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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's government has sent rescue helicopters to mountain districts where landslides and collapsed buildings may have buried people after another strong earthquake hit the country today. The magnitude-7.3 quake hit the foothills of the Himalayas the hardest. Nepal's Home Ministry says more than three dozen people are known dead, but the toll is expected to rise. Officials in India report 16 dead there, while Chinese media report one death in Tibet.
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A five-day humanitarian cease-fire is supposed to take effect in Yemen in a few hours, but the fighting has continued leading up to it. Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition have been targeting Shiite rebel positions. Officials also are reporting fierce fighting between the rebels and forces loyal to Yemen's exiled president in a strategic city southwest of the capital. However, the airstrikes stopped with arrival of a United Nations envoy in the capital. He's planning to meet with the warring sides to ensure the cease-fire holds.
NEW YORK (AP) — Three men have pleaded guilty in federal court in New York City to charges they were members of the al-Qaida offshoot in Somalia. Prosecutors say the defendants were "dangerous and influential" members of al-Shabab who trained to become part of an elite unit of suicide bombers. They were captured in Africa last year while traveling to Yemen before being brought to the U.S. to face charges.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has been participating in a panel discussion about poverty today. The president told the forum at Georgetown University in Washington that "it's a mistake" to think efforts to stamp out poverty have failed and that government is powerless to address it. He says there are programs that work all around the country, but the trick is to put them into place on a larger scale.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say they recovered a handgun from George Zimmerman and took two guns from a man accused of shooting at him yesterday. So, far no charges have been filed against either Zimmerman or Matthew Apperson, but Lake Mary police say detectives are still investigating. Both men had the guns legally. Zimmerman is the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. He's had a series of run-ins with the law since his acquittal -- and at least two run-ins with Apperson.
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