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Airlines symbolize nations' hopes or reflect shame

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 04:52 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 03:22 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.


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.


Malaysia Airlines staff try to cope with disasters

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 08:19 AM PDT

CORRECTS CITY - Two women pray with others during a prayer session organized by former schoolmates of a cabin crew member of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down in Ukraine, at a mosque in Putrajaya, Malaysia Saturday, July 19, 2014. Malaysia's transport minister said the country is "deeply concerned" that the site in Ukraine where the Malaysia Airlines jetliner was shot down with 298 people onboard "has not been properly secured." (AP Photo/Satish Cheney)KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Coping with two disasters within a few months has left some Malaysia Airlines employees so shaken that they've been unable to function properly at work, a union official said Saturday.


Monitors try to secure Ukraine plane crash site

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:46 PM 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)HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — International monitors moved gingerly Saturday through fields reeking of the decomposing corpses that fell from a Malaysian airliner shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, trying to secure the sprawling site in hopes that a credible investigation can be conducted.


DNA being collected to ID Ukraine crash victims

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:06 AM PDT

People enter the door to attend a gathering at soccer club Altius in Hilversum, Netherlands, Saturday, July 19, 2014. A family, father, mother, daughter and son, from which the father and the son were members of the club, were among those killed when a Malaysian jetliner was shot down over Ukraine Thursday. All passengers, 298 people from nearly a dozen nations, more than half being Dutch were killed. Across the Netherlands, at sports clubs, schools and churches, friends met Saturday to console each another and attempt to come to terms with their loss. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Forensic teams fanned out across the Netherlands on Saturday to collect material that will help positively identify the remains of victims killed in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine. Families and friends of the dead huddled to console one another at churches, schools and sports clubs across the nation.


Without radar, missile may not have identified jet

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 01:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 30, 2010 file photo, a Russian SA-11 launcher is displayed at a military show at the international forum "Technologies in machine building 2010" in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow. If Ukrainian rebels shot down the Malaysian jetliner, killing 298 people, it may have been because they didn't have the right systems in place to distinguish between military and civilian aircraft, experts said Saturday, July 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)LONDON (AP) — If Ukrainian rebels shot down the Malaysian jetliner, killing 298 people, it may have been because they didn't have the right systems in place to distinguish between military and civilian aircraft, experts said Saturday.


Israeli bulldozers destroy Hamas tunnels in Gaza

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 04:15 PM PDT

Palestinian boys read at a United Nations school where dozens of families have sought refuge after fleeing their homes following heavy Israeli forces' strikes in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2014. (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.


Mideast divisions cloud Gaza cease-fire efforts

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:11 AM PDT

Palestinians mourners pray over the lifeless bodies of nine Palestinians killed in an early morning Israeli missile strike, at Bilal mosque during their funeral in the Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Even as the death toll mounts in the Gaza Strip, attempts to broker a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel have so far run aground, in part because they have become mired in the deep schism between Mideast countries. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)CAIRO (AP) — Even as the death toll mounts in the Gaza Strip, attempts to broker a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel have so far run aground — in part because they have become mired in the deep divisions between Mideast countries.


Russia bans congressman, 12 other Americans

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 02:36 PM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has placed a U.S. lawmaker and 12 other people connected with the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq on its list of those banned from entering the country.

Owner of raided Mexico child shelter was admired

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 03:06 PM PDT

A boy peers out through the door of a cell-like room inside The Great Family group home in Zamora, Mexico, Thursday, July 17, 2014. After a police raid on the refuse-strewn group home Tuesday, residents of the shelter told authorities that some employees beat residents, fed them rotting food or locked them in a tiny "punishment" room. Shelter residents were still being kept at the home while officials look for places to transfer them. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)ZAMORA, Mexico (AP) — For more than six decades, poor parents struggling to support their children or raise troubled youths sent them to a group home in western Mexico run by a woman who gained a reputation as a secular saint.


Teen's death puts focus on caffeine powder dangers

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 09:33 AM PDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A few weeks before their prom king's death, students at an Ohio high school had attended an assembly on narcotics that warned about the dangers of heroin and prescription painkillers.

AIDS conference spared worst with MH17 toll at 6

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 11:30 PM PDT

International AIDS Society president Françoise Barre-Sinoussi of France addresses the media at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) in Melbourne on July 19, 2014A global AIDS summit was in shock Saturday at the loss of colleagues in the Malaysia Airlines disaster over Ukraine, but spirits were lifted when the number who died was put at six, far fewer than feared. Reports on Friday said as many as 100 passengers on the plane were en route to the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne when it went down in a rebel-held part of the country on Thursday, killing all 298 on board. "The number that we have confirmed through our contacts with authorities in Australia, in Malaysia, and Dutch authorities as well is six people. Those killed include prominent Dutchman Joep Lange, a pioneer of cheap anti-retrovirals for the poor who had been involved in HIV research and treatment since 1983.


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