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Death toll from South Korea ferry disaster climbs to 259
Date: 2014-05-05 08:44:33 GMT - south korea - International - SN:20 - ID:703783
The death toll from the South Korean ferry disaster has jumped to 259, with 43 people still missing, CNN quoted the government as saying Monday. The higher death toll comes after bodies were retrieved from the fourth deck of the Sewol ferry, ....
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Pakistan: Attack on NATO supply convoy kills 2
Date: 2014-05-05 08:42:49 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:21 - ID:703789
A local Pakistani government official says militants have attacked a NATO supply convoy en route to Afghanistan, killing two drivers, ABC News reported Monday. Sher Khan says the attack took place in the Jamrud area of the northwestern Khyber ....
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Varela wins Panama presidency
Date: 2014-05-05 08:36:36 GMT - Panama - International - SN:17 - ID:703768
Conservative Juan Carlos Varela, the vice president who broke politically with President Ricardo Martinelli, was officially declared Panama's next president late Sunday. Varela, who was trailed by fellow conservative and Martinelli loyalist Jose ....
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US, Filipino troops begin large military drill
Date: 2014-05-05 08:33:49 GMT - Philippines - International - SN:16 - ID:703755
More than 5,000 U.S. and Filipino troops began two weeks of military exercises Monday to prepare to jointly deal with any potential crisis in the Philippines, which is prone to natural disasters and has been locked in a dangerous territorial ....
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Vietnam: China's oil rig movement into South China Sea is ‘illegal’
Date: 2014-05-05 08:32:50 GMT - Vietnam - International - SN:15 - ID:703753
Vietnam says China's plan to move its first deep-water drilling rig into the disputed South China Sea, one of Asia's most volatile hotspots, is illegal, and has called for the rig to be removed from what it says is Vietnam's territorial waters, the ....
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China 'illegal' bridge collapse kills 11 in Guangdong
Date: 2014-05-05 07:42:10 GMT - China - International - SN:8 - ID:703637
A bridge has collapsed in southern China, killing 11 people, the BBC News quoted state media and officials as saying. The stone arch bridge was being constructed illegally at a village in Gaozhou City, Guangdong province, the officials ....
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North Ireland frees political party leader after 5 days in custody
Date: 2014-05-05 07:40:59 GMT - Ireland - International - SN:7 - ID:703634
Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams was released without charge Sunday after five days of police questioning over his alleged involvement in a decades-old IRA killing of a Belfast mother of 10, an investigation that has driven a dangerous wedge into ....
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Canada imposes more sanctions on Russia
Date: 2014-05-05 07:26:04 GMT - Canada - International - SN:1 - ID:703602
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced new sanctions against Russia, Itar-Tass news agency reported, citing a statement released by the Canadian government. The sanctions were meant to continue economic pressure on Russia and ....
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Obama mocks himself, Putin and the press at White House dinner
Date: 2014-05-04 16:08:42 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:37 - ID:702981
The US president, Barack Obama, joked about the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and issues much closer to home as he headlined the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night, The Guardian reported. The annual tradition has ....
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President Rouhani offers condolences to Afghans on disaster
Date: 2014-05-04 08:50:02 GMT - Iran - International - SN:11 - ID:702034
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has offered condolences to the people of Afghanistan over a deadly landslide in the remote northeastern part of the country, Press TV reported. In a letter sent to Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday, ....
