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SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's interior minister says his country's special forces exchanged gunfire with a pro-Russia militia in an eastern city today. He says one Ukrainian security officer was killed and five others wounded. The official says there were also casualties among militia members. An Associated Press reporter on the ground didn't see any sign of violence when he arrived today.
BAGHDAD (AP) — A joint Iraqi army and police patrol in northern Iraq has been targeted by a car bombing that killed at least 10 people and wounded 12 others. A police officer says the bomb targeted the patrol while it passed through a busy commercial area in the city of Mosul today. Earlier, a suicide car bomber killed six people in another northern Iraqi town.
RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators are still looking for witnesses to a fiery wreck between a truck and a bus that killed 10 people on California's Interstate 5 north of Sacramento. Officials say they haven't been able to corroborate a driver's claim that a FedEx tractor-trailer was already on fire when it careened across a freeway median, sideswiped her car and slammed into a bus carrying high school students.
PERTH, Australia (AP) — The Indian Ocean has gone quiet again in the search area for a missing Malaysian airliner, dimming hopes of finding the wreckage anytime soon. Earlier, four signals were heard that could have come from the downed plane. But no new electronic pings have been heard since April 8, and the batteries powering the locator beacons on the jet's black box recorders may already be dead. They only last about a month, and that window has already passed.
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Residents have been evacuated and at least 500 homes have been destroyed by a massive forest fire blazing in the Chilean port city of Valparaiso. President Michelle Bachelet (bah-cheh-LET') has declared the city a catastrophe zone, which puts the armed forces in charge of maintaining order and evacuating thousands of people affected by the smoke and flames.
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