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A regional newspaper in Mexico says the violence against journalists and the lack of punishment for those responsible is forcing it to stop printing.

In an editorial, Norte de Ciudad Juarez said Sunday's print edition would be its last.

Its editor said the digital version would also be closed "soon".

Miroslava Breach, a journalist who worked for the paper in Chihuahua city, was shot dead last month.

She was one of three journalists killed in Mexico in March.

Breach had reported extensively on the links between organised crime and politicians in Chihuahua state for Norte de Ciudad Juarez and for La Jornada, a national newspaper based in Mexico City.

She was shot eight times in her car outside her home in the state capital, Chihuahua.

One of her children was in the vehicle but was not hurt.

The gunmen left a note saying: "For being a loud-mouth."

Oscar Cantu, editor of Norte de Ciudad Juarez, said (in Spanish): "There are neither the guarantees nor the security to exercise critical, counterbalanced journalism."

"Everything in life has a beginning and an end, and a price to pay, and if the price is life, I am not prepared for any more of my collaborators to pay it, nor am I prepared to pay it either."

Mr Cantu did not specify when exactly the digital arm of the newspaper would close down except to say it would be "soon".

Thirty-five journalists have been murdered in Mexico because of their work since 1992, and a quarter of those were also tortured, the Committee to Protect Journalists says. Another three died on dangerous assignments.

In the same period, 50 journalists were killed in incidents where the motive was not clear.

Last month, the governor of the state of Chihuahua said his government did not have the means to tackle organised crime.

He said he had requested federal resources to help local police fight the drug cartels.
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At least 10 dead after train car explosion in St. Petersburg, Russia

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At least 11 people died today after a bomb exploded on a subway train traveling between two stations in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to the country's health minister.

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The blast, which took place at 2:40 p.m. local time, happened between the Sennaya Ploshad station and the Technological Institute station. At least 45 people were hospitalized from the blast.

Russia's Investigative Committee called it an "undetermined explosive device." The committee, which is the country's primary federal investigative authority, has opened a criminal probe into what it has classified as a terrorist attack.

Pictures showed passengers appearing to flee a smoke-filled station as well as what appeared to be a mangled train car.

An improvised explosive device rigged with shrapnel was also found in a third St. Petersburg station, the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station. It was defused by bomb technicians and no one was hurt, officials said.

Russia's Interfax news agency reported that authorities believe this was a suicide attack carried out by a 23-year-old from Central Asia. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said tonight that the suicide bomber theory has not been confirmed by investigators, according to state-run TASS news agency.

Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin has been briefed on the preliminary results of the investigation.

President Trump called the attack "a terrible thing."

"Terrible. Terrible thing. Happening all over the world. Absolutely a terrible thing," he said.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer today condemned the St. Petersburg attack, saying, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the injured as we extend our deepest condolences to the loved ones."

"Attacks like these on ordinary citizens going about their lives remind us that the world must work as one to combat violence in all forms," Spicer said at a White House press briefing in Washington. "The United States is prepared to offer assistance to Russia and may require investigating this crime."

Mark Toner, acting spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, said in a statement, "The United States condemns today's reprehensible attack on passengers of the St. Petersburg metro system. We extend our deepest condolences to the loved ones of those who were killed, and our thoughts and prayers are with those injured in the attack and with the Russian people."

Putin, who is in St. Petersburg for a forum, spoke in front of cameras after the explosion, alongside the president of Belarus, Aleksander Lukashenko.

"The causes are not yet clear, and so it's still early to talk about that, the investigation will show," Putin said. "But, naturally, we always examine all versions, ordinary and criminal - above all, incidents of a terrorist character."

The entire St. Petersburg subway system, which serves some 2 million riders a day, was shut down and evacuated. The subway system has since resumed operations.

Three days of mourning will be observed in St. Petersburg beginning Tuesday, according to Russian officials.

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At least 11 people died today after a bomb exploded on a subway train traveling between two stations in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to the country's health minister. The blast, which took place at 2:40 p.m. local time, happened between the Sennaya Ploshad station and the Technological...

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He calls it a hoax that needs to be taken care of

U.S. President Donald Trump wants to remove the Gas Guzzler Tax, according to a tweet he made today. Having called global warming a hoax in the past and promised to take the U.S. out of the historic Paris climate agreement, Trump now thinks that the Gas Guzzler Tax is also a hoax that must be eliminated.

"Just like global warming, the gas guzzler tax is a total hoax. It must go and I will take care of it," he said on his Twitter account.

Granted, a short statement on social media doesn't necessarily mean that Trump will actually remove the tax, especially given that he has changed his mind and denied his most controversial affirmations on many occasions, but he did sign an Energy Independence Executive Order that will reverse Obama's Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon emissions. Compared to that, eliminating the Gas Guzzler Tax is child's play.

Needless to say, Trump's tweet is far from surprising. In 2012, he used social media to claim that the concept of global warming "was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive," while in 2013 he called it "a total, and very expensive hoax. At some point he even went as far as to call global warming "bullshit" simply because the U.S. had "record low temps" and the "coldest weather in years" in 2014. His aggressive diatribe toward global warming continued in the presidential campaign. As soon as he was elected, he named a climate change skeptic to lead the EPA and announced plans to revisit fuel standards. Trumps administration also said it plans to cut funds for climate research because it is "a waste of money."

All told, eliminating the Gas Guzzler Tax seems like something Trump may want to do in the near future, but it remains to be seen whether he will find enough support to actually turn yet another tweet into law.
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Authorities are investigating after an Uber driver was shot when he was dropping off a customer.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police tell local media outlets the shooting happened at around 10 p.m. Saturday at an apartment complex in Ballantyne, a suburb of Charlotte.

Police say the driver dropped off a customer and then encountered someone who shot at him several times, hitting him once.

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An 11 year old girl who was kidnapped by her uncle was foumd by the police.

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Dawn Staley is going to savor her first NCAA championship. It took her a long time to finally be able to raise the trophy over her head.

A'ja Wilson scored 23 points to help coach Staley and South Carolina win their first national championship with a 67-55 victory over Mississippi State on Sunday night.

Staley made the Final Four three times as a player at Virginia but never won. She also led the Gamecocks to the national semifinals two years ago before losing to Notre Dame.

"It means that I can check off one of the things that had been a void in my career," said Staley wearing the championship net around her neck in the postgame press conference. "Something I wanted to do. It was one of two opportunities that I saw women play when I was younger - national championship games and Olympics. Those were things that I held dear and near to me growing up. Those were the things I saw and were shooting for."

Wilson, a native South Carolina player who was Staley's biggest recruit ever, was the key. She was thrilled to help Staley get her first title.

"I can't put into words how much it meant to win the game for coach," Wilson said. "She's put in so much time and sweat into this. ... It really means something special to bring this back home for such a great person like coach Staley."

Once the final buzzer sounded, Staley had a long group hug with her coaching staff and then grabbed the trophy and paraded it around the court high over her head. She cut down the final piece of the net, waving it to the huge throng of Gamecocks fans while Wilson and Kaela Davis danced with the South Carolina band playing.

"You have to give tribute to the former players," Staley said. "Go back to my Temple days, they believed in our vision. We took that vision to South Carolina and that vision was we'll be national champions. If you stick with us and if you're disciplined, if you believe all these players believed in that. Happy our words came true to them."

Staley became just the second African-American coach to win a national championship. She joined Carolyn Peck, who won a title at Purdue.

Mississippi State had all the momentum on its side after a shocking win over UConn on Friday night that ended the Huskies' record 111-game winning streak. The Bulldogs couldn't muster the same effort against the Gamecocks. Morgan William, who had become the face of the tournament with the game-winner against the Huskies after a 41-point performance against Baylor, was held to just 8 points.

South Carolina (33-4) turned a 10-point halftime lead into a 45-31 advantage midway through the third quarter before the Bulldogs rallied. Mississippi State (34-5) slowly cut into its deficit, getting with 54-50 on Jazzmun Holmes' jumper. That brought a huge cheer from the thousands of Mississippi State fans who made the 8-hour trip from Starkville, Mississippi.

But that's as close as the Bulldogs could get.

The victory in front of a sellout crowd came one day after the Gamecocks men's basketball team lost in the Final Four in Phoenix.

Wilson, who grew up in South Carolina, blocked a shot on one end of the court and then hit a short jumper in the lane that started a 12-2 run to put the game away. Staley emptied her bench with less than a minute left and Wilson left with tears of joy. The junior center sees a repeat in the future for the Gamecocks, who return most of their core players.

"Man, just be with us next year, we're trying to be in this same spot next year, we're going to see how it goes," Wilson said after winning the most outstanding player award for the Final Four.

The Gamecocks won the title without star center Alaina Coates, who hurt her ankle in the SEC Tournament. She didn't even travel with the team to Dallas.

"Our players never fretted, 'La' we got you a ring. We got you a ring," Staley said of Coates. "Allisha Gray, Kaela Davis they all believed in it. They spent a year getting to know our team, getting to know our system. Got the opportunity to play and we become national champions. It's incredible belief and discipline and can't thank them enough for choosing South Carolina."

It was the third loss for the Bulldogs against the Gamecocks this season. Mississippi State dropped a game in South Carolina in the regular season as well as the SEC Tournament title game.

"Today doesn't define us," said Mississippi State coach Vic Schaefer, who is 0-9 in his career against South Carolina. "It certainly doesn't define this team or this season. We had a heck of a year. Obviously we've had some hard times dealing with them. Today was no different."

No team had a tougher road to the championship then the second-seeded Bulldogs. They were trying to become the third team in NCAA history to beat three number No. 1 seeds en route to the title. Tennessee did it in 1987 and Louisiana Tech accomplished the same feat a year later. The Bulldogs had already knocked off top-seed Baylor and UConn to get to the championship game.

This was the sixth time in NCAA Tournament history that teams from the same conference played for the national championship, including three by the SEC. Tennessee won both of those matchups, the last coming in 1996 when the Lady Vols beat Georgia.

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An 11 year old who was kidnapped by her Uncle was found by D.C. police.

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An 11-year-old girl who authorities said was kidnapped after her grandparents were murdered at a North Carolina home was found in Washington D.C., police said Sunday.

Curtis Atkinson, the uncle of 11-year-old Arieyana Forney, was arrested after a brief chase, D.C. police Capt. David Sledge said. Officers initially tried to stop the vehicle but it sped away and crashed into another vehicle.

A witness told Fox 5 DC that police approached Atkinson's vehicle with guns drawn and pried one of the doors open. The witness added that there was an additional person inside the vehicle with Atkinson and the girl. Police only identified the third person as female, the Washington Post reported.

Atkinson is suspected of killing his parents at their Charlotte home. The bodies were discovered after a fire was apparently set at the home.

Sledge said the Arieyana was taken to a hospital but appears to be fine.
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Nine people have been killed in a blast on the St. Petersburg metro, Russian state media reported, in what authorities have described as a terrorist attack.

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The explosion tore through a train as it was traveling between two stations in Russia's second-largest city.

A second, larger device was found and defused at another station, Russia's Anti-Terrorism Committee said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which led to the shutdown of the city's metro system.

Alongside the dead, 51 people were injured in the incident, according to CNN affiliate RBC.

Four of the injured are in critical condition, Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said from the Dzhanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, where many of the wounded are being treated, according to the state-run Tass news agency.

President Vladimir Putin, who had been in St. Petersburg earlier in the day, laid roses at a makeshift memorial with candles outside the bombed metro station.

US President Donald Trump spoke briefly with Putin on Monday, according to a senior administration official. Trump expressed his sympathies for the Russian people in the wake of the terror attack.

Train conductor may have saved lives

The blast occurred just after 2:30 p.m. (7:40 a.m. ET) as the train was traveling in a tunnel from Sennaya Ploshchad to Tekhnologichesky Institut stations in the city center. In the confusion, initial reports suggested there were two blasts.

Investigators are seizing items relative to the investigation, questioning witnesses and metro employees and working to confirm the number of dead and injured, Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The train conductor possibly saved lives, the committee said, because rather than stop the train after the blast, he continued on to the next station, which allowed passengers to evacuate and rescuers to tend to victims.

Photographs show the facade of one of the cars ripped off and passengers running from the Tekhnologichesky Institute station as it filled with smoke. Victims said they helped each other escape the train.

Bodies were seen strewn across a station platform outside the train. Rescuers carried bandaged and bloodied victims out of the station.

'We expected death'

Passengers described the horror in the aftermath of the blast.

"In the metro car, everyone expected death, if I can say that. After the explosion, everyone expected consequences. Then we were taken out, and people began to help each other, brought others out. Most were covered in blood," a passenger on the train told state-run TASS.

Another passenger at the Sennaya station, Stanislav Listyev, said he felt the explosion and saw smoke coming out of the tunnel.

"I was going down the escalator at Sennaya Square at about half past 2, and at that moment I felt an explosion wave underneath. Everything was filled with smoke, people started panicking. So the trains stopped and almost immediately the evacuation started," he told CNN.

People didn't have 'whole bodies'

Alexey Chirochkin was sitting on a bench in the subway station with his earphones on when he noticed a woman approaching him, he said. As he got up to give her his seat, the woman fell and he grabbed her.

Her face and hands were bloody, and she started crying when he asked if she needed an ambulance, he said.

"Then I take my earphones off, I look around (and I see that) the station is full of smoke," Chirochkin said. "People are running, panic (takes over). But there was no crowd. (People) did not jump over each other, did not push each other ... Some were jumping out of (the metro car's) windows."

"I saw a lot of injured people," he said. "People were crawling while bleeding. They had such a look in their eyes. A girl was yelling, 'Please help my guy!'"

Subway employees ordered people to leave the scene, he said.

Chirochkinrecalled helping a man pry open the jammed, bent train doors to pull a victim out of a car and lay him on the platform.

"It is possible that a person that I dragged out was dead," Chirochkin said. "He had a lot of blood on his jacket."

The scene inside the train cars horrified him.

"People there did not have whole bodies ... They were not asking for help. They were not moving," Chirochkin said. "Their eyes were glassy. They were bleeding out. Not a pleasant thing to see."

Investigation underway

A spokesman for the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the blast was caused by an unidentified explosive device in one of the train's cars.

"So far, we say it was an unidentified explosive device as investigators and the Federal Security Service's bomb specialists are to establish the exact cause of this explosion," Andrei Przhezdomsky told state-run Russia 24.

A second device was found at another metro station -- Revolutionary Square -- and was disabled, the committee said in statement. That device, hidden in a fire extinguisher, was larger than the one that went off, according to state media reports quoting law enforcement. It carried about a kilogram of TNT, the reports said.

Authorities closed down the entire metro system, whose five lines carry 2.3 million people a day.

Putin statement

Putin offered his condolences to the victims and said he has been in contact with the security services about the investigation, according to state media.

"The reasons for the explosion are unknown, so it's too early to talk about it. The investigation will show what happened," Putin said, at the beginning of a meeting with Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko. "Naturally, we always consider all options -- both domestic and criminal, primarily incidents of a terrorist nature."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin had been in St. Petersburg speaking at a media event.

Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the defense committee in the Federation Council, said that the choice of St. Petersburg as a target may have been tied to Putin's visit.

"The choice of the place and the timing of these blasts is not accidental. The president of Russia is in (St. Petersburg). The media forum is taking place there. There are many journalists," Ozerov said.

Medvedev said victims would be provided with "all necessary assistance." He said in a Facebook message: "My most sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the explosion."

Russia was once a hotspot for terror attacks, but the country has experienced relatively few in recent years.

In December 2013, a suicide bombing at a train station in Volgograd killed at least 16 people. The following day, in the same city, a suicide bombing on a trolley bus killed 14 people.

In 2010, two female suicide bombers blew themselves up at two Moscow metro stations, killing 40. They were linked to the Chechen insurgency.

And in 2002, Chechen rebels killed 170 people in a theater hostage situation in the capital, Moscow.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story attributed the terrorism motive to the Russian prosecutor general. It was the city's prosecutor general.

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The explosion tore through a train as it was traveling between two stations in Russia's second-largest city. A second, larger device was found and defused at another station, Russia's Anti-Terrorism Committee said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which led to the shutdown of the city's metro system.

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The explosion tore through a train as it was traveling between two stations in Russia's second-largest city.

A second, larger device was found and defused at another station, Russia's Anti-Terrorism Committee said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which led to the shutdown of the city's metro system.

Alongside the dead, 51 people were injured in the incident, according to CNN affiliate RBC.

Four of the injured are in critical condition, Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said from the Dzhanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, where many of the wounded are being treated, according to the state-run Tass news agency.

President Vladimir Putin, who had been in St. Petersburg earlier in the day, laid roses at a makeshift memorial with candles outside the bombed metro station.

US President Donald Trump spoke briefly with Putin on Monday, according to a senior administration official. Trump expressed his sympathies for the Russian people in the wake of the terror attack.

Train conductor may have saved lives

The blast occurred just after 2:30 p.m. (7:40 a.m. ET) as the train was traveling in a tunnel from Sennaya Ploshchad to Tekhnologichesky Institut stations in the city center. In the confusion, initial reports suggested there were two blasts.

Investigators are seizing items relative to the investigation, questioning witnesses and metro employees and working to confirm the number of dead and injured, Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The train conductor possibly saved lives, the committee said, because rather than stop the train after the blast, he continued on to the next station, which allowed passengers to evacuate and rescuers to tend to victims.

Photographs show the facade of one of the cars ripped off and passengers running from the Tekhnologichesky Institute station as it filled with smoke. Victims said they helped each other escape the train.

Bodies were seen strewn across a station platform outside the train. Rescuers carried bandaged and bloodied victims out of the station.

'We expected death'

Passengers described the horror in the aftermath of the blast.

"In the metro car, everyone expected death, if I can say that. After the explosion, everyone expected consequences. Then we were taken out, and people began to help each other, brought others out. Most were covered in blood," a passenger on the train told state-run TASS.

Another passenger at the Sennaya station, Stanislav Listyev, said he felt the explosion and saw smoke coming out of the tunnel.

"I was going down the escalator at Sennaya Square at about half past 2, and at that moment I felt an explosion wave underneath. Everything was filled with smoke, people started panicking. So the trains stopped and almost immediately the evacuation started," he told CNN.

People didn't have 'whole bodies'

Alexey Chirochkin was sitting on a bench in the subway station with his earphones on when he noticed a woman approaching him, he said. As he got up to give her his seat, the woman fell and he grabbed her.

Her face and hands were bloody, and she started crying when he asked if she needed an ambulance, he said.

"Then I take my earphones off, I look around (and I see that) the station is full of smoke," Chirochkin said. "People are running, panic (takes over). But there was no crowd. (People) did not jump over each other, did not push each other ... Some were jumping out of (the metro car's) windows."

"I saw a lot of injured people," he said. "People were crawling while bleeding. They had such a look in their eyes. A girl was yelling, 'Please help my guy!'"

Subway employees ordered people to leave the scene, he said.

Chirochkinrecalled helping a man pry open the jammed, bent train doors to pull a victim out of a car and lay him on the platform.

"It is possible that a person that I dragged out was dead," Chirochkin said. "He had a lot of blood on his jacket."

The scene inside the train cars horrified him.

"People there did not have whole bodies ... They were not asking for help. They were not moving," Chirochkin said. "Their eyes were glassy. They were bleeding out. Not a pleasant thing to see."

Investigation underway

A spokesman for the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the blast was caused by an unidentified explosive device in one of the train's cars.

"So far, we say it was an unidentified explosive device as investigators and the Federal Security Service's bomb specialists are to establish the exact cause of this explosion," Andrei Przhezdomsky told state-run Russia 24.

A second device was found at another metro station -- Revolutionary Square -- and was disabled, the committee said in statement. That device, hidden in a fire extinguisher, was larger than the one that went off, according to state media reports quoting law enforcement. It carried about a kilogram of TNT, the reports said.

Authorities closed down the entire metro system, whose five lines carry 2.3 million people a day.

Putin statement

Putin offered his condolences to the victims and said he has been in contact with the security services about the investigation, according to state media.

"The reasons for the explosion are unknown, so it's too early to talk about it. The investigation will show what happened," Putin said, at the beginning of a meeting with Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko. "Naturally, we always consider all options -- both domestic and criminal, primarily incidents of a terrorist nature."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin had been in St. Petersburg speaking at a media event.

Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the defense committee in the Federation Council, said that the choice of St. Petersburg as a target may have been tied to Putin's visit.

"The choice of the place and the timing of these blasts is not accidental. The president of Russia is in (St. Petersburg). The media forum is taking place there. There are many journalists," Ozerov said.

Medvedev said victims would be provided with "all necessary assistance." He said in a Facebook message: "My most sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the explosion."

Russia was once a hotspot for terror attacks, but the country has experienced relatively few in recent years.

In December 2013, a suicide bombing at a train station in Volgograd killed at least 16 people. The following day, in the same city, a suicide bombing on a trolley bus killed 14 people.

In 2010, two female suicide bombers blew themselves up at two Moscow metro stations, killing 40. They were linked to the Chechen insurgency.

And in 2002, Chechen rebels killed 170 people in a theater hostage situation in the capital, Moscow.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story attributed the terrorism motive to the Russian prosecutor general. It was the city's prosecutor general.

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The blast, which took place at 2:40 p.m. local time, happened between the Sennaya Ploshad station and the Technological Institute station. At least 45 people were hospitalized from the blast.

Russia's Investigative Committee called it an "undetermined explosive device." The committee, which is the country's primary federal investigative authority, has opened a criminal probe into what it has classified as a terrorist attack.

Pictures showed passengers appearing to flee a smoke-filled station as well as what appeared to be a mangled train car.

An improvised explosive device rigged with shrapnel was also found in a third St. Petersburg station, the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station. It was defused by bomb technicians and no one was hurt, officials said.

Russia's Interfax news agency reported that authorities believe this was a suicide attack carried out by a 23-year-old from Central Asia. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said tonight that the suicide bomber theory has not been confirmed by investigators, according to state-run TASS news agency.

Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin has been briefed on the preliminary results of the investigation.

President Trump called the attack "a terrible thing."

"Terrible. Terrible thing. Happening all over the world. Absolutely a terrible thing," he said.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer today condemned the St. Petersburg attack, saying, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the injured as we extend our deepest condolences to the loved ones."

"Attacks like these on ordinary citizens going about their lives remind us that the world must work as one to combat violence in all forms," Spicer said at a White House press briefing in Washington. "The United States is prepared to offer assistance to Russia and may require investigating this crime."

Mark Toner, acting spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, said in a statement, "The United States condemns today's reprehensible attack on passengers of the St. Petersburg metro system. We extend our deepest condolences to the loved ones of those who were killed, and our thoughts and prayers are with those injured in the attack and with the Russian people."

Putin, who is in St. Petersburg for a forum, spoke in front of cameras after the explosion, alongside the president of Belarus, Aleksander Lukashenko.

"The causes are not yet clear, and so it's still early to talk about that, the investigation will show," Putin said. "But, naturally, we always examine all versions, ordinary and criminal - above all, incidents of a terrorist character."

The entire St. Petersburg subway system, which serves some 2 million riders a day, was shut down and evacuated. The subway system has since resumed operations.

Three days of mourning will be observed in St. Petersburg beginning Tuesday, according to Russian officials.

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At least 11 people died today after a bomb exploded on a subway train traveling between two stations in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to the country's health minister. The blast, which took place at 2:40 p.m. local time, happened between the Sennaya Ploshad station and the Technological...