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France

Crash kills five on tourist coach

Five people were killed and 27 others injured Sunday when a bus carrying Portuguese tourists crashed off a highway in central France known locally as the "road of death", authorities said. The 40-seat bus was on its way to Switzerland when tragedy struck, the local Creusot-Info website said. Before dawn, the bus crashed off the Central Europe Atlantic Road in the Saone-et-Loire region, that sees several accidents a year, many of them deadly. It appears the driver may have lost control of the vehicle because of ice on the road.

Iraq

Suicide bomb attacks kills 20

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded marketplace in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding over a dozen others, police and medical sources said. The attack in the mainly Shi'ite district of Baladiyat was the second bomb attack to hit the Iraqi capital on Sunday. A suicide car bomb claimed by Islamic State at another market killed 13 people earlier in the day.

Norway

Court to review Breivik treatment

A Norwegian court will on Tuesday examine the state's appeal against a ruling that right-wing extremist and mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has been treated inhumanely since being jailed for killing 77 people nearly six years ago. A lower court made waves in April when it found that Breivik's human rights were violated as he was subjected to "inhumane" and "degrading" treatment in prison - a decision that disturbed many families of the victims, mostly teenagers at a summer island camp.

(China Daily 01/09/2017 page11)