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Maltese PM: 27 dead in capsized migrant ship

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:25 PM PDT

ROME (AP) — Malta's prime minister says 27 people are confirmed dead in the capsizing of a migrant ship off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.

Rights group accuses Syrian rebels of war crimes

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 01:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this file image taken from Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013, video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a rebel fighter fires a gun in a valley in an unidentified location in Latakia province, Syria. Jihadi-led rebel fighters in Syria killed at least 190 civilians and abducted more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages, committing a war crime, an international human rights group said Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP Video, File)BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian villagers described watching rebels advance on their homes, as mortars thudded around them. By the end of the August attack, 190 civilians had been killed, including children, the elderly and the handicapped, a human rights group said Friday in its most detailed account of alleged war crimes committed by those fighting the Damascus regime.

Obamacare a success so far? It's hard to say

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:54 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2013, file photo, clinical applications counselor Rachael Richardson, left, works with Louis Peters at the Henry J. Austin Health Center, in Trenton, N.J., as he and others fill out papers to sign up for new plans through a health insurance exchange. Despite anecdotal evidence of high interest and the political stakes attached to President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, a nation obsessed with keeping score of winners and losers lacks the data to pass early judgment on the success of a law that will in large part define the president's legacy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — After more than a week in action, is a key feature of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul a success or a bust? Judging by the dearth of data, it's virtually impossible to say.

Utah reopening national parks, others eye options

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:38 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 3, 2013 file photo shows a sign at the south entrance to Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz., indicates the park is closed. The Obama administration says it will allow states to use their own money to reopen some national parks that have been closed because of the government shutdown. Governors in at least four states have asked for authority to reopen national parks within their borders because of the economic impacts caused by the park closures. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff, File)SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Obama administration's willingness to reopen national parks shuttered by the government shutdown came with a big caveat: States must foot the bill with money they likely won't see again.

Migrant boat capsizes off Lampedusa, many rescued

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:23 PM PDT

ROME (AP) — A boat carrying an estimated 200 migrants capsized Friday off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where a shipwreck last week left at least 339 dead. Rescue crews reported seeing bodies in the water but the coast guard said most of the passengers had been rescued.

A more pragmatic Paul Ryan emerges

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 15, 2013 file photo, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. waves before speaking in National Harbor, Md. Get your face on TV and write a book: Check. Start meeting the big money people: Check. Visit Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina _ Israel, too: Check. Deny any of this has to do with running for president: Check. For politicians planning or tempted to run for the presidency in 2016, the to-do list is formidable. What's striking is how methodically most of them are plowing through it while they pretend nothing of the sort is going on. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)The former conservative VP candidate has played the quiet diplomat in a budget deal.

Italy coast guard: many survive migrant capsizing

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 11:51 AM PDT

ROME (AP) — Italy's coast guard says many of the migrants aboard a boat that capsized off Lampedusa have survived and helicopters are taking the injured to the Sicilian island.

U.S. Olympic Committee adds sexual orientation to non-discrimination policy

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 11:36 AM PDT

USOC At The Today Show Announcing One Year Out To Sochi 2014 Winter OlympicsCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The U.S. Olympic Committee board revised its non-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation, a nod to its disapproval of the Russian anti-gay law recently passed by the Olympic host country.

Boat carrying many migrants capsizes off Lampedusa

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 11:21 AM PDT

ROME (AP) — A boat carrying an estimated 200 migrants capsized Friday off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa where a shipwreck last week left more than 300 dead. Rescue crews reported seeing bodies in the water.

Senate GOP leader talks of bipartisan solution

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 11:06 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says GOP lawmakers are working on trying to come up with a bipartisan solution to the budget stalemate.

General in charge of ICBMs fired

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 10:29 AM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by the US Air Force shows Maj. Gen. Michael J. Carey. The Air Force is firing Carey, the two-star general in charge of all of its nuclear missiles in response to an investigation into alleged personal misbehavior, officials told The Associated Press on Friday. Carey is being removed from command of the 20th Air Force, which is responsible for three wings of intercontinental ballistic missiles — a total of 450 missiles at three bases across the country, the officials said. (AP Photo/US Air Force)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force said Friday it fired the two-star general in charge of its nuclear missiles in response to an investigation into alleged personal misbehavior. It was the second sacking this week of a senior commander of nuclear forces.

Utah to reopen national parks

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 10:13 AM PDT

Tourists gather at the Arches National Park in Moab, Utah in this file photoThe state, which depends on tourism, will pay $1.67M so visitors can return.

Teachers blame Tea Party for shutdown

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 09:09 AM PDT

Georgetown students using phones, tablets in classThe nation's largest teachers union buys ads to share its views.

In Dubai workers' parallel world, a chance to sing

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 08:53 AM PDT

In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013 photo, Zulifqar al-Qureshi, a physical laborer from Pakistan, celebrates after his team won the first place in Champ of the Camp, season seven of a singing contest for laborers, dubbed DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A classic Bollywood hit blasted across the DM Labor Camp from loudspeakers cranked to gut-rattling levels. One of the contestants, who had changed out of his work overalls a few hours earlier, shimmied on the stage set up in the courtyard.

ND farmer finds oil spill while harvesting wheat

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 08:37 AM PDT

In this Oct. 8, 2013 photo provided by the North Dakota Health Department, a vacuum trucks cleans up oil in near Tioga, N.D. The North Dakota Health Department says more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil have spewed out of a Tesoro Corp. oil pipeline in a wheat field in northwestern North Dakota. Officials say the 20,600-barrel spill, among the largest recorded in the state, was discovered on Sept. 29 by a farmer harvesting wheat about nine miles south of Tioga. (AP Photo/North Dakota Health Department)BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota farmer who discovered an oil spill the size of seven football fields while out harvesting wheat says that when he found it, crude was bubbling up out of the ground.

APNewsBreak: Gen in charge of ICBMs to be fired

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 08:23 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials tell The Associated Press that the Air Force is firing the two-star general in charge of all of its nuclear missiles.

Establishment GOPers assail tea party on shutdown

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 07:35 AM PDT

Establishment GOPers assail tea party on shutdownFrom county chairmen to national party luminaries, veteran Republicans across the country are accusing tea party lawmakers of staining the GOP with their refusal to bend in the budget impasse in Washington. ...

House GOP, White House seeking end to budget fight

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 07:20 AM PDT

House GOP, White House seeking end to budget fightAfter weeks of ultimatums, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans are exploring whether they can end a budget standoff that has triggered a partial government shutdown and edged Washington ...

Syrian official lauds Nobel prize for inspectors

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 07:04 AM PDT

The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, centre, announces, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, at the Nobel Institute, in Oslo, Friday Oct. 11, 2013. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced on Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the Hague, Netherlands-based global chemical watchdog BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian lawmaker said Friday that awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the global chemical watchdog underscores "the credibility" of the Damascus government and its intentions to destroy its deadly arsenal.

Car bomb hits Swedish, Finnish consulates in Libya

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 06:33 AM PDT

Security forces work at the site where a car bomb went off outside the building housing Swedish and Finnish consulates on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, badly damaging the building, but leaving no casualties. Benghazi has been hit by a wave of attacks against government offices and targeted killings in recent months as security agencies struggle to secure Libya since the 2011 civil war. Weapons have proliferated and a number of militias have vied for authority, operating with impunity.(AP Photo/Mohammed el-Shaiky)TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A car bomb exploded outside a building housing the Swedish and Finnish consulates in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, badly damaging it but causing no casualties, Libyan and Swedish officials said.

Kerry makes unannounced visit to Kabul for security talks

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 05:48 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waves as he leaves, after completing his trip to Malaysia, from Subang TUDM outside of Kuala LumpurKABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Afghanistan on Friday to advance negotiations with President Hamid Karzai on a bilateral security pact which have hit a wall over two issues that have become deal breakers for the Afghan government. The United States says it wants the deal done by the end of October, while Karzai has declared it can wait until after presidential elections in April next year, further straining what has become a rocky relationship between the allies. U.S. ...

Kerry in Afghanistan for urgent security talks

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:58 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry leaves from Subang TUDM outside of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, after completing his trip to Malaysia after U.S. President Barack Obama cancelled his trip to the region due to the U.S. government shutdown. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Afghanistan for urgent talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Snowden father in 'emotional' meeting with son

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:46 AM PDT

Rossiya 24 television grab on October 10, 2013, shows Lon Snowden (R), father of US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, speaking on arrival at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, with Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena (2nd R)Moscow (AFP) - The father of US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has held an "emotional" meeting with his son for the first time since the fugitive took refuge in Russia to escape US justice, a report said Friday.

Libya: Car bomb hits Swedish Consulate in Benghazi

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 04:26 AM PDT

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A car bomb went off outside the Swedish Consulate on Friday in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, badly damaging the building, but leaving no casualties, Libyan and Swedish officials said.

A glance at Nobel Peace Prize winner, the OPCW

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 03:55 AM PDT

A security guard stands at the entrance at the headquarters of the world's chemical watchdog OPCW, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday Oct. 11, 2013. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced on Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the Hague, Netherlands-based global chemical watchdog WHO WON?
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