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Serial bombings in Mumbai kill 17, wound 131

World NewsJul 14, 2011

Indian militant group suspected for worst terrorist attacks in India since 2008MUMBAI, India (AP) ― Three coordinated bombings tore through the heart of India’s busy financial capital during rush hour Wednesday, killing 17 people and wounding 131 in the worst terrorist attack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai siege.Bloody bodies were strewn in the dirt of Mumbai’s crowded neighborhoods and mark
Karzai killing highlights Afghanistan’s ‘strongman’ problem

World NewsJul 14, 2011
Russia lays out ‘step-by-step’ approach on Iran

World NewsJul 14, 2011
U.S. begins drawdown of troops from Afghanistan

World NewsJul 14, 2011

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) ― The first troops to leave Afghanistan as part of the U.S. drawdown handed over their slice of battlefield Wednesday to a unit less than half their size and started packing for home.When the 650 members of the Iowa National Guard’s 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment arrived in Afghanistan in November 2010, bases didn’t have enough housing, translators were in
Parents on a trial as a pet python kills two-year-old daughter

World NewsJul 14, 2011

A mother is facing up to 35 years in jail for third-degree murder after her 2-year-old daughter was strangled by a pet python that escaped from its terrarium, the Daily Mail reported.Jaren Hare and her 34-year-old boyfriend, Jason Darnell, are charged with manslaughter and child abuse in the 2009 death of Shaianna Hare.Documents reveal the couple had not fed the 2.6-meter Burmese python for a mont
8-year-old Brooklyn boy is killed and dismembered

World NewsJul 14, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) _ An 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who got lost while walking home alone from day camp in his Orthodox Jewish neighborhood was killed and dismembered by a stranger he had asked for directions, and his remains were found stuffed in a trash bin and the man's refrigerator, police said Wednesday.The gruesome killing of Leiby Kletzky shocked the tight-knit Hasidic community in Borough Park, in
U.S. cautious about N. Korea's growing ties with western media

World NewsJul 14, 2011

With North Korea seen as opening its door wider to western media, the United States government maintained a cautious view Wednesday on the reclusive communist nation's latest gesture.The London-based news agency Reuters announced earlier this week that it was planning a video news service in North Korea in partnership with its propaganda news agency, KCNA.The move comes a couple of weeks after the
Europe considers Greek default, leaders to meet

World BusinessJul 13, 2011
Japan P.M.’s ratings at record low 15 percent

World NewsJul 13, 2011

TOKYO (AFP) ― Support for the cabinet of Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan has plunged to 15 percent, the lowest level since his center-left party took power in 2009, a newspaper poll said Tuesday.Seventy percent of voters want Kan ― under pressure over his handling of the March 11 quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ― to resign before parliament enters a recess late next month, said the Asahi Shim
Syria slams ‘provocative’ Clinton comments

World NewsJul 13, 2011

Beirut says Assad’s legitimacy is from Syrian people’s willBEIRUT (AP) ― Syria accused Washington of provocation Tuesday after the U.S. said President Bashar Assad had lost legitimacy and the American administration had nothing invested in him remaining in power.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued her strongest condemnation yet of Assad late Monday after mobs of hundreds of regim
Cyprus protesters enter presidential palace grounds

World NewsJul 13, 2011

NICOSIA (AP) ― Hundreds of angry marchers forced their way into the grounds of the Cypriot presidential palace in Nicosia late Tuesday, during a protest over a fatal blast at a naval base that killed 12, wrecked a key power plant and forced the resignations of the defense minister and top military chief.Protesters chanting “the people demand that the murderers are thrown in jail” were stopped at a
Cameron weakened by phone hacking scandal

World NewsJul 13, 2011

P.M.’s apparent closeness with News Corp. staff leads to doubts on leadershipLONDON (AP) ― He’s looked defensive. He’s looked outraged. He’s looked scared. But recently, Prime Minister David Cameron has rarely looked like he’s in charge.The British leader has lost his confident aura as his friendships with figures central to the tabloid hacking scandal hand his government its biggest crisis since
Millionaire’s public marriage proposal fails

Jul 13, 2011

A Korean millionaire in the U.S. who made a public proposal through a matchmaking firm failed to find a partner because his wealth was concealed. The construction businessman in his 40s, who had never been married, made a public proposal through Korean dating service Sunoo, last month.　The self-made man, surnamed Kim, graduated from an American university and has accumulated 50 billion won ($47 mi
Three children stuck in a car at 40℃ while mother goes shopping

World NewsJul 13, 2011

A British mother has been accused of leaving her three children unattended in a sweltering car for 45 minutes while she went shopping, the Daily Mail reported.Kelly Langham, 26, abandoned her three kids aged two, five and eight to go to a Cash Converter store as the temperature inside the car rose to 40 degrees Celsius.A witness reported that the youngest child was strapped into a car seat and was
Syria’s Assad has lost legitimacy, Clinton says

World NewsJul 12, 2011