A call to protect the planet

April 14, 2014 - Daily News Briefing

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Following four strong underwater signals in the past week, all has gone quiet in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, meaning the batteries in the plane’s black boxes may finally have died. Despite having no new transmissions from the black boxes’ locator beacons, air and sea crews continued their search in the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday for debris and any sounds that may still be emanating.

Federal investigators said Sunday that they haven’t found physical evidence confirming a witness’ s claim that a FedEx truck was on fire before it slammed into a bus carrying high school students, killing 10 people in Orland, Calif. The bus was carrying 44 southern California students Thursday to a free campus tour of Humboldt State University. Many were hoping to become the first in their families to attend college.

A Pakistani government official says militants have released more than 90 tribesmen they abducted from a tribal festival in the northwest but still hold seven influential men. Arshad Khan said Sunday that tribal elders negotiated the release after the gunmen seized some 100 tribesmen on the border of Orakzai and Khyber tribal regions on Saturday.

NASA is pressing ahead with today’s planned launch of a supply ship despite a critical computer outage at the International Space Station, promising the situation is safe. Mission managers decided Sunday to proceed with the countdown for the SpaceX capsule, Dragon, already a month late in delivering more than 2 tons of cargo.

Three people were shot and killed Sunday afternoon in suburban Kansas City, Mo., and a spokeswoman for a local hospital said a 15-year-old boy is in critical condition. Overland Park city spokesman Sean Reilly says two people died at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City campus and one was killed at Village Shalom, which is a retirement community that is several blocks away from the center.

Two clear front-runners emerged in Afghanistan’s presidential election as partial results released Sunday showed a tight race that increasingly appears destined for a runoff vote. Both candidates promise a fresh start with the West, vowing to sign a security pact with the United States that has been rejected by President Hamid Karzai. With 10 percent of the April 5 ballots counted, Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai’s main rival in 2009, had 41.9 percent of the vote. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, a former finance minister and World Bank official, followed with 37.6 percent. Final results are to be declared in mid-May.

Libya’s government says the interim prime minister has declined a parliamentary mandate to form a new government and will instead step down. Abdullah al-Thani announced Sunday that he was leaving his post but would stay on as head of the Cabinet until a replacement could be found. He said that he had made his decision in the interest of the country and because of an armed attack on him and his family Saturday.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

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