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Smoke rises from the wreckage of a Hercules C-130 aircraft after it crashed while trying to land in Guelmim in this still image taken from a July 26, 2011 video by Morocco TV. At least 78 people were killed on Tuesday when the Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, the military said in a statement carried by the state news agency. US debt crisis gives investors first jolt President Barack Obama's Democrats and their Republican rivals were further apart than ever on Tuesday in an impasse over the government's debt limit as investors braced for a looming US default and downgrade. |
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Italy to rally opposition to Palestinian plans to have the U.N. recognize a Palestinian state in September. 1 dead, 13 injured in Dutch stadium collapse A large section of the roof of a football stadium collapsed during off-season construction work Thursday, killing one person and leaving 10 hospitalized. |
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The confessed killer of 76 people in Friday's bomb and gun attacks in Norway described Japan as a model country in a document he distributed on the Internet, praising it for shying away from multiculturalism. Men charged in presidential artifacts theft A published presidential historian was one of two men caught with millions of dollars in documents from the Maryland Historical Society, including some signed by President Abraham Lincoln. |
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At least nine people were killed and two were missing after a landslide triggered by heavy downpour hit a South Korean mountain resort east of Seoul early on Wednesday, local media reported. China, Japan resume defense dialogue China and Japan agreed to maintain stability in the East China Sea and promote the early establishment of a maritime liaison system, as the two sides resumed their bilateral vice-ministerial defense dialogue on Tuesday in Tokyo. |