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BADRASHEEN, Egypt - President Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday pledged to hold officials accountable for a deadly train wreck that fueled anger against his administration for failing to carry out reform and overhaul the nation's deteriorating public services.

Nineteen Egyptian soldiers were killed and more than 100 others were injured early Tuesday 12 miles south of Cairo. Part of the rear car rested by the side of the road. Shoes and remains of the soldiers' clothes and food were scattered along the tracks.

"My heart is bleeding for Egypt's martyrs and the injured and, God willing, this accident will be the last to sadden Egypt and Egyptians," Morsi said while visiting the injured at a military hospital in a Cairo suburb.

Witnesses said the last carriage of the train jumped the tracks and crashed into another train. The 12-carriage train was carrying more than 1,300 conscripted Egyptian soldiers heading north to Cairo from Assuit province in the south. The cause of the crash is being investigated. - AP

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The world's largest platinum producer said Tuesday it would close some operations, sell one mine in South Africa, and cut 14,000 jobs, just months after mining strikes killed dozens of people.

Anglo American Platinum said that a nearly yearlong review found that four mine shafts needed to be closed and one mine sold because of unprofitable operations. The government's minister of mines and the National Union of Mineworkers, NUM, expressed surprise at the announcement.

About 46 people were killed during a six-week period of violent strikes at Lonmin's platinum mine last year in Marikana, South Africa, when miners demanded higher wages. In the most shocking incident, police fired into a crowd of striking miners Aug. 16, killing 34 people. - AP

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber assassinated a Sunni lawmaker in western Iraq on Tuesday, raising tensions in a part of the country that has been roiled by weeks of demonstrations. Seven people were killed in the attack.

While it was unclear who carried out the attack, the killing is likely to further strain relations between the central government and minority Sunnis who have been demanding reforms to policies they believe unfairly target their sect. Suicide bombings are frequently the work of Sunni extremists.

The governor of Anbar province, Qassim al-Fahdawi, said that lawmaker Ifan Saadoun al-Issawi was killed on his way to join one of the antigovernment protests when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the restive city of Fallujah. - AP