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Attacks threaten to undermine Afghan vote

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Attacks threaten to undermine Afghan vote

Attacks threaten to undermine Afghan vote

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 10:35 AM PDT

An Afghan policeman rides on top of his armored vehicle as he rushes to the scene as Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission's headquarters on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, firing on the compound with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns from a house outside its perimeter wall, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Dozens of employees and other people who had been inside the Independent Election Commission compound took cover in the basement, and no casualties were reported. But two warehouses were hit and set on fire, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission's headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, the latest in a series of audacious assaults threatening to scare voters away just a week before Afghans go to the polls.

Health law legacy eludes Obama as changes sink in

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 07:08 AM PDT

This photo taken March 25, 2014 shows Dan Luke, a self-employed owner of "hardworking pictures," posing in his office in St. Paul, Minn. As a hectic sign-up season winds down, President Barack Obama's health care law has managed to change the country. Americans are unlikely to go back to a time when people with medical problems could be denied coverage. But Obama's overhaul needs reworking of its own to go down in history as a legacy achievement like Medicare and Social Security. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)WASHINGTON (AP) — As a roller-coaster sign-up season winds down, President Barack Obama's health care law has indeed managed to change the country.

Thousands of Muslims stuck in C. African Republic

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 03:46 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, Muslims pray outside a building in the besieged town of Boda, Central African Republic. There is only one neighborhood in Boda where Muslims are safe from the bullets and machetes of Christian militia fighters. Those who venture out have been killed, their throats slit or their cars showered in gunfire. The town is home to one of the largest Muslim communities left in Central African Republic, though their plight is mirrored throughout the country. The about 4,000 Muslims who remain here are suffering in isolation and say they just want to leave for good after months of being targeted by the militiamen. (AP Photo/Krista Larson)BODA, Central African Republic (AP) — There is only one neighborhood in Boda where Muslims are safe from the bullets and machetes of Christian militia fighters. Many who ventured out were killed, their throats slit or their cars showered in gunfire.

Police: Man, 86, kills grandson's girlfriend, self

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 09:54 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Police say an 86-year-old man shot his grandson in the head and then killed the grandson's girlfriend before fatally shooting himself in New York City.

Obama offers Europe, Mideast allies assurances

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 10:07 AM PDT

In this March 24, 2014, photo, U.S. President Barack Obama waves in front of Dutch master Rembrandt's The Night Watch painting during a visit to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. From the heart of Europe to the expanse of Saudi Arabia's desert, Obama's weeklong overseas trip amounted to a reassurance tour for stalwart, but sometimes skeptical, American allies. At a time when Obama is grappling with crises and conflict in both Europe and the Middle East, the four-country swing also served as a reminder that even those longtime partners still need some personal attention from the president. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — From the heart of Europe to the expanse of Saudi Arabia's desert, President Barack Obama's weeklong overseas trip amounted to a reassurance tour for stalwart, but sometimes skeptical, American allies.

Klitschko backs billionaire for Ukraine presidency

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 08:19 AM PDT

People reacts during former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, speech at the Batkivshchina (Fatherland) party congress in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Tymoshenko, declared this week that she will "be the candidate of Ukrainian unity." The May 25 election is taking place against the backdrop of the annexation of Crimea, Ukraine's dire economic straits and rumblings of discontent in the country's mainly Russian-speaking eastern provinces. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ex-world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, considered a strong contender to become Ukraine's next leader, upended the country's presidential race Saturday by announcing he will throw his support instead behind a billionaire candy maker.

Turkish court backs Twitter but site still blocked

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 04:22 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 17, 2014 file photo, a huge poster of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan seen in the city center in Istanbu, Turkey. Erdogan has been ensnared in a corruption scandal that has toppled four Cabinet ministers. He has provoked outrage at home and abroad with an attempt to block Twitter and YouTube. His incessant us-against-them rhetoric and conspiracy theories have alienated allies. Meanwhile, the Turkish Lira has fallen, interest rates are up and the Turkish economy has fallen off a cliff. It all might be enough to oust any leader. But as Turks prepare to vote in local elections Sunday, it's all about Erdogan.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In a second ruling against Turkey's ban on Twitter, a Turkish court has overturned an order for the social media network to remove an account that accuses a former minister of corruption, reports said Saturday.

Afghan official: Militants in standoff killed

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 07:02 AM PDT

An Afghan policeman rides on top of his armored vehicle as he rushes to the scene as Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission's headquarters on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, firing on the compound with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns from a house outside its perimeter wall, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Dozens of employees and other people who had been inside the Independent Election Commission compound took cover in the basement, and no casualties were reported. But two warehouses were hit and set on fire, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan interior ministry official says five militants who attacked the election commission headquarters in Kabul with rocket propelled grenades and machine guns have been killed, ending a four-hour standoff.

In Europe, Mideast, Obama offers allies assurances

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 06:46 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with the Governor of Riyadh Prince Khalid Bandar bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, center, during his departure on Air Force One at King Khalid International airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, March 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — From the heart of Europe to the expanse of Saudi Arabia's desert, President Barack Obama's weeklong overseas trip amounted to a reassurance tour for stalwart, but sometimes skeptical, American allies.

Hard task of finding slide victims stretches on

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 12:07 AM PDT

A search and rescue worker carrying a probe wades through water covering Washington Highway 530 Thursday, March 27, 2014, on the eastern edge of the massive mudslide that struck Saturday near Darrington, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool)ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Finding and identifying victims from one of the most lethal landslides in the nation's history could stretch on for a very long time, officials warned in describing the arduous work of extracting and trying to identify the human remains.

Ebola spread to Guinea capital raises fears

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 09:07 AM PDT

In this photo provide by MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), taken on Friday, March 28, 2014, healthcare workers from the organisation, react, as they prepare isolation and treatment areas for their Ebola, hemorrhagic fever operations, in Gueckedou, Guinea. Health officials in the West African nation of Guinea say they're now treating eight cases of Ebola in the capital. Dr. Sakoba Keita, a spokesman for the health ministry, announced on national television the virus had reached the city of 3 million. Keita said Friday, March 28, 2014, at least 70 people have died in the country's south since the Ebola outbreak began last week. (AP Photo/Kjell Gunnar Beraas, MSF)CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Ebola, one of the world's most deadly viruses, has spread from a remote forested corner of southern Guinea to the country's seaside capital, raising fears that the disease, which causes severe bleeding and almost always death, could spread far beyond this tiny West African nation's borders.

National soil collection may unlock mysteries

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 09:34 AM PDT

In this photo taken April 16, 2008, and provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, geologist Jim Kilburn, now retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, collects soil from Kansas. The federal government sent students and scientists to more than 4,800 places across the nation to collect soil that was analyzed for its composition. The results are now highly sought after by researchers in a wide variety of fields. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey)FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The government has been collecting dirt — lots of it.

Magnitude-5.1 earthquake shakes Los Angeles

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 10:33 AM PDT

Raw: Caltech Seismologists Discuss 5.1 EarthquakeLOS ANGELES (AP) — A magnitude-5.1 earthquake shook the Los Angeles area and surrounding counties Friday evening, authorities said

Russia vows no Ukraine invasion as diplomacy intensifies

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 10:40 AM PDT

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds a press conference in The Hague on March 24, 2014 on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS)Moscow pledged it would not invade mainland Ukraine and said it favored the ex-Soviet state becoming a federation as a way of defusing the crisis.

Trip at an end, Obama has issues waiting at home

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 08:11 AM PDT

U.S. President Obama presents executive director of Saudi Arabia's National Family Safety Program Al Muneef with U.S. Secretary of State's International Woman of Courage Award in RiyadhPresident Barack Obama is returning to looming domestic and foreign challenges.

Assad preparing to run for president despite war

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 05:43 AM PDT

This photo taken on March 20, 2014, posted on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, shows first lady Asma Assad, left background, and Syrian President Bashar Assad, right background, shaking hands with Syrian teachers in Damascus, Syria. As Syrian army made gains on the battlefield, Assad's Britain-born wife has come out of seclusion, joining her husband's campaign to infuse confidence and optimism into the war-wrecked nation. Since January, Asma Assad has made several carefully scripted public appearances in the past months. (AP Photo/Syrian Presidency via Facebook)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad is quietly preparing the ground to hold elections by early this summer to win another 7-year term, even as the Syrian conflict rampages into its fourth year with large parts of the country either in ruins or under opposition control and nearly a third of the population scattered by civil war.

Putin calls Obama to talk Ukraine

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:28 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 28, 2014. Russia's president says Ukraine could regain some arms and equipment of military units in Crimea that did not switch their loyalty to Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)White House says president pressed Russia for written response to U.S. diplomatic plan.

Brother describes pulling mudslide victim's body from car

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:59 PM PDT

By Jonathan Kaminsky DARRINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - Days after risking his own life and defying arrest by joining the search for Washington state mudslide victims in a vast, mucky debris field near Oso, Dayn Brunner retrieved the body of the No. 1 person he had been looking for - his sister. Brunner, 42, recounted the tragic coincidence in an interview with Reuters on Friday, two days after it unfolded on the enormous mound of mud and rubble left by last Saturday's disaster, which has claimed at least 26 lives and left 90 people still missing. Brunner said he was on the mud pile on Wednesday afternoon when other rescue workers found a blue object and called him over to the spot. It was the same color as the car his sister, Summer Raffo, 36, was known to have been driving through the area when the slide struck.

Boston bombing suspect's lawyers say FBI scouted brother

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 04:28 PM PDT

FILE - This combination of file photos shows brothers Tamerlan, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with police several days later, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured and is held in a federal prison on charges of using a weapon of mass destruction. On Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the government to seek the death penalty in the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Opposition to the death penalty runs deep in liberal Massachusetts. In a Boston Globe survey in September 2013, 57 percent of Massachusetts residents polled favored life in prison for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, while 33 percent favored execution. (AP Photos/Lowell Sun and FBI, File)BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say the FBI asked his older brother and fellow suspect to be an informant on the Chechen and Muslim community.

Third batch of Clinton records go public

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 03:04 PM PDT

FILE - Former president Bill Clinton speaks at a student conference for the Clinton Global Initiative University at Arizona State University, in this March 21, 2014 file photo taken in Tempe, Ariz. The National Archives is scheduled to release thousands of pages of documents from Bill Clinton's administration Friday March 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bill Clinton's top aides began debating how to build a presidential legacy days after he won re-election in 1996, newly released documents show.

T-O-R-T-U-R-E

Posted: 28 Mar 2014 05:08 PM PDT

Jeremiah DentonJeremiah Denton, Vietnam POW, blinked out that message in enemy propaganda film. The former senator died today.

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