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• Egypt's Sisi to run for president, vows to tackle militancy
• Planes, ships race to beat bad weather in search for Malaysian jet
• Three killed in fighting in Lebanon's Tripoli: sources
• Lawmakers bash Obama administration's 'delusional' Syria policy
• Israeli troops kill three Palestinian militants in West Bank raid
• Libya investigates top leader's questioning over visit by two women
• Paltrow's 'conscious uncoupling' confounds many
• Top Asian News at 12:00 a.m. GMT
• Bin Laden son-in-law found guilty on US terror charges
• All Blacks scrumhalf Weepu suffers minor stroke
• Ukraine shows Britain should not cut military too far: lawmakers
• Ford says scandals are old news during debate
• Madrid loses to slip in race; Atletico, Barca win
• Missing plane 'black box' chirps gone by mid-April
• Opposition politician dares Venezuela to arrest her
• Kerry meets Abbas as peace process founders
• Venezuelan institutions unite against opposition
• Watchdog: 49 percent of Syrian chemicals removed
• Clashes over mining in Peru lead to 23 arrests
• Washington mudslide yields more bodies, but not all may be found
• Kerry meets Abbas to shore up Mideast peace talks
• Floating objects seen in Flight 370 search area
• North Korea fires 2 missiles as its rivals meet
• Celtic clinches 3rd straight Scottish league title
• Nervy Liverpool stay in strong title contention
• Greek-Chinese bidders closer to privatization deal
• Feds praise verdict against bin Laden son-in-law
• Tevez double helps Juventus beat 10-man Parma 2-1
• German collector to return 1st looted artwork
• Space station arrival delayed for US-Russian crew
• Envoy: Ukraine getting closer to deal with IMF
• Egypt's Sisi announces run for presidency
• Bad weather forecast as new images spur MH370 search
• U.N. Security Council to meet Thursday on North Korea missile launch
• Report: Art treasures in Gurlitt's Austrian house
• Study: 56 percent of Mexican adults don't exercise

Egypt's Sisi to run for president, vows to tackle militancy Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:50 PM PDT By Tom Perry and Mahmoud Mourad CAIRO (Reuters) - Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who ousted Egypt's first freely elected leader, declared his candidacy on Wednesday for a presidential election he is expected to easily win. Sisi toppled Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood last July after mass protests against his rule and has emerged as the most influential figure in an interim administration that has governed since then. "I am here before you humbly stating my intention to run for the presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt," Sisi said in a televised address to the nation. "Only your support will grant me this great honor." A Sisi presidency would mark a return to the days when Egypt was led by men from the military, a pattern briefly interrupted by Mursi's one year in office after his 2012 victory in Egypt's first democratic presidential election.

Planes, ships race to beat bad weather in search for Malaysian jet Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:30 PM PDT By Jane Wardell and Rujun Shen SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Aircraft and ships scouring the southern Indian Ocean for wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were racing to beat bad weather on Thursday and reach an area where new satellite images showed what could be a debris field. The international search team has been bolstered to 11 military and civilian aircraft and five ships that will criss-cross the remote search site with weather conditions forecast to deteriorate later in the day. New satellite images have revealed more than 100 objects that could be debris from the Boeing 777, which is thought to have crashed on March 8 with the loss of all 239 people aboard after flying thousands of miles off course. "We have now had four separate satellite leads, from Australia, China and France, showing possible debris," Malaysian Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur late Wednesday.

Three killed in fighting in Lebanon's Tripoli: sources Posted: 26 Mar 2014 11:29 AM PDT At least three people were killed in fighting between rival religious sects in Lebanon's second city on Wednesday, medical and security sources said, as violence from Syria spills over into the small Mediterranean country. The long-running rivalry between Tripoli's Sunni Muslims and members of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, has been worsened by Syria's three-year-old conflict. The civil war has become increasingly sectarian as mostly Sunni rebels - who represent the majority in Syria - battle President Bashar al-Assad, an Alawite. That has in turn exacerbated tensions in Lebanon, which is home to Sunnis, Shi'ites, Christians and a number of smaller sects, and is still recovering from its own 1975-90 civil war.

Lawmakers bash Obama administration's 'delusional' Syria policy Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:12 PM PDT By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers lashed out at the Obama administration's handling of Syria's civil war on Wednesday, demanding a stronger American response to the conflict and better communication from the White House about its plans. Senator Robert Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expressed deep frustration after Anne Patterson, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, declined to answer a question about strategy in a public setting. Heated exchanges during questioning of Patterson and Tom Countryman, another assistant secretary of state, underscored the often deep divide between Congress - both Republicans and President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats - and the administration on foreign policy.

Israeli troops kill three Palestinian militants in West Bank raid Posted: 26 Mar 2014 03:19 PM PDT By Ali Sawafta JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces shot three Palestinian militants dead on Saturday in a raid on a home in the occupied West Bank to capture a wanted Hamas Islamist militant, Israeli military and Palestinian officials said. The Palestinian Authority denounced the violence that it said threatened U.S.-brokered peace talks ahead of a looming April deadline set by Secretary of State John Kerry. Nabil Abu Rdainah, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, urged Washington to take steps "to prevent a collapse" of negotiations. Palestinian militants fired guns into the air at the men's' funeral in the West Bank town of Jenin, scene of the clashes.

Libya investigates top leader's questioning over visit by two women Posted: 26 Mar 2014 02:22 PM PDT Libyan authorities are investigating an incident, captured on video and circulated on Facebook, in which the country's most powerful man was grilled by an unknown questioner about why two women visited his house at night. The Attorney General's office said on Wednesday it was looking into the suspected wrongful arrest of the official, parliamentary president Nouri Abu Sahmain, but also into possible 'moral crimes'. The case has the potential to damage Abu Sahmain, who is the top army commander and has quasi-presidential powers, at a time of growing turmoil in the oil-producing North African country. The video, widely circulated on Tuesday, showed Abu Sahmain looking nervous under the questioning.

Paltrow's 'conscious uncoupling' confounds many Posted: 26 Mar 2014 05:08 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Like any world unto itself, Hollywood has its own lexicon. But Gwyneth Paltrow's use of the term "conscious uncoupling" to describe her breakup with Chris Martin this week had even Hollywood veterans scratching their heads and reaching — metaphorically at least — for a dictionary.

Top Asian News at 12:00 a.m. GMT Posted: 26 Mar 2014 05:05 PM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — They are the most tantalizing clues yet: 122 objects spotted by satellite, floating in the turbulent Indian Ocean where officials believe the missing Malaysian jetliner went down. But bad weather, the passage of time and the sheer remoteness of their location kept answers out of the searchers' grasp. Nineteen days into the mystery of Flight 370, the discovery of the objects that ranged in size from 3 feet to 75 feet, offered "the most credible lead that we have," a top Malaysian official said Wednesday.

Bin Laden son-in-law found guilty on US terror charges Posted: 26 Mar 2014 05:03 PM PDT A New York jury on Wednesday found Osama bin Laden's son-in-law guilty of conspiracy to kill Americans and supporting terrorists as an impassioned Al-Qaeda spokesman in 2001-2002. Suleiman Abu Ghaith, 48, now faces life in a maximum security American prison after a three-week trial, which has been the highest-profile Al-Qaeda case to reach a US federal court. The convict is most famous for sitting next to bin Laden in a video on September 12, 2001 as the Al-Qaeda mastermind claimed the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people the day before. Prosecutors said the first thing bin Laden did after the hijackings was recruit the talented, respected orator to take Al-Qaeda propaganda global as the Twin Towers lay smoldering.

All Blacks scrumhalf Weepu suffers minor stroke Posted: 26 Mar 2014 05:02 PM PDT WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — All Blacks scrumhalf Piri Weepu has suffered a minor stroke which went undetected for almost a month as he was treated for severe headaches.

Ukraine shows Britain should not cut military too far: lawmakers Posted: 26 Mar 2014 05:02 PM PDT By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Events in Ukraine have shown Britain must not cut its armed forces too deeply, a committee of lawmakers said on Thursday, saying it was concerned that allies had begun to question the country's military capabilities. Britain has, over the last few years, been shrinking its armed forces by around a sixth as part of a plan to reduce the public debt, but the scale of the cuts has fuelled a debate about its ability to project force globally. "Recent events in Ukraine illustrate the speed with which new threats, and indeed the reappearance of old threats, can manifest themselves," said James Arbuthnot, chairman of the Defense Committee, which scrutinizes government Defense policy and expenditure. "Strong conventional forces provide the UK with a contingency against the unexpected threats that may emerge ... Events might require the reconstitution of conventional forces, but once cut back they will be very difficult to rebuild." Britain is due to hold its next strategic Defense and security review (SDSR) in 2015, the year of a national election.

Ford says scandals are old news during debate Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:58 PM PDT TORONTO (AP) — Mayor Rob Ford said during the first televised debate of Toronto's election campaign that people are no longer interested in the drug scandal surrounding him after the front-runners seeking to replace him said he has embarrassed the city and ruined its reputation.

Madrid loses to slip in race; Atletico, Barca win Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:57 PM PDT BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Real Madrid lost 2-1 at Sevilla on Wednesday in the aftermath of its stinging "clasico" defeat as it slipped behind in the Spanish title race, while Atletico Madrid and Barcelona kept winning to move ahead of their rival in the standings.

Missing plane 'black box' chirps gone by mid-April Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:55 PM PDT Equipment inside two nearly indestructible boxes aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane recorded critical information that would help investigators reconstruct what went wrong. The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have beacons that are sending out "pings" which searchers could track back to the main wreckage. But the batteries run out in about two weeks. Satellite images show debris floating in the southern Indian Ocean, but search crews still have not confirmed it is from the plane. If they can do that, searchers will calculate where the bulk of the plane may have come to rest on the sea floor — and then go to that area and start listening for the pings.

Opposition politician dares Venezuela to arrest her Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:47 PM PDT Opposition politician Maria Corina Machado dared Venezuela's leftist government to arrest her Wednesday, as President Nicolas Maduro's administration carried out a widening crackdown on protesters. Machado was a lawmaker until Monday, when National Assembly head Diosdado Cabello kicked her out, stripped her of parliamentary immunity, and threatened to arrest her for going before the Organization of American States as a guest of Panama to try to talk about her country's crisis. Fiery with defiance, Machado -- who flew in from Peru Wednesday -- said that she was still a legislator "because that's what the Venezuelan people want, and I will continue doing it as long as Venezuela wants it." The government is cracking down on opponents after more than six weeks of street protests that have resulted in at least 34 dead and some 500 wounded.

Kerry meets Abbas as peace process founders Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:44 PM PDT AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Wednesday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a bid to salvage foundering Mideast peace talks that were dealt a new blow when Arab leaders said they never would recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

Venezuelan institutions unite against opposition Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:43 PM PDT CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's military, congress and Supreme Court are joining in an increasingly blunt response to the country's opposition as protests continue.

Watchdog: 49 percent of Syrian chemicals removed Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:40 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world's chemical weapons watchdog says more than 49 percent of the raw materials for Syria's poison gas and nerve agent program scheduled for destruction have been shipped overseas, with the rest expected to leave by the end of April.

Clashes over mining in Peru lead to 23 arrests Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:40 PM PDT Police clashed with independent miners in the Peruvian capital Wednesday, spraying them with tear gas and arresting 23 after marchers who want in to a government mining plan hurled stones. Peru, where mining is the biggest growth industry, has an estimated 70,000 informal or wildcat miners. President Ollanta Humala's government now wants to end "informal" mining, a practice that has been around for a long time.

Washington mudslide yields more bodies, but not all may be found Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:39 PM PDT By Jonathan Kaminsky DARRINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - Search teams picked through mud-caked debris for a fifth day on Wednesday looking for scores of people still missing in a deadly Washington state landslide, as officials reported finding more bodies while acknowledging that some victims' remains may never be recovered. The latest tally did not include an unspecified number of bodies that state police spokesman Bob Calkins said had been found on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, local emergency management officials sought to fend off criticism of property development that was permitted just across the river from the caved-in slope after previous landslides in the area. "My son's best friend is out there, missing," said John Pugh, 47, a National Guardsman who lives in the neighboring village of Darrington.

Kerry meets Abbas to shore up Mideast peace talks Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:32 PM PDT US Secretary of State John Kerry met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas Wednesday seeking to rescue his faltering Middle East peace bid, amid fears Israel may scrap plans to free Palestinian prisoners. He and his team then went into talks over dinner with Abbas who had just returned from the Arab League's annual summit in Kuwait. Under a July deal relaunching the peace negotiations, Israel said it would release 104 Arabs held since before the 1993 Oslo peace accords in exchange for the Palestinians not pressing their statehood claims via the UN. Israel has so far freed 78 prisoners and is due to release the fourth and final tranche on March 29, including some Arab Israelis jailed for militant attacks.

Floating objects seen in Flight 370 search area Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:25 PM PDT KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — They are the most tantalizing clues yet: 122 objects spotted by satellite, floating in the turbulent Indian Ocean where officials believe the missing Malaysian jetliner went down. But bad weather, the passage of time and the sheer remoteness of their location kept answers out of the searchers' grasp.

North Korea fires 2 missiles as its rivals meet Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:24 PM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea test-fired two medium-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday, South Korea and the U.S. said, a defiant challenge to a rare three-way summit of its rivals Seoul, Tokyo and Washington that focused on the North's security threat.

Celtic clinches 3rd straight Scottish league title Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:24 PM PDT GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Celtic clinched its third straight Scottish league title in stylish and typically dominant fashion on Wednesday, beating Partick Thistle 5-1 to take an unassailable 26-point lead in the standings with seven matches still to play.

Nervy Liverpool stay in strong title contention Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:24 PM PDT LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Title-chasing Liverpool overcame an attack of nerves to squeeze to a 2-1 win over Sunderland and move to within a point of leader Chelsea in the Premier League on Wednesday.

Greek-Chinese bidders closer to privatization deal Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:21 PM PDT ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A state privatization agency in Greece says it has received an improved offer to develop a coastal Olympic complex, left largely abandoned since Athens hosted the 2004 Games.

Feds praise verdict against bin Laden son-in-law Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:19 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Osama bin Laden's son-in-law was convicted Wednesday for his role as al-Qaida's fiery chief spokesman after 9/11 — a verdict prosecutors said vindicated the Obama administration's strategy of bringing terror suspects to justice in civilian court.

Tevez double helps Juventus beat 10-man Parma 2-1 Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:15 PM PDT MILAN (AP) — Carlos Tevez scored twice to move top of the Serie A scoring charts and help league leader Juventus beat 10-man Parma 2-1 for a record 15th home win on Wednesday.

German collector to return 1st looted artwork Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:14 PM PDT BERLIN (AP) — A recluse who hoarded a priceless art collection at his homes in Germany and Austria — including works possibly looted from Jewish owners by the Nazis — has for the first time agreed to hand back a piece of art, his representatives said Wednesday.

Space station arrival delayed for US-Russian crew Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:10 PM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — A software glitch on a Russian spacecraft heading to the International Space Station has delayed the arrival of three astronauts, including an American.

Envoy: Ukraine getting closer to deal with IMF Posted: 26 Mar 2014 04:04 PM PDT WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Ukraine appears close to reaching a bailout deal with the International Monetary Fund because its new leaders have the "determination" needed to carry out the financial reforms the IMF is demanding, Poland's foreign minister said Wednesday.

Egypt's Sisi announces run for presidency Posted: 26 Mar 2014 03:55 PM PDT Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Wednesday he had quit the military to run for president and vowed to rid the country of "terrorism" almost nine months after he toppled its elected leader. Sisi, who was also defence minister, faces no serious competition in the election, likely before June, and is expected to win comfortably, riding on a wave of popularity for his law and order message. But the Muslim Brotherhood movement of president Mohamed Morsi, whom Sisi toppled in July, warned there could be no stability in Egypt under the "shadow" of his leadership. The Brotherhood and its allies have kept up their protests against the overthrow of Egypt's only freely elected president against a backdrop of mounting violence by militant groups that has killed scores of police and troops.

Bad weather forecast as new images spur MH370 search Posted: 26 Mar 2014 03:51 PM PDT Perth (Australia) (AFP) - Thunderstorms and gale-force winds threatened to impede a frantic international search Thursday for wreckage from Flight MH370 after satellite images of more than 100 floating objects sparked fresh hopes of a breakthrough. Malaysia said the imagery taken in recent days by a French satellite showed "122 potential objects" in the remote southern Indian Ocean, although nothing has yet been pulled from the treacherous seas despite a multinational recovery operation. Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has cautioned that it was impossible to determine whether the objects were related to the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 which crashed on March 8 with 239 people aboard after mysteriously disappearing. But the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is coordinating the search some 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth, said they were in an area authorities have pinpointed as a potential crash zone.

U.N. Security Council to meet Thursday on North Korea missile launch Posted: 26 Mar 2014 03:47 PM PDT By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council will hold closed-door consultations on Thursday to discuss a possible condemnation of North Korea's latest ballistic missile launches, U.N. diplomats said. The request for a special session on North Korea came from the United States, council diplomats told Reuters on condition of anonymity on Wednesday. In what appeared to be a show of defiance, North Korea fired two medium-range Rodong ballistic missiles into the sea at 2:35 a.m. Japan and Korea time (1735 GMT Tuesday), both Tokyo and Seoul said. North Korea's first firing in four years of mid-range Rodong missiles that can hit Japan followed a series of short-range rocket launches over the past two months.

Report: Art treasures in Gurlitt's Austrian house Posted: 26 Mar 2014 03:42 PM PDT VIENNA (AP) — Austrian state television says experts have found 180 artworks — including a long-lost painting by Claude Monet — in the Salzburg house of the German art collector who hoarded art in his Munich apartment for decades.

Study: 56 percent of Mexican adults don't exercise Posted: 26 Mar 2014 03:40 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than half of Mexican adults don't get regular exercise, a worrisome figure in a country with high rates of obesity and diabetes, a study published Wednesday found.

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