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PERTH, Australia (AP) — Search crews on Monday will send a sub deep into the Indian Ocean for the first time to try to determine whether signals detected by sound-locating equipment are from the missing Malaysian plane's black boxes. The Bluefin 21 autonomous sub will be able to create a sonar map of the area to chart any debris on the seafloor. Meanwhile, the head of the coordinated search says crews have not picked up a signal in six days.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — An official in Johnson County, Kansas is identifying the man accused of killing three people outside Jewish sites near Kansas City. The jail official says he's 73-year-old Frazier Glenn Cross, who public records show also goes by the last name Miller. The Southern Poverty Law Center says Miller has long been an outspoken white supremacist and was once a "grand dragon" of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — "At this moment, Ukraine teeters on the brink." That's what Assistant U.N. Secretary-General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco told Security Council members during an emergency session late Sunday. Russia called the meeting shortly after Ukrainian special forces exchanged gunfire Sunday with a pro-Russia militia in an eastern city, killing at least one security officer and wounding five others.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection begins Monday in the federal trial in New York City of an Egyptian Islamic preacher accused of conspiring to support al-Qaida. Prosecutors say Mustafa Kamel Mustafa tried to create a training camp in Oregon in 1999, arranged for others to attend an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan and provided help to hostage takers in Yemen who abducted 16 tourists in 1998. The 55-year-old Mustafa says he will be testifying in his behalf.
VALPARAISO, Chile (AP) — Firefighters in Valparaiso, Chile have been struggling for a second night to contain blazes that have killed 12 people, injured 500 and destroyed 2,000 homes. Officials thought the fires were contained 24 hours after they started Saturday, but they kicked up again with Sunday afternoon's winds and raged out of control. Some 10,000 people have been forced to evacuate the densely populated hills of the port city.
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