IRAQ - Twin car bombs kill 88
BAGHDAD, (Reuters): Two car bombs ripped through a busy market in Baghdad yesterday, killing 88 people in fresh violence of the kind that U.S. and Iraqi forces plan to target in a new offensive in the lawless capital.
CANADA: Pig farmer butchered victims - prosecutors
NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia, (Reuters): Accused serial killer Robert 'Willie' Pickton butchered his victims after death, and evidence will include heads that have been cut in half and other severed bones, prosecutors told a Canadian court yesterday.
IRAN - Gov't bars entry for 38 nuclear inspectors
TEHRAN, (Reuters): Iran has barred entry to 38 inspectors from the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), after hardliners demanded retaliation for U.N. sanctions imposed on Tehran last month, officials said yesterday.
BRAZIL - Air traffic controllers partly to blame for crash in Amazon
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP): Air traffic controllers share some of the blame for the midair collision over the Amazon in September that killed 154 people in Brazil's worst air disaster, a spokeswoman for the chief investigator said yesterday.
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