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Captain arrested, 41 missing after Italian cruise disaster
AFP, Published on 14/01/2012
» The captain of a luxury cruise liner that keeled over off Tuscany, killing at least three people was on Saturday arrested as survivors told of scenes "like the Titanic".
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Syrian forces pound Homs, '31 civilians killed'
AFP, Published on 22/02/2012
» Syrian forces killed at least 31 civilians on Tuesday, including 16 in shelling of neighbourhoods in Homs, monitors said, as regime forces massed around the flashpoint city.
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Voyage to the 'front line' of global warming
AFP, Published on 07/05/2012
» When Cameron Dueck set sail to the Canadian Arctic to witness what he calls "the front line of climate change", he did so knowing he would have to brave seas that have killed scores of sailors and reduced men to cannibals.
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London 2012: Let the show begin
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 27/07/2012
» Tonight’s London 2012 opening ceremony will exceed your expectations, thrilled members of the audience for the final rehearsal said yesterday.
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Chinese ship reaches Atlantic via Arctic
AFP, Published on 17/08/2012
» The first Chinese ship has travelled from the Pacific to Atlantic via the Arctic along the Russian coast, an Icelandic scientist who participated on the expedition said Friday.
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Google online maps embark on Arctic adventure
AFP, Published on 23/08/2012
» Google set out Wednesday to take users of its free online mapping service on an Arctic adventure with help from an Inuit community in the Canadian tundra.
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VDOs search for " northwest passage "
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Deadly bombing hits loyalist funeral outside Damascus
AFP, Published on 28/08/2012
» A car bomb rocked the funeral of two government loyalists in a Damascus suburb killing 27 people on Tuesday as the army kept up its bombardment of rebel strongholds in the east of the capital.
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Mauritania president in Paris hospital after 'accidental' shooting
AFP, Published on 14/10/2012
» Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was flown to a hospital in Paris on Sunday, a day after he was shot and wounded when soldiers "accidentally" fired on his convoy near his country's capital Nouakchott.
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“Merciless” Post-tropical storm Sandy (updated 20:30)
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 30/10/2012
» Sandy has been just as bad as forecasters has feared, causing massive flooding destruction along the east coast of the United States. Morning has finally come and people are just starting to see how bad things are. We will update the situation tomorrow.
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Zinc-hungry China asks Canada to back giant mine
AFP, Published on 05/01/2013
» With zinc sources drying up and demand forecast to surge, resource hungry China is looking to Canada to approve two giant mines and close the gap -- but environmentalists and roving caribou stand in the way.
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