Derailment in Japan Leaves 90 Dead and 456 Injured
Investigators say the lead car became airborne at high speed on a curve near a utility pole, possibly struck by the pole and crashed into an apartment building. Police recovered belongings of the 23 year old driver Ryujira Takami, who remains missing. Authorities suspect track stones were laid to cause the crash. In separate regional reports a radical suspect in Spain faces trial over Sept 11 style plots, and in Togo Faure Gnassingbe secures a presidential victory amid post election clashes leaving over 100 injured. US embassy observers report no immediate findings.
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Kyodo
Ryujira Takami
Takami
West Japan Railway Co
Togo
Faure Gnassinghe
Bob Akitani
Electoral Commission
Kissem Thhangal Walla
Lome
U.S
State Department
Adam Erefi
Last Syrians Leave Lebanon at Masnaa Border
Lebanon marks end of Syrian domination as last troops depart in a quiet ceremony. Officials from both sides praise cooperation while noting continued Syrian influence in Lebanese politics and security ahead of elections amid regional pressure. The exit follows decades of intervention starting in 1976 and comes with calls from the U.N. and the United States to curb Syrian influence and disarm Hezbollah.
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Daidet Yabous
Lebanon
Syria
Masnaa
Beirut
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Damascus
Ceremo
Michel Suleiman
Israel
Suleiman
Shaaban al-Ajami
Majdal Anjar
Hussein Mansour
Bal-Lot
Emile Lahoud
Najib Mikati
Bashar Assad
U.S
U.N
Hezbollah
Explorers retrace 1909 North Pole feat with record entry
A four man and one woman team led by British explorer Tom Avery reached the North Pole in 37 days, beating Peary’s 1909 pace by 4 hours 49 minutes. They used Canadian Inuit huskies and replica wooden sleds, planted Nunavut and international flags, and faced temperatures to minus 49 degrees F with shifting ice.
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Robert E. Peary
Tom Avery
Cape Columbia
Nunavut
Canada
Greenland
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Matthew Henson
Pole
Barclays Capital
Barclay’s Capital
Prince’s Trust
Andrew Gerber
McNair
Pennsylvania
George Weiss
Sufolk
England
Hugh Dale-Harris
Matty McNair
George Wells
Robert E Peary
Afghan opium harvest undercuts crackdown in Kandahar
Afghan farmers have begun harvesting this year’s opium crop despite a US crackdown. Karzai says cultivation is down 30 to 40 percent, but UN experts warn of shifts to remote areas and a potential rebound. In New York, Bashir Noorzai was charged with smuggling over $50 million in heroin.
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Hamid Karzai
United States
Kandahar
Mohammed Daoud
Taliban
Karzai
U.N
Britain
U.S
New York
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Noorzai
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