| MH17: Pro-Russian rebels call cease-fire Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:22 PM PDT  Separatists also handed over black boxes from the downed airliner to Malaysian experts.
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| Police: Retired couple strangled, killed by hired workers Posted: 21 Jul 2014 01:40 PM PDT  A retired Philadelphia couple was strangled by two men hired to do household chores after the wife caught one trying to steal money, authorities said Monday.
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| Britain and U.N. host 1st summit to end child marriages, female genital mutilation Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:28 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — More than 700 million women alive today were married before they turned 18, the United Nations' children agency said Tuesday, as it co-hosts a London summit calling for more progress to end child marriages and the practice of female genital mutilation.
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| Widow: Jury sent Big Tobacco a $23B message Posted: 21 Jul 2014 03:41 PM PDT  A Florida widow awarded $23.6 billion in the death of her chain-smoking husband on Monday called the massive verdict a message to Big Tobacco, even though she likely won't see much if any of the money. ...
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| 19-year-old charged with murder in Calif. bank robbery Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:45 PM PDT  A 19-year-old California man was charged Monday with three counts of murder in the deaths of a hostage and two accomplices, and 22 counts of attempted murder of police officers in a bank robbery and running gun battle.
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| MH17: Rebels hand over black boxes Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:20 PM PDT  A separatist leader has handed over black boxes from downed MH17 to Malaysian experts.
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| Pregnant teen strangled, man decapitated in online sex case Posted: 21 Jul 2014 01:24 PM PDT  WYOMING, Mich. (AP) — A pregnant Michigan teenager was strangled and her boyfriend was decapitated after apparently connecting with a stranger through the online service Craigslist for a sexual encounter, police said Monday.
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| Americans from Texas, Calif. killed in Gaza Posted: 21 Jul 2014 03:23 PM PDT  Max Steinberg and Nissim Sean Carmeli grew up in America and had a passion for Israel.
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| 15,000 Nigerians displaced after Boko Haram raid Posted: 21 Jul 2014 01:44 PM PDT  A massive assault by Boko Haram in the northeast Nigerian town of Damboa displaced more than 15,000 people, an official said Monday, as the security forces sent reinforcements to flush out the Islamist fighters. The attack on Damboa began late Thursday but continued through the weekend, with witnesses saying that civilians were left defenceless by the security forces who withdrew from the area earlier this month. Officials from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) were struggling to establish a death toll amid multiple reports that Boko Haram fighters were still occupying the town, having hoisted their flag above a public building. Abdulkadir Ibrahim of NEMA told journalists that at least 15,204 people had fled Damboa to escape the Islamist onslaught.
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| Missing teen home after 9 months Posted: 21 Jul 2014 03:35 PM PDT  A 15-year-old New Hampshire girl who disappeared while on her way home from school nine months ago is safely home with her family, the state attorney general said Monday.
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| Russia backs MH17 investigation Posted: 21 Jul 2014 03:35 PM PDT  U.N. resolution demands unimpeded international access to the plane crash site in Ukraine.
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| S. Korean police: Body found could be ferry disaster fugitive's Posted: 21 Jul 2014 11:02 AM PDT  South Korean police are trying to confirm the identity of a body they believe may have been the fugitive head of the family that owned the operator of a ferry that capsized in April, killing more than 300 people, a police official told Reuters. Yoo Byung-un is accused of embezzlement, negligence and tax evasion and has been the subject of a two-month nationwide manhunt. A police official said the body was found last month in a plum field in the southern city of Suncheon near a retreat where police have suspected Yoo may have been hiding, and that forensics examinations had found that the body's DNA resembled Yoo's. Further examination was underway, the official said.
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| Soldier mauled by bear in Alaska Posted: 21 Jul 2014 12:01 PM PDT  An Alaska National Guard soldier was mauled by a bear while participating in a training exercise at a military base, officials said.
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| Medal of Honor recipient: This belongs to comrades Posted: 21 Jul 2014 11:14 AM PDT  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Ryan Pitts will wear the nation's highest award for combat valor, but the humble and soft-spoken Medal of Honor recipient who continued to fight after being wounded in one of Afghanistan's bloodiest battles insisted Thursday that the medal belongs to all of his comrades who fought and died that day.
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| Marathon suspect's friend guilty of impeding investigation Posted: 21 Jul 2014 11:53 AM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — A college friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) has been convicted of impeding the investigation into the attack.
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| President Obama on statehood for D.C.: I'm for it' Posted: 21 Jul 2014 11:39 AM PDT  President Barack Obama says he supports statehood for the nation's capital.
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| MH17: Malaysia, Ukraine rebels reach 'safe access' deal Posted: 21 Jul 2014 10:20 AM PDT Malaysian PM: Agreement will permit "safe access" to the crash site to begin a full probe. |
| Washington wildfire claims first fatality, weather improving Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:59 PM PDT  Calmer winds and cooler temperatures were allowing firefighters to go on the offensive Monday against a destructive wildfire that has charred hundreds of square miles of terrain in Washington State.
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| Obama voices concern about Mideast casualties Posted: 21 Jul 2014 12:50 PM PDT  President Barack Obama called Monday for the international community to focus on ending the fighting in the Gaza Strip, as Secretary of State John Kerry headed to the Middle East to make a renewed push for a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel.
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| Auction hopes to net $10K for 'longest' ancient dung fossil Posted: 21 Jul 2014 09:43 AM PDT  A lumpy fossil — billed as possibly the longest known specimen of ancient excrement — will hit the auction block next week at the I.M. Chait Gallery. Chait and his colleagues said they don't know what kind of creature passed the impressive load, which has been separated into four pieces and mounted on black marble.
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| Pro-Russia rebels hamper MH17 recovery Posted: 21 Jul 2014 08:54 AM PDT President Obama bluntly accused pro-Moscow fighters in Ukraine of stealing evidence, removing bodies. |
| Train with bodies from MH17 aboard leaves for rebel-held town Posted: 21 Jul 2014 01:42 PM PDT  HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — A refrigerated train carrying Malaysia Airlines victims' bodies pulled away Monday from a rebel-held town in eastern Ukraine, one small step forward in easing the agony of their grieving families.
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| Texas to send 1,000 guardsmen to border, says lawmaker Posted: 21 Jul 2014 11:51 AM PDT  McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to deploy as many as 1,000 National Guard troops to South Texas to bolster security along the Mexico border, a local lawmaker confirmed Monday.
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| 1 killed, 2 hurt in separate Wisconsin skydiving accidents Posted: 21 Jul 2014 08:35 AM PDT  One person died and two others were injured in separate weekend skydiving accidents in southern Wisconsin.
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| U.S. to send $47M in aid to Gaza Posted: 21 Jul 2014 08:31 AM PDT  The U.S. is sending $47 million in humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip.
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| Hamas says Israeli soldier captured in Gaza Posted: 21 Jul 2014 06:19 AM PDT  By Noah Browning GAZA (Reuters) - Residents of the Gaza Strip, mostly house-bound and fearful after 13 days of Israeli bombardment, lit fireworks and chanted "God is great!" into the early morning darkness on Monday after Hamas said it had captured an Israeli soldier. Abu Ubaida, the masked and camouflaged spokesman of the Palestinian Islamist militant group's armed wing, announced that a soldier named as Shaul Alon was seized in heavy fighting on the Gaza border on Sunday. Israel's envoy to the United Nations denied the claim but its army has neither confirmed nor denied the report and a spokesman said on Monday: "We still cannot rule it out." The report buoyed weary Gazans' flagging morale. If confirmed, it would fulfill long-standing promises by Hamas to grab troops in hopes of trading them for Palestinian prisoners, raising its popularity.
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| Airlines had warnings to avoid Ukraine Posted: 21 Jul 2014 06:42 AM PDT  Passenger aircraft do overfly war zones, but airlines were cautioned to avoid east Ukraine.
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| UN watchdog: Iran's been living up to its end of nuclear deal Posted: 21 Jul 2014 08:45 AM PDT  Iran has eliminated all its most sensitive nuclear material in line with an interim deal struck with world powers, a new UN atomic agency report showed Monday. Days after a deadline to reach a lasting nuclear deal was pushed back four months, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran was continuing to comply with its international commitments, in a report seen by AFP. Under a Geneva agreement with world powers reached in November, the Islamic republic vowed to freeze certain nuclear activities for six months in return for some relief from hard-hitting sanctions. As of the July 20 deadline, Tehran had indeed cut half of its stock of 20-percent enriched uranium down to five-percent purity, while the rest has been converted into uranium oxide, the IAEA said.
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| Dutch experts examine bodies at 'shambolic' Ukraine crash site Posted: 21 Jul 2014 08:25 AM PDT  Dutch forensic experts on Monday were examining bodies from the MH17 plane disaster being held at an east Ukraine train station as Kiev and insurgents wrangled over the fate of the remains. As world leaders deplored the "shambolic" state of the crash site left in the hands of the rebels and accused Russia of supplying the weapons allegedly used to shoot down the passenger jet, Moscow hit back and sought to shift the blame to Kiev. On the ground, the animosity between Ukraine's warring sides was underlined by intense shelling rained down in the rebel stronghold Donetsk, a city just 60 kilometres (about 40 miles) from the station where the bodies are being held in refrigerated wagons. Four people were killed and terrified civilians fled, as Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko quickly ordered his troops to hold fire within a 40-kilometre radius around the crash site, where forensic experts were heading.
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| Tourist frenzy on Cape Cod follows shark sightings Posted: 21 Jul 2014 05:40 AM PDT  CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) — In "Jaws," the fictional mayor tried to protect the summer tourism season by keeping a lid on reports of the man-eater lurking offshore. As sightings of great white sharks mount off Cape Cod in real life, however, businesses in the Massachusetts town of Chatham are embracing the frenzy.
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| Massive tobacco judgment unlikely to stick Posted: 20 Jul 2014 03:31 PM PDT  Decision by Florida jury Friday to impose $23.6 billion damages on RJ Reynolds won't stand, say experts.
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| Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 500 Posted: 21 Jul 2014 02:03 AM PDT  he U.N. chief and the U.S. secretary of state headed to Cairo on Monday to try to end two weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting.
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| Why the US is not as 'good' as Ireland, or Finland Posted: 21 Jul 2014 05:55 AM PDT  Simon Anholt, creator of the Good Country Index, discusses what makes a country "good" and why Ireland ranks No. 1.
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| McDonald's, KFC in China face new food scandal Posted: 21 Jul 2014 09:38 AM PDT  TV report said supplier was repackaging old meat to sell to chains.
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| Open mic catches Kerry on Gaza as toll tops 500 Posted: 21 Jul 2014 03:12 AM PDT US Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to criticize Israel in candid remarks caught on an open microphone between television interviews Sunday. Kerry was heard talking about Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza to a State Department official identified as Jonathan Finer just before appearing on the "Fox News Sunday" political talk show. The Palestinian death toll topped 500 on Sunday as Israel pressed a ground offensive into the densely packed Gaza Strip after two weeks of aerial attacks. When confronted over the remarks by Fox host Chris Wallace, Kerry reiterated Israel's right to self-defense. |
| U.S. working on case against Russia on downed plane Posted: 21 Jul 2014 12:11 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Video of a rocket launcher, one surface-to-air missile missing, leaving the likely launch site. Imagery showing the firing. Calls claiming credit for the strike. Recordings said to reveal a cover-up at the crash site.
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| Disturbing hand-washing habits at hospitals Posted: 21 Jul 2014 01:27 AM PDT  One might think that it would be all right for a nurse or tech in a hospital to ask, "Doc, did you wash your hands?" But it's actually taboo because the culture dictates who is in charge and who follows orders. It is estimated that an astounding 40 percent of doctors do not wash their hands before coming into contact with patients, putting them at significant risk of infection. But a team of doctors at the Vanderbilt University Hospital found innovative ways to boost hand washing, reduce infections and create a culture of safety.
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| Rebels release train with bodies from downed jet Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:26 PM PDT HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Bowing to international pressure Monday, pro-Moscow separatists released a train packed with bodies and handed over the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, four days after it plunged into rebel-held eastern Ukraine. |
| Vital evidence feared withheld by Ukraine's rebels Posted: 21 Jul 2014 04:22 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — "What exactly are they trying to hide?" President Barack Obama asked Monday as he demanded that Ukrainian rebels give investigators access to the wreckage of the downed jetliner.
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| Israeli mood turns dark with mounting casualties Posted: 21 Jul 2014 02:25 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — For almost two weeks, Israel practically bristled with confidence and pride: The Iron Dome air defense system was dependably zapping incoming Hamas rockets from the skies, the military was successfully repelling infiltration attempts on the ground and from the sea, and the conflict with Hamas was causing almost no casualties in Israel.
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