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Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines: Romney looks to fall campaign, doubts linger Myanmar's Suu Kyi poised to win parliamentary seat Protesters march in Fla. town where teen was shot Mega Millions winners are rich, but not THAT rich Stricken cruise ship repaired, heading to Malaysia Bieber, Berry slimed at Kids Choice Awards Tribune Broadcasting says no DirecTV deal Big comeback leads KU to 64-62 win over Ohio St Lin-surgery! Knicks guard done for regular season Kentucky off to title game, beats Louisville 69-61 Lawyer says U.S. blocks investigation of Afghan massacre Insight: Lifting the veil on Afghanistan's female addicts Fighting continues in Syria as West, opposition to meet Three winning tickets sold in record $656 million U.S. lottery Exclusive: Iran helps Syria ship oil to China: sources Euro zone agrees to boost rescue capacity Exclusive: Soros' son strikes out on his own Obama says enough world oil to crack down on Iran Security breach hits U.S. card processors, banks Exclusive: Brazil prosecutor plans wider offshore oil probe Romney looks to fall campaign, doubts linger Sat,31 Mar 2012 07:43 PM PDT Associated Press - Appearing ever-more confident in Wisconsin's primary, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney focused entirely on Democratic President Barack Obama during a campaign trip through this upper Midwestern battleground and predicted a victory that could effectively seal the nomination for him Tuesday. Full Story Top Myanmar's Suu Kyi poised to win parliamentary seat Sat,31 Mar 2012 08:22 PM PDT Associated Press - Myanmar held a landmark election Sunday that was expected to send democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament for her first public office since launching her decades-long struggle against the military-dominated government. Full Story Top Protesters march in Fla. town where teen was shot Sat,31 Mar 2012 01:22 PM PDT Associated Press - Protesters and civil rights leaders are vowing to continue marching until there is an arrest in the case of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Full Story Top Mega Millions winners are rich, but not THAT rich Sat,31 Mar 2012 08:15 PM PDT Associated Press - Congratulations, Mega Millions winners! You've just won the biggest lottery in history! Move over Bill Gates and Warren Buffett! Full Story Top Stricken cruise ship repaired, heading to Malaysia Sat,31 Mar 2012 05:42 PM PDT Associated Press - A cruise ship with 1,000 people on board that had drifted for 24 hours after being disabled by a fire was headed toward Malaysia following repairs and was expected to reach shore Sunday, the ship's company said. Full Story Top Bieber, Berry slimed at Kids Choice Awards Sat,31 Mar 2012 08:00 PM PDT Associated Press - At the 25th annual Kids' Choice Awards, the slime runneth over. Full Story Top Tribune Broadcasting says no DirecTV deal Sat,31 Mar 2012 10:50 PM PDT Associated Press - Tribune Broadcasting said there's been no settlement with DirecTV Inc. in their contract negotiations, which means DirecTV subscribers in 19 U.S. markets are losing access to certain programming. Full Story Top Big comeback leads KU to 64-62 win over Ohio St Sat,31 Mar 2012 09:57 PM PDT Associated Press - The tightrope walk rocks on for the Jayhawks. Full Story Top Lin-surgery! Knicks guard done for regular season Sat,31 Mar 2012 07:26 PM PDT Associated Press - Say so long to Linsanity. Full Story Top Kentucky off to title game, beats Louisville 69-61 Sat,31 Mar 2012 08:55 PM PDT Associated Press - Kentucky owns the Bluegrass State. Now it can concentrate on the rest of the country Full Story Top Lawyer says U.S. blocks investigation of Afghan massacre Fri,30 Mar 2012 05:00 PM PDT Reuters - The lawyer defending the U.S. soldier accused of murdering 17 Afghan civilians claims U.S. authorities are blocking his ability to investigate the incident. John Henry Browne, the lawyer for Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, said U.S. forces in Afghanistan have prevented his team from interviewing injured civilians at a hospital in Kandahar, and are allowing other potential witnesses to scatter, making it difficult to track them down. ... Full Story Top Insight: Lifting the veil on Afghanistan's female addicts Sat,31 Mar 2012 06:30 PM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Anita lifted the sky-blue burqa from her face, revealing glazed eyes and cracked lips from years of smoking opium, and touched her saggy belly, still round from giving birth to her seventh child a month ago. "I can't give breast milk to my baby," said the 32-year-old Anita, who like other women interviewed for this story, declined to give her full name. "I'm scared he'll get addicted She was huddled with other women at the U.N. ... Full Story Top Fighting continues in Syria as West, opposition to meet Sat,31 Mar 2012 05:32 PM PDT Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrians trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad meet their Western backers on Sunday while fighting has continued despite the Syrian government saying the year-long revolt is over. The political opposition remains divided and has not yet formally accepted a peace plan brokered by United Nations-Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan. Prospects of Western-led military intervention are close to zero, although Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal renewed calls on Saturday to arm the Syrian opposition, describing it as a "duty". ... Full Story Top Three winning tickets sold in record $656 million U.S. lottery Sat,31 Mar 2012 06:23 PM PDT Reuters - ATLANTA (Reuters) - The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history - a whopping $656 million - will be shared by the buyers of three winning Mega Millions tickets in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland - but their identities remained a mystery, lottery officials said on Saturday. A pre-dawn call alerted Denise Metzger, manager of a Motomart convenience store, to news from lottery officials that her store had sold a winning ticket in the tiny farming community of Red Bud in southern Illinois, with less than 4,000 residents, about 30 miles southeast of St. Louis. ... Full Story Top Exclusive: Iran helps Syria ship oil to China: sources Fri,30 Mar 2012 03:15 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Iran is helping its ally Syria defy Western sanctions by providing a vessel to ship Syrian oil to a state-run company in China, potentially giving the government of President Bashar al-Assad a financial boost worth an estimated $80 million. Iran, itself a target of Western sanctions, is among Syria's closest allies and has promised to do all it can to support Assad, recently praising his handling of the year-long uprising against Assad in which thousands have been killed. ... Full Story Top Euro zone agrees to boost rescue capacity Sat,31 Mar 2012 12:32 PM PDT Reuters - COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers agreed on Friday to increase their financial firewall to 700 billion euros to ward off a new flare-up of Europe's sovereign debt crisis, drawing a positive initial reaction from G20 partners and markets. The 17-nation currency area agreed to combine two rescue funds to make 500 billion euros of new funds available in case of emergency until mid-2013, on top of 200 billion euros already committed to bailouts for Greece, Ireland and Portugal. ... Full Story Top Exclusive: Soros' son strikes out on his own Sat,31 Mar 2012 01:01 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The upheaval within billionaire investor George Soros' firm continues as one of his sons is separating some of his personal fortune to manage it himself. Jonathan Soros, who stepped down in September from day-to-day management of Soros Fund Management LLC, plans to hire at least one of his father's key employees, say two people familiar with the situation. The two sources said Soros' son intends to set up his own family office - something the Soros Fund converted to last year - with the help of David Kulsar, currently chief risk officer for the Soros Fund. ... Full Story Top Obama says enough world oil to crack down on Iran Fri,30 Mar 2012 03:20 PM PDT Reuters - BURLINGTON, Vt./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Friday to forge ahead with tough sanctions on Iran, saying there was enough oil in the world market - including emergency stockpiles - to allow countries to cut Iranian imports. In his decision, required by a sanctions law he signed in December, Obama said increased production by some countries as well as "the existence of strategic reserves" helped him come to the conclusion that sanctions can advance. ... Full Story Top Security breach hits U.S. card processors, banks Fri,30 Mar 2012 06:29 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a major cyber intrusion at an Atlanta-based payment processor that could expose millions of MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover cardholders to fraudulent charges. Processor Global Payments Inc said on Friday it had found "unauthorized access" into its system early in March and notified law enforcement and financial institutions. ... Full Story Top Exclusive: Brazil prosecutor plans wider offshore oil probe Fri,30 Mar 2012 03:23 PM PDT Reuters - RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian federal prosecutor plans to expand his investigation of a November offshore oil spill in a field run by Chevron to areas operated by other companies in the country's main oil region. The probe will explore geological conditions and operational practices in the Campos Basin in an attempt to prevent future accidents, said Eduardo Santos de Oliveira, federal prosecutor for Campos, Brazil, the city for which the offshore oil province is named. ... Full Story Top

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