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22 August 2015
France: 3 Americans subdue gunman on high-speed train
A gunman opened fire on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to
Paris on Friday, wounding two people before three American passengers
subdued him, according to officials and one of the Americans involved.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, speaking in Arras in northern France where the suspect was detained, said one of the American passengers was hospitalized with serious wounds.
20 August 2015
Men claim to find Nazi train loaded with treasure in Poland
According to Polish lore, a Nazi train loaded with gold, artworks and
weapons vanished into a mountain at the end of World War II, as the
Germans fled the Soviet advance. Now two men claim they know the
location of the mystery train and are demanding 10 percent of its value
in exchange for revealing its location.
19 August 2015
AFTER ELECTION, SRI LANKA PM INVITES RIVALS TO WORK TOGETHER
Sri Lanka's prime minister on Wednesday invited all political parties in the island nation to work together after his party won the most seats in parliamentary elections and thwarted a political comeback bid by the country's former strongman president.
Officials from Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's United National Party were working to gain seven more seats to give it an outright majority, and enable Wickremesinghe to be sworn in for a second term as prime minister, a position second to president in Sri Lanka.
18 August 2015
EX-STRONGMAN LEADS EARLY ELECTION RESULTS IN SRI LANKA
Sri Lanka's former strongman leader narrowly leads in early parliamentary elections results Tuesday as he awaits a verdict on his come-back bid eight months after being unseated in a shocking election loss.
Mahinda Rajapaksa's United People's Freedom Alliance has won 21 of the 225 seats in results released so far from Monday's vote, while his closest rival sitting Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's United National Party has won 20.
17 August 2015
Indian airline makes huge order for 250 Airbus jets
Indian
budget airline IndiGo finalized an exceptionally large order for 250
single-aisle Airbus A320neo jets on Monday to keep up with rapid growth
in the country's air travel.
IndiGo, India's largest domestic airline, had signed a preliminary order last year and firmed it up Monday, Airbus said in a statement. The manufacturer based in Toulouse, France, called it the biggest order by number of jets that it had ever received.
16 August 2015
15 August 2015
INDIA'S MODI TOUTS GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS IN ANNUAL SPEECH
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi touted his government's poverty alleviation schemes in his Independence Day speech, but the address was thin on plans for the future and made no mention of the setbacks to his economic reform agenda.
Modi won a resounding election victory in May last year largely because of his promises to revive India's slacking economy and put an end to a slew of corruption scandals that the ruling Congress party was mired in.
But achieving his ambitious reform agenda has proved hard, with both his land and tax reform proposals stalled by the opposition.
Saturday's annual speech marks the anniversary of the day India gained its freedom from British colonial rule in 1947.
(AP)
14 August 2015
Firefighter rescued from blast zone in China's Tianjin port
Rescuers pulled out a firefighter who was trapped for 32 hours after
responding to a fire and huge explosions in the Chinese port city of
Tianjin as authorities moved forward gingerly Friday in dealing with a
fire still smoldering amid potentially dangerous chemicals.
A rapid succession of explosions late Wednesday — one equal to 21 tons of TNT — killed at least 56 people, injured more than 720 and left several firefighters missing. They were sparked by a fire at what authorities said were shipping containers containing hazardous material. They struck a mostly nonresidential warehouse district late at night — otherwise the death toll could have been much higher.
13 August 2015
At least 44 dead as huge warehouse blasts hit Chinese port
Huge explosions in a warehouse district sent up massive fireballs that
turned the night sky into day, killing at least 44 people and injuring
hundreds in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, officials and witnesses
said Thursday.
Twelve of the dead were from among the more than 1,000 firefighters sent to fight the blaze set off by the explosions shortly before midnight, the Tianjin municipal government said. It said 520 people were being treated in hospitals, 66 of them with serious injuries. It gave no figure for the missing.
12 August 2015
11 August 2015
Bollywood hunks and heroes among the world's top paid actors
Bollywood films, with their colorful sets and hyper-coordinated
song-and-dance numbers, have catapulted five Indians into the ranks of
the world's highest paid male actors.
Three of those actors— Salman Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar — were in the top 10, outranking Hollywood A-listers such as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Three of those actors— Salman Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar — were in the top 10, outranking Hollywood A-listers such as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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10 August 2015
Stampede at Indian temple leaves 10 dead, dozens hurt
A
stampede at a temple during a Hindu religious festival left 10 pilgrims
dead and dozens injured early Monday in eastern India, police said.
Thousands of people tried to force their way into the temple when its gates opened at daybreak in Deoghar, a town in Jharkhand state, police officer Subodh Kumar said.
Thousands of people tried to force their way into the temple when its gates opened at daybreak in Deoghar, a town in Jharkhand state, police officer Subodh Kumar said.
8 August 2015
5 WOMEN ACCUSED OF BEING WITCHES BEATEN TO DEATH IN INDIA
Dozens of villagers in eastern India beat to death five women Saturday, accusing them of practicing witchcraft and blaming them for a series of misfortunes in the village, police said.
Residents of Kinjia village in Jharkhand state dragged the women out of their homes and beat them with sticks and iron rods, said Arun Kumar Singh, a deputy inspector-general of police in Ranchi, Jharkhand's capital.
7 August 2015
Egypt unveils Suez Canal extension with pomp-filled ceremony
In a defining moment of his young presidency, Egypt's
Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi presided Thursday over the unveiling of a major
extension of the Suez Canal that he hailed as a historic feat needed to
revive the country's ailing economy after years of unrest.
Upbeat and clearly relishing the pomp-filled occasion, el-Sissi nevertheless conceded that the $8.5 billion project will not bring a quick economic windfall to a country roiled by violence and unrest since 2011. Its completion, he said, was but the first of a 1,000-step journey Egyptians must take toward economic recovery.
5 August 2015
Indian film star Priyanka Chopra joins US TV's 'golden age'
Indian film star Priyanka Chopra says she was eager to add a U.S. TV series to her resume.
"It's like the golden age of television right now and I wanted to be part of that ... revolution," Chopra said of her role as a FBI recruit in ABC's new drama "Quantico." It debuts Sept. 27.
"It's like the golden age of television right now and I wanted to be part of that ... revolution," Chopra said of her role as a FBI recruit in ABC's new drama "Quantico." It debuts Sept. 27.
But she told the network that she didn't want to be cast for the color of her skin, what she looks like or where she's from, Chopra told a TV critics' meeting Tuesday. The goal was a worthy project that "gave me the respect of being an actor."