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From thirty thousand feet in the air when the KLM airbus was passing over the Lake Baikal, I wondered how it is down there. Baikal is a place of Wonder. It’s a place where you get mountains, forests, cheerful and hospitable people and some wild...
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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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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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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, Durham
A dissertation written by President Barack Obama’s late mother is being published.
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AP, Ankara
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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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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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Police in Northwood, N.H., said they used an innertube to pull a 25-year-old burglary suspect of out of lake. WMUR reported investigators believe the man and a friend...
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Police say they’ve found the passport of a University of Georgia professor suspected of killing his wife and two others outside a community theater.
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For decades, it spewed chemicals and foul effluent into the pristine waters of Lake Baikal in Siberia.
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Russian emergency officials say a powerful earthquake has struck a Siberian region that includes Lake Baikal, but no casualties were immediately reported.
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Two small, manned submarines reached the bottom of Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake, on Tuesday, Russian news reports said.
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Two small, manned submarines touched the bottom of Lake Baikal on Tuesday, setting a world record for the deepest freshwater dive, Russian news reports said.
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In this June 11, 2008 file photo, Lake Baikal is seen in the vast Siberian taiga. A factory in Siberia, the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill, that has polluted the world’s largest freshwater lake with chemical effluent for decades is going to be closed for...
