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Malaysian leader: Plane's disappearance deliberate

Malaysian leader: Plane's disappearance deliberate


Malaysian leader: Plane's disappearance deliberate

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 08:55 AM PDT

Malaysian PM Najib addresses reporters as Transport Minister Hussein stands by him, at Kuala Lumpur International AirportThe missing Malaysian jetliner was deliberately diverted and continued flying for more than six hours after losing contact with the ground.


Thousands march in Moscow to protest Crimea vote

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 09:18 AM PDT

Demonstrators hold Russian and Ukrainian flags during a massive rally to oppose president Vladimir Putin's policies in Ukraine, in Moscow, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Large rival marches have taken place in Moscow over Kremlin-backed plans for Ukraine's province of Crimea to break away and merge with Russia. More than 10,000 people turned out Saturday for a rally in the center of the city held to oppose what many demonstrators described as Russia's invasion of the Crimean Peninsula. In a nearby location, a similar sized crowd voiced its support for Crimea's ethnic Russian majority, who Moscow insists is at threat from an aggressively nationalist leadership now running Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters marched in central Moscow Saturday, a day before a Kremlin-backed referendum in Crimea on whether to break away from Ukraine and join Russia.


Crimea prepares for referendum under heavy military presence

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 04:39 AM PDT

Election commission officials count ballots ahead a referendum at the polling station in the Crimean town of SimferopolThe streets of the Crimean capital of Simferopol were calm on Saturday, despite a heavy military presence incongruous with the normally sleepy town.


Officers' body cameras raise privacy concerns

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 07:56 AM PDT

This Jan. 15, 2014 file photo shows a Los Angeles Police officer wearing an on-body cameras during a demonstration for media in Los Angeles. Thousands of police agencies have equipped officers with cameras to wear with their uniforms, but they've frequently lagged in setting policies on how they're used, potentially putting privacy at risk and increasing their liability. As officers in one of every six departments across the nation now patrols with tiny lenses on their chests, lapels or sunglasses, administrators and civil liberties experts are trying to envision and address troublesome scenarios that could unfold in front of a live camera. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officers at thousands of law enforcement agencies are wearing tiny cameras to record their interactions with the public, but in many cases the devices are being rolled out faster than departments are able to create policies to govern their use.


Questions that arise when placing cameras on cops

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 08:23 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — New tiny cameras are starting to be worn by police officers across the U.S. — roughly 3,000 of 18,000 law enforcement agencies are using or trying out these cameras and the numbers are expected to grow exponentially as technology has become more affordable and reliable.

Ukraine says Russian forces move outside Crimea

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 09:33 AM PDT

A Ukrainian woman, who is a member of the district electoral committee, holds a ballot box during preparations for Sunday's referendum at a polling station in Simferopol, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Tensions are high in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, where a referendum is to be held Sunday on whether to split off from Ukraine and seek annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces backed by helicopter gunships and armored vehicles Saturday took control of a village near the border with Crimea on the eve of a referendum on whether the region should seek annexation by Moscow, Ukrainian officials said.


Syria conflict has 3rd anniversary amid offensive

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 09:37 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Thursday, March 13, 2014, provided by the anti-government activist group Local Comity of Yabroud Town, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian rebel looks through his binocular at one of the frontline of Yabroud town, the last rebel stronghold in Syria's mountainous Qalamoun region. Syria's uprising, which began with largely peace protests in March 2011, has evolved into a civil war with sectarian overtones. Islamic extremists, including foreign fighters and Syrian rebels who have taken up hard-line al-Qaida-style ideologies, have played an increasingly prominent role among fighters, dampening the West's support for the rebellion to overthrow Assad. (AP Photo/Local Comity of Yabroud Town)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops advanced in a major rebel-held town near the Lebanese border amid heavy bombardment from warplanes, artillery and tanks as the country's bloody conflict marked its third anniversary Saturday, state media and activists said.


Generation missing out on school in wartime Syria

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 09:22 AM PDT

In this picture taken on Wednesday, March 12, 2014, Syrian refugee children walk between their tents on their way to a makeshift school at their refugee encampment in the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Majdal Anjar, eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon. More than 2 million of those who should be in school remain in Syria, where classrooms have been bombed, used as shelters or turned into military barracks. Another 300,000 Syrian children don't attend school in Lebanon, along with some 93,000 in Jordan, 78,000 in Turkey, 26,000 in Iraq and 4,000 in Egypt, UNICEF officials in Geneva said. Those numbers likely are higher, as UNICEF can't count the children whose parents didn't register with the United Nations refugee agency. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)MAJDAL ANJAR, Lebanon (AP) — Along with some 20 other Syrian children, 13-year-old Anas braves rain, mud and cold to attend class in a tent pitched along Lebanon's border with Syria, the home of a Syrian refugee family that serves as a classroom for four hours each day.


Obama touts overhaul of rules on who gets overtime

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 03:02 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 13, 2014, before signing a Presidential Memorandum directing Labor Secretary Tom Perez to modernize overtime protections. Obama is bypassing Congress and orders changes in overtime rules so employers would required to pay millions more for extra time they put in on the job. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says it's not right that businesses that treat their employers fairly can be undercut by competitors who don't.


Kenyan police must stop terror hits on tiny budget

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 10:18 AM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 file photo, armed special forces aim their weapons at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya after gunmen threw grenades and opened fire during an attack that left multiple dead and dozens wounded. Kenya's lead counterterrorism agency is working to stop another Westgate Mall-style terrorist attack that many here believe Somali militants will try again, but the anti-terror unit is struggling to do its work because of limited funds, according to a security official from the police headquarters. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's lead counterterrorism agency is working to stop another Westgate Mall-style terrorist attack — that many here believe Somali militants will try again — on a shoe-string budget: The Anti-Terror Police Unit in Nairobi has just $735 to spend this month.


Tensions rise in Ukraine as referendum nears

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 07:17 AM PDT

A Ukrainian woman, who is a member of the district electoral committee, holds a ballot box during preparations for Sunday's referendum at a polling station in Simferopol, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Tensions are high in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, where a referendum is to be held Sunday on whether to split off from Ukraine and seek annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Dozens of billboards throughout the capital of the restive Ukrainian republic of Crimea proclaim "Together With Russia," but a few have been hit by spray-painters who scrawled out "Russia" and replaced it with "Ukraine."


Obama seeks to stay neutral in CIA-Senate spat

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 12:43 AM PDT

In this March 11, 2014, photo, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. talks to reporters as she leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, after saying that the CIA's improper search of a stand-alone computer network established for Congress has been referred to the Justice Department. For President Barack Obama, a public spat between his trusted ally at the CIA and a loyal Democratic senator has put into sharp focus his complicated role in managing the post-Sept. 11 anti-terror programs he inherited from George W. Bush. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama, a public spat between his trusted ally at the CIA and a loyal Democratic senator has put into sharp focus his complicated role in managing the post-Sept. 11 anti-terror programs he inherited from George W. Bush.


Lawsuits over cash seizures settled in Nevada

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 03:01 AM PDT

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities in a Nevada county are reviewing a "forfeiture program" and have settled lawsuits with two men who said a sheriff's deputy violated their civil rights when they were stopped for speeding, searched for drugs and forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars.

RNC chairman: Primary changes will rebuild GOP

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 01:56 AM PDT

Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus speaks before the California Republican Party 2014 Spring Convention Friday, March 14, 2014, in Burlingame, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) — Planned changes to the Republican Party's presidential selection process are part of a rebuilding process that will strengthen the GOP brand and hopefully make its presidential nominee more competitive in 2016, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told California Republicans on Friday, calling the GOP's current primary process "a complete disaster."


10 Things to Know: This Week's Takeaways

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 09:25 PM PDT

Officer Lang Van Ngan of the Vietnam Air Force looks out the window onboard a flying AN-26 Soviet made aircraft during a search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane over the southern sea between Vietnam and Malaysia Friday, March 14, 2014. Vietnam says it has downgraded but not stopped its search for the missing jetliner in the South China Sea and has been asked by Malaysian authorities to consider sending planes and ships to the Strait of Malacca. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen)Looking back at the stories to remember from the past week:


Russian propaganda war in full swing over Ukraine

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 01:55 AM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) — This is Ukraine today, at least as seen by most Russian news media: the government is run by anti-Semitic fascists, people killed in protests were shot by opposition snipers and the West is behind it all.

One week since Flight 370 vanished, rival theories at play

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 01:11 PM PDT

FILE – In this Nov. 14, 2005 file photo, clouds hang over the North Sentinel Island, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands. India used heat sensors on flights over hundreds of uninhabited Andaman Sea islands Friday, March 14, 2014, and will expand its search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet farther west into the Bay of Bengal, officials said. The Indian-controlled archipelago that stretches south of Myanmar contains 572 islands covering an area of 720-by-52 kilometers. Only 37 are inhabited, with the rest covered in dense forests. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh, File)The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has generated dozens of theories on where it is now, from the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea, and how it vanished. Here's a rundown of what we know and what we don't, along with clues and theories about what happened to the Boeing 777 jetliner:


Ukraine reports Russian 'invasion' on eve of Crimea vote

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 11:02 AM PDT

People hold a Soviet flag as they take part in a pro-Russian rally in the Black Sea Ukrainian city of Odessa on March 14, 2014Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of invading a region bordering Crimea and vowed to use "all necessary measures" to ward off an attack that came on the eve of the peninsula's breakaway vote. The dramatic escalation of the most serious East-West crisis since the Cold War set a tense stage for the referendum on Crimea's secession from Ukraine in favour of Kremlin rule -- a vote denounced by both the international community and Kiev. The predominantly Russian-speaking Black Sea region of two million people was overrun by Kremlin-backed troops days after the February 22 fall in Kiev of a Moscow-backed regime and the rise of nationalist leaders who favour closer ties with the West. President Vladimir Putin defended Moscow's decision to flex its military muscle by arguing that ethnic Russians in Ukraine needed "protection" from violent ultranationalists who had been given free reign by the new Kiev administration.


China demands Malaysia give more accurate information on plane

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 02:05 AM PDT

Crew members discuss after search operations for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 were suspended, over the waters of South China SeaChina's foreign ministry said it "paid very close attention" to the news and that it was sending a technical team to Malaysia to help with the probe.


West braces for Crimea vote after talks fail

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:00 PM PDT

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and US Secretary of State John Kerry stand together prior to a meeting at Winfield House in 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/Sean Dempsey, Pool)Sec. of State Kerry says result of vote to secede Ukraine is all but a foregone conclusion.


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