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11 dead as fire hits Chile's historic Valparaiso

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 12:28 PM PDT

A man cries next to the remains of his house after a forest fire destroyed it in Valparaiso, Sunday, April 13, 2014. A raging fire leaped from hilltop to hilltop in this port city, killing at least 16 people and destroying more than 500 homes. More than 10,000 people were evacuated. (AP Photo/ Luis Hidalgo)VALPARAISO, Chile (AP) — A raging fire leaped from hilltop to hilltop in this colorful port city, killing at least 11 people and destroying more than 500 homes. More than 10,000 people were evacuated, including more than 200 female inmates at a prison.


Window opens on secret camp within Guantanamo

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 11:26 AM PDT

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Attorney James Connell has visited his client inside the secret Guantanamo prison complex known as Camp 7 only once, taken in a van with covered windows on a circuitous trek to disguise the route on the scrub brush-and-cactus covered military base.

A Masters for the ages at Augusta National

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 10:24 AM PDT

Workers wait outside of the Augusta National Golf Clubhouse in the early morning before the fourth round of the Masters golf tournament Sunday, April 13, 2014, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Bubba Watson is going for his second green jacket. Jordan Spieth is trying to become the youngest major champion in 83 years. Plenty of others are in the mix.


Chile: 16 dead, toll rising in Valparaiso fire

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 10:07 AM PDT

An out of control forest fire destroys homes in the city of Valparaiso, Chile, Sunday April 13, 2014. Authorities say the forest fire has destroyed at least 150 homes and is forcing evacuations. ( AP Photo/ Luis Hidalgo)A raging fire leaped from hilltop to hilltop in this colorful port city, killing at least 16 people and destroying more than 500 homes. More than 10,000 people were evacuated, including more than 200 female inmates at a prison.


Chile: 11 dead, toll rising in Valparaiso fire

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 09:04 AM PDT

An out of control forest fire destroys homes in the city of Valparaiso, Chile, Sunday April 13, 2014. Authorities say the forest fire has destroyed at least 150 homes and is forcing evacuations. ( AP Photo/ Luis Hidalgo)VALPARAISO, Chile (AP) — A fire raging in this colorful port city has killed at least 11 people and destroyed 500 homes, President Michelle Bachelet said Sunday. More than 10,000 people have been evacuated, including more than 200 female inmates at a prison.


Official: US looking into Syria toxic gas reports

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 08:48 AM PDT

In this Friday, April 11, 2014 image made from amateur video provided by the Shams News Network, a loosely organized anti-Assad group based in and out of Syria that claim not to have any connection to Syrian opposition parties or any other states, and which is consistent with independent AP reporting, a man lies on the floor with an oxygen mask at a hospital room in Kfar Zeita, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus, Syria. Syrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday, April 12, 2014 that poison gas had been used in the village, on Friday injuring scores of people, while blaming each other for the attack. (AP Photo/Shams News Network)BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday that reports of a poison gas attack in a rural village north of Damascus were so far "unsubstantiated," adding that the United States was trying to establish what really happened before it considers a response.


Finance ministers: Economy stronger but fragile

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 02:47 AM PDT

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde accompanied by IMFC Chair and Singapore Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, arrive for a news conference during the World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington, Saturday, April 12, 2014. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)WASHINGTON (AP) — The world's top financial officials say they believe the global economy is strengthening but that growth remains fragile and open to risks of new geopolitical strife, as in Ukraine.


Climate panel warns emissions rising, blurs reason

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 02:47 AM PDT

Activists of the international environmentalist organization Greenpeace pose with posters in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, April 13, 2014, to support clean energy. After a one week meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Berlin the final document which is released on Sunday is expected to say that a global shift to renewable energy from fossil fuels like oil and coal are required to avoid potentially devastating sea level rise, flooding, droughts and other impacts of warming. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)BERLIN (AP) — The U.N.'s expert panel on climate change on Sunday highlighted the disconnect between international goals to fight global warming and what is being done to attain them.


Jennifer Lopez, Laverne Cox win GLAAD Media Awards

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 02:47 AM PDT

Jennifer Lopez arrives at the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday, April 12, 2014. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Lopez has added a couple of more trophies to her block.


Feds: Safety concerns led to Nevada cow release

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 01:15 AM PDT

Federal land managers say "escalating tensions" led them to release all 400 or so head of cattle rounded up on public land in southern Nevada from a rancher who has refused to recognize their authority.

Missing plane's black box batteries may have died

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 01:15 AM PDT

A Chinese Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft, right, lands at Perth International Airport after returning from the ongoing search operations for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Perth, Australia, Sunday, April 13, 2014. Following four strong underwater signals in the past week, all has gone quiet in the hunt for the missing Malaysian airline, meaning the batteries on the all-important black boxes may have finally died. Despite having no new pings to go on, crews are continuing their search Sunday for debris and any sounds that could still be emanating. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)PERTH, Australia (AP) — Following four strong underwater signals in the past week, all has gone quiet in the hunt for the missing Malaysian airline, meaning the batteries on the all-important black boxes may have finally died.


Ukraine: Special forces sent to eastern city

Posted: 13 Apr 2014 12:25 AM PDT

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's interior minister has announced that Ukrainian special forces have been sent to an eastern city where armed men seized a police headquarters and the office of the Security Service.

Pacquiao beats Bradley by decision in rematch

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 11:54 PM PDT

Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines acknowledges the crowd just after his unanimous decision victory over Timothy Bradley during their WBO World Welterweight championship boxing match, Saturday, April 12, 2014, at The MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Eric Jamison)LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nearly two years later, Manny Pacquiao finally got the decision most people thought he deserved the first time against Timothy Bradley.


Peru state a violent 'mini-dictatorship'

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 09:16 PM PDT

In this Nov. 26, 2013 photo, Ancash Gov. Cesar Alvarez talks on his cell phone in Lima, Peru. Alvarez ran a CHIMBOTE, Peru (AP) — One by one, the senior officials from the capital took the microphone and apologized to an auditorium packed with angry people who had long been living in fear. The officials admitted they had failed to prevent a political murder foretold by its victim. Their integrity was in doubt.


Feds release cows gathered in Nevada roundup

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 08:45 PM PDT

Federal land managers confirmed Saturday that they released all 400 or so head of cattle rounded up on public land in southern Nevada from a rancher who has refused to recognize their authority.

NTSB: Claim about truck fire still uncorroborated

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 08:13 PM PDT

The demolished remains of a FedEx truck is towed into a CalTrans maintenance station in Willows, Calif., Friday, April 11, 2014. At least ten people were killed and dozens injured in the fiery crash on Thursday, April 10, between a FedEx truck and a bus carrying high school students on a visit to a Northern California college. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators could not corroborate on Saturday a driver's claim that a FedEx tractor-trailer was already on fire before it careened across a freeway median, sideswiped her car and slammed into a bus carrying high school students, killing 10 people in a fiery wreck.


Long hunt for missing jet looms as pings go silent

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 07:27 PM PDT

A U.S. Navy P8 Poseidon takes off from Perth Airport en route to rejoin the ongoing search operations for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Perth, Australia, Sunday, April 13, 2014. Military planes and ships from seven nations continue to scourer the Indian Ocean off the coast of western Australia for Flight 370 in one of the largest maritime multi-nation searches in history. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)PERTH, Australia (AP) — After a week of optimism over four underwater signals believed to be coming from the missing Malaysian plane, the sea has gone quiet and Australia's leader is warning that the massive search will likely be long.


FedEx semi didn't brake before California crash

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 06:54 PM PDT

The demolished remains of a FedEx truck is towed into a CalTrans maintenance station in Willows, Calif., Friday, April 11, 2014. At least ten people were killed and dozens injured in the fiery crash on Thursday, April 10, between a FedEx truck and a bus carrying high school students on a visit to a Northern California college. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)ORLAND, Calif. (AP) — Federal safety investigators say the driver of a Fedex tractor-trailer that struck a bus carrying high school students didn't appear to brake before a fiery collision that left 10 dead.


Feds release all cows gathered during NV roundup

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 05:34 PM PDT

Federal land managers confirmed they released all 400 head of cattle rounded up on public land in southern Nevada from a rancher who has refused to recognize their authority.

Spieth, Watson tied for lead at the Masters

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 05:04 PM PDT

Jordan Spieth, left, walks with Adam Scott, of Australia, on the 18th fairway during the third round of the Masters golf tournament Saturday, April 12, 2014, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Young and old. Even without Tiger Woods, this Masters has a little bit of everything.


Finance officials: Global economy turns the corner

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 02:26 PM PDT

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde show photographers IMF anniversary cookies as IMFC Chair Tharman Shanmugaratnam looks on, Saturday, April 12, 2014, during the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting at World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)WASHINGTON (AP) — The world's top finance officials expressed confidence Saturday that the global economy finally has turned the corner to stronger growth. This time, they may be right.


Feds abruptly end cattle roundup in Nevada

Posted: 12 Apr 2014 02:26 PM PDT

Federal land managers abruptly ended the roundup of cattle on public land in southern Nevada owned by a rancher who has refused to recognize their authority, citing a "serious concern" for the safety of employees and the public.

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