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Humane prison awaits Norwegian mass killer

Jul 29, 2011

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is likely to serve his jail term in one of the world’s best equipped and most “humane” prisons, according to news reports.Breivik has been accused of a shooting that killed 68 people and a bomb explosion that killed eight in Oslo.With rehabilitation instead of punishment being a guiding principle, the Norwegian penal system is the cushiest in the worl
U.S. ambassador reunites with former student after 35 years

World NewsJul 28, 2011

U.S. Ambassador Kathleen Stephens said Thursday that she was recently reunited with one of the students she taught in the 1970s as a Peace Corps volunteer, describing the meeting as another reminder of her “unbreakable” ties with South Korea. Kathleen StephensThe meeting between Stephens and the student, Lee Chul-won, who becomes a colonel in the South Korean Army, took place after Lee’s wife spo
U.S. Senate confirms Locke as ambassador to Beijing

World NewsJul 28, 2011

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke won unanimous Senate confirmation Wednesday as ambassador to Beijing, becoming the first Chinese American to hold the prestigious and difficult diplomatic post.Locke, whose grandfather came from China to the United States on a steamboat, promised during his smooth confirmation hearings to be a forceful advocate for human rights and for U
China defends carrier plans amid neighbors’ concern

World NewsJul 28, 2011
Murder of mayor deals new setback to Karzai

World NewsJul 28, 2011

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) ― An assassin struck at the heart of President Hamid Karzai’s political machine in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing the mayor of Kandahar with an exploding turban and deepening a power vacuum in the Taliban’s main stronghold.The slaying of Mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi was the third killing of a Karzai associate in a little more than two weeks. The attacks have jeopa
‘Putin considers Kremlin return’

World NewsJul 28, 2011
Norway agrees security review after killings

World NewsJul 28, 2011
China says equipment flaws caused train crash

World NewsJul 28, 2011

BEIJING (AP) -- Design flaws in signal equipment and human error caused last weekend's high-speed train crash in China that killed at least 39 people, a railway official said Thursday.The preliminary finding comes in the face of public anger about the government's handling of the accident near Wenzhou in Zhejiang province. Relatives of the victims in Saturday's train crash talk to the media as the
Man charged of sexual assault of 93-year-old

World NewsJul 28, 2011

An American nursing assistant had been charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault of a 93-year-old patient suffering from dementia.Robert Phelan Jr., 56, was allegedly witnessed by another staff member while having inappropriate contact with the victim at Lexington Health Care, Illinois. Phelan had been working at the facility for less than two weeks.Aggravated criminal sexual assault is refe
Man who can guess time could carry Olympic torch

Jul 28, 2011

Fans dedicated a Facebook group to a local celebrity to make him the town’s official Olympic torch bearer, according to reports.　 Gordon Roberts from Bournemouth, England, is getting the support of 4,500 people who plan to nominate him as their “inspirational member of the community.” With his trademark white beard, scarf and jacket, the 82-year-old is known as a “big part of the comm
Man charged of sexual assault of abusing 93 years-old

World NewsJul 28, 2011

An American nursing assistant had been charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault of a 93-year-old patient suffering from dementia.Robert Phelan Jr., 56, was allegedly witnessed by another staff member while having inappropriate contact with the victim at Lexington Health Care, Illinois. Phelan had been working at the facility for less than two weeks.Aggravated criminal sexual assault is refe
'Knights Templar' says no Norway tie: AP

World NewsJul 28, 2011

LONDON (AP) _ Before he carried out the attacks that killed scores of people in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik wrote of his allegiance to the Knights Templar, which he described as a secret society created to carry out a crusade against Islam in Europe.While law enforcement agencies said they had never heard of the group, a man named Paul Ray, who writes an anti-Muslim blog called ``Lionheart,'' h
Delay in debt plan vote stokes uncertainty

World BusinessJul 27, 2011
Ostrich meat fails to ease North Korea food shortage

World NewsJul 27, 2011

SUNAN, North Korea (AP) ― It’s an unlikely sight: hundreds of ostriches, a bird native to sunny Africa, squatting and squabbling in the morning chill on a sprawling farm in North Korea. Even stranger: In winter, some wear quilted vests.Built on the heels of a 1990s famine, the ostrich farm was a bold, expensive investment that the state hoped would help feed its people and provide goods to export.
Morocco plane crash kills 80, no survivors

World NewsJul 27, 2011

RABAT (AFP) ― A military transport plane slammed into a mountainside in bad weather in southern Morocco on Tuesday, killing all 80 people on board, hospital and military sources said.King Mohammed VI announced three days of national mourning following the crash, one of the deadliest in the country’s history.The army said 78 people were killed on the spot after the Hercules C-130 crashed on the edg