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Mexico says murdered students were mistaken for rival gang

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 03:13 PM PST

Relatives hold up posters of the 43 missing students of the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College during a protest outside the federal court in Chilpancingo, in the Mexican state of GuerreroBy Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The 43 Mexican students who disappeared four months ago were murdered on the orders of a drug cartel who mistook them for members of a rival gang, the government said on Tuesday, finally confirming the deaths of the trainee teachers. Their disappearance on the night of Sept. 26 in the southwestern city of Iguala led to massive street protests in Mexico and international condemnation of its security situation. It embarrassed President Enrique Pena Nieto and plunged his administration into its biggest crisis. Until now, the government had said only that the students were almost certainly murdered after clashing in Iguala that night with corrupt police officers, who handed them over to members of local drug gang Guerreros Unidos.


Nine killed as gunmen storm luxury hotel in Libyan capital

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

Security forces surround Corinthia hotel after a car bomb in TripoliBy Ahmed Elumami TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Heavily armed gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Tripoli favored by Libyan officials and visiting delegations on Tuesday, killing at least nine people, including foreigners, before blowing themselves up with a grenade. Officials said shooting erupted inside the five-star Corinthia Hotel and security forces evacuated guests, including Tripoli's prime minister and an American delegation, after at least two gunmen blasted through the building's reception. It was one of the worst assaults targeting foreigners since the 2011 civil war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi and fractured the oil-producing North African state into fiefdoms of rival armed groups with two national governments, both claiming legitimacy. "The attackers opened fire inside the hotel," Omar Khadrawi, head of Tripoli security, told Reuters.


Japan urges Jordan's help in IS hostage crisis after video

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST

Man walks past screens displaying TV news program showing image of Goto, one of two Japanese citizens taken captive by Islamic State militants, on a street in TokyoBy Antoni Slodkowski and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan pressed Jordan for help in securing the release of Kenji Goto, a Japanese hostage of Islamic State militants, after a video on Tuesday appeared to show him saying he could be killed in 24 hours. "Tell the Japanese government to put all their political pressure on Jordan," said the voice on the video, addressing the Japanese people and saying he will be killed unless Jordan frees would-be suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi from death row. Jordanian state television, quoting an army source, said authorities were trying to authenticate the video.


Ukraine rebels say government forces pushed back near Donetsk

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 12:07 PM PST

Members of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe look at the remains of a shell on a street after a shelling by pro-Russian rebels of a residential sector in Mariupol, eastern UkraineBy Alessandra Prentice and Maria Tsvetkova KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatist forces said on Tuesday they had pushed Ukrainian government troops out of two districts on the outskirts of their main stronghold Donetsk, and their aim was to expand their control to the entire region. A rebel advance launched last week has dashed a five-month truce, reignited a war that has killed more than 5,000 people and brought threats of new sanctions on Moscow, which NATO accuses of backing the separatists with money, arms and troops. The separatists say their initial objective is to drive back government forces to push artillery out of range of their cities and improve their grip on their main strongholds. Eduard Basurin, deputy commander of the rebels in Donetsk, said fighters had repelled government troops from the suburb of Maryinka and the center of the town of Pesky near Donetsk's airport, a constant battlefield.


Greek PM Tsipras names anti-austerity cabinet, port sale halted

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:09 PM PST

Greek economist Varoufakis is seen outside the Syriza party headquarters in AthensBy Lefteris Papadimas and George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras named a cabinet of anti-austerity veterans and halted privatization of Greece's biggest port on Tuesday, signaling he aims to stick to election pledges despite warning shots from the euro zone and financial markets. Greek markets endured a second day of turmoil, with bank shares diving and investors fearing the anti-bailout government might be set on a collision course with the country's European Union and IMF creditors. Among a team spanning the radical and more pragmatic wings of Syriza, Tsipras named academic economist Yanis Varoufakis as his finance minister. The defence portfolio went to Panos Kammenos, leader of the right-wing Independent Greeks party which is the junior partner in the Tsipras coalition.


Yemen's Houthi leader says wants peaceful transfer of power

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 12:46 PM PST

Followers of the Houthi movement recite prayers as they carry the coffin of a fellow fighter during his funeral in SanaaBy Yara Bayoumy SANAA (Reuters) - The leader of Yemen's Houthis who control the capital Sanaa said on Tuesday his group was seeking a peaceful transfer of power after the resignation of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, and urged all factions to work together to solve the crisis. The seizure of the aide, Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, helped to plunge Yemen deeper into political crisis, resulting in clashes between the Houthis and Hadi's presidential guards that prompted the president and the government to resign on Thursday. Political parties in Yemen, including the Houthis, are currently trying to agree what to do after Hadi's resignation, which has left a power vacuum in a country which borders the world's top oil exporter Saudi Arabia. In his speech, Houthi warned against allowing Yemen to be pushed to collapse and said that consultations were proceeding under United Nations auspices to resolve the country's standoff.


Yahoo CEO heeds shareholders' call to spin off Alibaba stake

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:50 PM PST

In this Nov. 5, 2014 photo, a person walks in front of a Yahoo sign at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Yahoo reports quarterly financial results on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is spinning off the company's $39 billion stake in China's Alibaba Group Holding in a move that wards off a potential shareholder rebellion.


Secret talks in Jordan try to win release of hostages

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:49 PM PST

In this late Monday, Jan. 26, 2015 photo, Japan's Deputy Foreign Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, center, answers to a reporter's question in Amman, Jordan. Nakayama expressed hope that both a Japanese hostage and a Jordanian pilot held by Islamic militants will return home "with a smile on their faces," as criticisms mounted Tuesday over the government's handling of the crisis. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDITBEIRUT (AP) — Japanese officials were tightlipped Wednesday as secret talks in Jordan sought to secure the freedom of a Japanese journalist and a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic State extremists and purportedly threatened with death within 24 hours.


As blizzard skips New York, meteorologists ponder forecasts' power

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:47 PM PST

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the end, it was the weather forecasts that crippled New York City, not the blizzard. As residents emerged into a largely shuttered city on Tuesday morning after a snowfall that barely covered garbage bags left out on the sidewalk, several meteorologists pondered the storm-like havoc their mere words can cause and debated who among them was the least inaccurate. "CRIPPLING AND POTENTIALLY HISTORIC BLIZZARD TO IMPACT THE AREA," read a weekend National Weather Service (NWS) advisory amid colorful maps warning that the whole city could expect up to 36 all-time-record-breaking inches (91 cm) of snow. This was reason enough for Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo to go to the unusual lengths of ordering that every street and subway in the city be closed to commuters.

Argentine Jewish groups boycott commemoration in protest

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:46 PM PST

Holocaust survivors take part in a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, at the Jewish community center that was bombed in 1994. The Jewish community is boycotting the Argentine government's official ceremony in protest over the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found dead hours before he was set to elaborate on damaging allegations that President Cristina Fernandez shielded Iranian officials wanted in the terrorist bombing of the Jewish center, that killed 85 people and injured more than 200. (AP Photo/Ivan Fernandez)BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Jewish groups boycotted the Argentine government's Holocaust Day commemoration Tuesday in protest over the mysterious death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, while skepticism grew over President Cristina Fernandez's plan to reform intelligence services that she has suggested were behind the prosecutor's death.


Mexico AG: Captured drug lord 'Chapo' Guzman to stay put

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:43 PM PST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's top prosecutor says the country does not intend to extradite captured Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States anytime soon.

Gunmen storm Libya hotel, killing American, 9 others

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:43 PM PST

A car bomb has exploded outside the Hotel Corinthia in the Libyan capital Tripoli, pictured here in October 2013TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — In the latest sign of Libya's descent into chaos, gunmen stormed a luxury hotel used by diplomats and businessmen in the capital on Tuesday, killing 10 people, including an American, a French citizen and three people from Eastern Europe.


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

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:33 PM PST

BEIRUT (AP) — Secret talks were underway Tuesday in Jordan in the presence of a Japanese envoy to secure the freedom of a Japanese journalist and a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic State extremists and purportedly threatened with death within 24 hours. The global efforts to free Japanese freelance journalist Kenji Goto and Jordanian Lt. Mu'ath al-Kaseasbeh gained greater urgency with the release of the apparent ultimatum from the Islamic State group.

Too soon to say 'mission accomplished' in Kobani

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:32 PM PST

Kurdish civilians gather in the Syrian Kurdish city of Qamishli as they wave Kurdish flags in celebrationBy Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kurdish fighters' expulsion of Islamic State forces from the Syrian town of Kobani helped stop the momentum of the Islamist group but is not a significant turning point in the overall campaign, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday. The setback for Islamic State in the war-ravaged town near the Turkish border did not mean "anyone is declaring mission accomplished" in the international campaign against the group, that has taken over parts of Syria and Iraq, the official said. U.S. air strikes in liaison with Kurdish ground troops and Iraqi Kurd reinforcements allowed in from Turkey tipped the battle the Kurds' way, and the Islamic State's appetite for the fight had been undermined by heavy death tolls. "The entire notion of this organization that is on the march and the inevitable expansion and inevitable momentum has been halted at Kobani," added the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.


Mexico: Investigation shows that all 43 students are dead

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:29 PM PST

Relatives and protestors carry banners with pictures of some of the 43 missing students from a rural teachers college, as they march along a main boulevard in Mexico City, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Protest marches were planned in cities around Mexico to mark the fourth month since the disappearance of the students in southern Guerrero state. The federal prosecutor has said the students were detained by local police and handed over to a drug gang, who killed them and burned their bodies. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)MEXICO CITY (AP) — Investigators are now certain that 43 college students missing since September were killed and incinerated after they were seized by police in southern Guerrero state, the Mexican attorney general said Tuesday.


The distinctive international flavor of Super Bowl Media Day

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:28 PM PST

Seattle Seahawks' Jon Ryan is interviewed during media day for NFL Super Bowl XLIX football game Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)PHOENIX (AP) — New England Patriots offensive lineman Sebastian Vollmer spent a good portion of his hour-long media session answering questions in German.


Virginia CEO IDs American killed in Libya as contract worker

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:26 PM PST

FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia (AP) — The CEO of a Virginia security company says one of his contract employees was the American victim in an attack in Libya that left five foreigners dead.

New York, meterologists defend storm shutdown

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:23 PM PST

A man uses a snow blower near Park Avenue after a snowstorm hit New York January 27, 2015New York (AFP) - New York authorities and meterologists on Tuesday defended a decision to shut down America's biggest city for a storm that skirted the Big Apple, dumping the worst snow east and north.


Japan says working closely with Jordan for release of captives held by Islamic State

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:20 PM PST

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is working closely with Jordan for the early release of captives held by Islamic State, including Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday after a video appeared to show Goto saying he could be killed in 24 hours, Kishida said the Japanese government had confirmed the video apparently showing Goto at around 11 p.m. (9.00 a.m. EST) on Tuesday. ...

Nine dead in attack on luxury Tripoli hotel

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:20 PM PST

In this image made from video posted by a Libyan blogger, the Cortinthia Hotel is seen under attack in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. Gunmen stormed the luxury hotel in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Tuesday, killing several foreigners and guards, officials said. The attack, which included a car bombing, struck the hotel, which sits along the Mediterranean Sea. The blogger, @AliTweel, captured the moments shortly after the blast, when flames rose up from outside the hotel, appearing to be from the aftermath of the car bomb. (AP Photo/ @AliTweel via AP video)Gunmen stormed a luxury Tripoli hotel popular with diplomats and officials Tuesday in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group, killing at least nine people -- including five foreigners -- before blowing themselves up. After setting off a car bomb outside the opulent Corinthia Hotel -- where visiting world leaders have met local dignitaries in the past -- three militants rushed inside and opened fire, Issam al-Naass, a security services spokesman, told AFP. They made it to the 24th floor of the hotel, a major hub of diplomatic and government activity, before being surrounded by security forces and detonating explosive belts they were wearing. The head of Libya's self-declared government, Omar al-Hassi, was inside the hotel at the time but was evacuated safely, Naass said.


AUSTRALIAN OPEN SCENE: Someone is missing Roger Federer

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:19 PM PST

Roger Federer of Switzerland reacts during a press conference after his third round loss to Andreas Seppi of Italy at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — While the capacity crowd was filling Rod Laver Arena for the start of Wednesday's play at the Australian Open, someone was remembering a four-time champion who won't make it five titles — at least this year.


Rebel killings of 44 commandos test Philippine peace deal

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:17 PM PST

Philippine Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, left, and Philippine National Police Deputy Director General Leonardo Espinal, right, listen to a reporter's questions during a news conference on Sunday's killing of at least 44 anti-terror commandos in the southern Philippines, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 in Manila, Philippines. The government's biggest single-day combat loss in recent memory shocked many and led to fears it could endanger a recent peace deal signed with the biggest Muslim rebel group. (AP Photo)MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials asked lawmakers Tuesday not to withdraw their support from a new government peace deal with the country's largest Muslim rebel group after some insurgents were involved in a clash that killed 44 anti-terror police commandos.


Blizzard slams Boston area, spares New York despite predictions

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:05 PM PST

A man walks out of an ocean front house covered in ice during a winter blizzard in MarshfieldBy Scott Malone, Laila Kearney and Ellen Wulfhorst BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A powerful blizzard struck Boston and surrounding New England on Tuesday, leaving some 4.5 million people grappling with as much as three feet of snow and coastal flooding, but sparing New York City residents who had braced for a significant blast. Snow was forecast to keep falling into early Wednesday in eastern New England, possibly setting a record snowfall in Boston. At Logan International Airport, 20.8 inches (53 cm) of snow was on the ground late afternoon, swept higher in parts by strong winds. "There are drifts now of four, five and six feet in some places," Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker said.


Chelsea into League Cup final after fiery win over Liverpool

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:03 PM PST

Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic, top, heads the ball and scores during the English League Cup semifinal second leg soccer match between Chelsea and Liverpool at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)LONDON (AP) — Branislav Ivanovic headed Chelsea into the League Cup final with a 1-0 victory over Liverpool on Tuesday, settling an enthralling semifinal in extra time.


'Huge' effort needed to fight Boko Haram: US commander

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 04:01 PM PST

A screengrab taken on October 2, 2014 from a video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram shows Abubakar Shekau, the group's leaderTurning the tide against Boko Haram will require a "huge" international effort, a top US military commander warned on Tuesday, taking a swipe at Nigeria's response to the emboldened extremists. Relations between the Nigerian and US militaries have been strained with Nigeria cancelling training by US advisers of a unit that was supposed to fight the militants, who have captured towns and villages in the country's northeast and vowed to create a hardline Islamic state. "I think it's going to take a huge international and multinational effort there to change a trajectory that continues to go in the wrong direction," Rodriguez said at an event organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.


Jamaica saw 16 percent reduction in homicides last year

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 03:58 PM PST

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica saw double-digit decreases in every crime category last year, including a 16 percent drop in homicides, the island's national security minister announced Tuesday.

Colombia angers Venezuela with call to free jailed opponent

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 03:46 PM PST

Colombia's former President Andres Pastrana, left, Chile's former President Sebastian Pinera, right, Lilian Tintori the wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, behind right, and Lopez's mother Antonieta Mendoza de Lopez, behind left, stand outside Ramo Verde prison where Lopez is jailed in Los Teques, on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. The group was denied access to visit Lopez who was jailed in February 2014, accused of inciting violent protests. Lopez has a threat of a 13-year prison term hanging over him. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is taking a tougher line with Venezuela's socialist government, urging it to free a prominent opposition leader.


Too soon to say 'mission accomplished' in Kobani: U.S. official

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 03:29 PM PST

Kurdish civilians gather in the Syrian Kurdish city of Qamishli as they wave Kurdish flags in celebrationBy Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kurdish fighters' expulsion of Islamic State forces from the Syrian town of Kobani helped stop the momentum of the Islamist group but is not a significant turning point in the overall campaign, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday. The setback for Islamic State in the war-ravaged town near the Turkish border did not mean "anyone is declaring mission accomplished" in the international campaign against the group, that has taken over parts of Syria and Iraq, the official said. U.S. air strikes in liaison with Kurdish ground troops and Iraqi Kurd reinforcements allowed in from Turkey tipped the battle the Kurds' way, and the Islamic State's appetite for the fight had been undermined by heavy death tolls. "The entire notion of this organization that is on the march and the inevitable expansion and inevitable momentum has been halted at Kobani," added the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.


Terror suspect to be released to halfway house

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 03:22 PM PST

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man accused of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group will be released to a halfway house while his case is pending, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Obama, Merkel discuss increased violence in Ukraine

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 03:21 PM PST

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have spoken about their concern over the "significant increase in violence" in eastern Ukraine.

Monarch butterfly count rises as conservationists warn of extinction

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 03:20 PM PST

A monarch butterfly clings to a plant at the Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific GroveA tally of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico rose to 56. 5 million this year from a record low of 34 million last year but conservationists said on Tuesday the increase was too slight to reduce the threat of extinction facing the insect. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said last month the popular orange-and-black butterfly may warrant federal Endangered Species Act protections tied to declines in cross-country migrations because of farm-related habitat loss. Sarina Jepsen, endangered species director for the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, said scientists had predicted that favorable weather in the butterfly's breeding grounds in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere would result in more monarchs migrating to Mexico this year than the 56.5 million estimated this week by the Mexican government and that country's chapter of the World Wildlife Fund.


Pentagon docs: Obama to request big Pentagon budget hike

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 03:16 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will ask Congress for a hefty, almost 8 percent boost for the Pentagon, including $5.3 billion to equip and train Iraqi soldiers and moderate Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants in the Middle East.

Obama tackles IS fight, Iran with new Saudi king

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 03:10 PM PST

Saudi King Salman (R) meets with US President Barack Obama at the Erga Palace in Riyadh on January 27, 2015US President Barack Obama led a heavyweight delegation to Saudi Arabia Tuesday to meet new King Salman and discussed the two countries' ongoing fight against the Islamic State group. The leaders also tackled the issue of Iran's nuclear programme and human rights in the conservative kingdom, a senior US official said. Riyadh has been part of the US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against IS since last year and is a long-time regional ally of Washington. There has also been unease in the kingdom about Obama's pursuit of a nuclear deal with Shiite-dominated Iran, the regional rival of Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia.


2 ask pope to investigate their diocese sex abuse complaints

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 03:09 PM PST

Vanessa DeRosa, left, and Antonio Flores, right, along with their attorney Diane Tiveron, center, discuss their request for Pope Francis to investigate the way the Diocese of Buffalo has handled complaints of sexual abuse, during a news conference in Tiveron's office in Amherst, N.Y., on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. DeRosa and Flores say they were victimized as teenagers by employees of the diocese, which had no immediate comment. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)AMHERST, New York (AP) — A woman who says she was groped by a teacher when she was a Catholic school cheerleader and a man who says a priest abused him beginning when he was 10 are asking Pope Francis to investigate the way a diocese handled their sexual-abuse complaints.


Kristen Stewart, Robin Wright hit politically-minded couture

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 03:04 PM PST

Actress Kristen Stewart poses for photographers as she arrives for Chanel 's Spring-Summer 2015 Haute Couture fashion collection, presented in Paris, France, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)PARIS (AP) — "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart stunned crowds at Chanel's Paris couture show Tuesday, revealing an edgy bob in a white Chanel sleeveless mini-dress that showed the 24-year-old is fashion savvy beyond her age.


Obama pays respects to Saudis, defends ties to kingdom

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 02:59 PM PST

President Barack Obama meets with the new Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdul Aziz, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. The president and first lady have come to express their condolences on the death of the late Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — In a show of solidarity with Saudi Arabia, President Barack Obama led a parade of American dignitaries to the ultraconservative desert kingdom Tuesday to pay respects after King Abdullah's death and take measure of the new monarch.


Russian skier Khoroshilov wins WCup slalom by huge margin

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 02:56 PM PST

On the podium from left, Stefano Gross, of Italy, second placed, Alexander Khoroshilov, of Russia, winner, Felix Neureuther, of Germany, third placed, celebrate after a men's World Cup Slalom event, in Schladming, Austria, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)SCHLADMING, Austria (AP) — Less than a year after the slalom at his home Olympics ended in disappointment, Alexander Khoroshilov gave Russia its first World Cup victory in more than three decades.


Dominican Republic adds troops to border to deter migrants

Posted: 27 Jan 2015 02:55 PM PST

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Dominican Republic has dispatched additional troops to its border amid concerns about potential instability in neighboring Haiti.

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