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Facing an early test of support at home, Los Angeles’ 2024 Olympics plan stalled Wednesday amid questions about potential runaway costs and the impact on neighborhoods already strangled by traffic and congestion.

After spinning west across the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Erika is finally ready to pay a visit to the islands. Cloud tops around Erika’s center were near -63F/-53C, indicating strong thunderstorms.

Stephen Harper is in Drummondville, Que. where he is repeating his message that his government is the best bet in uncertain economic times.

It wasn’t until Monday, after #Merkelschweigt – translated roughly as “Merkel stays silent” – became the top trending hashtag on Twitter in Germany, that the chancellor condemned the attacks through a spokesman.

“For now we have managed to find the instrument panel, the engine, a wheel and a well-preserved radio station”, commented Zdzislaw Leszczynski, director of the Museum of the River Vistula in Wyszogród, which is carrying out the excavation together with the SAKWA...

However he blamed the centre along with the state government for interfering with the NSA-level talks by holding up the separatist leaders ahead of their meeting.

The Moroccan suspect in a foiled attack on a high-speed train in France is facing terrorism charges over what authorities say was a plan to unleash carnage among hundreds of passengers – but his family defended him Wednesday, saying he was in a desperate situation.

So far, there have been 71 ceasefire violations from the Indian side of the LoC and the Working Boundary.

In the last 12 months 175 people were beheaded or shot for crimes including drugs confessions claimed to have been extracted through torture, said the report released by human rights charity Amnesty worldwide.

Saudi national Ahmed al-Maghsal, who’s been on the run for 19 years, was arrested in Beirut and handed over to Saudi authorities in the capital, Riyadh, the newspaper said, citing officials it didn’t identify. The truck bomb attack killed 19 U.S. service staff and...

“We were encouraged by the early constructive interaction between the leaders of India and Pakistan earlier this year”, in Russian Federation, State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters Monday.

The country is due to contribute some 10.1 billion euros ($11.14 billion) of the 86 billion-euro package for Greece.

Investigators made the discovery after analysing a mobile phone found on the suspect.

Reports say the blast took place in the Macrorayon locality of downtown Kabul, when a suicide vehicle bomb was set off targeting the foreign forces convoy.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo also joined the call for action in honor of Women’s Equality Day, saying in a statement that “New York is proud to be a leader in the fight for equal rights”.