UPDATE: 2:35PM EST - May 8There is to be an official probe into the explosion at a sub-station in Essex, England yesterday." A member of staff working for EDF Energy died at the sub-station in Chelmsford on Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters were called to Bishop Hall Lane in...
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Though a cease-fire was declared by ETA in 2006 following the Madrid bombings, the group has kicked up its campaign of violence again with persistent bombings. ETA has now killed more than 825 people since the1960s...
"China has condemned protests in London that marred the relay of the Olympic torch as Paris police prepare to cordon the torch away from pro-Tibet activists. "We strongly condemn this vile behaviour," China's state media said on Monday, following protests in the British...
"Security forces have launched a search for two journalists from the US television network CBS who were kidnapped at gunpoint from their hotel in the Iraqi city of Basra.
An interior ministry spokesman said there was an intensive operation under way to find the two...
"RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: The opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday as she campaigned to become prime minister of Pakistan for a third time.
Witnesses said a man fired at Bhutto from close range, quickly followed by an explosion that the government said was...
Vancouver Police on a routine patrol approach a suspected drunk driver, only to be met by gunfire, resulting in a deadly confrontation which left the suspect dead. Channel M was present and filming during the...
"'LIFTING THE PALL'
PETRAEUS ON IRAQ WAR
'On a critical endeavor': Soldiers of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division on a cordon & search for weapons caches and insurgents in Baquba.
'On a critical endeavor':...
"A primary school in Dumbarton was evacuated following the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb nearby.
The device was found as work began at a new housing development in the Bellsmyre area of Dumbarton.
Staff and pupils at Aitkenbar Primary School were moved away and...
UPDATE: An additional suspect and one police officer are confirmed killed in today's explosion, as per the BBC: "A police raid
on suspected militants in the Moroccan city of Casablanca has set off
gunfights and suicide bombings that have left at least five men dead.
One of...
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A British bookmaker has closed its books on William
and Kate Middleton getting hitched on that day after it received a
number of bets the couple will tie the knot then."We've
taken a number of large bets -- one punter wanted to place a 1,000
pound bet --that the couple will...
" US troops have been checking vehicles in Baghdad's Sadr City Iraq's prime minister has ordered the lifting of all US and Iraqi military checkpoints around the Shia stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad. US forces put a security cordon around the area recently as they carried...