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Bodies fall in China train disaster clean-up

Jul 26, 2011

Public anger is mounting in China after a video of bodies falling from train carriages during a post-crash clean-up operation appeared online, the Daily Telegraph reported.The Chinese government is being criticized for trying to cover up the deadly train accident in Zhejiang province in the east of the country without a full investigation. The disaster left 43 people dead and 210 injured.Immediate
Norway gunman should have killed himself instead: father

Jul 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
Norway gunman claims active network at court hearing

Jul 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

Jul 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

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

Jul 25, 2011
Brutal attack tests openness of Norwegian society

Jul 25, 2011
Aid reaches Somalia

Jul 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

Jul 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

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

Jul 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
Norway suspect: Serbia bombing 'tipped the scales'

Jul 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

Jul 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

Jul 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
Police raise Norway massacre death toll to 93

Jul 24, 2011

OSLO (AFP) -- Police on Sunday said twin attacks by a crazed gunman in Norway claimed their 93rd victim, when one of those injured in Friday's bombing and shooting spree died in hospital."The total is now 93 dead," Oslo police spokesman Anders Fridenberg told AFP with the search for missing persons also ongoing both in government buildings hit by explosives and around the island scene of the gun r