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Bangladesh rescue operation near end; collapse death toll at 1,127

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshi salvage workers neared on Monday the end of their search for victims of the collapse of a factory building, scouring the basement of the complex that crumbled in on itself killing 1,127 people. That toll from the world's worst industrial accident since the Bhopal disaster in India in 1984 could be the final one as no more bodies were found on Monday, a spokesman at the army control room coordinating the salvage operation said.

Nineteen shot in New Orleans Mother's Day parade

(Reuters) - Nineteen people including two children were shot in New Orleans on Sunday when gunfire erupted at a Mother's Day parade, and city police said they were searching for three suspects. Ten men, seven woman, a girl and a boy both age 10 were hit when wild gunfire opened up at about 1:45 p.m. as the parade marched along North Villere Street, according to police spokesman Garry Flot.

Car bomb explodes outside hospital in Libya's Benghazi

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded outside a hospital in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi on Monday, a witness said, striking a crowded area in the middle of the day. "I saw people running and some of them were collecting parts of bodies," the witness said.

Yemeni tribesmen kidnap Swiss aid worker: security source

ADEN (Reuters) - Armed Yemeni tribesmen on Monday kidnapped a Swiss citizen working for the Red Cross in the southern province of Abyan, a Yemeni security source said. The aid worker was taken from a vehicle in the city of Jaar where he was travelling with Yemeni co-workers and there had been no demands from the tribesmen, the security source said.

Iran expects 'progress' in U.N. nuclear talks, West skeptical

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran expects progress will be made in talks this week with the United Nations' atomic agency, Tehran's nuclear envoy said on Monday, but Western diplomats held out little hope of an end to the deadlock. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been trying for more than a year to coax Iran into letting it resume a stalled investigation into suspected atomic bomb research by Tehran, which denies any aims to make nuclear weapons.

Bulgarian parties struggle to form government

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian parties tried to cobble together a government on Monday after an election delivered a split parliament and left the European Union's poorest country in political stalemate. Other parties were reluctant to work with center-right GERB, which won 30.7 percent of votes cast on Sunday and will have first go at forming a government. Nearly complete results showed an unpredictable nationalist group had the balance of power.

Gaddafi cousin goes on trial in Egypt for attempted murder

CAIRO (Reuters) - A cousin of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi went on trial in Egypt on Monday on charges of attempted murder in a case that has blocked his extradition to Libya. Ahmed Gaddaf Alddam is accused of opening fire on police when they went to detain him at his residence in Cairo in March in accordance with an Interpol arrest warrant.

Sharif poised to form government after Pakistan poll

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Toppled in a 1999 military coup, jailed and exiled, Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif has made a triumphant election comeback and looks set to form a stable government capable of implementing reforms needed to rescue the fragile economy. Sharif may not win enough seats to rule on his own but has built up enough momentum to avoid having to form a coalition with his main rivals, former cricketer Imran Khan's Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP).

After bombings,Turkey says world must act against Syria

REYHANLI, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey accused a group with links to Syrian intelligence of carrying out car bombings that killed 46 people in a Turkish border town, and said on Sunday it was time for the world to act against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The two car bombs, which ripped through crowded shopping streets in Reyhanli on Saturday, increased fears that Syria's civil war is dragging in neighboring states, despite renewed diplomatic moves to end it.

Nationalists cash in on Bulgarians' unhappiness

SOFIA (Reuters) - A Bulgarian nationalist party which has protested against the Roma minority and wants to nationalize foreign-owned firms has emerged as a kingmaker from an election on Sunday by tapping into voters' disillusionment with mainstream politicians. Volen Siderov, leader of Attack, stepped up rhetoric and populist pledges to improve the lives of poor Bulgarians after the previous government resigned in February in the face of demonstrations and self-immolations.

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