Multiple global incidents span violence and arrests
Reports from Xinjiang China say three killed and 79 wounded in a train station attack as President Xi Jinping visits the region promising decisive action. In Ukraine pro-Russia separatists seize offices in Horlivka and Alchevsk signaling Kiev weakness. In Belfast Gerry Adams is questioned over a 1972 murder, while actor Bob Hoskins dies at 71 from pneumonia.
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Beijing
China
Xi Jinping
Xinjiang
Xinhua
Urumyi
Xinjiang Region
Horlivka
Ukraine
Kiev
Russia
Reuters
Alchevsk
Luhansk
Interfax-Ukraine
Bob Hoskins
Roger Rabbit
Hoskins
Pig bladder material prompts muscle regeneration in injuries
A small study led by Dr. Stephen Badylak shows pig bladder extracellular matrix implants can recruit a patient’s stem cells to form new muscle tissue at injury sites. Five male patients, including two U S soldiers, benefited under a Defense Department funded project published in Science Translational Medicine.
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Washington
U.S
U.S. Defense Department
Stephen Badylak
University of Pittsburgh
Journal Science Translational Medicine
Citizens vote amid violence in Iraq elections
Iraq held a parliamentary vote amid sectarian bloodshed as Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki seeks a third term. About 60 percent of voters cast ballots. counting could take three weeks with irregularities alleged by Sunni factions and reports of broken machines and blocked stations around Baghdad.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Nouri al-Maliki
Saddam Hussein
Maliki
Muhannad Hussam
Saleh Mutlaq
Hussam
Abu Ghraib
Yusifya
Latifya
CSX oil train derails in Lynchburg spills into James River
A CSX crude oil train derailed in downtown Lynchburg Virginia spilling oil into the James River. Fifteen cars derailed near 2:30 p.m. EDT forcing about 350 residents to evacuate with no injuries reported. Cleanup crews and inspectors from the NTSB FRA and EPA were dispatched as officials monitor air and water quality.
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New York
CSX Corp
Lynchburg
James River
CSX
Chicago
Virginia
Michael Gillette
North America
Lac- Megantic
Quebec
Philadelphia
Gillette
Chesapeake Bay
Kathy Bedsworth
Carriage House Inn Bed, and Breakfast
National Transportation Safety Board
U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Railroad Administration
Environmental Protection Agency
Officials dismiss Benghazi emails as political fodder
Washington officials rejected Republican claims the released emails prove a political spin on the 2012 Benghazi attack. Jay Carney said the emails referred to unrelated talking points about unrest in the Muslim world, not Benghazi, and noted Rice spoke from best available information at the time.
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Washington
Obama
U.S
Benghazi
Libya
Barack Obama
Jay Carney
Judicial Watch
Carney
State Department
Tom Fitton
Christopher Stevens
Susan Rice
United Nations
Cairo
Rice
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Sinn Fein
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Gerry Adams
Britain
Irish Republican Army
Adams
Jean McConville
IRA
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