Bus Train Collision Kills and Injures Dozens in Argentina
At the Mar del Plata coast near Dolores a bus collided with a train. Forty seven injured were hospitalized and nine remained in critical condition. Television footage showed a shattered windshield and scattered belongings along the crossing. Passenger Cecilia Demarco claimed the bus tried to beat the train despite warnings, though this could not be independently confirmed.
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Mar del Plata
Dolores
Buenos Aires
Cecilia Demarco
Noticias Argentinas
Chinese police foil Olympic terror plot and airplane incident
Officials said a January Xinjiang raid uncovered a plot to disrupt the Beijing Olympics. Separately, Xinjiang Governor Nur Bekri said a flight crew prevented a potential crash on a China Southern flight from Urumqi. No injuries or targeted details confirmed.
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Beijing
Wang Lequan
Communist Party
Xinjiang
Urumqi
Wang
Nur Bekri
China Southern
Water contamination worries troops in Iraq bases
Dozens of U.S. troops fell ill at five Iraq bases from unmonitored water supplied by KBR and a military contractor linked to Halliburton founder Dick Cheney. The inspector general found quality control lapses at three KBR sites and two military sites, with corrective steps taken by late 2006.
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KBR Inc
U.S
Iraq
Washington
Dick Cheney
Pentagon
Associated Press
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Inspector General
KBR
Camp
al Ramadi
Camp Q-West
Camp Victory
Anaconda
Camp Ali
Halliburton
Ar Ramadi
Con- Democrats
Pakistan coalition forms as Zardari and Sharif vow early government
Pakistan election winners Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif announce a coalition to form a federal government. They plan to reinstate judges fired by President Musharraf and restore the judiciary as it was on Nov 2, while protests outside Chaudhry’s Islamabad residence continue.
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Pakistan
Pervez Musharraf
Supreme Court
Asif Ali Zardari
Benazir Bhutto
Nawaz Sharif
Bhutto
Pakistan People’s Party
National Assembly
Sharif
Pakistan Muslim League-N
Musharraf
al-Qaida
Taliban
Zardari
People's Party
Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry
Chaudhry
Islamabad
Karachi
Iftikhar Mahmood Chaudhry
Spain’s Zapatero wins second term in general election
Spain’s Socialist prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero wins re election as 97 percent of votes counted. The Socialists lead with 43.7 percent against 40.1 percent for the conservative Popular Party marking a clear mandate amid economy and immigration concerns.
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Madrid
Spain
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Zapatero
Iraq
Socialist Party
Popular Party
Interior Ministry
Hundreds mourn UNC student Eve Carson in Athens church
Mourners from Athens and Chapel Hill gathered at Athens First United Methodist Church to remember Eve Marie Carson, UNC student body president shot in what police call a random crime. Police released ATM surveillance photos of a suspect. a Phenix City arrest related to the case. A separate killing of Auburn freshman Lauren Burk sparked links but authorities say no connection.
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University of North Carolina
Eve Carson
Chapel Hill
N.C
Athens First United Methodist Church
Fellowship Hall
Carolina
Bill Britt
Eve Marie Carson
Britt
Carson
Machine
Auburn
Ala
Auburn University
Lauren Burk
North Carolina
Phenix City
Burk
Marietta
Bob Carson
Teresa Carson
Andrew Carson
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