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Train Crash Triggers Highway Collapse in Missouri
Seven people were injured early Saturday morning in southeast Missouri, when two freight trains collided, taking out a highway overpass, NBC affiliate KSDK reported. Several rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, which triggered the collapse of a highway overpass near Scott City, about 120 miles south of St. Louis. Two train conductors and five individuals in cars on the overpass were hospitalized with very minor injuries and later released. The crash ignited a fire when diesel fuel leaked from one of the train engines, Reuters reported. The National Transportation Safety Board said it had dispatched a team to investigate the train crash. The crash came just over a week after a commuter train derailed in Connecticut, striking another train and injuring more than 70 people. On Thursday evening, a truck crash caused the collapse of a bridge in Washington state, sending two cars plunging into the Skagit River. Three people were rescued.
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Three More Arrested in Killing of UK Soldier
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Three more men were arrested on Saturday in connection to the killing of a British soldier, UK police said, NBC News reported. Two men, 24 and 28, were arrested at a residential address in southeast London, the police statement read. A 21-year-old man was arrested on the street. All three were arrested for suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, authorities said. Lee Rigby, 25, known as “Riggers” to his friends, was killed on Wednesday, while walking the street. A bloodstained suspect at the scene was captured on video, holding a meat cleaver, telling passers-by: "We swear by the almighty Allah." Eyewitnesses said the two attackers were later shot by authorities. Both were taken to a hospital where they were later arrested.
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Heavy Rain Kills 2 in San Antonio, Nearly 100 Rescued
Two people are dead and nearly a hundred more have been rescued as heavy rain has pummeled San Antonio, Texas Saturday, causing flash flooding, NBC News reported. Weather Channel Meteorologist Nick Wiltgen said San Antonio received 12.16 inches of rain in 24 hours, just shy of the 24-hour record for the city of 13.35 inches in October 1998. A 29-year-old woman died after being swept away from the roof of her car. A man who had been trapped in his vehicle is unaccounted for. San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Christian Bove told NBC News that the majority of rescues were people trapped in their vehicles in low-lying areas of the city.
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French Soldier Stabbed on Paris Street
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A French soldier patrolling a business area of western Paris was stabbed in the neck on Saturday around 6 p.m. local time by a man who fled the scene, Reuters reported. The soldier, patrolling as part of France's Vigipirate anti-terrorist surveillance plan, was injured in the stabbing but is expected to survive, the source said. The suspected attacker was a bearded man of North African origin and was wearing an Arab-style garment under his jacket, the French daily Le Parisien reported citing police sources. He is still on the run. The incident comes just days after a British soldier was slain in broad daylight by knife-wielding attackers on London's south side. France has been on high alert for attacks by Islamist militants following its military intervention in Mali in January.
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Okla. Tornado 911 Calls Offer Glimpse Into Chaos
The emergency calls from Moore, Okla., reveal the confusion and fear of tornado victims in the minutes after the storm hit, including a chilling call from a daycare. "We've got a daycare full of babies," one caller said. "We got a daycare that just got cremated." The massive twister killed 24 people, including ten children, and funerals for some of those victims will continue this weekend. Meantime, the three high schools in Moore will hold graduations on Saturday, a chance for the community to come together and take their minds off the long cleanup and recovery process that awaits them.
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Hezbollah Admits It Has Joined Fight in Syria
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, said in a televised speech Saturday that his group will stay in the Syrian civil war "to the end of the road" and help its ally President Bashar al-Assad win, The Associated Press reported. He said that Syria and Lebanon were facing a threat from radical Sunni Islamists, which he argued was a plot devised by the United States and its allies to serve Israel's interests in the region. The head of the Labansese militant Shi'ite Muslim group for the first time confirmed that his men were actively fighting in Syria, and said they had been there for several months. Assad comes from the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam. Iran and now increasingly Hezbollah, Tehran's Lebanese proxy which was founded as a resistance movement to Israel, have come to Assad's aid. Get More at NBC News
Military Shrinks in Size, Scope Under Obama
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During President Obama’s four and a half years in White House, military spending has declined and the military active duty force has shrunk by about 29,000, according to NBC News. In two speeches this week, the president signaled that the military is in for more trimming. Obama wants stricter limits on drone attacks and new emphasis on fighting terrorism, based more on targeting isolated threats and less on huge displays of force. In his counterterrorism speech he warned of getting entangled in the Syrian civil war and reminded Americans of the cost of war, lamenting that the dollars spent in Iraq and Afghanistan limited “our ability to nation-build here at home.” Yet in some ways, the U.S. military under Obama remains much as it was in the Bush or Clinton eras. In his speech to the class of 2013 at the Naval Academy, Obama promised “a shipbuilding plan that puts us on track to achieve a 300-ship fleet” over the next 30 years, “with capabilities that exceed the power of the next dozen navies combined.”
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Ton of Pot Found on Fishing Boat in L.A.
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Runners, Victims Run Boston Marathon's Final Mile
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About 3,000 runners and victims of the Boston Marathon bombing gathered Saturday to run and walk the last mile of the race, The Associated Press reported. "Now I feel like I've earned my medal," said Rosy Spraker, after she crossed the Boylston Street finish line. "I wanted to run for the victims, for freedom, to show the world that nothing is going to stop us." On April 15, Spraker was only a half-mile from the finish line of her seventh Boston Marathon when the bombs went off killing three people and wounding more than 260. Kathleen McGonagle, spokeswoman for those organizing the event known as OneRun, said the event honors victims and emergency workers and allows runners to reclaim the final mile. For many runners, it was also a chance to heal from the events of that harrowing day.
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"Black Widow" Bombing Kills 1, Wounds 14 in Russia
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One person was killed and at least 14 were injured, including two children and five police officers, when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, The Associated Press reported. The woman was later identified as Madina Alieva, 25, a widow who married an Islamist who was killed in 2009 and then wedded another Islamic radical who was gunned down last year, police spokeswoman Fatina Ubaidatova said. Islamic extremists are fighting to create an independent Muslim state, or "emirate," in the Caucasus and parts of southern Russia and Dagestan has been at the epicenter of that violent struggle. The bombers are often called "black widows" in Russia because many are the widows, or other relatives, of militants killed by security forces. The Tsarnaev brothers, suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing, are ethnic Chechens who lived in this turbulent Caucasus province before moving to the U.S.
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17 Children Dead in Pakistan School Bus Explosion
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At least 17 children were burned to death in eastern Pakistan on Saturday after a defective gas cylinder exploded on a bus bringing them to school, The Associated Press reported. Seven other kids were injured in the explosion that occurred on the outskirts of the city of Gujrat. "This is a very sad incident. According to our information, at least 17 children were burned to death," police officer Mohammed Rasheed said. "The school bus caught fire after the blast. We have transported all the victims to a nearby hospital." Gujrat is located about 120 miles southeast of the capital, Islamabad. The accident occurred after a pair of suspected militant attacks killed nine people in two different areas of northwest Pakistan on Friday.
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