News 1st Look: 36 die in crash after funeral in India

Sunday, December 26, 2010

36 die in crash after funeral in India

36 die in crash after funeral in India
Report: Mossad chief to apologize over forged passports
Report: Moscow rally urges end to ethnic violence
U.S. tourists killed in Egypt bus crash
Palestinian officials: Israeli forces kill two militants
China raises benchmark interest rates
Israel says it will not apologize to Turkey over flotilla incident
Female suicide bomber blamed for deadly Pakistan blast
Supply truck headed for Afghanistan attacked
Turkish engineers kidnapped in Afghanistan

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 01:05 PM PST

Thirty-six people in northern India are dead and another 28 are injured following a collision between a bus and a vehicle carrying mourners from a funeral, an official news agency reported Sunday, citing local officials.

Report: Mossad chief to apologize over forged passports

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 02:02 PM PST

The new chief of Israel's secret intelligence service is said to be preparing to apologize for the agency's suspected use of forged British passports in an operation that led to the assassination of a founding member of Hamas' military wing in January, according to a report in the UK newspaper the Telegraph.

Report: Moscow rally urges end to ethnic violence

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 03:56 PM PST

Hundreds of Russians hit the streets of Moscow on Sunday, rallying to promote peace and equality in response to a rash of ethnic violence and unrest, state-run media reported.

U.S. tourists killed in Egypt bus crash

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 05:54 PM PST

Eight American tourists were killed in a traffic accident Sunday while on a tour bus in Aswan, Egypt, officials said. The bus slammed into a parked dump truck.

Palestinian officials: Israeli forces kill two militants

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 06:07 AM PST

Israeli forces killed two militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning, Palestinian officials said.

China raises benchmark interest rates

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:19 AM PST

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Israel says it will not apologize to Turkey over flotilla incident

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:21 PM PST

Despite overtures from Turkey, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Sunday that his country will not apologize to Turkey over the deaths of nine Turkish activists aboard an aid flotilla headed for Gaza in May.

Female suicide bomber blamed for deadly Pakistan blast

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 03:39 PM PST

A young, female suicide bomber was behind a blast in Pakistan that killed at least 46 people and injured 105 others at a food distribution point, an official said Sunday.

Supply truck headed for Afghanistan attacked

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 10:02 AM PST

Unidentified gunmen on motorbikes opened fire and killed the driver of a supply truck for NATO troops in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, a senior government official told CNN.