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Spain said Monday that it would send two military transport planes to Florida to retrieve 17 tons of treasure that undersea explorers from the United States found but then lost in an American court fight. Experts say that the treasure, from the sunken... Full Article at The New York Times
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They should increase support for human rights monitoring and reporting and use any leverage they have on warring parties to protect children and their secure access to education. "If world leaders meeting in London want to address Somalia's future,... Full Article at AllAfrica.com
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) – Hundreds of relatives of inmates who burned or suffocated to death when a fire raged through a Honduran prison forced their way into a morgue Monday to demand the remains of loved ones. The group of women and some men pushed... Full Article at USA Today
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By msnbc.com staff A man suspected of mugging U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in the Caribbean country of Saint Kitts and Nevis earlier this month has been arrested, the Wall Street Journal has reported. Vedel Browne, 28, turned himself in... Full Article at MSNBC
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Over the past year, a powerful military commander, Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsin al-Ahmar, split from the president and announced his support for a popular protest movement that swept through the country as similar popular uprisings spread across the Arab world. Full Article at The New York Times
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For the first time, there was a mood of real fear on the streets of Athens. In Syntagma Square, as the eurozone's finance ministers gathered in Brussels to decide whether Greece would be granted the €130bn bailout needed to avoid bankruptcy and the... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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MAZATLÁN, Mexico — Jorge Figueroa made a living offering tours of this fishing port to passengers from the cruise ships lines that arrived regularly. Officers subdue a man in a neighborhood in Mazatlan. Officers subdue a man in a neighborhood in Mazatlan. Full Article at USA Today
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WASHINGTON — The United States and Mexico on Monday reached agreement on regulating oil and gas development along their maritime border in the Gulf of Mexico, ending years of negotiations and potentially opening more than a million acres to deepwater... Full Article at The New York Times
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In May 2005, after a long, complex negotiation process marred by threats, arrest warrants, and attempts to evict the station, it finally managed to secure, with support from the Mexican branch of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters... Full Article at Inter Press Service
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Afghanistan's coldest winter in years has claimed the lives of dozens of children. ITN's Emma Murphy visited one camp outside of Kabul. KABUL – Afghanistan's coldest winter in years has claimed the lives of dozens of children. Many of the young victims... Full Article at MSNBC
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MOSCOW (AP) – It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire... Full Article at USA Today
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Defense Minister Ehud Barak has estimated that an Iranian attack would claim fewer than 500 Israeli casualties — a statement intended to calm the nation, but which has achieved the opposite effect. The concerns for the homefront have dovetailed with... Full Article at USA Today
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The driver of a coach that crashed in northern France while bringing a group of British schoolchildren and their adult supervisors home from an Italian ski trip is being investigated over an allegation of involuntary homicide, French prosecutors have... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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In Bashar al-Assad's Syria, it is not just forbidden to speak, demonstrate and protest: it is also forbidden both to give medical treatment, and to receive treatment yourself. Since the beginning of the uprising, the regime has been waging a merciless... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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HV Professor Iain Stewart is a geologist, a rugged academic not afraid to don harness and hard hat to get into his subject. His subject for this three-part series, however, hasn't been the world of rocks, it's the flora, and their role in shaping our... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Due to erratic rainfall and failed harvests, high food prices, and rising conflict, more than seven million people across the Sahel region of western Africa are at risk of plunging into crisis when the lean season begins this spring. We know this as a... Full Article at Dipnote | US Dept. of State Blog
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn is photographed Oct. 9, 2011 arriving at a polling station for the Socialist party's 2011 primary vote for the 2012 French presidential election. Dominique Strauss-Kahn is photographed Oct. 9, 2011 arriving at a polling station... Full Article at USA Today
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Presidential campaigns and outside political groups were filing detailed financial reports Monday, offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the identities of wealthy supporters who will help elect the next US president and details on how tens of... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – English speakers get their moment in the Carnival sun on Monday as a wild, Beatles-themed street party shakes it up, baby, with a samba swing to "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da." Performers from the Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel samba... Full Article at USA Today
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The problem with the former Massachusetts governor is not sex and aggression in the home but a lack of passion and affection on the stump. For in the former Massachusetts governor the Republican party has found the worst of all worlds: a candidate... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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