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Two blasts rock Istanbul, killing 13

ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) — Two deadly explosions rocked suburban Istanbul Sunday night, killing at least 13 people and injuring 70 others, a government official told CNN Turk.

Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler called the blasts an act of terror.

The back-to-back blasts happened in Istanbul’s Gungoren community at about 10 p.m., a journalist with Turkish news agency DHA told CNN Turk.

The journalist, Zafer Karakoc, said he witnessed the explosions.

Video footage from the scene shows several bloodied people being transported into ambulances.

Dozens of firefighters and paramedics were on the scene. Watch footage of the scene

Glass and debris were strewn all over the brick sidewalks.

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The Mayor of Ijevan vs. “Hetq”

in its may 26th number “hetq” published an article by voskan sargsyan, its reporter in the tavush marz, entitled, “who is pocketing the profits from the sand lode?”. the article exposed facts regarding the criminal extraction of from the white water reservoir, built along the aghstev river at the southern entrance to the municipality of ijevan. the reporter substantiated his information on site and both photographed and videotaped the unreserved mining and transportation mission. mr. sargsyan also spoke to workers at the reservoir and submitted a list of written questions to those mixed up with in order to acquire some licensed response regarding what was taking place.

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Gunman critically wounds 7 in Tennessee church

(CNN) — Detectives in Knoxville, Tennessee were questioning a man suspected of shooting and critically wounding seven people in a horrendous attack at a Unitarian church Sunday morning, a police spokesman said.

The shooting was reported at 10:18 a.m. Sunday at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Deputy Police Chief Bill Roehl said. The suspect was taken into custody shortly after police arrived and was being questioned at the church, Roehl said.

To our knowledge right now, he is the lone suspect in this case, Roehl said.

The seven gunshot victims were taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center, just across the Tennessee River from the church, said Capt. Brent Seymour, a Knoxville Fire Department spokesman. About 12 others were treated for minor injuries at the church, he said. Map

The church was scheduled to stage a children’s production of the musical Annie on Sunday morning, but all of the wounded appeared to be adults, Seymour said.

A woman who answered the phone at the church after the shooting would not comment, citing investigators’ requests. But Roehl said many of those still at the church were very calm as detectives went over the sanctuary-turned-crime scene.

It’s terrible that you come to church do worship and something like this occurs, he said. It’s very horrendous.

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Second typhoon bears down on Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese stacked sand bags at doors and boarded up windows Sunday as Typhoon Fung Wong approached the island, whipping up waves along its coast and triggering a rock slide that injured a man.

Moving northwest toward the island, the tropical storm has gained strength over the past 24 hours and developed into a typhoon packing winds of 85 miles per hour, the Central Weather Bureau said.

If it stays on its present course, it will hit central and eastern Taiwan early Monday, the bureau said.

Late Sunday afternoon, the storm was centered about 180 miles southeast of the coastal city of Hualien in eastern Taiwan, it said.

Rain and wind lashed Hualien on Sunday, triggering a rock slide in the scenic Taroko Gorge that injured a man, police said.

In Keelung in northern Taiwan, winds whipped up giant waves, and hundreds of fishing boats took shelter in port.

Fung Wong roared toward Taiwan just a week after tropical storm Kalmaegi killed 19 people and left six others missing on the island.

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Kiefer to face Nadal in Rogers Cup final

TORONTO, Ontario (AP) — Rafael Nadal beat Andy Murray 7-6 (2), 6-3 to reach the final of the Rogers Cup on Saturday night and put himself in line for his seventh title of the year.

He’ll face Nicolas Kiefer, who reached the championship match with a 6-7 (4), 6-3, 7-6 (5) win over France’s Gilles Simon in the first semifinal.

Nadal, winner of his first hardcourt title at the Rogers Cup in 2005, won the French Open and Wimbledon this year. He’s on a 28-match winning streak.

You know, he’s definitely doing a lot of things better than he was in the past, Murray said of Nadal. I think he’s moving better on hard courts, and I think he’s sort of changing the pace of the ball a little bit more and not playing so far behind the baseline like he did in the past.

That’s why I think he’ll be No. 1 in the world soon.

First he has to beat Kiefer. In three career meetings, all this year, he’s never lost a set to Kiefer.

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