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Carnival cruise ship briefly seized in Texas

Posted: 31 Mar 2012 05:04 PM PDT


GALVESTON -- U.S. marshals briefly seized a cruise ship in Texas as part of a $10 million lawsuit related to the fatal Italian cruise ship wreck.
The Carnival Cruise Lines ship was seized for several hours Saturday while docked in Galveston, where ...

Syria refuses to be first to pull back

Posted: 31 Mar 2012 05:06 PM PDT

BEIRUT -- Syria rejected international envoy Kofi Annan's call for the regime to halt violence first just days after the government agreed to a cease-fire plan. A senior official declared victory over the opposition.It was the government's first resp ...

Locals beating researchers to shipwrecks

Posted: 31 Mar 2012 05:05 PM PDT

MENTAWAI ISLANDS, Indonesia -- Mamat Evendi straps on his primitive breathing device -- a garden hose attached to a compressor on the back of his wooden fishing boat. Pulling down his goggles, he splashes flippers-first into the crystal blue waterA f ...

Iraqis bury native slain in U.S.

Posted: 31 Mar 2012 05:05 PM PDT


NAJAF, Iraq -- An Iraqi-American woman found bludgeoned to death in her California home last week with a threatening note left beside her body was buried in her native Iraq on Saturday. Family members wept uncontrollably by her graveside, and her f ...

World dimmed for Earth Hour

Posted: 31 Mar 2012 05:05 PM PDT


LONDON -- Hundreds of world landmarks from Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to the Great Wall of China went dark Saturday, part of a global effort to highlight climate change.
Earth Hour, held on the last Saturday of March every year, began as a Sydney-o ...

Clashes leave 30 dead in Yemen

Posted: 31 Mar 2012 05:05 PM PDT


SANAA, Yemen -- Al-Qaida-linked militants staged a surprise attack on a Yemeni army base in the south Saturday, setting off clashes that left 30 dead on both sides before air strikes forced the some of the militants to retreat, military officials s ...

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