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Russia to ban all U.S. agricultural imports

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 01:05 PM PDT

Report: Russia to block US agricultural importsCountry to also block all EU fruit, vegetable products, Russian official says.

AP ANALYSIS: Hamas emerges weakened from Gaza war

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 12:49 PM PDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014 file photo, Palestinians inspect what they think was made by an Israeli drill designed to uncover tunnels used by Palestinian militants, in Rafah's district of Shawkah in the southern Gaza Strip. Hamas is entering Egyptian-brokered talks with Israel over a new border regime for blockaded Gaza having lost hundreds of fighters, two-thirds of its arsenal of rockets, and its attack tunnels. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas has entered Egyptian-brokered talks with Israel on a new border regime for blockaded Gaza from a point of military weakness: it lost hundreds of fighters, two-thirds of its 10,000 rockets and all of its attack tunnels, worth $100 million, Israel says.

Russia promises 'quite substantial' ban on U.S., EU food imports

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 12:18 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a local administration meeting as he visits Voronezh on August 5, 2014Russia will impose "quite substantial" bans on the U.S. and EU food imports and has already decided to suspend U.S. poultry imports as part of President Vladimir Putin's order to prepare a list of food import bans, its veterinary service said. Putin signed a decree on Wednesday banning or limiting imports of agricultural products from countries which have imposed sanctions on Russia because of its support of rebels in Ukraine. Putin ordered his government to come up with a list of goods to be banned for imports into Russia and to last one year, the Kremlin said. Russia's Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) will ban the U.S. poultry imports, VPSS spokesman Alexei Alekseenko told Reuters on Wednesday evening.

How does Ebola virus spread and can it be stopped?

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 12:02 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file image made available by the CDC shows the Ebola Virus. As a deadly Ebola outbreak continues in West Africa, health officials are working to calm fears that the virus easily spreads, while encouraging those with symptoms to get medical care. (AP Photo/CDC, File)LONDON (AP) — As a deadly Ebola outbreak continues in West Africa, health officials are working to calm fears about how the virus spreads, while encouraging those with symptoms to get medical care. Typically, outbreaks of the disease have been in other parts of the continent, not in West Africa.

Israel agrees to extend Gaza cease-fire

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 11:46 AM PDT

Israel has conditionally agreed to extend a ceasefire that ended a month of fighting in Gaza beyond a Friday deadline, an Israeli official said on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official did not say for how much longer Israel had agreed to extend the truce, only that: "Israel has expressed its readiness to extend the truce under its current terms," referring to the deal brokered by Egypt that took effect on Tuesday. Hamas had no immediate comment. (Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan; editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

Comet joined by space probe after 10-year pursuit

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 11:14 AM PDT

Close-up detail of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image was taken by Rosetta's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera and downloaded Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. The image shows the comet's 'head' at the left of the frame, which is casting shadow onto the 'neck' and 'body' to the right. The image was taken from a distance of 120 km and the image resolution is 2.2 meters per pixel. A mission to land the first space probe on a comet reaches a major milestone when the unmanned Rosetta spacecraft finally catches up with its quarry on Wednesday. It's a hotly anticipated rendezvous: Rosetta flew into space more than a decade ago and had to perform a series of complex maneuvers to gain enough speed to chase down the comet on its orbit around the sun. (AP Photo/ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team )DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — Turning what seemed like a science fiction tale into reality, an unmanned probe swung alongside a comet on Wednesday after a 4-billion mile (6.4-billion kilometer) chase through outer space over the course of a decade.

Dutch premier halts search for Ukraine victims

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:58 AM PDT

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Netherlands' prime minister has called a halt to the search for remains of victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster in Ukraine, saying it is too dangerous to continue.

Tensions grow in Ukraine over Russia troop buildup

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:43 AM PDT

A Pro-Russian rebel adjusts his weapon in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. Air strikes and artillery fire between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian troops in the eastern city of Donetsk have brought the violence closer than ever to the city center, as Kiev's forces move in on the rebel stronghold. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — As the steadily advancing Ukrainian army sets its sights on reclaiming the largest rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine, tension is building over whether a large Russian army lying in wait just across the border will step in to protect the separatists.

Obama, African leaders talk security, governance

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:26 AM PDT

President Barack Obama waves during the official family photo at the US African Leaders Summit, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014, at the State Department in Washington. President Barack Obama and dozens of African leaders opened talks Wednesday on two key issues that threaten to disrupt economic progress on the continent: security and government corruption. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and dozens of African leaders opened talks Wednesday on two key issues that threaten to disrupt economic progress on the continent: security and government corruption.

Comet chaser reaches target after 10-year pursuit

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 10:10 AM PDT

Close-up detail of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image was taken by Rosetta's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera and downloaded Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. The image shows the comet's 'head' at the left of the frame, which is casting shadow onto the 'neck' and 'body' to the right. The image was taken from a distance of 120 km and the image resolution is 2.2 meters per pixel. A mission to land the first space probe on a comet reaches a major milestone when the unmanned Rosetta spacecraft finally catches up with its quarry on Wednesday. It's a hotly anticipated rendezvous: Rosetta flew into space more than a decade ago and had to perform a series of complex maneuvers to gain enough speed to chase down the comet on its orbit around the sun. (AP Photo/ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team )DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — After a journey of 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles), Europe's unmanned Rosetta probe reached its destination Wednesday, a milestone in mankind's first attempt to land a spacecraft on a comet.

Houston airport worker dies after 45-foot fall

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 09:55 AM PDT

HOUSTON (AP) — A contract worker has died after falling about 45 feet from an elevated rail track at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.

How Ecclestone's German trial closure was possible

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 09:22 AM PDT

Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone gestures as he arrives for his trial in the regional court in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. German prosecutors said Tuesday that they will accept dropping the bribery case against Ecclestone in exchange for a US dollar 100 million payment by the Formula One boss, and judges were considering whether to close his trial. Ecclestone went on trial at the Munich state court in late April on charges of bribery and incitement to breach of trust — which could, if he were convicted, carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)BERLIN (AP) — Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone's departure from a Munich court with a fleeting "bye-bye" after having bribery charges dropped in exchange for an enormous $100 million payment left a sour taste for many in Germany.

Target endorses gay marriage

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:20 AM PDT

The new Target store is seen in Guelph, OntarioRetailer joins Starbucks, Apple, Intel in taking public stand on same-sex unions.

Michelle Obama urges counterparts to include youth

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 08:04 AM PDT

FILE - This July 2, 2013 file photo shows first lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Laura Bush in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Obama and Bush are coming together for the second time in just over a year to promote U.S. ties to Africa. They're also deepening the personal ties between two first ladies from different generations and opposing political parties. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama says the spouses of the world's leaders have the power to inspire millions of young people around the globe who are looking for role models and direction.

Spain catches its navy running cocaine from Colombia

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 07:48 AM PDT

A Spanish Navy officer is carried away after he fainted during a graduation ceremony presided by Spain's King Felipe VI, for new sergeants at the NCO School of the Spanish Navy in San FernandoMADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have seized 127 kilograms of cocaine from Spanish navy training ship, which allegedly carried the drug from Colombia and dropped off some in New York.

Ebola deaths: 932; cases: 1,700

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 07:17 AM PDT

Nigerian health officials wait to screen passengers at the arrival hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Nigerian authorities on Monday confirmed a second case of Ebola in Africa's most populous country, an alarming setback as officials across the region battle to stop the spread of a disease that has killed more than 700 people. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)World Health Organization says the epidemic that started in West Africa is getting steadily worse.

US drone said to kill 7 militants in Pakistan

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 06:46 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photo, a Predator B unmanned aircraft taxis at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. A U.S. military drone strike in Yemen in December 2013 may have killed up to a dozen civilians on their way to a wedding and injured others, including the bride, a human rights group says. U.S. officials say only members of al-Qaida were killed, but they have refused make public the details of two U.S. investigations into the incident.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)ISLAMABAD (AP) — A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a sprawling compound in a northwestern tribal region of Pakistan on Wednesday, killing seven militants, two Pakistani intelligence officials said.

Comet chaser reaches target after 10-year chase

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 06:31 AM PDT

In this picture taken on Aug. 3, 2014 by Rosetta's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is pictured from a distance of 285 kms. A mission to land the first space probe on a comet reaches a major milestone when the unmanned Rosetta spacecraft finally catches up with its quarry on Wednesday Aug 6, 2014. It's a hotly anticipated rendezvous: Rosetta flew into space more than a decade ago and had to perform a series of complex maneuvers to gain enough speed to chase down the comet on its orbit around the sun. The image resolution is 5.3 metres/pixel. (AP Photo/ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team )DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — After a journey of 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles), Europe's unmanned Rosetta probe reached its destination Wednesday, a milestone in mankind's first attempt to land a spacecraft on a comet.

Afghan official: General's killer hid in bathroom

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 06:14 AM PDT

Afghanistan National Army soldiers stand guard at a gate of Camp Qargha, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Earlier in the day, a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops at the military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding others, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan soldier who killed a U.S. two-star general and wounded other top officers hid in a bathroom before his assault and used a NATO machine gun in his attack, an Afghan military official said Wednesday.

Volunteers step up in China's response to quake

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 05:58 AM PDT

Volunteers deliver bottles of water transported by a helicopter to the earthquake hit Longtoushan town in Ludian county in southwest China's Yunnan province Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. Some 10,000 troops and hundreds of volunteers have rushed to Ludian to clear roads and dig out possible survivors from the debris, but landslides and bouts of heavy rains have complicated rescue efforts. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)LONGTOUSHAN, China (AP) — Minutes after a deadly earthquake shook western China, disaster teams were on the move. Within hours, food, tents, and even a 4G cellphone network were in place, showing how a fast-developing China can bring its plentiful experience and enormous resources to bear in handling natural disasters.

Second Ebola death in Nigeria

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 05:43 AM PDT

A man reads a local newspaper with headline news about a Lagos female doctor contracts Ebola Virus, in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Lagos State Health Commissioner Jide Idris announced Tuesday that eight people are being kept in quarantine with symptoms of Ebola. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)Nurse infected with virus has died in Africa's most populous nation; five other cases in Lagos.

Walgreen turns down inversion to cut tax bill

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 05:27 AM PDT

FILE - Sign above a Walgreens entrance, is seen in this, Sept. 28, 2009 file photo taken in Gloucester, Mass. The nation's largest drugstore chain says it will buy the remaining stake in Alliance Boots that it does not already own, but it will not pull off an inversion with the Swiss health and beauty retailer. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File)Walgreen plans to keep its roots firmly planted in the United States, saying it will no longer pursue an overseas reorganization that would have trimmed the amount of U.S. taxes it pays.

Rosetta spacecraft makes rendezvous with comet

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 04:08 AM PDT

This artist's impression released by the European Space Agency shows the Rosetta orbiter approaching Comet 67P/Churyumov–GerasimenkoThe space probe Rosetta on Wednesday made a historic rendezvous with a comet, climaxing a 10-year, six-billion-kilometre (3.7-billion-mile) chase through the Solar System, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. "We're at the comet," Rosetta's flight operations manager, Sylvain Lodiot, declared in a webcast from mission control in Darmstadt, Germany. It marks the first time a spacecraft has been sent into orbit around a comet, a wanderer of the Solar System whose primeval dust and ice may hold insights into how the planets formed. Rosetta's rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was confirmed at 0929 GMT at distance of 400 million km from Earth, according to signals received at ground stations.

NYPD: Bus driver arrested in Times Square crash

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 03:52 AM PDT

In this photo downloaded off the New York City Fire Department Twitter Site, emergency personnel respond to a collision between two double-decker busses on New York City's Times Square, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. The Theater District accident injured 13 people, three of them seriously. (AP Photo/New York City Fire Department)NEW YORK (AP) — The driver of a double-decker tour bus has been arrested in connection with a crash with another bus that injured 14 people in Times Square.

New Afghan attack kills 7 after US general slain

Posted: 06 Aug 2014 03:37 AM PDT

Afghanistan National Army soldiers stand guard at a gate of Camp Qargha, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Earlier in the day, a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops at the military base, killing a U.S. two-star general and wounding others, among them a German brigadier general and a number of Americans troops, authorities said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. officials prepared Wednesday to fly the body of a two-star general slain in an Afghan "insider attack" back home, as a similar attack saw an Afghan police officer drug and shoot dead seven of his colleagues, authorities said.
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