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• Ukraine rebels free Swedish hostage; Obama seeks unity against Russia
• Sisi urges big vote in Egyptian election; Islamists urge boycott
• Hungarians march against anti-Semitism after far-right poll gains
• American detained in North Korea tore up his visa: tour company
• Macedonia's conservatives win parliamentary, presidential elections
• End game nears on South Africa's strike-hit platinum belt
• Schreefel wins $100K for first LPGA hole-in-one
• Chinese spies read Australian MPs' emails for a year: report
• Poyet still waiting on Sunderland 'miracle'
• Mourinho revels in Liverpool derailment
• Sao Paulo scores late to draw Cruzeiro in Brazil
• Macedonian conservative party claims victory
• London braced for travel disruption on underground rail workers strike plan
• UK to host international meeting on stolen Ukrainian assets
• Britain hosts 'landmark' talks to recover looted Ukrainian assets
• Observers held in Ukraine speak under armed guard
• Bayern has to overcome 1-0 deficit against Madrid
• Luis Suarez voted player of the year in England
• Suarez wins PFA Player of the Year award
• Ferdinand 'embarrassed' by United plight
• Abbas: Holocaust 'most heinous crime' of modern era
• Atletico moves toward title, Barca stages comeback
• Dani Alves eats banana in response to racist taunt
• Attack in Central African Republic kills 22, including chiefs, MSF staff
• Burger can bring Saracens the Cup: Farrell
• Chelsea parked 'two buses', fumes Rodgers
• Atletico closer to title; City gains EPL advantage
• Iraqi forces cast ballots ahead of wider poll
• Toni helps Verona beat Catania 4-0 in Serie A
• Macedonia conservatives claim double victory
• Jamaican police search for pair of jail escapees

Ukraine rebels free Swedish hostage; Obama seeks unity against Russia Posted: 27 Apr 2014 12:02 PM PDT By Matt Spetalnick and Thomas Grove KUALA LUMPUR/SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels paraded European monitors they are holding in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, freeing one but saying they had no plans to release another seven as the United States and Europe prepared new sanctions against Moscow. U.S. President Barack Obama called for the United States and Europe to join forces to impose stronger measures to restrain Moscow. The White House said it will add names on Monday of people close to President Vladimir Putin and firms they control to a list of Russians hit by sanctions over Ukraine, and also impose new restrictions on high tech exports.

Sisi urges big vote in Egyptian election; Islamists urge boycott Posted: 27 Apr 2014 12:37 PM PDT Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday called for a big turnout in a presidential election he is expected to win easily, countering a call for a boycott by allies of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi. Sisi, who deposed Mursi after mass protests against his rule last July, faces only one competitor in the May 26-27 election - leftist Hamdeen Sabahi. He came third in the 2012 election won by Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood. Sisi called on Egyptians to vote in "unprecedented numbers for the sake of Egypt", according to an official statement outlining comments he made during a meeting on Sunday with investors in the tourism industry.

Hungarians march against anti-Semitism after far-right poll gains Posted: 27 Apr 2014 11:33 AM PDT Tens of thousands of Hungarians joined a protest march on Sunday against anti-Semitism, three weeks after the far-right Jobbik party won nearly a quarter of votes cast in a national election. Budapest's annual 'March of the Living' has drawn an increasing number of participants in recent years to commemorate the deaths of around half a million Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust in World War Two. The marchers, many holding European Union and Israeli flags, attended the inauguration of a Holocaust monument on a bank of the Danube where Jews were executed during the war. They then marched in silence through the city to an old railway station from which trains departed 70 years ago for Nazi death camps.

American detained in North Korea tore up his visa: tour company Posted: 27 Apr 2014 03:54 PM PDT By Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 24-year-old American man detained in North Korea had arranged a private tour of the country through a U.S. travel company and gave no indication he might try to seek asylum upon arriving in Pyongyang, the company's director said Sunday. Matthew Todd Miller was taken into custody by North Korean officials after entering the country on April 10, ripping up his tourist visa and demanding asylum, according to North Korea's state-run KCNA news agency. Miller's travel to North Korea was arranged by New Jersey-based Uri Tours, which specializes in guided trips through the isolated Communist country, and he gave no indication he might be seeking asylum. "Nothing in his tour application raised concerns prior to his departure," John Dantzler-Wolfe, the director of Uri Tours, told Reuters in an email.

Macedonia's conservatives win parliamentary, presidential elections Posted: 27 Apr 2014 04:10 PM PDT By Kole Casule SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia's conservative ruling party has secured a third term in office, winning both parliamentary and presidential elections on Sunday, based on preliminary results of the ballot that the opposition said it would not recognize. Nikola Gruevski remains prime minister and I can also say ... that Gjorge Ivanov remains president," Vlatko Gjorcev, a senior VMRO-DPMNE party official, told reporters and jubilant supporters late on Sunday. Gruevski, 43, has ruled the landlocked former Yugoslav republic of 2 million people since 2006 in coalition with ethnic Albanian party DUI. With more than 63 percent of the votes counted, VMRO-DPMNE was leading with 43 percent, compared with 24 percent for the main opposition party, the center-left SDSM, the state electoral commission said.

End game nears on South Africa's strike-hit platinum belt Posted: 27 Apr 2014 04:19 PM PDT By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The end game to South Africa's big platinum strike is drawing near after the producers said they would take their latest wage offer directly to employees after marathon wage talks to end the 13-week strike collapsed on Thursday. South Africa's longest and most damaging mining strike in living memory is not about to come to an abrupt end as both sides strive to win rank and file hearts and minds in a high stakes war of attrition on the platinum belt. Leaders of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) have signaled their displeasure with the offer from the world's top three producers, Anglo American Platinum, Impala Platinum and Lonmin. AMCU treasurer and negotiator Jimmy Gama was quoted in the City Press newspaper on Sunday as saying the union was consulting with its members about the latest offer through mass meetings that would last until Wednesday.

Schreefel wins $100K for first LPGA hole-in-one Posted: 27 Apr 2014 05:06 PM PDT DALY CITY, California (AP) — Dutchwoman Dewi Claire Schreefel has won $100,000 for her hole-in-one at the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic.

Chinese spies read Australian MPs' emails for a year: report Posted: 27 Apr 2014 05:05 PM PDT A cyber attack on the Australian parliamentary computer network in 2011 may have given Chinese intelligence agencies access to lawmakers' private emails for an entire year, the Australian Financial Review reported on Monday. Australian officials, like those in the United States and other Western nations, have made cyber security a priority following a growing number of attacks. The parliamentary computer network is a non-classified internal system used by federal lawmakers, their staff and advisers for private communications and discussions of strategy. Last year, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that Chinese hackers had stolen the blueprints of a new multi-million-dollar Australian spy headquarters, as well as confidential information from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Poyet still waiting on Sunderland 'miracle' Posted: 27 Apr 2014 05:03 PM PDT Sunderland (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Gus Poyet has insisted Sunderland still have plenty of work to do to secure their Premier League "miracle" by remaining in the English top flight when it seemed all hope had been lost. The north-east side climbed out of the bottom three for the first time in more than two months thanks to a resounding 4-0 victory over relegation rivals Cardiff City on Sunday that saw the Welsh club replace them in propping up the rest of the division. Sunderland head coach Poyet admitted the 'Black Cats' needed a miracle after they looked dead and buried when slipping seven points from safety with six games left earlier this month. But after taking an improbable seven points from the last available nine, they have renewed hope of prolonging their seven-season stay in the Premier League.

Mourinho revels in Liverpool derailment Posted: 27 Apr 2014 04:59 PM PDT Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho taunted Liverpool about their ineffective tactics after his side handed Manchester City the initiative in the Premier League title race with victory at Anfield. Chelsea's 2-0 success on Sunday effectively means that City can claim the title by winning their three remaining games. Manuel Pellegrini's team trail Liverpool, the leaders, by three points, but they have a match in hand -- at home to struggling Aston Villa -- and an eight-goal advantage in terms of goal difference. Liverpool had been on a run of 11 straight wins prior to facing Chelsea, but the visitors' spoiling tactics successfully prevented the hosts from building momentum, quietening the Anfield crowd.

Sao Paulo scores late to draw Cruzeiro in Brazil Posted: 27 Apr 2014 04:56 PM PDT SAO PAULO (AP) — Defender Antonio Carlos scored in stoppage time to give Sao Paulo a 1-1 draw with Cruzeiro on Sunday, keeping the defending Brazilian league champion from winning its second in a row to start the season.

Macedonian conservative party claims victory Posted: 27 Apr 2014 04:30 PM PDT SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's incumbent prime minister claimed a landslide victory late Sunday in parliamentary and presidential elections, but the center-left opposition denounced what it called distorting interference in the democratic process by the ruling party and said it won't recognize the results.

London braced for travel disruption on underground rail workers strike plan Posted: 27 Apr 2014 04:22 PM PDT By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of commuters were preparing for transport chaos from Monday evening as workers on the London Underground rail network plan to hold a two-day strike in a dispute over plans to cut jobs and close ticket offices. Eleventh-hour talks will be held on Monday between Transport for London (TfL) and the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers' union (RMT) in a bid to avert the 48-hour walkout due to begin at 2000 GMT, a spokesman for TfL said. The strike action follows the March 11 death of RMT leader Bob Crow, whose success in extracting concessions from employers through hard talk and industrial disruption has set the mould for those vying to replace him, trade union experts say. TfL, which argues that less than three percent of journeys on the 151-year-old tube network now involve passengers using ticket offices, has said it will run a limited service on some lines, with some stations closed.

UK to host international meeting on stolen Ukrainian assets Posted: 27 Apr 2014 04:21 PM PDT London will host a two-day international meeting this week aimed at helping Ukraine's government to recover stolen assets, Britain's interior ministry said on Monday. Since the toppling of President Viktor Yanukovich in February, Ukrainian prosecutors have accused him and his aides of stealing billions of dollars. Yanukovich has said he has no foreign bank accounts or property abroad. The April 29-30 Ukraine Forum on Asset Recovery, jointly organized by Britain and the United States, will be attended by senior government officials, judicial experts, prosecutors, financial intelligence analysts and regulators.

Britain hosts 'landmark' talks to recover looted Ukrainian assets Posted: 27 Apr 2014 04:10 PM PDT Britain will on Tuesday host international talks aimed at recovering Ukrainian assets believed to have been looted under the regime of deposed president Viktor Yanukovych. The international Ukraine Forum on Asset Recovery (UFAR) -- led by Britain and the United States -- unveiled details of the talks on Monday, calling them "a landmark for Ukraine". UFAR hopes to mobilise the international community in order to track down and recover stolen assets, in the process sending "a strong message that there is no impunity for those who carry out such illegal actions".

Observers held in Ukraine speak under armed guard Posted: 27 Apr 2014 04:05 PM PDT SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Pro-Russian militants in camouflage fatigues and black balaclavas paraded captive European military observers before the media on Sunday, hours after three captured Ukrainian security guards were shown bloodied, blindfolded and stripped of their trousers and shoes, their arms bound with packing tape.

Bayern has to overcome 1-0 deficit against Madrid Posted: 27 Apr 2014 04:02 PM PDT FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Bayern Munich is seeking to become the first club to defend the Champions League title. The title holder, however, is the only team to have conceded a goal in the first leg of the semifinals after losing to Real Madrid 1-0. Chelsea held on to earn a 0-0 draw at Atletico Madrid and will look to clinch its second final in three seasons at home on Wednesday.

Luis Suarez voted player of the year in England Posted: 27 Apr 2014 03:59 PM PDT LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has been voted player of the year by his fellow professionals in English football, capping a season in which his scoring prowess helped erase memories of previous bans for racism and biting.

Suarez wins PFA Player of the Year award Posted: 27 Apr 2014 03:38 PM PDT Liverpool striker Luis Suarez won England's Professional Footballers' Association's Player of the Year award on Sunday. This time last year the Uruguay international was starting a 10-match ban for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic. But now Suarez has been chosen by his fellow top-flight professionals in England as the outstanding player in the Premier League after spearheading Liverpool's title bid. Suarez received the award during a ceremony at London's Grosvenor House hotel after flying down from Liverpool following a 2-0 defeat by Chelsea at Anfield that dented the Merseysiders' challenge for a first English title in the Premier League era.

Ferdinand 'embarrassed' by United plight Posted: 27 Apr 2014 03:28 PM PDT Manchester (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand admitted Sunday that he is "embarrassed" by the English champions humble seventh place in the Premier League. United sacked manager David Moyes last week after just 10 months in charge and with the team unable to qualify for the Champions League next season. "I haven't looked at the league table for ages because it is embarrassing," Ferdinand told www.manutd.com United will be under the guidance of caretaker coach Ryan Giggs for the rest of the season.

Abbas: Holocaust 'most heinous crime' of modern era Posted: 27 Apr 2014 03:26 PM PDT Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - The mass killing of Jews in the Holocaust was "the most heinous crime" against humanity in the modern era, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Sunday in his strongest remarks yet on the Nazi genocide. The statement comes at a sensitive time for US-led peace efforts, with Israel having suspended faltering talks last week after Abbas reached an agreement with the Islamist Hamas movement to form a unity government. In a statement in English and Arabic released just hours before Israel began marking Holocaust remembrance day, the Palestinian leader expressed sympathy with families of the six million Jews who were killed by the Nazi regime.

Atletico moves toward title, Barca stages comeback Posted: 27 Apr 2014 03:21 PM PDT BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Atletico Madrid moved one step closer to its first Spanish league title in 18 years on Sunday with a 1-0 victory at Valencia, while Lionel Messi completed an emotional 3-2 comeback win for Barcelona at Villarreal two days after the death of former coach Tito Vilanova.

Dani Alves eats banana in response to racist taunt Posted: 27 Apr 2014 03:12 PM PDT VILLARREAL, Spain (AP) — Barcelona defender Dani Alves responded to a racist taunt when a banana landed at his feet during Sunday's game at Villarreal by picking up the fruit, peeling and then eating it before proceeding to take a corner kick.

Attack in Central African Republic kills 22, including chiefs, MSF staff Posted: 27 Apr 2014 02:58 PM PDT By Crispin Dembassa-Kette BANGUI (Reuters) - At least 22 people, including 15 local chiefs and three members of staff of the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, were killed in an attack on a town in the Central African Republic, officials said on Sunday. Gilles Xavier Nguembassa, a former member of parliament for the area, said four people were killed as the assailants approached the town but most died when Seleka rebels went to an MSF-run health clinic in search of money. A local representative of the Bangui government confirmed the incident. The mainly Muslim Seleka forces seized Bangui in March 2013 but their time in power was scarred by killings and other rights abuses, prompting the creation of the mainly Christian "anti-balaka" self-defense militia.

Burger can bring Saracens the Cup: Farrell Posted: 27 Apr 2014 02:50 PM PDT Jacques Burger can lead Saracens to European Cup glory, according to fly-half Owen Farrell. The 30-year-old Namibia flanker produced a man-of-the-match effort of 27 tackles during Saracens' stunning 46-6 semi-final demolition of French club Clermont at Twickenham on Saturday. Victory saw English Premiership leaders Saracens into their first European Cup final, at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on May 24, where they will play the winners of Sunday's match between champions Toulon and Irish province Munster. Burger, a former Blue Bulls back-row, was nearly forced into retirement by a chronic knee injury 18 months ago but that hasn't stopped him becoming a cornerstone of Saracens' aggressive 'wolf pack' defence.

Chelsea parked 'two buses', fumes Rodgers Posted: 27 Apr 2014 02:49 PM PDT Frustrated Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers accused Chelsea of time-wasting and defensive tactics after his side's Premier League title challenge was compromised by a 2-0 home defeat on Sunday. Liverpool could have ended Chelsea's title bid with victory at Anfield, but goals in injury time at the end of each half from Demba Ba and Willian enabled the London club to close to within two points of the leaders. The visitors employed delaying tactics from the start, riling the home crowd, and manager Jose Mourinho instructed his side to mass 10 players behind the ball whenever Liverpool had possession. While stopping short of directly criticising Mourinho, under whom he worked as a youth and reserve-team coach at Chelsea, Rodgers made clear his disregard for his former mentor's approach.

Atletico closer to title; City gains EPL advantage Posted: 27 Apr 2014 02:43 PM PDT Atletico Madrid successfully negotiated another step toward winning the Spanish league, but the balance in the English Premier League title race shifted again on Sunday.

Iraqi forces cast ballots ahead of wider poll Posted: 27 Apr 2014 02:36 PM PDT Iraqi soldiers and policemen vote Monday ahead of the country's first national election since US troops left with worsening sectarian ties and fears the country is slipping into all-out conflict. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, lambasted by critics for allegedly consolidating power and targeting minority groups, is bidding for a third term in Wednesday's polls with Iraqis frustrated over basic services, rampant corruption and high unemployment. The month-long campaign has seen Baghdad and other cities plastered with posters and decked out in bunting, as candidates have taken to the streets, staged loud rallies and challenged each other in angry debates.

Toni helps Verona beat Catania 4-0 in Serie A Posted: 27 Apr 2014 02:35 PM PDT MILAN (AP) — Luca Toni scored again to help Hellas Verona thrash relegation-threatened Catania 4-0 in Serie A on Sunday to boost its European chances as Parma lost 1-0 at Cagliari.

Macedonia conservatives claim double victory Posted: 27 Apr 2014 02:33 PM PDT SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's ruling conservatives claimed a landslide victory late Sunday in parliamentary and presidential elections, but the center-left opposition denounced what it called distorting interference in the democratic process by the ruling party and said it won't recognize the results.

Jamaican police search for pair of jail escapees Posted: 27 Apr 2014 02:30 PM PDT KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Two inmates have escaped from a jail in Jamaica's capital that holds some of the Caribbean country's most hardened criminals.

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