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French-run rescue ship picks up 80 migrants off Libya

Friday, 9 August 2019, 13:31 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

A ship operated by the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders has rescued 80 migrants from a rubber dinghy off Libya. Doctors Without Borders said on Twitter Friday that the migrants were in...

Italy's Salvini pushes for a new election over deadlocks

Friday, 9 August 2019, 06:40 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Italy faced a government crisis Thursday after Interior Minister Matteo Salvini of the right-wing League party called for a new election, saying his party's coalition with the populist 5-Star Movement...

Fans recreate Beatles' Abbey Road cover shot 50 years on

Thursday, 8 August 2019, 14:09 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

It was 50 years ago today, that The Beatles caused a traffic delay. And hundreds of fans of the Fab Four gathered at a crosswalk in London's St. John's Wood neighborhood Thursday to recreate the...

Police patrol Rome's Spanish Steps to enforce sitting ban

Thursday, 8 August 2019, 10:01 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn perched there without a care in the 1953 film "Roman Holiday." But the Spanish Steps in Rome are no longer a place for sitting. Enforcing an ordinance that took...

UK-based Ryanair pilots authorize two strikes over next month

Thursday, 8 August 2019, 09:53 Last update: about 8 years ago

Ryanair pilots based in the U.K. have authorized a series of summer strikes in a dispute with the budget carrier over pay and benefits. Members of the British Airline Pilots Association voted by...

El Paso, with deep Mexican American past, rallies amid pain

Wednesday, 7 August 2019, 11:20 Last update: about 8 years ago Associated Press

The massacre that killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso struck a city that has long been the cradle of Mexican American culture and immigration and suffered through bloody episodes of racial...

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88

Tuesday, 6 August 2019, 16:02 Last update: about 8 years ago

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88. She was the first black...

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