Sunday, July 24, 2011

World News Briefs -- July 24, 2011



A Killer in Paradise: Inside the Norway Attacks -- Time

In a moment of national tragedy, people tend to huddle together. That instinct, the need for community to gather and console one another in a moment of collective shock and pain, was Anders Behring Breivik's most insidious weapon in the arsenal he carried onto the tiny island Utoeya, a wooded retreat in Tyrifjord lake about an hour's drive from Oslo.

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MIDDLE EAST

Iran denies attack targeted nuclear scientist.

Car bomb in Yemen's Aden kills 9 soldiers, injures 21.

Yemen on the brink of hell.

Thousands of Israelis protest high housing prices.


ASIA

ASEAN cites progress on N. Korea, South China Sea.

NKorean official to visit US on stalled nuke talks.

Fresh violence erupts in Pakistan's Karachi.

Tamil party wins elections in Sri Lanka's ex-war zone.

33 dead as Chinese bullet trains collide.

AFRICA

Captured Kadafi soldiers tell rebels they have doubts. Blasts rock Tripoli, NATO targets Gaddafi compound.

Three stories from Africa's drought, famine.

Italian ship attacked by pirates off Benin coast.

Protests against Egypt’s military rulers turn violent. Egyptian protest march descends into violent clashes.

EUROPE

Germany divided again as Europe grapples with euro bailout plan.

Volga River boat disaster death toll climbs to 119, Rossiya says.

Most Latvians vote for parliament dissolution.

Caucasus Islamists claim Russian Colonel's murder-website.

Sordid final hours of a troubled star: Amy Winehouse had 'bought ecstasy, cocaine and ketamine' on the night before tragic death.

AMERICAS

US Congress hopes to present debt package by Monday.



Chavez returns to Venezuela from Cuba after chemo.

Gunmen kill two Mexican cops who guarded U.S. diplomats.

Unraveling Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel.

ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS

Debt talks impasse leads to market fears.

Google+ pulls in 20 million in 3 weeks.

Geithner: 'Unthinkable' US would default on debt.

Credit Suisse unlikely to get help over U.S. tax probe.

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