Partisanship over Iran deal has gone too far, Obama says

Partisanship over Iran deal has gone too far, Obama says

PANAMA CITY

President Barack Obama said Saturday that partisan wrangling over the emerging nuclear agreement with Iran and on other foreign-policy matters has gone beyond the pale, singling out two senior Republican senators for particularly harsh criticism. “It needs to stop,” he declared.

Obama complained that Sen. John McCain of Arizona had suggested that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s explanations of the framework agreement with Iran were “somehow less trustworthy” than those of Iran’s supreme leader.

“That’s an indication of the degree to which partisanship has crossed all boundaries,” Obama said in a news conference at the end of the two-day Summit of the Americas. “And we’re seeing this again and again.”

2 students charged in sexual attack on Florida beach

PANAMA CITY, Fla.

Two college students have been charged with sexually attacking a woman on a crowded Florida beach filled with spring-break revelers who apparently did nothing to stop it, authorities said.

Delonte’ Martistee, 22, and Ryan Austin Calhoun, 23, were arrested Friday and charged with sexual battery by multiple perpetrators, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. The Panama City News Herald reports both men are students at Troy University in Alabama.

The attack, recorded on a cellphone video, happened sometime between March 10 and 12 in Panama City, Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen said at a news conference. Authorities learned of the assault when police in Troy, Ala., discovered the video while investigating a shooting.

Cluster of HIV cases grows in Indiana

Health officials say that more than 100 people in southeastern Indiana have tested positive for HIV, an expansion of an outbreak that caused the state to declare a health emergency last month.

Health officials had said they expected the number of HIV cases in Scott County, about 30 miles north of Louisville, Ky., to rise ever since they discovered the problem. The spread of the virus, which causes AIDS, has been linked to the use of contaminated syringes and the painkiller Opana in the area.

Almost all of the confirmed HIV cases have been from Austin, a rural city of about 4,200 people.

2-year-old injured after falling into zoo’s cheetah exhibit

CLEVELAND

Officials say a 2-year-old boy is recovering after falling several feet into a cheetah exhibit at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.

Cleveland Fire Department spokesman Larry Gray told the Plain Dealer that the boy’s mother was holding him and another child when the boy slipped and fell into the pit Saturday. The child was rescued before firefighters and paramedics arrived, and was taken to a hospital.

The zoo’s executive director, Chris Kuhar, told WJW-TV that the boy’s leg was injured but the injury wasn’t caused by the animals. The newspaper described his injuries as minor bruises and bumps.

Rebel attack kills Saudi border guards

SANAA, Yemen

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have killed three Saudi border guards in a mortar attack, the Saudi Defense Ministry said Saturday, as a plane loaded with medical aid arrived in the rebel-held Yemeni capital.

An unidentified military official quoted in the Defense Ministry statement said the incident took place Friday in the Saudi border province of Najran.

Combined dispatches