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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Shooting spree hastens decline to win over Afghans

Shooting spree hastens decline to win over Afghans

Shooting spree hastens decline to win over Afghans

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Afghan school boys chant anti-U.S. slogans during a protest in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 17, 2012. Dozens of students organized an anti-U.S. demonstration and condemned the last Sunday's killing of civilians in Panjwai, Kandahar by a U.S. solider. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)The massacre of 16 Afghan civilians was a dagger to the U.S.-led coalition's hearts and minds campaign, which was already in decline after 10 years of war.

Soldier accused in Afghan killings was family man

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In this Aug. 23, 2011 Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System photo, soldiers from Blackhorse Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, including Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left, take part in exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Five days after an attack on Afghan villagers killed 16 civilians, a senior U.S. official identified Bales as the suspect in that attack. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock)On a winding road of wood-frame homes tucked amid towering pines, Robert Bales was the father who joined his two young children for playtime in the yard, a career soldier who greeted neighbors warmly but was guarded when talking about the years he spent away at war.

Colombian star Juanes says SXSW is life-changing

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Colombian singer Juanes performs a Woody Guthrie song during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas on Thursday, March 15, 2012.(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)Juanes didn't get to cross Eminem off his South By Southwest bucket list, but it's still been one of the best weeks of his life.

Brazil to file charges against Chevron executives

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Brazilian prosecutors said Saturday they will file criminal charges against 17 Brazil-based executives of Chevron Corp. for a new oil leak near the offshore well where at least 110,000 gallons (about 416,000 liters) spilled late last year.

Bolton's Muamba collapses; FA Cup game abandoned

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Bolton Wanderers' Fabrice Muamba lies on the pitch after collapsing before being stretchered off as Tottenham Hotspur's Louis Saha, second right, and referee Howard Webb, left, react for medical staff to come onto the pitch during the English FA Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Bolton Wanderers at White Hart Lane stadium in London, Saturday, March 17, 2012. Medics rushed onto the pitch with a defibrillator and treated the 23-year-old Muamba, pumping his chest for around six minutes of treatment. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba was rushed to a hospital Saturday as medics appeared to try to resuscitate him after he collapsed during an FA Cup match.

Cooke, Crosby lead Pittsburgh to 5-2 win over NJ

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Matt Cooke scored two goals, Evgeni Malkin added his 40th of the season and Sidney Crosby had three assists to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to their 11th straight win, 5-2 over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday.

Purported US citizen released to UN in Iraq

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The United Nations mission in Iraq said it took custody late Saturday of a man who was described as a U.S. citizen, who had been held by an Iraqi militia for about nine months.

Iraq militia frees U.S. hostage after 9 months

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Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr delivers his first speech after having returned to Iraq from years of self-imposed exile in Iran, at Najaf provinceBAGHDAD (Reuters) - A militia loyal to Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr freed an American former soldier on Saturday after holding him captive in Baghdad for nine months. The American, identified as Randy Michaels, was shown on television in a U.S. military uniform with no insignia, flanked by two members of parliament from Sadr's movement, including the parliament's first deputy speaker. He was handed over to the United Nations mission in Baghdad, which said it was in touch with the U.S. embassy. ...

GOP preps for budget battle with Democrats, Obama

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FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2012, file photo House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., holds up a copy of President Barack Obama's fiscal 2013 federal budget during the budget committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. After a few months of relative peace on the budget front, Democrats and Republicans are readying for a party-defining, election-year fight over trillion dollar-plus deficits and what to do about them, and Ryan is fashioning a sequel to last year's After a few months of relative peace on the budget front, Democrats and Republicans are readying for a party-defining, election-year fight over trillion dollar-plus deficits and what to do about them.

Titans GM: Manning works out for team on Saturday

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NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, left, walks across a football practice field with Denver Broncos executive John Elway, right, near Wallace Wade Stadium, Friday, March 16, 2012, at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Elway and coach John Fox watched the star quarterback throw at Duke's athletic fields. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Travis Long)Peyton Manning worked out for Tennessee on Saturday in Knoxville, Titans general manager Ruston Webster said.

Six Nations rugby: Live Report

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Wales players celebrate their 16-9 win over France and the Grand Slam with the trophy in CardiffAFP IS NOW CLOSING THIS LIVE REPORT on the final day of the Six Nations rugby championship that earlier this afternoon saw Wales claim a third Grand Slam in eight years with a 16-9 win over France in Cardiff.

Thousands rally for Syria at White House protest

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People chant slogans while holding a sign calling for the end of Thousands of protesters gathered outside the White House Saturday to demand that the United States "stop the massacre in Syria," where an estimated 8,000 people have been killed in a regime crackdown.

A look at long-shot strategy by long-shot Santorum

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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, speaks at a campaign stop in Lewis and Clark Township, Mo. Caucus Saturday, March 17, 2012, in Hazelwood, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Rick Santorum's strategy for becoming the Republican presidential nominee comes down to this: prevent Mitt Romney from winning enough delegates to arrive at the GOP convention this summer with a mandate and persuade delegates to ignore election results in their states.

Russia urges Syria to support envoy Annan's efforts

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign minister urged Syria to support U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's peacemaking efforts "without delay" in comments published on Saturday, adopting an unusually firm tone with the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Russia disagrees with many of the decisions Assad's government has made in a year of bloodshed, Sergei Lavrov told state television in an interview, according to a transcript posted on the Foreign Ministry website. ...

John Demjanjuk, convicted death camp guard, dies

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FILE - In this March 17, 2011 file picture John Demjanjuk, waits in a Munich court room. German police say John Demjanjuk, who was charged with 28,060 counts of accessory to murder and convicted last year of serving as a Nazi death camp guard, has died. Rosenheim police official Kilian Steger told The Associated Press the 91-year-old died Saturday March 17, 2012 at the home for elderly people in southern Germany where he stayed since the end of his trial in Munich last year. Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker, was deported to Germany in 2009 to face trial after being stripped of his U.S. citizenship. (AP Photo/dapd/ Sebastian Widmann,Pool,File)John Demjanjuk, a retired U.S. autoworker who was convicted of being a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp despite steadfastly maintaining over three decades of legal battles that he had been mistaken for someone else, died Saturday, his son told The Associated Press. He was 91.

Rushdie returns to India, targets clerics, MPs

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Author Salman RushdieBritish author Salman Rushdie on Saturday attacked growing intolerance in India as he returned to the country for the first time since Islamic activists forced him to cancel a visit two months ago.

Chavez makes energetic homecoming after surgery

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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves to supporters as he embraces his daughter Rosa Virginia from a balcony at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday March 17, 2012. Chavez returned to Venezuela Friday nearly three weeks after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)President Hugo Chavez held an energetic homecoming celebration on Saturday, rallying thousands of supporters from a balcony of the presidential palace after nearly three weeks in Cuba for cancer surgery.

500,000 pack Dublin for St Patrick's Day parade

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Dancers from Dublin's Atomic Stage School put on a colorful display during St. Patrick's Day parade in Dublin, Saturday, March 17, 2012. Police estimate a half-million spectators lined the route of the parade, the biggest of more than 50 across Ireland honoring the nation's patron saint. (AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik)An estimated 500,000 people crowded Saturday into central Dublin for the St. Patrick's Day parade, a focal point for Irish celebrations worldwide and the start of the tourist season in debt-battered Ireland.

Body parts found at plane crash site in Sweden

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This Friday March 16, 2012 photo shows rescue personal in a search for the missing Norwegian C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft with five people onboard in the Kebnekaise mountain range in Northern Sweden. Rescuers have found the wreckage of a Norwegian military plane that crashed with five people on board during an exercise in northern Sweden, officials said Saturday.(AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden/Hans Olof Utsi) SWEDEN OUTPolice called off the search for survivors of a plane crash Saturday after discovering body parts on the site where the Norwegian military cargo aircraft slammed into Sweden's highest mountain.

Top-seeded Syracuse beats Kansas State 75-59

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Syracuse's Dion Waiters, center, tries to shoot between Kansas State's Will Spradling (55) and Jordan Henriquez in the first half of an East Regional NCAA tournament third-round college basketball game on Saturday, March 17, 2012 in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)It had been a while since Syracuse played like the team that spent all season ranked in the top five.

Irish premier celebrates St. Pat's Day in Chicago

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Deirdre Kelly, left, Linda Forth, second from left, Darren McCarthy, center, and Eimear Ni Bhriain, of Dublin, Ireland, cheer on the marchers during the 251st annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, Saturday, March 17, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)Chicago dyed its river green, bagpipes sounded on New York's 5th Avenue, and in Georgia, crowds waited for 30 minutes to buy beer for breakfast before watching Savannah's 156-year-old St. Patrick's Day parade.

Freed U.S. captive says he is ex-soldier, held since June

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An American freed on Saturday after being held captive by Shi'ite militiamen in Baghdad since last June said he was a former service member who was working in Iraq in a civilian capacity at the time he was seized. The man was shown on Iraq's Bagdadiya television flanked by lawmakers from the movement of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. He wore a U.S. military uniform with no visible insignia. The lawmakers identified him phonetically as Randy Michael or Michaels. ...

NJ spycam case stirs debate over hate crime laws

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Dharun Ravi, center, is helped by his father, Ravi Pazhani, second right, as they leave court around in New Brunswick, N.J., Friday, March 16, 2012. Defense attorney Philip Nettl follows, second left. Ravi, a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate's love life has been convicted of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy. A jury found that he used a webcam to spy on roommate Tyler Clementi. Within days, Clementi realized he had been watched and jumped to his death from New York's George Washington Bridge in September 2010. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)There was a verdict in the wrenching Rutgers webcam spying case, but no resolution to a broader question that hovered over it: To what extent are hate crime laws a help or a hindrance in the pursuit of justice?

Vatican launches criminal probe into leaks

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Pope Benedict XVI waves during his weekly audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)The Vatican has launched an internal, criminal investigation into the leaks of confidential documents that alleged corruption and financial mismanagement and exposed power struggles among Holy See officials, a Vatican prelate said Saturday.

Report: US sent detainees to banned Afghan prisons

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A report by two rights groups says the U.S. sent some detainees to Afghan prisons where torture was found despite an announced suspension of such transfers.

Ex-inmate struggles to cash in on compensation law

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In this Jan. 31, 2012 photo, Billy Frederick Allen responds to a question during an interview in his attorney's office in McKinney, Texas. Allen spent almost 30 years in prison before an appeals court overturned his convictions in two murders. Two years after winning his freedom, Allen is fighting one more battle: He wants the state to pay him more than $2 million he says he's owed for wrongful imprisonment. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)Billy Frederick Allen spent more than 25 years in prison before an appeals court overturned his convictions in two murders. Three years after winning his freedom, Allen is fighting the state again — this time for the $2 million he says he's owed for wrongful imprisonment.

Obama marks St. Patrick's Day with pint in a pub

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President Barack Obama drinks a Guinness with his ancestral cousin from Moneygall Ireland Henry Healy, center, and the owner of the pub in Moneygall Ireland, Ollie Hayes, right, at The Dubliner Restaurant and Pub and Restaurant on St. Patrick's Day, Saturday, March 17, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)His jacket was only moss green but his pint was true Guinness.

Twin suicide blasts kill dozens in Syrian capital

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, burnt and destroyed cars are seen near the aviation intelligence department, which was attacked by one of two explosions, in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday, March 17, 2012. Twin bombings struck government targets in the Syrian capital early Saturday, killing security forces and civilians and leaving pools of blood and carnage in the streets, according to state-run television. (AP Photo/SANA)Two suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in near-simultaneous attacks on heavily guarded intelligence and security buildings in the Syrian capital Damascus Saturday, killing at least 27 people.

Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenuda III dies

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Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenuda III has diedEgypt's Coptic Pope Shenuda III, spiritual leader of the Middle East's largest Christian minority, died on Saturday at the age of 88, state media and cathedral sources said.

Romney, Santorum head to Ill., next battleground

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney pauses during a campaign stop on Saturday, March 17, 2012 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Looking toward the critical primary in Illinois, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney wrapped up a shortened campaign trip to Puerto Rico on Saturday as he prepared for more tough contests against chief rival Rick Santorum.

Norah Jones to play entire new album at SXSW

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FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2010 file photo, Norah Jones performs during the 25th anniversary Farm Aid concert in Milwaukee. Jones is unveiling something new at South By Southwest — again. Ten years after she shook Austin and the music world with Norah Jones is unveiling something new at South By Southwest — again.

Irish prime minister leads Chicago St. Pat parade

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Ireland's prime minister, Enda Kenny, is helping lead Chicago's St. Patrick's Day parade.

Iraq: Iran warned against sending arms to Syria

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A spokesman says Iraqi leaders have told Iran it cannot ship weapons to Syria through Iraq.

China exerts rare public pressure on North Korea over missile plan

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspects a combined strike drill of the three services of the Korean People's Army in an undisclosed locationSHANGHAI (Reuters) - China put rare public pressure on ally North Korea over the reclusive state's plan to launch a long-range rocket which is raising tension in the region and could scupper a recent aid deal with the United States. The announcement of the launch immediately threw into doubt recent hopes that the new young head of the family dynasty ruling North Korea was ready open up more to the international community. Experts said the planned launch is clearly a ballistic missile test, banned by U.N. ...

Indian media slams 'zero risk' budget

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Indian men watch a large television screen showing Indian Finance Minister Pranab MukherjeeIndian media on Saturday slammed the embattled Congress government's budget that eschewed bold reforms and opted for modest steps to rein in the deficit, describing it as "low on vision".

To Egypt's Christians, pope was seen as protector

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FILE - In this Monday, May 20, 2002 file photo, Pope Shenouda III, head of the Egyptian Orthodox Church, speaks to reporters following the opening session of the 14th General Conference of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's state news agency says Pope Shenouda III, head of Coptic Christian church, has died.(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)At the last Christmas service he presided over, Pope Shenouda III praised the unusual guests seated among the faithful at his Cairo cathedral. Leaders from the conservative Muslim Brotherhood, generals from the ruling military.

Hundreds rally to welcome Chavez home in Venezuela

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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves after receiving military honors upon his arrival at the Simon Bolivar airport in Maiquetia , Venezuela, Friday March 16, 2012. Chavez returned home Friday nearly three weeks after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)Hundreds of Venezuelans have gathered at a rally to welcome President Hugo Chavez home from Cuba, where he underwent cancer surgery to remove a tumor.

Court weighs making health coverage a fact of life

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FILE - In this March 23, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama reacts to cheers as he arrives for the signing ceremony of his health care bill in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Obama and congressional Democrats pushed the mandate through without Republican support in hopes of reaching a popular goal: creating a fair system that ensures everyone, rich or poor, young or old, the health care they need at a cost that doesn't overwhelm the nation. Other economically advanced countries have done it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no.

Duke coach: Manning throwing at 'game pace'

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NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, left, walks across a football practice field with Denver Broncos executive John Elway, right, near Wallace Wade Stadium, Friday, March 16, 2012, at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Elway and coach John Fox watched the star quarterback throw at Duke's athletic fields. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Travis Long)Duke football coach David Cutcliffe says Peyton Manning is throwing at "game pace" and the Tennessee Titans could be next to see for themselves.

Thai billionaire who created Red Bull dies

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In this undated photo, Thai billionaire Chaleo Yoovidhya is shown. Chaleo, who created the renowned Red Bull energy drink three decades ago, died of natural causes at the age of 89 on Saturday, March 17, 2012, Thai state media said. (AP Photo/Matichon Newspaper) THAILAND OUTChaleo Yoovidhya, the self-made Thai billionaire who introduced the world to "energy drinks" and co-founded the globally popular Red Bull brand, has died. He was in his 80s.
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