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  • World pays tribute to Holbrooke: "The Bulldozer"

    SLOBODAN LEKIC Associated Press

    Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, addresses an audience at the John F. Kennedy School of Government on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. on March 4. Holbrooke, a longtime U.S. diplomat who wrote part of the Pentagon Papers, was the architect of the 1995 Bosnia peace plan and served as President Barack Obama's special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, has died. He was 69. AP Photo/Steven Senne, File BRUSSELS (AP) — They remembered him as "The Bulldozer" — a U.S. dip...

  • At least 12 dead on Belgian train

    SLOBODAN LEKIC Associated Press Writer BRUSSELS

    Two commuter trains collided head-on Monday after one ran a stop light at rush hour in a Brussels suburb, killing at least 12 people and injuring 55, a Belgian official said. Other officials said the death toll was higher. The impact peeled away the front of one train car and threw at least one other off the tracks, causing amputations and other severe injuries, witnesses and officials said. Train service across Western Europe was disrupted. Lodewijk De Witte, the governor of the province of Flemish Brabant, told reporters...