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• Airlines symbolize nations' hopes or reflect shame
• Fla. jury slams RJ Reynolds with $23.6B in damages
• Israeli military seek and destroy Gaza tunnels
• Malaysia Airlines staff try to cope with disasters
• Monitors try to secure Ukraine plane crash site
• DNA being collected to ID Ukraine crash victims
• Without radar, missile may not have identified jet
• Israeli bulldozers destroy Hamas tunnels in Gaza
• Mideast divisions cloud Gaza cease-fire efforts
• Russia bans congressman, 12 other Americans
• Owner of raided Mexico child shelter was admired
• Teen's death puts focus on caffeine powder dangers
• AIDS conference spared worst with MH17 toll at 6

Airlines symbolize nations' hopes or reflect shame Posted: 19 Jul 2014 04:53 PM PDT 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 A 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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