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BEIJING (AP) — China's president is taking charge of Beijing's cybersecurity. State media report President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) will oversee the central Internet security and information group that will draft policy for boosting the country's defenses. China's military is believed to be among the biggest targets of the U.S. National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command. The group also will set policy for expanding and improving Internet access. Xi is quoted as saying online opinion must be properly guided.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry says Russia has told the United States that it will respect the sovereignty of Ukraine and that its military exercises near the Russian-Ukraine border are not a prelude to an intervention. But in Ukraine's Crimea region, dozens of armed men in military uniforms reportedly seized an airport early Friday. The Interfax news agency reports the men were wearing "Russian Navy ensigns."
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco's police chief says five officers have been suspended without pay and had their guns taken away after being indicted by federal prosecutors. Two of the officers and a former officer have been charged with distributing controlled substances and stealing drugs, money, computers, electronic devices and gift cards. Prosecutors say three officers were charged separately with civil rights violations for entering single occupancy hotel rooms illegally and intimidating occupants.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican official says a leader of hit men working for the Knights Templar drug cartel has been killed in a shootout with federal police. The official says Francisco Galeana was also known as "The Panther" in the region known as Tierra Caliente, where vigilante groups have surged in the last year to fight the Knights Templar. He describes Galeana as a "bloodthirsty hit man."
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The new priest at St. Raymond's Maronite Cathedral in St. Louis is a married man. Wissam Akiki was ordained tonight in the church that sits near downtown St. Louis. Several hundred people — including Akiki's wife and 8-year-old daughter — were on hand for the ceremony. Eastern Catholic churches in the Middle East and Europe ordain married men. However, the Vatican banned the practice in America in the 1920s.
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