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Grim search resumes in Colombia after deadly flood
Associated Press, Published on 02/04/2017
» MOCOA, Colombia -- A grim search for the missing resumed at dawn Sunday in southern Colombia after surging rivers sent an avalanche of floodwaters, mud and debris through a small city, killing at least 200 people and leaving many more wounded and homeless.
Christmas in Bethlehem means souvenirs
Business, Associated Press, Published on 22/12/2016
» Christmas is approaching and pilgrims and tourists have begun to arrive, crowding the souvenir shops that line the narrow streets and alleys of Bethlehem, the biblical town revered as Jesus' birthplace.
Islamic State tightens grip on women held as sex slaves
News, Associated Press, Published on 07/07/2016
» The posting in Arabic is chilling. A girl for sale: "Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old.... Her price has reached $12,500 [440,000 baht] and she will be sold soon.''
A portrait of the victims of the Bangladesh militant attack
News, Associated Press, Published on 05/07/2016
» The deaths in the militant attack on a restaurant in Bangladesh were at once random, and not so random.
Boko Haram still poses threat months after 'technical victory'
News, Associated Press, Published on 20/04/2016
» On the front line against Boko Haram, no one boasts of having "technically" won the war.
Fleeing the North, adrift in South Korea
News, Associated Press, Published on 05/04/2016
» A middle-aged man is walking through a quiet Seoul neighbourhood when he suddenly stops. He lights a cigarette, cupping his hands to shield the flame from the winter wind, and takes a deep draw, remembering how things used to be. He's a former policeman, a broad-shouldered man with a growling voice and a crushing handshake.
Son of rights lawyer 'missing'
Associated Press, Published on 11/10/2015
» BEIJING - The 16-year-old son of a rights lawyer detained in China's sweeping crackdown on civil society has disappeared in Myanmar after trying to escape to the United States, a rights campaigner involved in the plan said on Sunday.
More than 2,000 fishermen rescued
Associated Press, Published on 18/09/2015
» More than 2,000 fishermen have been rescued this year from brutal conditions at sea, their freedom prompted by an Associated Press investigation into seafood brought to the US from a slave island in eastern Indonesia.
8.3-magnitude quake rattles north Chile, 1 million evacuate
Associated Press, Published on 17/09/2015
» ILLAPEL, CHILE - Thousands of residents of this small city in northern Chile were sleeping outside Thursday after a powerful earthquake destroyed their homes, forced more than 1 million to evacuate and killed at least eight people in the quake-prone South American nation.
Isan villagers say gas drilling sickens them, ruins crops
Associated Press, Published on 14/09/2015
» More than 100 students and villagers crowded into a Northeast college forum to hear about American gas companies conducting drilling operations in their region. A lieutenant colonel and dozens of soldiers and police officers followed them in.