Obama promotes foreign investment...Poll finds Americans lag in long term care preparedness

WASHINGTON (AP) — Finding ways to attract foreign investment is among the things on President Barack Obama's to-do list this week. He's convening business leaders tomorrow at the White House to advertise success stories in the face of continuing public anxieties over jobs and the economy. At the same time, worries continue over dozens of U.S. companies heading in the other direction.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll finds that despite a rapidly aging population, Americans may be largely unprepared for needing long-term care. Government figures show nearly 7 in 10 Americans will need long-term care at some point after they reach age 65. Yet the poll by The Associated Press-N-O-R-C Center for Public Affairs Research finds just 20 percent of those surveyed think they will need such care.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Two more people have been arrested today following the explosion and fire at a Turkish coal mine, amid news reports that company officials ignored sensors registering high gas levels. Three Turkish newspapers report that data seized by prosecutors indicate that high gas levels were inside the mine as early as two days before Turkey's worst mining disaster, but company officials took no action.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A looming major surge in the water level of a river threatens a major power outage in Serbia and Bosnia. The surge threatens to inundate Serbia's main power plant which supplies electricity to parts of both countries. At least 34 people have died as the Balkans continues to struggle under the worst flooding in more than a century.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be moving to help diffuse the crisis in Ukraine. The Kremlin says Putin has ordered troops deployed near Ukraine to return to their home bases. The move would be easily verifiable by Western intelligence. Meanwhile, fighting continues in the eastern parts of Ukraine today between government troops and pro-Russia insurgents.

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