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Norway shooter traumatizes nation, up to 98 dead (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 03:10 PM PDT

Reuters - Norwegian police searched for more victims and a possible second gunman on Saturday after a suspected right-wing zealot killed up to 98 people in a shooting spree and bomb attack.

Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran: report (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:42 AM PDT

Reuters - An Iranian physicist was shot dead by a motorcyclist in Tehran on Saturday and Iran's student news agency ISNA quoted an unnamed police official as saying the man was a nuclear scientist.

At least 32 die in east China high-speed train crash (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Reuters - At least 32 people died when a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train in China's eastern Zhejiang province Saturday, state media said, raising new questions about the safety of the fast-growing rail network.

Bomb rocks troubled northeastern Nigerian city (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 03:23 PM PDT

Reuters - Several people were wounded in a bomb blast in Maiduguri on Saturday, a city in remote northeastern Nigeria which has been plagued by almost daily attacks from a radical Islamist sect.

Scores hurt in clashes, Egypt rulers promise democracy (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 02:13 PM PDT

Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt's ruling military council, meets with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Cairo May 3, 2011. REUTERS/Pool/Xinhua/Cai YangReuters - Scores of people were injured in Cairo on Saturday when thousands of demonstrators fought opponents with stones on their march to the Defense Ministry to urge their military rulers to speed up reforms, witnesses said.


A Killer in Paradise: Inside the Norway Attacks (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 10:25 PM PDT

Time.com - The need for community to gather and console one another in a moment of collective shock and pain, was Anders Behring Breivik's most insidious weapon in the arsenal he carried onto the tiny island Utoeya

Norway massacre suspect driven by "crusade" (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 05:08 PM PDT

Reuters - The man suspected of Norway's gun and bomb massacre had belonged to an anti-immigration party and opposed multi-culturalism, Islam and the "cultural Marxists" of the establishment, web postings, acquaintances and officials said Saturday.

Airstrike hits Libyan capital just after midnight (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 04:35 PM PDT

This photo taken in June 2011, shows Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade during a press conference in the eastern city of Benghazi, Libya. Hundreds of thousands turned out in support of Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade on Saturday, in a massive show of force by the 85-year-old leader who is seeking a controversial third term in office.(AFP/File/Gianluigi Guercia)AP - Airstrikes hit a southeastern area of the Libyan capital early Sunday.


6 presumed cartel members killed in Mexico battle (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 04:07 PM PDT

US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents simulate a raid in their Tactical Training Facility in Quantico, Virginia. DEA agents, along with other US authorities, have arrested nearly 2,000 people on narcotics charges in a 20-month sting targeting Mexico's La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, the US Justice Department said.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan)AP - Six suspected cartel gunmen were killed in an overnight clash with soldiers in central Mexico, the military said Saturday.


Senegalese opposition says president must go (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 03:25 PM PDT

A man wears a t-shirt showing a picture of Senegalese leader Abdoulaye Wade covered by a red 'X' during an opposition protest rally demanding that Wade renounce his bid for a third presidential term, at Place de l'Obelisque in Dakar, Senegal Saturday, July 23, 2011. Thousands turned out to protest Saturday, on the one-month anniversary of the massive June 23 demonstration which was the country's largest in recent memory and which emboldened the opposition, raising hopes that an Arab Spring-style democracy movement could spread south to sub-Saharan countries.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)AP - Senegal's opposition went ahead with a protest Saturday and thousands poured into a square to call for the resignation of the country's octogenarian president after a last-minute change to the venue in order to skirt a ban on demonstrations issued by the Senegalese government.


33 dead after Chinese bullet trains collide (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 04:53 PM PDT

Chinese firefighters work on the mangled carriage to rescue survivors in eastern China's Zhejiang province. At least 33 people have died after two high-speed trains collided in China on Saturday, causing two carriages to fall off a viaduct, the state media said.(AFP)AFP - Emergency workers battled on Sunday to rescue survivors from the mangled wreckage of two Chinese bullet trains involved in a high-speed collision which left 33 dead and nearly 200 injured, reports said.


China's most wanted fugitive in Beijing after extradition (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 03:27 AM PDT

Reuters - China's most wanted fugitive was arrested in the capital Beijing Saturday after being deported from Canada where he lived in exile for 12 years.

Asylum seeker cuts throat in Australia protest (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 11:44 PM PDT

This file photo shows security personnel patrolling the perimeter fence of the Villawood detention centre during a protest near Sydney, in 2010. Around 80 men from Afghanistan's Hazara minority are on hunger strike at another centre, remote Scherger detention centre, about 2,000 km from Brisbane, some of whom hadn't eaten or had water for more than 48 hours, according to a refugee activist.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - An asylum seeker cut his throat and dozens more were on hunger strike at an northern Australian detention centre, refugee activists said, taking immigration protests into their fourth day.


Norway attacks: Details emerge about Utoya camp shooting (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:17 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Norwegian Police confirmed the massive bombing in downtown Oslo this afternoon is linked to a shooting at a political youth camp west of the capital, though authorities declined to speculate on who was behind the attacks or what their motives might have been.

Why the Formerly Trapped Chilean Miners Are Suing Their Government (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 10:25 PM PDT

Time.com - The administration of President PiÑera championed the miners' cause during their ordeal underground, but it has done little to enforce safety regulations that could have prevented the disaster

The metamorphosis of 'Murdochgate' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 02:50 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The phone hacking scandal outraged Britain as a simple tale of exploitation by a News Corporation-owned tabloid. Now it appears to be moving into a more complex phase that promises to test just how much reform the UK system will abide.

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