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Norway mass killer wants court time to explain acts

July 25, 2011

No endgame in sight as U.S. default looms

July 25, 2011

Brutal attack tests openness of Norwegian society

July 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

July 25, 2011

Afghan transition tempered by violence

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

July 25, 2011

Chavez will run for reelection in 2012

July 25, 2011

Couples wed on first day gay marriage is legal in New York

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

July 25, 2011

Couples wed on first day gay marriage is legal in New York

Norway suspect: Serbia bombing 'tipped the scales'

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

July 25, 2011

Norway suspect: Serbia bombing 'tipped the scales'

Afghan insurgents hang 8-year-old boy

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

July 25, 2011

Toddler found alive in rubble of China train crash

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

July 25, 2011

Toddler found alive in rubble of China train crash

Police raise Norway massacre death toll to 93

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

July 24, 2011

Focus on Islamists let other extremists go under radar

STOCKHOLM (AFP) -- Security services in Norway and elsewhere in the region had recently shifted their focus to Islamist extremism, letting other forms of terror slip under the radar, experts said. While there had been initial fears that Friday's twin attacks might have been an act of revenge for Norway's participation in the campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya, everything changed when it emerged

July 24, 2011

Norway’s twin terror attacks kill 92

OSLO (AFP) ― The suspect in Norway’s twin attacks that killed at least 92 people admitted responsibility and said the carnage was long planned as the nation mourned victims of its worst violence since World War II.Anders Behring Breivik, 32, was arrested for allegedly shooting at least 85 people dead at a youth Labour Party meeting on an island and killing seven more in a car bomb explosion which

July 24, 2011

A boom in profits but a bust in jobs

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Strong second-quarter earnings from McDonald’s, General Electric and Caterpillar on Friday are just the latest proof that booming profits have allowed Corporate America to leave the Great Recession far behind.But millions of ordinary Americans are stranded in a labor market that looks like it’s still in recession. Unemployment is stuck at 9.2 percent, two years into what economis

July 24, 2011

Beyonce says Eastwood film makes her day

July 24, 2011

China’s No. 1 fugitive sent back after 12 years

BEIJING (AP) ― The fugitive at the center of a 12-year extradition court battle in Canada was returned Saturday to China, where he is accused of running a $10 billion smuggling ring that dealt in everything from cars to oil in a scandal touching the government’s highest levels. Chinese businessman Lai Changxing is escorted by Chinese authorities after he landed in Beijing on Saturday. (AFP-Yonhap

July 24, 2011

China’s No. 1 fugitive sent back after 12 years

Protest marches converge on Spain’s capital

MADRID (AP) ― Several hundred Spaniards angry about their country’s economic crisis protested on the outskirts of Madrid Saturday after spending about a month marching to the capital from their hometowns.The marchers set off from Barcelona and Bilbao in the north, Valencia in the east and Cadiz in the southwest on June 25. En route, they were joined by other people angry about Spain’s economic woe

July 24, 2011

Protest marches converge on Spain’s capital

Chavez returns from Cuba after chemo

CARACAS (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he soldiered through his first week of chemotherapy in Cuba with only minor discomfort but that a long process of additional treatment lies ahead as he confronts cancer.Chavez, 56, made an unannounced return to Venezuela late Saturday after spending a week in Cuba undergoing treatment. He strode away from the plane down a red carpet while troop

July 24, 2011

Norway police arrive 90 minutes after firing began

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Police arrived at an island massacre about an hour and a half after a gunman first opened fire, slowed because they didn't have quick access to a helicopter and then couldn't find a boat to make their way to the scene just several hundred yards (meters) offshore. The assailant surrendered when police finally reached him, but 82 people died before that.Survivors of the shooting

July 24, 2011

Train collision in China kills 33, injures 190

BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese bullet train crashed into another high-speed train that had stalled after being struck by lightning Saturday in eastern China, causing four carriages to fall off a viaduct and killing at least 33 people and injuring 190 others, state media reported.The first train was traveling from the Zhejiang provincial capital of Hangzhou when it lost power in the lightning strike and

July 24, 2011