Monday, July 23, 2012

12 killed in helicopter crash

12 killed in helicopter crash


12 killed in helicopter crash

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:47 AM PDT

A Brunei air force helicopter crashed, killing 12 military officials returning back from training, authorities in the southeast Asian nation said Saturday.

A Syrian town's 'Street of Death'

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 03:54 PM PDT

CNN's Ivan Watson finds that fighting in one Syrian town has left rubble, stunned survivors and not much else. Its main street is now known as "the street of death."

Cagefighter 'cures' terrorists

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:08 AM PDT

In the shadow of London's Olympic stadium, home of the Summer Games, is a hotbed of radical fundamentalism dubbed Londonistan, from where al Qaeda has already recruited for some of its most ambitious plots.

America and its gun history

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:03 AM PDT

What is it about Americans and guns?

What's working in Pakistan

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Pakistan can't get no respect.

Suspects arrested in scientist death

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:59 AM PDT

Iran has arrested suspects in connection with the July 2011 killing of a nuclear scientist, semiofficial media reported, citing Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi.

Filming secretly in Syria

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 07:07 AM PDT

A military hospital in the line of fire in Damascus as fighting spread. ITN's Alex Thomson reports.

Heaviest rain in 60 years kills dozens

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 07:20 AM PDT

What has been described as the "heaviest rain in six decades" left at least 37 people dead and raised criticism about Beijing's infrastructure and the government's response to disasters.

Olympian without a country

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:53 AM PDT

S. Sudanese marathoner, Guor Marila, a man without a country, gets the go ahead to participate in the Olympics.

Iran arrests suspects in 2011 killing of nuclear scientist

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:58 AM PDT

Iran has arrested suspects in connection with the July 2011 killing of a nuclear scientist, semiofficial media reported, citing Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi.

Source: Afghan policeman kills 3 Americans

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 04:57 AM PDT

An Afghan policeman opened fire at a training center in western Afghanistan on Sunday, killing three Americans, a police official told CNN.

Attacks across Iraq kill dozens, officials say

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 07:38 AM PDT

A series of attacks struck across Iraq early Monday, killing at least 44 people and wounding dozens more, Ministry of Interior officials said.

Final Fukushima report damns TEPCO

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:22 AM PDT

A Japanese government report Monday heaped fresh criticism on the operator of the nuclear power plant where a disastrous accident was set off last year by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the country.

Heaviest rain in 60 years kills dozens in Beijing

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 07:20 AM PDT

What has been described as the "heaviest rain in six decades" left at least 37 people dead and raised criticism about Beijing's infrastructure and the government's response to disasters.

Chinese dictionary refuses to turn 'comrades' gay

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:25 AM PDT

A newly published edition of an authoritative Chinese dictionary has come under fire for leaving out the homosexual definition of a word commonly used to refer to gay men and lesbians.

Argentine police officers accused of torture

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:30 AM PDT

An anonymous video that appears to show several police officers torturing young male suspects in Argentina has outraged many people in the South American country.

Who was the Bulgaria suicide bomber?

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:32 AM PDT

Bulgarian police have widened their investigation into last week's bombing attack on Israeli tourists to towns near the border with Romania, asking hotels for surveillance video that might have captured the suspected bomber.

Olympics head rejects silence for Israeli victims

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:36 AM PDT

The head of the International Olympics Committee again rejected calls for a moment of silence during the Games' opening ceremony to honor Israeli Olympians killed in a terror attack at the 1972 Games.

An Olympian without a country

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:37 AM PDT

Even though he will not compete in the London Olympics under his country's flag, South Sudan native Guor Marial basks with pride as the first athlete from the world's youngest nation in the global arena.

Cuban dissident dies in car crash

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:37 AM PDT

Prominent Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya Sardinas died in a car accident Sunday, his daughter Rosa Maria Paya told CNN. He was 60.

Indigenous groups, soldiers clash

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:47 AM PDT

Members of indigenous groups who say they are fed up with violence in southwestern Colombia clashed Tuesday with soldiers in what they said was an attempt to reclaim their territory.

Soldiers mutiny at army base

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:40 AM PDT

Two people were killed and one wounded in an apparent mutiny by soldiers at a base outside Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo, military authorities reported Sunday.

Kidnapped Olympic official released

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 05:51 AM PDT

The kidnapped president of the Libyan Olympic Committee was freed Sunday, a week after he was seized, the country's state news agency reported.

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