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An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 struck Tuesday in the Gulf of California, off the coast of the Baja California Peninsula in northwestern Mexico, officials said.

The father of massacre suspect Anders Behring Breivik said his son should have killed himself instead of allegedly going on the rampage that left 76 people dead. GRIEF OVERWHELMS NORWAY | LATEST DEVELOPMENTS |

The Norwegian massacre suspect Anders Behring Breivik was “a little bit surprised” that he was able to pull off a bombing and shooting rampage in which he is accused of killing 76 people in total, his lawyer said Tuesday. GRIEF OVERWHELMS NORWAY | LATE…

Twenty people were killed Tuesday when a Moroccan C-130 military plane crashed in the southern part of the country, state-run Agence Maghreb Arabe Presse reported.

Gaza’s ruling Hamas government said Tuesday it executed two Palestinian men for collaborating with Israel.

Firefighters battled a blaze caused by NATO airstrikes at a food-storage complex Monday in Zlitan, increasingly a front-line city in the conflict between Libyan government troops and rebels fighting to oust longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi.

To borrow the title of Sebastian Junger’s book, a “perfect storm” helped lead to the extremist thinking of Norway massacre suspect Anders Behring Breivik.