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House vote on Republican debt plan set for Thursday
Historic rains kill at least 44 in South Korea
Chinese premier appears at scene of deadly train accident
New al Qaeda leader slams Syrian president, praises protesters
FBI joins in search for missing New Hampshire girl
Tropical Storm Don churns toward Texas coast
Opening statements to come in Warren Jeffs sexual assault trial
Slow-moving tropical storm kills 27 in Philippines
Officials: Faulty signal led to deadly China train crash
Tropical Storm Don forms over southern Gulf of Mexico
NATO: Serbs set fire to building along Kosovo border
Strauss-Kahn accuser meets for 7 hours with prosecutors
Diplomatic hopes for Libyan peace appear to fade
House vote on Republican debt plan set for Thursday
Cargo plane feared lost off South Korea
Syrian opposition activists meet in Istanbul to plan strategy
Mexican officials: Details of prison massacre in Ciudad Juarez emerge
Justice to brief 9/11 families on hacking probe
Alex Trebek injured chasing a burglar out of his hotel room
Bolivia's president says he remains afraid of U.S. plot

House vote on Republican debt plan set for Thursday

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 11:46 PM PDT

A pivotal vote on House Speaker John Boehner's debt plan is scheduled for Thursday in the House of Representatives, a day after competing plans from Democrats and Republicans were subjected to a fresh round of criticism.

Historic rains kill at least 44 in South Korea

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 11:36 PM PDT

Massive downpours in South Korea -- the heaviest rains in a century -- are blamed for 44 deaths, the country's Central Disaster Relief Agency reported Thursday.

Chinese premier appears at scene of deadly train accident

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 11:17 PM PDT

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in the eastern city of Wenzhou Thursday, where the crash of a high-speed train had taken the lives of 39 people over the weekend, state media reported.

New al Qaeda leader slams Syrian president, praises protesters

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 11:13 PM PDT

The new head of al Qaeda describes Syria's president as "the leader of criminal gangs, the protector of traitors," and applauds anti-government protesters seeking to topple him, in a video that appeared on extremist websites this week.

FBI joins in search for missing New Hampshire girl

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:57 PM PDT

The FBI is assisting local law enforcement in investigating the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl who was last seen Monday night in her northern New Hampshire home, authorities said Wednesday evening.

Tropical Storm Don churns toward Texas coast

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 10:01 PM PDT

A tropical storm watch was in place for much of the Texas coast early Thursday as Tropical Storm Don churned into the central Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said.

Opening statements to come in Warren Jeffs sexual assault trial

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 09:58 PM PDT

Opening statements could come Thursday in the sexual assault trial of polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs in Texas, authorities said.

Slow-moving tropical storm kills 27 in Philippines

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 09:57 PM PDT

A tropical storm moving through the Philippines on Wednesday has killed 27 people and left more than 60 injured or missing, according to a government disaster response agency.

Officials: Faulty signal led to deadly China train crash

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 09:50 PM PDT

Design flaws in the railway signal equipment led to Saturday's fatal high-speed train collision in China which left at least 39 people dead, the Shanghai railway bureau said Thursday, in quotes carried by the state-run Xinhua agency.

Tropical Storm Don forms over southern Gulf of Mexico

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 09:40 PM PDT

Tropical Storm Don has developed over the southern Gulf of Mexico with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.

NATO: Serbs set fire to building along Kosovo border

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 09:14 PM PDT

A demonstration along the Kosovo-Serbian border turned violent Wednesday when ethnic Serbs set fire to a customs building, and attacked NATO and EU police, authorities said.

Strauss-Kahn accuser meets for 7 hours with prosecutors

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 08:51 PM PDT

The hotel maid who has accused the then-head of the International Monetary Fund of sexually assaulting her met Wednesday with prosecutors for at least seven hours.

Diplomatic hopes for Libyan peace appear to fade

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 08:11 PM PDT

Britain's decision to expel Moammar Gadhafi's diplomats from London ensures that the bloody test of wills in Libya will grind on for weeks, if not months to come.

House vote on Republican debt plan set for Thursday

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 08:07 PM PDT

Competing Democratic and Republican plans to reduce federal deficits and raise the debt ceiling were subjected to a fresh round of criticism Wednesday, as signs of disarray emerged in a House Republican caucus split between unhappy conservatives and a leadership struggling to maintain party unity.

Cargo plane feared lost off South Korea

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 08:03 PM PDT

South Korea's Coast Guard says it has found parts of a missing Asiana Airlines cargo plane off the southern island of Jeju but has not located the aircraft itself.

Syrian opposition activists meet in Istanbul to plan strategy

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 07:40 PM PDT

Approximately 200 Syrian opposition activists met Wednesday in Istanbul for the first of four planned days of workshops intended to coordinate their efforts against the Syrian regime.

Mexican officials: Details of prison massacre in Ciudad Juarez emerge

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 07:29 PM PDT

Officials in Ciudad Juarez are looking for the perpetrators of a prison massacre, as details emerge about the late Monday incident that left 17 inmates dead.

Justice to brief 9/11 families on hacking probe

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 07:05 PM PDT

Families of victims of the 9/11 attacks will meet with top Justice Department officials in late August to discuss whether any of their relatives' phone messages were hacked by employees of News Corp., likely participants said Wednesday.