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A rescue team guided by a survivor was dispatched into stormy Indonesian seas Tuesday in search of dozens of people said to be still drifting alive after a ferry capsized with more than 250 on board, officials said.
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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...
made popular May 4 2009
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, Cape May
The lawyer for the owner of a scallop boat that sank off New Jersey says the vessel might have been doomed when its dredging gear got tangled.
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AP, Trenton
In a March 25 story about a fishing boat sinking off New Jersey, The Associated Press, relying on information supplied by the U.S. Coast Guard, misidentified one of the...
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AP, Cape May
The Coast Guard says a New Jersey man initially listed as missing and presumed dead in the March 24 sinking of a scallop boat did not board the vessel and is alive. A...
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AP, Cairo
A cargo ship sank during a storm in the Red Sea on Monday, and at least two crew members drowned. Two nearby ships and a helicopter managed to pluck 10 men from the...
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AP, Manila
A cargo ship loaded with cement sank in the central Philippines, killing one crew member, as rescuers recovered the bodies of 14 people who died when a ferry capsized...
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Every once in a while we come across concepts that make us wonder why we didn’t think of them first! This astonishing Sink-in-a-Drawer design is just such a case in...
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AP, Ankara
A ferry carrying some 100 people sank in the Sea of Marmara late Sunday, killing at least one person, officials said. At least 23 more were missing.
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AP, Dublin
Ireland’s majestic sail-training ship, the Asgard II, sank mysteriously off the French coast Thursday, but its 25 passengers and crew escaped safely on...
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Everyone knows the famous proverb that ’stomach is the way to win a man’s heart’. But what is the latest way to win a woman’s heart? The answer...
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Stone is something which oozes out complete grace and classicism. Having something exquisite in its appeal, furniture pieces can jazz up any interior. If something...
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Ahh, if only I can lay my hands on this sink, I wouldn’t mind swapping my current job for a helper’s post in the kitchen. Thanks to Anne Kitzmiller, she has devised...
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AP, Cancun
Mexican officials said Thursday that human error caused the weekend boat accident near Cancun that resulted in the death of an 18-year-old Texas woman.Government...
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AP, Port-au-prince
A U.N. official says the bodies of two teenagers have been found near a capsized Haitian sailboat, raising the death toll to 13.U.N. mission spokesman David Wimhurst...
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AP, Port-au-prince
U.N. and Haitian authorities say an overloaded ferry has sunk off the Caribbean country’s southern coast, killing at least 11 people.U.N. peacekeeping mission...
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AP, Geneva
A cargo ship carrying relief supplies for more than 1,000 cyclone victims in Myanmar has sunk.International Red Cross spokesman Michael Annear called the accident a big...
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AP, Sao Paulo
In stories May 4-May 8 about a ferry sinking in Brazil, The Associated Press erroneously described the Solimoes River as a tributary of the Amazon River. It is a branch...
made popular May 8 2008
AP, Sao Paulo
Rescue workers say they have retrieved another nine bodies from a boat that capsized in northern Brazil, raising the death toll on Wednesday to 41 in one of the worst...
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AP, Sao Paulo
Amazon region rescue workers found two more bodies Monday around a remote jungle town near where a boat ferrying people from a religious festival sank. The discovery...
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AP, Sao Paulo
A boat ferrying at least 80 people home from a party sank in Brazil’s Amazon region early Sunday, killing at least 15 and leaving dozens missing, according to...
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An unidentified member of the U.S. Coast Guard, right, stands near the Cold Spring Fish & Suppy docks in Cape May,N.J., Tuesday, March 24, 2009, as commercial fisherman Jose Arias tries to explain to the media what happened to him earlier when a fishing..
