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| Kerry to Russia: End backing of Ukraine insurgents Saturday, May 03, 2014 08:20 AM PDT  KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday pressed Russia to stop backing separatists in eastern Ukraine and help oust them from government buildings seized in about a dozen cities and towns. Full Story | Top |
| Russia calls on U.S. to help stop Kiev's military drive Saturday, May 03, 2014 11:58 AM PDT Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has told his U.S. counterpart John Kerry that the U.S. should use its influence to make Ukraine's government immediately stop military operations in south-east Ukraine, the Russian foreign ministry said on Saturday. Lavrov, in a phone conversation with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, also said he was concerned about reports that Ukraine's army was preparing to storm cities in south-east Ukraine including Slaviansk, according to a statement from the foreign ministry. Full Story | Top |
| 'Top Gear' host Clarkson says gets final warning over racism row Saturday, May 03, 2014 03:58 AM PDT  By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - Television presenter Jeremy Clarkson said he had received a final warning from Britain's publicly-funded broadcaster, the BBC, over using racist language while filming "Top Gear", one of the world's most popular TV programs. Clarkson, 54, was called before BBC bosses this week after the Mirror newspaper reported he was heard using the word "nigger" as he recited an old version of the rhyme "Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe" to choose between cars in filming two years ago. But in a regular column in the Sun newspaper on Saturday, Clarkson admitted he was on his final warning from the BBC after the latest controversy to hit the outspoken but highly profitable presenter. Not for something that actually, I didn't say." SERIES OF CONTROVERSIES The furor comes just days after Top Gear producers apologized for a "light-hearted" joke by Clarkson in Myanmar and Thailand in which he referred to a "slope" on a bridge as an Asian man crossed a makeshift structure built by the presenters. Full Story | Top |
| Israel's race to succeed President Peres heats up Saturday, May 03, 2014 11:24 AM PDT  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Among those vying to become Israel's next president are a former defense minister, a former foreign minister, a former finance minister, a respected long-serving lawmaker and a Nobel Prize winner. Amazingly, the man they all seek to replace has held all of those titles and more during a legendary 65-year political career. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. warns of plan to attack hotel in Lagos Saturday, May 03, 2014 11:21 AM PDT  The United States has warned its citizens of a plan to attack one of two Sheraton hotels near Lagos, Nigeria's main commercial hub which attracts many foreign business people and which so far has been spared by the country's violent Islamist militants. In a statement on its website, the State Department said those behind the plot were "groups associated with terrorism", but gave no further details. Nigeria is grappling with an increasingly violent Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands in the past five years. Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which is fighting to carve an Islamic state out of religiously mixed Nigeria, is still mostly confined to the northeast, although it has struck across the north and in Nigeria's capital, in the center. Full Story | Top |
| OSCE observers held in Ukraine released Saturday, May 03, 2014 01:23 PM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — European military observers who were held more than a week by insurgents in eastern Ukraine walked free Saturday, with Kiev insisting the release proves Russia is fomenting unrest in Ukraine — as Moscow touted the insurgents as courageous humanists. Full Story | Top |
| Bus-Size Asteroid Buzzes Earth, Comes Closer Than the Moon Saturday, May 03, 2014 05:49 AM PDT  A small asteroid about the size of a city bus zipped by Earth at a range closer than the moon early Saturday (May 3), but posed no threat to our planet. Full Story | Top |
| Senator urges Hillary Clinton to seek presidency Saturday, May 03, 2014 11:47 AM PDT  Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia on Saturday endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, even though the former secretary of state has not announced whether she will seek the White House in 2016. Kaine, who backed Barack Obama when he beat Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, announced his support on Twitter and at breakfast meeting of the South Carolina Women's Democratic Council in Columbia, South Carolina. "Today I encouraged Hillary Clinton to run for president & pledged my support for her candidacy if she does," Kaine said in a tweet that linked to his remarks on www.readyforhillary.com, website of one of the most prominent pro-Clinton organizations. Full Story | Top |
| Russia adopts war-time rhetoric in showdown with Ukraine Saturday, May 03, 2014 01:21 PM PDT  Russian official rhetoric has increasingly compared events in Ukraine to the darkest crimes of Nazi Germany, ahead of next week's anniversary of Soviet victory in World War II. Since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine, Russian television and officials have made frequent references to the "fascists" Moscow claims are now running Ukraine. But the latest outbreak of deadly violence has seen the official Moscow propaganda reach new heights, analysts said. The entire village was punished for the death of a Nazi officer and the Nazi battalion behind the massacre consisted of collaborators including nationalists from western Ukraine. Full Story | Top |
| Jewish extremists uproot West Bank olive trees Saturday, May 03, 2014 10:34 AM PDT  Suspected Jewish extremists have uprooted dozens of olive trees in a Palestinian-owned field in the West Bank, Israeli police said Saturday. "Twenty-five olive trees were uprooted and sawn up in a field belonging to Palestinians near Bat Ayin" in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc south of Jerusalem, police spokeswoman Louba Samri told AFP. Full Story | Top |
| Tunisia in debate over Israeli tourists before pilgrimage Saturday, May 03, 2014 07:32 AM PDT  Tunisians are embroiled in a heated debate over allowing Israeli tourists into the country, which does not recognise the Jewish state, before an annual pilgrimage that attracts Jews from around the world. It is an open secret that Israelis have been visiting Tunisia for years on the quiet. Annoyance in some quarters is such that members of the National Constituent Assembly have called for the tourism minister and an interior ministry official to be sacked. Tunisia, like most other countries in the Arab world, does not recognise Israel, primarily out of solidarity with Palestinian demands for a state of their own. Full Story | Top |
| Arkansas AG supports gay marriage, will defend ban Saturday, May 03, 2014 03:15 PM PDT  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Saturday he supports allowing same-sex couples to wed but will continue defending his state's 2004 ban on gay marriages in court. Full Story | Top |
| Maronite patriarch's Jerusalem visit would be 'historic sin' Saturday, May 03, 2014 06:03 AM PDT  A visit to Jerusalem by the patriarch of the Lebanon-based Maronite church to greet Pope Francis would be a "historic sin", a leading newspaper close to the anti-Israeli Hezbollah said Saturday. Patriarch Beshara Rai, whose church is the largest Christian denomination in Lebanon, told AFP on Friday he would travel to the Holy Land to welcome the pontiff during his brief May 24-26 visit. In doing so, he would be the first patriarch to do so since the creation in 1948 of Israel, with which Lebanon is technically at war. In response, the leading Arab nationalist daily As-Safir ran a critical piece headlined "Historic sin: Rai goes to Israel". Full Story | Top |
| Condoleezza Rice pulls out of Rutgers speech after protests Saturday, May 03, 2014 08:58 AM PDT  By Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pulled out of delivering the commencement speech at Rutgers University in New Jersey on Saturday, following a months-long protest by students and faculty over her role in the Iraq war. Rice was the face of foreign policy under President George W. Bush, a Republican, serving as national security advisor from 2001 to 2005, and later as secretary of state. She was a leading hawk in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war. In her statement, Rice said her role in the festivities had become a "distraction". Full Story | Top |
| Belfast police seek evidence of Adams' IRA past Saturday, May 03, 2014 11:13 AM PDT  BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Northern Ireland police are casting a wider net in their efforts to prove that Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams once commanded the outlawed Irish Republican Army and ordered the 1972 killing of a Belfast mother of 10, according to party colleagues and retired militants. Full Story | Top |
| Obama prepares for annual correspondents' dinner Saturday, May 03, 2014 11:23 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama was set to join journalists, government officials, politicians and media personalities Saturday night at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner for an evening of humor and celebrity gazing that has become an annual tradition in the nation's capital. Full Story | Top |
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