2014年3月19日星期三

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Ukraine seen succumbing to Crimea seizure

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 04:58 PM PDT

Ukrainian soldiers fold the Ukrainian flag, which was removed by a Crimean pro- Russian self-defense force at the Ukrainian Navy headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. An Associated Press photographer said several hundred militiamen took down the gate and made their way onto the base. They then raised the Russian flag on the square by the headquarters. The unarmed militia waited for an hour on the square before the move to storm the headquarters. Following the arrival of the commander of the Russian Black Sea fleet, the Crimeans took over the building. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)Official says gov't will seek U.N. support to turn peninsula into demilitarized zone.


Court reverses ruling that freed ex-cop

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 03:18 PM PDT

FILE- In this Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 file photo, Doug Prade, a former Ohio police captain who has spent nearly 15 years in prison for his ex-wife's killing, answers questions from the media after being released from the Madison Correctional Institution in London, Ohio. An appeals court in Ohio says a judge was wrong to release Prade. The ruling released Wednesday, March 19, 2014, comes a little more than a year after Prade was freed from prison based on new testing of a bite mark. A judge in Akron ruled in January 2013 that new DNA test results proved Prade didn't kill his former wife. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)A former Ohio police captain who spent nearly 15 years in prison before being exonerated in his ex-wife's killing could be headed back behind bars after an appeals court ruled that a judge was wrong to free him.


Alaska Democratic senator appears on obscure YouTube show

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:26 PM PDT

BegichA week after President Obama appeared on "Between Two Ferns," Alaska Democratic Sen. Mark Begich showed up on "Alaska Robotics News."


Is Malaysia pilot's flight simulator that unusual?

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:54 PM PDT

Pilot Says At-Home Flight Simulator Not UnusualLower prices leading many to buy at-home devices for fun and practice, says one expert.


Global effort produces bone marrow donor for 'Baby Mateo'

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 11:11 AM PDT

Baby Mateo finds a donorThe desperate call for a donor by the family of a 10-month-old Spanish child suffering from juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia has been answered. Baby Mateo, as he is known, will undergo an operation next month expected to cure his disease.


Kiev moves swiftly to sever Moscow ties

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 03:32 PM PDT

A Ukrainian officer checks documents at the border crossing of Uspenka on the Ukrainian-Russian border, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Ukraine's leadership simmered with a mix of hopelessness and anger at losing Crimea, tempering an influx of eager young men signing up as reservists with the growing certainty that no savior would deliver them from the Russian takeover. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)New gov't drops out of alliance of post-Soviet nations, mandates travel visas for Russians entering Ukraine.


World War I shell kills two in Belgium

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 11:03 AM PDT

Police and firefighters work at an industrial site where a World War I era shell exploded during excavation works on March 19, 2014, in Ypres, northern Belgium, killing two workers and severely injuring anotherTwo workers were killed Wednesday by the explosion of a World War I shell near the Belgian town of Ypres, site of some of the bloodiest battles in the conflict, officials said. The Western Front trenches ran just outside Ypres, a small medieval town completely destroyed in the war that was fought from 1914 to 1918.


Russell Crowe, 'Noah' makers fail at bid for papal photo-op

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 10:08 AM PDT

Actor Russell Crowe, right, attends Pope Francis' general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Crowe and the makers of the big-budget film "Noah" attended Pope Francis' general audience Wednesday but didn't get what they most wanted: a papal meeting and photo-op. Crowe had lobbied hard for a papal thumbs up for his film and the ensuing publicity a Francis blessing would bring. The film has been banned in much of the Muslim world because of its depiction of the prophet, while U.S. conservatives have complained it took liberties with the Biblical account of the flood. (AP Photo/Str)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Actor Russell Crowe and the makers of the big-budget film "Noah" attended Pope Francis' general audience Wednesday but didn't get what they most wanted: a papal meeting and photo-op.


Kenya's wildlife protectors infiltrated by rhino horn cartel

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 08:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 file photo, a herd of adult and baby elephants walks in the dawn light as the highest mountain in Africa Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is seen in the background, in Amboseli National Park, southern Kenya. Famed scientist and founding former chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Richard Leakey is urging Kenya's president to invoke emergency measures to protect the country's elephants and rhinos and said Wednesday, March 19, 2014 that the KWS had been infiltrated by people enriching themselves off poaching, that poaching ring leaders were known, but that the government has taken no action. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A famed scientist and founding former chairman of the Kenya Wildlife Service urged Kenya's president on Wednesday to invoke emergency measures to protect the country's elephants and rhinos from a poaching crisis sweeping Africa.


Dash cam: Airborne truck narrowly misses roadside cops

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 07:18 AM PDT

Pickup Truck Flies Off Freeway and Slams Into Squad CarAn Iowa man driving on I-80 last week was rear-ended by a semi, causing his pickup truck to go airborne, hit a squad car and land in a ditch.


NATO: 'Wake-up call' to new Cold War

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 01:11 PM PDT

President Putin Declares Russia Will Take Over CrimeaChief's speech: Advances on Ukraine by Putin's Russia are top threats to Europe security since Cold War.


APNewsBreak: NYC inmate 'baked to death' in cell

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 02:46 PM PDT

In this March 12, 2014 photo, Alma Murdough and her daughter Cheryl Warner hold a photo of Murdough's son, at her home in the Queens borough of New York. Jerome Murdough, a mentally ill, homeless former Marine arrested for sleeping in the roof landing of a New York City public housing project during one of the coldest recorded winters in city history, died last month in a Rikers Island jail cell that multiple city officials say was at least 100 degrees when his body was discovered. Murdough, 56, was found dead in his cell in a mental observation unit in the early hours of Feb. 15, after excessive heat, believed to be caused by an equipment malfunction, redirected it's flow to his upper-level cell, the officials said. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)NEW YORK (AP) — Jerome Murdough was just looking for a warm place to sleep on a chilly night last month when he curled up in an enclosed stairwell on the roof of a Harlem public housing project where he was arrested for trespassing.


Toyota payment could be glimpse into GM's future

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 02:33 PM PDT

Attorney General Eric Holder announces a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota over its disclosure of safety problems, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)DETROIT (AP) — Wednesday's announcement that Toyota will pay $1.2 billion to avoid criminal prosecution for hiding information in a recall case could be a glimpse into General Motors' future. It's also a warning to anyone selling cars in America: Although the U.S. government's road-safety watchdog doesn't have big fangs, the Justice Department does.


APNewsBreak: Texas finds new execution drug supply

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 01:21 PM PDT

FILE - This May 27, 2008 file photo shows the gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where Texas' condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs. Texas prison officials say they've secured a new supply of pentobarbital that will allow the nation's most active death penalty state to continue executions. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark also said the prison agency is not identifying the source of the new drug inventory because of threats made against previous suppliers when they were identified as a provider of lethal injection drugs. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)HOUSTON (AP) — Texas has obtained a new batch of the drugs it uses to execute death row inmates, allowing the state to continue carrying out death sentences once its existing supply expires at the end of the month.


Unions, groups 'all-in' Illinois governor's race

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 03:41 PM PDT

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn leaves a news conference Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Chicago the morning after winning the state's Democratic primary as he runs for his second full term in office. Quinn will face Republican businessman Bruce Rauner in the November general election. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)CHICAGO (AP) — The candidates for Illinois governor laid out their vastly different visions Wednesday on how to revive the state's lagging economy, as national labor unions and other outside groups with much riding on the outcome began making their presence felt and promised to keep doing so through the November election.


Ex-al-Qaida spokesman recalls 9/11 with bin Laden

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 04:01 PM PDT

In this courtroom sketch Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, right, testifies at his trial Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in New York, on charges he conspired to kill Americans and aid al-Qaida as a spokesman for the terrorist group. Listening to testimony are Judge Lewis Kaplan, upper left, and clerk Andrew Mohan, center left, as an image of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-professed architect of the Sept. 11 attacks, appears on a video monitor. In his surprise testimony, Abu Ghaith recounted the night of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when bin Laden sent a messenger to drive him into a mountainous area for a meeting inside a cave in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)NEW YORK (AP) — Osama bin Laden's son-in-law offered a rare glimpse of the al-Qaida leader in the hours after the Sept. 11 attacks, recounting during surprise testimony Wednesday in a Manhattan courtroom how the two met that night in a cave in Afghanistan.


Toyota to pay $1.2B to settle criminal probe

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 02:25 PM PDT

Attorney General Eric Holder, left, accompanied by Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, announces a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota over its disclosure of safety problems, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)WASHINGTON (AP) — Toyota agreed to pay $1.2 billion to settle an investigation by the U.S. government, admitting that it hid information about defects that caused Toyota and Lexus vehicles to accelerate unexpectedly and resulted in injuries and deaths.


Israeli airstrikes escalate tensions with Syria

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:58 PM PDT

A wounded Israeli soldier is treated in the Golan Heights, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. A roadside bomb hit an Israeli patrol near the frontier with the Golan Heights on Tuesday, the army said, wounding four soldiers in the most serious violence to strike the area since the Syrian conflict began three years ago. Israel said it responded with artillery strikes on Syrian army targets. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed the strategic area in a move that was not internationally recognized. (AP Photo/Jinipix) ****ISRAEL OUT***JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes unleashed a series of airstrikes on Syrian military posts early Wednesday, killing one soldier and wounding seven in one of the most serious clashes between the countries in the past four decades.


Read before jumping into the deep end of NCAA pool

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 01:35 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2012, file photo, Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins calls to his team during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against North Carolina State in Raleigh, N.C. If Johnny Dawkins and Craig Neal were still playing _ instead of coaching _ against each other, there's no doubt which one you'd pick. The two will be back on opposing benches Friday night March 21, 2014, 28 years after they faced off as players. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)Welcome to BracketRacket.


Cat whisperer heading to Oregon after attack

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 11:49 AM PDT

This undated file photo provided by Lee Palmer shows Lux, a 22-pound Himalayan cat that attacked a seven-month old baby. Cats don't become ferocious felines that turn on their families for no reason, says the cat behavior expert Jackson Galaxy, star of Animal Planet's "My Cat from Hell", who is heading to Portland soon to work with the 4-year-old part-Himalayan pet named Lux. Galaxy will film the visit for his show's fifth season, which kicks off April 26. (AP Photo/Lee Palmer, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — The large cat that attacked a baby and trapped an Oregon family in a bedroom touched off an Internet uproar that worries Jackson Galaxy, star of Animal Planet's "My Cat from Hell."


Ukraine to hold military exercises with US, UK

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 12:27 PM PDT

Unarmed members of Pro-Russian self-defense forces, left, force themselves through a chain of Ukrainian military men at the Ukrainian Navy headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. An Associated Press photographer said several hundred militiamen took down the gate and made their way onto the base. They then raised the Russian flag on the square by the headquarters. The unarmed militia waited for an hour in the square before the move to storm the headquarters. Following the arrival of the commander of the Russian Black Sea fleet, the Crimeans took over the building. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces seized military installations across the disputed Crimean Peninsula on Wednesday, prompting Ukraine's security chief to announce that his country will hold joint military exercises with the United States and Britain.


AP PHOTOS: Soldiers take over base in Crimea

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 11:59 AM PDT

Crimean pro-Russian self-defense forces open a gate to the territory of the Ukrainian navy headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Crimea's self-defense forces on Wednesday stormed the Ukrainian navy headquarters in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, taking possession without resistance a day after Russia signed a treaty with local authorities to annex the region. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)Several hundred Russian-speaking militiamen wearing uniforms with no identifying insignia met no resistance Wednesday as they took over the Ukrainian Navy's headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea. Russia incorporated the strategic Crimean peninsula earlier this week.


AP Exclusive: Jailed militant key to Mideast talks

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 02:56 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti appears at Jerusalem's court. According to several top officials, the Palestinians are seeking the freedom of Barghouti, who is serving multiple life sentences for his alleged role in killings of Israelis, as part of any plan to extend negotiations with Israel beyond a deadline in April, 2014. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A prominent Palestinian uprising leader imprisoned by Israel could soon emerge as the key to keeping fragile U.S.-led peace efforts alive.


Maine man's 'gun' turns out to be a tattoo

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 07:23 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, March 18, 2014 photo, Michael Smith, left, stands beside a Somerset County Sheriff deputy outside his home in Norridgewock, Maine. Officers armed with assault rifles descended on Smith's home after members of a tree removal crew he'd told to clear off his property reported that he had a gun. The "gun" the tree crew had seen on Smith actually was a life-sized tattoo of a handgun on his stomach. (AP Photo/Morning Sentinel, David Leaming)NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine (AP) — Police armed with assault rifles descended on a Maine man's home after members of a tree removal crew he'd told to clear off his property reported that he had a gun.


$1.2B Toyota safety settlement deal

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 06:13 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2010 file photo released by the Utah Highway Patrol, a Toyota Camry is shown after it crashed as it exited Interstate 80 in Wendover, Utah. Police suspect problems with the Camry's accelerator or floor mat caused the crash that left two people dead and two others injured. The Wall Street Journal is reporting Wednesday March 19, 2014 the U.S. Justice Department may reach a $ 1 billion settlement with Toyota Motor Corp., ending a four-year criminal investigation into the Japanese automaker's disclosure of safety problems. (AP Photo/Utah Highway Patrol, File)The deal stems from an investigation into how the auto maker disclosed safety issues.


He wanted to know bin Laden

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 10:04 AM PDT

An artist sketch shows Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a militant who appeared in videos as a spokesman for al Qaeda after the September 11, 2001 attacks, appearing at the U.S. District Court in ManhattanAl-Qaida's spokesman after Sept. 11 takes stand and defends himself, surprising jury.


Seattle looks at helipad rules after deadly crash

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 06:23 AM PDT

In this photo provided by KOMO-TV, a car burns at the scene of a news helicopter crash outside the KOMO-TV studios near the space needle in Seattle on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. The chopper was taking off from a helipad on KOMO-TV's roof when it went down at a busy downtown intersection and hit three vehicles, starting them on fire and spewing burning fuel down the street. Two people on board the helicopter died. (AP Photo/KOMO-TV, Kelly Koopmans) MANDATORY CREDIT: KOMO-TVSEATTLE (AP) — The news helicopter had just stopped at a helipad to refuel on its way to another assignment when it crashed and burst into flames yards from the Space Needle in the heart of Seattle, killing the two men on board and seriously injuring a third man who was on fire when he escaped from his car.


Russian military starts aviation exercises

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 05:59 AM PDT

Ukrainian troops with white bands on their sleeves march past an unmarked Russian military vehicle outside a Ukrainian military base in Perevalne, Crimea, Ukraine, Monday, March 17, 2014. Crimea held a referendum Sunday, in which an overwhelming majority voted for breaking off from Ukraine and joining Russia. (AP Photo/Andrei Udovichenko)By Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military started large-scale aviation exercises in the northwest on Wednesday, officials said, close to Baltic ex-Soviet republics that are members of NATO and wary of Russia after its annexation of Crimea. The exercises involving jet fighters and bombers were being conducted in regions that do not border Ukraine. A senior Russian military source said they had been planned in December and had no political significance. The drill ends in late March, it cited a spokesman for the Western Military District, Colonel Oleg Kochetkov, as saying.


Malaysia: Files deleted from flight simulator

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 06:02 AM PDT

Malaysia airport police officer stands in front of messages board for the passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. New radar data from Thailand gave Malaysian investigators more potential clues Wednesday for how to retrace the course of the missing Malaysian airliner, while a massive multinational search unfolded in an area the size of Australia. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)Investigators say files are missing from the home flight simulator of Flight 370's pilot.


Crimean forces take Ukrainian navy HQ

Posted: 19 Mar 2014 02:34 AM PDT

A man holds a Russian flag on the roof of the naval headquarters in SevastopolSEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Crimea's self-defense forces on Wednesday stormed the Ukrainian navy headquarters in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, taking possession without resistance a day after Russia signed a treaty with local authorities to annex the region.


Report: Toyota reaches $1B settlement over unintended acceleration

Posted: 18 Mar 2014 11:24 PM PDT

Employees and customer walk in front of Toyota Motor's logo at the company's showroom in TokyoThe U.S. Justice Department has reached a $1 billion settlement with Toyota Motor Corp over the automaker's handling of consumer complaints tied to unintended vehicle acceleration and is set to announce the agreement as early as Wednesday, CNN reported. Sources familiar with the deal told CNN that Toyota was expected to avoid criminal charges. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan has been probing allegations the Japanese company misled U.S. authorities after the complaints about the unintended acceleration emerged. The acceleration issue prompted Toyota to recall millions of vehicles beginning in 2009.


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