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A colorful festival in India turned into tragedy today when at least 145 worshippers, mostly women and children, were trampled or fell to their deaths in a panicked stampede at a religious shrine. Reuters has more:
“Hindu worshippers, chanting and singing hymns, were snaking up a 4-km (2.5-mile) trail leading to a hill-top temple in Himachal […]
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Cub reliever Chad Gaudin got credit for the win yesterday in the Cubs 8-5 victory over the Pirates even though:
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4:09pm UK, Monday August 04, 2008
A leading Chinese official has told Sky News the Olympics host is making “every effort” to ensure the Beijing Games is a safe one.
Police in Kashgar
It follows a grenade and knife attack this morning which claimed the lives of 16 policeman in the country, just four days before the event […]
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Morgan Freeman has reportedly been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after a car crash in the US.
The actor’s car is thought to have gone off a highway in Mississippi and flipped several times at around 11.30pm last night.
He is now in hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where a spokeswoman described his condition as “serious”.
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Two men rammed a truck into a group of jogging policemen and tossed explosives, killing 16 officers Monday in an attack in a restive province of western China just days before the Beijing Olympics, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
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KATMANDU, Nepal - The government detained 253 protesters, including Tibetan monks and nuns, who tried to stage a silent protest march in front of a Chinese visa office in Katmandu yesterday, days before the Olympic Games open in Beijing.
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Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked Thursday about the effusive praise from GOP Senator John McCain reported this week in The Chronicle, after he called her ”an inspiration to millions.”
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BAGHDAD, July 21 — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama conferred with senior Iraqi leaders, U.S. officials and military commanders Monday, as a spokesman for the Iraqi government declared that it would like U.S. combat forces to complete their withdrawal by the end of 2010.
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BEIJING, Aug. 4 — Two assailants crashed a dump truck into a paramilitary police station in the restive Xinjiang region Monday and tossed out two grenades, killing 16 policemen and wounding 16 others in an apparent terrorist attack, the official New China News Agency reported.
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BOGOTA, Colombia — Raúl Agudelo was a fearsome commander of Colombia’s largest rebel group, carrying out killings, kidnappings and extortions for more than 20 years. It was the only life he really knew. But going back to that life is now the last thing he wants to do.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sometimes, the things reporters do here in Africa can seem harrowing from afar. But up close, the experiences tend to be more Seinfeld than 24, more surreally mundane than high adventure. My recent eight-hour non-detention detention by Sudanese intelligence agents in Khartoum was a long, sleepy day of waiting and more waiting […]
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Lifting their arms in roller-coaster fashion, the soldiers whoop and then sing “Leaving on a Jet Plane” as their C-17 military plane takes off from Kuwait, bound for Baghdad, with a belly full of Indiana National Guardsmen.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — When they first started training, they ran barefoot in the hot sand, or in borrowed spikes or whatever clunky sneakers they could buy at their local market. With inadequate equipment and facilities, Sudan’s future Olympians raced in khaki shorts and jeans, in 105-degree heat, along dusty highways, in shallow rivers and up […]
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistan army helicopter flew to rescue frost-bitten survivors from the slopes of K2 on Monday, leaving behind at least 10 dead climbers and more missing after an ice fall near the top of the world’s second highest mountain.
“We sent a helicopter to rescue six people, including four Dutch and […]
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CHANDIGARH, India (Reuters) - At least 145 people, mostly women and children, were crushed to death under the feet of thousands of pilgrims in a stampede at a temple in northern India on Sunday, police said.
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Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who exposed Stalin’s prison system in his novels and spent 20 years in exile, has died near Moscow at the age of 89.
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The statement, whose authenticity could not be independently confirmed, was dated July 30 and signed by al-Qaida’s top Afghan leader, Mustafa Abu al-Yazeed. It was posted on an Islamic militant Web site where al-Qaida usually issues official statements and videos of its leaders.
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SEVEN years after anthrax-laced letters terrorised a jittery US, the chief suspect in the case has committed suicide before authorities could charge him with murder.
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At least 17 girl students were killed and another 27 injured when their three-storey dormitory collapsed in Balcilar, central Turkey, yesterday.
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