Eight dead as landslides hit Japan’s Hiroshima, 13 missing

An aerial view shows several landslides that swept through a residential area at Asaminami ward in Hiroshima, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 20, 2014.  Mandatory credit REUTERS/Kyodo

An aerial view shows several landslides that swept through a residential area at Asaminami ward in Hiroshima, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 20, 2014. Mandatory credit REUTERS/Kyodo

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Two shot dead, another injured at North Carolina’s Wingate University as campus goes into lockdown

Police investigate a shooting near Wingate University on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, in Wingate, N.C. Authorities at the university have lifted a lockdown following reports of the shooting near the entrance to the school

Police investigate a shooting near Wingate University on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, in Wingate, N.C. Authorities at the university have lifted a lockdown following reports of the shooting near the entrance to the school

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Florida man kills self after fatally shooting wife and son with crossbow: cops

Pedro Maldonado, 53, is considered armed and dangerous after his son and the teen’s mother were found murdered inside their Weston home on Tuesday.

Pedro Maldonado, 53, is considered armed and dangerous after his son and the teen’s mother were found murdered inside their Weston home on Tuesday.

Pedro Maldonado, 53, slit his own throat in the bathroom of a Lake City motel room early Wednesday – hours after he killed his wife, Monica Narvaez-Maldonado, and their 17-year-old son, Pedro Maldonado Jr., cops said. The crazed man then drove to Tallahassee, where he attacked an older son – Jose Maldonado, 21 – but the Florida State University student managed to get away.

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Radical Islamists arrested in Moscow with bombs, hand grenades and guns seized

File picture shows police and Interior Ministry troops in central Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

Russia’s interior ministry said on Wednesday its agents had detained 14 radical Islamists in Moscow who belonged to a banned offshoot of the Al-Qaeda terror network.

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Father, 7-month-old son killed in shooting on Crescent City Connection, Louisiana

New Orleans police examine a car with a shot-out rear window as they investigate a shooting on the Crescent City Connection which left a man and an infant dead on Wednesday, November 13, 2013. (Michael DeMocker, Nola.com / The Times-Picayune)

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