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The man accused of killing at least 93 people in Norway said he carried out the bombing and mass shooting and acted alone, authorities said today. The suspect has not pleaded guilty.

For Norwegians still in shock from Friday’s horrific attacks, there is a sense they have woken up in a country that has “lost its innocence.” FULL STORY | Authorities: Suspect confesses | Suspect’s manifesto

An Iranian graduate student was killed in an attack this weekend in front of his Tehran house, Iranian media said Sunday.

The suspect in the bombing and mass shooting in Norway believed the terrorist attacks were “horrible,” but “in his head (they) were necessary,” a man who identified himself as the suspect’s lawyer said Saturday.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in his home country from Cuba, where he underwent cancer treatment, the Venezuelan state-run broadcaster VTV reported Saturday.

A high-speed bullet train collision in eastern China’s Zhejiang province Saturday left 33 people dead , state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

Protesters and residents clashed in Cairo’s Abbasiya neighborhood Saturday, leaving at least two dozen people with injuries serious enough to be taken to area hospitals, a health ministry official said.

At least 15 were killed in shootouts over the past two days in Karachi, police said, the latest victims in a surge of deadly violence that has gripped Pakistan’s largest city and commercial capital.

Three times, Adrian Pracon prepared to die on Utoya island, a Norwegian paradise turned to hell Friday. Friends he laughed with earlier in the day fell one by one in a gunman’s hail of fire.