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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia says it will publicly release satellite data used in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The government says calculations using Inmarsat data showed the plane ended in the Indian Ocean after it went missing March 8 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Some family members of the 239 people on the plane have demanded raw satellite data to be made public for independent analysis.
BEIJING (AP) — China's Foreign Ministry has summoned the U.S. ambassador in Beijing to complain about Washington's charging five Chinese military officials with hacking into U.S. companies to steal trade secrets. China already has strongly denounced the charges and says it's suspending cooperation with the U.S. in a joint cybersecurity working group that was formed last year.
SHANGHAI (AP) — China is giving Russian President Vladimir Putin a boost. The two governments are negotiating a multibillion-dollar sale of Russian gas to China, and officials say a deal could be signed soon. Putin is on a state visit to China, and met Tuesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) at the start of a two-day conference on Asian security.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court is extending an order which allows Kansas and Arizona residents to continue registering to vote using a federal form, and they don't have to show proof of citizenship. A federal judge had ordered the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to change its federal voter registration form to add special instructions for Arizona and Kansas residents, who would have had to show proof of citizenship. But the appeals court issued an emergency stay earlier this month.
UNDATED (AP) — Rapper Macklemore is apologizing for wearing a costume some have said was anti-Semitic. The Grammy Award winner says he didn't mean to mock Jewish people at a performance last Friday in Seattle, but randomly chose pieces of the costume so he could disguise himself and move freely around during the secret show. He says the beard and the fake nose weren't mean to be a caricature of a Jewish man.
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