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Kerry, Lavrov seek deal on Ukraine crisis

Kerry, Lavrov seek deal on Ukraine crisis


Kerry, Lavrov seek deal on Ukraine crisis

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 10:41 AM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry met his Russian counterpart Sunday hoping to ease global tensions over the Kremlin's annexation of Crimea and buildup of troops near Ukraine. The latest bid to resolve the worst East-West standoff in the post-Cold War era comes after Russian leader Vladimir Putin called US President Barack Obama on Friday to discuss a diplomatic resolution. The two men met in the lavish residence of the Russian ambassador to France seeking to hammer out a plan to end the crisis sparked when Moscow sent troops into Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula after the pro-Kremlin regime in Kiev fell in February. Despite a massive troop build-up on Ukraine's borders, Lavrov has insisted Moscow had "absolutely no intention and no interests in crossing the Ukrainian border".

Jet search effort ramped up; no evidence found

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 06:22 AM PDT

A woman, one of the relatives of Chinese passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 takes a nap on a chair in front of a poster with writings for wishes for the passengers onboard the missing plane at a hotel in Beijing Sunday, March 30, 2014. Several dozen Chinese relatives of passengers on Flight 370 demanded Sunday that Malaysia apologize for its handling of the search for the missing plane and for the prime minister's statement saying it crashed into the southern Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)Australia's prime minister said Sunday he was hopeful clues will emerge soon to help find Flight 370 even though searchers again failed to find jet debris, as relatives of Chinese passengers on the plane protested in Malaysia to demand the government apologize over its handling of the search.


Photos found at slide site; missing number drops

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 09:01 AM PDT

DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of family photographs and albums are among the personal belongings being recovered by crews searching for victims at a massive debris site left by the deadly mudslide in Washington state.

No national system to track landslide hazards

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 08:29 AM PDT

In this photo taken in October 2012, released by WSI, a Quantum Spatial Company, sensor operators Lennie Rummel left, and Drew Wendeborn, right, are shown inside a helicopter taking measurements with LIDAR, a high-tech laser system mounted on the aircraft, to build a detailed elevation map of the terrain above Omak, Wash. The maps can be used by planners and homeowners to begin to assess landslide risk. (AP Photo/ WSI, a Quantum Spatial Company)SEATTLE (AP) — People living in the path of a deadly Washington state landslide had virtually no warning before a wall of mud, trees and other debris thundered down the mountain. Some of the homeowners didn't even know the hillside could give way at any time.


Conflict with Russia galvanizes Ukraine's identity

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 04:24 AM PDT

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — He's one of Russia's favorite doctors, the author of books read by parents from Moscow to Siberia. And he lives in eastern Ukraine where the Russian language is dominant and ties to Russia strong.

UN science report: Warming worsens security woes

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 11:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2013 file photo, Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. In an authoritative report due out Monday, March 31, 2014, a United Nations climate panel for the first time is connecting hotter global temperatures to hotter global tempers. Top scientists are saying that climate change will complicate and worsen existing global security problems, such as civil wars, strife between nations and refugees. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — In an authoritative report due out Monday a United Nations climate panel for the first time is connecting hotter global temperatures to hotter global tempers. Top scientists are saying that climate change will complicate and worsen existing global security problems, such as civil wars, strife between nations and refugees.


Armed pro-govt militias roil Venezuela protests

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 09:33 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Saturday, March 15, 2014. Carabobo's State police officers stand next to graffiti that reads in Spanish "Isabelica in war" during a opposition protest at Isabelica neighborhood outside Valencia , Venezuela. The people of the poor district of La Isabelica were made to pay for taking to the streets in anti-government protests. More than a dozen masked men on motorcycles roared through, shooting up a barricade and killing a university student and a 42-year-old man painting his house. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)VALENCIA, Venezuela (AP) — The masked gunmen emerged from a group of several dozen motorcycle-mounted government loyalists who were attempting to dismantle a barricade in La Isabelica, a working-class district of Valencia that has been a center of unrest since nationwide protests broke out last month.


Brazil police push into Rio de Janeiro slums

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 07:51 AM PDT

Navy armored vehicles are seen during an operation to occupy the Mare slum complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, March 30, 2014. The Mare complex of slums, home to about 130,000 people and located near the international airport, is the latest area targeted for the government's "pacification" program, which sees officers move in, push out drug gangs and set up permanent police posts. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — More than 1,400 police officers and Brazilian Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro's international airport before dawn Sunday in the latest security push ahead of this year's World Cup.


Officials: Reality TV star Benzino shot by nephew

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 05:14 AM PDT

File - This Oct. 10, 2004 file photo shows and Ray Benzino at the Source Hip-Hop Music Awards in Miami. Authorities say the reality TV star and rapper was shot and injured by his nephew while in a funeral procession for a family member in Massachusetts. Benzino, whose real name is Raymond Scott, is a cast member of the VH1 reality show BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — Reality TV star Benzino was injured after being shot by his nephew on a Massachusetts highway Saturday while riding in a funeral procession for a family member, according authorities and Benzino's hip-hop magazine.


Christie, Walker court GOP donors in Las Vegas

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 09:16 PM PDT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two of the nation's highest-profile Republican governors on Saturday called for more aggressive leadership on America's challenges abroad, emphasizing their support for Israel as they courted powerful Jewish donors.

Brazil police push into slums in Rio

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 05:59 AM PDT

Navy armored vehicles are seen during an operation to occupy the Mare slum complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, March 30, 2014. The Mare complex of slums, home to about 130,000 people and located near the international airport, is the latest area targeted for the government's "pacification" program, which sees officers move in, push out drug gangs and set up permanent police posts. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — More than 1,400 police officers and Brazilian Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro's international airport before dawn Sunday in the latest security push ahead of this year's World Cup.


Report: 2 Spanish journalists freed in Syria

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 01:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken on May 24, 2012, Spanish reporters Javier Espinosa, right, and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, left, pose for a photo during the ceremony of the Miguel Gil journalisms awards in Barcelona, Spain. The two Spanish journalists were freed after being held captive for six months in Syria by a rogue al-Qaida group, the newspaper for which one of the men worked said Sunday March 30, 2014. Espinosa and Vilanova were held since September by the breakaway group, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, who detained them at a checkpoint in the town of Tal Abyad in the eastern province of Raqqa, where the militants dominate. The two were trying to leave Syria at the time. (AP Photo/Joan Borras, file)BEIRUT (AP) — Two Spanish journalists were freed after being held captive for six months in Syria by a rogue al-Qaida group, the newspaper for which one of the men worked said Sunday.


Australia hopeful as more items pulled from sea

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 03:49 AM PDT

An object floats in the southern Indian Ocean in this picture taken from a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Saturday, March 29, 2014. A warship with an aircraft black box detector was set to depart Australia on Sunday to join the search for the missing Malaysian jetliner, a day after ships plucked objects from the Indian Ocean to determine whether they were related to the missing plane. None were confirmed to be from the plane, leaving searchers with no sign of the jet more than three weeks after it disappeared. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)PERTH, Australia (AP) — Australia's prime minister said Sunday that he was hopeful a clue will emerge soon to narrow the hunt for Flight 370, as relatives of Chinese passengers on the plane protested in Malaysia to demand that the government apologize for its handling of the search for the jet.


Police fire pepper spray at students after game

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 09:22 AM PDT

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Tucson police said Saturday night that they shot pepper spray at several hundred fans who took to the streets and threw beer bottles and firecrackers at officers after the University of Arizona basketball team's overtime loss in the NCAA tournament.

Wisconsin beats Arizona 64-63 in OT in West Region

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 09:44 PM PDT

Wisconsin 's Frank Kaminsky cuts down the net after a regional final NCAA college basketball tournament game against Arizona, Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Anaheim, Calif. Wisconsin won 64-63 in overtime. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Every big shot Wisconsin needed, Frank Kaminsky hit.


State media: N. Korea 'will not rule out' a new nuclear test

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 12:41 AM PDT

Worker-Peasant Red Guards parade through Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang, September 9, 2013North Korea said Sunday it "will not rule out" a new nuclear test as it defended its recent mid-range missile launch which triggered widespread international condemnation. "(We) will not rule out a new form of a nuclear test aimed at strengthening our nuclear deterrence," Pyongyang's foreign ministry said in a statement carried by the North's state-run KCNA news agency. Pyongyang slammed the UN criticism as "unacceptable", defending the launch as a "self-defensive" act in protest against ongoing Seoul-Washington joint military drills being held in South Korea.


New aftershock rattles Los Angeles

Posted: 29 Mar 2014 03:10 PM PDT

An aerial view shows downtown Los Angeles on August 7, 2013A 4.1 magnitude earthquake rattled Los Angeles on Saturday, a day after a similar seismic shock spooked the sprawling Californian metropolis. The quake was initially reported as a 4.5 magnitude event before being revised down to 4.1 by the United States Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage following the temblor, which came less than 24 hours after the biggest earthquake to hit the Los Angeles area in six years. Friday's 5.1 magnitude quake caused power cuts, gas leaks and burst water mains and halted rides at Disneyland.


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