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State of the Union 2014

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PHOTOS: Massive elephant rescue in Ivory Coast

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 05:23 AM PST

PHOTOS: Massive elephant rescue in Ivory CoastIn this photo taken Monday, Jan. 20, 2014 and distributed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, a tranquilized elephant is loaded onto a truck near the town of Daloa in western Ivory Coast. Conservationists are capturing and relocating elephants in Ivory Coast forced out of their traditional habitat by encroaching humans, in the first such operation attempted in Africa's forests. The International Fund for Animal Welfare this week began tranquilizing elephants outside the western town of Daloa, then locking them in a crate for the 10-hour drive to Assagny National Park on the southern coast. (AP Photo/IFAW)

Deep southern U.S. hard-hit by snow, ice, with big mess to come

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 10:17 AM PST

Traffic creeps along Interstate 55 in north Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, as ice and snow flurries cause difficult driving conditions. A severe winter storm is expected to hit the state, bringing ice and snow to the Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)Winter storm socks the Deep South with snow, ice; forecasters predict icy mess ahead        

Ukraine PM resigns as govt offers more concessions

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 10:46 AM PST

Ukrainian lawmakers applaud after voting during a parliamentary session in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. In back-to-back moves to try and resolve Ukraine's political crisis, the prime minister submitted his resignation and parliament repealed anti-protest laws that had set off violent clashes between demonstrators and police. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — In back-to-back moves aimed at defusing Ukraine's political crisis, the prime minister resigned Tuesday and parliament repealed anti-protest laws that had set off violent clashes between protesters and police.

Winter storm socks the South with snow, ice

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 10:31 AM PST

Traffic creeps along Interstate 55 in north Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, as ice and snow flurries cause difficult driving conditions. A severe winter storm is expected to hit the state, bringing ice and snow to the Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Cities rolled out snow plows that hardly ever leave the garage, a hardware store sold feed scoops for use as snow shovels and alligators in the Okefenokee Swamp burrowed into mud to stay warm Tuesday as a winter storm brought snow, ice and brutal cold to the Deep South, a part of the country more accustomed to hurricanes.

Brahimi: Syria peace talks slow but 'still at it'

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 10:38 AM PST

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Makdad answers journalists questions during a short briefing after a meeting with the Syrian opposition at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Tense negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition broke off earlier than planned Tuesday amid demands that President Bashar Assad put forward another proposal for the future of the country. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)GENEVA (AP) — Syrian government anger over a U.S. decision to resume aid to the opposition prompted the U.N. mediator to cut short Tuesday's peace talks, but he said no one was to blame for the impasse and that the negotiations would continue.

US looks at ways to prevent spying on NSA spying

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 12:58 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The U.S. government is looking at ways to prevent anyone from spying on its own surveillance of Americans' phone records. As the Obama administration considers shifting the collection of Americans' phone records from the National Security Agency to requiring that they be stored at phone companies or elsewhere, it's quietly funding research that would allow it to search the information using encryption so that phone company employees or eavesdroppers couldn't see who the U.S. is spying on, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Obama administration considers ending the storage of millions of phone records by the National Security Agency, the government is quietly funding research to prevent eavesdroppers from seeing whom the U.S. is spying on, The Associated Press has learned.

South African opposition groups merge

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:21 AM PST

South African anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele, left, greets Helen Zille, right, the head of the South African Democratic Alliance political party during a press conference in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. The former anti-apartheid activist who was close to Steve Biko and was a World Bank executive merged her party Tuesday with South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, and will be its presidential candidate, challenging the ruling African National Congress whose popularity has eroded amid corruption scandals and other problems. (AP Photo/ Nardus Engelbrecht)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Ahead of elections this year, South Africa's main opposition party merged with a smaller group on Tuesday to jointly challenge a ruling party whose immense popularity, buoyed by its anti-apartheid credentials and close ties to Nelson Mandela, has frayed amid corruption scandals and other problems.

Scientists find ancient plague DNA in teeth

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 05:57 AM PST

In this Jan. 17, 2014 photo provided by McMaster University, graduate biology student Jennifer Klunk examines a bone sample at McMaster University's Ancient DNA Centre in Hamilton, Canada. Scientists say two of the deadliest pandemics in history were caused by strains of the same plague and warn new versions of the bacteria could spark future outbreaks. Researchers found tiny bits of DNA in the teeth of two German victims killed by the Justinian plague about 1,500 years ago. With those fragments, they reconstructed the genome of the oldest bacteria known. They concluded the Justinian plague was caused by a strain of Yersinia pestis, the same pathogen responsible for the Black Death that struck medieval Europe. The study was published online Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 in the journal, Lancet Infectious Diseases.(AP Photo/McMaster University)LONDON (AP) — Scientists say two of the deadliest pandemics in history were caused by strains of the same plague and warn that new versions of the bacteria could spark future outbreaks.

Southerners warned of icy mess in days ahead

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:46 AM PST

ATLANTA (AP) — Across the Deep South, residents stocked up on fuel and groceries, schools and offices closed, and road crews were at the ready as a storm moved in Tuesday from the central U.S., threatening to bring snow, ice and subzero temperatures to a region more accustomed to air conditioners and sunscreen than parkas and shovels.

Syrian peace talks on hold for the day

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:45 AM PST

U.N. mediator for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi gestures during a press briefing at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Syrians on opposite sides of their country's civil war tried again Monday to find common ground, with peace talks focusing on an aid convoy to a besieged city that once more came under mortar attack from the government. Brahimi has seen faces like these before, barely able to remain in the same room, much less speak to each other. Lebanese, Afghans, Iraqis, now Syrians. Even, two decades ago, Algerians like himself. For days now, the veteran U.N. mediator has presided over peace talks intended to lead the way out of Syria's civil war. He brought President Bashar Assad's government and the opposition face to face for the first time on Saturday, while still ensuring that they don't have to enter by the same door or address each other directly. He is 80. He is patient. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)GENEVA (AP) — Negotiations between Syrian negotiators broke off earlier than planned Tuesday amid mutual accusations and the government's anger over the resumption of U.S. aid to the opposition.

SAfrican ruling party blasts opposition merger

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 07:17 AM PST

South African anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele, left, greets Helen Zille, right, the head of the South African Democratic Alliance political party during a press conference in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. The former anti-apartheid activist who was close to Steve Biko and was a World Bank executive merged her party Tuesday with South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, and will be its presidential candidate, challenging the ruling African National Congress whose popularity has eroded amid corruption scandals and other problems. (AP Photo/ Nardus Engelbrecht)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's ruling party is scoffing at the merger of two opposition parties ahead of elections this year, saying the coalition's choice of presidential candidate is a "'rent a black'" ploy to present a multi-racial front to voters.

DNA shows ancient hunter had blue eyes, dark skin

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 07:19 AM PST

In this undated photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), a drawing depicting how a hunter-gatherer who lived in Europe some 7,000 years ago who had blue eyes and dark skin, a combination that has largely disappeared from the continent in the millennia since, might have looked like according to scientists on Tuesday, Jan. 28. 2013. The discovery, published in the journal Nature this week, was made by scientists from the United States, Europe and Australia who analyzed ancient DNA extracted from a male tooth found in a cave in northern Spain. (AP Photo/CSIC)BERLIN (AP) — A hunter-gatherer who lived in Europe some 7,000 years ago probably had blue eyes and dark skin, a combination that has largely disappeared from the continent in the millennia since, scientists said Tuesday.

A Super Bowl ad is born: how 3 ads were created

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 07:57 AM PST

This image provided by Oreo's on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, shows the image the company's marketers tweeted some 10 minutes after the power went out during the Super Bowl XLVII football game. When a blackout hit and the lights went out in the stadium early in the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII, Oreo was prepared to create instant social media content because the cookie maker and its digital agency 360i had been working on a campaign for Oreo's 100th anniversary. The campaign featured a different ad every day that responded to news events for 100 days. (AP Photo/Oreo's )NEW YORK (AP) — A timely Tweet that was praised. A story of a baby Clydesdale growing up that tugged at heart strings. A Jamaican accent that caused controversy.

AP PHOTOS: Afghan children toil in Pakistan

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 12:25 AM PST

ALTERNATE CROP - In this Friday, Jan. 24, 2014 photo, Afghan refugee girl, laiba Hazrat, 6, poses for a picture, while playing with other children in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. For more than three decades, Pakistan has been home to one of the world's largest refugee communities: hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have fled the repeated wars and fighting their country has undergone. Since the 2002 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, some 3.8 million Afghans have returned to their home country, according to the U.N.'s refugee agency. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)ISLAMABAD (AP) — For more than three decades, Pakistan has been home to one of the world's largest refugee communities: hundreds of thousands of Afghans who have fled the repeated wars and fighting in their country.

Ukrainian president accepts PM's resignation

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 06:19 AM PST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 file photo, Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov speaks to lawmakers during the parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2014. Azarov offered his resignation in order to encourage what he called "social-political compromise."(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File )KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — In back-to-back moves aimed at defusing Ukraine's political crisis, the prime minister resigned Tuesday and parliament repealed anti-protest laws that had set off violent clashes between protesters and police.

Snakebite victim charged $89,000 for hospital stay

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:25 AM PST

copperheadA snakebite victim treated at a North Carolina hospital came away with more than just fang marks when he received an $89,227 bill for an 18-hour stay.

Rare winter storm brings ice and snow to U.S. South

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:31 AM PST

A travel warning sign is seen along Interstate 65 as cold weather descends on Mobile, AlabamaBy Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - A rare blast of snow, sleet and ice hit the U.S. South on Tuesday, prompting schools to close, airlines to cancel flights and emergency officials to warn of icy roads. Temperatures in parts of those regions could feel as cold as -30 Fahrenheit (-34 Celsius) on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said. The winter storm could extend from southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast into northern Florida and through the Carolinas, the weather service said. Parts of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina will likely see significant icing, while light to heavy snow is expected in some parts of the southern Mid-Atlantic states.

Obama to lay out go-it-alone strategy

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:18 AM PST

U.S. President Obama sits inside the Oval Office as he prepares for the State of the Union Address, while at the White House in WashingtonThe president will explain his need to get around Congress to boost the middle class.

States consider alternatives to lethal injection

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:16 AM PST

FILE - In this June 18, 2010 file photo is the firing squad execution chamber at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah. With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past including firing squads. (AP Photo/Trent Nelson - Pool, File)ST. LOUIS (AP) — With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas chambers.

Ukraine PM resigns, opposition leaders vow to continue protests

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:36 AM PST

A protester guards the barricades in front of riot police in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Ukraine's justice minister is threatening to call for a state of emergency unless protesters leave her ministry building, which they occupied during the night. The seizure of the building early Monday underlined how anti-government demonstrators are increasingly willing to take dramatic action as they push for the president's resignation and other concessions. Protesters now occupy four sizable buildings in downtown Kiev, including the city hall. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)After Ukraine PM resigns, opposition leaders vow to continue to harness street power.

GOP takes aim at Obama's State of Union

Posted: 27 Jan 2014 09:04 PM PST

U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and House Speaker John BoehnerExpect to hear from all Republican factions—before, during and after the speech.

'America's tuning fork' Seeger leaves lasting legacy

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:16 AM PST

US singers Pete Seeger (L) and Bruce Springsteen (R) performduring the "We are One" Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009 in Washington, DCA rail-thin New York radical who loved folk music, Pete Seeger loathed the business side and stuck by his principles, influencing younger stars like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Bruce Springsteen. Dubbed "America's tuning fork" by poet Carl Sandburg, the bald and bearded banjo-playing tenor brought a feast of material to US musical culture. Seeger adapted a Negro spiritual for the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" and a passage from the book of Ecclesiastes for the Byrds hit "Turn! Turn! Turn!"

Reputed Philadelphia mob boss freed after 2 trials

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 08:50 AM PST

Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi leaves the U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia have dropped its criminal case against the reputed Philadelphia mob boss after a second jury deadlocked on the central racketeering charge on Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The reputed boss of the Philadelphia mob is a free man after beating two racketeering trials.

Home prices rise more than forecast in November

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 06:39 AM PST

A 'sale' sign is seen outside a house in Alexandria, VirginiaThe S&P/Case Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas gained 0.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis. The 20-city composite index rose 13.7 percent year-on-year, the largest rise since February 2006. "Home prices continue to rise despite last May's jump in mortgage interest rates," David M. Blitzer, chairman of the Index Committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices, said in a statement.

Obama ups minimum wage for some workers

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 02:59 AM PST

President Barack Obama works at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, ahead of Tuesday night's State of the Union speech. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)The president orders minimum wage be increased to $10.10 for federal contractors.

Rick Santorum lays groundwork for another presidential run

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 02:48 AM PST

Santorum before March for LifeFormer Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum wants to be the social conservative standard-bearer for the GOP.

Ukrainian premier submits resignation

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 01:32 AM PST

Protesters attend a march in central Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Ukraine's justice minister is threatening to call for a state of emergency unless protesters leave her ministry building, which they occupied during the night. The seizure of the building early Monday underlined how anti-government demonstrators are increasingly willing to take dramatic action as they push for the president's resignation and other concessions. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The prime minister of protest-torn Ukraine submitted his resignation on Tuesday, saying he hoped the move would help bring peaceful resolution to the crisis that has gripped the country for two months.

Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies at 94

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:33 AM PST

Activist musician Pete Seeger, 92, center, sings before a crowd of nearly a thousand demonstrators sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests at a brief acoustic concert in Columbus Circle, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, in New York. The demonstrators marched down Broadway singing "This Little Light of Mine" and other folk and gospel songs while ad-libbing lines about corporate greed and social justice. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)The banjo-picking troubadour, singer and activist passed away at a New York hospital.

House reaches compromise on farm bill

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 09:36 AM PST

Maggie Barcellano prepares dinner at her father's house in Austin, Texas on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014. Barcellano, who lives with her father, enrolled in the food stamps program to help save up for paramedic training while she works as a home health aide and raises her three-year-old daughter. Working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. households that rely on food stamps, a switch from a few years ago when children and the elderly were the main recipients. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa)Deal would preserve food stamp benefits for most, keep generous subsidies for farmers.

Ousted Egypt leader arrives at prison break trial

Posted: 28 Jan 2014 12:51 AM PST

FILE - In this July 13, 2012 file photo, then Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks to reporters at the presidential palace in Cairo. Egypt's state news agency says Morsi has arrived in Cairo for a trial over prison breaks in 2011. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's toppled President Mohammed Morsi has arrived in Cairo for start of his trial Tuesday over charges he and some 130 others face for prison breaks during the country's 2011 revolution, the state news agency reported.

Exclusive: Democratic senators to file amicus brief in Hobby Lobby birth control case

Posted: 27 Jan 2014 06:51 PM PST

FILE - This May 22, 2013 file photo shows customer at a Hobby Lobby store in Denver. The Supreme Court has agreed to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law, whether businesses can use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. The justices said Tuesday they will take up an issue that has divided the lower courts in the face of roughly 40 lawsuits from for-profit companies asking to be spared from having to cover some or all forms of contraception. The court will consider two cases. One involves Hobby Lobby Inc., an Oklahoma City-based arts and crafts chain with 13,000 full-time employees. Hobby Lobby won in the lower courts. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)In a brief to be filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, 19 Democratic senators are siding with the Obama administration against evangelical Christian businessmen who argue that paying for their employees' birth control, a requirement under Obamacare, violates their company's religious freedom.

Mexico legalizes vigilantes, nabs cartel leader

Posted: 27 Jan 2014 07:34 PM PST

A man from the Self-Defense Council of Michoacan, (CAM), carries his weapon at a checkpoint set up by the self-defense group at the entrance to the town of Antunez, Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Vigilantes in Michoacan state insist they won't lay down their guns until top leaders of a powerful drug cartel are arrested, defying government orders as federal forces try to regain control in a lawless region plagued by armed groups. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico essentially legalized the country's growing "self-defense" groups Monday, while also announcing that security forces had captured one of the four top leaders of the Knights Templar drug cartel, which the vigilante groups have been fighting for the last year.

Avalanches cut off only road to Alaska city

Posted: 27 Jan 2014 06:37 PM PST

This Jan. 24, 2014 photo provided by the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities shows multiple avalanches that crossed the Richardson Highway in the Thompson Pass region of Valdez, Alaska on Friday Jan. 24, 2014. Alaska highway officials say the only highway into the city of 4,100 people will be closed until further notice, for at least a week, if not much longer. (AP Photo/Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities)ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Highway access to the city at the end of the trans-Alaska pipeline has been cut off indefinitely by avalanches, including one that dammed a river and created a lake up to a half-mile long across the roadway in a 300-foot wide mountain canyon.

U.S. frees tech companies to give more spying data

Posted: 27 Jan 2014 03:59 PM PST

Illustration file picture shows a man typing on a computer keyboard in WarsawBy David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. technology companies may give the public and their customers more detail about the court orders they receive related to surveillance under an agreement they reached on Monday with the Obama administration. Companies such as Google Inc and Microsoft Corp have been prohibited from disclosing even an approximate number of orders they received from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. They could give only an aggregate number of U.S. demands that combined surveillance court orders, letters from the FBI, subpoenas in run-of-the-mill criminal cases and other requests. The deal frees the companies to say, for example, approximately how many orders they received in a six-month period from the surveillance court.

Notorious Nazi's letters home are chillingly mundane

Posted: 27 Jan 2014 09:58 AM PST

1935 photo provided by German newspaper 'Die Welt' shows a family photo of Heinrich Himmler in Valepp, Bavaria. The picture shows Himmler with his daughter Gudrun, front, his son Gerhard, right, and a friend of Gudrun, left. The photo is part of a trove of letters, notes and photos that were in possession of an Israeli family. The letters are believed to be written by Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler and had not been shown to the public. The newspaper said the material is contained in an eight-part series it plans to publish. Himmler is considered one of the Nazis most responsible for the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Realworks Ltd./DIE WELT, HO) MANDATORY CREDIT Realworks Ltd./DIE WELT - http://www.welt.de/geschichte/himmler/article124223862/Insight-into-the-orderly-world-of-a-mass-murderer.htmlHeinrich Himmler was one of the most notorious leaders of Hitler's Nazi Party, responsible for the deaths of millions of men, women and children. Excerpts from chilling letters he wrote his family were recently published on the German news site Die Welt.

Yanukovych says he will scrap anti-protest law

Posted: 27 Jan 2014 01:46 PM PST

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's beleaguered president on Monday agreed to scrap harsh anti-protest laws that set off a wave of clashes between protesters and police over the past week.

Report: Spies use smartphone apps to track people

Posted: 27 Jan 2014 04:38 PM PST

FILE - These file product images made available by Google show the new Google Maps iPhone app. The world's most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, with the release of the Google Maps iPhone app. The release comes nearly three months after Apple Inc. replaced Google Maps as the device's built-in navigation system and inserted its own map software into the latest version of its mobile operating system. (AP Photo/Google, File)LONDON (AP) — Documents leaked by former NSA contactor Edward Snowden suggest that spy agencies have a powerful ally in Angry Birds and a host of other apps installed on smartphones across the globe.

U.S.: Afghanistan to release 'dangerous' prisoners

Posted: 27 Jan 2014 12:08 PM PST

FILE - In this March 23, 2011 file photograph, Afghan detainees, seen through a mesh wire fence, prepare for noon prayers inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. The Afghan government has begun the process of releasing three dozen prisoners, officials said Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, despite U.S. protests that they are highly dangerous, the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the two countries ahead of the year-end withdrawal of most international combat troops. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan government has begun the process of releasing three dozen prisoners despite U.S. protests that they are highly dangerous, officials said Monday, the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the two countries ahead of the year-end withdrawal of most international combat troops.

Paintings looted by Nazi, recovered by Allies to be auctioned in NY

Posted: 27 Jan 2014 10:42 AM PST

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Paintings looted by the Nazis during World War Two and retrieved by the Monuments Men, the Allied group tasked with returning masterpieces to their rightful owners, will be sold at auction on Thursday in New York. The works, which will go under the hammer during Sotheby's sale of Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture, were among the tens of thousands of works recovered by the art experts whose story is told in the George Clooney film "The Monuments Men," which opens in U.S. theaters on February 7. "The scale of looting was absolutely extraordinary," said Lucian Simmons, Sotheby's head of restitution. The Monuments Men managed to recover and return the majority of those," he said in an interview.

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