2014年3月14日星期五

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Investigators focus on foul play behind missing Malaysia plane: sources

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:48 PM PDT

By Niluksi Koswanage and Siva Govindasamy KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - An investigation into a missing Malaysian jetliner, now into its second week, is focusing more on the possibility of foul play as evidence suggests it was deliberately flown hundreds of miles off course, sources familiar with the Malaysian probe said. Two sources told Reuters that military radar data showed an unidentified aircraft that investigators suspect was Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 following a commonly used navigational route toward the Middle East and Europe when it was last spotted early on March 8, northwest of Malaysia. That course - headed into the Andaman Sea and towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean - could only have been set deliberately, either by flying the Boeing 777-200ER jet manually or by programming the auto-pilot. A third source familiar with the investigation said inquiries were focusing more on the theory that someone with knowledge of navigational waypoints - used by airlines to track established commercial flight paths - had diverted the flight off its scheduled course from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

West prepares sanctions as Russia presses on with Crimea takeover

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:17 PM PDT

Ukrainian tank takes part in the military exercise near KharkivBy Andrew Osborn and Lina Kushch SEVASTOPOL/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Dozens of Russians linked to Russia's gradual takeover of Crimea could face U.S. and EU travel bans and asset freezes on Monday, after six hours of crisis talks between Washington and Moscow ended with both sides still far apart. Moscow shipped more troops and armor into Crimea on Friday and repeated its threat to invade other parts of Ukraine in response to violence in Donetsk on Thursday night despite Western demands to pull back. EU diplomats will choose from a long list of 120-130 possible Russian targets for sanctions on Sunday, as pro-Moscow authorities who have taken power in Crimea hold a vote to join Russia in the worst East-West confrontation since the Cold War.


U.S. to seek extradition of Ukrainian industrialist

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:24 PM PDT

Firtash, one of Ukraine's richest men, is seen in KievBy David Ingram and Michael Shields WASHINGTON/VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.S. government will ask Austria to extradite Ukrainian industrialist Dmytro Firtash to face charges filed in a Chicago court arising from an investigation into international corruption, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday. One of Ukraine's most influential oligarchs, Firtash, 48, was arrested in Vienna on Wednesday. "Firtash's arrest is not related to recent events in Ukraine," they said in a reference to the political crisis between Ukraine and Russia.


Suspected Uighurs rescued from Thai trafficking camp

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:13 PM PDT

Suspected Uighurs from China's region of Xinjiang, sit inside a temporary shelter after they were detained near the Thailand-Malaysia border in Hat YaiBy Andrew R.C. Marshall HAT YAI, Thailand (Reuters) - Police rescued about 200 people believed to be Muslim Uighurs from a human smuggling camp in southern Thailand, police sources said on Friday, in the latest crackdown on a burgeoning trafficking network in Southeast Asia. The latest trafficking victims, possibly from China's troubled far-western region of Xinjiang, brings the total number of people freed from human traffickers to well over 800 since Reuters exposed the whereabouts of the illegal camps in a December 5 investigation. The raid is further evidence that human smugglers in southern Thailand - already a notorious trafficking hub for Rohingya boat people from Myanmar - are exploiting well-oiled networks to transport other nationalities in large numbers, despite an ongoing crackdown by Thai police. "The human smugglers are expanding their product range," said Police Major General Thatchai Pitaneelaboot, who has launched a series of raids on trafficking camps in southern Thailand, including the 200 rescued on Wednesday.


U.S. prosecutors again indict Indian diplomat Khobragade

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:02 PM PDT

Indian diplomat Khobragade leaves with her father to meet India's Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid in New DelhiBy Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A grand jury in New York has returned a new indictment against Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade for visa fraud, two days after a U.S. judge dismissed a similar indictment because she had diplomatic immunity. Khobragade's arrest in December and a subsequent strip search drew outrage in India, causing a major diplomatic rift between the United States and India. "Unfortunately, I can have no comment at this stage," Khobragade's lawyer, Daniel Arshack, said in an email. "The government of India will respond in due course." The new indictment effectively returns the case to where it was before Wednesday's dismissal.


Israel fires into Lebanon after bomb targets its soldiers

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 01:18 PM PDT

Israel fired tank rounds and artillery into southern Lebanon on Friday, its military said, in retaliation for a bomb that targeted Israeli soldiers patrolling the border. The Israel-Lebanon border has been mostly quiet since Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah fought an inconclusive war in 2006, even as civil war has raged in neighboring Syria over the past three years. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the Israeli fire targeted "Hezbollah terror infrastructure in southern Lebanon" and that a hit was confirmed. Earlier this month Israel said its troops shot two Hezbollah gunmen who tried to plant a bomb further east near the fence between the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and Syrian-held territory.

Backstrom to get silver medal despite drug test

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:50 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — Swedish hockey star Nicklas Backstrom will receive an Olympic silver medal even though he was suspended from the final in Sochi after a positive drug test.

Rival theories on Malaysia flight's disappearance

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:48 PM PDT

A relative of Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 takes a photo of a slideshow displaying the chronology of events since the plane went missing during a press conference held by Hugh Dunleavy, right bottom, commercial director of Malaysia Airlines at right in a hotel in Beijing, China, Friday, March 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)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:


Anelka leaves West Brom following quenelle ban

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:31 PM PDT

WEST BROMWICH, England (AP) — Striker Nicolas Anelka announced Friday he was leaving West Bromwich Albion and terminating his contract with immediate effect after being suspended for five matches by the Football Association for a racially aggravated goal celebration.

Audit says US project in Haiti missed carbon goals

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:30 PM PDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.S. program that seeks to save Haiti's forests by shifting people away from charcoal stoves has largely failed to reach its goals, according to an audit by the U.S. Agency for International Department.

Salvadoran castaway in Mexico to fulfill promise

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:27 PM PDT

Sea survivor Jose Salvador Alvarenga, center, embraces his mother Maria Julia, after they arrive at the airport in Mexico City, Friday, March 14, 2014. The Salvadoran fisherman, who was lost at sea for 13 months, traveled from El Salvador with his parents to Mexico to fulfill a promise he made to his dead sea mate, Mexican Ezequiel Cordoba. Alvarenga said Cordoba died a month into their ordeal because he couldn't stomach the diet of raw fish, turtles and birds. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Salvadoran fisherman who says he spent 13 months adrift in the Pacific Ocean has arrived in Mexico ready to meet with the family of a young companion who died early in the voyage.


3 tourists cleared in St. Maarten burglar death

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:24 PM PDT

PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten (AP) — A group of U.S. and Swedish tourists who caught a man breaking into their rented villa and held him in a chokehold that led to his death will not be prosecuted, officials announced Friday.

Lawyer: Oregon man fears return after FBI actions

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:24 PM PDT

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — An attorney for an American man who claims he was tortured in the United Arab Emirates at the behest of the U.S. government said Friday that his client is too afraid to try to travel back home.

Canadian PM to visit Ukraine next week

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:22 PM PDT

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Prime Minister Stephen Harper will briefly visit Ukraine next week during a European trip, the first G7 leader to do so since the new government took office under the shadow of Russian intervention.

Lawyer: US man fears return after treatment

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:20 PM PDT

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — An attorney for a man who claims he was tortured in the United Arab Emirates at the behest of the U.S. government says his client is too afraid to attempt to travel back to the United States.

Syrian presidential election law excludes most opposition leaders

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:19 PM PDT

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks to displaced Syrians during his visit to them in the town of Adra in the Damascus countrysideBy Stephen Kalin BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's parliament has set residency rules for presidential candidates, state media said on Friday, a move that would bar many of President Bashar al-Assad's foes who live in exile as the uprising in the major Arab state enters its fourth year. Assad has not yet announced whether he will stand for a third term in defiance of rebels fighting to overthrow him and Western leaders who have demanded he go to help end Syria's civil war and make way for a democratic transition. U.N.-Arab League peace mediator Lakhdar Brahimi warned ON Thursday that the Syrian opposition will probably not be interested in pursuing any peace talks with the government if it goes ahead with an election highly likely to secure a new term for Assad, whose family has ruled Syria for 44 years.


Mexico to draw line on vigilantes

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:18 PM PDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have finally served notice to vigilantes fighting a drug cartel in western Michoacan state that their illegal tactics will no longer be allowed.

Obama's promise to review deportations has risks

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:16 PM PDT

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 13, 2014, to outline President Barack Obama's FY2015 budget requests to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's new promise to seek ways to ease his administration's rate of deportations aims to mollify angry immigrant advocates but carries risks for a White House that has insisted it has little recourse.


Biden heading to Europe amid Ukraine tensions

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2014, file photo, Vice President Biden speaks at the Association of State Democratic Chairs Meeting in Washington. The White House says Biden will travel on Monday, March 17, to Poland and Lithuania amid tensions in nearby Ukraine. The trip is part of a U.S. effort to pressure Russia over a military intervention in Crimea that has the entire region on edge. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Vice President Joe Biden will travel next week to Poland and Lithuania amid tensions in nearby Ukraine.


Scientists expect traces of ocean radiation soon

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:13 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 20, 2013 filel photo shows the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant at Okuma in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan. Scientists have crowd-sourced a volunteer network to monitor radiation moving across the Pacific Ocean since the 2011 earthquak and tsunami dmaged the plant. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDITScientists have crowdsourced a network of volunteers taking water samples at beaches along the U.S. West Coast in hopes of capturing a detailed look at low levels of radiation drifting across the ocean since the 2011 tsunami that devastated a nuclear power plant in Japan.


Biden to visit Ukraine's neighbor Poland, Lithuania next week: White House

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:12 PM PDT

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Poland, which borders Ukraine, and Lithuania next week to meet with leaders of the two countries to reassure them about defense commitments under NATO, the White House said on Friday. Biden will meet with the president and prime minister of Poland, and the presidents of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, the White House said in a statement. "During his meetings, the Vice President will consult on steps to support Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and affirm our collective defense commitments under the North Atlantic Treaty and our enduring support for all of our allies and partners in Europe," the White House said.

Slovak PM Fico fights political newcomer for presidency

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:10 PM PDT

Slovakia's Prime Minister Fico speaks at a news conference at the end of a European leaders emergency summit on Ukraine in BrusselsBy Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) - Slovaks vote on Saturday to pick a new president in an election that will either cement Prime Minister Robert Fico's power in the central European country or usher in an independent. A Fico victory would give his center-left Smer party full control of all the main power centers, even if the Slovak constitution does not grant the president himself a huge political role. Fico, 49, took Slovakia into the euro zone in 2009 and has kept the country of 5.5 million friendly to investors despite levying extra taxes on banks and utilities. This gives a fighting chance to Andrej Kiska, a businessman-turned-philanthropist whose chances to beat Fico have grown in the latest opinion polls.


French court sentences Rwandan over genocide

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:09 PM PDT

Lawyer Fabrice Epstein (C) adresses the media on March 14, 2014 at the Paris courthouse, following the verdict of the first trial on Rwanda's genocideA French court sentenced a former Rwandan army captain to 25 years in prison over the 1994 genocide Friday, in a landmark ruling just weeks ahead of the massacre's 20th anniversary. Pascal Simbikangwa, a 54-year-old former member of the Rwandan presidential guard, was found guilty of perpetrating genocide and of complicity in crimes against humanity. Prosecutors in the trial -- the first of its kind in France -- have asked for life imprisonment for Simbikangwa, branding him an ethnic "cleanser" who was "radically committed" to his work and a "man capable of the worst".


UN chief: top mediator Brahimi to go to Iran

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:08 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will visit Syria's close ally Iran this weekend to try to break a deadlock in political talks aimed at ending Syria's three-year war, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Friday.

Rwandan ex-intel chief convicted in genocide trial

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:03 PM PDT

FILE - This undated photo provided by Interpol Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 shows Pascal Simbikangwa, 54, Rwanda's former intelligence chief. After 5-1/2 weeks of hearings, a jury of three magistrates and six civilian jurors retired to discuss accusations of genocide, complicity in genocide and complicity in war crimes against 54-year-old Pascal Simbikangwa over the 1994 genocide that left at least 500,000 dead, mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus. A verdict is expected later Friday, March 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Interpol, File)PARIS (AP) — Paris court delivered France's first-ever conviction for genocide Friday, sentencing a Rwandan former intelligence chief to 25 years in prison over the 1994 killings of at least 500,000 people in the African country.


Missing plane: Piracy theory gains more credence

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:02 PM PDT

Officer Lang Van Ngan of the Vietnam Air Force looks out the window onboard a flying AN-26 Soviet made aircraft during a search operation for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 plane over the southern sea between Vietnam and Malaysia Friday, March 14, 2014. Vietnam says it has downgraded but not stopped its search for the missing jetliner in the South China Sea and has been asked by Malaysian authorities to consider sending planes and ships to the Strait of Malacca. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen)KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Piracy and pilot suicide are among the scenarios under study as investigators grow increasingly certain the missing Malaysian Airlines jet changed course and headed west after its last radio contact with air traffic controllers.


Top Asian News at 11:01 p.m. GMT

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:02 PM PDT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Piracy and pilot suicide are among the scenarios under study as investigators grow increasingly certain the missing Malaysian Airlines jet changed course and headed west after its last radio contact with air traffic controllers. The latest evidence suggests the plane didn't experience a catastrophic incident over the South China Sea as was initially suspected. Some experts theorize that one of the pilots, or someone else with flying experience, hijacked the plane or committed suicide by plunging the jet into the sea.

Obama, Biden kick off St Patrick's Day early in DC

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:00 PM PDT

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, left, and President Barack Obama, hold up a bowl of Irish shamrocks during a St. Patrick's Day reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)WASHINGTON (AP) — Irish eyes were smiling on the White House a few days early this year.


US, West brace for Crimea vote to leave Ukraine

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 04:00 PM PDT

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and US Secretary of State John Kerry stand together prior to a meeting at Winfield House in London, Friday March 14, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to London on Friday to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a last-minute bid to stave off a new chapter in the East-West crisis over Ukraine. (AP Photo/Sean Dempsey, Pool)LONDON (AP) — The West braced Friday for a vote by the Crimean Peninsula to secede from Ukraine — and likely be annexed by Russia — as the last attempt for diplomacy broke down despite threats of costly international sanctions and other imminent penalties against Moscow for forcibly challenging a pro-European government in Kiev.


Crimea edges closer to vote, as US-Russia talks fail

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:58 PM PDT

The United States and Russia failed Friday to resolve a Cold-War-style standoff sparked by Moscow's military intervention in Crimea, as the clock ticks down to the region's vote on splitting from Ukraine. US Secretary of State John Kerry flew in early Friday for whirlwind talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in London, with few illusions that Sunday's Moscow-backed referendum in the strategic Black Sea peninsula could be averted or delayed. But US hopes of at least winning assurances from Lavrov that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not move swiftly to annex Crimea and that Russian troops would be pulled back to their barracks were broadly dashed.

US officials issue alert for Americans in Russia

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:56 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is advising U.S. citizens in Russia to be alert amid the potential for increased public demonstrations and anti-American actions in Russia in connection with Russian actions in the Crimea.

EU leaders announce fresh aid during C.Africa visit

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:46 PM PDT

This picture taken on March 6, 2014 shows a family of Christian Internally Displaced People at a refugee camp in the yard of the Bossangoa Catholic ChurchBangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) - A European delegation on Friday announced 81 million euros ($112 million) in aid for the Central African Republic during a meeting in the capital Bangui with interim President Catherine Samba Panza. "The Central African Republic and its people are facing unprecedented challenges, and it is more important than ever that we act now to put in place the foundations for stability and future development," European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs said at a press conference. Brussels has also granted Bangui 20 million euros to finance the elections due to take place early next year.


Bayern proposes Karl Hopfner as new club president

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:43 PM PDT

MUNICH (AP) — Bayern Munich's board of management has nominated Karl Hopfner as the club's new president to replace Uli Hoeness, who resigned after a tax scandal.

US urges Thailand to protect detained Uighurs

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:40 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. State Department is urging Thailand to protect about 200 ethnic Uighurs it says have been rescued by Thai police from a camp in the nation's south.

Peru former President Fujimori hospitalized after stroke

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:36 PM PDT

Peru's jailed former president, Alberto Fujimori, was hospitalized and in stable condition on Friday after suffering a small stroke, doctors said. Fujimori, 75, was conscious and talking on Friday afternoon following a stroke in his jail cell in the morning, said Dr Juan Barreto, with the Clinica La Luz in Lima. "He is a little bit delicate." Fujimori started to have problems with blood flow to his brain four days ago, and a magnetic resonance imaging scan confirmed he had a stroke on Friday that impaired movement of his left arm, said Jose Luis Ore, the medical director of the clinic. "He won't be released today and probably not tomorrow." Fujimori, who has been imprisoned since 2007 on charges of human rights abuses and corruption committed during his 1990-2000 term, often coordinates with members of his political party from his jail cell and criticizes President Ollanta Humala via Twitter and Facebook.

El Arabi leads Granada to 3-3 draw at Getafe

Posted: 14 Mar 2014 03:34 PM PDT

MADRID (AP) — Striker Youssef El Arabi scored two goals and set up another to pace Granada in a wild 3-3 draw at Getafe in the Spanish league on Friday.

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