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| Kerry, Russian counterpart meet on Ukraine crisis Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 12:48 PM PDT  Russia on Sunday set out demands for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in Ukraine, saying the former Soviet republic should be unified in a federation allowing wide autonomy to its various regions as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met in Paris in another bid to calm tensions. Full Story | Top |
| Jet search effort ramped up; no evidence found Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 06:22 AM PDT  Australia's prime minister said Sunday he was hopeful clues will emerge soon to help find Flight 370 even though searchers again failed to find jet debris, as relatives of Chinese passengers on the plane protested in Malaysia to demand the government apologize over its handling of the search. Full Story | Top |
| Thousands in Taiwan protest China trade deal Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 05:43 AM PDT  Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered in the streets around Taiwan's Parliament on Sunday to voice their opposition to a trade pact with China, part of a nearly 2-week-old protest that is challenging the president's policy of moving the democratic island economically closer to China. Full Story | Top |
| Search dogs take break from mudslide recovery Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 12:47 PM PDT  DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Families coping with the loss of friends, neighbors and normalcy sought comfort in church services Sunday, as crews worked to recover more victims from the soggy pile of mud that buried the small mountainside community of Oso, Wash., more than a week ago. Full Story | Top |
| No national system to track landslide hazards Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 11:06 AM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — People living in the path of a deadly Washington state landslide had virtually no warning before a wall of mud, trees and other debris thundered down the mountain. Some of the homeowners didn't even know the hillside could give way at any time. Full Story | Top |
| Conflict with Russia galvanizes Ukraine's identity Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 04:24 AM PDT KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — He's one of Russia's favorite doctors, the author of books read by parents from Moscow to Siberia. And he lives in eastern Ukraine where the Russian language is dominant and ties to Russia strong. Full Story | Top |
| UN science report: Warming worsens security woes Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 11:00 PM PDT  YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — In an authoritative report due out Monday a United Nations climate panel for the first time is connecting hotter global temperatures to hotter global tempers. Top scientists are saying that climate change will complicate and worsen existing global security problems, such as civil wars, strife between nations and refugees. Full Story | Top |
| Armed pro-govt militias roil Venezuela protests Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 09:33 PM PDT  VALENCIA, Venezuela (AP) — The masked gunmen emerged from a group of several dozen motorcycle-mounted government loyalists who were attempting to dismantle a barricade in La Isabelica, a working-class district of Valencia that has been a center of unrest since nationwide protests broke out last month. Full Story | Top |
| Brazil police push into Rio de Janeiro slums Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 12:27 PM PDT  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — More than 1,400 police officers and Brazilian Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro's international airport before dawn Sunday in the latest security push ahead of this year's World Cup. Full Story | Top |
| Egyptians to elect new president in late May Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 12:03 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's presidential election will be held in late May, the electoral commission announced on Sunday, finally setting dates for the crucial vote widely expected to be won by the country's former military chief who ousted an elected president last year. Full Story | Top |
| Police fire pepper spray at Arizona students Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 10:22 AM PDT TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Tucson police shot pepper spray at several hundred fans who took to the streets and threw beer bottles and firecrackers at officers Saturday night after the University of Arizona basketball team's overtime loss to Wisconsin in the NCAA tournament. Full Story | Top |
| Photos found at slide site; missing number drops Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 09:01 AM PDT DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of family photographs and albums are among the personal belongings being recovered by crews searching for victims at a massive debris site left by the deadly mudslide in Washington state. Full Story | Top |
| Mixed legacy for Karzai as Afghan president Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 08:25 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans go to the polls next weekend to choose a new president, and that in itself may one day be considered Hamid Karzai's greatest achievement. Full Story | Top |
| Officials: Reality TV star Benzino shot by nephew Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 05:14 AM PDT  BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — Reality TV star Benzino was injured after being shot by his nephew on a Massachusetts highway Saturday while riding in a funeral procession for a family member, according authorities and Benzino's hip-hop magazine. Full Story | Top |
| Christie, Walker court GOP donors in Las Vegas Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 09:16 PM PDT LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two of the nation's highest-profile Republican governors on Saturday called for more aggressive leadership on America's challenges abroad, emphasizing their support for Israel as they courted powerful Jewish donors. Full Story | Top |
| State media: N. Korea 'will not rule out' a new nuclear test Sunday, Mar 30, 2014 12:41 AM PDT  North Korea said Sunday it "will not rule out" a new nuclear test as it defended its recent mid-range missile launch which triggered widespread international condemnation. "(We) will not rule out a new form of a nuclear test aimed at strengthening our nuclear deterrence," Pyongyang's foreign ministry said in a statement carried by the North's state-run KCNA news agency. Pyongyang slammed the UN criticism as "unacceptable", defending the launch as a "self-defensive" act in protest against ongoing Seoul-Washington joint military drills being held in South Korea. Full Story | Top |
| New aftershock rattles Los Angeles Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 03:10 PM PDT  A 4.1 magnitude earthquake rattled Los Angeles on Saturday, a day after a similar seismic shock spooked the sprawling Californian metropolis. The quake was initially reported as a 4.5 magnitude event before being revised down to 4.1 by the United States Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage following the temblor, which came less than 24 hours after the biggest earthquake to hit the Los Angeles area in six years. Friday's 5.1 magnitude quake caused power cuts, gas leaks and burst water mains and halted rides at Disneyland. Full Story | Top |
| Russia vows no Ukraine invasion as diplomacy intensifies Saturday, Mar 29, 2014 01:46 PM PDT  Moscow pledged it would not invade mainland Ukraine and said it favored the ex-Soviet state becoming a federation as a way of defusing the crisis. Full Story | Top |
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