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New York - Two fire fighters were killed while fighting a major blaze at the former Deutsche Bank building just south of ground zero, in a haunting scene in Lower Manhattan reminiscent of Sept. 11, officials said.
The past and the present seemed to briefly collide on the blocks surrounding ground zero, as residents and […]

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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaicans headed inland and tourists fled the country as hurricane Dean bores down on Jamaica and the Cayman Islands on Sunday and threatened to pound Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as a rare Category 5 storm
“It’s going to be very, very serious,” said Lawrence Samuel as he shopped for emergency groceries while […]

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NEW YORK - NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s troubles continue to mount. Two of Michael Vick’s alleged cohorts in a grisly dogfighting case pleaded guilty yesterday, and one said the Atlanta Falcons quarterback joined them in drowning and hanging dogs that underperformed.
Yesterday, two more of Vick’s dogfighting-conspiracy co-defendants pleaded guilty in federal court in Richmond, […]

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KABUL - The second round of talks between Taliban militants and Korean officials ended without any considerable progress Thursday when two released female hostages arrived in Seoul.
Their release was achieved as a result of the three days of face-to-face talks between the Korean delegation and the Taliban kidnappers. The first direct interaction between the […]

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HUNTINGTON, Utah — In another overwhelming blow, rescuers found no sign of life after drilling a fourth hole into a collapsed mine where six workers have been trapped for two weeks.
A microphone lowered into the latest hole revealed nothing to indicate anyone was in the cavern, and efforts to communicate with the miners by […]

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Forecasters fear Dean will be a destructive Category 5 monster packing 155 mph winds. Hurricane warnings and watches are being issued throughout the Caribbean as Dean blows through the Atlantic, headed into the Gulf of Mexico.The worse is yet to come. By Monday, as Dean nears Cancun and other tourist areas along Mexico’s eastern […]

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Hostages aboard a Turkish passenger plane have been released unharmed as two hijackers surrendered to police.
“The adventure that started early in the morning finally came to an end,” Atlasjet CEO Tuncay Doganer told reporters. “With the two hijackers having surrendered, the incident ended with no bloodshed.”
The two men claimed to have been carrying a […]

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The deaths of three rescuers caught in an explosive coal blowout while digging toward a team of trapped miners left this mining region torn Friday over how to proceed Underground search efforts aimed at finding them were suspended indefinitely after tunnel walls starting crumbling inside the Crandall Canyon.
Shaken by setbacks in the rescue effort […]

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HUNTINGTON, UTAH - The search for six miners missing deep underground was halted when a second cave-in killed three rescue workers and injured at least six others who were trying to tunnel through rubble to reach them.
The third death was confirmed by a Utah Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman.
All of the rescue workers in […]

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A pair of South Koreans, held hostage for nearly a month by the Taliban in Afghanistan, returned home Friday, arriving in Seoul in the early afternoon.
37-year-old Kim Kyung-ja and 32-year-old Kim Gina were among the 23 Korean volunteer workers kidnapped on July 19th while traveling on a bus from Kabul to Kandahar
“I am sorry […]

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