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He said security forces tried to prevent fighting between residents of the area and the protesters, and that eight members of the security forces were wounded, including some by birdshot.
• The bodies of over 12 men were shrouded in white clothes, lying in pools of blood, were laid on the floor of the field hospital in images broadcast by Al-Jazeera Mubashir Misr TV. Mikkia said hundreds were wounded.
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Arrested Spanish train driver's declaration before a judge in Galicia has been delayed
• SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) -- Spanish judicial authorities say the driver in charge of a Spanish train that derailed at high speed, killing 78 people and injuring dozens more, will not be appearing before a judge on Saturday as had been hoped.
• A justice department statement released early Saturday says the intention now is to wait until 52-year-old Francisco Jose Garzon Amo is able to appear in court, rather than having a judge come to his hospital bedside.
• Garzon is under arrest in a hospital on suspicion of recklessness while driving the train.
• A blood-soaked Garzon was photographed Wednesday being escorted away from the wreckage.
• Judicial authorities had said Garzon would likely testify appear before a judge on Saturday.
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60 years after fighting ended in Korea, US troops remain and questions linger about MIAs
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- A truce stopped the fighting in Korea that once threatened to spread into a world war whose outcome might have been decided by nuclear weapons. Sixty years later, the costs of the Korean War continue to mount even amid relative peace.
• Hostility lingers between the North and South and between the North and the United States, which still has no formal diplomatic relations with the communist nation in spite of the war's end on July 27, 1953. That ongoing antagonism is rooted in the U.S. commitment to take a leading role in assisting the South should war break out again on the Korean Peninsula.
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