One person was killed and 15 others were injured Saturday when an outdoor stage collapsed in western Canada’s Alberta province, police said.
1 killed, 15 injured in Alberta stage collapse
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2 dead, 11 injured in Israel club shooting
At least two people were killed and 11 others wounded in a shooting at a Tel Aviv club Saturday night, Israeli police said.
Man in custody after terminal at LaGuardia evacuated
Authorities have a man in custody after evacuating LaGuardia Airport’s Central Terminal early Saturday morning, a Port Authority official said.
British soldier killed in Afghanistan
A British soldier was killed in an explosion on Saturday during a patrol in southern Afghanistan, the British Defence Ministry said.
Iraqi Kurds head to the polls
Polls opened Saturday in presidential and parliamentary elections in Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan, an official with the regional government told CNN.
Democracy groups plan global Iran rallies
Human rights supporters in dozens of cities around the world plan to rally Saturday to show solidarity with Iranians seeking democracy and civil rights, one of the organizing groups said. United4Iran said it expects protests at Iranian embassies and other sites to condemn the Iranian government’s violent response to citizens who claim the June 12 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was fraudulent.
10 Mexican police officers held in killings of 12 federal agents
A federal judge ordered 10 municipal police officers arrested Saturday in connection with the slayings of 12 off-duty federal agents in southwestern Mexico, the attorney general’s office said.
How the Jakarta Bombers Slipped Through Hotel Security
He is a politician for whom the adjective “cautious” seems tailor-made. But in the aftermath of the July 17 bombing of two luxury hotels in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono showed a new face to his nation
2 die in U.S. fighter jet crash in Afghanistan
The two crew members of a U.S. Air Force fighter jet died when the plane crashed in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday, a military source told CNN
Mandela struggles against aging as he turns 91
Former South African president Nelson Mandela is celebrating his 91st birthday Saturday — as his wife reveals he is struggling to deal with the indignities of aging.