Blast derails train, 60 injured
MOSCOW (AP):Prosecutors opened a terrorism investigation yesterday into a bomb explosion that threw an express train on one of Russia's major passenger routes off the tracks, injuring 60 people. There were no reported claims of responsibility for the blast...
Police capture suspected guerrilla drug traffickers
LIMA, (Reuters): Peruvian police have arrested at least 20 suspected Shining Path guerrillas linked to cocaine trafficking in a series of jungle raids, the Government said yesterday. More than 200 special forces agents took part in the sweeps on Monday...
Elizabeth Edwards hits out at Obama
NEW YORK (AP): Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, lambastes his rival Barack Obama as "holier than thou" on the Iraq war and accuses Hillary Rodham Clinton of failing to show leadership on health care and Iraq....
Turkey's Gul vows to be impartial as president
ANKARA (Reuters): Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul confirmed yesterday he would run again for Turkey's presidency and vowed toprotect the secular constitution separating state and religion if elected. Turkey's secular elite, including army generals..
As the largest democracy turns 60, proud Indians wish more was done
Sixty years ago, on this day, the subcontinent saw the birth of independent India, ending over two and a half centuries of the 'Raj' or the rule of the British Empire. The English left a land mass scarred, carving two nations, India and Pakistan...
175 killed in four car bombings in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP): Four suicide bombers hit Yazidi communities with nearly simultaneous attacks yesterday, killing at least 175 people and wounding 200 others, said Iraqi military and local officials in north-west Iraq. The death toll was the highest...
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