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Rain slows search for dead in Pakistan plane crash (AP)
July 29, 2010
AP - Emergency teams battled heavy rains and mud Thursday to recover bodies strewn over hills overlooking the Pakistani capital following the country's worst-ever plane crash.
US: Drills sent 'clear message' to NKorea (AP)
July 29, 2010
AP - For four days, U.S. and South Korean troops fired artillery into the skies and dropped anti-submarine bombs on underwater targets — dramatic exercises meant to warn North Korea not to strike again.
Floods wash chemicals into northeast China river (AP)
July 29, 2010
AP - Workers began cleaning up a chemical spill in northeastern China on Thursday after more than 3,000 containers of chemicals were washed into a river by the worst floods to hit the country in more than decade.
New bid to erect Columbus statue in Puerto Rico (AP)
July 29, 2010AP - Christopher Columbus is on the move again in the New World, after numerous rejections in a nearly two-decade quest to find him a suitable spot.
Police capture drug lieutenant in northern Mexico (AP)
July 29, 2010
AP - A suspected drug cartel lieutenant with a quarter-million-dollar reward on his head was captured in the border state of Chihuahua, where rival gangs are waging a bloody turf war, police said Wednesday.
Catalonia Bullfighting Ban: Divisive Vote Stirs Politics (Time.com)
July 29, 2010Time.com - Catalonia is the first region in mainland Spain to ban bullfighting, but opposition parties accuse Catalan politicians of using the vote to push a nationalist agenda
Nun killed in Ukraine church blast (AFP)
July 29, 2010
AFP - An 80-year-old nun has been killed in an explosion that wounded eight others at a church in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye, officials said on Thursday.
Egypt: US assurances may boost direct peace talks (AP)
July 29, 2010AP - Egypt said Wednesday it has received U.S. assurances that may help in restarting direct peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel.
Parents mourn 2 boys killed by storm in Haiti camp (AP)
July 29, 2010
AP - Distraught parents mourned the loss of two children in a camp for Haitian earthquake survivors Wednesday, a day after rains caused a wall to collapse on top of a row of tarp homes.
Ulster-bound rugby player Pienaar agrees Sharks release (AFP)
July 29, 2010
AFP - South Africa fly-half Ruan Pienaar has agreed his release from Natal Sharks and will join Ulster at the start of September, it was announced on Wednesday.
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