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BEIJING -- A second landslide has struck the village in southwest China where rescue workers have been looking for nearly 100 people buried over the weekend by a massive wave of rocks and debris.Chinese state radio says the latest landslide struck the village of Xinmo in Sichuan province at around 11 a.m. Tuesday.Government teams were ordered to
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Police officers patrol a wooded area on a road near Oppenau, Germany, July 13, 2020, amid a search for a 31-year-old man who dis
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MEDELLIN, Colombia Juan Esteban Cantor found a parking place, but it cost him his life.The body of the 23-year-old university student was pulled from the ruins of a collapsed 22-story apartment tower in the Colombian city of Medellin on Tuesday, the first of 11 missing people to be located, the mayor s office announced. Family members of people missing in a building collapse console each other as they wait for news of their missing relatives, in Medellin, Colombia, Oct. 14, 2013. AP Photo /Luis Benavides Officials apparently saved many lives by evacuating the 54-unit building on Friday after cracks appeared in the walls of the recently constructed buil
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Translating and interpreting those events unfolding on Capitol Hill took place in real time on television broadcasts around the world.In India, reporter Smita Sharma said, at first, she almost mistook the scenes for some new, fictional TV series: Frankly, it looked like I was watching maybe a mishmash of a Homeland season nine with a Designated Survivor, new series on Netflix, she said. You couldn t believe what you were saying asked correspondent Seth Doane. It was difficult to believe. A country of more than 1.3 billion people, India has an interest in this story: it s the world s most populous democracy. At the end of the day, we still look up to America for, at least, being a leader of democratic principles, Sharma said. And if it has weakened internally, then a lot of the other countries will find it even more justified to carry on and move away from democratic principles. Ana Paula Ordorica is a journalist in Mexico, a country whose populist president has not publicly condemned the assault on Capitol Hill. For us, it s very easy to understand a po
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SANAA, Yemen - Thousands of armed tribesmen clashed with government troops in the mountains Thursday, preparing to march into Yemen s capital to reinforce their brethren in nearly two weeks of fighting that has pushed the impoverished country to the brink of civil war.Artillery and gunbattles in Sanaa forced the closure of Yemen s main international airport, on the capital s outskirts. To the south, tribesmen attacked
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Chris McGrath/Getty Images Two-year-old Kakeru Ishikawa prays with his aunt Nobuko Arakawa March 10, 2012, at the gravesite of five of his relatives all killed when their home was swept away by the tsunami, in Rikuzentakata, Japan. The 9.0 magnit
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UNITED NATIONS -- More than 120 countries approved the first-ever treaty to ban nuclear weapons Friday at a U.N. meeting boycotted by all nuclear-armed nations.To loud applause and cheers, Elayne Whyte Gomez, president of the U.N. conference that has been negotiating the legally binding treaty, announced the results of the historic vote - 122 nations in favor, the Netherlands opposed, and Singapore abstaining
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Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi walks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to a meeting at the Ministry of Defense Sunday, July 15, 2012 in Cairo. Clinton was holding talks with Egypt s top military leaders, just hours after calling for them to help smooth the country s full transition to democracy. AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski CBS News CAIRO - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was given a hostile reception in Alexandria last night after she presided over the reopening of the American Consulate in Egypt s second-largest city. Following the flag-raising ceremony, angry protesters pelted her motorcade but not her car with food, water bottles and shoes.It was an awkward end to a delicate trip of diplomacy intended
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LONDON -- An aircraft and helicopter collided in mid-air Friday northwest of London and a number of casualties were reported, authorities said.Fire and ambulance services rushed to the scene at 12:06 p.m. GMT 7:06 a.m. EST near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. Two ambulance crews, two ambula
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Military commanders have told President Bush they are prepared to execute a troop surge that would put about 9,000 soldiers and Marines into Iraq with another 11,000 on alert outside the country, reports CBS News national security correspondent David Martin. Two Army brigades mdash; about 7,500 troops mdash; would go into Baghdad. Two Marine battalions mdash; about 1,500 troops mdash; would be sent into the western province of al Anbar, heartland of
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BANGKOK-- Myanmar security forces killed hundreds of men, women and children during a systematic campaign to expel Rohingya Muslims, Amnesty International said in a new report Wednesday that calls for an arms embargo on the country and criminal prosecution of the perpetrators.More than 580,000 refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when Myanmar security forces began a scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya villages. Myanmar s gov
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Family members of a 16-year-old Florida prep school student who trekked to Iraq on a journey motivated by a self-proclaimed sense of responsibility and journalistic zeal on Saturday anxiously awaited his return home from the Middle East.Farris Hassan was in Kuwait, after being evacuated from Baghdad by the U.S. military. In a phone call home, Hassan told them was scheduled to leave Kuwait city on a Monday flight, his sister, Shehnaz Hassan said. The family hoped to secure an earlier flight on Sunday, but they declined to provide further details.The ambitious teen mdash; who arrived in the Iraqi capital with little more than $1,800, an Arabic phrase book and good intentions mdash; seems unaware of the international media stir he s caused, his sister
kubki stanley said. He said he was OK. He asked me what was going on. He saw my mom and brother on TV. He had no idea there was so much commotion going on, Shehnaz said.Hassan left Baghdad on Friday, signaling the end of a dangerous journey to Iraq that was full of twists and turns. The high school junior took the trip from Florida to Kuwait without telling his parents. He has been the subject of national news stories since he contacted The Associated Press Baghdad bureau Tuesday and related his globe-trotting odyssey.Hassan, who attends Pine Crest School mdash; a private sc
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Prime Minister Tony Blair s powerful communications chief, Alastair Campbell, will resign, Blair s office said Friday.No date was set for Campbell s departure and his successor was not named, the prime minister s office said.CBS News Correspondent Steve Holt reports the resignation of Blair s most important aide would seem to be a staggering blow to a prime minister suffering the worst crisis of his career. The failure of search teams to find weapons in Iraq, and the questions about the veracity of the case for war, have sent Blair s approval ratings
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U.S.-mediated talks aimed at forging an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire ended without agreement Friday, but another meeting was agreed on for early next week, Israeli security sources said.The talks were preceded by a third Palestinian suicide bombing. U.S. officials have put pressure on both sides to show restraint and give the truce mission of Washington
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