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PARIS (AP) - Police say a man with an automatic rifle opened fire on a car near a Paris train station, killing one man and wounding two others.           ]]></description>
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SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) - Officials say a gunman opened fire on the Pacific resort island of Saipan, killing four people before fatally shooting himself.           ]]></description>
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MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian shipping company says that its icebreaker carrying more than 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on an Antarctic cruise has freed itself from ice and reached clear water.           ]]></description>
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A humanitarian group says formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins separated this week will remain in the group&#8217;s care for at least two years.           ]]></description>
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - An official says one of South Korea&#8217;s top fashion models has been found dead at her home in Paris.           ]]></description>
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A spectacular rescue of a otter stuck behind some decommissioned refrigerators of a grocery store in the Black Sea resort of Mamaia.           ]]></description>
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PRAGUE (AP) - A zoo official says a rare white tiger has been killed by two lions in a zoo in northern Czech Republic.           ]]></description>
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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - A U.N.-run radio station says a passenger plane overshot a runway in eastern Congo and landed in lava, injuring 20 people.           ]]></description>
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - An Ethiopian court has convicted 26 people who were accused of taking part in a coup plot.           ]]></description>
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Authorities in Puerto Rico say a school bus has fallen off an overpass, killing an 8-year-old girl near the capital of the U.S. Caribbean territory.           ]]></description>
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MOSCOW (AP) - Russian news reports say a cruise ship carrying over 100 tourists and scientists to see emperor penguins in Antarctica has begun moving through packed sea ice and will soon reach clear water.           ]]></description>
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - Seismologists say a earthquake struck off Canada&#8217;s pacific coast province of British Columbia.           ]]></description>
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GENEVA (AP) - The European Organization for Nuclear Research says it expects to restart the world&#8217;s largest atom smasher by this weekend after more than a year of repairs.           ]]></description>
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MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian shipping company says one of its cruise ships carrying over 100 tourists, scientists and journalists is stuck in the ice around Antarctica.           ]]></description>
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PRAGUE (AP) - Residents of the Czech Republic are commemorating the 20th anniversary of the end of communist rule.           ]]></description>
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Police say a South African woman has survived after carjackers threw her off a nearly 200-foot (60-meter)-tall bridge.           ]]></description>
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ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) - A United Nations court has overturned a 20-year sentence faced by the former Rwandan president&#8217;s brother-in-law for organizing a massacre during the country&#8217;s 1994 genocide.           ]]></description>
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Zimbabwe&#8217;s tourism chief says hotels have seen occupancy rates double in the past year as the country begins to enjoy the political and economic stability brought about by a unity government.           ]]></description>
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SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil&#8217;s president says last week&#8217;s massive blackouts in Latin America&#8217;s largest nation were caused by a short-circuit in a transmission tower.           ]]></description>
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PRAGUE (AP) - Senior U.S. and Czech Foreign Ministry officials are holding talks to discuss ways for the Czech Republic to participate in a reworked U.S. missile defense plan.           ]]></description>
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Explorers have drilled into Antarctica&#8217;s ice for many samples over the years but they could soon be digging for whiskey.           ]]></description>
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KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - The head of Rwanda&#8217;s national airline says one person has died after a passenger plane crashed into the airport&#8217;s VIP lounge.           ]]></description>
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - News reports say a high-speed train derailed in western Turkey. There were no immediate reports of injuries.           ]]></description>
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MOSCOW (AP) - Russian prosecutors say a military officer has thrown the twin 8-year-old daughters of his common-law wife from their eighth-floor apartment and they have survived the fall.           ]]></description>
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - Authorities say gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued border state in Mexico.           ]]></description>
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NEW DELHI (AP) - Officials say at least 42 people are dead following a rain-triggered landslide in southern India.           ]]></description>
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It was a historic moment, the fall of communism in Europe.           ]]></description>
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LONDON (AP) - A British nurse who died 30 years ago in Saudi Arabia will finally be cremated after her body was held for decades in a mortuary.           ]]></description>
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PARIS (AP) - Families of victims of Rio-Paris Flight 447 say a new search for wreckage has been delayed and accuse French investigators of dragging their feet.           ]]></description>
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NEW DELHI(AP) - Police say eight children have drowned after a boat carrying at least 35 students capsized in southern India.           ]]></description>
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