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Drug traffickers, Mexican police battle within yards of U.S. border

Source: CNN.com A "major gunbattle" between drug traffickers and Mexican federal police broke out Saturday evening in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just 30 yards from the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas, causing U.S. authorities to cordon off a section of the city, according to a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman. Related posts Russian train wreck ‘an [...]

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Gunmen attack vehicle, steal Iraqi government employee salaries

Source: CNN.com Gunmen intercepted a vehicle carrying salaries of Iraqi government employees in western Baghdad and made off with nearly $600,000, police officials told CNN on Sunday. The robbers attacked the vehicle a few hundred meters from a local bank, where it had been loaded with money, police said. … Authorities have said they believe [...]

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Authorities catch last prison escapee at Arizona campsite, ending 3-week nationwide manhunt

Source: FOXNews.com An unattended campfire and a suspicious forest ranger led to the arrest of two of the most wanted fugitives in the U.S., ending a three-week nationwide manhunt that drew hundreds of false sightings, authorities said. John McCluskey fled July 30 with two other inmates from a private prison in northwest Arizona and evaded [...]

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Pakistan gets respite from rains but aid flow is slow (Reuters)

Reuters – Pakistan authorities forecast on Monday a brief respite in rains that sparked the country’s worst floods in decades, but aid agencies warned help was too slow to arrive for millions without clean water, food and homes.

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The Motive Changes on Serial Stabber Elias Abuelazam

This is the buzz at the moment: Source: Field Notes Michigan authorities say they have no other evidence of a racial motive, noting that Flint is a predominantly black city and the attacks were crimes of opportunity late at night. Just two days ago however, before the suspect was captured and identified, the ideas were [...]

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