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Witnesses point to 'massacre' by Egyptian army

Witnesses point to 'massacre' by Egyptian army


Witnesses point to 'massacre' by Egyptian army

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 10:26 AM PDT

Protesters who support deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi try to help a fellow protester recover from tear gas during clashes outside the Republican Guard headquarters in CairoA spasm of violence marks the bloodiest incident in a week of nationwide unrest.


Asiana crash captured on amateur video

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 10:08 AM PDT

Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 is engulfed on the tarmac after crash landing at San Francisco International Airport in San FranciscoA man recording video of planes landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday caught the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 on tape. Fred Hayes, who was walking with his wife along San Francisco Bay, told CNN he thought the Boeing 777, which was coming from Seoul, Korea, looked odd as it approached the [...]


Clashes by Egypt army, protesters kill at least 54

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 09:45 AM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian soldiers and police clashed with Islamists protesting the military's ouster of the president in bloodshed that left at least 51 protesters and three members of the security forces dead, officials and witnesses said, and plunged the divided country deeper into crisis with calls by the Muslim Brotherhood's political party for all-out rebellion against the army.

Governments condemn shootings in Egypt

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 08:23 AM PDT

A man sits by a body of a person killed when Egyptian soldiers and police opened fire on supporters of the ousted President Mohammed Morsi early Monday in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 8 , 2013. The violence left dozens people killed outside the Republican Guard military building in Cairo where demonstrators had been holding a sit-in, government officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo/ Ahmed Gomaa )Governments have reacted strongly to the clashes between Egyptian troops and supporters of the ousted president Mohammed Morsi that have left dozens dead.


Rescuers describe harrowing scene at plane crash

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 10:49 AM PDT

This image released by the National Transportation Safety Board Sunday, July 7, 2013, shows NTSB workers near the Boeing 777 Asiana Airlines Flight 214 aircraft. The Asiana flight crashed upon landing Saturday, July 6, at San Francisco International Airport, and two of the 307 passengers aboard were killed. (AP Photo/NTSB)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Firefighters encountered smoke, leaking jet fuel and passengers coming down on chutes when they arrived at the Asiana jet crash at San Francisco International Airport that killed two people and injured more than 180.


Asiana attendant describes dramatic evacuation

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 05:39 AM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The evacuation of Asiana Flight 214 began badly. Even before the mangled jetliner began filling with smoke, two evacuation slides on the doors inflated inside the cabin instead of outside, pinning two flight attendants to the floor.

For firefighters, answer to why is: Someone has to

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 09:52 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 30, 2008 file photo, Rio Bravo Hotshot firefighter Cole Cates clears manzanita while cutting a fireline on the Telegraph Fire near Yosemite National Park in California. In American culture, the firefighter is almost a mythic being and it is no different in the wildland firefighting community, where men and women armed with little more than axes, shovels and chain saws face mountainsides engulfed in flames. (AP Photo/Ron Lewis, File)PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — In his book, "Young Men and Fire," Norman Maclean attempted to convey what a crew experiences in the chaos of a mountain firestorm.


Immigration, student loans top congressional plans

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 08:44 AM PDT

In this June 25, 2013, photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., updates reporters on the pace of the immigration reform bill after a Democratic strategy session at the Capitol in Washington. Congress returns this week to potentially incendiary fights over nominations, disputes over student loans and the farm bill, and the uncertainty of lawmakers' political will to rewrite the nation's immigration laws. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress returned Monday to potentially incendiary fights over nominations, unresolved disputes over student loans and the farm bill, and the uncertainty of whether lawmakers have the political will to rewrite the nation's immigration laws.


40 still missing in deadly Canada oil train crash

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 10:34 AM PDT

LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) — Hazardous conditions hindered firefighters' attempts Monday to search for some 40 people still missing after a runaway oil tanker train exploded over the weekend, killing at least five people, officials said.

Friends testify voice is Zimmerman's

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 10:07 AM PDT

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Several friends of George Zimmerman's testified Monday at his second-degree murder trial that he's the one screaming for help on a 911 call —and not 17-year-old Trayvon Martin — in the latest testimony concerning the crucial piece of evidence.

Correction: Spitzer-Comptroller story

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 10:11 AM PDT

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In some versions of a story July 7 and 8, The Associated Press, relying on information from a person close to former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer who spoke on condition of anonymity, erroneously reported that Spitzer was speaking only to The New York Times about a planned run for New York City comptroller. Spitzer also spoke to other publications.

Condition of hospitalized Heinz Kerry is upgraded

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 09:42 AM PDT

FILE - In a Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 file photo, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, left, talks with his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry while watching election results at a hotel in Boston, in Boston. A hospital spokesman says Teresa Heinz Kerry is hospitalized Sunday, July 7, 2013 in critical but stable condition in a hospital on the island of Nantucket, Mass. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)BOSTON (AP) — The condition of Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, was upgraded from critical to fair Monday, a day after she was first hospitalized, a State Department spokesman said.


US, China discuss cybersecurity

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 10:36 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Chinese officials are discussing cybersecurity as the two world powers begin four days of talks to build cooperation and broach issues that divide them.

Slow landing speed of San Francisco jet probed

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 08:02 AM PDT

This image released by the National Transportation Safety Board Sunday, July 7, 2013, shows NTSB workers near the Boeing 777 Asiana Airlines Flight 214 aircraft. The Asiana flight crashed upon landing Saturday, July 6, at San Francisco International Airport, and two of the 307 passengers aboard were killed. (AP Photo/NTSB)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Investigators have determined that Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was traveling "significantly below" the target speed during its approach and that the crew tried to abort the landing just before it smashed onto the runway. What they don't yet know is whether the pilot's inexperience with the type of aircraft and at San Francisco's airport played a role.


AP IMPACT: MIA efforts risk 'total failure'

Posted: 08 Jul 2013 10:34 AM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, July 1, 2013, in Chapel Hill, N.C., Shelia Reese, right, holds hands with her mother Chris Tench while holding a portrait of Tench and her father Kenneth F. Reese, a soldier who is still Missing In Action from the Korean War. Tench, who was later remarried, has never known what happened to her husband. The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from "dysfunction to total failure," according to an internal study suppressed by military officials.


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