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President 'sorry' for ferry disaster

[2014-04-30 07:34]

South Korean President Park Geun-hye apologized on Tuesday for her government's failure to combat systemic and regulatory "evils" blamed for the loss of about 300 lives in a ferry disaster.

Violent weather in US kills 29

[2014-04-30 07:34]

People in the southern and eastern United States braced for more violent weather on Tuesday after a string of tornadoes and other storms killed at least 29 people, news reports said.

Kerry backs off Israel 'apartheid state' comment

[2014-04-30 07:34]

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday he had chosen the wrong word in describing Israel's potential future after coming under withering criticism for saying the Jewish state could become an "apartheid state" if it doesn't reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.

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[2014-04-30 07:34]

Sherpa families worried over strike

[2014-04-29 08:59]

After tragedy on world's highest peak, guides seek better benefits from government

Those who renounce citizenship of US defy stereotypes

[2014-04-29 08:59]

Inside the long-awaited package, six pages of government paperwork dryly affirmed Carol Tapanila's anxious request. But when Tapanila slipped the contents from the brown envelope, she saw there was something more.

Neo-Nazis throw Hitler birthday bash in France

[2014-04-29 08:59]

German neo-Nazis, hamstrung by tough laws at home, are increasingly organizing gatherings across the French border, including a recent commemoration of Adolf Hitler's 125th birthday.

Spanish search team starts quest for Cervantes' remains

[2014-04-29 08:59]

Miguel de Cervantes, Spain's greatest writer, was a soldier of little fortune. He died broke in Madrid, his body riddled with bullets. His burial place was a tiny convent church no larger than the entrance hall of an average house.

Divers' hunt resumes for bodies inside sunken ferry

[2014-04-29 08:59]

Investigators seek recorded pleas to coastal authorities made by victims

Soldiers, police cast ballots in Iraq election

[2014-04-29 08:59]

Security personnel cast their ballots nationwide on Monday ahead of Iraq's first election since US troops withdrew, amid attacks on voting centers and fears the country is slipping into all-out conflict.

Obama sets new sanctions on Russia

[2014-04-29 08:59]

Pro-Moscow rebel forces take control of another eastern Ukrainian town

683 Islamists get death sentence

[2014-04-29 08:59]

An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 682 other alleged Islamists to death on Monday, a lawyer and prosecutor said, after two brief sessions the defense partly boycotted.

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