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| 8 dead in police helicopter crash onto Glasgow pub Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 08:53 AM PST GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Scottish authorities raised the death toll to eight people Saturday in the crash of a police helicopter into a crowded Glasgow pub, stressing that a rescue and recovery operation is ongoing and it is unclear what they will find when the aircraft's wreckage is moved. Full Story | Top |
| Chemical watchdog says US to destroy Syria stockpile at sea Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 10:31 AM PST  The United States will destroy the most dangerous of Syria's chemical weapon stockpile on a ship at sea, the world's chemical watchdog said on Saturday. "The neutralisation operations will be conducted on a US vessel at sea using hydrolysis," the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement. "Currently a suitable naval vessel is undergoing modifications to support the operations and to accommodate verification activities by the OPCW," The Hague-based watchdog added. The ship operation will destroy what is known as "priority chemical weapons", the most dangerous of Syria's total arsenal and ones that have to be out of the country by December 31 under an international deal agreed to avert military strikes on Damascus. Full Story | Top |
| Obamacare website faces crucial weekend after technology overhaul Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 07:38 AM PST  The government takes the HealthCare.gov site offline for a long maintenance period extending into Saturday morning. Full Story | Top |
| Troopers: 4 dead in southwest Alaska plane crash Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 11:31 AM PST  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board in Alaska says searchers from a village reached the site of a fatal commuter airplane crash two hours after the plane went down Friday night. Full Story | Top |
| Ukraine leader blasts violence against protesters Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 11:33 AM PST  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's president has condemned the violent dispersal of pro-EU protesters by riot police. Full Story | Top |
| Scottish holiday marred by police helicopter crash Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 11:37 AM PST  GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Scotland's official holiday was transformed into a grim day of mourning Saturday as emergency crews searched the wreckage of a riverside pub smashed by a falling police helicopter. At least eight people died and more than a dozen remained hospitalized with serious injuries. Full Story | Top |
| US offers to destroy Syrian chemical weapons Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 05:03 AM PST  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The U.S. has offered to help destroy some of the most lethal parts of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile at an offshore facility, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons said Saturday. Full Story | Top |
| Sectarian tensions mount in C. African Rep. town Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 08:07 AM PST  BOUCA, Central African Republic (AP) — About a dozen Muslim armed fighters rolled up to the Catholic mission in their pickup truck and delivered an ominous message to the hundreds seeking refuge on church grounds: Leave the premises by morning or face death. Full Story | Top |
| US: American fighters in Syria a security risk Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 10:32 AM PST  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal officials say Americans are joining the bloody civil war in Syria, raising the chances they could become radicalized by al-Qaida-linked militant groups and return to the U.S. as battle-hardened security risks. Full Story | Top |
| Americans kick off first holiday shopping weekend Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 07:44 AM PST  Millions of Americans turned out as the holiday buying season started earlier this year on Thanksgiving Day. But there's still a lot of shopping left. Full Story | Top |
| Egypt panel begins vote on draft constitution Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 08:40 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — A panel in Egypt tasked with amending the country's suspended constitution began voting Saturday on hundreds of changes to it, the first step in an effort authorities say will move the country toward democratic rule following a July military coup that ousted its president. Full Story | Top |
| Ukrainian demonstrators converge outside monastery Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 08:46 AM PST KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — About 10,000 anti-government demonstrators angry about Ukraine's refusal to sign a pro-European Union agreement converged Saturday on a square outside a monastery where protesters driven away in a pre-dawn clash with police were taking shelter. Some opposition leaders called for nationwide strikes. Full Story | Top |
| Troopers: 4 dead in W. Alaska plane crash Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 09:35 AM PST ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A plane crash near the remote western Alaska village of Saint Marys killed four of the 10 people aboard, including an infant boy, an Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman said Saturday. Full Story | Top |
| Police forcefully break up demonstration in Kiev Friday, Nov 29, 2013 09:05 PM PST  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Police in the Ukrainian capital broke up a large anti-government demonstration in the city center before dawn Saturday, swinging truncheons and injuring many. Full Story | Top |
| Shots heard at clash of Thai political protesters Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 07:13 AM PST  BANGKOK (AP) — Gunshots were heard at the scene of clashes between government supporters and foes in the Thai capital Saturday night as violence took hold for the first time in a week of demonstrations against the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Full Story | Top |
| China claims victory in scrubbing Internet clean Saturday, Nov 30, 2013 01:35 AM PST  BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese government has declared victory in cleaning up what it considers rumors, negativity and unruliness from online discourse, while critics say the moves have suppressed criticism of the government and ruling Communist Party. Full Story | Top |
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