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Vietnam says it may have found missing jet's door
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 12:21:34 -0400

A Chinese relative of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane cries as she leaves a hotel room for relatives or friends of passengers aboard the missing airplane, in Beijing, China Sunday, March 9, 2014. Planes and ships from across Asia resumed the hunt Sunday for a Malaysian jetliner missing with 239 people on board for more than 24 hours, while Malaysian aviation authorities investigated how two passengers were apparently able to get on the aircraft using stolen passports. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)Vietnamese authorities searching waters for the missing Boeing 777 jetliner spotted an object Sunday that they suspected was one of the plane's doors, as international intelligence agencies joined the investigation into two passengers who boarded the aircraft with stolen passports.


Malaysia investigators probe possible airport security lapse
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 08:23:45 -0400

Chinese relatives of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane leave a hotel room in Beijing Sunday, March 9, 2014. Military radar indicates that the missing Boeing 777 jet may have turned back before vanishing, Malaysia's air force chief said Sunday as authorities were investigating up to four passengers with suspicious identifications. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)By Niluksi Koswanage KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian officials are poring over CCTV footage and questioning immigration officers and guards at Kuala Lumpur's international airport, concerned that a security breach may be connected to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Suspicions that the Beijing-bound Boeing jet, which vanished on Saturday with 239 people on board, may have been hijacked or bombed have risen after at least two passengers were found to be using stolen passports, though Malaysia's government stressed it was considering all possibilities. Malaysian investigators, assisted by the FBI, are probing the identities of four passengers in particular, two Malaysian officials with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters. The four comprise two travelers with European passports, possibly Ukrainian, in addition to two travelling on stolen Austrian and Italian passports, the sources said.


Merkel raps Putin as Russian forces tighten grip on Crimea
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 13:01:57 -0400

Armed men, believed to be Russian servicemen, march outside an Ukrainian military base in the village of PerevalnoyeRussian forces' seizure of the Black Sea peninsula has been bloodless but tensions are mounting.


Putin defends separatist drive in Crimea as legal
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 13:59:13 -0400

Ukrainian riot police block the entrance of the regional administrative building during a pro Russian rally in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Following an extraordinary meeting of the Ukrainian government, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced he would be flying later this week to the United States for high-level talks on "resolution of the situation in Ukraine," the Interfax news agency reported Sunday. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday defended the separatist drive in the disputed Crimean Peninsula as in keeping with international law, but Ukraine's prime minister vowed not to relinquish "a single centimeter" of his country's territory.


US general's accuser was ambitious soldier too
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 14:02:20 -0400

FILE - In this March 4, 2014 file photo, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair leaves the courthouse with his lawyers Richard Scheff, left, and Ellen C. Brotman, following a day of motions at Fort Bragg, N.C. Less than a month before Sinclair's trial on sexual assault charges, the lead prosecutor broke down in tears Tuesday as he told a superior he believed the primary accuser in the case had lied under oath. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, James Robinson) MANDATORY CREDITFORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — The Army captain who has accused Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair of sexually assaulting her during their three-year relationship was an ambitious soldier with plans to make the military her career, much like the boss she loved and admired.


Stigma hinders efforts to combat leprosy in India
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 06:46:01 -0400

In this Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014 photo, an Indian man suffering from leprosy helps other leprosy affected woman at a leper colony in New Delhi, India. The stigma of leprosy endures in India, even though the country has made great strides against the disease, which is neither highly contagious nor fatal. Now the number of new annual cases has risen slightly after years of steady decline, and medical experts say the enormous fear surrounding leprosy is hindering efforts to finally eliminate it.(AP Photo/Manish Swarup)TAHIRPUR, India (AP) — At first, Ashok Yadav ignored the patches of pink skin on his arm. But when pale sores erupted on his body and he lost sensation in his fingertips, a doctor issued the devastating diagnosis: Yadav had leprosy.