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Rescuers blast holes in stricken ship off Italy (AP)

An oil removal ship near the cruise ship Costa Concordia, leaning on its side, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, after running aground near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, last Friday night. The rescue operation was called off mid-afternoon Monday after the Costa Concordia shifted a few inches (centimeters) in rough seas. The fear is that if the ship shifts significantly, some 500,000 gallons of fuel may begin to leak. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP – Italian naval divers on Tuesday exploded holes in the hull of a cruise ship grounded off a Tuscan island to speed the search for 29 missing people while seas were still calm. One official said there was still a “glimmer of hope” that survivors could be found.


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Blast kills Iran nuclear expert amid `covert war’ (AP)

In this photo provided by the semi-official Fars News Agency, people gather around a car as it is removed by a mobile crane in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. Two assailants on a motorcycle attached magnetic bombs to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and wounding two people on Wednesday, a semiofficial news agency reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Meghdad Madadi)AP – It seemed a clockwork killing: Motorcycle riders flashed by and attached a magnetic bomb onto a car carrying a nuclear scientist working at Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility. By the time the blast tore apart the silver Peugeot, the bike was blocks away, weaving through Tehran traffic after what Iran calls the latest strike in an escalating covert war.


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Syria says up to 25 killed in Damascus blast (AP)

Syrian investigators, inspect next  to damaged police  cars at the scene bomb at Midan neighborhood, in Damascus, Syria, on Friday Jan. 6, 2012. An explosion ripped through a busy intersection in the Syrian capital Friday, hitting a police bus and killing at least 11 people and possibly many more in an attack that left pools of blood in the streets and marked the second deadly attack in the capital in as many weeks, Syrian authorities said. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)AP – An explosion ripped through a busy intersection in the Syrian capital Friday, hitting a police bus and killing up to 25 people in what Syrian authorities said was the second suicide attack in as many weeks.


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Syria says at least 10 killed in Damascus blast (AP)

A pro-Syrian regime protester kisses a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a demonstration in support of their President, in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday Jan. 4, 2012. Activists accused President Bashar Assad's regime on Wednesday of misleading Arab League observers by taking them only to areas loyal to the government and changing street signs to confuse them. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)AP – Syrian TV says at least 10 people have been killed in an explosion in central Damascus, and that the death toll could rise to 25.


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Feds unveil record settlement in W.Va. mine blast (AP)

AP – The owner of a West Virginia mine where 29 men died in the deadliest U.S. coalfield accident in decades will pay $210 million, the largest settlement ever in a federal investigation of a mine disaster, prosecutors said Tuesday.

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Passive Occupy protesters take pepper spray blast (AP)

In this image made from video, a police officer uses pepper spray as he walks down a line of Occupy demonstrators sitting on the ground at the University of California, Davis on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. The video - posted on YouTube - was shot Friday as police moved in on more than a dozen tents erected on campus and arrested 10 people, nine of them students. (AP Photo/Thomas K. Fowler)AP – Protesters sitting on the ground supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement on the campus of the University of California, Davis took a face full of pepper spray at close range from an officer in riot gear in an incident that was captured on cellphone video and spread virally across the Internet Saturday.


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Blast rocks Iranian ammunition depot killing at least 15 

At least 15 people have been killed and scores more injured in two massive explosions at a Revolutionary Guard ammunition depot west of the capital Tehran, state TV reported Saturday.

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