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Dozens Killed In Moscow Metro Blasts – Sky News
Two suspected female suicide bombers have killed at least 38 people on Moscow’s metro system during the height of rush-hour. Russian authorities said it appeared the attacks were carried out by militants from the North Caucasus region. The government has been fighting an insurgency by rebels in the mainly Muslim area, which has spread from Chechnya.
President Dmitry Medvedev condemned the bombings, saying Russia would “fight terrorism without hesitation and to the end”. He also ordered security be stepped up on all public transport across the country.
The first blast blew up a train carriage at the city’s central Lubyanka station. It is located underneath the offices of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the KGB’s successor agency, and a mere half a kilometre from the Kremlin. Authorities said 25 people at the stop were killed, including commuters on the train and those waiting on the platform.
The second explosion went off some 45 minutes later at Park Kultury, which is the stop for Gorky Park, killing at least 12 people. Up to 100 more were injured in the attacks, according to officials.
“I was in the middle of the train when somewhere in the first or second carriage there was a loud blast,” a commuter outside Park Kultury told the RIA news agency. “I felt the vibrations reverberate through my body.”
Moscow’s mayor Yuri Luzhkov said FSB investigations indicated there had been two female suicide bombers. A spokesman for Russia’s top investigative body, said one bomber was wearing a belt packed with plastic explosives. He added the Park Kultury bomb was “equivalent to about 1.5kg of TNT”.
“A crime that is terrible in its consequences and heinous in its manner has been committed,” prime minister Vladimir Putin said. “I am confident that law enforcement bodies will spare no effort to track down and punish the criminals. Terrorists will be destroyed.”
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Islamist Gulen Movement Runs U.S. Charter Schools – American Thinker
A secretive foreign network of Islamic radicals now operates dozens of charter schools – which receive government money but are not required to adopt a state-approved curriculum – on U.S. soil.
The inspirer of this conspiratorial effort is Fethullah G len, who directs a major Islamist movement in Turkey and the Turkish Diaspora but lives in the United States.
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153 Trapped In Flooded China Coal Mine – ChannelNewsAsia
About 150 workers were trapped by a flood at a vast coal mine under construction in northern China on Sunday, the latest in a long list of accidents in the country’s notoriously dangerous mining sector.
Water gushed into the Wangjialing mine in Shanxi province as 261 people were at work underground, officials said. Figures for the number of trapped workers fluctuated, but the rescue headquarters set up after the accident put the number at 153 late on Sunday.
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Marco Rubio Sets Pace In First Florida Face-Off – Politico
Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio used the first debate of the Republican Senate primary Sunday to repeatedly link Gov. Charlie Crist to President Barack Obama.
In a 40-minute face-off broadcast nationally on “Fox News Sunday,” Rubio hammered Crist for supporting Obama’s 2009 economic stimulus package, a bill deeply unpopular with conservative voters likely to turn out for the August 24 primary.
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Obama’s Latest NLRB Appointee Wants No Punishment For Hiring Illegals – Gateway Pundit
What a complete shock. Obama’s latest appointee is a radical leftist nutjob. NLRB labor appointee and SEIU lawyer Greg Becker does not believe in punishing those who hire illegal aliens.
Big Labor might not even need card check if Craig Becker has his way. Mr. Becker is one of two recent National Labor Relations Board appointments by President Obama.
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New York State Froze Hiring, Then Hired 51.464 – Sweetness & Light
Gov. David Paterson ordered a “hard” hiring freeze in state government nearly two years ago, declaring that only “absolutely essential” positions be filled.
But state officials hired 51,464 people at a cost to taxpayers of more than $1 billion in salaries, plus fringe benefits, since that decree on July 30, 2008.
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Scientists Stumped As Bee Population Declines Further – Breitbart
The decline in the US bee population, first observed in 2006, is continuing, a phenomenon that still baffles researchers and beekeepers.
Data from the US Department of Agriculture show a 29 percent drop in beehives in 2009, following a 36 percent decline in 2008 and a 32 percent fall in 2007.
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Report From Liberal Cable Outlet Shows That More Guns Equals Fewer Firearms Deaths – CNS
A new report published by MSNBC.com shows that more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens results in fewer deaths from the use of a firearms.
“Firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens prevent 1 million robberies, murders and rapes every year,” John Pierce, a Virginia-based gun-rights activist with opencarry.org, told MSNBC.com.
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