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(Reuters) –  Western security agencies were most  likely behind the killing of an Iranian scientist in an operation that underlines the myriad complications in the  conflict over Iran’s nuclear programme, analysts say.

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s police believe Anders Behring Breivik probably acted alone in killing 76 people last Friday, and Norwegians united in revulsion against the worst attack in the Nordic nation since World War Two.

ROME (Reuters) – Desperate Somali mothers are abandoning their dying children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency food centres in drought-hit eastern Africa, UN aid officials said yesterday.

MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) – Kosovo sent special police forces to its Serbian-populated north late yesterday to enforce a ban on imports from Serbia, but local Serbs resisted the move as ethnic tensions rose sharply.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers failed to  achieve a budget breakthrough and instead worked on rival plans  yesterday in an impasse that heightened prospects for a  catastrophic U.S.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik  said he killed 93 people to spark a “revolution” against the  multiculturalism he believed was sapping Europe’s heritage, and  experts say a frank debate about immigration may be the best way  to prevent similar explosions of violence.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The New York hotel maid who  accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempting  to rape her said in an interview published on Newsweek’s  website yesterday that he appeared as a “crazy man” and  attacked her when she entered his room.

WENZHOU, China, (Reuters) –     China sacked three  senior railway officials yesterday after a collision between two  high-speed trains killed at least 35 people and raised new  questions about the safety of the fast-growing rail network.

SUNDVOLLEN (Reuters) – Norwegian police searched for more victims and a possible second gunman yesterday after a suspected right-wing zealot killed up to 98 people in a shooting spree and bomb attack.

(Reuters) – The man suspected of Norway’s gun and bomb massacre liked guns and weight-lifting, had belonged to an anti-immigration party and opposed multi-culturalism, Islam and the “cultural Marxists” of the establishment.

DADAAB, Kenya (Reuters) – Aid agencies cannot reach more than two million Somalis facing starvation in the famine-struck country where Islamist militants control much of the worst-hit areas, the UN’s food agency said yesterday.

BEIJING (Reuters) – At least 32 people died when a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train in China’s eastern Zhejiang province yesterday, state media said, raising new questions about the safety of the fast-growing rail network.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Scores of people were injured in Cairo yesterday when thousands of demonstrators fought opponents with stones on their march to the Defence Ministry to urge their military rulers to speed up reforms, witnesses said.

LONDON (Reuters) – Amy Winehouse, one of the most talented singers of her generation whose hit song “Rehab” summed up her struggles with addiction, died in London yesterday at the age of 27.

OSLO, (Reuters) – A gunman dressed in police uniform  opened fire at a youth camp of Norway’s ruling political party  yesterday, killing at least 80 people, hours after a bomb killed  seven in the government district in the capital Oslo.

NESLANDET, Norway, (Reuters) – Norwegian teenagers  at a lakeside summer camp fled screaming in panic, many leaping  into the water to save themselves, when an attacker dressed as a  policeman began spraying them with gunfire.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker John  Boehner broke off talks with President Barack Obama yesterday  on a deficit-reduction deal to prevent a devastating default  and said he would try to hammer out an agreement through the  Senate.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Euro zone leaders have agreed  on a bold rescue package for debt-stricken Greece and will give  their financial rescue fund sweeping new powers to prevent  market instability spreading through the region.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Efforts to craft a broad $3  trillion deficit-reduction deal gained traction yesterday as  the White House and top lawmakers scrambled to sort through  competing options and stave off a devastating U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters)- Scotland Yard investigators have  cryptic financial records corroborating suspicions that former  News of the World editor Andy Coulson knew about illegal  payments to police officers, a source with knowledge of the  matter told Reuters.