Briefs | Cable car crashes in tourist resort

Police say four Indian tourists and a local resident died when a cable car came crashing down from a height of at least 30 meters after derailing from a pulley in the tourist resort of Gulmarg in the Indian portion of Kashmir. Senior police officer Imtiyaz Hussain says that four other people were injured in the accident yesterday. One of the injured was in critical condition. Hussain said the dead included a New Delhi couple and their two children

Vietnam exiles dissident

Vietnamese authorities have deported a dissident after stripping him of his Vietnamese citizenship, drawing criticism from international human rights groups. The California-based Vietnam Reform Party, or Viet Tan, said its member Pham Minh Hoang was forcibly taken from his home in southern Ho Chi Minh City on Friday evening and placed on a flight to Paris on Saturday.

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