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Ukraine protesters take Kiev; president says coup

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Ukraine protesters take Kiev; president says coup

Ukraine protesters take Kiev; president says coup

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 09:35 AM PST

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Protesters took control of Ukraine's capital Saturday, seizing the president's office as parliament voted to remove him and hold new elections. President Viktor Yanukovych described the events as a coup and insisted he would not step down.

Mexico's Sinaloa drug chief arrested

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 10:47 AM PST

FILE - In this June 10, 1993 file photo, Joaquin Guzman Loera, alias "El Chapo" Guzman, is shown to the media after his arrest at the high security prison of Almoloya de Juarez, on the outskirts of Mexico City. A senior U.S. law enforcement official said Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014 that Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, was captured alive overnight in the beach resort town of Mazatlan, Mexico. Guzman faces multiple federal drug trafficking indictments in the U.S. and is on the Drug Enforcement Administration's most-wanted list. His cartel has been heavily involved in the bloody drug war that has torn through parts of Mexico for the last several years. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)MEXICO CITY (AP) — The head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel who was the world's most powerful drug lord was captured overnight by U.S. and Mexican authorities at a condominium in Mazatlan, Mexico, The Associated Press learned Saturday, ending a bloody decades-long career that terrorized swaths of the country.

Venezuelans take to streets for rival mass rallies

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 10:02 AM PST

A poster of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez hangs in the wire of a barricade during a protest against the government in Caracas, on February 21, 2014Tens of thousands of supporters and opponents of Venezuela's government took to the streets of Caracas Saturday amid fears of more violence in the bitterly divided country. Heeding the call of opposition leader Henrique Capriles, governor of Miranda state and former presidential candidate, anti-government protesters massed near a shopping mall in the Caracas neighborhood of Sucre. Leftist President Nicolas Maduro had announced that "millions of women would come out in all of the country's cities" to march "against fascism." Security was tight in Caracas Saturday.

UN demands humanitarian aid for all of Syria

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 10:08 AM PST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council united for the first time on a resolution on Syria's humanitarian crisis Saturday, demanding that President Bashar Assad's government and the opposition provide immediate access everywhere in the country to deliver aid to millions of people in desperate need.

2 popes on hand in historic 1st cardinal ceremony

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 09:11 AM PST

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is greeted by Pope Francis at the end of a consistory inside the St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. Benedict XVI has joined Pope Francis in a ceremony creating the cardinals who will elect their successor in an unprecedented blending of papacies past, present and future. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)VATICAN CITY (AP) — In an unprecedented blending of papacies past, present and future, retired Pope Benedict XVI joined Pope Francis at a ceremony Saturday to formally install new cardinals who will elect their successor.

NJ's Christie keeps low profile as Dems attack

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 09:21 AM PST

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie takes a cell phone photo with NGA staffer Lily Kersh of Little Rock, Ark., during the National Governor's Association Winter Meeting in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving cautiously to repair his image, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is maintaining a low profile this weekend as the nation's governors gather in Washington.

Early House race tests Obamacare as election issue

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 07:16 AM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2013, file photo, Alex Sink, center, the state's former chief financial officer, talks with supporters and volunteers during the opening of her congressional campaign office in Clearwater, Fla. Obamacare is on the ballot in a big way in a competitive House race in Florida that offers a preview of the nationwide campaign for Congress this fall. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius, File) (AP Photo/Steve Nesius, File)CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — The candidates are Alex Sink, Democrat, and David Jolly, Republican, but Obamacare is on the ballot in a big way in a competitive House race in Florida that offers a preview of the nationwide campaign for Congress this fall.

AP Exclusive: Shutdown hurt 37,000 immigrant cases

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 09:03 AM PST

Gladys Hirayda Shahian, 42, originally from Guatemala, works at her workplace in Los Angeles. Shahian has been trying to obtain a green card through her American husband for more than a decade. After getting turned away at the airport after a trip back to her native Guatemala in the 1990s, Shahian said she crossed the border illegally to reunite with him and filed her residency application. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. government shutdown last year delayed more than 37,000 immigration hearings by months or years for immigrants already waiting in lengthy lines to plead for asylum or green cards.

Nuke test scores fell flat during alleged cheating

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 08:35 AM PST

FILE - This Jan. 9, 2014, file photo shows a mockup of a Minuteman 3 nuclear missile used for training by missile maintenance crews at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. At the time when dozens of nuclear missile officers were believed to be cheating on their exams, test scores were among the lowest of the year, according to Air Force records obtained by The Associated Press. No explanation is obvious, and the Air Force is not saying why test results were not better if, as alleged, at least 40 officers were cheating. (AP Photo/Robert Burns, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Last summer, when dozens of nuclear missile officers allegedly cheated on exams, test scores were among the lowest of the year, according to Air Force records obtained by The Associated Press. That is the opposite of what might be expected if answers were being shared as widely as officials allege.

Mario Matt of Austria wins Olympic slalom

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 10:27 AM PST

Austria's Mario Matt celebrates winning the gold medal in the men's slalom at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — An Austrian was the heavy favorite to capture the men's slalom on Saturday. Just not this Austrian.

Norwegian women, Dutch speedskaters strike gold

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 09:45 AM PST

Norway's gold medal winner Marit Bjoergen, left, congratulates Norway's bronze medal winner Kristin Stoermer Steira and Norway's silver medal winnerTherese Johaug, right, after the women's 30K cross-country race at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The Norwegian women revived their cross country skiing dominance at the Sochi Olympics on Saturday and the Dutch added two more speedskating gold medals to their record haul.

Egypt: Police officers acquitted of 2011 killings

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 08:06 AM PST

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 21, 2011 file photo, Egyptian protesters and riot police face off in Alexandria, Egypt. An Egyptian court acquitted six police officers including the former head of security and of the riot police for Alexandria, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, on charges of killing 83 protesters during the country's 2011 revolution, the latest in a string of trials that rights group say failed to hold the country's security forces accountable for demonstrators' deaths. (AP Photo, File)CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court acquitted six police officers Saturday on charges of killing 83 protesters during the country's 2011 revolution, the latest in a string of trials that rights group say failed to hold the country's security forces accountable for demonstrators' deaths.

Ukrainian governor, mayor flee for Russia

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 09:14 AM PST

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's border guard service says that a leading governor and a mayor from the president's eastern base have fled to Russia.

Bach singles out Ukrainian win as standout moment

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 08:14 AM PST

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach answers a question in his office during an Associated Press interview at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Ukraine's victory in the women's biathlon relay was the standout moment of the Sochi Olympics, a powerful symbol of unity during the country's bloody political crisis, IOC President Thomas Bach said Saturday.

Syrians in remote tented settlement feel abandoned

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 12:35 AM PST

Syria-Isolated Refugees -- In this Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 photo, Syrian refugees attend a class in a tent in Northern Shuneh area of Jordan Valley, north of Amman, Jordan. About 2.3 million Syrians have fled the three-year old Syrian conflict, seeking shelter in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq, according to UNHCR figures. At least half, or 1.1 million, are children. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)NORTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan (AP) — Every day at dawn, teenager Sultan Ahmad al-Saleh gets up and starts work, 12 hours in the fields picking vegetables in this remote corner of northwestern Jordan. It's what he's been doing for the past three years, ever since he was 14 years old and his family fled here to escape Syria's civil war.

Italy's new Renzi government is also young

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 06:36 AM PST

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, fourth from right, poses for a family photo with Premier Matteo Renzi, fourth from left, and the women ministers of his Cabinet, at the end of a swearing in ceremony of the new government at the Quirinale Presidential Palace, in Rome, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. From left, Economic Development Minister Federica Guidi, Education Minister Stefania Giannini, Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin, Renzi, Defense Minister Robeta Pinetti, Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, President Napolitano, Regional Affairs Minister Maria Carmela Lanzetta, Semplification and Public Administration Minister Marianna Madia, and Relations with Parliament Minister Maria Elena Boschi. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)ROME (AP) — Matteo Renzi became Italy's youngest premier on Saturday, promising a new era of stable government after using old-school politicking to engineer the ouster of a fellow Democrat he deemed too timid to get the nation back to work.

24 soldiers to get Medal of Honor after review examining bias

Posted: 21 Feb 2014 04:47 PM PST

These photos released by the U.S. Army show, from left, Spec. 4 Santiago J. Erevia, Sgt. 1st Class Jose Rodela and Staff Sgt. Melvin Morris. Seeking to correct potential acts of bias spanning three wars, President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Honor on March 18, 2014, to 24 Army veterans, including Erevia, Rodela and Morris, who are still alive and fought in the Vietnam War, following a congressionally mandated review to ensure that eligible recipients were not bypassed due to prejudice. Of the 24, eight fought in the Vietnam War, nine in the Korean War and seven in World War II. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)Twenty-four Army soldiers who fought in World War II, Korea and Vietnam will receive the Medal of Honor next month, correcting oversights that prevented many of them from receiving the nation's highest award for valor because of their Hispanic, Jewish and African-American backgrounds, White...

Venezuelan protest leader sends jailhouse plea

Posted: 21 Feb 2014 05:01 PM PST

Supporters of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez hold flowers and shout during a rally to promote peace in CaracasHandwritten note tells followers not to quit peaceful demonstrations despite deadly violence.

Opposition: Ukraine's Yanukovych has left Kiev

Posted: 22 Feb 2014 08:59 AM PST

Anti-government protesters, one holding the Ukrainian national flag, drive a military vehicle through Independence Square in central Kiev on February 22, 2014Embattled President Viktor Yanukovych has left Kiev, opposition leader Vitali Klitschko said amid reports that the president has fled the country altogether.

Florida lawmakers vote to expand ‘stand your ground’ law

Posted: 21 Feb 2014 12:09 PM PST

FILE - In this July 13, 2013, file photo, George Zimmerman, center, talks to his attorneys Don West, left, and Mark O'Mara during jury deliberations in his trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. Almost as soon as Zimmerman was pronounced "not guilty, the cry of protestors went up, that the U.S. government must get "justice for Trayvon," the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, killed by Zimmerman. Attorney General Eric Holder, the first black man to lead the nation's law enforcement, says the Justice Department is investigating. But an investigation does not mean a case will move forward; these investigations can take months, even years, and are hard to prosecute. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green, Pool)Less than a week after Michael Dunn was not convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of an unarmed teenager, a bipartisan group of Florida lawmakers passed a bill out of committee on Thursday that would expand the state's controversial "stand your ground" law.

Australian police X-ray suspected pink diamond thief

Posted: 21 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST

A Rio Tinto 1.32 carat square radiant pink diamond known as the Argyle Siren, is seen in Hong Kong on September 20, 2012Australian police said Friday they had arrested and X-rayed a British man over the theft of a pink diamond worth more than Aus$200,000 (US$180,000), with fears he had swallowed the rare jewel. The 29-year-old, reported by Australian media to be British tourist Matthew Osborne, was arrested as he attempted to board an international flight in Melbourne. "He is expected to appear in the Cairns Magistrates Court tomorrow charged with entering premises and stealing property," police said. The pink diamond, from Rio Tinto's exclusive Argyle mine and valued at more than $200,000, was stolen Saturday from a jewellery store at Cairns, in northern Queensland.

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