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Blast in capital kills 71: A soldier stands guard in front of burned buses aer an at- tack in Abuja on Monday. Twin blasts at a bus station packed with morning commuters on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital killed at least 71 people and wounding 124 in what appeared to be the latest attack by Boko Haram Islamists. The explosions rocked the Nyanya station roughly three miles south of Abuja at 6:45 a.m. and destroyed some 30 vehicles, mostly large passenger buses, officials and an AFP reporter said. nigeria AFP PHOTO/GeTTy IMAGes HOrLiVKa, UKraine » Ukraine's act- ing president urged the United Nations on Monday to send peacekeeping troops to eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian gunmen kept up their rampage of storm - ing and occupying local government of- fices, police stations and a small airport. The request came from a govern- ment that has proved powerless to rein in separatists in its eastern and southern regions, where insurgents have seized or barricaded govern - ment buildings in at least nine cities, demanding more autonomy from the new government in Kiev and closer ties with Russia. The Kiev govern - ment and Western officials accuse Russia of instigating the unrest and of deploying armed Russian agents in ci- vilian clothing to carry them out. In a telephone call with Secretary- General Ban Ki Moon, acting Presi- dent Oleksandr Turchynov suggested that an "anti-terrorist operation" be conducted jointly by Ukrainian secu- rity forces and U.N. peacekeepers, ac- cording to the presidential website. — The Associated Press UKraine Nation's president asks for UN peacekeepers in restive east WaSHingTOn » The calendar shows April 15, and you haven't even started on your federal tax return? Chances are, you don't need to fret. If you're due a refund — and about three-fourths of filers get refunds — April 15 isn't much of a deadline at all. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't like to talk about it, but penal - ties for filing late federal tax returns apply only to people who owe money. The penalty is a percentage of what you owe. If you owe nothing, 5 percent of nothing is ... nothing! But it doesn't make much sense to file late. If you are owed a refund, why wouldn't you want it as soon as possi - ble? And if you have unpaid taxes, the late fees add up quickly. "Most people with refunds are fil- ing early in January, February and March because they'd like the refund early," IRS Commissioner John Koski- nen said. "So we don't see an incen- tive and we don't see much experience of people waiting ... for us to keep the money longer." — The Associated Press inTernaL reVenUe SerVice April 15 not much of a deadline for taxpayers due refunds PerTH, aUSTraLia » Search crews sent a robotic submarine deep into the Indian Ocean on Monday to begin scouring the seabed for the missing Malaysian airliner after failing for six days to detect any signals believed to be from its black boxes. Meanwhile, officials were investi - gating an oil slick about 3.4 miles from the area where the last underwater sounds were detected, said Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency co - ordinating the search off Australia's west coast. Crews have collected an oil sample and are sending it back to Australia for analysis, a process that will take several days. Houston said it does not appear to be from any of the ships in the area, but cautioned against jump - ing to conclusions about its source. The unmanned underwater vehicle, the Bluefin 21, was launched from the Australian navy ship Ocean Shield, the U.S. Navy said. The autonomous sub can create a three-dimensional sonar map of any debris on the ocean floor. — The Associated Press miSSing jeTLiner Robotic submarine deployed in search for Malaysian plane neW YOrK » The Washington Post and The Guardian won the Pulitzer Prize in public service Monday for re- vealing the U.S. government's sweep- ing surveillance efforts in stories based on thousands of secret docu- ments handed over by National Secu- rity Agency leaker Edward Snowden. The Pulitzer for breaking news was awarded to The Boston Globe for its "exhaustive and empathetic" coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing and the manhunt that followed. The awards are American journal - ism's highest honor. The winning entries about the NSA's spy programs showed the gov- ernment has collected information about millions of Americans' phone calls and emails based on its classified interpretation of laws passed after the Sept. 11 attacks. The disclosures touched off a fu - rious debate in the U.S. over privacy versus security and led President Barack Obama to impose limits on the surveillance. — The Associated Press jOUrnaLiSm Post, Guardian win Pulitzers for NSA revelations nation+World news feed WaSHingTOn » Acongressionalreportre- leasedMondaypredictsslightlysmallerdef- icits both this year and over the coming de- cade, with lower spending on federal health care spending being the main reason. A Congressional Budget Office re- port said this year's deficit will now be $492 billion, $23 billion less than previ- ously estimated. Last year's deficit reg- istered $680 billion, the first year in President Barack Obama's tenure that the deficit was less than $1 trillion. The CBO estimated that over the com - ing 10 years the deficit will total $7.6 tril- lion, $286 billion less than projected in February. CBO predicts next year's defi- cit will be slightly lower at $469 billion be- fore commencing a steady upward march to the $1 trillion range by 2022. The biggest factor is $165 billion less in spending on health insurance subsi - dies for policies sold through exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act. Those policies so far are proving to be less costly than the CBO originally thought, mostly because of tighter man - agement of treatment options. — The Associated Press finance CBO: Deficits to decline in near future on lower health costs PLeaSanT grOVe, UTaH » Megan Huntsman was clear about what she did with six of her newborn babies. Huntsman, 39, told police she ei - ther strangled or suffocated them im- mediately after they were born. 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