| Chicago doctor ID'd as Kabul shooting victim Posted: 24 Apr 2014 10:54 AM PDT  Jerry Umanos was one of three U.S. physicians killed at Afghanistan's Cure International Hospital.
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| Families of ferry's lost confront S. Korea officials Posted: 24 Apr 2014 10:45 AM PDT  Angry relatives of some of the more than 120 people still missing from the S. Korea ferry sinking surrounded the fisheries minister and the coast guard chief Thursday, preventing them from leaving the area where families have been waiting for word of their loved ones for more than a week.
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| Obama breaks promise to commemorate Armenian 'genocide' Posted: 24 Apr 2014 08:51 AM PDT  The president in 2008 assured that the word "genocide" would be applied to mass killings of Armenians. Why did he break it (again) this year?
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| U.S. journalist released in east Ukraine Posted: 24 Apr 2014 10:14 AM PDT  Simon Ostrovsky, an American reporter for VICE News, has been released and is in good condition after being held by pro-Russia insurgents in eastern Ukraine for several days.
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| Shaky ground in tornado alley Posted: 24 Apr 2014 08:12 AM PDT  A series of small earthquakes has Sooner state wondering if the "Big One" is about to hit.
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| Israel stops peace talks after Palestine-Hamas deal Posted: 24 Apr 2014 09:35 AM PDT  Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - The Palestinians are considering "all options" in response to Israel's decision to halt peace talks and punish the Palestinian Authority over its unity deal with Hamas, an official said Thursday. "The Palestinian leadership will look into all options to respond to Israeli government decisions against the PA," senior Palestinian official Saeb Erakat told AFP. "The priority now for the Palestinians is reconciliation and national unity," he added. On Wednesday, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) -- internationally recognised as the sole representative of the Palestinian people -- and Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip Hamas signed a reconciliation agreement.
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| Afghan hospital guard kills 3 American doctors Posted: 24 Apr 2014 09:45 AM PDT  A U.S. nurse was also wounded in the attack at a Kabul hospital, officials said.
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| Matt Bai: Is Warren really Hillary's nightmare? Hardly Posted: 24 Apr 2014 02:05 AM PDT  Let's talk about Elizabeth Warren and her political ambitions. Because, you know, somebody has to.
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| Obama holds hope for Pacific trade deal Posted: 24 Apr 2014 07:29 AM PDT  The president urges U.S. and Japan to be bold in completing agreement.
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| Clashes in east Ukraine leave at least 2 dead Posted: 24 Apr 2014 04:28 AM PDT  Ukrainian government troops moved against pro-Russia forces in the east of the country on Thursday and killed at least two of them in clashes at checkpoints manned by the insurgents, the government and insurgents said. Russian President Vladimir Putin decried what he described as a "punitive operation."
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| Obama: New sanctions against Russia are 'teed up' Posted: 23 Apr 2014 10:50 PM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — Warning Russia that new economic sanctions are "teed up," President Barack Obama accused Moscow of failing to live up to an agreement last week to ease tensions in eastern Ukraine.
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| Classes begin at S. Korean school after ferry disaster Posted: 23 Apr 2014 11:26 PM PDT  ANSAN, South Korea (AP) — Students in the city hit hardest by the South Korean ferry disaster returned to classes Thursday, their school campus a tragic landscape of yellow ribbons, chrysanthemums and photos of classmates and teachers who make up the vast majority of the more than 300 people feared dead.
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| FDA proposes first regulations for e-cigarettes Posted: 24 Apr 2014 07:58 AM PDT  The government wants to ban sales to minors and require health warning labels.
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| Oklahoma court rejects death-row inmates' claims Posted: 24 Apr 2014 04:21 AM PDT  Court says inmates are not entitled to know source of drugs that will be used to kill them.
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| FCC reversal on 'net neutrality' would permit Internet fast lane Posted: |
| Women held in Cleveland basement seek Joan Rivers' apology Posted: 23 Apr 2014 07:14 PM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — Attorneys for two women held in a Cleveland home and abused for a decade say Joan Rivers should apologize for comparing living in her daughter's guest room with the captivity they experienced.
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| Formula One racing boss set to go on trial for bribery Posted: 23 Apr 2014 04:03 PM PDT  By Keith Weir MUNICH (Reuters) - Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone goes on trial for bribery in Germany on Thursday in a case that could see the Briton's long dominance of the motor sport ended by a jail sentence. Prosecutors in Munich have charged Ecclestone, 83, with bribing jailed German banker Gerhard Gribkowsky to smooth the sale eight years ago of a stake in Formula One to private equity firm CVC. Ecclestone, a former used car salesman who became a billionaire by building the sport into a global money spinner over the past four decades, denies wrongdoing and says he will fight to clear his name. CVC remains the largest shareholder in Formula One, a business that generates annual revenues of over $1.5 billion from its series of grand prix races held around the world.
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| CEO of 'Russian Facebook' flees country Posted: 23 Apr 2014 01:28 PM PDT  Social media wunderkind quits post after Putin cronies stage ownership takeover.
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| Man killed in Utah court had promised judge he'd behave Posted: 23 Apr 2014 03:40 PM PDT  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Tongan Crip gang defendant who was fatally shot by a U.S. marshal while attacking a witness during a federal court trial had promised a judge earlier that he would behave, a court transcript shows.
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| 3-D imaging captures 1888 wreckage discovered in San Francisco Bay Posted: 24 Apr 2014 02:32 AM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first images of the newly discovered wreckage of a steamship that sank in San Francisco Bay in 1888, killing 16 people, were released Wednesday by federal ocean scientists.
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| Bungling N.C. kidnap plot spotlights justice workers' exposure Posted: 23 Apr 2014 01:31 PM PDT  Part bumbling, part dead serious, the sprawling jailhouse plot to kidnap a North Carolina prosecutor who put a seasoned gang member in prison for life has shaken a US justice system already enduring a slew of deadly attacks. A federal indictment released Tuesday details a complex plot said to be orchestrated by Kelvin "Dizzy" Melton, a North Carolina prison inmate and alleged higher-up in the Bloods street gang, to pay $10,000 to a group of henchmen on the outside to kidnap and kill his defense attorney and the prosecutor who put him in prison for a 2011 murder. The plot led the group of nine accomplices first on a goose chase in March from Atlanta to New Orleans, and then to the small town of Wake Forest, N.C., where the group on April 5 grabbed Frank Janssen, the father of Wake County prosecutor Colleen Janssen, after stun-gunning him on the threshold of his home. Ms. Janssen, the actual target, was part of the team that put Mr. Melton away last year.
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| Prince's bird hunt stirs outrage in Pakistan after Saudi loan Posted: 23 Apr 2014 09:23 AM PDT  Pakistan has long enjoyed close ties to Gulf Arab sheiks, but a prince's recent shooting spree that culled more than 2,000 rare birds from the country's preserves have stirred outrage in the country, following a $1.5 billion Saudi "gift" to the country's ailing economy.
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| Court tosses $3.4M award to child porn victim Posted: 23 Apr 2014 11:57 AM PDT  Supreme Court says man found with pictures not responsible for entirety of woman's losses.
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| Ukraine militants: We're holding U.S. journalist over 'destabilizing' reports Posted: 23 Apr 2014 12:21 PM PDT  Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday confirmed they are detaining a U.S. journalist working with Vice News. The self-declared separatist mayor of Slaviansk told reporters the journalist, Simon Ostrovsky, had been detained for reporting what he said was false information that was "destabilizing for us" but that he was being treated well. Mayor Vyacheslav Ponomaryov attempted to joke about the situation. Vice News has said on its website that it is in contact with the U.S. State Department and other government authorities to work toward securing the safety of its journalist.
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| Oldest living ex-MLB player dies in Cuba at 102 Posted: 23 Apr 2014 02:32 PM PDT  HAVANA (AP) — Conrado Marrero, the diminutive Cuban right-hander who pitched for the Washington Senators in the 1950s and in 2011 became the oldest living former Major League Baseball player, died in Havana on Wednesday. He was 102, just two days short of his 103rd birthday.
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