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Rifle designer Mikhail Kalashnikov dead at 94

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Rifle designer Mikhail Kalashnikov dead at 94

Rifle designer Mikhail Kalashnikov dead at 94

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 10:37 AM PST

In this July 26, 2002 file photo, Russian weapon designer Mikhail Kalashnikov presents his legendary assault rifle to the media while opening the exhibition "Kalashnikov - legend and curse of a weapon" at a weapons museum in Suhl, Germany. Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world's most popular firearm, has died at the age of 94, Monday Dec. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)"I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for ... resorting to violence."

It's the Obamacare signup deadline -- for most people

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 11:20 AM PST

U.S. President Obama pauses while delivering remarks on Obamacare at an Organizing for Action grassroots supporter event in WashingtonSeveral exceptions exist for consumers.

American jailed over video mocking Dubai teens

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 06:38 AM PST

A night view of the Dubai Marina on November 19, 2013A UAE court jailed on Monday an American and four other men for one year after they made a YouTube video that mocked Dubai teenagers, The National daily reported. Shezanne Cassim, a 29-year-old from Minnesota, has been held since April after being charged with endangering the security of the United Arab Emirates under a cybercrimes law. Their link to the spoof video was unclear. The 19-minute video, called the "Satwa Comedy School," gently parodies Dubai teenagers from the city's Satwa district who styled themselves as tough "gangstas" wearing hip-hop clothes and listening to rap music, but who in reality were known for very mild behaviour.

Rodman leaves NKorea without word if he met leader

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 10:55 AM PST

Former basketball star Dennis Rodman speaks to journalists upon arrival at the capital airport in Beijing from Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. Rodman left North Korea on Monday, but didn't answer questions from the media on whether he had met with leader Kim Jong Un on his latest visit. The two struck up a friendship when Rodman first traveled to the secretive state earlier this year. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORYBEIJING (AP) — Former basketball star Dennis Rodman left North Korea on Monday without answering questions from the media on whether he had met with leader Kim Jong Un.

Released Pussy Riot member calls Putin's amnesty 'PR stunt'

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 09:43 AM PST

Alyokhina, member of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, speaks to the media after her release from a penal colony in Nizhny NovgorodTwo band members were convicted of hooliganism for a protest against the president.

Plane wing clips building at Johannesburg airport

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 07:21 AM PST

British AirwaysJOHANNESBURG (AP) — The wing of a British Airways Boeing 747 crashed into a Johannesburg airport building, slightly injuring four ground staff.

Winter brings snow, ice, outages to some in US

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 03:40 AM PST

People make their way down a snow-covered street in Milwaukee, WisconsinCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — After the first full day of winter brought everything from balmy temperatures along the Mid-Atlantic to snow in the Midwest and ice, snow and flooding in the Great Lakes, some people could be left in the dark for Christmas.

Chinese users welcome Apple, China Mobile deal

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 09:53 AM PST

A Chinese man walks past an advertisement for an IPhone outside an Apple reseller in Beijing on March 18, 2013The agreement could boost iPhone sales in a market dominated by low-cost devices.

Vanishing adviser reappears as Iran policy player

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 10:58 AM PST

FILE - This Nov. 11, 2009 file photo shows then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walking with a then-Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan in Singapore. Last summer, Sullivan was traveling with his boss, Hillary Rodham Clinton, when he suddenly disappeared during a stop in Paris. He showed up again a few days later, rejoining Clinton's traveling contingent in Mongolia. In between, Sullivan secretly had jetted to the Middle Eastern nation of Oman to meet with officials from Iran, people familiar with the trip said. The July 2012 meeting is one of the Obama administration's earliest known face-to-face contacts with Iran and reveals that Sullivan _ who moved from the State Department to the White House earlier this year _ was personally involved in the administration's outreach to the Islamic republic far earlier than had been reported. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Last summer, while Jake Sullivan was traveling with his boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he quietly disappeared during a stop in Paris. He showed up again a few days later, rejoining Clinton's traveling contingent in Mongolia.

Rain, ice tapers, cold temps stay for parts of US

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 10:49 AM PST

Heather Griffin, of Buffalo, N.Y., and her dog Sal walk beneath ice-covered trees on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013, in Buffalo. As Americans and Canadians ushered in the first official day of winter, the weather provided many with a variety of surprises. Snow and ice hit Michigan, Canada, New England and upstate New York. Some other eastern regions were hit with temperatures in the 60s and 70s. Flooding in the South was blamed for at least four deaths while apparent tornadoes caused destruction in Arkansas. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Parts of the country socked by a wild weekend storm will be covered with ice through Christmas and beyond thanks to a steady diet of freezing rain and cold temperatures.

Putin frees his enemies as part of Sochi spin

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 09:47 AM PST

Russian President Vladimir Putin has a video conference with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in the situation center in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Metzel, Presidential Press Service)MOSCOW (AP) — It came as a shock for both those released and the general public — President Vladimir Putin's move to pardon his foes has allowed him to seize the news agenda in his favor and temper criticism of his rule less than two months before the Sochi Games.

Canadians, Brits still in SSudan city US evacuated

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 06:58 AM PST

In this photo taken Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013 and released by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013, UNMISS relocates non-critical staff from Juba, South Sudan, to Entebbe, Uganda. Civilian helicopters evacuated U.S. citizens from the violent South Sudan city of Bor, capital of Jonglei state, seeing bouts of heavy machine gun fire, but 3,000 citizens from countries like Canada, Britain and Kenya remain trapped there, a top U.N. official said Monday. (AP Photo/UNMISS, Irene Scott)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — British, Canadian and Kenyan citizens are among 3,000 foreigners trapped in a South Sudan city experiencing bouts of heavy machine gun fire, one of the most violent areas of a weeklong conflict that has likely killed more than 1,000 people, a top U.N. official said Monday.

Fight over military pension cuts to continue

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 09:52 AM PST

In this Dec. 19, 2013, photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel takes questions as he briefs reporters at the Pentagon in Washington. Veterans groups are fighting part of the new budget deal signed into law Dec. 20 that curbs annual pension increases for military retirees under age 62. After a barrage of protests from the military community, lawmakers said they'll review the cut next year and possibly reverse it.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's top civilian says it's time to tame burgeoning military personnel costs, but he's facing a test of wills with the nation's powerful veterans groups, which want no cut in their benefits.

Thai protesters try to block election sign-up

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 05:54 AM PST

Anti-government protesters wave Thai national flags during a rally at the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. About 5,000 protesters took part in the rally and later stormed in to the DSI office building when the DSI has charged the protest leaders on illegal demonstrations and frozen their bank accounts last week. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)BANGKOK (AP) — Anti-government protesters determined to unseat Thailand's prime minister surrounded a Bangkok sports stadium on Monday in an unsuccessful attempt to block political parties from registering for February elections.

Low-key Obama aide at center of secret Iran talks

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 09:23 AM PST

FILE - This Nov. 11, 2009 file photo shows then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walking with a then-Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan in Singapore. Last summer, Sullivan was traveling with his boss, Hillary Rodham Clinton, when he suddenly disappeared during a stop in Paris. He showed up again a few days later, rejoining Clinton's traveling contingent in Mongolia. In between, Sullivan secretly had jetted to the Middle Eastern nation of Oman to meet with officials from Iran, people familiar with the trip said. The July 2012 meeting is one of the Obama administration's earliest known face-to-face contacts with Iran and reveals that Sullivan _ who moved from the State Department to the White House earlier this year _ was personally involved in the administration's outreach to the Islamic republic far earlier than had been reported. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Last summer, while Jake Sullivan was traveling with his boss, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he quietly disappeared during a stop in Paris. He showed up again a few days later, rejoining Clinton's traveling contingent in Mongolia.

Last-minute insurance shoppers face down deadline

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 09:23 AM PST

CHICAGO (AP) — Last-minute health insurance shoppers called help lines and attended enrollment events Monday as a key deadline in the nation's new health law arrived.

Bolivian city hires 'cholita' traffic policewomen

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 06:18 AM PST

In this Dec. 3, 2013 photo, an Aymara woman cops directs traffic on the streets of El Alto, Bolivia. The women wear the bright petticoats and shawls of indigenous women in the Andes, called cholitas in Bolivian slang, the main difference being that instead of bowler hats they wear khaki green police-style caps. Some don fluorescent traffic vests. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — This city in Bolivia's highlands has hired Aymara women dressed in traditional multilayered Andean skirts and brightly embroidered vests to work as traffic cops and bring order to its road chaos.

Utah's same-sex marriage ban back in court

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 09:03 AM PST

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, Chris Serrano, left, and Clifton Webb embrace after being married, as people wait in line to get licenses outside of the marriage division of the Salt Lake County Clerk's Office in Salt Lake City. A federal judge on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013 is set to consider a request from the state of Utah to block gay weddings that have been taking place since Friday when the state's same-sex marriage ban was overturned. (AP Photo/Kim Raff, File)SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hundreds of gay couples lined up at the county clerk's office in Salt Lake City early Monday for a chance to get married as Utah officials went to court to halt the weddings that have been taking place since Friday.

House foe of health overhaul still top GOP target

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 09:18 AM PST

This photo taken Dec. 11, 2013 shows Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., speaking with his chief of constituent services, Vivian Lipford, in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. McIntyre is the only member of his party in the House to vote consistently against President Barack Obama's troubled health care law. But that might not be enough to help the North Carolina Democrat survive his reelection fight in 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Listen carefully when Republicans say they can blame almost every House Democrat for the flaws of the health care overhaul. Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-N.C., is the exception.

2 Pussy Riot members released from prison

Posted: 23 Dec 2013 09:35 AM PST

KRASNOYARSK, Russia (AP) — Two members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot walked free Monday, criticizing the amnesty measure that released them as a publicity stunt, with one calling for a boycott of the Winter Olympics to protest Russia's human rights record.

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