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PERTH, Australia (AP) — The multinational hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is on again. A dozen planes and two ships from the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand are searching a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean now that fierce winds and high waves have eased. New data has narrowed the search zone, but it remains huge — an area estimated at 622,000 square miles, about the size of Alaska.
ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — The official death toll from Saturday's mudslide in Washington state has reached 16, but rescuers have located another eight bodies in the debris field. They will be added to the total once they're recovered. Scores of people remain listed as missing, but officials say people have been calling in from the nearby logging town of Darrington now that power has been restored there.
BRUSSELS (AP) — President Barack Obama is in Brussels to solidify the West's response to Russian intervention in Ukraine. Despite Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's strategic Crimean Peninsula, Obama said yesterday that Russia is only a "regional power" that is threatening its neighbors "not out of strength, but out of weakness."
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A cleric representing the Pakistani Taliban says a government team is on its way to a secret location in the country's northwest for the first-ever direct talks with the militants. So far, the two sides have held indirect talks, through clerics sympathetic to the Taliban. The talks are an effort to find a way to end violence that has claimed thousands of lives in recent years.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An analysis conducted by The Associated Press finds that the government website for registering for private health care runs slowly when compared with major private health insurance websites. The comparison, by Compuware, found that the time it takes the home page for HealthCare.gov to load averaged nearly nine seconds nationally over a seven-day period that ended Tuesday. The time for leading private health insurance websites averages just under five seconds. The registration deadline is March 31.
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