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Sixteen of the students were confirmed dead, Xinhua said
BEIJING A landslide toppled an elementary school building in a mountainous area of southwestern China on Thursday, killing at least 16 students and leaving three other people missing, a state news agency said. Eighteen students were buried at the Tiantou…
On Wednesday, Ladbrokes announced his odds were now 5/1, putting Dylan ahead of Syraian poet Adonis (6/1), Japanese writer Haruki Murakami (8/1) and Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer (10/1)
(CBS) Bob Dylan: Singer. Songwriter. Activist. Nobel laureate? The music legend has surged to the top of betting agency Ladbrokes’ list, and is now the odds-on favorite to win the Nobel prize for literature, Britain’s The Guardian reports. The paper…
They bring to the battle their fury over years of economic marginalization, fired by a pious fervor, and they say their fight in the civil war is not only against President Bashar Assad but also the elite merchants and industrialists who dominate the city and have stuck by the regime
ALEPPO, Syria Most of the rebels fighting government forces in the city of Aleppo fit a specific mold: They’re poor, religiously conservative and usually come from the underdeveloped countryside nearby. They bring to the battle their fury over years of…
BEIJING Foxconn Technology Group denied on Saturday that production was affected at a Chinese factory that makes Apple’s iPhones, although both state media and an overseas labor watch group said some workers halted production lines on Friday, apparently over higher quality control standards
BEIJING Foxconn Technology Group denied on Saturday that production was affected at a Chinese factory that makes Apple’s iPhones, although both state media and an overseas labor watch group said some workers halted production lines on Friday, apparently over higher…
Egypt court sentences 75 to death and 47 to life over 2013 sit
CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced 75 people to death, including top leaders of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, for their involvement in a 2013 sit-in protest by Islamists that was broken up by security forces in an operation…
“Our strongest evidence for these executions comes from the footage filmed by the opposition forces and the physical evidence at the Mahari hotel where the 66 bodies were found.” Another victim cited by HRW as an example was 29-year-old Ahmed al-Gharyani, a navy recruit from the town of Tawergha
CAIRO Libyan rebels appear to have “summarily executed” scores of fighters loyal to Muammar Qaddafi, and probably the dictator himself, when they overran his hometown a year ago, a human rights group said Wednesday. The report by Human Rights Watch…