7 UN Peacekeepers Killed in Darfur

UN peacekeepers in Darfur were ambushed near Manawashi, Saturday morning.

They were in a convoy when a much larger force opened fire on them.

Seven peacekeepers were killed and seventeen wounded before the attack ended.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Slides Close Highway 14 Near Fort Collins

Highway 14 near Fort Collins, Colorado was shut down for part of Friday afternoon.

Two separate land slides were caused by heavy rain.

The mud slides brought rocks and logs with them, blocking two sections of the freeway.

While some vehicles were stranded between the two slides, no one was caught in either one.

Rain gauges in the area detected nearly an inch of rain in just an hour and a half.

Lac-Megantic Death Toll Hits 28, With 22 Still Missing

Authorities in Lac-Megantic, Quebec have now recovered twenty-eight bodies of victims from last Saturday's train crash and explosion.

Twenty-two people are still missing, but presumed dead.

Several hundred people are still under evacuation, due to the oil spill that was also a result of the accident.

Authorities say that the crash was caused because the air brakes on the train failed.

It had been parked nearly eight miles uphill from Lac-Megantic, over night.

Late Friday night, a fire occurred on the train, but it is unclear if that was what caused the brake failure.

The Canadian Transportation Safety Board is continuing the investigation.

6 Killed in French Train Crash

Six people were killed, on Friday, when a train derailed and crashed into the Bretigny-sur-Orge, France station.

Dozens were injured, including nine who are in  critical condition.

Nearly four hundred people were aboard the plane when it struck the station.

Many were heading out of Paris, for the Bastille Day holiday, on Sunday.

All trains out of Paris' Gare d'Austerlitz have been cancelled until further notice, due to the accident.

Al Shabaab Suicide Attack Kills 5

A member of Al Shabaab carried out a suicide attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Friday.

Five civilians were killed and two African Union peacekeepers were injured.

Due to the timing of the explosion, it is believed that the convoy the peacekeepers were in was the target.

Eighteen thousand AU troops are in Somalia, helping combat the terrorist organization, which had over run most of the country.

43 Killed in Iraq Violence

A suicide bomber struck a popular cafe in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Friday.

Thirty-eight people were killed and twenty-five were injured in the blast.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

However, as the cafe is mostly frequented by Shiites, Al Qadea is being blamed for it.

In Mosul, a suicide car bomber killed four police officers.

A senior police officer was assassinate in a drive by shooting, in Tikrit.

More than twenty-six hundred people have been killed in bombings and shootings, in Iraq, since April, making 2013 one of the deadliest years.

8 People Injured in New York Explosion

Eight people were injured by an explosion, in Chinatown, New York.

Three of the injured are in serious condition.

According to authorities a fire started in the basement and reached a stockpile of bug bombs.

This resulted in an explosion that damaged the first three of the five stories, including a partial collapse of the first floor.

Investigators are trying to determine how the fire started.

44 Killed in Iraq Violence

Forty-four people were killed in a series of attacks in Iraq, on Thursday.

The attacks began when gunmen attacked two different oil field check points, killing eleven guards near Haditha.

A car bomb went off at a funeral in Muqdadiya, and as people rushed to help the wounded a suicide bomber blew his vest up. Eleven people were killed there.

Four people were killed by a car bomb in Baghdad.

Three separate roadside bombs in Tikrit, killed three police officers.

In Mosul, three different car bombs left four police dead.

Attacks in Anbar killed seven police.

Outside of Kirkuk gunmen attacked a checkpoint, killing three Sahwa, while inside Kirkuk a roadside bomb killed another member of the militia.

Mudslide Catches Vehicles on Highway 24

Twenty-one vehicles were caught in a mudslide, Wednesday afternoon, near Manitou Springs, Colorado.

Heavy rain, joined by hail, caused flash flooding and the mud slide to bury part of Highway 24.

No one was injured in the incident, despite occupied cars being swept down the highway.

Highway 24 was reopened by 19:00 MDT.

60 Killed by Chinese Floods and Mudslides

Raging waters and mudslides killed more than sixty in China, on Wednesday.

Floods washed away bridges, roads, buildings, and anything else in their path.

Some areas that are normally above water were buried under as much as twenty-three feet of water.

The worst of the destruction came in Dujiangyan, where a mudslide buried eleven homes and forty people.