Why eastern Ukraine is not Crimea

March 11, 2014 - Daily News Briefing

Having consolidated its hold on Crimea, Russia is making noises about eastern Ukraine.

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Authorities questioned travel agents Monday at a beach resort in Thailand about two men who boarded the now-missing Malaysia Airlines plane with stolen passports, part of a growing international investigation into what they were doing on the flight. Nearly three days after the Boeing 777 with 239 people on board disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, no debris has been seen in Southeast Asian waters.

A strong earthquake rattled the northern California coast and was widely felt across the region, but authorities said early Monday that there were no reports of any injuries or damages. The magnitude-6.8 quake struck at 10:18 p.m. PDT Sunday and was centered 50 miles west of Eureka and about four miles beneath the Pacific seabed. It was followed by about a half-dozen aftershocks.

Israeli guards shot and killed a Jordanian judge on Monday who the Israelis said tried to grab a rifle from a soldier at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan. The shooting took place at the Allenby crossing as the man was going from Jordan into the West Bank, the Israeli army said.

The European Commission is delaying some talks on a new Russian pipeline that would bypass Ukraine to transport natural gas via the Black Sea to southeastern Europe. Spokeswoman Sabine Berger said Monday that the commission, the 28-country bloc’s executive arm, will continue talks at a technical level but suspend planned political negotiations in light “of the broader developments” in the EU’s relations with Russia.

Oscar Pistorius became ill as he was vividly reminded at his murder trial Monday in Pretoria, South Africa, of the gruesome injuries he inflicted on his girlfriend when a pathologist described how the Olympian fatally shot her multiple times. The testimony by Prof. Gert Saayman, who performed the autopsy on Reeva Steenkamp’s body, was so graphic that it was not broadcast or reported live on social media by journalists under an order from Judge Thokozile Masipa.

Syrian militants released Monday a group of Greek Orthodox nuns in exchange for dozens of women held in government prisons – a rare deal between Damascus and Al Qaeda-linked rebels that was mediated by Qatari and Lebanese officials.

A British man who admits his role in a plot to use explosives hidden in shoes to blow up planes in 2001 is testifying by video at the trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law in New York. Saajid Badat testified from London on Monday at the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Al Qaeda’s spokesman immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The number of police officers patrolling this year’s Boston Marathon will be doubled to over 3,500, one year after two bombs exploded near the finish line, killing three people and injuring more than 260. The enhanced police presence is part of a beefed-up security plan detailed Monday by public safety officials as they prepare for the April 21 marathon.

Compiled from wire service reports

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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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