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| Two inmates dead, scores injured, in suspected gas explosion at Florida jail | | | By Eric M. Johnson REUTERS - Two inmates were killed and between 100 and 150 prisoners and guards injured in an apparent gas explosion at a jail in northern Florida late on Wednesday, a county official said. The blast partly levelled the four-story Escambia County Jail's central booking facility, which held roughly 600 inmates, at about 11 p.m., county spokeswoman Kathleen Castro said. "The building is still standing, its just unstable and partially collapsed," Castro told Reuters, describing the incident as an "apparent gas explosion". There was no fire," she said, adding that the blast may have been related to severe storms that have hit the southern United States. |
| Riot police clash with May Day protesters in Istanbul | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley and Evrim Ergin ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber pellets on Thursday to try to stop thousands of people, some armed with fire bombs and fireworks, from defying a ban on May Day rallies and reaching Istanbul's central Taksim square. Citing security fears, authorities shut parts of the city's public transport system and deployed thousands of riot police, blocking access to Taksim, a traditional union rallying point and the focus of weeks of anti-government protests last summer. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who warned last week against efforts to march on Taksim, has cast both last year's street protests and a corruption scandal dogging his government since December as part of a plot to undermine him. The Istanbul governor's office said it had advance information that "illegal terror organisations and their extensions" would resort to violence to stoke unrest.
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| Two attackers among three killed in China bombing | |  By Michael Martina URUMQI China (Reuters) - Two of the assailants who carried out a bombing in western China were among the three people killed, state media said on Thursday, in an attack which also wounded 79 and has raised concerns over its apparent sophistication and daring. The People's Daily, the official newspaper of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, said on its official microblog that "two mobsters set off bombs on their bodies and died", though the report did not call it a suicide bombing. Knives and explosives were used in the assault on a railway station in Urumqi on Wednesday, the first bomb attack in the capital of Xinjiang region in 17 years. The attack was carried out soon after the arrival of a train from a mainly Han Chinese province, state media said.
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| Thai government supporters fear July poll disruption | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai government supporters welcomed on Thursday the prospect of a July election and said the Election Commission had to prevent disruption by anti-government protesters who insist that reforms are brought in before any vote. The government and Election Commission agreed on Wednesday to hold a general election on July 20 but there are doubts an orderly vote can be held or can end a long-running political crisis and restore investor confidence. "Protesters could block the polls and the result could be nullified again." A Feb. 2 election was held after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved parliament in December in response to street protests aimed at ousting her. But the main opposition party boycotted the polls and protesters prevented voting in 28 constituencies.
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| Ukraine's restive east slipping from government's grasp | |  By Marko Djurica HORLIVKA Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Moscow separatists seized government offices in more Ukrainian towns on Wednesday, in a further sign that authorities in Kiev are losing control of the country's eastern industrial heartland bordering Russia. Gunmen who turned up at dawn took control of official buildings in Horlivka, a town of almost 300,000 people, said a Reuters photographer. The heavily armed men wore the same military uniforms without insignia as other unidentified "green men" who have joined pro-Russian protesters with clubs and chains in seizing control of towns across Ukraine's Donbass coal and steel belt. Some 30 pro-Russian separatists also seized a city council building in Alchevsk, further east in Luhansk region, Interfax-Ukraine news agency said.
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