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19 injured in Beirut blast

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:37 PM PDT

Suicide bomber detonates car in southern BeirutA suicide bomber blew up his car in southern Beirut near an army checkpoint.

Alaskans evacuate after 8.0 quake

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:47 PM PDT

Tsunami warning for Alaska after 8.0 quakeQuake was widely felt in communities along Alaska's sparsely populated Aleutian Islands.

Husband of slain Iraqi woman sentenced

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 12:40 PM PDT

In this March 27,2012 file photo, Kassim Alhimidi, right, speaks alongside his son, Mohammed Alhimidi, during a memorial for his wife, Shaima Alawadi, at a mosque in Lakeside, Calif. Alhimidi Alhimidi was sentenced Monday, June 23, 2014 in San Diego County Superior Court to 25 years to life in prison for his wife's fatal beating, which initially drew international condemnation when authorities believed it was a hate crime. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)A Calif. Iraqi immigrant was sentenced to 26 years-to-life for his wife's fatal beating.

Nearly 170 children rescued in sex-trafficking crackdown

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 01:35 PM PDT

FBI rescues 168 trafficked children in nationwide sweepAccording to the FBI, 281 pimps were arrested in connection with the case.

Iraq’s Sunni 'war of liberation’

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 10:16 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 20, 2014, file photo, Kurdish peshmerga fighters takes their positions behind sand barriers at the village of Taza Khormato in the northern oil rich province of Kirkuk, Iraq. The insurgents came at midday, walking across a canal, advancing under cover of mortar fire toward the cluster of three Iraqi villages. Within eight hours, Shiite residents who fled said the Sunni insurgents had expelled thousands of them from the majority-Sunni province, helped by local Sunnis in neighboring villages. The expulsions show how Iraq's sectarian mosaic is unraveling in particularly hateful ways, unseen since the mid-2000s when sectarian killings nearly plunged the country into civil war. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Sectarian fighting threatens to trap the U.S. in the middle of a civil war in Iraq.

Mormon church bans prominent women's group founder

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:22 PM PDT

Kate Kelly receives a hugThe Mormon church excommunicated the prominent founder of a Mormon women's group, Ordain Women announced Monday afternoon.

U.S. memo justifying drone killings cites al-Qaida law

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 12:52 PM PDT

A U.S. Global Hawk surveillance drone prepares to land at the Misawa Air Base in Misawa, northern Japan, Saturday, May 24, 2014. The U.S. began sending long-range Global Hawk surveillance drones to Japan this month for rotational deployments. They are intended to help step up surveillance around the disputed islands in the East China Sea, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, a source of heated debate between the two countries over claims to the remote territories. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, NO SALESSecret document made legal case for using drones to kill American terror suspects overseas.

Lawyer in campus attack eyes insanity defense

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:20 PM PDT

Shooting suspect Aaron Ybarra is led to a court hearing at a King County Jail courtroom Friday, June 6, 2014, in Seattle. Ybarra was arrested in the killing of a 19-year-old student and wounding of two other young people Thursday at Seattle Pacific University. Police say Jon Meis and other students subdued Ybarra until officers arrived and handcuffed him moments later. Meis, the 22-year-old building monitor, pepper-sprayed and tackled the gunman Thursday in Seattle Pacific University's Otto Miller Hall, likely preventing further carnage, according to police and university officials. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)An attorney gave notice that an insanity defense was being considered for a man charged with killing one student and wounding two others at a Seattle university.

Ukraine rebels agree to honor cease-fire

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 10:53 AM PDT

New volunteers of self-defence battalion "Azov" take an oath of allegiance to the country during a ceremony before leaving for regions of eastern Ukraine in KievInsurgents say they will engage in more talks with Ukraine to help resolve the conflict.

Friend of Boston bombing suspect refuses plea deal

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 11:11 AM PDT

This undated photo added on April 18, 2013 to the VK page of Dias Kadyrbayev shows, from left, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, from Kazakhstan, with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Times Square in New York. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, two college buddies of Tsarnaev, were jailed by immigration authorities the day after Tsarnaev's capture. They are not suspects, but are being held for violating their student visas by not regularly attending classes, Kadyrbayev's lawyer, Robert Stahl said. They are being detained at a county jail in Boston. (AP Photo/VK)A lawyer for a friend of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect said Monday that he rejected a plea deal offered to his client, whom he said "knows he's not guilty."

37 arrested in Israel as search for missing teens drags on

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 10:01 AM PDT

The mother of Mohammed Tarifi, a 30-year-old Palestinian man who was shot dead during early morning clashes with Israeli troops, reacts outside a hospital on June 22, 2014 in the West Bank city of RamallahIsraeli troops detained 37 Palestinians in the West Bank during the night as its arrest campaign entered its 11th day, with no sign of three teenagers thought kidnapped by Hamas.

Manhunt on for murderer who escaped Arkansas prison

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 09:23 AM PDT

Manhunt for Escaped Murderer in ArkansasArkansas Inmate Escaped, Held Woman Hostage as He Fled

Sandusky report finds fault for 3-year lapse in filing charges

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 02:08 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2013, file photo, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives at the Centre County Courthouse for a post-sentencing hearing in Bellefonte, Pa. Penn State said Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 that it is paying $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of Sandusky. The university said it had concluded negotiations that have lasted about a year. The school said 23 deals are fully signed and three are agreements in principle. The school faces six other claims, and the university says it believes some do not have merit while others may produce settlements. Sandusky, 69, is serving a 30- to 60-year prison sentence at a state prison in southwestern Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)AG cites an "inexcusable lack of urgency in charging and stopping a serial sexual predator."

At least seven killed in blast at Nigerian state college

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 09:26 AM PDT

Security personnel run along the convoy of the new Emir of Kano Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as he leaves the government house for his his palace in KanoAt least eight people were killed and 20 wounded by an explosion at a college campus in the heart of the northern Nigerian city of Kano during school hours on Monday, police said. It was not immediately clear if Islamist militants were behind the explosion. Bombings and attacks by armed insurgents now happen almost daily in Nigeria's north, where militant group Boko Haram is trying to carve out an Islamist state. The blast at the Kano State School of Hygiene tore through an area just inside the college's main gate, a popular spot where students often gather at food kiosks between classes.

Online outrage sinks China official who rode piggyback in search

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 08:48 AM PDT

File picture shows security personnel marching past the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 13, 2014A Chinese official who tried to save his shoes by taking a piggyback during a flood has lost his job instead, reports said Monday, the latest example of Internet users holding bureaucrats to account. It is the second time in a year that a ruling Communist Party official has been sacked after photos showed him riding on another person through a flooded area. The incident took place during a search for three primary schoolchildren who had fallen into a river in the central province of Jiangxi, the official Xinhua news agency said.

US memo justifying drone killings is released

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:13 PM PDT

This October 2008 file photo shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. A federal appeals court on Monday, June 23, 2014, released a previously secret memo that provided legal justification for using drones to kill Americans suspected of terrorism overseas. The memo pertained specifically to the September 2011 drone-strike killing in Yemen of Anwar Al-Awlaki, an al-Qaida leader who had been born in the United States. (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen, File)NEW YORK (AP) — The secret U.S. government memo outlining the justification for the use of drones to kill American terror suspects abroad was released by court order Monday, yielding the most detailed, inside look yet at the legal underpinnings of the Obama administration's program of "targeted killings."

Kerry hands dire warning to Iraqis over future

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:49 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, at the Prime Minister's office in Baghdad on Monday, June 23, 2014. Kerry flew to Baghdad on Monday to meet with Iraq's leaders and personally urge the Shiite-led government to give more power to political opponents before a Sunni insurgency seizes more control across the country and sweeps away hopes for lasting peace. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)BAGHDAD (AP) — Warning of the "existential threat" posed by Sunni militants, Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the U.S. is prepared to take military action even if Baghdad delays political reforms, noting that the risks of letting the insurgency run rampant threaten dangers beyond Iraq's borders.

Outcry after Egypt sentences 3 reporters to prison

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 12:24 PM PDT

From left, Australian correspondent Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian acting bureau chief of Al-Jazeera Mohamed Fahmy, and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed, appear in a defendant's cage in a courtroom in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, June 23, 2014. An Egyptian court on Monday convicted three journalists from Al-Jazeera English and sentenced them to seven years in prison each on terrorism-related charges, bringing widespread criticism that the verdict was a blow to freedom of expression. The three, Greste, Fahmy and Mohammed, have been detained since December charged with supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been declared a terrorist organization, and of fabricating footage to undermine Egypt's national security and make it appear the country was facing civil war. (AP Photo/Heba Elkholy, El Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUTCAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Monday convicted three Al-Jazeera journalists and sentenced them to seven years in prison on terrorism-related charges after a trial dismissed by rights groups as a politically motivated sham. The verdict brought a landslide of international condemnation and calls for the newly elected president to intervene.

Syria hands over last of declared chemical weapons

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 01:43 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Tuesday, May 13, 2014, a sticker reading "Toxic" on containers carrying Syria's dangerous chemical weapons, on the Danish cargo ship, Ark Futura, transporting the chemical weapons out of the strife-torn country, in Cyprus coastal waters. Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons director general Ahmet Uzumcu said Monday, June 23, 2014, the final shipment of stockpiled chemical weapons has been loaded onto Danish and Norwegian ships for transportation out of Syria.(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Syria finished handing over to Western powers Monday the 1,300 tons of chemical weapons it acknowledged possessing, completing a deal reached last fall under threat of U.S. airstrikes.

Rebels agree to abide by cease-fire in Ukraine

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 01:36 PM PDT

Former Ukrainian President Kuchma speaks next to OSCE Ambassador Tagliavini and Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Zurabov during a meeting with leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic in the city of DonetskDONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine agreed Monday to respect a cease-fire declared by the Ukrainian president, raising hopes for an end to months of fighting that have killed hundreds and ravaged the country's industrial heartland.

Racial politics churn Miss. GOP Senate runoff

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:09 PM PDT

Republican Senator Thad Cochran responds to a reporter's question at a Cochran for Senate rally at the Mississippi War Memorial in Jackson, Miss., Monday, June 23, 2014. Cochran faces state Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, on Tuesday in a runoff for the GOP nomination for senate. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Race is roiling the Republican Senate runoff in Mississippi, a state with a long history of divided politics where the GOP is mostly white and the Democratic Party is mostly black.

Justices rap EPA, but uphold global warming rules

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 10:36 AM PDT

FILE - This July 1, 2013 file photo smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal burning power plant in in Colstrip, Mont. The Supreme Court on Monday placed limits on the sole Obama administration program already in place to deal with power plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming. The justices said that the Environmental Protection Agency lacks authority in some cases to force companies to evaluate ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This rule applies when a company needs a permit to expand facilities or build new ones that would increase overall pollution. Carbon dioxide is the chief gas linked to global warming. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court largely left intact Monday the Obama administration's only existing program to limit power plant and factory emissions of the gases blamed for global warming. But a divided court also rebuked environmental regulators for taking too much authority into their own hands without congressional approval.

Obama says US should have paid maternity leave

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:45 PM PDT

President Barack Obama crosses the street as he walks to have lunch at a Chipotle Mexican Grill in Washington, Monday, June 23, 2014, prior to attending the White House Summit on Working Families. Walking with Obama, from left are, Shirley Young, Lisa Rumain, Shelby Ramirez, and Rodger Trombley. Obama is encouraging more employers to adopt family-friendly policies, part of a broader effort to convince employers that providing more flexibility is good for business as well as workers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States should join the rest of the industrialized world and offer paid leave for mothers of newborns.

Neymar leads Brazil; Mexico also through

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:00 PM PDT

Brazil's Neymar runs past Cameroon's goalkeeper Charles Itandje after scoring his side's first goal during the group A World Cup soccer match between Cameroon and Brazil at the Estadio Nacional in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil relied on its star Neymar for two early goals to beat Cameroon 4-1 Monday and reach the World Cup's knockout stage for a South American showdown against Chile, a 2-0 loser to the Netherlands.

Sudan to release woman on death row for marrying a Christian

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 07:21 AM PDT

In this file image made from an undated video provided Thursday, June 5, 2014, by Al Fajer, a Sudanese nongovernmental organization, Meriam Ibrahim, sitting next to Martin, her 18-month-old son, holds her newborn baby girl that she gave birth to in jail last week, as the NGO visits her in a room at a prison in Khartoum, Sudan. Sudan's official news agency, SUNA, said the Court of Cassation in Khartoum on Monday, June 23, canceled the death sentence against 27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim after defense lawyers presented their case. The court ordered her release. (AP Photo/Al Fajer, File)KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — A Sudanese woman on death row for apostasy had her sentence canceled and was ordered released by a Khartoum court on Monday, the country's official news agency reported.

Labor dispute locks tourists out of Pompeii ruins

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 08:28 AM PDT

People visit the ruins at the ancient archaeological site of PompeiiROME (AP) — A labor dispute has again kept tourists locked out of Pompeii in a spate of hours-long closures at the ancient Roman ruins.

Study links pesticide exposure in pregnancy to autism

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 05:37 AM PDT

A spray plane sprays pesticide on peasBy Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study from California, children with an autism spectrum disorder were more likely to have mothers who lived close to fields treated with certain pesticides during pregnancy. Proximity to agricultural pesticides in pregnancy was also linked to other types of developmental delay among children. "Ours is the third study to specifically link autism spectrum disorders to pesticide exposure, whereas more papers have demonstrated links with developmental delay," said lead author Janie F. Shelton, from the University of California, Davis.

Kerry urges political reform in Iraq

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 08:04 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, at the Prime Minister's office in Baghdad on Monday, June 23, 2014. Kerry flew to Baghdad on Monday to meet with Iraq's leaders and personally urge the Shiite-led government to give more power to political opponents before a Sunni insurgency seizes more control across the country and sweeps away hopes for lasting peace. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)Wants Shiite leaders to give opponents more power before Sunni insurgents seize more land.

Syria hands over remaining chemical weapons, sources say

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 07:41 AM PDT

Containers on the Ark Futura, a Danish-chartered cargo vessel, carry precursors to sarin gas, part of the effort to extract chemical weapon stockpiles from Syria, in the Eastern Mediterranean SeaSyria has handed over the remaining 100 tonnes of toxic material it declared to the global chemical weapons watchdog, clearing the way for destruction of the stockpile at sea, sources told Reuters on Monday. The chemicals, roughly 8 percent of a total 1,300 tonnes reported to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), had been held at a storage site which the government of President Bashar al-Assad previously said was inaccessible due to fighting with rebels.

'God particle' atom smasher to return at double strength

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:41 AM PDT

an experimental result in the search for the Higgs particleThe world's largest atom smasher is gearing up for its second three-year run after 16 months of maintenance and upgrades. The world's top particle physics lab known as CERN says the $10 billion Large Hadron ...

Egypt sentences 3 Al-Jazeera reporters to 7 years

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 09:29 AM PDT

Al-Jazeera's award-winning Australian correspondent Peter GresteCAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court convicted three Al-Jazeera journalists and sentenced them to seven years in prison each on terrorism-related charges in a verdict Monday that stunned their families and raised international outrage, with a chorus of voices denouncing the ruling as a blow to freedom of expression.

South Korea captures soldier accused of killing 5

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:33 AM PDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean army captured a soldier Monday who it says killed five comrades and then fled into the forest where he holed up with a rifle for two days before shooting himself as pursuers closed in.

Kerry in Iraq as Western frontier falls

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 12:50 PM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, at the Prime Minister's office in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 23, 2014. Kerry is visiting Iraqi leaders to discuss the increasing violence and instability in country caused by insurgents including the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)No small talk as U.S. worries gov't has worsened insurgency by alienating moderate Sunnis.

Israel carries out airstrikes in Syria

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 05:51 PM PDT

Photos of the day - June 22, 2014The military action is in response to an attack that left an Israeli teen dead, officials say.

Militants blitz through Iraq's western desert

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 08:52 PM PDT

Militants blitz through Iraq's western desertSunni militants have blitzed through the vast desert of western Iraq, capturing four towns and three border crossings and deepening the predicament of the Shiite-led government in Baghdad led by Nouri al-Maliki.

John Kerry confronts threat of new war in Iraq

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:41 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry following his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Sunday, June 22, 2014, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)The secretary of state wants to help foster a power-sharing agreement in Baghdad.

Army: Bergdahl shifted to outpatient care

Posted: 22 Jun 2014 04:50 PM PDT

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been a prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five years, has been shifted to outpatient care at a Texas military base, the U.S. Army said in a statement Sunday.

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