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Four bodies are recovered from ferry burnt down in Greek coast

The Greek Minister of the Sea, Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, announced on Monday that four more bodies were recovered during the salvage operation of hundreds of passengers who were on the burnt ferry Norman Atlantic, raising the death toll to five. “The Italian authorities...
Posted On 29 Dec 2014
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Air Asia Airplane for Singapore disappears with 155 passengers

The civil aviation authorities of Indonesia have lost contact this Sunday with an Airbus 320-200 of Air Asia flying from Indonesia to Singapore with 155 passengers on board, plus a crew of seven people, local media reported. The Indonesian Ministry of Transportation reported that...
Posted On 28 Dec 2014
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Italian ferry with 478 passengers caught fire in Greek coast

Hundreds of people remained blocked on Sunday afternoon in difficult weather conditions, aboard an Italian ferry that caught fire off the Greek coast due to a fire that was traveling from Greek port of Patras to Ancona, in Italy, reported authorities of the country. Rescuers were...
Posted On 28 Dec 2014
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Prisoner exchange takes place despite interruption of negotiations between Ukraine and pro-Russian

Ukraine and the pro-Russian separatists began on Friday the exchange of hundreds of prisoners of war under the agreement reached last Wednesday in Minsk, unique progress in talks that did not allow solve the underlying problems. This first exchange (in the city of Kostiantinivka,...
Posted On 27 Dec 2014
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FARC activates release protocol for Colombian soldier captured

The FARC announced the activation of special humanitarian protocol to release “in the coming days,” the soldier of the Colombian army, Carlos Becerra Ojeda, captured six days ago in the department of Cauca (south). “We informed the country that today has...
Posted On 26 Dec 2014
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Missouri back into protests over murder of armed young afro

Berkeley (Missouri,) located in the downtown area of the US, was the scene of protests on Christmas Eve this year by racial tension after the murder of another young man afro. Dozens of protesters held a vigil at the gas station in this suburb of Saint Louis where a young African...
Posted On 26 Dec 2014
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Sierra Leone confines its population to prevent spread of Ebola

Sierra Leone on Wednesday ordered the confinement of the population in the north for five days to prevent the spread of the epidemic of Ebola and where also several areas of the country already suffering restrictions on movement. “The five-day confinement affects the entire...
Posted On 25 Dec 2014
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Mexico: Parents of 43 missing protested outside the presidential residence

Relatives of the missing 43 students protested on Christmas Eve in the vicinity of Los Pinos, the residence of the president of Mexico in the capital, braving the rain and cold. The protesters had to settle with situated near the residence because security forces had placed...
Posted On 25 Dec 2014
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Pro-democracy demonstrators return to the protests in Hong Kong

Pro-democracy protesters returned to take the streets of Hong Kong this Wednesday on the occasion of Christmas Eve, to ask for a “true universal suffrage” in the first mass demonstration since the last camp was evacuated last week. One hundred protesters walked to the...
Posted On 24 Dec 2014
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Young armed Afro-man is shot by police in city near Ferguson

The Police announced this Wednesday the killing of an African-American teenager in a city near Ferguson, Missouri, where in previous months, another unarmed young Afro-man was also killed, generating protests and racial tension across the US. The Police of the Saint Louis County...
Posted On 24 Dec 2014
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