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- Captain’s favor to crew to blame for cruise disaster?
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 09:08 AM -0800
The captain of the luxury cruise ship that capsized after hitting rocks off Italy had sailed perilously close to the coast to "make a bow" to people on a Tuscan island, according to media reports.[more]
- 'Angry Brides' game targets Indian dowry demands
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 09:05 AM -0800
Anger at the practice of demanding dowries, which can lead to violence against brides, has prompted a takeoff of "Angry Birds" called "Angry Brides" that aims to highlight the illegal practice...[more]
- 5,000 missing in Mexico's drug war
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 09:04 AM -0800
As forced disappearances become a growing problem in Mexico's drug war, family members of the missing are banding together.
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- Deaths, detentions mount in Syria, activists say
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 07:53 AM -0800
The latest bloodshed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs came outside a bakery on Monday, when secret security forces fired indiscriminately on people in line, an opposition activist group said.
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- UK: No public funding for new $92 million royal yacht
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 07:52 AM -0800
What do you get for a monarch who has almost everything? Not, apparently, a new yacht, at least not one paid for with taxpayer funds.[more]
- Hackers disrupt Israel's stock exchange, airline, banks
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 07:31 AM -0800
Computer hackers disrupted access to the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and Israel's flag carrier El Al Airlines on Monday, officials at both companies said.[more]
- Saudi Arabia doubts Iran oil blockade claim
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 06:25 AM -0800
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Monday expressed doubts over Iran's claim it could block the main oil shipping route out of the Gulf and made clear it was ready to pump more oil after sanctions...[more]
- Flight diverts after 'unruly' couple seeks Champagne
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 04:53 AM -0800
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- Hackers attack two Israeli websites
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 04:17 AM -0800
The websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and of El Al, the Israeli airline, were brought down Monday morning by an apparent hacking attack.
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- Suspect leads Thai police to potential bomb materials
Category: World News
Publish Date: 01-16-2012 03:54 AM -0800
The Thai government said Monday that it had found the basic ingredients for explosive devices in a building in central Thailand, just days after the United States and Israel warned their citizens...[more]
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