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Malaysia plane pilots, passengers back under scrutiny

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 08:48 AM PDT

Malaysian Maritime Enforcement personnel use radar to scan for the missing Boeing 777-200 as they fly over the waters off the northeastern coast of the Malaysian peninsula, on March 9, 2014Authorities searched the home of the captain of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

Ukraine says Russian forces move outside Crimea

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 12:32 PM PDT

A Ukrainian woman, who is a member of the district electoral committee, holds a ballot box during preparations for Sunday's referendum at a polling station in Simferopol, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Tensions are high in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, where a referendum is to be held Sunday on whether to split off from Ukraine and seek annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)Russian forces backed by helicopter gunships and armored vehicles Saturday took control of a village near the border with Crimea on the eve of a referendum on whether the region should seek annexation by Moscow, Ukrainian officials said.

Thousands march in Moscow to protest Crimea vote

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 11:42 AM PDT

Demonstrators hold Russian and Ukrainian flags during a massive rally to oppose president Vladimir Putin's policies in Ukraine, in Moscow, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Large rival marches have taken place in Moscow over Kremlin-backed plans for Ukraine's province of Crimea to break away and merge with Russia. More than 10,000 people turned out Saturday for a rally in the center of the city held to oppose what many demonstrators described as Russia's invasion of the Crimean Peninsula. In a nearby location, a similar sized crowd voiced its support for Crimea's ethnic Russian majority, who Moscow insists is at threat from an aggressively nationalist leadership now running Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters marched in central Moscow Saturday, a day before a Kremlin-backed referendum in Crimea on whether to break away from Ukraine and join Russia.

Officers' body cameras raise privacy concerns

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 11:27 AM PDT

This Jan. 15, 2014 file photo shows a Los Angeles Police officer wearing an on-body cameras during a demonstration for media in Los Angeles. Thousands of police agencies have equipped officers with cameras to wear with their uniforms, but they've frequently lagged in setting policies on how they're used, potentially putting privacy at risk and increasing their liability. As officers in one of every six departments across the nation now patrols with tiny lenses on their chests, lapels or sunglasses, administrators and civil liberties experts are trying to envision and address troublesome scenarios that could unfold in front of a live camera. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Officers at thousands of law enforcement agencies are wearing tiny cameras to record their interactions with the public, but in many cases the devices are being rolled out faster than departments are able to create policies to govern their use.

Questions that arise when placing cameras on cops

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 08:23 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — New tiny cameras are starting to be worn by police officers across the U.S. — roughly 3,000 of 18,000 law enforcement agencies are using or trying out these cameras and the numbers are expected to grow exponentially as technology has become more affordable and reliable.

Rescue workers reach basement of NYC blast site

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 03:04 PM PDT

Firefighters look over the site of a building explosion in New York, Friday, March 14, 2014. Using sound devices to probe for voices and telescopic cameras to peer into small spaces, workers searching a pile of rubble from a gas explosion in the East Harlem section of Manhattan, continued to treat it as a rescue operation, holding onto the possibility of finding survivors from a blast that brought down two apartment buildings and killed at least eight people. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — Emergency workers sifted through debris Saturday from the site of a deadly explosion at two New York City apartment buildings as they worked to clear the way for investigators to search for clues that might reveal what caused the blast.

Brazil's WCup: Anger over waste, poor planning

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 03:35 PM PDT

This Feb. 3, 2014 photo shows an unfinished monorail line, it construction delayed, that was slated to improve mobility during the World Cup, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The World Cup was to have served as a stepping-out party announcing Brazil's arrival on the global stage. Instead the construction delays have become an embarrassment for many, stoking public anger over poor public services, the high cost of living and corruption scandals. Many Brazilians now say that even if their beloved soccer team wins the World Cup on July 13, the country will have already lost. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)CUIABA, Brazil (AP) — Pedestrians tiptoe across a road scarred with deep puddles, piles of gravel and a detour sign. Black oily slush leaves no room for missteps or steering mistakes.

Paul Stanley: Kiss miffed at Rock Hall over snub

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 01:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 8, 2008 file photo, members of Kiss, from left, Paul Stanley, Eric Singer, Gene Simmons and Tommy Thayer, poses for a photograph during a news conference to promote the start of their KISS Alive/35 European Tour in Oberhausen, Germany. Paul Stanley of KISS wants to shout it out loud: The band is miffed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for not inducting members Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer along with the original lineup. KISS is scheduled to be inducted into the Rock Hall of April 10 in New York City. But Stanley said in an interview Friday, March 14, 2014 with The Associated Press that he doesn't think the Rock Hall is being fair and that the organization has altered their rules for other acts. (AP Photo/Volker Wiciok)NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Stanley of Kiss wants to shout it out loud: The band is miffed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for not inducting members Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer along with the original lineup.

Syria conflict has 3rd anniversary amid offensive

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 09:37 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Thursday, March 13, 2014, provided by the anti-government activist group Local Comity of Yabroud Town, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian rebel looks through his binocular at one of the frontline of Yabroud town, the last rebel stronghold in Syria's mountainous Qalamoun region. Syria's uprising, which began with largely peace protests in March 2011, has evolved into a civil war with sectarian overtones. Islamic extremists, including foreign fighters and Syrian rebels who have taken up hard-line al-Qaida-style ideologies, have played an increasingly prominent role among fighters, dampening the West's support for the rebellion to overthrow Assad. (AP Photo/Local Comity of Yabroud Town)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops advanced in a major rebel-held town near the Lebanese border amid heavy bombardment from warplanes, artillery and tanks as the country's bloody conflict marked its third anniversary Saturday, state media and activists said.

Generation missing out on school in wartime Syria

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 09:22 AM PDT

In this picture taken on Wednesday, March 12, 2014, Syrian refugee children walk between their tents on their way to a makeshift school at their refugee encampment in the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Majdal Anjar, eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon. More than 2 million of those who should be in school remain in Syria, where classrooms have been bombed, used as shelters or turned into military barracks. Another 300,000 Syrian children don't attend school in Lebanon, along with some 93,000 in Jordan, 78,000 in Turkey, 26,000 in Iraq and 4,000 in Egypt, UNICEF officials in Geneva said. Those numbers likely are higher, as UNICEF can't count the children whose parents didn't register with the United Nations refugee agency. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)MAJDAL ANJAR, Lebanon (AP) — Along with some 20 other Syrian children, 13-year-old Anas braves rain, mud and cold to attend class in a tent pitched along Lebanon's border with Syria, the home of a Syrian refugee family that serves as a classroom for four hours each day.

Workers sift through rubble for clues to NYC blast

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 12:37 PM PDT

Rick Del Rio, pastor of Abounding Grace church in Manhattan, and New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, display a damaged but intact Bible they said was recovered in the rubble of the Spanish Christian Church, Saturday, March 15, 2014 in New York. The church was in one of the buildings destroyed in the March 12 gas explosion that leveled two building and killed eight people. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)NEW YORK (AP) — Emergency workers sifted through debris Saturday from the site of a deadly explosion at two New York City apartment buildings as they worked to reach the basement levels, clearing the way for investigators to search for clues that might reveal what caused the blast.

Workers recover Bible from rubble of NYC buildings

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 11:27 AM PDT

Firefighters look over the site of a building explosion in New York, Friday, March 14, 2014. Using sound devices to probe for voices and telescopic cameras to peer into small spaces, workers searching a pile of rubble from a gas explosion in the East Harlem section of Manhattan, continued to treat it as a rescue operation, holding onto the possibility of finding survivors from a blast that brought down two apartment buildings and killed at least eight people. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK (AP) — Workers hauling away debris from the wreckage of a New York City explosion that killed eight people have recovered a Bible, which clergy members are now carrying in a solemn procession at the site.

Obama touts overhaul of rules on who gets overtime

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 03:02 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 13, 2014, before signing a Presidential Memorandum directing Labor Secretary Tom Perez to modernize overtime protections. Obama is bypassing Congress and orders changes in overtime rules so employers would required to pay millions more for extra time they put in on the job. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says it's not right that businesses that treat their employers fairly can be undercut by competitors who don't.

Kenyan police must stop terror hits on tiny budget

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 10:18 AM PDT

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 file photo, armed special forces aim their weapons at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya after gunmen threw grenades and opened fire during an attack that left multiple dead and dozens wounded. Kenya's lead counterterrorism agency is working to stop another Westgate Mall-style terrorist attack that many here believe Somali militants will try again, but the anti-terror unit is struggling to do its work because of limited funds, according to a security official from the police headquarters. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's lead counterterrorism agency is working to stop another Westgate Mall-style terrorist attack — that many here believe Somali militants will try again — on a shoe-string budget: The Anti-Terror Police Unit in Nairobi has just $735 to spend this month.

Malaysian leader: Plane's disappearance deliberate

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 03:24 PM PDT

Malaysian PM Najib addresses reporters as Transport Minister Hussein stands by him, at Kuala Lumpur International AirportThe missing Malaysian jetliner was deliberately diverted and continued flying for more than six hours after losing contact with the ground.

Russian propaganda war in full swing over Ukraine

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 08:05 AM PDT

MOSCOW (AP) — This is Ukraine today, at least as seen by most Russian news media: the government is run by anti-Semitic fascists, people killed in protests were shot by opposition snipers and the West is behind it all.

One week since Flight 370 vanished, rival theories at play

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 01:11 PM PDT

FILE – In this Nov. 14, 2005 file photo, clouds hang over the North Sentinel Island, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands. India used heat sensors on flights over hundreds of uninhabited Andaman Sea islands Friday, March 14, 2014, and will expand its search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet farther west into the Bay of Bengal, officials said. The Indian-controlled archipelago that stretches south of Myanmar contains 572 islands covering an area of 720-by-52 kilometers. Only 37 are inhabited, with the rest covered in dense forests. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh, File)The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has generated dozens of theories on where it is now, from the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea, and how it vanished. Here's a rundown of what we know and what we don't, along with clues and theories about what happened to the Boeing 777 jetliner:

Ukraine reports Russian 'invasion' on eve of Crimea vote

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 01:28 PM PDT

People hold a Soviet flag as they take part in a pro-Russian rally in the Black Sea Ukrainian city of Odessa on March 14, 2014Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of invading a region bordering Crimea and vowed to use "all necessary measures" to repel an attack that came on the eve of the Black Sea peninsula's breakaway vote. The invasion reported by the Ukrainian foreign ministry was small in scale and concerned a region that lies just off the northeast coast of Crimea called the Arabat Spit. The dramatic escalation of the most serious East-West crisis since the Cold War set a tense stage for Sunday's referendum on Crimea's secession from Ukraine in favour of Kremlin rule -- a vote denounced by both the international community and Kiev.

China demands Malaysia give more accurate information on plane

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 02:05 AM PDT

Crew members discuss after search operations for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 were suspended, over the waters of South China SeaChina's foreign ministry said it "paid very close attention" to the news and that it was sending a technical team to Malaysia to help with the probe.

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