London blackout hits 3000 businesses and transit
In central London outages affected more than 3,000 businesses as energy demand rose on a sweltering Thursday. EDF spokesman James Barber cited a highly unusual fault sequence at substations and underground cables. Oxford Circus station paused for 90 minutes disrupting 570,000 daily riders. Sporadic outages likely to continue toward Piccadilly Circus. Separately near the Afghan border Pakistani troops clashed with drug traffickers leaving five soldiers and six smugglers dead, two soldiers wounded in a roadside bombing near Miran Shah. Several more soldier deaths reported in North Waziristan.
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James Simpson
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Bramcha
Baluchistan
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Haroon
Dozens detained after two day protest at Dongguan toy plant
China Labor Watch says dozens of workers were detained after a two day protest over pay and conditions at the Merton Co. toy factory in Dongguan. The labor group says hundreds demonstrated from the dormitory Saturday to Sunday. Salaries start at 72 dollars a month with deductions for meals and lodging and potential pay cuts for high overtime.
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Gaza Strip airstrikes kill five Palestinians in latest raids
The Israeli army killed five Palestinians on Thursday including a 75 year old woman and a child amid Gaza Strip violence after a deadly two day sweep. A Palestinian was shot in Jerusalem after attacking police. An injured body found in the West Bank is believed Israeli. Israeli forces pulled from northern Gaza as aircraft hit a Khan Younis workshop. The offensive began after Hamas linked militants killed two soldiers and captured a third on June 25.
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Congo militia groups agree to disarm in Bunia elections
Two main militia factions in Ituri province Buch Congo agree to disarm in exchange for amnesty and army positions as violence unfolds in Kinshasa ahead of Congo's first democratic presidential election since 1960. The 10,000 strong Congolese Revolutionary Movement and the Cobra Matate militia vow to lay down arms, though no formal date is set.
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Ituri
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Mathieu Ngudjolo
Cobra Matate
Negudjolo
Jerome Delay
Democratic Republic of Congo
Jean-Pierre Bembacheer
Tata Raphael
Congolese Liberation Movement
Ex-prime minister Neptune freed amid frail health
Yvon Neptune, ex prime minister and Aristide ally, left prison Thursday after two years, transported by ambulance under heavy security. He spoke to reporters, denouncing a “machine of injustice,” while awaiting potential next legal steps and undergoing a medical checkup.
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Neptune
Rene Preval
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Aristide
Preval
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Dominican Republic
Up to 16 killed in Afghan helicopter crash
Afghan and U S troops reached the crash site in eastern Afghanistan where a Russian made Mi 8 helicopter owned by the government crashed killing up to 16 people including at least two Americans and several foreigners. Authorities say the wreckage likely came down in bad weather with no confirmed survivors.
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Associated Press
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Government warns of typhoon by text message
An AP dispatch from Shangha i describes Typhoon Kaemi approaching China's southeast as millions receive SMS storm warnings. Fujian province sent 18 million messages across five typhoons this year, with mixed reactions ranging from praise of fast alerts to complaints about delivery.
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