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Ukrainian helicopter crashes in Black Sea, killing 19 (AP)
“AP - A helicopter belonging to Ukraine’s state gas company crashed as it tried to land on a Black Sea drilling platform, killing 19 people, officials said Monday.”
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New Year’s card sent by Anne Frank found, museum says (AP)
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AP - A Dutch school director preparing an exhibition on Anne Frank has found a holiday postcard signed by the Jewish teenage diarist, a museum said Wednesday.
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Philippines to ban most kidney ‘donations’: gov’t sources (AFP)
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AFP - Health authorities in the Philippines will this week announce a ban on most kidney transplants for foreign patients in a bid to stem a thriving trade in organs, health ministry sources said Monday.
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When Teachers Go Wild Online
“Crudeness prompts question: Should teachers be judged by the same standards as public officials?
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Candidates to vet Zimbabwe presidential poll count (Reuters)
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Reuters - A partial recount in Zimbabwe’s disputed
presidential poll may be completed on Monday and candidates
could start verifying results, electoral officials said,
possibly ending four weeks of post-election stalemate.
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Ukrainian helicopter crashes in Black Sea, 19 dead (Reuters)
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Reuters - A Ukrainian helicopter struck an offshore
drilling platform and crashed in the Black Sea on Monday,
killing 19 people, the state energy company Naftogaz said.
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China train crash kills 70, injures hundreds (Reuters)
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Reuters - Two passenger trains collided in
eastern China on Monday, killing at least 70 people and
injuring hundreds as carriages jumped the tracks and toppled
into a ditch, state media said.
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1,000 flee foothill homes as wildfire burns near Los Angeles (AP)
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AP - Darkness didn’t keep firefighters from continuing to gain ground Monday on a 400-acre wildfire they have been battling all weekend near Los Angeles.
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Passenger train collision kills 70 in eastern China (AP)
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AP - A high-speed passenger train jumped its tracks and slammed into another train in eastern China on Monday, killing at least 70 people and injuring more than 400. Authorities were quoted as saying human error was to blame.
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Austrian police trawl for evidence in “horror house” (Reuters)
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Reuters - Austrian police combed on
Monday through a network of windowless, underground cells in
which they believe a 73-year-old man imprisoned and abused his
daughter for 24 years and fathered her seven children.
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