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Italy lawmakers fail to elect new president in 1st round

Friday, 30 January 2015, 07:38 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

Lawmakers failed to elect a new Italian president Thursday in balloting that tests Premier Matteo Renzi's ability to rally his fractured party behind a candidate that is also acceptable to opposition...

Families plead for lives of IS hostages as swap hopes fade

Friday, 30 January 2015, 06:58 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

A deadline of sunset Thursday for a possible prisoner swap purportedly set by the Islamic State group holding a Japanese journalist and a Jordanian military pilot passed with no sign of whether the...

Watch: Gas blast wrecks Mexico children's hospital, killing 3

Friday, 30 January 2015, 06:55 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

Injured and bleeding, mothers grasping infants in their arms fled from a maternity hospital shattered by a powerful gas explosion Thursday, and rescuers began smashing sledgehammers through fallen...

Google: YouTube is so overloaded staff cannot filter content

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 13:35 Last update: about 11 years ago Associated Press

Internet giant Google said Wednesday that its video-sharing website YouTube is so inundated that staff cannot filter all terror related content, complicating the struggle to halt the publication of...

Malaysian government officially declares MH370 an accident

Thursday, 29 January 2015, 11:48 Last update: about 11 years ago

The Malaysian government has officially declared the disappearance of Malaysian Airline flight MH370 an accident and has said that there were no survivors. No trace of the Beijing-bound aircraft...

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