brought Thursday to Pangkalan Bun, the nearest town to where the 難破 was spotted Tuesday.
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Palestinians join 国際刑事警察機構 法廷，裁判所 to 圧力（をかける） war-罪，犯罪s 事例／患者 against イスラエル
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) ― Turning up the 圧力 on イスラエル, the Palestinians 発表するd Wednesday that they are joining the 国際刑事警察機構 法廷，裁判所 to 追求する war-罪，犯罪s 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s against the ユダヤ人の 明言する／公表する ― a risky, high-火刑／賭けるs move that brought 脅しs of 報復 from イスラエル and 批評 from the U.S.
Palestinian 大統領 Mahmoud Abbas 行為／法令／行動するd a day after 苦しむing a 敗北・負かす in the U.N. 安全 会議, which 投票（する）d 負かす／撃墜する a 決意／決議 setting a three-year 最終期限 for the 設立 of a Palestinian 明言する／公表する on lands 占領するd by イスラエル.
"We want to complain. There's 侵略 against us, against our land. The 安全 会議 disappointed us," Abbas said.
Turning to the international 法廷，裁判所 at The Hague 示すs a major 政策 転換, transforming Abbas' relations with イスラエル from 緊張した to 率直に 敵意を持った. The ultimate goal is to 圧力 イスラエル into 身を引くing from the 領土s and agreeing to Palestinian statehood.
The 戦略 carries 危険s, 含むing the 可能性 the Palestinians themselves could be （刑事）被告 of war 罪，犯罪s over ロケット／急騰する attacks by the 極端論者 group Hamas on Israeli 全住民 中心s and other 暴力／激しさ against ユダヤ人の 的s.
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Arab-Israeli イスラム教徒 woman runs for 議会 with party …に反対するing Palestinian independence
KIBBUTZ YEHIAM, イスラエル (AP) ― An Arab-Israeli イスラム教徒 woman is running for a 議会 seat as a member of a hard-line 宗教的な ユダヤ人の party 提携させるd with the West Bank 植民／開拓者 movement and that …に反対するs Palestinian independence.
The 企て，努力，提案 by iconoclast Anett Haskia, a 45-year-old hairdresser and mother of three, comes after she gave a 一連の bombastic television interviews in support of イスラエル's 軍の this summer during its war against Hamas in Gaza. Now she is the 孤独な Arab 争う for a 位置／汚点／見つけ出す on the ユダヤ人の Home party's 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） ahead of its January 最初の／主要な.
Arab 国民s of イスラエル, who （不足などを）補う 20 パーセント of the country's 全住民, 堅固に identify with Palestinians in the West Bank and Ga za. They 一般に …に反対する Israeli 軍の 活動／戦闘s, do not serve in the Israeli army and complain of 深い-seated 差別.
Haskia's children, however, 任意に enlisted in the Israeli army ― 含むing one son who served in an エリート 部隊 in Gaza during the summer war.
"Just because I was born in the ユダヤ人の 明言する／公表する doesn't mean a Jew is better than me," Haskia recently told The Associated 圧力（をかける） in Hebrew. "I sent the children to war, and nobody can tell me that I, Anett, the Arab, am second class."
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Maryland 知事 says he will 減刑する／通勤する 宣告，判決s of 明言する／公表する's last 4 death-列／漕ぐ／騒動 inmates to life
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ― In one of his final 行為／法令／行動するs as 知事, 民主党員 ツバメ O'Malley 発表するd Wednesday that he will 減刑する／通勤する the 宣告，判決s of four death-列／漕ぐ／騒動 inmates to life in 刑務所，拘置所 without 仮釈放（する）.
Two years ago, the General 議会 廃止するd the 死刑, leaving five inmates on （刑務所の）死刑囚棟. One of them, John Booth-El, died in 刑務所，拘置所 this year.
The 知事 said he had met or spoken with many of the 親族s of the people killed by the inmates. Some 犠牲者 family members and 検察官，検事s were upset with O'Malley's 決定／判定勝ち（する）.
O'Malley said that if he didn't 減刑する／通勤する the 宣告，判決s the 合法的な 過程 would "needlessly and callously 支配する 生存者s, and the people of Maryland, to the ordeal of an endless 控訴，上告s 過程, with 予測できない 新たな展開s and turns, and without any hope of finality or 終結."
非，不，無 of the 死刑執行s was 切迫した because the 明言する／公表する didn't have a 手続き to carry one out.
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GOP 立法議員s …に反対するd to all parts of 'Obamacare' 封鎖する 知事s' 企て，努力，提案s to 拡大する Medicaid
WASHINGTON (AP) ― 知事s across the political spectrum are hitting a roadblock in their 企て，努力，提案s to 拡大する Medicaid with 連邦の 基金s: 共和国の／共和党の 立法議員s who adamantly …に反対する "Obamacare."
While some of these 知事s themselves have 非難するd the 大統領，／社長's health care 法律 in general, they've come to see one 構成要素 ― Medicaid 拡大 ― as too generous to 拒絶する. But they're 戦う／戦いing 保守的な 国会議員s who say it's better to turn 負かす／撃墜する billions of 連邦の dollars than to 拡大する Medicaid under the 2010 法律.
同志／支持者 politics have driven 明言する／公表するs' Medicaid 決定／判定勝ち（する）s ever since the 最高裁判所 支配するd in 2012 that 拡大 was optional, not 義務的な, under the new 法律. Within months, every Democratic 知事 agreed to 拡大する Medicaid (although 共和国の／共和党の 立法機関s 封鎖するd a few of those 成果／努力s).
Only nine 明言する／公表するs with 共和国の／共和党の 知事s 受託するd the 申し込む／申し出.
Medicaid, the health 保険 program for low-income and 無能にするd people, covers about 65 million Americans, more than one in five. The 連邦の 政府 will 支払う／賃金 the 十分な 拡大 cost for the first three years, and 徐々に 減ずる the 補助金 to 90 パーセント. That's more than the 伝統的な Medicaid 連邦の match to 明言する／公表するs.
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un, in New Year's speech, says he is open to 首脳会議 with South
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) ― North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in a New Year's speech Thursday that he is open to more 会談 or even a 首脳会議 with his South Korean 相当するもの, a 声明 welcomed by ソウル, which in turn 勧めるd the North to take 固める／コンクリート steps toward 正常化 of relations.
Kim's call for 改善するing の間の-Korea relations comes as Pyongyang is 直面するing 高くする，増すd 批評 over its human 権利s 記録，記録的な／記録する and souring 関係 with Washington over 主張s it was 伴う／関わるd in the 大規模な 切り開く／タクシー／不正アクセスing attack on Sony Pictures linked to "The Interview," a dark comedy that portrayed an 暗殺 試みる／企てる on Kim.
North Korea has 否定するd 関与, but said the 切り開く／タクシー／不正アクセス was a "righteous 行為" and 示唆するd it might have been carried out by sympathizers or 支持者s abroad.
"We believe we can 再開する 一時停止するd 上級の-level 会談 and 持つ／拘留する other 会談 on 明確な／細部 問題／発行するs if South Korea 心から has a position that it wants to 改善する North-South relations through a 対話," Kim said in the 国家的に テレビ放送するd 演説（する）／住所. "And there is no 推論する／理由 not to 持つ／拘留する the highest-level 会談 if the atmosphere and 条件s are met."
会合 such 条件s has proven to be 事実上 impossible in the past. The two countries have not held a 首脳会議 since 2007 and, にもかかわらず Kim's 発言／述べるs, the 見込み of one happening again soon is very low given the 深い 不信 that remains between the two countries.
