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Last Updated: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:10:29 EDT

China floods push chemicals into river Rising waters from flooding in northeastern China hit a chemical plant and washed thousands of containers filled with explosive chemicals into a river, state media said Thursday. 07/29/2010 04:43 AM Priest stabbed to death in Mexico church, police say An 80-year-old Roman Catholic priest was found stabbed to death in his church in the city of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, CNNMexico.com reported Thursday, citing state police. 07/29/2010 07:42 AM Somali pirates release Turkish cargo ship Somali pirates have released a Turkish cargo ship that they had held since March 23, the European Naval Force in Somalia said Thursday. 07/29/2010 07:35 AM Police: Top drug lieutenant seized in Mexico A top lieutenant in a Mexican drug cartel has been arrested in northern Mexico, federal police said in a statement Wednesday. 07/29/2010 07:19 AM South Korean prime minister offers to resign a second time South Korea's prime minister has offered to resign for a second time, the prime minister's office said Thursday, after failure to win parliamentary approval to stop relocation of government offices out of the capital, Seoul. 07/29/2010 04:12 AM Police question French labor minister in L'Oreal probe French Labor Minister Eric Woerth is being questioned by police in connection with their investigation into the finances of L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, the prosecutor's office in Nanterre, France, said Thursday. 07/29/2010 05:17 AM French couple held after infants' bodies found French national police Tuesday detained a couple after the bodies of eight newborn babies were found in northern France, some in a home and others in the garden of another home, the French Interior Ministry said. 07/29/2010 05:55 AM Athens tense after strikers ordered back to work The Greek capital was tense Thursday after the government ordered truck drivers back to work following a three-day strike. 07/29/2010 07:08 AM Pakistan observes day of mourning Pakistan observed a day of mourning Thursday for the 152 people who died when a passenger plane went down in the outskirts of the capital Islamabad the day before. 07/29/2010 02:47 AM Leaks pose security concern for Afghans U.S. military officials are assessing what damage could be done to intelligence contacts in Afghanistan after a number of names of local Afghans working with the U.S. military appeared on documents leaked by the WikiLeaks website, according to a U.S. military official. 07/29/2010 04:35 AM