Bus trip to church event kills and injures in Colombia
Local media report a bus carrying 40 to 50 children to a Fundacion church event caught fire. 26 children were found dead and about 10 were injured. The driver was present. mayor Luz Stella Duran provided the figures. In Cairo a separate rally attack injured four. El Sissi not present. In New York first responders visited the 9 11 Memorial Museum ahead of its opening. In Jerusalem Israeli Justice Minister Livni faced calls to resign after meeting Palestinian leader Abbas in London.
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Colombia
Fundacion
Caracol Radio
Juan Manuel Santos
Luz Stella Duran
Cairo
Abdel-fattah el-Sissi
el- Sissi
El-Sissi
Hamdeen Sabahi
New York
New National
Lower Manhattan
John Feal
Feal
Jerusalem
Tzipi Livni
Mahmoud Abbas
Livni
Israel
Abbas
London
Palestinian Authority
Hamas
Gaza Strip
AT&T to buy DirecTV in $48.5 billion deal
AT&T to pay $95 per DirecTV share in a mix of stock and cash, valuing the satellite operator at $48.5 billion and aiming to expand beyond mobile. The plan includes selling AT&T’s stake in America Movil to ease regulatory review and anticipates $1.6 billion in annual cost savings by year three.
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At&t
Directv
U.S
Comcast Corp
Time Warner Cable Inc
T-Mobile USA
Kevin Smithen
Macquarie
Carlos Slim
America Movil
Latin America
Randall Stephenson
Vodafone PLC
Floods threaten Kostolac and Nikola Tesla power plants
Serbian authorities battle floods from the Danube tributaries with soldiers and villagers reinforcing sandbag barriers around the Kostolac plant east of Belgrade. Rescue crews divert waters as 40 percent of Serbia’s power generation is cut and evacuation continues amid rising Sava waters.
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Kostolac
Serbia
Doboj
Bosnia
Balkan
Obrenovac
Belgrade
Aleksandar Vucic
Reuters
Mlava
Danube
Europe
Sava
EPS
Nikola Tesla
Tanjug
Dragan Jovanovic
California Fire Crews Subdue San Diego Wildfires
San Diego area wildfires largely contained after scorching 26 000 acres and destroying dozens of homes. Gov Jerry Brown warned of an unusually fierce fire season amid drought and extreme heat, with 1 350 statewide fires since January and a suspected fatality under investigation in Carlsbad.
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San Diego
Los Angeles
California
Jerry Brown
Carlsbad
Santa Ana
Mike Mohler
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Brown
ABC News
Turkey detains three in Soma mine disaster probe
A Turkish court ordered three suspects held on a provisional charge of causing multiple deaths after Soma's mine fire killed 301 people. Protests erupted as prosecutors questioned 16 others and five days after the disaster. Relatives mourned outside the Soma courthouse.
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Soma
Turkey
Tayyip Erdogan
Bekir Sahiner
Soma Madencilik
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