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More than 50 climbers crowd Everest summit
More than 50 climbers successfully summited Mount Everest on Friday, a Nepalese official said, amid concerns about overcrowding on the world’s highest peak after four deaths earlier this week. Multiple expeditions had set off late Thursday for the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) summit, taking advantage of a two-day weather window that was…
Eurozone strains intensify as ‘massive shock’ looms
Eurozone tensions have intensified after grim news on the economic outlook and as investors sought safety in Germany on growing doubts over Greece’s future in the currency union. Shortly after an EU summit failed to produce a remedy, a May survey of eurozone business confidence on Thursday showed the sharpest…
Man confesses to murder of Etan Patz
A man has confessed to strangling to death a boy who vanished on his way to school in 1979 — a haunting case that terrified parents across America and baffled police for three decades, New York police chief Ray Kelly said. The disappearance of Etan Patz was so shocking…
Hollande defends French exit in Afghanistan
President Francois Hollande visited Afghanistan on Friday to defend France’s imminent departure from the war, telling troops that it would be coordinated closely with Afghan and NATO allies. Hollande met French soldiers deployed in the volatile province of Kapisa and held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on his first…
Egypt’s Brotherhood say Islamist, ex-PM in run-off
Egypt looked set on Friday for a run-off presidential vote pitting Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi against former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, according to tallies by the Islamist group. The Brotherhood said its candidate was leading the race, with 90 percent of the votes counted, ahead of Shafiq, the last…
SpaceX makes final approach to space station
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule on Friday made its final approach toward the International Space Station, edging closer to the climax of its landmark mission to latch on to the orbiting research lab. By 6:30 am (1030 GMT), the unmanned Dragon was 240 meters (yards) from the $100 billion dollar space outpost…
Dinosaur with tiny arms unearthed in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES — Argentine experts have discovered the near-complete remains of a new species of Jurassic-era dinosaur that stood on its rear legs and had tiny arms, according to a leading paleontologist. The find belongs to the Abelisaurus family, “the most common carnivorous species in the southern hemisphere during the…
Chen says he suffered ‘beyond imagination’ in China
WASHINGTON — Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who is now in the United States after a diplomatic standoff between Washington and Beijing, said Thursday he endured “suffering beyond imagination” at home. Chen, a self-taught lawyer subjected to years of jail and house arrest for exposing abuses in China’s one-child policy,…
Obama calls for Congress to enact ‘green’ tax credits
NEWTON, Iowa — President Barack Obama urged Congress on Thursday to extend tax credits for clean energy companies the White House says are responsible for some 37,000 jobs. On his way back from a fundraising and campaigning tour in California, Obama stopped in the Midwestern state of Iowa, which he…
Canada student protests erupt into political crisis with mass arrests
More than 500 people were arrested in Montreal on Wednesday night as protestors defy controversial new law Bill 78 Protests that began in opposition to tuition fees in Canada have exploded into a political crisis with the mass arrest of hundreds of demonstrators amid a backlash against draconian emergency laws.…
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