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Trash heaps set ablaze in Spanish city protest

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 21st

MADRID (AP) - Residents of the southern Spanish city of Jerez have set fire to mounds of stinking rubbish bags and overflowing trash containers to protest a 20-day refuse collection strike that has left the city resembling a dump in many areas. Firefighters had to put out 85 blazes early Wednesday

UPDATE: Clinton Arrives In Cairo; Bus Bomb Rocks Tel Aviv

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 21st

CAIRO (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in Cairo in her diplomatic push to forge a truce between Israel and Gaza rulers of Hamas, hours after a bomb exploded on an Israeli bus in Tel Aviv, wounding 10. Clinton will meet with Egypt's President

Report: Wis. temple shooter had no drugs in system

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 21st

By DINESH RAMDEAssociated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) - A white supremacist with a history of alcohol problems had no drugs in his system when he walked into a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee this summer and fatally shot six people before killing himself, according to a toxicology report released

Search for missing oil platform worker ends

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 21st

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Black Elk Energy has halted the search for a worker missing since Friday's explosion and fire aboard an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The missing crewman, Jerome Malagapo of the Philippines, was employed by Grand Isle Shipyard Inc., which had a contract with Black Elk

Movie attack suspect got guns despite psych issues

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 21st

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTHAssociated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A southwest Missouri man accused of plotting attacks at a movie theater and Walmart store legally bought the guns he allegedly planned to use, despite being forced to undergo a psychiatric exam three years ago after stalking a

Russian farmer takes on corrupt officials

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 21st

By MAX SEDDONAssociated Press YARABAIKASY, Russia (AP) - When Eduard Mochalov tried to have the people who stole his cattle and pig farm brought to justice, he spent eight months in jail on charges he says were cooked up. He appealed to Vladimir Putin and even set himself on fire outside the

Former publisher of UT San Diego dies in car crash

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 21st

SAN DIEGO (AP) - David Copley, the last in a line of San Diego Union-Tribune publishers and owners from a family who dominated the city's media for more than eight decades, died after crashing his car Tuesday night near his La Jolla home. Copley, 60, was declared dead at Scripps Memorial

Cease-fire begins between Israel and Hamas

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 21st

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and KARIN LAUBAssociated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers took effect Wednesday night, bringing an end to eight days of the fiercest fighting in years and possibly signaling a new era of relations

Israel-Hamas cease-fire remains elusive

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 21st

By IBRAHIM BARZAK and JOSEF FEDERMANAssociated Press JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel and the Hamas militant group edged closer to a cease-fire Tuesday to end a weeklong Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, but after a day of furious diplomatic efforts involving the U.S. secretary of state, U.N. chief

Mo. movie plot attack suspect planned '09 attack

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on November 20th

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTHAssociated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A man accused of plotting to open fire inside a Missouri movie theater during a "Twilight" showing and attack a nearby Walmart was arrested in 2009 after following a clerk at the same store with a knife and rubber mask, according