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Warming opens famed Northwest Passage to navigation
AFP, Published on 09/12/2015
» ABOARD CCGS AMUNDSEN (CANADA) - Beneath the Aurora Borealis an oil tanker glides through the night past the Coast Guard ice breaker Amundsen and vanishes into the maze of shoals and straits of the Northwest Passage, navigating waters that for millennia were frozen over this time of year.
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HMS Terror shipwreck offers up secrets of lost Arctic expedition
AFP, Published on 29/08/2019
» OTTAWA: Almost two centuries after descending to its watery grave, the HMS Terror could offer up new clues to its demise -- and solve one of the most enduring mysteries in the history of Arctic discovery.
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China spurs ships to use Arctic shipping route: report
AFP, Published on 20/04/2016
» SHANGHAI - China is looking to exploit the Northwest Passage, the fabled short-cut from the Pacific to the Atlantic, state-run media said Wednesday, with the world's biggest trader in goods publishing a shipping guide to the route.
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Suicide blast kills at least 44 at Pakistan political party meet
AFP, Published on 31/07/2023
» PESHAWAR (PAKISTAN) - At least 44 people were killed and more than 100 others wounded Sunday by a suicide bombing at a political gathering of a leading Islamic party in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
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Irish PM sees 'opportunity' to end Brexit dispute
AFP, Published on 11/11/2022
» BLACKPOOL, England: Irish prime minister Micheal Martin on Friday said there was "a window of opportunity" for Britain and the European Union to resolve a dogged dispute over post-Brexit trade in Northern Ireland.
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'Just God, the water and us': risking the Channel 'death route' to Britain
AFP, Published on 17/09/2020
» CALAIS (FRANCE) - Britain! After years trekking through countless countries, weeks in a filthy camp on the French coast, seven gruelling hours on a small boat tossed about by the Channel, Walid has finally made it.
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Syria rebels begin evacuating 'cradle' of uprising in Daraa
AFP, Published on 15/07/2018
» DARAA (SYRIA) - Syrian rebels and their relatives began evacuating the southern city of Daraa on Sunday under a deal to bring the "cradle" of the country's uprising back under government control.
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Waves of strikes pound south Syria after talks fail
AFP, Published on 05/07/2018
» DARAA (SYRIA) - Waves of air strikes pounded rebel-held areas of southern Syria on Thursday as pro-regime forces launched their most intensive bombing campaign yet in a two-week-old offensive.
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Biggest convoy yet leaves rebel pocket of Syria's Ghouta
AFP, Published on 27/03/2018
» DAMASCUS - The largest convoy yet of evacuated Syrian rebel fighters and civilians began leaving a devastated pocket of Eastern Ghouta overnight, state media said on Tuesday.
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Regime forces advance in Syria's battered Ghouta
AFP, Published on 04/03/2018
» DOUMA, Syria: Government forces intensified fighting Saturday inside Syria's Eastern Ghouta, as tens of thousands of civilians in the besieged rebel enclave east of Damascus awaited urgently needed aid.
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