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'Dead' man elected mayor of Mexican village Lenin Carballido wins election three years after faked death certificate was used to convince police to drop arrest warrant Associated Press in Mexico City The Guardian, Friday 12 July 2013 11.08 BST Lenin Carballido in a photo used in his...

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Train crash near Paris: 'at least six dead' At least six people were killed and 192 injured after a packed rush-hour train derailed at high speed at a Paris commuter station. By Henry Samuel, Paris and Colin Freeman 6:53PM BST 12 Jul 2013 The inter-city train crashed around 5.15pm local...

Russian tweet on Snowden asylum decision deleted Reuters July 10, 2013, 12:44 am MOSCOW (Reuters) - A tweet in which a senior Russian lawmaker said former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden had accepted Venezuela's offer of asylum was deleted from his Twitter feed shortly after it was...

Syrians say they have given up on U.S. weapons promises Reuters July 10, 2013, 1:13 am By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) - Members of the Syrian opposition said on Tuesday that they had given up hope that the United States would deliver promised military aid to rebels as war planes and...

Asiana crash pilot to be questioned: investigators AFP Updated July 10, 2013, 1:45 am SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) - US investigators on Tuesday will interview the pilot who was at the controls of the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 when it crashed on landing in San Francisco, the agency...

Snowden agrees to asylum in Venezuela: top lawmaker AFP Updated July 10, 2013, 1:40 am MOSCOW (AFP) - Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, who has been holed up in a Moscow airport for more than two weeks, has agreed to an offer of asylum from Venezuela, a top Russian lawmaker said...

Manchester United adds Russia's Aeroflot to global sponsorship cast Reuters July 8, 2013, 9:09 pm An Aeroflot Airbus A330 plane heading to the Cuban capital Havana is taxied at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport June 27, 2013. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk MANCHESTER (Reuters) - State-controlled...

Girlfriend, 45, of Levi Strauss heir sues him 'for promising to give her $300,000 to abort his child and then failing to pay when she went through with the procedure' Daniel Haas 'worried that a baby out of wedlock would bring shame on the family and didn't want a child to affect his long...

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Bomb blasts at Bodh Gaya Buddhist temple complex, two monks hurt From: AFP July 07, 2013 10:25PM A Buddhist monk is carried on a stretcher after the attacks in Bodh gaya. Picture: Manish Bhandari/AP MULTIPLE small bomb blasts at one of Buddhism's holiest sites - the Bodh Gaya temple...

China, Switzerland sign free trade agreement AFP Updated July 6, 2013, 9:18 pm BEIJING (AFP) - China and Switzerland on Saturday signed a free trade agreement (FTA) -- Beijing's first in continental Europe -- in a deal that comes against a backdrop of trade tensions between the Asian giant...

Germanwings escape strikes after pay compromise Reuters July 6, 2013, 10:27 pm BAD HONNEF, Germany (Reuters) - Lufthansa's budget carrier Germanwings will be spared painful strikes during the nascent summer holiday season after reaching a preliminary accord with cabin crew on higher wages...

Egypt counts dead after Islamist protest violence Soldiers stand on an armoured personnel carrier positioned outside the state-run television station in Cairo July 6, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Louafi Larbi By Mike Collett-White and Asma Alsharif CAIRO | Sat Jul 6, 2013 8:38am EDT (Reuters) -...

Egypt Islamists vow new demos after deadly clashes AFP Updated July 6, 2013, 8:24 pm CAIRO (AFP) - Islamists vowed further protests on Saturday to demand the military restore Egypt's first democratically elected leader, after a night of ferocious clashes that killed 30 people and injured...

Wall Street advances after payroll report By Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK | Fri Jul 5, 2013 9:46am EDT (Reuters) - Stocks rose in early trading on Friday as U.S. June payrolls data came in much stronger than expected, though investors questioned what the report meant for the timing of the...

Skull found in Australia challenges Captain Cook claim A skull found on the banks of a river in rural Australia is believed to date from the 1600s and has challenged the view that Captain Cook was the first white person to set foot on the country’s east coast. Australian National...

Afghan soldier defuses suicide bomber's vest An Afghan bomb disposal expert defused a suicide bomber's explosive vest as he was still wearing it ahead of an attempted attack in the province of Jalalabad. A member of the Afghan bomb disposal unit approaches a suicide attacker Photo...

US doctor returns amputated arm to Vietnamese veteran An American doctor has arrived in Vietnam carrying an unlikely piece of luggage: the bones of an arm he amputated in 1966. US veteran doctor Sam Axelrad (R) holds the preserved arm bone of Vietnamese ex-soldier Nguyen Quang Hung (L), at...