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Italy rescue crews hold out hope of more hotel survivors

Sunday, 22 January 2017, 13:27 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

Rescue crews digging through an Italian hotel buried in an avalanche say there could be additional survivors more than three days after tons of snow came barreling down a mountainside. Rescuers...

Russia PM calls idea US will lift sanctions soon 'illusion'

Sunday, 22 January 2017, 13:23 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says the west's sanctions on Russia are likely to remain in place "for a long time" despite expectations Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president will lead...

Defiant women to Trump: Your agenda won't go unchallenged

Sunday, 22 January 2017, 09:20 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

In a global exclamation of defiance and solidarity, more than 1 million people rallied at women's marches in the nation's capital and cities around the world Saturday to send President Donald Trump an...

Search intensifies for 23 missing in Italian avalanche

Sunday, 22 January 2017, 07:23 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

The strain showed on Fabio Salzetta's face. The maintenance worker at the luxury Hotel Rigopiano who escaped being buried under the deadly avalanche because he had gone to check the boiler told...

Pope Francis: I'll judge Trump after we see what he does

Sunday, 22 January 2017, 07:21 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

Pope Francis says he'll wait to see what U.S. President Donald Trump does before forming an opinion about him. In an interview published Saturday evening by Spanish newspaper El Pais, Francis...

Rescuers listen for signs of life in avalanche-struck hotel

Saturday, 21 January 2017, 18:02 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

Rescuers listened for signs Saturday of any more survivors, three days after an avalanche slammed into a resort hotel in Italy's central Apennines mountains. Using saws, shovels and just...

Libya's neighbours demand national dialogue to end crisis

Saturday, 21 January 2017, 18:00 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

Representatives of Libya's neighbors meeting in Cairo on Saturday warned the North African nation's main rival factions against seeking to settle their differences through military force, as...

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