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- Sounds heard from ship that capsized off Italy
16th June 2013 - Rescue crews circling the wreckage of a cruise ship that ran aground off the Tuscan coast have heard sounds from within the ship, Britain's Sky News reported on Sunday.
- Nations seek answers over Italy cruise accident
16th June 2013 - The international mix of passengers and crew aboard the stricken Costa Concordia cruise liner added to the complications Saturday for Italian officials handling the emergency.
- Cruise disaster unlikely to halt industry growth
16th June 2013 - The luxury cruise liner that ran aground off the Italian coast has rattled even the most die-hard cruisers in an industry where catastrophic accidents are rare, but it's unlikely to do significant long-term damage.
- SKorean ship partially sinks; 5 crewmen die
16th June 2013 - A South Korean cargo ship was rocked by an explosion off the country's west coast Sunday, leaving five people dead and six others missing, officials said.
- Recreating Afghanistan's soundtrack, one young musician at a time
16th June 2013 - Ahmad Sarmast has helped some of the most disadvantaged children in Afghanistan learn how to play instruments.
- Taiwan re-elects president
16th June 2013 - Taiwan voters re-elected incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou on Saturday, endorsing his push for closer ties with Beijing and removing a potential irritant in Sino-U.S. relations.
- China's Wen presses Saudi Arabia for oil access
16th June 2013 - BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pressed Saudi Arabia to open its huge oil and gas resources to expanded Chinese investment, media reports said on Sunday against a backdrop of growing tension over Iran and worries over its crude exports to the Asian power.
- Egypt's ElBaradei pulls out of presidential race
16th June 2013 - Egypt's reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei withdrew from the presidential race Saturday, saying a fair election is impossible under the military's grip nearly a year after Hosni Mubarak's ouster.
- Bomb kills 50 Iraq pilgrims, wounds 100
16th June 2013 - A bomb killed 50 Shiite pilgrims near the southern port city of Basra on Saturday, an Iraqi official said, in the latest in a series of attacks during Shiite religious events.
- Trend against outsourcing brings jobs back from China
16th June 2013 - Outsourcing manufacturing jobs to China is not as cheap as it used to be, and the United States is poised to bring those jobs back home.
- Doomed Russian probe tracked in its final hours
16th June 2013 - Russia's botched Mars probe mission Phobos-Grunt is fast-approaching a fiery death, with just one or two days remaining before it falls from space, experts and Russian space officials say.
- 1 year after despot fled, Tunisians protest lack of jobs
16th June 2013 - Tunisians protested about growing unemployment Saturday as the country marked one year since its long-time despotic ruler fled, in the first victory for the Arab Spring movement.
- Africa massacres: Fundraiser defends aid to tribe
16th June 2013 - A Sudanese refugee says he led fundraising efforts for a tribe in South Sudan that now is accused of massacring hundreds of men, women and children.
- Wife: Oxford professor?s death an accident, not murder
16th June 2013 - The wife of a world-renowned Oxford University astrophysicist says his mysterious death at the home of a fellow academic was a ?tragic accident,? not murder.
- As tensions rise, Obama and Putin to meet
15th June 2013 - In the year since U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin last met face to face, tens of thousands of Syrians have been killed and hundreds of thousands have fled that country?s raging civil war.
- N. Ireland mounts huge police operation for Obama
15th June 2013 - As President Barack Obama heads to Northern Ireland for Monday?s G-8 summit, so too will thousands of anti-capitalist demonstrators, posing a challenge for police even in an area used to high security.
- Riot police move to quash Turkey protests
15th June 2013 - Violence surged in Istanbul?s Taksim Square Saturday as police vehicles began clearing the area in preparation for a response rally set to be held Sunday by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling AK Party.
- NYC-bound plane from Egypt diverted after note found
15th June 2013 - A commercial aircraft en route to New York City from Cairo was forced to land in Scotland after a passenger found a note in a bathroom, the state-owned EgyptAir said in a statement.
- Rowhani elected president of Iran, interior ministry says
15th June 2013 - The Iranian Interior Ministry announced on Saturday that moderate cleric Hasan Rowhani has won the country?s presidential election, NBC News confirms. Rowhani won with a fraction over the 50 percent of the vote needed to win outright on the first poll.
- Post-presidency, what's next for Iran's Ahmadinejad?
15th June 2013 - Friday?s presidential election in Iran dictates that the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?s time in office will end soon, but experts say the controversial head of state is unlikely to retire quietly.
- Pakistan militants strike bus, hospital in deadly attack
15th June 2013 - Militants in western Pakistan bombed a bus carrying women university students on Saturday and then seized part of the hospital where survivors of the attack were taken, killing at least 12 people, officials said.
- Muslim Brotherhood backs Sunni front on Syria
15th June 2013 - Syria's president and his Shi'ite allies were denounced by leading Sunni Arab voices on Friday, including Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood, which had reached out across Islam's sectarian divide but has now called for jihad.
- South Africans fret about post-Mandela civil strife
15th June 2013 - The priest of a Soweto church that became a focal point in the struggle against apartheid has called on President Jacob Zuma's government to vow to uphold Nelson Mandela's vision of tolerance amid fears of social unrest in the event of the icon's death.
- US officials say help for Syria likely gradual
15th June 2013 - U.S. military officials said Friday that American help for Syrian rebels is likely to escalate gradually, beginning with basic equipment like body armor and night-vision goggles and shifting later to weapons and ammunition.
- Turkey protesters refuse to leave despite PM pledge
15th June 2013 - ISTANBUL -- Turkish protesters said on Saturday they would not leave an Istanbul park despite a call from the president for them to withdraw and a pledge from Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to hold a vote on plans to redevelop the site.
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