About 20 people were wounded Tuesday when a car bomb exploded near a Buddhist restaurant in southern Thailand, police said.
Thai police: 20 people wounded in car bomb
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Shuttle Discovery set for nighttime launch
Space shuttle Discovery was scheduled to launch early Tuesday morning for a mission to deliver equipment to the international space station.
11 killed in China coal mine blast
Three people were missing early Tuesday after a coal mine gas blast in China’s Shanxi province killed at least 11 people, China’s state run news agency reported.
Truck crash in Indonesia kills 25
At least 25 people were killed and 10 others injured when a truck carrying workers flipped in central Indonesia late Tuesday, said a local government spokesman.
62 still missing after blast at Russian plant
As many as 62 workers are still missing Tuesday, a day after an explosion at Russia’s largest hydroelectric plant killed 12 people, a government official said. Russian Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke to reporters Tuesday from the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant in southern Siberia, where the blast occurred Monday after water pipes burst during repair work. At least 25 rescue teams, as well as a special police force and special rapid response detachments, were working to find the missing employees, according to Viktor Zimin, governor of the Khakassia region
Pakistani Taliban spokesman arrested
The well-known spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Maulvi Umar, has been arrested, intelligence officials said Tuesday. Kim — who was president from 1998 to 2003 — won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for fostering better relations between North and South Korea
Plane lifted from Hudson; final 2 bodies recovered
Divers on Tuesday recovered the bodies of the final two of nine victims of Saturday’s collision between a helicopter and small plane over the Hudson River, police said. “They were inside the wreckage when we pulled it up,” said New York Police Department Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne. Earlier Tuesday, police divers had attached chains and straps to the plane’s fuselage and used a crane to lift it from the riverbed 60 feet below the surface
Condemnation over Suu Kyi sentence
The White House criticized the sentencing of Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 more months of house arrest Tuesday, joining a chorus of condemnation from figures ranging from the Dalai Lama to the U.N. secretary-general.
Terror drill off New York tests agencies against seaborne attack
Federal, state and municipal agencies staged an elaborate drill in the waters off New York City on Tuesday to prepare for the possibility of a nuclear or dirty-bomb attack from the water. “We’re a big city, and there are vulnerabilities,” said Ray Kelly, commissioner of the New York Police Department
Prosecution demands death for married Mumbai bombers
Indian prosecutors Tuesday formally sought death sentences for a couple and their accomplice, convicted last week of the 2003 twin bomb attacks in Mumbai.