Malaysia ( Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 went missing earlier in the day )

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday spotted two large oil slicks close to where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 went missing earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239  had crashed.
The air force planes were part of a multinational search operation launched after Flight MH370 fell off radar screens less than an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing early Saturday morning.


The oil slicks were spotted late Saturday off the southern tip of Vietnam and were each between 10 kilometers (6 miles) and 15 kilometers (9 miles) long, the Vietnamese government said in a statement. There was no confirmation that the slicks were related to the missing plane, but the statement said they were consistent with the kinds that would be produced by the two fuel tanks of a crashed jetliner.
Two-thirds of the missing plane’s passengers were from China, while others were from elsewhere in Asia, North America and Europe.
Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said there was no indication that the pilots had sent a distress signal, suggesting that whatever happened to the plane occurred quickly and possibly catastrophically.
Asked whether terrorism was suspected, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said, “We are looking at all possibilities, but it is too early to make any conclusive remarks.”
Foreign ministry officials in Italy and Austria said the names of two nationals from those countries listed on the flight’s manifest matched passports reported stolen in Thailand.
Italy’s Foreign Ministry said the Italian man who was listed as being a passenger, Luigi Maraldi, was traveling in Thailand and was not aboard the plane. It said he reported his passport stolen last August.
Austria’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that a name listed on the manifest matched an Austrian passport reported stolen two years ago in Thailand. It said the Austrian was not on the plane, but would not confirm the person’s identity.
At Beijing’s airport, authorities posted a notice asking relatives and friends of passengers to gather at a nearby hotel to wait for further information, and provided a shuttle bus service. A woman wept aboard the bus while saying on a mobile phone, “They want us to go to the hotel. It cannot be good.”
Relatives and friends of passengers were escorted into a private area at the hotel, but reporters were kept away. A man in a gray hooded sweatshirt later stormed out complaining about a lack of information. The man, who said he was a Beijing resident but declined to give his name, said he was anxious because his mother was on board the flight with a group of 10 tourists.
“We have been waiting for hours and there is still no verification,” he said.
The plane was last detected on radar at 1:30 a.m. (1730 GMT Friday) around where the South China Sea meets the Gulf of Thailand, authorities in Malaysia and Vietnam said.
Lai Xuan Thanh, director of Vietnam’s civil aviation authority, said air traffic officials in the country never made contact with the plane.
The plane “lost all contact and radar signal one minute before it entered Vietnam’s air traffic control,” Lt. Gen. Vo Van Tuan, deputy chief of staff of the Vietnamese army, said in a statement.
The South China Sea is a tense region with competing territorial claims that have led to several low-level conflicts, particularly between China and the Philippines. That antipathy briefly faded Saturday as China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia all sent ships and planes to the region.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that Malaysia had dispatched 15 planes and nine ships to the area, and that the US Navy was sending some planes as well. Singapore, China and Vietnam also were sending aircraft.
It’s not uncommon for it to take several days to find the wreckage of aircraft floating on the ocean. Locating and then recovering the flight data recorders, vital to any investigation, can take months or even years.
“In times of emergencies like this, we have to show unity of efforts that transcends boundaries and issues,” said Lt. Gen. Roy Deveraturda, commander of the Philippine military’s Western Command.
After the oil slick was spotted, the air search was suspended for the night and was to resume Sunday morning, while the sea search was ongoing, Malaysia Airlines said.
The plane was carrying 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members, the airline said. It said there were 152 passengers from China, 38 from Malaysia, seven from Indonesia, six from Australia, five from India, three from the US, and others from Indonesia, France, New Zealand, Canada, Ukraine, Russia, Taiwan and the Netherlands.
In Kuala Lumpur, family members gathered at the airport, but were kept away from reporters.
“Our team is currently calling the next of kin of passengers and crew. Focus of the airline is to work with the emergency responders and authorities and mobilize its full support,” said Yahya, the airline CEO. “Our thoughts and prayers are with all affected passengers and crew and their family members.”

Mexico ( Woman Accused of Killing Rapist Released on Bail )

 

MEXICO CITY – A 20-year-old woman jailed for killing the man who allegedly raped her has been released after posting bail, Mexican media reported.

Yakiri Rubio was released on Wednesday night from the women’s prison in Tepepan, a town located south of Mexico City.

Television networks showed footage of the young woman leaving the prison with her relatives, who came up with the money to post bail.

Rubio thanked her relatives and her attorney, Ana Katiria Suarez, for supporting her and believing in her innocence.

Suarez filed a motion to have the homicide reclassified as self-defense.

The case, which went viral on social-networking sites in Mexico, dates back to Dec. 9, when Rubio was attacked by two subjects as she walked in Mexico City’s Doctores district, taken to a hotel and raped, Suarez said.

Rubio shoved one of the assailants, identified as Miguel Angel Ramirez Anaya, as he raped her at knifepoint, causing him to cut his neck, the attorney said.

Ramirez Anaya died from the wound a short time later, Suarez said.

A judge released Rubio on bail of 423,800 pesos ($32,000) amid pressure from grassroots organizations and lawmakers.

The judge agreed to release the young woman on bail after a higher court in the Federal District ruled that the charge should be changed to “homicide by excess of self-defense,” judicial officials told Efe.

The proceedings are expected to resume on Thursday and the defense plans to file a motion for an “acquittal based on legitimate self-defense,” Suarez told Efe.

Numerous irregularities occurred in Rubio’s arrest and there are “deficiencies in the investigation,” the attorney said, adding that prosecutors did not follow the rules for handling a crime against a woman.

The case will be followed closely to ensure that Rubio’s due process rights are not violated, Federal District Human Rights Commission president Perla Gomez said.

BEIJING ( North Korea fired a rocket into the flight path of a Chinese airliner )

BEIJING: Beijing expressed concern Thursday after North Korea fired a rocket into the flight path of a Chinese airliner during weapons tests. The incident took place a day after China said it plans to spend 808.23 billion yuan ($132 billion) on its army for 2014.
Pyongyang has drawn criticism from Seoul and Washington for firing half a dozen short-range missiles off its east coast in recent days, followed on Tuesday by a volley of rockets from multiple launchers.
South Korea said a Chinese airliner with more than 200 passengers on board crossed the trajectory of one of the rockets seven minutes after it passed by.
China is North Korea’s key diplomatic protector and the source of much of its trade and aid.
“I want to stress we attach high importance to the security of national civil airlines,” said Beijing’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang.
Countries should take “necessary measures” when carrying out military drills “to ensure the security and safety of civil ships and aircraft,” he said.
“Without any doubt, China will verify the relevant situation with the relevant party and express necessary concerns over that,” Qin added.
South Korean officials criticized the North’s artillery launch. Seoul Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok called it a “serious threat” that Pyongyang failed to notify international aviation authorities of its launch plans in the area.
Kim said the plane was traveling at an altitude of 10 kilometers, while the projectile’s peak altitude was 20 kilometers. He said the flight passed through the area about five minutes after the projectile hit the water.
An unidentified North Korean Army spokesman said in a statement Wednesday night that rocket drills conducted from Feb. 21 until Tuesday were part of regular training. He said that neither regional security nor the international navigation were in danger because the North took “scrupulous advance security measures for flight orbit and targets in the designated waters.”

BOGOTA ( Five Gunned Down at " Birthday Party " in Colombia )

 

BOGOTA – Five people were shot to death and another wounded by unknown gunmen who burst into a birthday party in a rural portion of the Colombian city of Santa Marta, authorities said Wednesday.

The mass slaying occurred after midnight Tuesday on a farm in the Masinga rural settlement, some five kilometers (three miles) from Santa Marta, capital of the Caribbean coastal province of Magdalena, police said.

Among those killed were two women and three men who earlier in the evening had participated in a birthday party and were still in the house on the Porton Verde farm when the attack occurred.

The property apparently had been rented for the party attended by about 30 people, most of whom had already left when the attackers arrived, the daily El Heraldo said in its online edition.

The commander of the Santa Marta Metropolitan Police, Col. Fredy Tibaduiza Niño, said that according to witnesses, six armed men came to the house and fired indiscriminately at those present.

Brazil ( TV Cameraman Shot While Covering Carnival in Brazil )

 

SAO PAULO – A TV cameraman was hospitalized in serious condition after being shot several times while he was covering a Carnival procession in the northeastern Brazilian city of Pedreiras, Bandeirantes television said Wednesday.

Hilton Costa Brito, 36, was at a parade when a man got out of a nearby car and opened fire at him, according to Bandeirantes, which is affiliated with TV Atenas, for which the cameraman works as a freelancer.

Brito, who was shot four times in the stomach and legs, was taken to the hospital, where he underwent two operations.

According to the annual report of Reporters Without Borders, five journalists were murdered in Brazil in 2013, making the country one of the most dangerous for reporters in the Americas.

Last month, two gunmen shot to death journalist Pedro Palma, the owner of Panorama Regional newspaper in Rio de Janeiro state.

Cameraman Santiago Andrade, who is also with Bandeirantes, died after being hit by a flare as he was covering a street demonstration in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

“The escalation of violence against journalists is extremely worrisome and that crime cannot remain unpunished,” the Brazilian Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters said Wednesday in a communique.

Ukraine ( Ukraine flew its flag over the government headquarters in the eastern city )

DONETSK, Ukraine: Ukraine flew its flag over the government headquarters in the eastern city of Donetsk on Thursday and ejected pro-Moscow demonstrators that occupied it, ending a siege that Kiev had seen as part of a Russian plan to create a pretext to invade.
Police said they had taken more than 70 people into custody for questioning after clearing out the regional administration headquarters and another government building.


“The people who were removed from the building did not resist,” Donetsk city police chief Maksim Kirindyasov said. “The building was cleared in a matter of a few minutes.”
Later on Thursday, security service agents arrested the protest leader. Pavel Gubarev was led away from his apartment without a fight. The local businessman who called himself the “people’s governor” had demanded control over the police and tried to persuade lawmakers to install him as regional boss while his men occupied their hall.
He was charged with seeking to damage “the territorial integrity and independence of the state.”
The pro-Moscow protesters who had been occupying the building since Monday were first lured out on Wednesday by police who said there was a bomb scare, but fought their way back in after battling police throughout Wednesday.
The building had flown the Russian flag since Saturday, when President Vladimir Putin declared Russia’s right to invade Ukraine.
Donetsk, home city of deposed president Viktor Yanukovich, has seen the most persistent pro-Moscow demonstrations in a wave of protests that erupted simultaneously across southern and eastern cities the day of Putin’s announcement.

Similarities to Crimea
Kiev’s new government has named one of Ukraine’s richest men, metal baron Sergei Taruta, as Donetsk regional governor, a sign that powerful oligarchs, many of whom once supported Yanukovich, are now behind the new authorities.
On Thursday, Taruta promised to restore calm: “I am not a magician, I can’t do it all in a single day, but I think in two weeks or so the situation will be completely different.”
Russian forces seized Ukraine’s Crimea region, an isolated Black Sea peninsula, but did not enter other areas of Ukraine.
Kiev says the protests across the south and east were orchestrated by Moscow to justify a planned wider invasion.
It points to similarities between Gubarev’s tactics and those used in Crimea — where a pro-Russian politician was named provincial boss in a besieged legislature before Russian forces took control — as evidence a wider assault was planned.
The pattern was also repeated in other cities on Saturday where demonstrators raised Russian flags at regional government buildings and pro-Russian politicians held closed-door legislative sessions.
But Donetsk was the only city outside Crimea where the Russian flag flew above the government building for more than a day and the protest leader continued to insist he was in charge.
Most Ukrainians in eastern and southern regions speak Russian as a native language and many are deeply suspicious of the government in Kiev.
The pro-Moscow demonstrators initially enjoyed substantial support, but their tactics and Putin’s invasion threat have increasingly caused a backlash and protest numbers have ebbed.
In Donetsk, anti-Russian protests in the past two days were much larger than the pro-Kremlin demonstrations.
Kiev has said that many of the pro-Russian demonstrators have been bussed in from Russia. Police chief Kirindyasov said those detained at the regional headquarters were all Ukrainian citizens from the Donetsk region, though not from the city itself.
The Ukrainian authorities say they did not take steps earlier against the pro-Moscow protests because of fear that violence would provoke a Russian military response.

Kearny Arizona ( Family say " Man beaten to death " Never threw a punch ) Milo Candeleria

 

                            (  suspects )                                                                      (  milo)

( His family say , Milo never threw a punch ) ?   That would be Murder 1 or 2 ?

KEARNY, AZ - A deadly bar brawl last Friday night in this old mining town left one man dead and two arrested.
Kearny Police say Juan Lopez and Anthony Sigala were drinking at the La Cantina Bar in Kearny when they got into a fight with Milo Candeleria.
Kearny Police responded to the bar at about 11 p.m. Feb 21 where they found Candeleria injured. He was airlifted to UAMC where he succumbed to his injuries, Kearny Police Chief Robert Ingulli said in a release.
Both men were officially charged with aggravated assault and manslaughter