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Rescuers search for victims at the site where an Indonesian air force transport plane crashed in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. The Hercules C-130 plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in the country's third-largest city on June 30.   North Sumatra Regional Military Commander Maj. Gen. Edi Rahmayadi told reporters at Medan's Adam Malik hospital that the search and rescue operations have now ended. Rahmayadi said Wednesday that the investigation at the crash site, a residential area where the C-130 Hercules planes plowed into houses shortly after takeoff Tuesday, was continuing. ADVERTISEMENT He said about 500 personnel from the army, navy and air force, supported by 200 police, took part in the search. 3 p.m. Indonesia's air force chief Air Marshal Agus Supriatna told reporters the crashed C-130 was only authorized to carry military personnel and their families. He said he would investigate allegations of paying passengers. A ...

                         Two suicide bombers this morning attacked the Molai Leprosy/General Hospital in Maiduguri, Borno state. They only killed themselves and injured two others. Eyewitnesses say the first suicide bomber detonated his explosives as he tried to gain access into the hospital while the second one detonated his behind the hospital.

                        South Sudanese government soldiers patrol in Bentiu town, South Sudan. South Sudan’s army has burned people alive, raped and shot girls, and forced tens of thousands from their homes, according to interviews with survivors by The Associated Press and corroborated by human rights groups.  South Sudan's army has burned people alive, raped and shot girls, and forced tens of thousands from their homes, according to interviews with survivors by The Associated Press and corroborated by human rights groups. The scorched earth campaign is apparently aimed at driving civilians out of the rebel-controlled parts of an oil-rich state, according to Human Rights Watch. South Sudan's military is trying to depopulate the rural areas of Unity state through violence and hunger, said the group. The tactics, which include the alleged burning of grain...

Smoke rises following an explosion by an airstrike in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula, as seen from the Israel-Egypt Border, in Kerem Shalom town, southern Israel, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Islamic militants on Wednesday unleashed a wave of simultaneous attacks, including suicide car bombings, on Egyptian army checkpoints in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, killing tens of soldiers, security and military officials said. Army trucks carry Egyptian tanks in a military convoy in El Arish, Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula. Islamic militants on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 unleashed a wave of simultaneous attacks, including suicide car bombings, on Egyptian army checkpoints in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 50 soldiers, security and military officials said.

we knew it from the first moment," Sampaoli told reporters. "It's an incredible dream and even more so as hosts. Sampaoli said nerves had made the win more difficult than needed, even with Chile one man up for most of the match. "Confusion complicated us in a game that we should have secured much earlier," he added. "Of all our Copa games this was the most difficult because we didn't know how to define." Peru coach Ricardo Gareca praised the hosts, saying Chile were "a firm candidate (to win the Copa), it was from the beginning and continues to be." Leading Chile to the Copa America final was a dream come true for coach Jorge Sampaoli, who felt relief after the hosts overcame nerves to secure victory over 10-man Peru on Monday. Eduardo Vargas scored a double to fire Chile to a 2-1 win at Santiago's National Stadium over a gallant Peru, who had Carlos Zambrano dismissed early in the first half. Chile will play the wi...

The new Uefa rules are clearly intended to attract investors. Since the introduction of Financial Fair Play in 2011 clubs have basically been ordered to live within their means. Uefa says that European clubs' overall debt has been cut from 1.7 billion euros ($1.89 billion) in 2011 to 487 million euros in 2014. Uefa president Michel Platini insisted that the new fair play is "an expansion and a strengthening" of the rules. "The overall objectives of financial fair play remain the same. We are just evolving from a period of austerity to one where we can offer more opportunities for sustainable growth and development," he said. But Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino acknowledged legal challenges made against the rules and doubts raised by some clubs about the restrictions. "This is what we were hearing: 'Why should we invest if it's forbidden. If I invest I am in breach (of fair play and) there are consequences,'" Infan...

Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday pledged a wide response to extremism, describing Britain as being united in grief over the beach massacre in Tunisia. Fifteen Britons are confirmed dead, but officials have warned that could rise as high as 30, making it the worst terror attack on U.K. citizens since the July 7, 2005, London transport attacks that killed 52 commuters. Cameron insisted the nation would not be cowed. To our shock and grief we must add another word: resolve. Unshakeable resolve. We will stand up for our way of life," Cameron wrote. "So ours must be a full-spectrum response - a response at home and abroad; in the immediate aftermath and far into the future." Some 600 British counterterrorism police — one of the force's largest such deployments in recent years — have been deployed as part of the investigation into Friday's attack at the Imperial Marhaba Hotel in the beach resort of Sousse. Officers have also been deployed at airports...