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Italy to go ahead with Costa Concordia salvage
Italian authorities have given the final go-ahead for a daring attempt to pull upright the crippled Costa Concordia cruise liner from its ...Mine collapse kills 27 in north Afghanistan
At least 27 miners in Afghanistan have been killed in a collapse in a coal mine, officials ...Philippines ceasefire collapses as fighting continues
Fighting intensified on Saturday in the southern Philippines between government troops and rogue Muslim separatists, shattering a ceasefire almost immediately as it ...Slovenia starts work on first mosque after wait of over 40 years
Slovenia\'s prime minister, Alenka Bratusek, on Saturday laid the foundation stone for what will be the country\'s first mosque -- 44 years ...Tens of thousands protest labor reforms in Poland
Tens of thousands of Polish demonstrators and trade unionists have marched through Warsaw Saturday after four days of protests against Prime Minster ...Syrian opposition elects interim prime minister
Syria\'s main Western-backed opposition grouping has elected an interim prime minister as it seeks to boost its standing as a credible political ...Suicide bomber attacks Iraq funeral, killing 30
At least 30 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on the funeral for a member of an ethnic minority ...Japan launches “Epsilon” rocket from Kagoshima
Japan\'s new solid-fuel rocket blasted off on Saturday carrying a telescope for remote observation of planets in a launch coordinated from a ...Al-Qaeda chief calls for US attacks, economic boycott
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri called for attacks on the United States in order to drain the country economically, in an audio message ...Indian court sentences four men to death in fatal Delhi gang rape case
Four men were sentenced to death on Friday for fatally raping a young woman on a bus last December in an attack ...




