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US Super storm threat launches mass evacuations
SHIP BOTTOM, New Jersey (AP) — Hurricane Sandy headed north from the Caribbean — where it left nearly 60 dead — to threaten the eastern U.S. with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow as officials warned millions in…
US Superstorm threat launches mass evacuations
SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. (AP) — Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don’t get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the rare behemoth storm inexorably gathering in the eastern U.S. will afflict a third of the country with…
Spain police thwart mass march to parliament
Thousands of anti-austerity protesters held back from surrounding Madrid’s legislature to denounce government cutbacks.
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Burma images ‘show mass burnings’
A human rights group releases satellite images showing what appears to be the wholesale destruction of a western Burmese district riven by ethnic unrest.
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Serbia talks spark mass protests in Kosovo
Police fire teargas and arrest dozens of people during clashes with opposition activists angered by push to mend ties.
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Men ‘planned mass suicide attack’
Three men go on trial accused of planning a suicide bombing campaign that prosecutors say could have been on a scale greater than the 2005 London attacks.
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Mass grave found found in Syria
A U.N.-Arab League envoy working for a cease-fire in Syria arrived in Damascus on Friday as warplanes pounded rebels and fighting engulfed the nation.
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Evidence of mass murder after Gaddafi’s death
A new report suggests anti-Gaddafi militias carried out massacres during Libyan conflict in Sirte.
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FDA: More drugs from Mass. facility are suspect
More issues have been reported with drugs from a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis, federal officials said Monday.
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South Africa miners protest mass sacking
Workers rally to press Anglo American Platinum to revoke its decision to fire 12,000 wildcat strikers.
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Venezuela poll rivals hold mass rallies
Probe launched into deaths of political activists as surveys predict tight race between president and challenger.
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Typhoon forces mass evacuations in Japan
At least one person killed and 140 others injured as twister with winds of up to 180 kmph hits mainland.
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Pope holds open-air Mass in Beirut
Thousands participate in ceremony in Lebanese capital, which comes at the end of Benedict’s three-day Middle East trip.
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Pope to hold open-air Beirut Mass
The Pope will end his visit to Lebanon with an open-air Mass on the seafront in Beirut, having addressed thousands of young Christians and Muslims.
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SA’s Malema calls for mass miners’ strike
Death toll in violence rises to at least 45, after man’s hacked body found at Marikana mine run by UK-based Lonmin firm.
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2 girls survive mass shooting in France
Investigators were working Thursday to determine what led to a shooting in eastern France that left four people dead in and around a British-registered car.
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As Mass. governor, Romney took tough welfare line
BOSTON (AP) — Mitt Romney, who is trying to gain an edge in the presidential contest with the disputed charge that President Barack Obama is giving welfare recipients a free ride, can point to his own record of pushing for…
Marbella wildfire causes mass evacuation
At least one person killed and homes and campsites evacuated as fire threatens tourist resorts in south of Spain.
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Suburban ‘ghost town’ of mass graves
Syrian government troops have left the Damascus suburb of Daraya a “ghost town,” an opposition activist said Sunday as scores of bodies were placed in mass graves.
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Myanmar floods cause mass displacement
At least 85,000 people displaced and 200,000 affected as heavy rainfall causes country’s most severe flooding in years.
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