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Washington mdash; White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan is set to meet Thursday with families of Americans taken hostageby Hamas, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said.CNN first
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Severed fingers of five Western contractors were sent to the U
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The wreckage of a bus that plunged off a bridge onto a riverbank in Meru, Kenya, on July 24, 2022, is seen the following day. Dennis Dibondo / AP Nairobi, Kenya mdash; The death toll from a bus accident in central Kenya has risen to 30, police said Monday.The passenger bus carrying an unknown number of people fell off a bridge Sunday evening and plunged onto a riverbank along a highway from Meru to the capital, Nairobi, authorities said.The bus must have developed brake failure, because it was at a very high speed when the accident happened, said senior police official Rono Bunei. On July 25, 2022, people look at t
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The Bush administration is confident that Afghanistan s first direct presidential election will be deemed fair and valid despite protests from candidates that the balloting was marred by fraud, a top presidential aide said Sunday. This was an extraordinary day for the Afghan people, and this election is going to be judge
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In our Pushing the Limits series, Charlie D Agata takes a look at a project ten years, and $40 million, in the making that is redefining the boundaries of speed:In Newquay, England, the British-based Bloodhound team is building a car they hope will travel more than 1,000 miles an hour. That s well over the speed of sound, and it would shatter the current land-speed record.The car s driver is former RAF fighter jet pi
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Cute, cuddly and fast breeding, thousands of koalas are eating themselves out of a home on an Australian island. But authorities are refusing to heed conservationists pleas to reduce the population, fearing a backlash from tourists and animal rights activists.South Australia state Environment Minister John Hill said tourism would drop dramatically if koalas were killed on Kangaroo Island. We rely a lot on the international market for our tourists, Hill told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio, adding the issue was particularly sensitive in Japan.The island s estimated 30,000 koalas h
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Afghanistan is prone to earthquakes, but the series of temblors that struck the west of the country on Saturday were the
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Updated at 2:24 p.m. ESTA global relief effort to help Haitian earthquake victims got underway in earnest Thursday, but aid workers - and the people in desperate need of their assistance - face numerous challenges. It s chaos, U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs told The Associated Press. It s a logistical nightmare. How to Help VictimsBlog: The Latest DevelopmentsComplete Coverage: Devastation in HaitiShip deliveries were impossible to Port-au-Prince because the Haitian capital s port was closed due to damage. It airport was opened but strained to handle a flurry of incoming flights carrying experts and aid. The strain was so severe that U.S. Federal Aviation Administration stopped all civilian flights from the United States to Haiti at the request of the Haitian government, because there is no room on the ground for more planes and not enough jet fuel for planes to go back.Here s the status of several key areas of concern as the recovery effort continues:Rescue: Forty search-and-rescue teams from around the
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Five people climbing Eurasia s tallest active volcano have died in an accident and rescuers are trying to extract two other injured climbers, Russian news reports said Saturday.The climbers were trying to ascend to the top of the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano, when the accident occurred about 500 meters below the 4,750-meter 15,884-foot summit, the reports cited the prosecutor s office of the Kamchatka region as saying.All the climbers were Russian, the reports said. Details of the accident were not immediately known.Last
adidas yeezyslide year, the volcano erupted on its northwestern slope, seeping lava and ejecting volcanic bombs. Video captures Eurasia s highest active volcanoVideo shows lava breakthrough during the side cone eruption of Kamchatka s Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcanoPosted by Reuters on Friday, March 19, 2021 The Kamchatka peninsula in Russia s far northeast is noted for its array of active and dormant volcanos, hot springs and abundant wildlife. The i
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A British chef who killed a man with a knife and cooked and ate his flesh was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 30 years in prison.Judge James Stewart said Anthony Morley, 36, showed no remorse for the killing of Damien Oldfield. Before this case I had associated cannibalism with eras long gone, with the tale of Robinson Crusoe. No longer, Stewart said. You have plumbed depths rarely encountered in our court. Morley attacked Oldfield, 33,
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