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LVMPD Explorer killed by suspected impaired driver

03.08.2013 01:31
LAS VEGAS -- A Las Vegas Metro Police Department Explorer died on Thursday night after being struck by a suspected impaired driver. According to witness statements and evidence at the scene, LVMPD Explorer Angel Velasquez, 19, was traveling east on Sahara Avenue on a 2013 Honda Motorcycle when the...

Russian airport limbo ends for Snowden, new life begins

03.08.2013 00:51
After nearly six weeks in hiding at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, Edward Snowden walked calmly out of the transit area, ducked into a car and was driven away unnoticed. It was an anti-climactic end to one chapter of a saga watched by the world in which the American, wanted in Washington for...

Mexico rescues migrants crammed into truck in 'subhuman' conditions

27.07.2013 03:21
Mexican authorities say they've rescued 94 migrants who were crammed into the back of a hauling truck in "subhuman conditions." They came from as far away as Nepal and as nearby as Guatemala, paying thousands of dollars to get to the United States, authorities said. Seven of them were minors. They...

At least 19 killed as rebels, soldiers clash in Colombia

27.07.2013 03:19
- At least 19 soldiers were killed over the weekend in separate clashes with rebels in Colombia, the country's president said. President Juan Manuel Santos reported attacks by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, commonly known as the FARC, in Arauca and Caqueta. In the department of...

Mandela showing 'sustained improvement,' Zuma's office says

27.07.2013 03:03
Former South African leader Nelson Mandela still is in critical condition at a Pretoria hospital but "shows sustained improvement," the office of South African President Jacob Zuma said Monday. Mandela, who turned 95 last week, has been hospitalized with a lung ailment since June. Zuma, who...

Spain train crash: Could it happen in U.S.? Unlikely, experts say

27.07.2013 02:53
A high-speed passenger train derails as it rounds a curve, killing dozens and injuring scores more. That scene played out Wednesday in Spain, leading U.S. residents to ask, "Could it happen here?" The answer: Not likely, not now, if only because there's precious little high-speed rail in the...

Zimmerman juror to ABC: He 'got away with murder'

27.07.2013 02:48
juror in the George Zimmerman trial says she feels the man who killed Trayvon Martin "got away with murder." "George Zimmerman got away with murder, but you can't get away from God. And at the end of the day, he's going to have a lot of questions and answers he has to deal with," Juror B29 told...

'Pink Panther' escapes in armed Swiss prison break with fellow inmate

27.07.2013 02:40
Police in Switzerland hunted Friday for two inmates who escaped in a prison break staged by a pair of armed accomplices. The two prisoners who escaped from Orbe prison Thursday evening were named by the Vaud canton's police department as serial criminal Adrian Albrecht, 53, and Milan Poparic, 34,...

Egypt judge orders Morsy jailed; rival rallies leave 5 dead, 72 injured

27.07.2013 02:38
-- Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy has been ordered jailed for 15 days over accusations of collaborating with Hamas to get himself and other Muslim Brotherhood members released from prison in 2011 and of attacking police stations, Egyptian media reported Friday. The news came as large...

Opposition presses for weapons as Syria death toll tops 100,000

27.07.2013 02:36
-- Syria's opposition urged the United States to provide arms to rebel groups in a Thursday meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry in New York City. "The US commitment of military support ... is vital, but it needs to happen fast, and in a way that allows us to defend ourselves and protect...
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