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Malaysia doubles scale of plane search, pilots probed

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Malaysia doubles scale of plane search, pilots probed

Malaysia doubles scale of plane search, pilots probed

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 09:18 AM PDT

Malaysia said Sunday the number of countries searching for a missing airliner had nearly doubled to 25 as a full-scale criminal probe into its disappearance got under way, with particular scrutiny of the pilots. Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the number of participating countries had jumped from 14 to 25 as the search for the aircraft focused on two vast, and vastly contrasting, land and ocean transport corridors. Malaysian police said they had searched the homes of both pilots and examined the captain's home flight simulator after it became increasingly clear that the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that vanished March 8 had been deliberately diverted by someone on board. Experts said it would have taken specialist knowledge to disable the communications system, intensifying scrutiny of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and his First Officer, Fariq Abdul Hamid.

Crimea votes on joining Russia amid soaring tensions

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 10:32 AM PDT

Simferopol (Ukraine) (AFP) - Crimeans voted Sunday in a referendum to join former political master Russia as tensions escalated in eastern Ukraine in the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War. Ukraine's new leaders and the West have branded as "illegal" the vote in the strategic Black Sea peninsula that has been under the de facto control of Russian forces for weeks. US Secretary of State John Kerry demanded that Moscow pull back its forces to their bases in Crimea in return for constitutional reforms in Ukraine to protect minority rights.

McCain: 'Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country'

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 09:08 AM PDT

U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, speaks during a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2014. McCain and a team of seven other senators concluded their visit in Kiev on Saturday with a news conference in which they reaffirmed their support to the interim Ukrainian government. (AP Photo/David Azia)The Arizona senator returned from a trip to Ukraine with harsh words for Vladamir Putin.

Firefighters reach basement of NYC blast site

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 11:14 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — With most of the rubble of two New York City apartment buildings cleared away, investigators hope to uncover the cause of an explosion that flattened them, killed eight people.

High turnout for secession vote in Crimea

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 10:51 AM PDT

A Ukrainian policeman looks at ballot boxes after casting his vote in Perevalne, Ukraine, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Residents of Ukraine's Crimea region are voting in a contentious referendum on whether to split off and seek annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — As Russian flags fluttered in the breeze and retirees grew weepy at the thought of reuniting with Russia, residents of Ukraine's Crimea region held a secession vote Sunday. The United States and Europe condemned the referendum as illegal, while Ukraine's new government called it a "circus" directed at gunpoint by Moscow.

Egypt crackdown brings most arrests in decades

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 10:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013 file photo, supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi are detained during clashes with riot police in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's crackdown on Islamists has jailed 16,000 people over the past eight months in the country's biggest round-up in nearly two decades, according to previously unreleased figures from security officials. Rights activists say reports of abuses in prisons are mounting, with prisoners describing systematic beatings and miserable conditions for dozens packed into tiny cells. (AP Photo/Nameer Galal, File)CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's crackdown on Islamists has jailed 16,000 people over the past eight months in the country's biggest round-up in nearly two decades, according to previously unreleased figures from security officials. Rights activists say reports of abuses in prisons are mounting, with prisoners describing systematic beatings and miserable conditions for dozens packed into tiny cells.

Oscar Pistorius trial enters popular culture

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 08:04 AM PDT

Oscar Pistorius, center, walks out of the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, March 14, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Children chatter about the Oscar Pistorius murder trial at South African schools, startling parents with details about how the athlete fatally shot his girlfriend. Big audiences in South Africa are watching a 24-hour television channel dedicated to coverage of the sensational trial. Turns of phrase from the courtroom — the defense lawyer's "I put it to you" challenge to prosecution witnesses — are creeping into popular culture.

Oprah Winfrey to sell Harpo Studios in Chicago

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 09:08 AM PDT

File-This May 11, 2011, file photo shows talk-show host Oprah Winfrey reacting after a street outside her Harpo Studios in Chicago was proclaimed "Oprah Winfrey Way" during a ceremony with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, left, and Bobby Ware, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Transportation. Winfrey is selling Harpo Studios in Chicago to a developer, but the studio will remain on the property for another two years. Harpo Inc. said in a statement that it has entered into a purchasing agreement with Sterling Bay Cos. for the four-building campus on Chicago's West Side. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)CHICAGO (AP) — Oprah Winfrey is selling Harpo Studios in Chicago to a developer, but the studio will remain on the property for another two years.

Hall of Famer Schmidt recovering from skin cancer

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Baseball Hall of Famer and former Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt speaks at a news conference at the Phillies spring training complex Sunday, March 16, 2014, in Clearwater, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Mike Schmidt sat down at a picnic table beyond the left-field wall on a sunny morning at Bright House Field, then scooted over to seek the shade of some palm trees and a light tower.

Odd Future rapper played sold-out show after jail

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 08:19 AM PDT

This photo provided by Austin Police Department shows Tyler Gregory Okonma. Rapper Tyler, The Creator, was arrested Saturday, March 15, 2014 for allegedly inciting a riot during a show at the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. Travis County Sheriff's spokesman Roger Wade said the Odd Future rapper, whose name is Tyler Gregory Okonma, was arrested at Austin-Bergstrom Airport and was likely to be arraigned later Saturday. If convicted of inciting a riot, which is a misdemeanor, he faces up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine. His bond was set at $3,500. (AP Photo/Austin Police Department)AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Rapper Tyler, the Creator, played a sold-out show in Dallas just hours after being released from jail in connection with a misdemeanor charge of inciting a riot.

US delivers Hellfire missiles, ammunition to Iraq

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 09:02 AM PDT

People and security forces inspect the site of a car bomb explosion at a commercial street in al-Ameen district in southeastern Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 16, 2014. A series of car bomb attacks targeting commercial areas and a restaurant killed and wound scores of people, Saturday in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, authorities said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)BAGHDAD (AP) — The United States delivered 100 Hellfire missiles, along with assault rifles and ammunition to Iraq as part of its anti-terrorism assistance to the country, the U.S. embassy to Iraq said on Sunday.

Fight to save Southeast hemlocks takes new tack

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 07:42 AM PDT

This Wednesday Nov. 6, 2013 photo provided by Virginia Tech shows a Laricobius osakensis beetle on a branch in Blacksburg, Va. The beetle was first released in the United States in November 2012, after six years of study under quarantine. The beetle will feed upon the woolly adelgid, an insect that has been decimating hemlock trees in the eastern U.S. for decades. The beetle's introduction could help save the native eastern hemlocks. (AP Photo/Virginia Tech, Logan Wallace)RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A beetle the size of a single grain of rice is the latest best hope for hemlocks in the Southeast that have been felled by the millions by an invasive bug.

Crimea votes on whether to secede from Ukraine

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 08:28 AM PDT

A Ukrainian policeman looks at ballot boxes after casting his vote in Perevalne, Ukraine, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Residents of Ukraine's Crimea region are voting in a contentious referendum on whether to split off and seek annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — In a referendum watched closely around the world, residents of Ukraine's strategic Crimean Peninsula voted Sunday on whether to demand greater autonomy or seek to join Russia. The vote has been condemned as illegal by the United States and European countries.

Malaysia asks countries for data to help find jet

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 08:17 AM PDT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian authorities on Sunday examined a flight simulator that was confiscated from the home of one of the missing jetliner's pilots and asked governments to divulge sensitive radar data, warning that without it locating the plane in what is now a massive search area might be impossible.

EU mulling next steps against Russia over Ukraine

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 09:52 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, right, and Foreign Secretary William Hague, left, meet with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Downing Street, central London, Friday March 14, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to London on Friday to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a last-minute bid to stave off a new chapter in the East-West crisis over Ukraine. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is taking steps to increase sanctions against Russia over what many believe is a planned annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region, as Moscow has changed from a wary partner to a diplomatic adversary in the space of a few months.

Church services remember those lost in NYC blast

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 10:14 AM PDT

Rick Del Rio, pastor of Abounding Grace church in Manhattan, and New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, display a damaged but intact Bible they said was recovered in the rubble of the Spanish Christian Church, Saturday, March 15, 2014 in New York. The church was in one of the buildings destroyed in the March 12 gas explosion that leveled two building and killed eight people. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says two women killed in an explosion that tore apart two apartment buildings earlier this week should be "examples to all of us."

Putin's Olympics end under a Crimean cloud

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 05:33 AM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his meeting with Russian athletes, winners of the cross country 4x2.5km open relay, at the 2014 Winter Paralympic, Saturday, March 15, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Triumphant in the midst of global condemnation, Vladimir Putin clinked his champagne flute with sports leaders, toasting the success of his pet project in Sochi.

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