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Italian police: Extreme-right shooter targeting shows no remorse

Sunday, 4 February 2018, 14:26 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

The extreme right-wing suspect in a shooting rampage that wounded six African migrants in Italy has demonstrated no remorse for his actions and was "lucid and determined, aware of what he had done,"...

Updated: 2 Amtrak workers killed, 116 hurt in South Carolina crash

Sunday, 4 February 2018, 14:23 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

A crash between an Amtrak passenger train and a CSX freight train in South Carolina on Sunday killed two people and injured about 70 others, authorities said. The Amtrak train was heading from...

Police: 5-year-old girl burned in voodoo ritual; 2 charged

Sunday, 4 February 2018, 07:56 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Two sisters tied down and burned a 5-year-old girl, permanently disfiguring her, in a voodoo ritual meant to rid her of a demon causing her to misbehave, police said. The women also threatened to cut...

Thousands march to demand more money for UK health service

Saturday, 3 February 2018, 15:50 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Thousands of people have marched through London demanding more government money for Britain's overburdened National Health Service. Trade unions and the main opposition Labour Party backed the...

Cape Town's water crisis highlights city's rich-poor divide

Saturday, 3 February 2018, 12:09 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

"Day Zero" is approaching as South Africa's showcase city of Cape Town prepares to turn off most water taps amid the worst drought in a century. Tensions among the four million residents are...

Trump taking tougher stance on Russia nuclear threat

Saturday, 3 February 2018, 09:37 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

The Trump administration on Friday announced it will continue much of the Obama administration's nuclear weapons policy, but take a more aggressive stance toward Russia. It said Russia must be...

Updated: 90 migrants feared drowned off Libyan coast

Friday, 2 February 2018, 11:25 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

The UN's migration agency says its partner agencies are reporting that 90 people are feared drowned after a smuggler's boat carrying mostly Pakistani migrants has capsized off Libya's...

New witnesses emerge in actress Natalie Wood's 1981 drowning

Friday, 2 February 2018, 08:51 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

New witnesses have emerged in the 1981 drowning of actress Natalie Wood, prompting investigators to deem it a "suspicious death" and name her former husband, 87-year-old actor Robert Wagner, a "person...

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