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Two held in shipwreck tragedy that killed 900

Italian police on Tuesday arrested the captain and first mate of a boat involved in the Mediterranean's deadliest disaster in decades on suspicion of murder, causing a shipwreck and involvement in illegal immigration.

Cease-fire deal in sight, Iran says

A US aircraft carrier was headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday as Washington said it was monitoring Iranian vessels suspected of carrying weapons to Houthi rebels in Yemen in violation of a UN embargo.

Prosecutor dismisses case against president

An Argentine prosecutor on Monday dismissed accusations that President Cristina Fernandez helped to shield Iranian officials allegedly behind the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center, effectively putting an end to a case that has exposed deep divisions in the South American nation.

Prime Minister Lee expected to resign

South Korean President Park Geun-hye is highly likely to accept the resignation of Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo amid a bribery scandal just two months after he took up the country's No 2 post, Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday.

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Ceremony on hold for mourning

South Africa's president said seven people have died in ongoing attacks on immigrants in the country, and he has postponed an important ceremony because of the crisis.

Apology from FBI chief demanded

Poland's Foreign Ministry urgently summoned US Ambassador Stephen Mull on Sunday to "protest and demand an apology" after the head of the FBI suggested that Poles were accomplices in the Holocaust.

Video shows killing of Ethiopians

Islamic State militants in Libya shot and beheaded groups of captive Ethiopian Christians, a video purportedly from the extremists showed on Sunday. The attack widens the circle of nations affected by the group's atrocities while showing its growth beyond a self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

Bomb on bus kills employees of UN

A bomb exploded on Monday on a bus carrying UN employees in northern Somalia, killing at least 10 people and wounding many others, police and UN officials said. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oystermen still suffer five years after oil spill

Five years after the largest oil spill in US history spewed millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, many Louisiana oystermen are fearful that a once-bountiful population of the mollusks may never recover.

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Three media outlets said on Sunday that Mexican federal police killed 16 unarmed people in two separate attacks in January, appearing to contradict an account by the federal government that the deaths could have been caused by friendly fire.