FBI release Boston Marathon bomb details |
Images show a backpack and apparent fragments of a pressure cooker as bureau probes attack that left three people dead.
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Law enforcement officials in the US say they have recovered forensic evidence that suggests the two explosive devices which ripped through participants of the Boston Marathon on Monday may have been inside heavy black nylon bags.
Investigators who found pieces of black nylon at the scene suspect the bombs used in the attack were in dark-coloured bags that would have been heavy to carry.
Speaking at a joint law enforcement news conference on Tuesday, Richard DesLauriers, the FBI special agent in charge of the case, said that investigators had received "voluminous tips" and were interviewing witnesses and were analysing the crime scene.
DesLauriers pledged "we will go to the ends of the Earth" to find whoever carried out the deadly attack on one of the city's most famous civic holidays, Patriots Day.
Authorities served a warrant on a suburban Boston home and appealed for any images or audio of the blasts.
Earlier, Barack Obama, the US president, confirmed the FBI is investigating the Boston bombings as an "act of terror"
Rescuers head to site of earthquake near Iran-Pakistan border
Dozens feared dead after 7.8-magnitude quake strikes near city of Khash and sends tremors as far as India and Gulf states
Rescue teams were on their way to remote border regions between Iranand Pakistan on Tuesday night, after a powerful earthquake struck.
Though tremors were felt across the Gulf region, Pakistan and well into north-west India after the quake happened at 3.14pm (11.44am UK time), local authorities said there were only limited casualties. However, it was the biggest earthquake in Iran for 40 years and there were fears of massive casualties yet to be reported.
A Pakistani military official said his initial information was that 34 people had been killed and 80 injured in the country, saying all of the dead and injured so far were in the town of Mashkal.
Child food issues stunting progress in global welfare
Dublin conference on hunger, nutrition and climate justice to address the hidden injustice of stunted child development
Anthony Lake and Tom Arnold
It is entirely fitting that Ireland is hosting the international Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Justice in Dublin today and tomorrow.
Fitting because it was here, in Ireland, that a historic injustice took place – the Great Hunger of 1845-1852, in which one million human beings died, many of them children.
And fitting because Ireland has been, and is, a leader in the global fight against another great social injustice: stunting.
If you have never heard of stunting, you are by no means alone. A vast human tragedy, it is one of the least reported, least recognised, least understood issues before us.
RUSSIA
Opposition leader and Putin foe Navalny goes on trial in Russia
Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny has gone on trial on embezzlement charges he says were ordered by Vladimir Putin. The drama is not being played out in Moscow, but a small northwestern town 900 kilometers away.
Navalny, who is 36, is the most prominent Russian opposition leader to be tried since protests against Putin began 16 months ago.
He is accused of stealing around 16 million roubles (388,500 euros) from a timber company in the Kirov region in 2009, while working as an advisor to the local governor. Navalny, himself an anti-corruption blogger, faces up to 10 years in jail. He denies the charges and has accused Russian president Vladimir Putin of orchestrating the trial, and expects to be convicted.
Greater China
China's choppers fly under the radar
By Peter Wood and Cristina Garafola
By Peter Wood and Cristina Garafola
While much attention has been given to Chinese development of fixed-wing aircraft like the J-20 and J-31, relatively little has been devoted to China's helicopter development. On March 16, 2013, a CCTV television news segment featured a squadron of Z-10 helicopters in Jinan Military Region (MR), marking the fifth squadron of China's primary attack helicopter observed in public and the fourth squadron to appear since October of last year. [1] The other four squadrons are based out of Nanjing, Beijing, Guangdong and Shenyang MRs.
The Z-10 has been flying since at least 2003 and was revealed to the public in 2004. Now being deployed to units, the Z-10 is an
indicator that China is making more significant progress in terms of aerospace development than it is generally given credit for.
The Z-10 has been flying since at least 2003 and was revealed to the public in 2004. Now being deployed to units, the Z-10 is an
indicator that China is making more significant progress in terms of aerospace development than it is generally given credit for.
Why Venezuela is so divided
April 17, 2013 -- Updated 0313 GMT (1113 HKT)
Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) -- As if on cue, Ermelinda Briceno entered the makeshift shrine to Hugo Chavez and shed a tear. This place of reverence to "el Comandante," the president of Venezuela for 14 years, popped up in this poor neighborhood after Chavez's death last month.
Briceno said her devotion to Chavez is unshakable. But she understands why even some who supported the late president were reluctant to vote for his handpicked successor, Nicolas Maduro.
"I think a lot of people didn't know Maduro so they didn't vote (for him) but here we are, it was very close," Briceno said.
For this country of 29 million, struggling economically, the election was perhaps too close for comfort.
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