| Battle persists for Ukraine railway hub, despite peace deal Posted: 16 Feb 2015 02:25 PM PST  The fighting threatens to dash a cease-fire deal brokered by European leaders last week.
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| Winter storm slams the South; bitter cold freezes Northeast Posted: 16 Feb 2015 01:29 PM PST  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Snow swirled sideways in Kentucky and the typically bustling state capital of Frankfort came to a frozen halt Monday as a storm walloped parts of the South, which unlike the Northeast, had been mostly spared this winter.
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| 'It's My Party' singer-songwriter Lesley Gore dies at 68 Posted: 16 Feb 2015 02:38 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Singer-songwriter Lesley Gore, who topped the charts in 1963 at age 16 with her epic song of teenage angst, "It's My Party," and followed it up with the hits "Judy's Turn to Cry," and the feminist anthem "You Don't Own Me," died Monday. She was 68. |
| CSX train hauling North Dakota oil derails, cars ablaze in West Virginia Posted: 16 Feb 2015 03:21 PM PST  One or two of the cars plunged into the Kanawha River, and "a couple are burning," said Robert Jelacic, night shift manager of the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. CSX said the train was hauling 109 cars from North Dakota to the coastal town of Yorktown, Virginia, where midstream firm Plains All American Pipelines runs an oil depot. West Virginia State Police First Sergeant Greg Duckworth, who was at the crash site, told Reuters that nine or 10 of the cars had exploded at intervals of about every half hour.
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| Icy storm paralyzes central U.S., pummels nation's capital Posted: 16 Feb 2015 02:15 PM PST  By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Record-breaking cold gripped the eastern United States on Monday while an icy winter storm crippled the nation's central states and then plowed into the mid-Atlantic, dumping snow ahead of Tuesday's morning commute. Heavy snowfall and ice moving from the Southern Plains eastward pounded Missouri, Arkansas, southern Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, the National Weather Service said. With the storm headed east and sleet and freezing rain expected to also take a swipe at the South, states of emergency were declared in North Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, as well as in Washington, D.C. Airlines canceled more than 1,800 U.S. flights, with the hardest hit airports in North Carolina and Tennessee.
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| Grand jury indicts North Carolina man in killings of Muslims Posted: 16 Feb 2015 12:36 PM PST  (Reuters) - A grand jury indicted a North Carolina man on Monday for the shooting deaths of a newlywed Muslim couple and the wife's sister last week, a court official said. Craig Hicks, 46, of Chapel Hill, was charged by a grand jury with three counts of first-degree murder and one of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling, said Angela Kelly, an assistant clerk of the Durham County Superior Court.
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| Ex-prostitutes drop civil action against DSK in pimping trial Posted: 16 Feb 2015 11:05 AM PST  It's good news for the embattled former IMF chief.
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| Europe scrambles to reassure Jews after Copenhagen attacks Posted: 16 Feb 2015 09:00 AM PST  European nations scrambled on Monday to reassure their Jewish communities after deadly attacks in Copenhagen that heightened fears of a new surge in anti-Semitic violence. Flags were flying at half-mast across Denmark after the weekend shootings on a synagogue and a cultural centre that stunned one of the world's most peaceful nations. Two men were charged on Monday with aiding the gunman, named by the media as Omar El-Hussein, in his lone rampage in the Danish capital that left two people dead and five policemen wounded. France, which was rocked by Islamist attacks last month that killed 17 people including four Jews, appealed for national unity to combat "Islamo-facism".
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| Controversial executions in Indonesia set to continue Posted: 16 Feb 2015 03:04 PM PST  Despite international appeals, two Australians will be transferred to a prison island to be killed.
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| Boko Haram insurgents attack Cameroon army base Posted: 16 Feb 2015 04:51 AM PST  Nigerian Boko Haram insurgents attacked a Cameroon military camp near the town of Waza in the north of the country on Monday, wounding several soldiers, an army spokesman said. Chad, Niger and Cameroon have begun a joint offensive against Boko Haram militants who have killed thousands of people in a bid to carve out an Islamist emirate in northern Nigeria, and have increasingly staged raids across nearby borders.
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| Egypt strikes IS in Libya, pushes for international action Posted: 16 Feb 2015 02:29 PM PST  Warplanes target Islamic State training camps and weapons caches.
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| Heavy shelling as rebels keep pressure on Ukraine's Debaltseve Posted: 16 Feb 2015 01:43 AM PST  A government-held town in east Ukraine sandwiched between two rebel-controlled areas came under heavy shelling on Monday, a day after the start of a ceasefire that Russian-backed separatists say does not apply there. A Reuters correspondent at Vuhlehirsk, about 10 km (6 miles) to the west of Debaltseve, a government-held railway junction town that has been the focus of most of the fighting in recent weeks, heard heavy shelling, with blasts around every 10 seconds. The ceasefire was negotiated at a summit of leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France in Belarus last week in an attempt to end 10 months of conflict in eastern Ukraine in which more than 5,000 people have been killed. Although fighting generally ceased in the first minutes of Sunday after the ceasefire came into force, military spokesman Anatoly Stelmakh told reporters it had continued, or even escalated, around Debaltseve.
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| AP Source: Gunman in Copenhagen attacks just got out of jail Posted: 16 Feb 2015 03:07 PM PST  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Danish gunman who attacked a free-speech seminar and a synagogue in Copenhagen was released about two weeks ago from a jail where he may have been radicalized while serving time for a vicious stabbing.
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| Hackers cause one of history's biggest banking breaches, security co. says Posted: 15 Feb 2015 02:02 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — A hacking ring has stolen up to $1 billion from banks around the world in what would be one of the biggest banking breaches known, a cybersecurity firm says in a report scheduled to be delivered Monday.
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