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Stolen cell phones put on display after crackdown in Spain

Posted: 20 May 2014 12:33 PM PDT

Spanish police stand guard outside the metro in the Madrid suburb of Alcorcon, on January 27, 2007Spanish police said Tuesday they are putting on display scores of stolen mobile telephones so their owners can claim them, after a crackdown on thefts in Madrid's underground train network. "The national police is looking for the owners of 109 mobile telephones recovered in the Madrid underground," it said in a statement with a photo of the phones and several e-book readers. The loot will be on display for several weeks in a police station on the Puerta del Sol square in the central tourist district of Madrid, it said.

Federal judge strikes down Pennsylvania gay marriage ban

Posted: 20 May 2014 12:33 PM PDT

The Whitewoods _ Landon, 2, Susan, 49, Abbey, 16, Katie, 14, and Deb, 45 _ pose together after a news conference to announce that they are the lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to overturn a state law effectively banning same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, in Harrisburg, Pa. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Harrisburg, also will ask a federal judge to prevent state officials from stopping gay couples from getting married. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday struck down Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage, the latest in a series of court decisions across the nation determining gay couples' rights to wed. The ruling makes Pennsylvania the 19th U.S. state to allow gay marriage in a trend that has gained momentum since the Supreme Court ruled last June that legally married same-sex couples are eligible for federal benefits. (Reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst; Editing by Dina Kyriakidou)

German probe finds 20 former death camp guards

Posted: 20 May 2014 10:56 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2005 file picture watch towers and a barbed wire fence of the former Nazi death camp Majdanek outside the city of Lublin in eastern Poland are photographed. The head of Germany's special prosecutors' office that investigates Nazi war crimes says the first phase of a probe of hundreds of former Majdanek death camp guards is nearly complete. Federal prosecutor Kurt Schrimm told reporters Tuesday May 20, 2014 his office was preparing to recommend within the next two weeks that state prosecutors pursue charges against multiple suspects. Schrimm's office has no power to file charges itself. ( AP Photo / Czarek Sokolowski,file)Around 20 former guards at the Majdanek death camp could face charges in Germany, following a widespread probe of the Nazi SS men and women who served there during World War II, war crimes investigators said Tuesday.

Conviction upheld in NYC subway bombing plot

Posted: 20 May 2014 10:09 AM PDT

FILE - This photo provided by the U.S. Attorneyís Office in the Brooklyn borough of New York shows Adis Medunjanin. Medunjanin is to be sentenced on Friday afternoon, Nov. 16, 2012, in federal court in Brooklyn. Prosecutors had accused Medunjanin and two high school classmates of receiving al-Qaida training before hatching a terror plot they abandoned at the 11th hour. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorneyís Office, File)Bosnian-born U.S. citizen Adis Medunjanin failed to overturn his conviction for planning suicide bombings in New York City's subways.

Legislators look into human trafficking aims

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:52 AM PDT

The Republican-led House will vote on five standalone bills aiming to combat trafficking.

Utah ordered to recognize over 1,000 gay marriages

Posted: 20 May 2014 08:03 AM PDT

Utah ordered to recognize over 1,000 gay marriagesIf a federal judge's ruling stands after a 21-day hold, the state would be required to lift its freeze on same-sex couples' benefits.

Collapse of 23-story building in N. Korea was hidden from media

Posted: 20 May 2014 07:46 AM PDT

NORTH KOREA SAYS THEY'RE SORRYWhen a South Korean ferry sank with hundreds trapped inside last month, the whole world knew about it. But in North Korea, there was utter silence about the collapse of a 23-story apartment building for five days, until state media issued a rare apology.

6 dead, 45 wounded in train crash near Moscow

Posted: 20 May 2014 06:59 AM PDT

An Interior Ministry security force member stands guard near a passenger train damaged in a collision with a freight train in Moscow regionA cargo train and a passenger train collided near Moscow Tuesday, Russian officials said.

Syrian army missile kills 13, including 8 kids

Posted: 20 May 2014 06:43 AM PDT

This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian young inspecting the rubble of houses that were destroyed by airstrikes from the Syrian government forces in Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, May 18, 2014. Syrian rebels captured a village in northwestern Syria on Sunday, killing more than a dozen government troops in heavy clashes and prompting the military to carry out airstrikes to try to dislodge the fighters, activists said. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center)BEIRUT (AP) — A missile crashed into a rebel-held Syrian town while most people were at home sleeping, killing 13 people, activists said Tuesday.

Balkans Flooding: Drowned livestock pose a new threat

Posted: 20 May 2014 06:27 AM PDT

A man holds his dog during the evacuation from floods in Obrenovac, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) southwest of Belgrade Serbia, Saturday, May 17, 2014. Record flooding in the Balkans leaves at least 20 people dead in Serbia and Bosnia and is forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. Meteorologists say the flooding is the worst since records began 120 years ago. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)A new calamity emerged Tuesday in the flood-hit Balkans even as emergency workers battled overflowing rivers and evacuated thousands: tons of drowned livestock were posing a health hazard.

Floods, landslides leave many Bosnians homeless

Posted: 20 May 2014 04:18 AM PDT

Ramiz Skopljak, 65, walks where his house once stood and was swept by the river last week in the village of Topcic Polje, near the Bosnian town of Zenica, 90 kilometers north of Sarajevo, on Monday May 19, 2014. At least 35 people have died in Serbia and Bosnia in the five days of flooding caused by unprecedented torrential rain, laying waste to entire towns and villages and sending tens of thousands of people out of their homes, authorities said. (AP Photo/Sulejman Omerbasic)TOPCIC POLJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — It took only a few minutes for a roaring landslide to leave Ramiz Skopljak homeless for the second time in his life.

Cyber case puts more strain on US-China relations

Posted: 20 May 2014 02:55 AM PDT

This wanted poster is displayed at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014, after Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin, U.S. Attorney for Western District of Pennsylvania David Hickton and FBI Executive Associate Director Robert Anderson participated in a news conference where Holder announced that a U.S. grand jury has charged five Chinese hackers with economic espionage and trade secret theft, the first-of-its-kind criminal charges against Chinese military officials in an international cyber-espionage case. The indictment of five Chinese military officials on cyber espionage charges will intensify friction between Beijing and Washington. Those tensions have only been growing as China gets bolder in asserting its territorial claims in disputed waterways in East Asia. (AP Photo)WASHINGTON (AP) — The indictment of five Chinese military officials on cyber espionage charges will intensify friction between Beijing and Washington that has been growing as China gets bolder in asserting its territorial claims in disputed seas in East Asia.

AP PHOTOS: Syrian refugee children lose education

Posted: 20 May 2014 02:23 AM PDT

In Saturday, April 5, 2014 photo, Ahmed Mahmoud, 12, shows his wrist band with colors of the Syrian revolution flag, near his family's makeshift tent in an unofficial Syrian refugee camp on the outskirts of Amman, Jordan. For Ahmed, school is a distant memory. He helps his father sell vegetables in a wholesale market near their camp where he has lived the past year.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)ZAATARI, Jordan (AP) — For 12-year-old Ahmed Mahmoud, school is a distant memory. Already, the Syrian refugee boy insists he is no longer a child.

News Guide: Primary elections Tuesday in 6 states

Posted: 20 May 2014 01:03 AM PDT

In this May 17, 2014, photo, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell speaks to a gathering of supporters at the Tanglewood Farms Restaurant in Franklin, Ky. There's probably no one tea party conservatives would rather knock off than Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader who they view as too ready to compromise with Democrats. Their hopes were once high for Matt Bevin, a businessman making his first run for office. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)TOP OF THE TICKET

Why is the latest China spy case so significant?

Posted: 20 May 2014 12:48 AM PDT

Press materials are displayed on a table of the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014, before Attorney General Eric Holder was to speak at a news conference. Holder was announcing that a U.S. grand jury has charged five Chinese hackers with economic espionage and trade secret theft, the first-of-its-kind criminal charges against Chinese military officials in an international cyber-espionage case. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has brought unprecedented criminal charges against five officials in the Chinese military for hacking into private U.S. companies' systems and stealing trade secrets. It was the first time the U.S. has revealed any evidence the Chinese government was going after American companies' private information for economic gain.

Cyber charges put more strain US-China relations

Posted: 20 May 2014 12:48 AM PDT

This wanted poster is displayed at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014, after Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin, U.S. Attorney for Western District of Pennsylvania David Hickton and FBI Executive Associate Director Robert Anderson participated in a news conference where Holder announced that a U.S. grand jury has charged five Chinese hackers with economic espionage and trade secret theft, the first-of-its-kind criminal charges against Chinese military officials in an international cyber-espionage case. The indictment of five Chinese military officials on cyber espionage charges will intensify friction between Beijing and Washington. Those tensions have only been growing as China gets bolder in asserting its territorial claims in disputed waterways in East Asia. (AP Photo)WASHINGTON (AP) — The indictment of five Chinese military officials on cyber espionage charges will intensify friction between Beijing and Washington that has been growing as China gets bolder in asserting its territorial claims in disputed seas in East Asia.

U.S. moves more forces closer to Libya as unrest grows

Posted: 20 May 2014 12:48 AM PDT

Armed men aim their weapons from a vehicle as smoke rises in the background near the General National Congress in TripoliThe United States has increased the number of Marines and aircraft stationed in Sicily who could be called upon to evacuate Americans from the U.S. embassy in Tripoli as unrest in Libya grows, two U.S. officials said on Monday. About 60 more Marines and another four Osprey aircraft, whose tilt-rotar engines allow it to land like a helicopter but fly like an airplane, were being sent to Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily from their base in Spain. That brings the total number of Marines stationed as a precaution in Sicily to around 250, the two officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Their location in Italy moves them closer to Libya, speeding response times.

Ukraine's hobbled navy: "Times are not the best"

Posted: 20 May 2014 12:48 AM PDT

A body guard of insurgent leader Denis Pushilin, left, holds his weapon during a rally by pro-Russian people in Lenin Square, in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, May 18, 2014. Ukraine will hold presidential elections on May 25.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)ODESSA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's navy is in Odessa's harbor, though it can be hard to spot.

Text 911: Calling for help without making a call

Posted: 19 May 2014 10:28 PM PDT

FILE--In this April 18, 2012, file photo, David Tucker, executive director of Vermont's Enhanced 911 Board, holds a smart phone in Montpelier, Vt. Tucker says the state is the first in the country where customers of the four major wireless carriers can send text messages to 911. As of Monday, May 19, 2014, T-Mobile customers in Vermont are now able to text 911. Verizon, AT&T and Sprint began the service earlier. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, file)MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Sometimes a voice call to 911 just won't work, such as for deaf people in need of help or in certain domestic violence cases.

China summons US envoy over cyberspying charges

Posted: 19 May 2014 09:42 PM PDT

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Foreign Ministry has summoned the U.S. ambassador to complain over Washington's charging five Chinese military officials with hacking into U.S. companies to steal vital trade secrets.

Thailand's army declares martial law, denies coup

Posted: 19 May 2014 07:35 PM PDT

A Thai soldier mans his machine gun atop a military vehicle outside the Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) after soldiers were sent in to seize the center Tuesday, May 20, 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's army declared martial law in a surprise announcement in Bangkok before dawn on Tuesday, intensifying the turbulent nation's deepening political crisis. The military, however, denied a coup d'etat was underway. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's army declared martial law before dawn Tuesday in a surprise announcement it said was aimed at keeping the country stable after six months of sometimes violent political unrest. The military, however, denied a coup d'etat was underway.

Credit Suisse pleads guilty in US tax evasion case

Posted: 19 May 2014 07:35 PM PDT

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department, on Monday, May 19, 2014, in Washington. The Justice Department on Monday charged Credit Suisse AG with helping wealthy Americans avoid paying taxes through offshore accounts, and a person familiar with the matter said the European bank has agreed to pay about $2.6 billion in penalties. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — European bank Credit Suisse AG pleaded guilty Monday to helping wealthy Americans avoid paying taxes through secret offshore accounts and agreed to pay about $2.6 billion.

Credit Suisse charged in tax evasion case

Posted: 19 May 2014 06:00 PM PDT

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department, on Monday, May 19, 2014, in Washington. The Justice Department on Monday charged Credit Suisse AG with helping wealthy Americans avoid paying taxes through offshore accounts, and a person familiar with the matter said the European bank has agreed to pay about $2.6 billion in penalties. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — Swiss bank Credit Suisse AG pleaded guilty Monday to helping wealthy Americans avoid paying taxes through secret offshore accounts and agreed to pay about $2.6 billion.

Union in North Carolina welcomes college athletes

Posted: 19 May 2014 05:26 PM PDT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina union for public workers will allow scholarship student-athletes at public universities to join as state employees.

4 major phone carriers providing text-to-911

Posted: 19 May 2014 04:23 PM PDT

FILE--In this April 18, 2012, file photo, David Tucker, executive director of Vermont's Enhanced 911 Board, holds a smart phone in Montpelier, Vt. Tucker says the state is the first in the country where customers of the four major wireless carriers can send text messages to 911. As of Monday, May 19, 2014, T-Mobile customers in Vermont are now able to text 911. Verizon, AT&T and Sprint began the service earlier. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, file)MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The four major U.S. wireless phone companies are providing emergency texting 911 service as of this month to any local government that wants it and has the capability to use it, a big step toward moving the nation's emergency dispatch system out of the voice-only technology that dates to the 1960s.
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