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Islamic State captures Jordanian pilot after warplane crashes in Syria

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:24 PM PST

Relatives of the Jordanian pilot who was captured by the forces of the Islamic State after his plane came down near Raqqa in Syria, congregate in front of his family's home in the city of KarakBy Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters took a Jordanian pilot prisoner after his warplane came down in northeast Syria on Wednesday, the first captive taken from the U.S.-led coalition battling the jihadi group. Jordan's armed forces said one of its pilots had been captured after a coalition air raid over the province of Raqqa. There were contradictory accounts as to whether his aircraft had been shot down or not. "Jordan holds the group (IS) and its supporters responsible for the safety of the pilot and his life," said a statement read out on state television. ...


Russia says NATO turning Ukraine into 'frontline of confrontation'

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 04:03 AM PST

Ukrainian serviceman guards at a checkpoint near the eastern Ukrainian town of Debaltseve in Donetsk regionBy Thomas Grove MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday NATO was turning Ukraine into a "frontline of confrontation" and threatened to sever remaining ties with the Atlantic military alliance if Ukraine's hopes of joining it were realized. The Kiev parliament's renunciation of Ukraine's neutral status on Tuesday in pursuit of NATO membership has outraged Moscow and deepened the worst confrontation between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. ...


Baghdad's Christians gather defiantly for Christmas Eve mass

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:13 PM PST

Iraqi Christians light candles during a mass on Christmas eve at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in BaghdadBy Saif Hameed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Baghdad's embattled Christian community worshipped defiantly Wednesday night at Christmas Eve mass. The pews filled at Baghdad's Sacred Heart church, as people remembered the darkest year in memory. Blast walls shielded the church and seven policeman flanked the outside of the house of worship, in an indication of the government's fear of an attack on the religious groups by jihadists who consider them non-believers. The congregation sang in unison: "Praise Jesus, our Lord. Oh praise him" as incense burnt in the darkened church. ...


Pope, on Christmas Eve, urges world to be open to God

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 02:38 PM PST

Pope Francis kneels as he leads the Christmas night mass in Saint Peter's Basilica at the VaticanBy Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis ushered the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics into Christmas on Wednesday, urging them to allow God to enter their lives to help combat darkness and corruption. The 78-year-old Argentine pope led a solemn Christmas Eve Mass for thousands of people in St. Peter's Basilica. It is the second Christmas season for the pope, who was elected last year as the first non-European pontiff in 1,300 years. ...


Suicide bomber kills 33 people south of Baghdad

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 02:10 AM PST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 33 people and wounded 55 others in Madaen, about 25 km (15 miles) south of Baghdad, on Wednesday, Iraqi police and medical officials said. The bomber blew himself up near a line of Sunni pro-government fighters waiting for their salaries, the officials said, adding they expected the toll to rise. The dead were mostly pro-government fighters, but included at least three soldiers. "The attacker was wearing an Iraqi army uniform, and an explosive vest packed with ball bearings," a police officer said. ...

Out of tragedy, fortune for Sri Lankan tsunami village

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:06 PM PST

People enjoy the sea at the beach in SeenigamaBy Shihar Aneez SEENIGAMA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - As towering waves came crashing into the southern coast of Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004, Kushil Gunasekera gathered up his children and they ran for their lives to a nearby temple, the highest point they could find. Returning later to his village in Seenigama district, he found a heart-breaking scene of death and devastation: one in four had been killed by the Boxing Day tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean. ...


Top Asian News at 12:30 a.m. GMT

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 04:32 PM PST

MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) — It all started with a dream that led to a chance meeting: A girl who had been swept away by the Indian Ocean tsunami a decade ago. For three nights, the child's uncle said she visited him in his sleep. When he told the girl's mother, Jamaliah, it was hard to believe at first. The daughter was only 4 when a towering wave ripped her away with her 7-year-old brother, clinging to a board.

Faithful flock to Bethlehem for Christmas

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 04:32 PM PST

A Palestinian dressed as Santa Claus holds balloons at Manger Square, outside the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Christmas Eve Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Several thousand Christian pilgrims on Wednesday flocked to the biblical town of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations at the traditional birthplace of Jesus, lifting spirits after a year of conflict and failed peace efforts.


Obama tees off in Hawaii with Malaysian leader

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 04:22 PM PST

KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii (AP) — President Barack Obama is adding a new player to his golf foursome: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

US think tank proposes shake-up of Taiwan defense

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 04:14 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fears of war between Taiwan and China have eased in recent years, but the growing gap in their military capabilities has prompted a U.S. think tank to lay out a radical new approach in how Taiwan could defend itself if China invaded, relying less on conventional forces and more on guerrilla-style tactics and cyberwarfare.

Mexico wants to ban nets, save endangered porpoise

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 04:03 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities are proposing a $37 million plan to ban gillnet fishing in most of the upper Sea of Cortez to save the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise.

Prosecutors: No delayed start in marathon trial

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 03:59 PM PST

BOSTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are opposing a request by lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to delay the start of his trial until September.

Spain: New king says corruption must be eliminated

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 03:55 PM PST

In this undated picture Spain's King Felipe VI gives an speech at the Zarzuela Palce, near Madrid. The speech watched by millions on TV is the most important national address by Spanish kings and is a chance for Felipe to show his style as king six months after his father Juan Carlos abdicated and tell the nation what he thinks about the state of the economically hurting country and what Spaniards must do to improve it. (AP Photo/Angel Diaz, Pool)MADRID (AP) — Spain's new King Felipe VI insisted in his first Christmas Eve speech Wednesday that seemingly endless examples of corruption across the country incensing voters must be stamped out.


Burns to make debut batting 6th for Australia

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 03:45 PM PST

10ThingstoSeeSports - Replacement fielder Marnus Labuschagne is airborne as he dives to take a catch to dismiss India's Varun Aaron during play on day two of the second cricket test in Brisbane, Australia, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard, File)MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Joe Burns will make his test debut batting No. 6 for Australia in the third test match against India beginning Friday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.


Central Michigan falls to Western Kentucky, 49-48

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 03:43 PM PST

Central Michigans tight end Deon Butler laterals the ball while being tackled by Western Kentucky linebacker Dejon Brown and defensive back Marcus Ward, foreground, during the Bahamas Bowl NCAA college football game, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, in Nassau, Bahamas. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Austin Anthony)NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — For Central Michigan, there was a comeback, a record, a miracle and a gamble.


Western Kentucky tops Central Michigan 49-48

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 03:41 PM PST

Central Michigans tight end Deon Butler laterals the ball while being tackled by Western Kentucky linebacker Dejon Brown and defensive back Marcus Ward, foreground, during the Bahamas Bowl NCAA college football game, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, in Nassau, Bahamas. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Austin Anthony)NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Western Kentucky knows its defensive blunders on what became the final touchdown of the Bahamas Bowl will stay on highlight reels for a long, long time.


White Christmas expected in parts of U.S., rain elsewhere

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 03:23 PM PST

By Mark Guarino CHICAGO (Reuters) - Fresh snowfall was expected to bring a white Christmas to parts of the U.S. West, Midwest and the Appalachian Mountains, while other regions of the country would slog through rain and fog, the National Weather Service said on Wednesday. The forecast comes amid one of the busiest travel times of the year. The AAA travelers' association estimates that 98.6 million people, up 4 percent from last year, will travel more than 50 miles during the period from Tuesday to Jan. 4. ...

U.S. South menaced by storms as Mississippi cleans up from tornadoes

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 02:33 PM PST

By Emily Le Coz JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) - Severe thunderstorms menaced the U.S. Southeast on Wednesday, with a small tornado and flooding reported in parts of North Carolina, while emergency workers in Mississippi surveyed damage from tornadoes that killed at least four people and injured 20. As the storms moved eastward on Christmas Eve, damaging wind gusts and possibly more tornadoes threatened northern Florida, parts of Georgia and the Carolinas, according to the National Weather Service. ...

Cuba relations with Catholic Church at high point

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 02:29 PM PST

In this Dec. 1, 2014, a guard walks inside the chapel of the former University of Santo Thomas of Villanueva in Havana, Cuba. Since late 2009, President Raul Castro's government has been quietly returning some church property that was confiscated in the years after the Cuban revolution, including this chapel. The rest of the university property was not returned. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)HAVANA (AP) — Golden rays of tropical sunlight slant through the caved-in roof of Saint Thomas de Villanueva chapel, illuminating tiles graced by the faces of saints. Vandals shattered the stained-glass windows and scrawled their names on the thick walls during decades of frigid relations between the Roman Catholic Church and Cuba's communist government.


North Korea: No 'physical reaction' to new film

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 02:18 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea says it likely will have no "physical reaction," just condemnation, to the release of the comedy film "The Interview," which depicts the assassination of leader Kim Jong Un.

Peru evacuates remote village after indigenous attacks

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 02:13 PM PST

A Peruvian coastguard boat cruises along the Madre de Dios River close to the Amazonic city of Puerto Maldonado on October 3, 2014An isolated Peruvian village in the Amazon rainforest that came under attack by indigenous people wielding bows and arrows is being evacuated by boat, authorities said Wednesday. Last week some 200 members of the Mashco-Piro ethnic group assaulted Monte Salvado, a small village near Peru's border with Brazil. The Mashco-Piro attacked twice, killing villagers' pets and livestock and carting off food, machetes, pots, pans and rope, according to the government. There were no reports of injuries but frightened villagers have since been sheltering in a lookout post, prompting authorities to evacuate Monte Salvado and the nearby village of Puerto Nuevo.


IS captures Jordanian pilot after plane crashes over Syria

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 02:09 PM PST

A still image released by the Islamic State group's branch in Raqa on jihadist websites on December 24, 2014 purportedly shows a Jordanian pilot captured by IS group's fighters after they shot down his warplaneThe Islamic State group captured a Jordanian pilot Wednesday after his warplane from the US-led coalition crashed while on a mission against the jihadists over Syria. A senior Jordanian military official said the pilot was taken hostage by the "IS terrorist organisation" in its northern stronghold region of Raqa. Both the jihadists and activists reporting to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the plane was hit by an anti-aircraft missile. US Central Command, the body overseeing the coalition air war over Iraq and Syria, gave no reason for the "crash", and confirmed IS militants had taken the lost jet's Jordanian pilot captive.


Text of Pope Francis' homily during Christmas Eve Mass

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 02:01 PM PST

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican's official English-language translation of Pope Francis' prepared homily, to be delivered in Italian, during Christmas Eve Mass on Wednesday in St. Peter's Basilica. Spelling and style are the Vatican's.

Anger after latest police killing of black teen in US

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:56 PM PST

A poster is pinned to a makeshift memorial December 24, 2014, for black teen Antonio Martin in Berkeley, MissouriOfficials scrambled to head off renewed anger Wednesday after an armed black teenager was shot dead by a white officer in a St Louis suburb, insisting the use of force was justified. The killing took place late Tuesday at a gas station in Berkeley, near Ferguson, Missouri -- ground zero of a protest movement over police killings of black men -- and triggered immediate demonstrations. Nationwide protests were sparked after unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot dead by a white officer in Ferguson, a mainly African American town with a mostly white police force. After several weeks, demonstrations gained momentum in reaction to several other killings of black suspects by police, including that of Eric Garner, who died in a chokehold in New York last July.


Priests march, protest attacks in southern Mexico

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:48 PM PST

Bishop Maximino Martinez pauses to use his phone during an interview regarding the disappearance of Rev. Gregorio Lopez Gorostieta in Ciudad Altamirano, Mexico, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. Dozens of Roman Catholic priests and religious workers marched through Ciudad Altamirano on Wednesday to protest the latest in a series of kidnappings, killings and robberies of priests. The marchers led by Martinez called for the release of Gorostieta who disappeared after he was apparently kidnapped from a local seminary on Monday. At least two priests have been killed in Guerrero state this year and several others have been abducted. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Dozens of Roman Catholic priests and hundreds of parishioners marched through the southern Mexico city of Ciudad Altamirano on Wednesday to demand the release of a kidnapped priest and protest a series of kidnappings, killings and robberies of priests.


Cavaliers' Varejao out for season with torn tendon

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:43 PM PST

CLEVELAND (AP) — Anderson Varejao's season has ended, dealing a major blow to the Cavaliers' NBA title hopes.

Madagascar pardons five political prisoners after reconciliation

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:27 PM PST

Malagasy President Hery Rajaonarimampianina (C) arrives on May 23, 2014, in JohannesburgMadagascar's President Hery Rajaonarimampianina on Wednesday pardoned five political prisoners who had got stiff prison sentences for allegedly plotting against his predecessor, who took power in a coup. The five men bore allegiance to former president Marc Ravalomanana and were accused of plotting against the capital city's ex-mayor Andry Rajoelina, who ultimately toppled Ravalomanana. They include Ravalomanana's former military adviser Jean Heriniaina Raoelina, who was sentenced to life for the February 2009 massacre of Rajoelina's supporters in front of the presidential palace during riots that led to Ravalomanana's ouster.


Police deny two killed in Nicaragua canal protests

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:26 PM PST

People protest burning tires against the inauguration of the works of an inter-oceanic canal in Rivas, Nicaragua on December 22, 2014An opposition leader and activist had said earlier two protesters were killed at the demonstration against the expropriation of land by Chinese firm Hong Kong Nicaragua Development Investment (HKND) to build a massive canal. At least 21 people were injured and 33 arrested in violence during a police eviction of protesters, police director Aminta Granera said at a conference. Protest leader Eduardo Montealegre had told AFP he saw the bodies of two people, but police blocked protesters from approaching them. Protests followed the inauguration of the canal on Monday by President Daniel Ortega and Chinese billionaire Wang Jing.


Pope celebrates Christmas Eve Mass and calls Iraqi refugees

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:25 PM PST

Pope Francis removes a veil from a statue of Baby Jesus as he celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Pope Francis is celebrating Christmas Eve with a late-night Mass in St. Peter's Basilica and a phone call to some Iraqi refugees forced to flee their homes by Muslim militants. Francis told refugees at the tent camp in Ankawa, a suburb of Irbil in northern Iraq, that they were like Jesus, forced to flee because there was no place for them. For Christians, Christmas marks the birth of Jesus in a Bethlehem barn manger, chosen because there was no room for his parents at an inn. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated Christmas Eve with a late-night Mass Wednesday in St. Peter's Basilica and a phone call to some Iraqi refugees forced to flee their homes by Muslim militants.


Pope offers Christmas phone greetings to Iraqi refugees

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:23 PM PST

Pope Francis leads a Christmas Eve mass at St Peter's Basilica on December 24, 2014 at the VaticanPope Francis spoke by telephone to Iraqis living in a displaced people's camp near the main Kurdish city Arbil on Wednesday, assuring them they were in his Christmas thoughts. The refugees were among those driven from their homes around Mosul last summer in an offensive by the jihadist Islamic State group (IS), and the pontiff used a satellite phone connection provided by Catholic channel TV 2000 to offer them his support. "The children and the elderly are in my heart," Francis also told the Iraqi refugees in the Ankawa camp, just hours before celebrating midnight mass in Saint Peter's basilica. This Christmas has been particularly difficult for the estimated 150,000 Christians displaced in Iraq, the Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako told AFP in Baghdad.


US removes Gambia from trade agreement

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:19 PM PST

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Activists have praised the U.S. government's decision to remove Gambia from a trade agreement in response to human rights abuses, including a law signed in October that imposes life imprisonment for some homosexual acts.

'Difficult' Ukraine talks end without new date agreement

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:17 PM PST

A Ukrainian helicopter flies past the headquarters of the Ukrainian forces in Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region, on December 24, 2014Ukranian and rebel envoys concluded "difficult" marathon talks on Wednesday without agreeing the date of a new round aimed at ending the pro-Russian uprising devastating the ex-Soviet state's industrial east. The five-hour preliminary discussion in the Belarussian capital Minsk had been tentatively due to be followed by a second meeting on Friday at which a final accord was to be signed. "We had a difficult preliminary meeting," Donetsk separatist region mediator Denis Pushilin told a pro-rebel news site. Sharply contrasting visions of Ukraine's place in Europe and its system of government have been persistently blocking a solution to the eight-month-old war.


Gabon opposition figures summoned over deadly demonstration

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:06 PM PST

Protesters clash with police in the Rio district of Libreville, Gabon, on December 20, 2014Leaders of Gabon's political opposition were summoned for questioning Wednesday following violent weekend protests against President Ali Bongo Ondimba that left at least one person dead, an official said. The summons to appear before judicial authorities came four days after banned demonstrations in Libreville on Saturday erupted in violence between protesters and a large police deployment, resulting in scores of injuries, widespread property damage and around 100 arrests. Late Wednesday morning, a delegation of opposition leaders -- including Jean Eyeghe Ndong, the last premier of late Gabon president Omar Bongo Ondimba, and former African Union secretary general Jean Ping -- answered the judicial police summons for questioning.


10 years after tsunami, Indonesian family reborn

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:04 PM PST

In this Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014 photo, tsunami survivor Jamaliah, center, walks with Raudhatul Jannah, right, and Arif Pratama, whom she believes to be her two children separated with her when the village they lived in was hit by the killer waves in 2004, in their neighborhood in Meulaboh, Aceh province, Indonesia. Although there has been no DNA test the parents are convinced that the children belong them. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)MEULABOH, Indonesia (AP) — It all started with a dream that led to a chance meeting: A girl who had been swept away by the Indian Ocean tsunami a decade ago.


Nicaragua moves to break highway blockade

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 01:00 PM PST

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — National police special forces and soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Wednesday to clear a roadblock erected by residents in southern Nicaragua to protest a proposed transoceanic canal.

Islamic State extremists capture Jordanian pilot

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 12:59 PM PST

This image posted by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a militant extremist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a photograph of the Jordanian military identity card of the pilot identifying him as Mu'ath Safi Yousef al-Kaseasbeh in Raqqa, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Islamic State group fighters shot down a warplane on Wednesday believed to be from the U.S.-led coalition over Syria and captured its pilot, activists said. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Islamic State militants captured a Jordanian pilot after his warplane crashed in Syria while carrying out airstrikes Wednesday, making him the first foreign military member to fall into the extremists' hands since an international coalition launched its bombing campaign against the group months ago.


Pakistan to set up military courts for terrorism

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 12:59 PM PST

Security is beefed up outside the prime minister house during a meeting of all political parties and the military leadership to hash out new counter-terrorism policies, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Pakistan's prime minister says the country will set up special trial courts under the supervision of military officers to prosecute terrorism cases in the wake of the Taliban school massacre. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's prime minister announced Thursday the country will set up special trial courts under the supervision of military officers to prosecute terrorism cases in the wake of the Taliban school massacre.


Rise of Brazil's ranching queen sparks green protests

Posted: 24 Dec 2014 12:54 PM PST

Senator Katia Abreu speaks during the inauguration ceremony of the new board of the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA) in Brasilia on December 15, 2014Brasília (AFP) - Before her husband died, Katia Abreu was a housewife who didn't know a cow from a bull. The post is a high-profile job in Brazil, the world's seventh-largest economy and an agricultural powerhouse. Abreu, the head of powerful industry group the Agriculture and Livestock Confederation of Brazil (CNA), won environmental group Greenpeace's "Golden Chainsaw" award in 2010 for her "contributions" to destroying the Amazon. Indigenous communities and Brazil's landless workers movement have accused her of trying to expand commercial farming at the expense of the environment.


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