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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House and European leaders are urging support for the peace plan that was put forward today by Ukraine's president. The Ukrainian leader ordered his forces to stop military operations for a week against pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine. The plan then envisions joint security patrols, and new local and parliamentary elections. Russia is dismissing the plan, saying there's no offer of talks with the insurgents.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is expecting Iraq to put it in writing -- that the military advisory teams that President Barack Obama is sending to Iraq will have some legal protections. Iraq had refused to agree to those protections for a much larger number of U.S. troops that the administration had proposed leaving in Iraq after the combat mission ended in December of 2011. The protections would ensure that U.S. troops would be subject to the U.S. military justice system, and not the Iraqi judicial system.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Three American troops and a military dog have been killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan. NATO hasn't identified the three service members killed in today's bombing, but a U.S. defense official said they were Americans.
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City says it has reached a settlement with five men who were falsely convicted in the vicious 1989 rape and beating of a Central Park jogger. A city official, speaking on condition of anonymity, put the amount at $40 million. And the city comptroller says that number is "in the ballpark." The deal needs approval from a federal judge. Five black and Hispanic defendants were convicted in the attack on a white woman who had gone for a run in the park. They served six to 13 years in prison before their convictions were thrown out in 2002 because of evidence connecting someone else to the attack.
ATLANTA (AP) — At least 52 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are taking antibiotics as a precaution because of a lab safety problem that may have accidentally exposed them to anthrax. The federal agency today raised its estimate of potentially-affected workers from 75 to 86. And it says the number could rise again as additional workers such as janitors and support staff come forward.
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