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Photos: Pirates demand ransom for hijacked tanker |
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
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Pirates, who at the weekend seized the Saudi-owned Sirius Star oil tanker, are demanding 25 million dollars in ransom for the ship and its cargo of 100 million dollars of oil. |
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Fighting video game dependency in France |
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
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Experts says there may be more people hooked to video games, especially the online variety, in France than there are alcoholics. Time to take measures to help cyberspace junkies kick their habit, the government has announced. |
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Egypt's star fashion designer |
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
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Marie Bishara, an Egyptian fashion designer, was her country's first-ever representative at the 2009 spring/summer ready-to-wear collections in Paris. An encounter with Bishara. |
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Student crushed to death. |
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
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School stampede as students flee suspected collapse. Two schools have collapsed in the past two weeks in Haiti, killing more than 90 and injuring scores of students and teachers. |
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Hardy sailors prefer pirates to no job |
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
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Seafaring Filipinos worry more about landing work in a shrinking global economy than being hijacked by pirates offshore Somalia. The mounting threat posed by Somali pirates is causing waves in many seafaring nations but not in the Philippines. Around 40 percent of the sailors who work on the world's supertankers and cargo ships hail from the Philippines. And sailors there are making light of the risk of being held hostage. They're far more worred about the economic downturn drying up demand for their services. |
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