Russian TV channel says photos show MH17 shot down by fighter jet
By Jason Bush MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state-controlled TV has broadcast what it called "sensational" photographs, which it said supported Moscow's theory that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet. Several commentators who have examined the photographs have…
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The body parts of several babies have been found in a parcel destined for the United States, Thai police said Sunday. A baby's head, several feet and "sheets of skin" -- including one taken from an adult and bearing a large tattoo -- were discovered Saturday after staff at a Bangkok parcel company…
Woman sues owners of dog killed by her pit bulls
TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman whose four pit bulls entered her neighbors' yard through a hole in the fence and killed their 10-year-old beagle is suing them for $1 million.
Army veteran dies of injuries after hotel assault in N. Carolina
(Reuters) - An Army veteran injured and burned during an assault in a North Carolina hotel room a week ago died of his injuries on Saturday, authorities said. Stephen Patrick White, 46, of Greensboro, was assaulted on Nov. 9, Greensboro police said. He died in hospital on Saturday. Police and…
Michael Brown Family Says New Tapes Contradict Cops' Story
New surveillance videos show Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson leaving for the hospital hours after he fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, sparking weeks of protest in the Missouri city.
Russian president denies he fled summit pressure
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin made an early exit on Sunday from a two-day summit of world leaders where he was roundly criticized over Russia's escalating aggression in Ukraine, but brushed off suggestions that he had felt pressured.
Italy's immigration crisis moves from sea to streets
Rome (AFP) - "Why do they have to be taken care of? Like many of Italy's poor, 51-year-old Elvio has had enough. Born and raised in a rundown suburb of Rome where residents last week laid violent siege to a holding centre for asylum seekers, Elvio belongs to a strata of Italian society whose…
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Among those who were killed were Robert Tisnado and his brother Gibby Tisnado, according to relatives.
IS executioner 'Jihadi John' injured in air strike: reports
The British government said it was investigating reports that "Jihadi John", the British-accented Islamic State militant apparently responsible for the beheading of western hostages, had been injured in a US air strike. The Mail reported that it was the same attack that injured elusive IS leader…
Bill Cosby's guest shot with Letterman canceled
NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Cosby's upcoming appearance on CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" has been canceled amid a growing uproar over allegations that he sexually assaulted several women in past decades.
Erdogan says Muslims, not Columbus, discovered Americas
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot there. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus," the conservative president said in a televised…
IS group claims beheading of US aid worker, 18 Syrians
The Islamic State jihadist group on Sunday claimed to have executed Peter Kassig, a US aid worker kidnapped in Syria, as a warning to the United States. The same video showed the gruesome simultaneous beheadings of at least 18 men described as Syrian military personnel, the latest in a series of…
Ex-US officials criticize Obama 'micromanagement'
Leon Panetta and Robert Gates, two former directors of the CIA and Defense Department, on Saturday criticized President Barack Obama's "micromanagement" of the military. "For the past 25 to 30 years, there has been a centralization of power in the White House," Panetta said during a panel…
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Israel will never limit E.Jerusalem settlement building: FM
Israel will never agree to limit its construction activity in annexed east Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday. "One thing should be clear: we will never accept the definition of building in Jewish neighbourhoods of Jerusalem as settlement activity," he said at a news…
150 years on, Sherman's March to Sea still vivid
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — At the heart of this well-preserved antebellum city, sunbeams stream through the arched windows of a grand public meeting room that mirrors the whole Civil War — including its death throes, unfolding 150 years ago this week when Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman launched…
Navy SEAL who shot bin Laden was at war for years
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill, who says he fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden, played a role in some of the most consequential combat missions of the post-9/11 era, including three depicted in Hollywood movies. And now he's telling the world about them.
Target employee arrested, allegedly photographed woman in dressing room
A Target employee in Santa Clarita has been arrested for allegedly photographing a woman in the dressing room.
U.S. Navy says looking at possible further orders of Boeing jets
By Andrea Shalal SIMI VALLEY Calif. (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy is looking at possible additional orders of Boeing Co's EA-18G electronic attack planes, or Growlers, as it shapes its fiscal 2016 budget request, the Navy's top uniformed officer said Saturday. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan…
Massive whale beached in southern Nicaragua
A huge whale was stranded Friday on a white sand beach on Nicaragua's southern Pacific coast, despite efforts by dozens of tourists and residents to get it back to sea. The whale, estimated at 18 meters (59 feet) long, beached itself Friday morning at Popoyo beach, in the town of Tola, some 111…
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With no US immigration reform, states are stepping in
Humberto Cruz Salas lives in the United States illegally. Despite the lack of progress on immigration reform at the federal level, a growing number of states are offering greater rights -- and more documents -- to undocumented immigrants. "I was kind of speechless," said Cruz Salas, of the day he…
