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The two-lane road linking the southern French village of Ramatuelle to the sparkling Mediterranean waters off Saint-Tropez snakes down through an idyllic jumble of twisted holm oak trees, jagged white rock, sunbaked farmhouses and acres of lush green vineyards. But this scenic stretch of Route Départementale...
"It's the kind of accident that happens every day when people drink, drive too fast or both," says Patrice Manzoni, who notes that the man who killed his uncle had a history of drunk driving. "All the guy got was a suspended jail sentence and license rescinded for three...
Improvements in infrastructure and automobile technology have helped diminish accident fatalities by nearly half since the 1970s in most E.U. countries (the exceptions being Spain, Greece and Portugal, where the number of cars and drivers significantly increased between 1985 and '95). But social attitudes, driver education and diligent enforcement are...
UKRAINE Mine Blast Ukraine President Leonid Kuchma promised to close all unsafe coal mines following an explosion that killed 20 miners?the third major mining accident in the country in recent weeks. The blast occurred 1,076 m below ground at the Zasyadko mine in the eastern Donetsk region when...
AFGHANISTAN Murder Attempt A man who narrowly failed to explode a car bomb in central Kabul was an al-Qaeda member attempting to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai, said local officials. Only a traffic accident prevented the half-ton bomb from going off in a high-security area that includes...