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Norway gunman should have killed himself instead: father

World NewsJul 26, 2011

OSLO, July 25, 2011 (AFP) - Anders Behring Breivik, who admitted carrying out last week's twin attacks in Norway, should have committed suicide instead of killing 76 people, his estranged father told TV2 in an interview shown Monday."I think that ultimately he should have taken his own life rather than kill so many people," Jens Breivik said in the interview recorded in Cournanel in the south of F
Woman stabbed to death over noisy party

Jul 26, 2011

A British man irritated by noise from a late night party allegedly stabbed a female guest to death and injured a male attendee.Heather Dyer, 22 years old, was declared dead at the scene on Saturday 2:30 a.m. (local time) after being stabbed in the chest twice. The other victim is currently in hospital in a serious condition.The murderer, whose name has not been released, was furious about the nois
Norway gunman claims active network at court hearing

World NewsJul 26, 2011

OSLO (AFP) -- More than 100,000 Norwegians thronged central Oslo on Monday in a vigil for the victims of a last week's attacks hours after the suspect told a court hearing that he had an active network of accomplices.People comfort each other outside Oslo City Hall as they participate in a "rose march" in memory of the victims of Friday's bomb attack and shooting massacre Monday July 25. (AP-Yonh
U.S. parties unveil competing debt plans

World NewsJul 26, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans and Democrats upped the ante Monday by putting forth competing plans to resolve the high stakes fight over slicing away at the government deficit and increasing the U.S. borrowing limit, but no compromise was in sight with time running out to prevent a potentially catastrophic default in barely a week.President Barack Obama planned to address the nation at 9 p.m. Mo
Norway mass killer wants court time to explain acts

World NewsJul 25, 2011
No endgame in sight as U.S. default looms

World NewsJul 25, 2011
Brutal attack tests openness of Norwegian society

World NewsJul 25, 2011
Aid reaches Somalia

World NewsJul 25, 2011

NAIROBI (AFP) ― The International Red Cross said Sunday it had handed out 400 tons of food in drought-hit parts of rebel-held southern Somalia as the UN prepares to host emergency talks on the crisis in the region.“The distribution took place in the Bardera district and passed without incident, with the knowledge of the authorities and the recipients,” ICRC spokesman Yves Van Loo told AFP in Nairo
Afghan transition tempered by violence

World NewsJul 25, 2011

Fierce fighting serves as reminder that war is not over in some partsSIRAQULA, Afghanistan (AP) ― Shortly after the call to prayer resounded over the harvested poppy fields near Salaam Bazaar, two Taliban commanders were heard on their radios asking how their forces were doing.The number of Taliban fighters who respond varies, but in the last month a squad of U.S. Marines at a small patrol base he
Chavez will run for reelection in 2012

World NewsJul 25, 2011
Couples wed on first day gay marriage is legal in New York

World NewsJul 25, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) ― Hundreds of gay couples dressed in formal suits and striped trousers, gowns and T-shirts recited vows in emotion-choked voices and triumphantly hoisted their long-awaited marriage certificates on Sunday as New York became the sixth and largest U.S. state to recognize same-sex weddings.Couples began saying “I do” at midnight from Niagara Falls to Long Island, though New York City be
Moody's downgrades Greece debt rating

World BusinessJul 25, 2011

PARIS (AFP) -- Moody's Investors Service said on Monday it had downgraded Greece's sovereign debt rating by three notches, leaving it one away from default, and warned creditors would lose out from the latest bailout deal.The ratings agency said in a statement that it has "downgraded Greece's local- and foreign-currency bond ratings to Ca from Caa1 and has assigned a developing outlook to the rati
Norway suspect: Serbia bombing 'tipped the scales'

World NewsJul 25, 2011

OSLO, Norway (AP) _ Anders Behring Breivik said he was a boy when his life's path began to turn. It was during the first Gulf War, when a Muslim friend cheered at reports of missile attacks against American forces.``I was completely ignorant at the time and apolitical but his total lack of respect for my culture (and Western culture in general) actually sparked my interest and passion for it,'' th
Afghan insurgents hang 8-year-old boy

World NewsJul 25, 2011

KABUL (AP) -- Insurgents in southern Afghanistan hanged an 8-year-old boy six days after they abducted him, the Afghan government said Sunday.The boy's captors had demanded that his father, a police officer, supply them with a police vehicle and he refused, said a statement from President Hamid Karzai's office. The militants hanged the boy Friday in Helmand province's Gereshk district.``President
Toddler found alive in rubble of China train crash

World NewsJul 25, 2011

BEIJING (AP) -- A toddler was rescued about 21 hours after a crash involving two high-speed trains in eastern China killed at least 35 people and injured more than 190 others, state media reported.Rescuers carry an injured child to sent her to a hospital at the site where a high-speed train crash occurred in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang province, on Sunday. (AP-Yonhap News)Xinhua News Agency sai