India ferry disaster leaves 200 dead, missing
Hopes dimmed yesterday of finding more survivors
after an overcrowded ferry split in two and sank in northeast India,
leaving more than 100 dead and around 100 missing. Police said 105
bodies, including women and children, had been recovered so far from
the fast-flowing waters of the Brahmaputra river in Assam state,
where the ferry sank in a sudden storm late Monday afternoon.
Despite an operating capacity of 225, some 350 people were believed
to be on the two deck boat when it broke up mid-river in torrential,
pre-monsoon rains.
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World Trade Center becomes highest NY tower
New York's skyline got a new king Tuesday after
the still unfinished World Trade Center tower, built to replace the
destroyed Twin Towers, crept above the venerable Empire State
Building.
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UN chief, Suu Kyi hold talks
UN chief Ban Ki-moon met Myanmar pro-democracy
leader Aung San Suu Kyi Tuesday for talks about the country's
political future after a surprise climbdown by the Nobel laureate in
her boycott of parliament. The talks at the opposition leader's
lakeside mansion in Yangon, where she was locked up by the former
junta for much of the past two decades, come a day after Ban became
the first visiting foreigner to address Myanmar's legislature.
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US,Taliban resume talks in Qatar over US-led Afghan war
Representatives of Afghan Taliban and the US
government have resumed talks in Qatar in an attempt to find a
political solution to the US-led war in Afghanistan. The development
comes as previous talks between the two sides have failed to make
any headway, especially in a plan for a prisoner exchange.
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