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  • Concordia ship owner seeks victim status in wreck

    The owner of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia asked a court on Monday to consider it a victim of the disaster, saying it too wants to seek damages for ... 

  • Emergency shutdown at Bulgarian nuclear plant

    Officials say a turbo generator at Bulgaria's only nuclear power station has been shut down due to a hydrogen leak in its cooling system but insist ... 

  • Fire at Five Sisters Zoo

    Reptiles, insects, otter die in Scotland zoo fire

    A fire has claimed the lives of reptiles, insects and a male otter at the Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland. Officials said Sunday the blaze started in the ... 

  • Iran urged to boost nuke safety review after quake

    The head of the Gulf states' main political bloc is urging Iran to join an international accord on nuclear safety following an earthquake near the ... 

  • Bus carrying Russians crashes in Belgium, 5 dead

    A Polish bus carrying Russian youngsters crashed through the guardrails of a bridge and plunged 5 meters (16 feet) to a field below on Sunday, killing ... 

  • Investigators probe Lion Air crash in Bali

    Indonesian investigators on Sunday began working to determine what caused a new Lion Air passenger jet to miss a runway while landing on the resort ... 

  • For the story BC-EU—Albania-Flooding

    Albania northwest under floodwaters for a month

    Villagers in northwestern Albania are running out of patience after their homes have been surrounded by floodwaters for a month. They blame their ills ... 

  • Judge fines Costa $1.3M for Concordia wreck

    A judge in Tuscany fined Italian cruise line Costa Crociere SpA 1 million euros ($1.3 million) Wednesday for the 2012 shipwreck of the Concordia ... 

  • BP executive: Safety was top priority before blast

    A BP executive who oversaw the company's Gulf of Mexico operations testified Tuesday that he led a push to improve safety when he started the job more ... 

  • Pope Tawadros II

    Egypt's pope sharply criticizes president

    Egypt's Coptic Christian pope delivered an unprecedented direct criticism of the Islamist president Tuesday after a mob attack on the church's main ... 

  • Iran says 37 killed in earthquake in south

    A 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed at least 37 and injured hundreds more in a sparsely populated area in southern Iran on Tuesday, Iranian officials ... 

  • Protesters accuse Putin of murdering Polish leader

    About 200 Poles chanted accusations against Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, accusing the Russian leader of murdering their own President Lech Kaczynski in ... 

  • Afghanistan helicopter crash kills 2 US troops

    A NATO helicopter crashed Tuesday in Afghanistan, killing two American service members. The deaths raised to nine the number of Americans, including ... 

  • NM school bus crashes into embankment; driver dead

    A bus driver died and nine students were injured Monday when a school bus went off a road and lodged in an embankment in northern New Mexico, ... 

  • Albania says rain hampering flood response effort

    Albanian authorities say continuous rainfall is hampering efforts to address severe flooding that has left hundreds of homes swamped and without ... 

  • Saakashvili breaks shoulder in bike accident

    Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has a broken shoulder after a bicycle accident in Turkey. A statement from the presidential administration says ... 

  • US fighter crashes in Gulf; crew rescued

    The U.S. Navy says a fighter jet has crashed into the Persian Gulf near the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, but both crew members were ... 

  • BP to call 1st witness at trial over Gulf spill

    BP is scheduled to call its first witness at a trial designed to determine causes and assign blame for its April 2010 well blowout in the Gulf of ... 

  • 1 killed in French bus crash in Czech Republic

    An official says a French bus carrying mostly teenagers has crashed southwest of the Czech capital, killing one person and injuring dozens. 

  • Officials: Explosions kill 4 in northwest Iraq

    A trio of bombs exploded on Sunday in the northwest Iraqi city of Mosul, killing four security officers and wounding seven other people, officials ... 

  • John Kerry, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

    Kerry mourns 'selfless, idealistic' US diplomat

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday railed against the "cowardly" terrorists responsible for the attack that killed five Americans in ... 

  • 6 Americans, doctor killed in Afghan attacks

    Militants killed six Americans, including a young female diplomat, and an Afghan doctor Saturday in a pair of attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday. 

  • Death toll hits 72 in India building collapse

    The death toll in the collapse of a residential building being constructed illegally in India's financial capital rose to 72 Saturday amid diminishing ... 

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