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The Tunisian captain and a Syrian crewmember of the boat that capsized off the coast of Libya with hundreds of people aboard were arrested in what may be the deadliest migrant tragedy ever, prosecutors in Sicily said Tuesday. Assistant Prosecutor Rocco Liguori said the two men were charged with.... |
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Today is Tuesday, April 21, the 111th day of 2015. There are 254 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 21, 1975, with Communist forces closing in, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned after nearly ten years in office and fled the country. |
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Michael R. Mitchell, an attorney who challenged the Los Angeles Police Department's use of chokeholds and won temporary restrictions on their use, died Friday at his Los Angeles home. He was 73. He had pancreatic cancer, said his wife, Barbara Mitchell. |
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Was out taking my local pastor and his wife (hes in his 70s) out for a snapper fish on Sunday and what did i HEAR?? 89kg YFIN weighed in... pity it was on 37 as Rick Pollick (sounded like) said it would have gone close to the 24kg record!!!
Apparently first time angler, first time on leader and.... |
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The death was reported by numerous news outlets in Europe and Israel. In a radio interview in Rome, the prime minister of Italy, Matteo Renzi, called Rabbi Toaff “a great Italian and a symbol of the Jewish community.” Born on April 30, 1915, in the Tuscan port city of Livorno, Elio Toaff (pronounced.... |
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Anthony Doerr's "All the Light We Cannot See," an emotional and intimate World War II novel that has been one of the top-selling literary works of the past year, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Pulitzer judges on Monday cited Doerr's "short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology. |
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It’s hard to believe it but today marks the 20th anniversary of the first episode of the greatest Irish sitcom ever the inimitable Fr Ted.
Like the truly great comedy vehicles, it is permanently repeated on channels from RTÉ to E4; a timeless classic in every sense of the word, even if it did only last for 25 episodes from 1995 to 1998. |
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The Tunisian captain and a Syrian crewmember of the boat that capsized off the coast of Libya with hundreds of people aboard were arrested in what may be the deadliest migrant tragedy ever, prosecutors in Sicily said Tuesday. Assistant Prosecutor Rocco Liguori said the two men were charged with.... |
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Anthony Doerr's "All the Light We Cannot See," an emotional and intimate World War II novel that has been one of the top-selling literary works of the past year, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Pulitzer judges on Monday (April 20) cited Doerr's "short, elegant chapters that.... |
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The European Union agreed Monday to expand its Mediterranean Sea rescue effort to staunch the flood of migrants fleeing to European shores that has resulted in hundreds of deaths in the past week. The EU also will provide more funds for migrant interdiction, seek to catch and destroy smugglers'.... |
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Anthony Doerr's "All the Light We Cannot See," an emotional and intimate World War II novel that has been one of the top-selling literary works of the past year, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Pulitzer judges on Monday cited Doerr's "short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology. |
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