IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 20/02/2014

Riot police move in against Kiev protest camp

Anti-government protesters carry a wounded policemen during clashes with riot police in Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Thousands of angry anti-government protesters clashed with police in a new eruption of violence following new maneuvering by Russia and the European Union to gain influence over this former Soviet republic. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Officers armed with stun grenades and water cannons charge into the camp in Ukraine's capital.

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Activist nun, 84, sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison

FILE - In this Monday, May 6, 2013, file photo, anti-nuclear weapons activists, from left, Michael Walli, Sister Megan Rice and Greg Boertje-Obed arrive for their trial in Knoxville, Tenn. All three were convicted on May 8, 2013, of interfering with national security when they broke into a nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee and defaced a uranium processing plant. The activists will learn Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, whether they will spend the next six to nine years in prison. (AP Photo/Knoxville News Sentinel, J. Miles Cary, File)

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An 84-year-old nun was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison for breaking into a nuclear weapons complex and defacing a bunker holding bomb-grade uranium, a demonstration that exposed serious security flaws at the Tennessee plant.

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Ex-soldier convicted of killing Iraqi family dies in prison

FILE - In this April 29, 2009 file photo, former 101st Airborne Division Pfc. Steven Dale Green is escorted to the courthouse on the third day of his trial in Paducah, Ky. Green, convicted of raping and killing a teenage Iraqi girl and using a shotgun to kill her family, died Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014 in prison in Arizona, likely of suicide. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A former soldier sentenced to life for raping and killing a teenage Iraqi girl and using a shotgun to gun down her family died in an Arizona prison over the weekend in what officials suspect was a suicide.

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5 things to know about the Powerball jackpot

The $400 miliion Powerball jackpot tops the list of lottery payouts in this convenience store in the Minneapolis skyway system, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Jackpots like Wednesday's anticipated $400 million Powerball can grant a lot of wishes. Should a winner have but one chance to blow all that money on a single purchase and ignore the cautious advice of accountants and money managers, real estate listings, auction houses and even simple web searches are full of ideas to separate someone and their newfound wealth.(AP Photo/Jim Mone)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Wednesday's Powerball drawing carries an estimated $400 million jackpot. If no one matches all the numbers, the prize potential will grow before the next drawing on Saturday. Here are five things you should know about Powerball payouts and your odds of winning.

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Olympic day of politics and power on the slopes

Russian punk group Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, in the blue balaclava, and Maria Alekhina, in the pink balaclava, make their way through a crowd after they were released from a police station, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in Adler, Russia. No charges were filed against Tolokonnikova and Alekhina along with the three others who were detained. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The politics got a little hotter. The slopes got a lot slushier.

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Obama, fellow Dems are at odds on big trade bills

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks to members of the Business Roundtable, a trade group representing America’s big business, in Washington. President Barack Obama is working to put two major emerging trade deals with Europe and Asia on a “fast track” to passage. But many congressional Democrats are working to sidetrack the proposed pacts ahead of this year’s U.S. midterm elections. The Democratic president finds himself in the rare position of having House Speaker John Boehner as an ally on the issue and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as a foe. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama wants to put major emerging trade deals with Europe and Asia on a "fast track" to congressional passage. But with midterm elections looming, many fellow Democrats are working to sidetrack them instead.

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AP sources: DOE to OK $6.5B for Georgia nuke plant

FILE -In this Dec. 11, 2012, file photo, part of the containment vessel for a new nuclear reactor at the Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant is under construction in Augusta, Ga. The Energy Department is poised to approve $6.5 billion in lending for two nuclear reactors under construction in Georgia. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is expected to announce the deal at a speech in Washington on Wednesday, a day before he visits the $14 billion Vogtle nuclear plant being built by Southern Co. and several partners about 30 miles southeast of Augusta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department is poised to approve $6.5 billion in federal loan guarantees for the first nuclear power plant built from scratch in this country in more than three decades.

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Music death suspect compared self to rape victim

Defendant Michael Dunn is brought into the courtroom just before 5 p.m., where Judge Russell Healey announced that the jury was deadlocked on charge one and have verdicts on the other four charges as they deliberate in the trial of Dunn, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, for the shooting death of Jordan Davis in November 2012. Dunn is charged with fatally shooting 17-year-old Davis after an argument over loud music outside a Jacksonville convenient store. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Bob Mack, Pool)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida software designer accused of killing a black teenager during an argument over loud music compared himself to a rape victim, telling his fiancee in a recorded jailhouse phone call that the police were trying to blame him for the shooting when he was only defending himself.

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'No verification' for Pa. wife's killing claims

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, Miranda Barbour is led out of the courthouse after her preliminary hearing in Sunbury, Pa. Police haven't substantiated Barbour's claims that she killed more than 20 people in four states before the killing she's now charged with committing with her newlywed husband, a prosecutor said Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/PennLive.com, Christine Baker, File)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Police haven't substantiated a newlywed woman's claims that she killed more than 20 people in four states before the killing she's now charged with committing with her husband, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

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Soldiers mugging around empty casket sparks furor

This photo posted to the instagram account belonging to Spc. Terry Harrison shows a dozen soldiers clowning around a casket draped in a flag at a National Guard training facility in Arkansas. The Wisconsin National Guard on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 announced that it had suspended Harrison from honor guard duties after she apparently posted the photo. (AP Photo)

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Wisconsin National Guard announced Tuesday that it had suspended a member from honor guard duties after she apparently posted to social media a photograph of soldiers mugging around an empty, flag-draped casket.

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10 Things to Know for Wednesday, 1st Ld-Writethru

In this satellite image provided by Skybox Imaging and taken by SkySat-1 on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 at 11:10 a.m. local time, smoke rises from the site of anti-government protests, upper center, in Kiev, Ukraine. Thousands of riot police armed with stun grenades and water cannons attacked the sprawling protest camp in the center of Kiev on Tuesday, following a day of street battles that left 18 people dead and hundreds injured. (AP Photo/Skybox Imaging) MANDATORY CREDIT

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday:

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Venezuela opposition leader jailed over protests

Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, dressed in white and holding up a flower stem, is taken into custody by Bolivarian National Guards, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Feb 18, 2014. Lopez re-emerged from days of hiding to address an anti-government demonstration and then he turned himself in to authorities Tuesday. Speaking to some 5,000 supporters with a megaphone, Lopez said that he doesn't fear going to jail to defend his beliefs and constitutional right to peacefully protest against President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez emerged from days of hiding and surrendered to police before thousands of supporters Tuesday, saying he hopes his arrest awakens Venezuela to the corruption and economic disaster caused by 15 years of socialist rule.

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With kids grown, Washington wants more stage roles
NEW YORK (AP) — Now that his children are grown, you can expect to see a lot more of Denzel Washington on Broadway.

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Minimum wage study replenishes both sides of debate

WASHINGTON (AP) — Boosting the federal minimum wage as President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are proposing would increase earnings for more than 16.5 million people by 2016 but also cut employment by roughly 500,000 jobs, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst said Tuesday.

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Real 'Monuments Man' to join Clooney and Damon at White House

Real 'Monuments Men' and Women Preserve Cultural Heritage

Harry Ettlinger was a 19-year-old Army private when he was recruited to be one of the original “Monuments Men.” Now, Ettlinger will join President Obama and Hollywood stars like Matt Damon and George Clooney at a White House screening of the movie.

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Feds get involved after shaking 'pandemonium' aboard flight

Severe turbulence on United Airlines flight injures 5

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal authorities are looking into severe turbulence that triggered "pandemonium" aboard a United Airlines flight into Billings, Mont., and sent five people to hospitals.

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Cuba shares trove of Hemingway documents with U.S.

This photo released Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, shows a ticket stub from a bullfighting match attended by Ernest Hemingway, one of many new items from Hemingway's former estate in Cuba being made available at the museum. To date, the Kennedy Library has the world’s largest collection of Hemingway’s life and work, containing most of his manuscript material. (AP Photo/John F. Kennedy Library and Museum) NO SALES.

Cuba has released to US researchers copies of more than 2,000 documents related to Ernest Hemingway, media reported Tuesday in Havana, the American literary giant's home during the 1940s and 1950s. "More than 2,000 documents held at the Finca Vigia Museum in Havana are now available for the first time for researchers in the United States after having been digitized and sent to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum," the Cuba Contemporanea magazine wrote on its website. Now a museum, Finca Vigia, which means "lookout house" is located in the town of San Francisco de Paula just outside Havana.

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Work-around to Iowa abortion rule draws mixed feelings

Unusual Iowa abortion rule has surprising result

While many states passed sweeping abortion laws last year, the Iowa General Assembly endorsed just one — a perplexing measure befitting one of the few legislatures under divided control. The GOP-led House ...

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NSA leaker Snowden elected student body rep at UK university

FILE - In this June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. Compared with their more moderate Republican or Democratic peers, tea party supporters and liberals are significantly more likely to oppose the collection of millions of ordinary citizens’ telephone and Internet data, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows. By a 2-to-1 margin, both tea party supporters and liberals say the government should put protecting citizens’ rights and freedoms ahead of protecting them from terrorists. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)

LONDON (AP) — Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden was elected Tuesday as the official representative of the student body at the University of Glasgow.

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N.J. mayor rebuffs Christie lawyer's request

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks during a luncheon by the Economic Club of Chicago

FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — The mayor of the New Jersey town where allies of Gov. Chris Christie created traffic jams last fall has refused a request to be interviewed by a lawyer representing the governor.

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Argh! Northeast gets more of that wintry white stuff

A man walks through the snow in New York

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A quick-moving storm brought several inches of snow as well as rare "thundersnow" to parts of the winter-weary East Coast, prompting speed restrictions on Pennsylvania highways on Tuesday, days after the Southeast and Northeast were paralyzed with heavy snow, ice and massive power outages.

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Even from space, California's extreme drought looks bad

The historic drought that's devastated much of the American West this year is visible in NASA satellite imagery.

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Russian punk band members detained by police in Sochi

Russian punk band Pussy Riot members Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova pose after winning a trophy in the category

By Mike Collett-White SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Pussy Riot protest band members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were detained on Tuesday in connection with a theft in the Winter Olympics host city of Sochi, less than two months after their release from prison under an amnesty. The pair were held for around three hours at a police station in the Adler district of Sochi, before appearing with other women on the steps outside wearing summer dresses, colored leggings and their trademark balaclava masks. The women were in Sochi with other members of Pussy Riot to record a musical film called "Putin will teach you to love the motherland". Russian President Vladimir Putin has staked his reputation on the Sochi Games, hoping they would show the world Russia's modern face more than two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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