Israeli military seek and destroy Gaza tunnels

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• Israeli military seek and destroy Gaza tunnels
• Fugitive found in Nepal back in New Mexico custody
• Kerry tells Russia's Lavrov investigators must get access to crash site
• Turkish PM Erdogan says Israel 'surpasses Hitler in barbarism'
• Police seek driver in deadly California bank heist
• Leslie headlines 2015 women's Hall of Fame class
• Ukraine accuses Russia of helping rebels loot crash site
• Fla. jury slams RJ Reynolds with $23.6B in damages
• Exclusive: GM says it has no fix yet for some recalled Cadillacs with switch issues
• Majka earns Pole position on Tour's 14th stage
• Gunmen attack Egypt troops, killing 21 near Libya
• Monitors try to secure Ukraine plane crash site
• AP NewsAlert
• Shebab claims deadly strike on Kenya bus
• Tour de France at a glance
• Paris police wound thief with gold loot in Metro
• Without radar, missile may not have identified jet
• Under threat, Iraq's Christians flee city of Mosul
• Dutch PM warns Putin on 'last chance' to help with plane disaster
• Sunday marks 2 years since theater massacre
• Monitors gain better access to crash site in eastern Ukraine
• High winds push growing Washington wildfire
• Gunmen kill 15 Egyptian border guards near Libya: officials
• Wave of bombings in Baghdad kills 27 people: police, medics
• Airlines symbolize nations' hopes or reflect shame
• Rory McIlroy builds 6-shot lead at British Open
• Italian, Maltese rescuers say 19 dead on migrant boat
• Gunmen kill at least 20 Egypt troops near Libya
• Factbox: What Iran must do, and get in return, under nuclear talks extension
• Extension of Iran nuclear talks gets mixed Israeli response
• Pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police in Paris
• French police and pro-Palestinian protesters clash
• Erdogan says Israel more barbaric than Hitler
• Ukrainian president urges U.N. to call rebels part of terrorist groups
• Lionel Ferbos, oldest New Orleans jazz musician, dies at 103
• US mother pleads for jailed son as Iran talks extended
• Emotional rally held for man who died in custody
• Israelis destroy Hamas tunnels in Gaza offensive
• Two Israeli soldiers die in Gaza clash; Palestinian toll tops 300
• Correction: Switzerland-Obit-Winter story

Israeli military seek and destroy Gaza tunnels Posted: 19 Jul 2014 01:16 PM PDT GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli bulldozers demolished more than a dozen tunnels Saturday in the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian authorities reported intensified airstrikes and shelling as the death toll from Israel's ground offensive rose to at least 342 Palestinians. Diplomats struggled to revive a cease-fire.

Fugitive found in Nepal back in New Mexico custody Posted: 19 Jul 2014 01:16 PM PDT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation says a New Mexico man who fled sex abuse and kidnapping charges 14 years ago has been returned following his capture in Nepal.

Kerry tells Russia's Lavrov investigators must get access to crash site Posted: 19 Jul 2014 01:15 PM PDT U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in a phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday, stressed that investigators must get full access to the site of the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine, the State Department said. Kerry told Lavrov the United States is "very concerned" over reports that the remains of victims and debris from the site of Thursday's crash have been removed or tampered with, the department said in a statement. Kerry said Washington was also concerned over denial of "proper access" to the crash site in eastern Ukraine for monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and international investigators, the statement said.

Turkish PM Erdogan says Israel 'surpasses Hitler in barbarism' Posted: 19 Jul 2014 01:10 PM PDT By Gulsen Solaker and Jonny Hogg ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel on Saturday of having "surpassed Hitler in barbarism" through its attacks on Gaza, but warned Turks against taking out their anger on the country's Jewish community. Erdogan continued to ratchet up his rhetoric against the Jewish State over its offensive, threatening to further harm to already badly frayed relations between the two countries, once regional allies. Hours earlier Israel advised its citizens against traveling to Turkey, citing "the public mood" after attacks on Israeli diplomatic missions during protests in Istanbul and Ankara against the Gaza offensive on Friday.

Police seek driver in deadly California bank heist Posted: 19 Jul 2014 01:08 PM PDT FRESNO, California (AP) — While police in the Northern California city of Stockton searched Saturday for an accomplice in a bank robbery that led to a police chase and deadly shootout, investigators said they suspect the same men carried out other area bank heists, including one at the same branch hit this week.

Leslie headlines 2015 women's Hall of Fame class Posted: 19 Jul 2014 01:03 PM PDT Four-time Olympic gold medalist Lisa Leslie headlines the 2015 women's basketball Hall of Fame induction class announced Saturday.

Ukraine accuses Russia of helping rebels loot crash site Posted: 19 Jul 2014 01:01 PM PDT Ukraine on Saturday accused Russia of helping insurgents destroy evidence at the crash site of a Malaysian jet whose downing in the rebel-held east has drawn global condemnation of the Kremlin. Outraged world leaders have demanded Russia's full cooperation with what is becoming a monumentally challenging probe into the shooting down of a Kuala Lumpur-bound flight from Amsterdam with 298 people from a dozen countries on board. Gunmen backed up by muscular diplomatic support from the Kremlin have shown few signs of being ready to cooperate with an investigation that could blame them for blowing apart the Boeing 777 jet. The grisly site has turned into the epicentre of the Cold War-style standoff between the West and an increasingly isolated Moscow -- its diplomatic reputation questioned around the world -- over the future over the war-scarred former Soviet state.

Fla. jury slams RJ Reynolds with $23.6B in damages Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:57 PM PDT MIAMI (AP) — A Florida jury has slammed a tobacco company with $23.6 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer in 1996.

Exclusive: GM says it has no fix yet for some recalled Cadillacs with switch issues Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:54 PM PDT By Paul Lienert DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co has ordered Cadillac dealers to stop selling some versions of the CTS model-range because the automaker does not have a fix yet for cars recalled in late June over an issue where engines can be shut off if the driver's knee bumps the ignition key, the company said on Saturday. Details of incidents leading up to the June 30 recall, including three occasions where GM employees bumped the keys and shut off the engines in 2012 CTSs, were made public on Saturday by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which oversees safety recalls. The so-called stop sale order to Cadillac dealers on the 2003-2014 CTS and 2004-2006 SRX was issued July 2 and updated July 8, according to GM documents posted by NHTSA. The order "is still in effect for the foreseeable future," GM spokesman Alan Adler said on Saturday.

Majka earns Pole position on Tour's 14th stage Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:53 PM PDT RISOUL, France (AP) — Panting hard with his jersey unzipped and wide open in the heat, Polish rider Rafal Majka sped to a solo breakaway victory on Stage 14 as the Tour de France wrapped up its foray in the Alps on Saturday.

Gunmen attack Egypt troops, killing 21 near Libya Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:51 PM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked a border guard post Saturday in Egypt's western desert near Libya, killing 21 troops, the military said.

Monitors try to secure Ukraine plane crash site Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:49 PM PDT HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — International monitors moved gingerly Saturday through fields reeking of the decomposing corpses of the victims of a Malaysian airliner shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, trying to secure the sprawling site in hopes that a credible investigation of the disaster can be conducted.

AP NewsAlert Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:46 PM PDT MIAMI (AP) — Fla. jury slams tobacco company with $23.6B in punitive damages in widow's suit.

Shebab claims deadly strike on Kenya bus Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:33 PM PDT Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab on Saturday claimed an attack on a bus near the Kenyan vacation island of Lamu in which seven people were killed. The Kenyan Red Cross said five civilians and two police officers died late on Friday when armed men opened fire first on a bus, then on a car and a police vehicle, near the town of Witu, 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Lamu island. Local authorities said four of the seven dead were police officers. A Shebab spokesman told AFP by telephone the group was "ready to act or attack anywhere necessary within Kenya."

Tour de France at a glance Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:27 PM PDT RISOUL, FRANCE (AP) — A brief look at the 14th stage of the Tour de France on Saturday:

Paris police wound thief with gold loot in Metro Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:26 PM PDT PARIS (AP) — Police in the French capital say they shot and wounded a thief with about 100,000 euros ($135,000) in gold coins in a rare chase in the Paris Metro.

Without radar, missile may not have identified jet Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:25 PM PDT LONDON (AP) — If Ukrainian rebels shot down the Malaysian jetliner, killing 298 people, it may have been because they didn't have the right systems in place to distinguish between military and civilian aircraft, experts said Saturday.

Under threat, Iraq's Christians flee city of Mosul Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:22 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — The message played over loudspeakers gave the Christians of Iraq's second-largest city until midday Saturday to make a choice: convert to Islam, pay a tax or face death.

Dutch PM warns Putin on 'last chance' to help with plane disaster Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:20 PM PDT By Thomas Escritt and Harro Ten Wolde AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has one last chance to show he is serious about helping rescuers recover the bodies of the victims of the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, the Dutch prime minister said on Saturday. More than half the passengers aboard the flight, which crashed near a village in eastern Ukraine, were Dutch citizens, and images of recognizably Dutch personal belongings and passports strewn across the crash site have shocked the Dutch public. It's revolting," Mark Rutte said on Saturday, referring to allegations that the bodies of the passengers, including 193 of his countrymen, were being dragged about and allowed to rot at the scene. Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans, who is in the Ukrainian capital Kiev with a team of Dutch forensics experts trying to secure safe access to the crash site, said access so far had been too limited to allow them to carry out their work of identifying the victims and repatriating them.

Sunday marks 2 years since theater massacre Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:18 PM PDT DENVER (AP) — On July 20, 2012, a man wearing police-style armor killed 12 people and injured 70 during a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" in the Denver suburb of Aurora. James Holmes, a former neuroscience graduate student, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings. His attorneys say he was gripped by a psychotic episode. Here are things to know on the second anniversary Sunday:

Monitors gain better access to crash site in eastern Ukraine Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:18 PM PDT By Anton Zverev HRABROVE Ukraine (Reuters) - International monitors said on Saturday they had been allowed to see more of the site where a Malaysian airliner crashed in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, though gunmen still stopped them approaching some of the wreckage. We have observed the situation here as it was presented to us," said Alexander Hug, deputy chief monitor of the OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine. Some of them even looked slightly intoxicated", an OSCE spokesman said. The pro-Russian rebels, who want independence for Ukraine's eastern Donbass region where most people speak Russia, say they have not touched the site, but at least some of their number at the scene said some bodies had been taken away in trucks.

High winds push growing Washington wildfire Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:14 PM PDT WINTHROP, Wash. (AP) — A massive wildfire in north-central Washington is growing rapidly. As of Saturday morning, it had scorched 336 square miles in the scenic Methow Valley.

Gunmen kill 15 Egyptian border guards near Libya: officials Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:13 PM PDT Smugglers armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades killed 15 Egyptian military border guards near the frontier with Libya on Saturday, security officials said, highlighting a growing security challenge for authorities who believe Islamist militants move weapons across the area. The attack took place in Wadi al-Gadid governorate, which borders both Sudan and Libya. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has repeatedly expressed concerns that militants who have capitalized on the chaos in Libya and set up operations along the border pose a threat to the Cairo government. Security officials say militants based in camps over the Libyan border pay smugglers to transport weapons, including machineguns, to comrades in Egypt, which is facing an Islamist insurgency based in the Sinai Peninsula near Israel.

Wave of bombings in Baghdad kills 27 people: police, medics Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:09 PM PDT By Raheem Salman BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 27 people were killed in a wave of bombings in mostly Shi'ite Muslim areas of Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said, in the deadliest day of attacks in the capital since a Sunni insurgency overran large parts of Iraq's north last month. In the first explosion, a suicide car bomber drove into a police checkpoint, killing nine people including seven policemen and wounding 21 people in the Abu Dsheer district in the south of the capital, the sources said. ...

Airlines symbolize nations' hopes or reflect shame Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:04 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The jetliner is much more than a machine used to get from one spot to another. It often carries deep symbolism, especially when flying for a national airline.

Rory McIlroy builds 6-shot lead at British Open Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:03 PM PDT HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Rory McIlroy looks as if he has just thrown a knockout punch at the British Open, and it was only Saturday.

Italian, Maltese rescuers say 19 dead on migrant boat Posted: 19 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT Italian and Maltese rescuers found 18 bodies on an overcrowded migrant boat on Saturday, with Italian officials blaming toxic fumes from the engine and the Maltese military saying there could have been a stampede. "Over the past 48 hours we have seen uninterrupted rescues by merchant vessels, military ships and the coastguard.

Gunmen kill at least 20 Egypt troops near Libya Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:57 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked a border guard post Saturday in Egypt's western desert near Libya, killing at least 20 troops, security officials and a medic said.

Factbox: What Iran must do, and get in return, under nuclear talks extension Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:57 AM PDT Iran will receive $2.8 billion of its cash previously frozen abroad in return for action to limit its disputed atomic activities during a four-month extension of talks with six world powers over its nuclear program. After more than two weeks of negotiations in Vienna, Iran and the powers announced early on Saturday that they would extend an interim deal that they hammered out in Geneva late last year. They agreed to continue talking until Nov. 24 after realizing that remaining wide gaps in negotiating positions - especially over the permissible scope of Iran's uranium enrichment capacity - meant they would miss a self-imposed July 20 deadline for a comprehensive, long-term agreement. The United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China want Iran to significantly scale back its uranium enrichment program to make sure it cannot produce nuclear bombs.

Extension of Iran nuclear talks gets mixed Israeli response Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:57 AM PDT By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel responded skeptically to the extension of Iranian nuclear talks with world powers on Saturday, saying it saw no cause for the optimism voiced by some Western diplomats about prospects for an accord. After failing to meet a July 20 deadline for a deal, international negotiators agreed to allow four more months for their high-stakes talks and let Iran access $2.8 billion of its cash frozen abroad during that period, though most sanctions against it stayed in place. Israel is not part of the negotiations, but wields lobbying clout in foreign capitals given its fear of its arch-foe gaining the means to make a bomb and its threats to launch a pre-emptive war if diplomacy fails. "The Israeli position was that we are not enthusiastic about an extension but that it would be better than a bad deal or a deal that is incomplete," Yuval Steinitz, Israel's minister for nuclear affairs, told Reuters.

Pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police in Paris Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:52 AM PDT By Philippe Wojazer PARIS (Reuters) - Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police in Paris on Saturday as they defied a ban on a planned rally against violence in the Gaza strip. A Reuters photographer said demonstrators in northern Paris launched projectiles at riot police, who responded by firing teargas canisters and stun grenades. A police spokesman said that 38 demonstrators had been arrested by early evening and that the clashes were dying down.

French police and pro-Palestinian protesters clash Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:50 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — Police clashed on Saturday with thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters who defied a ban on a Paris demonstration over the Israeli offensive in Gaza. More than 30 people were arrested and it wasn't immediately clear if there were injuries.

Erdogan says Israel more barbaric than Hitler Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:45 AM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Israel of "barbarism that surpasses Hitler" during its ground invasion of Gaza.

Ukrainian president urges U.N. to call rebels part of terrorist groups Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:43 AM PDT Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko urged the United Nations on Saturday to label rebels fighting Ukrainian forces in the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk as belonging to "terrorist organizations". During a telephone conversation with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Poroshenko's press service quoted the leader as saying: "The president of Ukraine urged the U.N. to condemn the actions of terrorists and to recognize the so-called "DNR" (Donetsk People's Republic) and "LNR" (Luhansk People's Republic) as terrorist organizations." (Reporting by Elizabeth Piper;

Lionel Ferbos, oldest New Orleans jazz musician, dies at 103 Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:43 AM PDT Legendary jazz trumpeter Lionel Ferbos, whose prolific career began with society bands that predated the Great Depression, died in New Orleans Saturday at the age of 103, US media reported. Reports said Ferbos was the oldest active jazz musician in a city where music luminaries of all ages make careers playing the Big Easy's iconic style of traditional jazz. Just two days before his death, Ferbos was feted at a 103rd birthday celebration held Thursday night at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe, a favorite jazz haunt, local WWL-TV reported. Ferbos was born on July 17, 1911, in New Orleans, and began playing the trumpet at the age of 15.

US mother pleads for jailed son as Iran talks extended Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:39 AM PDT The mother of a former US Marine imprisoned in Iran on espionage charges pleaded for President Barack Obama to seek his release, as the rival nations seek a historic nuclear deal. In a letter released just as the United States, Iran and five other powers late Friday agreed to extend a temporary deal on Tehran's nuclear program, the mother of Amir Hekmati asked Obama to take advantage of the cooperative atmosphere to press her son's case. "This is a historic time for Iran and the United States. I plead that you do not forget... Amir, his service, his beautiful smile and his zeal for life," Behnaz Hekmati, a naturalized US citizen born in Iran, wrote in the letter.

Emotional rally held for man who died in custody Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:37 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of a man who died after a police officer used an apparent chokehold to bring him to the ground during an arrest burst into tears Saturday at a Harlem rally in his honor.

Israelis destroy Hamas tunnels in Gaza offensive Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:36 AM PDT GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli bulldozers demolished more than a dozen tunnels Saturday in the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian authorities reported intensified airstrikes and shelling as the death toll from Israel's ground offensive rose to at least 342 Palestinians. Diplomats struggled to revive a cease-fire.

Two Israeli soldiers die in Gaza clash; Palestinian toll tops 300 Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:32 AM PDT By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Crispian Balmer GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Two Israeli soldiers were killed in a cross-border attack by Hamas militants on Saturday, the army said, as the Palestinian death toll from the conflict rose above 300 with no diplomatic solution in sight. The Israeli military said four other soldiers were wounded in the raid by fighters who had used a concealed tunnel to reach Israel. One Hamas gunman was killed, while the rest of the group managed to escape back into the Gaza Strip, the military added. Israel sent ground forces into Hamas-controlled Gaza on Thursday after 10 days of air and naval barrages failed to stop rocket fire from the Palestinian territory.

Correction: Switzerland-Obit-Winter story Posted: 19 Jul 2014 11:28 AM PDT GENEVA (AP) — In a story July 17 about the death of Texas blues legend Johnny Winter, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Winter's last performance was on July 12 at the Lovely Days Festival in Wiesen, Austria. His last performance was on July 14 at the Cahors Blues Festival in southwestern France, not July 12 in Austria.

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