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DNA test shows Ohio kidnap suspect fathered girl: official

May 12, 2013

CLEVELAND (AP) ― Relatives of the Cleveland man who allegedly held three women captive for nearly a decade recounted claims of his unnerving paranoia and violent outbursts as DNA testing confirmed he is the father of a 6-year-old girl who also escaped from the house. Ariel Castro, charged with rape and kidnapping, remained jailed Friday under a suicide watch on $8 million bond while prosecutors weighed more charges, including some that might carry the death penalty. Public defender Kathleen Deme
Spacewalking repair halts station leak ― for now

May 12, 2013

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) ― Astronauts made a rare, hastily planned spacewalk to fix a serious ammonia leak at the International Space Station, and the U.S. space agency said it appeared the repair was a success. But the following weeks will be the test. Authorities have said the space station’s six-member crew was not in danger from the leak. “I will tell you that we’re happy. We’re very happy,” Joel Montalbano, NASA’s deputy space station program manager, said Saturday. “We didn’t see any o
Bulgaria votes in election amid scandals

May 12, 2013

SOFIA (AFP) ― Bulgarians began voting Sunday in a tight and tense snap general election marred by accusations of fraud and expected to result in political stalemate and fresh protests in the EU’s poorest member.Former bodyguard and ex-premier Boyko Borisov’s conservative GERB party is expected to win the most votes, even though the biggest demonstrations in 16 years forced his government to resign only three months ago.But pre-vote opinion polls give GERB just 29-35 percent of the vote, well sho
Third suspected case of SARS-like virus in France

May 10, 2013

LILLE, France (AFP) -- French health authorities said Friday they suspected a third person of being infected after coming into contact with a man confirmed to be suffering from a new SARS-like virus that has killed 18 people, mostly in Saudi Arabia."We have a third suspected case this morning, a nurse from Douai" in northern France, the deputy director of the regional ARS health agency, Sandrine Segovia Kueny, told France Bleu Nord radio.A 65-year-old man is in intensive care in a hospital in Do
Bangladesh workers find survivor in factory rubble

May 10, 2013

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A woman buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued Friday, a miraculous moment set against a scene of unimaginable horror where the death toll is more than 1,000 and still rising.The woman survived in a Muslim prayer room in the basement of the eight-story Rana Plaza building, where crews have been focused on recovering bodies, not rescuing survivors, for days. Trapped in wreckage finally exposed by heavy equipment, she waved
Bangladesh factory collapse death toll rises above 1,000

May 10, 2013

DHAKA (AP) ― The death toll from a garment factory building that collapsed more than two weeks ago outside the Bangladeshi capital soared past 1,000 on Friday, while the list of the dead from a fresh fire at a sweater manufacturer showed the entanglement of the industry and top Bangladeshi officials.Officials said 1,034 bodies have been recovered from the rubble of the fallen factory building as of Friday morning. There was no sign of where the toll might finally settle as more bodies were being
Italian luxury knitwear legend Missoni dies

May 10, 2013

ROME (AFP) ― Italian knitwear impresario Ottavio “Tai” Missoni, whose distinctive colorful zigzag dresses became a global fashion empire, died on Thursday at his home in northern Italy at 92, his family said.Missoni co-founded the fashion brand in 1953 with his wife Rosita Jelmini and their designs have graced the rich and famous from Jackie Kennedy to the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton.Missoni was born in the then Yugoslavia on Feb. 11, 1921 and started out with a career in track athletics
Feds in NYC: Hackers stole $45m in ATM card breach

May 10, 2013

A worldwide gang of criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe, federal prosecutors said _ and outmoded U.S. card technology may be partly to blame.Seven people were under arrest Thursday in the U.S. in connection with the case, which prosecutors said involved thousands of thefts from ATMs using bogus magnetic swipe cards carrying information from Middle Eastern banks. The fraudster
Hilarious remarks of Ohio rescuer go viral

May 10, 2013

The Ohio man who helped free three kidnapped women has become an overnight Internet sensation, thanks to his frank interview style.Charles Ramsey, a 43-year-old dish washer at a local restaurant, rescued the women who had been missing for a decade in Cleveland, Ohio, when he heard a woman’s scream next door.The colorful language he used during interviews in portraying the moment when he first discovered the victims went viral online and are creating a "Ramsey frenzy" in the U.S. on social networ
Karzai says U.S. can have 9 Afghan bases after 2014

May 10, 2013

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has irked Washington with his frequent criticism of American military operations in his country, said Thursday that his government is now ready to let the U.S. have nine bases across Afghanistan after most foreign troops withdraw in 2014.A border spat with Pakistan and a desire to test public opinion led Karzai to break months of public silence on this issue, according to Afghan analysts. They said Karzai is concerned that Pakistan is using the Taliban to give
Police: 3 captive U.S. women were raped, starved

May 10, 2013

The three women held in captivity inside a U.S. home for about a decade were starved and raped, and one woman had five pregnancies aborted when the suspect punched her in the stomach, a police report says. A prosecutor said he may seek the death penalty for the forced miscarriages.The report obtained by The Associated Press paints a grim picture of the women's ordeal before their dramatic escape Monday when one of them, Amanda Berry, kicked out a door.Berry told police that she delivered a baby
Hezbollah: Syria to supply weapons to militia

May 10, 2013

Syria will supply “game-changing” weapons to Hezbollah, the chief of the Lebanese militant group said Thursday, less than a week after Israeli airstrikes on Damascus targeted alleged shipments of advanced Iranian missiles bound for Hezbollah. Israel has signaled it will respond with airstrikes to any future weapons shipments, meaning it could quickly get drawn into Syria's civil war if the Hezbollah chief's declaration is more than an empty threatTension has been rising in the region since Israe
Indonesia elite squad kills 7 militants

May 9, 2013

Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism unit conducted several bloody operations to root out suspected Islamic militants, killing seven and arresting 13 others, police said Thursday as they continued to investigate an alleged plot to bomb the Myanmar Embassy.Investigators said the suspected militants robbed banks and committed other thefts to fund terrorism. Police were trying to determine whether any of the groups raided Wednesday and Thursday were connected to last week's alleged plot to retaliate ag
Syrian opposition insists on Assad exit for deal

May 9, 2013

DAMASCUS (AFP) ― Syria’s main opposition National Coalition said Wednesday any political settlement to the country’s two-year-old civil war must start with President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, implicitly rejecting a U.S.-Russian initiative for dialogue with the regime.But U.N.-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has hailed the agreement between Washington and Moscow to push both sides in the Syrian conflict to end the bloodshed and sit down for talks.And on the ground, the head of the powerfu
France confirms first case of new SARS-related virus

May 9, 2013

PARIS (AP) ― A 65-year-old Frenchman is hospitalized after contracting France’s first case of a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS, and French health authorities said Wednesday they are trying to find anyone who might have been in contact with him to prevent it from spreading. It’s unclear how or where the man was infected with the novel coronavirus, which has killed 18 people and raised new public health concerns since being identified last year in the Middle East. It can cause acute