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INTERNATIONAL Security agency suspects North Korea behind South Korea computer crash SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A cyberattack caused computer networks at major South Korean banks and top TV broadcasters to crash simultaneously Wednesday, paralyzing bank machines across the country and prompting speculation of North Korean involvement. Screens went blank at 2 p.m., the state-run Korea Information Security Agency said, and some systems were still down more than seven hours later. Obama skeptical of Syrian President Assad claims on chemical weapons JERUSALEM (AP) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday the United States is investigating whether chemical weapons have been deployed in Syria, but he’s “deeply skeptical” of claims by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime that rebel forces were behind such an attack. Both the Assad regime and Syrian rebels have accused each other of using chemical weapons in an attack on Tuesday that the government says killed 31 and wounded more than 100. But Obama suggested it’s more likely that if the weapons were used, the Syrian government was behind the attack.
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Two bank clerks check an automated teller machine Wednesday at Shinhan Bank in South Korea after the bank’s computer networks went into shutdown mode, paralyzing bank machines across the country and prompting speculation of a cyberattack by North Korea.
U.S. diplomatic presence in Iraq shrinking, personnel number falling BAGHDAD (AP) — A decade after the start of the war in Iraq, the American diplomatic footprint in Iraq is shrinking fast. As recently as a year ago, the immense U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and other sites around the country were staffed by more than 16,000 personnel. Today, that number has fallen to about 10,500, U.S. Ambassador Robert Stephen Beecroft said this week. By the end of the year, Beecroft said he expects to have just 5,500 employees in Iraq.
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Amazon CEO exhibition team recovers Apollo engines from Atlantic Ocean
Man gets 30 years in plea deal for killing police officer and four men
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rusted pieces of two Apollo-era rocket engines that helped boost astronauts to the moon have been fished out of the murky depths of the Atlantic, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos and NASA said Wednesday. A privately funded expedition led by Bezos raised the main engine parts during three weeks at sea and was headed back to Cape Canaveral, Fla., the launch pad for the manned lunar missions. Ind. police: Man shoots and kills bus passenger, takes child hostage
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday approved a 30-year plea bargain for a man who admitted killing an off-duty police officer and four other men, including a witness to a roadside double killing. U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance said she did so only because there was an unacceptable risk that Steven Wayne Hardrick might walk free from a trial. Several members of the victims’ families walked out of the courtroom as Hardrick, 27, began apologizing to them. Others wept or muttered mild expletives to describe him or his statement. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale draws $1.2 billion in high bids
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A man pulled a woman off a city bus in northern Indiana on Wednesday, fatally shot her and then took a 3-year-old boy hostage before a sniper killed him during a police standoff. A police officer carried the child out of a house in Fort Wayne about 4:30 p.m., and police announced soon after that the suspect, 45-year-old Kenneth Knight, was dead. Police said from the outset that they did not believe the shooting was random, but the relationship, if any, between Knight, the woman and the child was not immediately clear.
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An expedition led by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Wednesday the discovery of this thrust chamber of an Apollo F-1 engine from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The sunken engines were part of the Saturn V rocket used to go the moon in the 1960s and 1970s.
Transgender debate: Proposed Arizona bill ties restroom use to birth gender PHOENIX (AP) — Lawmakers are delaying a debate over equal access rights after dozens of transgender people flooded the Arizona House of Representatives to fight a proposed law that would make it illegal for them to use the bathroom of their preferred gender. Republican Rep. John Kavanagh said Wednesday he would delay his bill that seeks to make it a misdemeanor for anyone to use a public facility not associated with their birth gender.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A nearly 39-million-acre oil and gas lease sale Wednesday for the central Gulf of Mexico drew $1.2 billion in high bids by offshore energy producers. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said 52 companies submitted 407 bids on 320 tracts, three to 230 miles off the coasts of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. The tracts, covering more than 1.7 million acres, are in water depths of nine to more than 11,115 feet.
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