Obama pledges help to slow US arms flow (AP)
AP - Confronting a Mexican drug war that is “sowing chaos in our communities,” President Barack Obama signaled Thursday he will not seek renewal of a U.S. assault weapons ban but instead will step up enforcement of laws banning the transfer of such guns across the border.
Police claimed protesters threw bottles and other debris when they formed a circle as colleagues attempted to revive Tomlinson, who was later pronounced dead at hospital
As the fault was pulled open, rock on either side slipped, sending out powerful shockwaves
The last major quake to hit central Italy was a 5-magnitude temblor that struck the south-central Molise region on 31 October 2002, killing 28 people, including 27 children who died when their school collapsed
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The decision, which was taken in 2007, provoked the largest revolt among backbench labor MPs since the Iraq war and will see the UK’s four nuclear weapons submarines replaced with new boats from 2024
The Chechen president denies any link, suggesting the Yamadayev brothers were killed as part of a blood feud
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New York’s attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, has accused Merkin of acting as a middleman for Madoff and using the proceeds to fill his apartment with $91m worth of art
More than 40,000 people lost their homes
The Telegraph’s Celia Walden, far from going “undercover”, carried a Telegraph banner demanding “Lower taxes now! Roll back the state!”
It is important that we are able to establish as far as possible whether that contact had anything to do with his death
Eighteen months ago, Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the largest Taliban group in Pakistan, had three Shia soldiers beheaded
For some of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto maintained a remarkable social history of life under the Nazis
After arresting them we found out that the girl was sold by her parents and was going to be taken to Amman, then after that, to Ireland where a family had already paid for the baby
A sequence of pictures, obtained by the newspaper and showing what appears to be the immediate aftermath of his clash with police, is also being examined by the IPCC
“The situation is terrible, really terrible,” said the city’s mayor, Massimo Cialente, adding that he had “shed some tears”