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Plane crash bodies put on train for rebel city

Plane crash bodies put on train for rebel city


Plane crash bodies put on train for rebel city

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 05:12 AM PDT

HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and had them loaded Sunday onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said.

Actor James Garner of 'The Rockford Files' dead at 86

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 07:12 AM PDT

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor James Garner, best known for his prime-time television roles as the wisecracking frontier gambler on ""Maverick" and as an ex-con turned private eye on ""The Rockford Files," has died at age 86, Los Angeles police confirmed early on Sunday. Garner, who built a six-decade career playing ruggedly charming, good-natured anti-heroes and received the highest honor of the Screen Actors Guild in 2004, was found dead from natural causes on Saturday night at his Los Angeles home, according to police. He was Bret Maverick, a cardsharp and ladies man who got by on his wits instead of a six-gun and would just as soon duck a fight as face a showdown.

Rebels take full control of plane crash bodies

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 10:30 AM PDT

A woman looks at a refrigerated train loaded with the bodies of victims, in Torez, eastern Ukraine, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and had them loaded Sunday onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)TOREZ, Ukraine (AP) — Rebels in eastern Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and the U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin make sure rebels give international investigators full access to the crash site.


US turns up heat on Russia over downed plane

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 08:44 AM PDT

Emergency workers carry the body of a victim at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 19, 2014. World leaders demanded Friday that pro-Russia rebels who control the eastern Ukraine crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 give immediate, unfettered access to independent investigators to determine who shot down the plane. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Sunday turned up the heat on Russia for its support of Ukrainian separatists accused by the United States and others of shooting down a Malaysian passenger plane.


Thousands flee major battle with Israel in Gaza

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 09:42 AM PDT

A Palestinian wheels an elderly woman as they flee their homes in the Gaza's Shijaiyah neighborhood, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 20, 2014. A Gaza City neighborhood came under heavy tank fire Sunday as Israel widened its ground offensive against Hamas, causing hundreds of panicked residents to flee, including a woman in a wheelchair waving a white flag. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Escalating their ground offensive, Israeli troops backed by tanks and warplanes battled Hamas militants in a crowded neighborhood of Gaza City early Sunday. The fighting, including heavy Israeli tank fire, killed scores of Palestinians, forced thousands to flee and damaged or destroyed dozens of homes.


Amid bloodshed, frenetic Gaza hospital improvises

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 07:27 AM PDT

Palestinian medics carry a wounded woman to an emergency room at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Sunday, July 20, 2014. In the heart of Gaza City, as its citizen again find themselves under fire from Israeli airstrikes and artillery, the wounded and their wailing families stream into Shifa Hospital without end. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — In the heart of Gaza City, as its citizens again find themselves under fire from Israeli airstrikes and artillery, the wounded and their wailing families stream into Shifa Hospital without end.


Iraq vet cited for owning 14 therapeutic pet ducks

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 10:26 AM PDT

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ohio (AP) — An Army veteran who was wounded during the Iraq War is worried a citation will result in him losing his 14 pet ducks, which he says are therapeutic.

Rory McIlroy wins British Open for 3rd major

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 10:34 AM PDT

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland plays from the 1st fairway during the final round of the British Open Golf championship at the Royal Liverpool golf club, Hoylake, England, Sunday July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Rory McIlroy completed a wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the British Open to capture the third leg of the career Grand Slam.


Gusty winds fuel destructive Washington wildfire

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 02:05 AM PDT

An American Flag waves in the breeze as a wildfire approaches on Friday, July 18, 2014, in Malott, Wash. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Tyler Tjomsland)WINTHROP, Wash. (AP) — A massive wildfire that has forced the evacuation of towns, destroyed numerous homes and blackened scenic hillsides in north-central Washington has been burning into new areas, fueled by dry conditions and gusty winds.


Prayers across Netherlands for Ukraine crash dead

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 06:33 AM PDT

People sign a condolence register at St. Vitus church in Hilversum, Netherlands, Sunday, July 20, 2014. An attack on a Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine on Thursday killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations, more than half being Dutch. Worshippers at church services across the Netherlands prayed Sunday for the victims of the Ukraine air disaster and their next of kin, as anger built over the separatist rebels' hindering of the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Worshippers at church services across the Netherlands on Sunday prayed for the victims of the Ukraine air disaster and their next of kin, as anger built over the separatist rebels' hindering of the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.


Rory McIlroy closes in on British Open title

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 10:12 AM PDT

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland plays from the 1st fairway during the final round of the British Open Golf championship at the Royal Liverpool golf club, Hoylake, England, Sunday July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Rory McIlroy closed in on his third major championship at the British Open, holding a three-shot lead over Sergio Garcia and Rickie Fowler with two holes to play Sunday.


Rory McIlroy stumbles, still leads British Open

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 09:14 AM PDT

Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland plays from the 1st fairway during the final round of the British Open Golf championship at the Royal Liverpool golf club, Hoylake, England, Sunday July 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)HOYLAKE, England (AP) — For the first time all week, Rory McIlroy looked a bit vulnerable at Royal Liverpool.


Rebels to give MH17 black boxes to aviation group

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 05:59 AM PDT

TOREZ, Ukraine (AP) — Rebels have recovered the black boxes from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and will hand them over to the International Civil Aviation Organization, a rebel leader said Sunday.

Pressure on Russia intensifies over downed plane

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 08:40 AM PDT

Pro-Russian separatist stands on guard at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk regionBy Anton Zverev and Peter Graff HRABOVE Ukraine (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday that the evidence indicates that a Russian missile was used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, while Britain said Moscow faced "pariah" status and the threat of further economic sanctions. As Ukraine accused separatist rebels of hiding evidence relating to Thursday's downing of the airliner over eastern Ukraine with the loss of 298 lives, a pro-Russian separatist leader said items thought to be the stricken Boeing's "black boxes" were now in rebel hands. Moscow denies involvement in shooting down the airliner and has blamed the Ukrainian military.


Officer in fatal NY arrest stripped of gun, badge

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 10:26 PM PDT

Esaw Garner, center, wife of Eric Garner, breaks down in the arms of Rev. Herbert Daughtry and Rev. Al Sharpton, right, during a rally at the National Action Network headquarters for Eric Garner, Saturday, July 19, 2014, in New York. Garner, 43, died Thursday, during an arrest in Staten Island, when a plain-clothes police officer placed him in what appeared be a chokehold while several others brought him to the ground and struggled to place him in handcuffs. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police officer involved in the arrest of a man who died in custody after being placed in an apparent chokehold has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty, police said Saturday.


Officials: At least 20 dead in Israeli attack on Gaza

Posted: 20 Jul 2014 09:26 AM PDT

A Palestinian man who fled his home from Shajaiyeh neighborhood, holds a child as he arrives to Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Hundreds of panicked residents have fled the neighborhood which they say has come under heavy tank fire from Israeli forces. Some reported seeing dead and wounded in the streets, with ambulances unable to reach the area. Israel widened its ground offensive early Sunday, sending more troops into the Hamas-ruled territory to destroy tunnels used by the Islamic militants to try to sneak into Israel. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)Thousands fled toward a hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said.


Israeli military seek and destroy Gaza tunnels

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:22 PM PDT

A Palestinian medic is overwhelmed by emotion as he takes a break treating wounded people by Israeli strikes, at the emergency room of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, Saturday, July 19, 2014. According to the hospital, there were more than 35 wounded Palestinians from different Israeli strikes that arrived at the hospital Saturday -- five with serious wounds, and three were dead on arrival. A health official said Saturday's strikes raised the death toll from the 12-day offensive to more than 330 Palestinians, many of them civilians and nearly a fourth of them under the age of 18. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli bulldozers on Saturday demolished more than a dozen tunnels the military said were being used by Hamas gunmen to sneak beneath the southern border of the Jewish state and carry out attacks on its soldiers and civilians.


Airlines symbolize nations' hopes or reflect shame

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 05:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 8, 2014, file photo a school utility worker mops a mural depicting the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at the Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino High School campus at Makati city east of Manila, Philippines. After the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Thursday, July 17, 2014, Malaysia is now grappling with the horrific loss of two of its airplanes, just four months apart. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)NEW YORK (AP) — The jetliner is much more than a machine used to get from one spot to another. It often carries deep symbolism, especially when flying for a national airline.


Fla. jury slams RJ Reynolds with $23.6B in damages

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 05:18 PM PDT

In this Feb. 1, 2011 photo, Camel cigarettes, a Reynolds American product, are on display at a liquor store in Palo Alto, Calif. Cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. is planning to buy rival Lorillard Inc. for about $25 billion in a deal to combine two of the nation's oldest and biggest tobacco companies, the companies announced Tuesday, July 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)MIAMI (AP) — A Florida jury has slammed the nation's No. 2 cigarette maker, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., with $23.6 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer in 1996.


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