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Pro-Kremlin gunmen gain ground

Pro-Kremlin gunmen gain ground


Pro-Kremlin gunmen gain ground

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 10:10 AM PDT

Pro-Russia protester wearing gas masks storm a regional police building as one prepares a petrol bomb in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka (Gorlovka), near Donetsk, on April 14, 2014Spreading unrest signals deep mistrust of new government in Ukraine's industrial cities.


Michael Phelps to compete for first time since London Games

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 10:26 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2012, file photo, United States' Michael Phelps displays his gold medal for the men's 100-meter butterfly swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Phelps is coming out of retirement, the first step toward possibly swimming at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Bob Bowman, the swimmer's longtime coach, told The Associated Press on Monday, April 14, 2014, that Phelps is entered in three events — the 50- and 100-meter freestyles and the 100 butterfly at his first meet since the 2012 London Games at a meet in Mesa, Ariz., on April 24-26. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)Michael Phelps is coming out of retirement, the first step toward possibly swimming at the 2016 Rio Olympics.


Police: Utah mom admits to killing her 6 babies

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 10:01 AM PDT

crime scene at a house in Pleasant Grove, UtahPROVO, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a Utah woman accused of killing six babies that she gave birth to over 10 years told investigators that she either strangled or suffocated the children and then put them inside boxes in her garage.


Blast in Nigeria kills 71, injures 124

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Dozens are feared dead in an explosion at a commuter bus station outside Nigeria's capital, Abuja, during morning rush hour, on Monday.


Obama remembers victims in Kansas attacks

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 09:39 AM PDT

President Barack ObamaThe president on Monday honored those killed in a weekend attack at two Jewish facilities in Kansas.


The return of Scott Brown

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 02:51 AM PDT

Republican Scott Brown announces his bid for the United States Senate primary election in Portsmouth,Despite his flaws, Scott Brown may again be pegged to boost Republicans' Senate numbers.


Ukraine asks UN to send peacekeepers to restive east

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 09:11 AM PDT

Pro-Russian men storm a police station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Horlivka on Monday, April 14, 2014. Several government buildings have fallen to mobs of Moscow loyalists in recent days as unrest spreads across the east of the country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)Ukraine's acting president urged the United Nations on Monday to send peacekeeping troops to eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian gunmen continued to storm and occupy local government offices, police stations and airports.


Chile wildfire kills 12, injures more than 500

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 08:41 AM PDT

Firefighters take a break from battling blazes after an out of control forest fire reached urban areas in the city of Valparaiso, Chile, early Monday April 14, 2014. Firefighters struggled for a second night to contain blazes that reached this port city, killing at least a dozen people, destroyed hundreds homes and has forced the evacuation of thousands. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)Helicopters and airplanes dumped water on wildfires and smoldering wreckage in the coastal city of Valparaiso, Chile, on Monday as sailors prepared to evacuate 700 more families.


$6M bail set for woman accused of killing six babies

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 09:42 AM PDT

Pleasant Grove Police investigate the scene where seven infant bodies were discovered and packaged in separate containers at a home in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Sunday, April 13, 2014. According to the Pleasant Grove Police Department, seven dead infants were found in the former home of Megan Huntsman, 39. Huntsman was booked into jail on six counts of murder. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Police discovered the bodies of seven babies, to whom Megan Huntsman allegedly gave birth over 10 years, in Huntsman's Utah home on Monday.


Daughter, mother of Jewish community center victims speaks

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 06:53 AM PDT

Police officers gather at the scene of a shooting at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City in Overland Park, KansasJust hours after her father and son were shot and killed in the parking lot of a Jewish community center in Overland Park, Kan., Mindy Corporon spoke at a vigil for the victims Sunday night, surprising mourners.


Bail set for suspect in Florida day care crash

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 08:06 AM PDT

Robert Corchado makes his initial court appearance Friday, April 11, 2014 at the Orange County Jail in Orlando, Fla. Police say on Wednesday, Corchado, 28, crashed his Dodge Durango into a convertible, which in turn smashed into the KinderCare building and fled the scene. A girl was killed and 14 people were injured. He was ordered Friday to stay in jail until a judge can determine whether he is a flight risk. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Red Huber, Pool)ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A judge has set bail at $100,000 for a man accused in a crash that killed a 4-year-old girl and injured 14 people at a central Florida day care center.


Bodies of seven babies found in Utah garage

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 07:12 AM PDT

crime scene at a house in Pleasant Grove, UtahAuthorities discovered seven deceased newborn children in Megan Huntsman's Utah home on Monday.


Prosecutor accuses Pistorius of fake tears during tough questions

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 09:52 AM PDT

South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius cries as he sits in the dock during his ongoing murder trial on March 24, 2014 in PretoriaThe prosecution accused Oscar Pistorius of feigning emotion to dodge tough questions about the death of his girlfriend, as his second week of testimony in the murder trial began Monday. Frustrated with Pistorius's frequent crying in the witness box, prosecutor Gerrie Nel toughened his questioning and accused the Paralympic star of crocodile tears. "Mr Pistorius, you're not using your emotional state to escape, are you?" he said after the athlete broke down under questioning on one of several occasions Monday.


Rand Paul gets serious about 2016 run

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 02:54 AM PDT

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaks at a GOP Freedom Summit, Saturday, April 12, 2014, in Manchester, N.H. Several potential Republican White House contenders _ among them Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Ted Cruz, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee _ headline a conference Saturday in New Hampshire, hosted by the conservative groups Citizens United and Americans for Prosperity. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)The Kentucky senator seeks to carve a niche for himself as he tries to remake the GOP.


Libya trial of Kadhafi son, aides adjourned

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 08:32 AM PDT

Saif al-Islam Kadhafi, son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, appears in front of supporters and journalists at his father's residential complex in Tripoli on August 23, 2011The trial of top figures from Moamer Kadhafi's regime for abuses committed during the 2011 uprising that toppled the dictator was adjourned Monday until April 27, marking the second postponement in the proceedings since March 24.


Blast in Nigerian capital kills 71

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 09:18 AM PDT

People gather at the site of a blast at the Nyanya Motor Park, about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the center of Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, April 14, 2014. An explosion blasted through a busy commuter bus station on the outskirts of Abuja before 7 a.m. (0600 GMT) Monday as hundreds of people were traveling to work. (AP Photo/Gbemiga Olamikan)An explosion that ripped through a busy bus station in Nigeria's capital has killed at least 71 people and wounded 124, according to police.


Supremacist ID'd as suspect in Kansas attacks

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 08:46 AM PDT

This photo provided by 41ActionNews, shows Frazier Glenn Cross. Cross is accused of killing three people outside of Jewish sites near Kansas City, Sunday April 13, 2014. (AP Photo/41ActionNews)The man accused of killing three people in attacks at a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement complex near Kansas City is a well-known white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader.


Libyan judge looks to try Gadhafi son

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 05:52 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2011, file photo, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, speaks to the media at a press conference in a hotel in Tripoli, Libya. A militia-run prison failed to transfer Seif al-Islam to a court hearing in Tripoli on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, underscoring the central government's difficulty in asserting its authority nearly two years after the end of the country's civil war. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)Moammar Gadhafi's son, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, held by a militia in the country's west, can attend the trial of former regime officials through a video link, a Libyan judge has decided.


Libya starts trial of ex-Gaddafi officials, sons absent

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 04:33 AM PDT

Abdullah al-Senussi and Bouzaid Dorda sit behind bars during a hearing at a courtroom in TripoliGaddafi's sons Saadi Gaddafi and Saif al-Islam did not appear in the courtroom at Tripoli's Al-Hadba prison, but the deposed ruler's ex-spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi was among the former senior officials sitting in blue jumpsuits behind a fenced-off section.


Authorities say hate motivated Kansas shooting

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 10:34 AM PDT

This photo provided by 41ActionNews, shows Frazier Glenn Cross. Cross is accused of killing three people outside of Jewish sites near Kansas City, Sunday April 13, 2014. (AP Photo/41ActionNews)OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors have enough evidence to pursue hate-crime charges in the shooting spree that killed three people at a Jewish community center and retirement complex near Kansas City, authorities said Monday, a day after the attack.


Robotic submarine deployed in search for plane

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 07:54 AM PDT

The chief coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Center retired Chief Air Marshal Angus Houston gestures as he speaks at a press conference about the ongoing search operations for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Perth, Australia, Monday, April 14, 2014. Houston said search crews will send a robotic submarine deep into the Indian Ocean on Monday for the first time to try to determine whether underwater signals detected by sound-locating equipment are from the missing Malaysian plane's black boxes. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)PERTH, Australia (AP) — Search crews sent a robotic submarine deep into the Indian Ocean on Monday to begin scouring the seabed for the missing Malaysian airliner after failing for six days to detect any signals believed to be from its black boxes.


False leads in search for missing jet

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 08:07 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 11, 2014 file photo, members of the media scramble with their smart phones and cameras to photograph pictures of the two men, a 19-year-old Iranian identified by Malaysian police as Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad, left, and the man on the right, his identity still not released, who boarded the missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 with a stolen passports, held up by a Malaysian policewoman during a press conference, in Sepang, Malaysia. News early on that two of the 239 passengers on board used stolen passports fueled speculation of terrorism. However, Malaysian police determined that the men were Iranians seeking to illegally migrate to Europe and not terrorists. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)If the signals detected deep in the Indian Ocean are truly from the wreckage from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, they ultimately will close the book on a frustrating long list of false leads in the effort to find the jet. Here are the most prominent moments in which hopes of solving the tragic aviation mystery were dashed:


French school carries out DNA dragnet in rape case

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 10:36 AM PDT

PARIS (AP) — French investigators began taking DNA samples Monday from 527 male students and staff at a high school — including boys as young as 14 — as they searched for the assailant who raped a teenage girl on the closed campus.

Prosecutor's unrelenting questions to Pistorius

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 09:00 AM PDT

South African chief state prosecutor Gerrie Nel gestures as he explains a possible scenario into how Oscar Pistorius might have fired on girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, in court in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, April 14, 2014. A judge temporarily adjourned the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius after the athlete started to sob while testifying about the moments before he killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in his home last year. (AP Photo/Antoine de Ras, Pool)PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — The chief prosecutor in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial continued Monday to question nearly every aspect of the Olympian's story surrounding his fatal shooting of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.


APNewsBreak: Russian jet passes near US warship

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 10:08 AM PDT

The USS Donald Cook is docked in the Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania, Monday, April 14, 2014. A U.S. military official says a Russian fighter jet made multiple, close-range passes near an American warship in the Black Sea for more than 90 minutes Saturday amid escalating tensions in the region. The official says the fighter flew within 1,000 yards of the USS Donald Cook, a Navy destroyer, at about 500 feet above sea level, saying this prompted ship commanders to issue several radio warnings. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian fighter jet made multiple, close-range passes near an American warship in the Black Sea for more than 90 minutes Saturday amid escalating tensions in the region, U.S. military officials said Monday.


Kiev deadline for disarming in east Ukraine passes

Posted: 14 Apr 2014 03:09 AM PDT

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Pro-Russian separatists on Monday seized a police building in yet another city in Russian-leaning eastern Ukraine, defying government warnings that it was preparing to act against the insurgents.

NTSB: No evidence of pre-impact fire in Calif. crash

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 12:44 PM PDT

The demolished remains of a FedEx truckFederal investigators say they haven't found any physical evidence that a FedEx truck was on fire before it slammed into a bus carrying high school students, killing 10 people in Northern California.


Official says sub will be used in search for jet

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 11:21 PM PDT

A Chinese Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft, right, lands at Perth International Airport after returning from the ongoing search operations for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Perth, Australia, Sunday, April 13, 2014. Following four strong underwater signals in the past week, all has gone quiet in the hunt for the missing Malaysian airline, meaning the batteries on the all-important black boxes may have finally died. Despite having no new pings to go on, crews are continuing their search Sunday for debris and any sounds that could still be emanating. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)PERTH, Australia (AP) — Search crews will for the first time send a robotic submarine deep into the Indian Ocean on Monday to try to determine whether underwater signals detected by sound-locating equipment are from the missing Malaysian jet's black boxes, the leader of the search effort said.


Bubba Watson wins another green jacket at Augusta

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 07:50 PM PDT

Bubba Watson, carrying his son Caleb, is congratulated by spectators after winning the Masters golf tournament Sunday, April 13, 2014, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — One of golf's most exciting players squeezed most of the drama out of the Masters on Sunday. That's just fine with Bubba Watson.


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