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Egypt humdiug —A powerful blast ripped through a police headquarters in anEgyptian Nile Delta city Tuesdaywhile top security officials met to work out arrangements for an upcoming constitutional referendum, killing 15 peopleand wounding more than100 in the deadliest bombing yet in acampaign of violence blamed on Islamic militants. The attack underlined the vulnerability of Egypt's police and their weakness in keeping security amid fears of increased militant violence in the lead-up to the Jan. 14-15referendum. Thevote is a key step in the country's political transition after the military's ouster of Islamist President MohammedMorsi in July.
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Pope Francis places astatue of baby Jesus in a manger as hecelebrates Christmas EveMassTuesday in St. Peter's Basilica at theVatican. Pope Francis hailed God's guiding power andurged the faithful to be selfless as heconducted Christmas celebrations Tuesdayfor the first time since his elec-
tion this year as leader of the world's1.2 billion Catholics. In a changefrom practice, he personally kissed and placed ababy Jesus in a manger at the start the solemn service. At the end,Francis placed the statue in a nativity scene, then kissed agroup of children on their foreheads.
Shuwduh: I 'wuu' —Keeping a mostly low-profile as a U.S. fugitive in Moscow, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowdenhassuddenly resurfaced in the media, saying he is confident his personal "mission is already accomplished" and he has "already won" after leaking NSAsecrets. The challenge now, he believes, is to stress the importance of privacy and urge anendto mass government surveillance. Snowdengave amore than14-hour interview to TheWashington Post, which says it's the first he has conducted in person since arriving in the Russian capital in June. He follows that up byspeaking directly to the British public in a televised message that will be broadcast today as an alternative to the queen's annual Christmas speech.
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JUBA, South Sudan — The security forces went house to
Christmas even aselectrical crews raced Tuesday to restore service to homes after a weekendice storm caused widespread blackouts. In Michigan, more than200,000 households remained without electricity Tuesdayevening — about 50,000 of those in the Detroit area, according to power companies. Thousands of homes inMaine, Vermont and upstate NewYork were also likely to bewithout power today, electric companies said.
SpaCe StatiOn repairS —NASAastronauts onTuesdaycom-
erate further.
"We have seen the signs
pleted urgent repairs to the cooling system of the International Space Station that should return it to normal operation within a fewdays. In a 7t/z-hour spacewalk, their second in four days, the astronauts, Col. Michael Hopkins of the Air Forceand Richard Mastracchio, installed a new pump module onthe outside of the spacestation. The module, a 780-pound box about the size of arefrigerator, contains a pump and accompanying apparatus that circulate ammonia coolant through one of two loops on the station.
vivors said. Some were sum- spent billions of dollars trying want to see any development marily shot in the street, they to turn one of the poorest na- of this nature taking hold in said, while others were hauled
off to crowded cells. Bodies of the executed were tossed into shallow graves,one recalled. Another jail where civilians had been taken reeked of death, a witness said. "We thought that the war
tions in the world into a viable state, but the country has long
historical analogies fresh in been strained by deep internal our minds," Johnson said, in a divisions. seeming reference to conflicts The latest conflict began in Bosnia or Rwanda. last week after President Salvice president, Riek Machar, of trying to stage a coup. Skir-
diers," said Peter Nhial, 30, one
mishes rooted in politics then
of many in a crowd of desperate people to describe attacks
spiraled with shocking speed into attacks based on ethnicity,
on civilians.
victims said. Kiir is a member
ter political tensions between South Sudan's leaders erupted
into clashes in the streets of the
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of the Dinka ethnic group, the country's largest. Machar is a Nuer. The mistrust between the
two groups has laid bare how much of the fledging nation's which longstanding ethnic ¹i cohesion was defined by oppovisions are fueling the violence sition to the Sudanese governcapital, the crisis has broadened into a societal conflict in
and civilians are often the tar-
— Fromwirereports
va Kiir accused his former
was fought between the sol-
Little more than a week af-
this country, and we have the
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gets, not accidental victims, of a broad sense of unity and nathe fighting. tional identity. On Ttfesday, the top United
Survivors at a displaced-per-
Nations human rights official, Navi Pillay, expressed deep concern about"the serious and growing human rights viola-
sons camp in a U.N. compound and impromptu language tests being given by security forc-
tions" taking place in the coun-
es to determine which ethnic
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group people came from — an exchange they said could de-
arrests of hundreds of civilians
termine life or death.
in Juba spoke of mass arrests
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said that boys who had left the
compound looking for food had disappeared, and that at on the basis of their ethnicity least 2,000 people, including and arbitrary detentions have relatives of the people huddled been documented in recent here, were unaccounted for. days," she said in a statement.
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"We have discovered a mass they are alive or they have grave" in one state, she added, been killed," he said. "and there are reportedly at Deng Wang, 34, had a white least two other mass graves in bandage on top of his head Juba." where, he said, he was struck Hours later, the United ¹
with a machete,and a deep
tions Security Council voted to gouge in his forehead that he nearly double its peacekeeping said came from the tip of a riforce in South Sudan, hoping fle. Soldiers had come to his that a rapid influx of interna- home last week and arrested tional forces would help quell him, tying his hands and tak-
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ing him with about 200 other
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"We have reports of horrific attacks," he said, asserting
adding that there were casualties, but that he did not yet
that the attacks on civilians
know the full extent of them.
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