Miscellaneous

12/29/2013, 04:06 Time
USPA News

7 airlifted after fire breaks out on ferry off English coast

USPA News - Seven people suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation were airlifted to hospital Saturday after a fire br...

12/29/2013, 01:29 Time
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Train fire in southern India kills 26, injures 15

USPA News - An express train packed with sleeping passengers caught fire in southern India on early Saturday, killing 26 pe...

12/27/2013, 21:16 Time
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Bus plunges off bridge in northern Thailand, killing 29

USPA News - A speeding passenger bus crashed through a guardrail Thursday and plunged off a bridge in northern Thailand, ki...

12/26/2013, 03:17 Time
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Proposed Russian law bans online speech promoting pedophilia

USPA News - A Russian legislator submitted a bill Wednesday that would allow the government`s internet watchdog to block ac...

12/26/2013, 02:10 Time
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Bombs targeting Christians on Christmas Day kill 49 in Baghdad

USPA News - At least 49 people were killed and nearly 90 others were injured when bombs exploded outside a church and near ...

12/25/2013, 23:58 Time
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Rockets hit U.S. Embassy in Kabul as nearby bomb injures 4

USPA News - Two rockets fired by the Taliban impacted the U.S. embassy compound in Kabul just before dawn Wednesday, causin...

12/25/2013, 00:05 Time
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Israeli warplanes strike Gaza after sniper kills Israeli civilian

USPA News - An Israeli man was killed by a Gazan sniper on Tuesday while working on a border fence, prompting a series of I...

12/24/2013, 18:53 Time
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Mass graves found in South Sudan as govt troops retake key town

USPA News - A mass grave believed to contain the bodies of up to 75 ethnic Dinka soldiers has been found in the northern re...

12/24/2013, 15:12 Time
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50 Islamist rebels die in gun battles with Nigerian troops, army says

USPA News - More than 50 suspected militants belonging to the Islamist group Boko Haram have been killed in northeastern Ni...

12/23/2013, 21:14 Time
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Man dies after setting self, son on fire at Tokyo school

USPA News - A Japanese man entered an elementary school playground in the capital Tokyo on Monday and set both himself and ...

12/23/2013, 20:59 Time
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Navy tugboat capsizes in western Turkey, killing 10 workers

USPA News - A Turkish Navy tugboat capsized Monday at a shipyard on the Aegean coast in western Turkey after it had underwe...

12/23/2013, 14:28 Time
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Emirates airline orders another 50 Airbus aircraft in $20 billion deal

USPA News - Emirates airline, the flag carrier of the United Arab Emirates, has signed a firm contract for 50 additional Ai...

12/23/2013, 13:13 Time
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UPDATE 1 -- 2 NATO soldiers shot dead in separate Afghan attacks

USPA News - Two coalition service members were killed Monday when they were shot by insurgents in two separate incidents in...

12/23/2013, 13:06 Time
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`Fast and Furious 7` to be released in April 2015

USPA News - The seventh installment of the "Fast & Furious" film franchise, for which production was halted last month afte...

12/23/2013, 04:51 Time
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Jumbo jet strikes building at Johannesburg airport, no injuries

USPA News - The wing of a British Airlines jetliner struck a building Sunday night while taxiing at the international airpo...

12/20/2013, 03:04 Time
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Pakistani troops kill 33 militants after suicide bombing

USPA News - More than 30 militants have been killed after Pakistani troops mounted helicopter and mortar attacks on militan...

12/20/2013, 02:02 Time
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U.S. releases 2 more detainees from Guantanamo Bay

USPA News - Two Sudanese detainees were released Wednesday from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, raising the ...

12/15/2013, 12:45 Time
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U.S. Mega Millions jackpot climbs to $550 million after Friday drawing

USPA News - The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to $550 million on early Saturday after no single ticket matched all six numb...

12/15/2013, 04:32 Time
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China safely soft-lands first rover on the moon

USPA News - A Chinese spacecraft landed on the moon on late Saturday, marking the country`s first soft landing on an extrat...

12/15/2013, 04:04 Time
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Grenade attack on Nairobi bus kills 4, injures 25

USPA News - A hand grenade was thrown into a bus in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Saturday afternoon, killing at least f...

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