7 Injured at Missouri Train Crash

On Saturday morning, two freight trains collided in Missouri.

The collision caused both trains to derail, sending freight cars into bridge supports.

Two cars crashed into each other when they came upon the collapsed bridge.

In total, seven people were injured, two one of the trains, and five in the car accident.

None of the injuries were serious.

Officials are investigating the cause of the train's colliding into each other.

1 Dead and 1 Missing in San Antonio Flooding

Flooding in San Antonio, Texas has killed one and another person is missing.

Over one hundred people have been rescued from the high waters, by firefighters.

During Saturday morning, nearly ten inches of rain fell at San Antonio International Airport.

This followed torrential downpours on Friday.

Austin and much of south Texas is also under flood advisories.

Forecasters expect the rain to continue on into Sunday.

18 Injured in Dagestan Black Widow Attack

Eighteen people were injured when a suicide bomber blew herself up, on Saturday, in Dagestan.

Authorities identified the bomber as Madina Alieva, twenty-five, a widow of two Islamic radicals, who had been killed in clashes with security forces, in 2009 and 2012.

Dagestan is one of the most violent regions in Russia, with Islamists regularly clashing with police and the military.

Women have been known to be active in terrorist acts, in the region, and Russians call them black widows.

Federal Judge Rules Sheriff Joe Violated Rights

Judge G. Murray Snow, of the United States District Court, ruled against one of the toughest sheriff's in the country, on Friday.

Snow decided that Sheriff Joe Arpaio has violated constitutional law, accusing him and his deputies of singling out Latinos.

The judge stated that Arpaio had used racial profiling in his attempts to catch illegal immigrants, in Maricopa County, Arizona.

According to Snow, deputies may not focus on Latinos when looking for illegal immigrants.

Lawyers for Maricopa County, and Sheriff Joe, argued that race was never the focus in illegal immigrant cases and vowed to appeal the decision.

8.2 Quake Shakes Russia

Places as far away as Moscow felt an 8.2 quake in the Sakhalin region of Russia.

While the quake was located closer to Japan, it was felt more thousands of miles away in Eastern Europe, than it was just a couple hundred miles away.

In Moscow, buildings were evacuated, as the shaking was felt; and places further west than Russia reported shaking due to it.

A 6.2 aftershock, followed it a few hours later, and scientists expect more after shocks, as high as 7.0, over the next few days.

Very little damage was reported because of the quake, though it did seem to emit a small electro magnetic pulse, which affected electronics in the area closest to it.

4 Indian Soldiers Killed by Rebels

Four Indian soldiers died, on Friday, fighting rebel forces in Kashmir.

Three of them were killed when their patrol was ambushed, in the village of Buchoo.

Reinforcements came and a fire fight began, during which the fourth was killed.

The Indian military says that they killed or chased off the rebel force, but did not give any numbers.

Taliban Attacks Kabul

Members of the Taliban launched an attack in Kabul, on Friday.

It began with a car bombing and then continued on as an attack against the International Organization for Migration.

The Taliban said they were targeting CIA trainers.
Afghan Security Forces engaged them in an hours long fire fight, but eventually won out.

About a dozen people were injured or wounded, two police officers were killed, and all of the attacking militants were killed or taken prisoner after being wounded.

Parking Garage Collapse Kills 1 in Maryland

A parking garage partially collapsed, on Thursday, in Bethesda, Maryland.

The garage was closed and under construction, as the mall it's for goes through major renovations.

One construction worker was killed and another was trapped for several hours, but eventually was freed and taken to the hospital.

Officials said that a fifty thousand pound slab of concrete had fallen.

21 Killed in 2 Separate Attacks in Niger

Twenty-one people were killed and twenty-nine injured in two separate attacks, in Niger, on Thursday.

According to the authorities, the two explosions happened at the exact time, over one hundred miles apart. Both were suicide car bombs aimed at high security areas.

In Agadez, the bomber was able to force his vehicle past security at a military base and detonated near a crowd of soldiers. Twenty died and sixteen were injured in that attack.

The other attack came at a uranium mine near Arlit, killing one and injuring thirteen. Authorities are not sure how the bomber was able to make it past the security there.

Groups linked to Al Qaeda have claimed both attacks.

Car Bomb Kills 12 in Pakistan

Twelve were killed and seventeen injured when car bomb exploded in Quetta City, Pakistan, on Thursday.

Most of those killed and wounded were government security officers.

They had been traveling in a small bus when a car they drove by was detonated by remote control.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.