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AMSTERDAM - The man who drove his car into a crowd of parade spectators and killed six people died of his injuries yesterday, leaving unresolved the mystery of why he tried to attack the Dutch royal family.

The 38-year-old suspect, identified by Dutch media as Karst Tates, had been in critical condition since the attack Thursday on Queen's Day, the Dutch national holiday.

Hours after Tates' death during the night, the Defense Ministry announced that a 55-year-old driver for the military police, Roel Nijenhuis, also died of his injuries. Five bystanders died Thursday.

Ten other people were hurt when the man rammed his small black car through police barricades toward an open-topped bus carrying Queen Beatrix and several other members of the royal family.

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PARIS - Hundreds of thousands of European workers feeling the pinch of the economic crisis rallied at May Day protests yesterday from Moscow to Berlin to Istanbul. Violence and clashes between police and angry protesters disrupted some events, including in Greece, Germany, and Turkey.

However, overall participation fell short of what many countries' unions had hoped for on May Day, a public holiday in many countries that has long celebrated the social and economic achievements of labor movements.

In Moscow, several thousand communist supporters gathered near a statue of Karl Marx and called for the government to resign, accusing it of ignoring the needs of everyday Russians and mismanaging the economy.

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CARACAS, Venezuela - Hundreds of Venezuelan police and National Guard troops broke up an opposition march in the capital yesterday with volleys of tear gas and water-cannon blasts. Thousands of opponents of President Hugo Chavez retreated as clouds of gas spread out over a downtown avenue.

City health official Ivon Lamprea said that at least 15 people suffered minor injuries, including a police officer whose hand was injured and a protester who was hit in the face by an object. She said the rest were treated for tear-gas inhalation.

Police pursued demonstrators into side streets, including one group of several dozen who sat down in protest. Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma, a leading Chavez opponent, rose and raised a copy of the constitution above his head before police dispersed the group by spraying water and tear gas.

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At least 18 people have died in a scorching heat wave that has swept through more than a dozen Indian states, the weather department and officials said yesterday. The highest temperature of about 118 degrees was recorded Thursday at Khandua in the central Madhya Pradesh state.