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  • A typhoon caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island Wednesday, October 16, 2013.
  • A typhoon caused deadly mudslides that buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island Wednesday.
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  • A Laos Airlines flight crashed Wednesday in the Southeast Asian country, killing all 44 people aboard, an official in neighboring Thailand said.
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plane crash, world news
  • Children emerge from their half-submerged home which was damaged by Tuesdays 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Cortes township, Bohol province in central Philippines Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013.
  • The Philippine earthquake that killed at least 144 people also dealt a serious blow to the region's historical churches.
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earthquake, world news
  • Iranian negotiators presented world powers on Tuesday with what they said was a plan to break a decade of deadlock.
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iran, department of defense, world news
  • Damage is seen from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the central Philippine island of Bohol.
  • The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the central Philippine island of Bohol on Tuesday rose to 93.
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earthquake, world news
  • Civil defense officials say the death toll has risen to 20 in a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the central Philippines.
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earthquake, world news
  • A 6-year-old boy drowned in one of the pools aboard a Carnival Cruise Lines ship while at sea, the company said Monday.
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world news
  • UK police have released two composite drawings of a man they want to question in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
  • Police have released two drawings of a man they want to question in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
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world news
  • The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Torsten Persson, from left, Per Krusell, Staffan Normark and Per Stromberg announce the winners of 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in Stockholm, Monday Oct. 14, 2013.
  • Three Americans won the Nobel Prize for economics on Monday for developing methods to study stock, bond and house prices.
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world news
  • Officials say a Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteer and three of six Red Cross staffers taken hostage in Syria are safe.
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  • The Buckingham Palace in London, England is shown in this file photo.
  • Police have arrested a man with a knife who tried to enter Buckingham Palace in London.
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arrest, world news
  • Indian villagers gather after a deadly stampede on a bridge across the Sindh River in Datia district in Madhya Pradesh state, India, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013.
  • An official said the death toll from a stampede near a temple in India has risen to 109 after many succumbed to injuries.
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world news
  • A string of bombings Sunday across Iraq, many in Shiite-majority cities, killed at least 42 people and wounded dozens.
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iraq, world news
  • Gunmen kidnapped seven workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross after stopping their convoy in Syria.
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kidnap, red cross, world news
  • Locals remove a traffic signal pole fallen during Cyclone Phailin from a road in Berhampur, India, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013.
  • Indian officials said massive evacuation efforts spared the cyclone-battered east coast from widespread loss of life.
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tropical storm, world news
  • Indians hold umbrellas as they head to a cyclone shelter in Chatrapur in Ganjam district, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the eastern Indian city Bhubaneswar, India, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013.
  • A massive cyclone packing heavy rains and destructive winds slammed into India's eastern coastline Saturday.
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tropical storm, world news
  • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, leans in toward Afghan President Hamid Karzai as they say goodbye at the end of a news conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013.
  • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says a partial agreement has been reached with Afghanistan on a security accord.
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world news
  • This undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows Maj. Gen. Michael J. Carey.
  • The Air Force fired a two-star general in charge of its nuclear missiles in response to alleged personal misbehavior.
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world news
  • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry looks out the window en route to the ISAF headquarters after arriving on an unannounced visit in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013.
  • John Kerry began urgent talks Friday with Hamid Karzai as an end-of-October deadline loomed for a security deal.
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world news
  • A car arrives at the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW, Sept. 27, 2013 in The Hague, Netherlands.
  • Efforts to eliminate chemical weapons won a Nobel Peace Prize for the global watchdog trying to destroy Syria's nerve gas.
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world news
  • In this Oct. 28, 2002 file photo, Canadian author Alice Munro poses for a photograph at the Canadian Consulates residence in New York.
  • Alice Munro, a Canadian master of the short story, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, the Swedish Academy said.
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world news
  • In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 file photo, Libyans Prime Minister Ali Zidan speaks to the media during a press conference in Rabat, Morocco.
  • Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan was freed from captivity just hours after gunmen abducted him Thursday in Tripoli.
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kidnap, world news
  • A passenger with no flying experience landed a small airplane safely at a British airport after the pilot became ill.
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  • Martin Karplus poses at his home in Cambridge, Mass., after being awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013.
  • Three U.S.-based scientists won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing powerful computer models.
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world news
  • British physicist Peter Higgs, right, talks with Belgian physicist Francois Englert prior to a scientific seminar in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 4, 2012.
  • Francois Englert and Peter Higgs have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics for their research into the Higgs particle.
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world news
  • In this undated photo released on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, by the Daily Mirror David Beckham, right, presents a Mirror Pride of Britain Teenager of Courage Award to Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for going to school.
  • Malala Yousafzai describes her shooting by the Taliban in her new book to be released Tuesday.
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world news
  • Spectators flee after a monster truck plowed into a crowd of people in Chihuahua, Mexico, on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013.
  • An out-of-control monster truck shot into a crowd of spectators at a Mexican air show, killing eight people and hurting 79.
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world news
  • Nobel Prize in medicine winners James Rothman (left) of Yale, Randy Schekman (center) of UC Berkeley and Thomas Sudhof of Stanford are seen in this picture Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.
  • Two professors from UC Berkeley and Stanford are among Monday's winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine.
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world news
  • International inspectors began the enormous task Sunday of destroying Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons.
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united nations, world news
  • Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai is seen in this undated file photo.
  • An al Qaeda leader, wanted for his role in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in East Africa, has been nabbed.
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  • People are seen running out of Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, as Kenya forces attempt to end a three-day siege by al-Shabab attackers on Monday, Sept. 23, 2013.
  • U.S. Navy SEALs carried out a raid in Somalia looking for an al Qaeda suspect linked to the Nairobi shopping mall attack.
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shooting, arrest, world news, melissa macbride
  • A suicide bomber blew himself up in Baghdad and another detonated his explosives inside a café, killing at least 66 people.
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bombing, iraq, world news
  • This image shows missing child Madeleine McCann and an age progression computer generated image of her at 9 years old.
  • Authorities are combing phone records of those who were in a Portuguese resort when Madeleine McCann disappeared.
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missing person, world news
  • Survivors of a shipwreck that killed more than 110 African migrants used empty water bottles to keep themselves afloat.
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world news
  • This photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. shows the storage tank which workers detected the water dripping from the top, at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013.
  • The operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant says 430 liters spilled when workers overfilled a storage tank.
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japan, world news
  • An Italian Coast Guard boat carry rescued migrants as they arrive in the port of Lampedusa Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013.
  • An Italian official says 94 bodies have been found in the migrant shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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world news
  • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel greet each other before attending a wreath laying ceremony at Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013.
  • John Kerry said it would be 'diplomatic malpractice of the worst order' not to test Iran's willingness to comply.
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iran, department of defense, world news