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An emotionally drained but ebullient Maersk Alabama crew told gripping stories of captivity at sea Thursday while urging stronger protection for ships operating in treacherous Horn of Africa waters.
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A suicide car bomber killed four security forces and wounded passing schoolchildren Tuesday in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, where the government is under...
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AP, Seoul
North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news...
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AP, Peshawar
A senior police official says a suicide car bomber has killed at least four paramilitary security forces in northwestern Pakistan.
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the...
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AP, Asuncion
A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Mexico City
Mexico announced a return to “normalcy” on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,200 people in 20...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
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AP, Sao Paulo
The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out...
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AP, Ankara
Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, says 41 people have been killed and three have been wounded in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
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AP, Jakarta
The chief of Indonesia’s anti-corruption watchdog was arrested Monday and named a suspect in the murder of a prominent state company official, police and his...
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AP, Mexico City
Mexico’s president says universities will reopen Thursday and all other classes will resume nationwide next week, citing an ebb in the swine flu outbreak.
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AP, Ankara
Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations...
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AP, United Nations
Russia has invited Security Council ministers to a meeting next week to give “new impetus” to the Middle East peace process.
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AP, Ankara
Turkish media say at least 16 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack on a wedding ceremony in the southeastern part of the country.
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AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, despite concern that...
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AP, Kabul
President Hamid Karzai chose a powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates on Monday, hours before leaving for meetings in...
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AP, Jerusalem
Israel dispatched top officials to the U.S. and Europe on Monday in a diplomatic offensive aimed at softening the hawkish image of Prime Minister Benjamin...
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AP, Paris
The French are living up to their image as lovers of food and can add a new love to the mix, sleep, according to a survey released Monday. In fact, the French excel at...
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AP, United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommended Wednesday that the Security Council reject an immediate U.N. peacekeeping force for Somalia, saying such a deployment could...
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AP, Mogadishu
Somali parliamentarians unanimously endorsed a proposal to implement Islamic law in the Horn of Africa nation.
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AP, Mogadishu
Gunmen seized four U.N. workers in southern Somalia on Monday, a U.N. spokeswoman said, the latest in a series of attacks on aid workers in the war-ravaged Horn of...
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AP, Nairobi
Somali pirates hijacked a German gas tanker and its 13-man crew Thursday in the Gulf of Aden, the third ship captured off the Horn of Africa nation this year.
made popular Jan 29 2009
AP, United Nations
The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday expressing its intention to establish a U.N. peacekeeping force in Somalia, but putting off a decision...
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AP, United Nations
The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday unanimously demanded that Eritrea quickly pull its troops back from the Djibouti border and acknowledge the dispute with its Horn...
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AP, United Nations
On the same day Somali gunmen seized two more ships, the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize nations to conduct land and air attacks on pirate...
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AP, Vienna
Special maritime police should patrol the Horn of Africa coastline to arrest the Somali pirates who have been preying on commercial shipping, the head of the U.N....
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AP, Brussels
Six warships will deploy early to the waters off the Horn of Africa to combat piracy amid growing alarm over attacks on international shipping, European Union officials...
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AP, Berlin
Germany’s parliament Thursday approved a 13-month extension to the country’s participation in naval patrols off the Horn of Africa, part of a U.S.-led...
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AP, United Nations
Djibouti, a key U.S. ally in the Horn of Africa, warned the U.N. Thursday that Eritrea’s occupation of Djibouti territory on their border overlooking critical Red...
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AP, Glens Falls
Sometimes, blowing your own horn is too much of a good thing. Glen Falls police said an upstate New York driver who was stopped for blowing his vehicle’s horn...
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AP, Moscow
A man identified in a Russian media report as a crew member of a Ukrainian-operated ship seized off the Horn of Africa says the pirates want to discuss a ransom...
made popular Sep 27 2008
AP, United Nations
Nearly 17 million people in the Horn of Africa urgently need food, up from 9 million in early 2008, as crippling drought, soaring food prices and conflict take an...
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Joe Horn, released by the Atlanta Falcons on Tuesday after the team couldn’t trade the veteran receiver, said he is relieved he can pursue a job with another...
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AP, Flowery Branch
The Atlanta Falcons have cut veteran wide receiver Joe Horn.
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AP, United Nations
The United Nations Security Council voted Wednesday to end its 8-year-long peacekeeping mission between Eritrea and Ethiopia, a failure the U.N. chief has warned could...
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AP, Houston
Ever since he fatally shot two men he suspected of burglarizing his next-door neighbor’s home, 62-year-old Joe Horn has been both praised and vilified for his...
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A deer with a single horn in the center of its head — much like the fabled, mythical unicorn — has been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy, park officials said.
made popular Jun 14 2008
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