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• OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Despite a labor strike keeping trains out of service, two workers inspecting the tracks of a San Francisco Bay Area transit system were hit and killed by a train returning from a routine maintenance trip, officials said.
• The four-car train with several people aboard was being run in automatic mode under computer control at the time of the accident, said Paul Oversier, assistant general manager of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, which was in its second full day of a work stoppage and was moving trains only for maintenance.
• At a news conference Saturday, Oversier would not say who had been the train operator. In an earlier statement, BART said only that the person was an experienced operator.
• One system employee and one contractor were killed in the accident in the East Bay city of Walnut Creek shortly before 2 p.m. The train had been at a yard where workers had been cleaning off graffiti, BART officials said.
• "This is a tragic day in BART's history," the system's general manager, Grace Crunican, said. "The entire BART family is grieving."
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• BEIRUT (AP) -- Amid all the bloodshed, confusion and deadlock of Syria's civil war, one fact is emerging after 2½ years -- no conflict ever has been covered this way.
• Amateur videographers -- anyone with a smartphone, Internet access and an eagerness to get a message out to the world -- have driven the world's outlook on the war through YouTube, Twitter and other social media.
• The tens of thousands of videos have at times raised outrage over the crackdown by the regime of President Bashar Assad and also have sparked concern over alleged atrocities attributed to both sides.
• The videos have also made more difficult the task of navigating between truth and propaganda -- with all sides using them to promote their cause. Assad opponents post the majority of videos, and nearly every rebel-held area or brigade has a media office that produces and disseminates them. To a lesser degree, regime supporters produce some videos -- but they also pick apart opposition videos, trying to

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