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By ELISABETH MALKIN
The government’s new policy bans gillnets for two years across the northern Gulf of California and compensates shrimp fishermen for their lost catch.
Published: February 28, 2015 at 07:00PM
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By MOHAMMED IBRAHIM
The four Thais were released after being held for nearly five years, longer than any other hostages seized off the Somali coast.
Published: February 28, 2015 at 07:00PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Winter on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee means ice fishing, hockey tournaments and, if the ice is strong enough, airplanes.
Published: February 28, 2015 at 09:27AM
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President Ernest Bai Koroma reinstated restrictions in Sierra Leone in response to the rise in confirmed cases of Ebola.
Published: February 28, 2015 at 06:59AM
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California lawmakers and advocacy groups are ramping up efforts to win national monument designation for four scenic vistas in the state, from vast stretches of the Mojave Desert to redwood stands along the Pacific Coast Highway to canyons and…
Published: February 28, 2015 at 05:44AM
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By REUTERS
Romania’s coast guard rescued 70 migrants – mostly Syrians and Iraqis – packed on to a small fishing boat that was in danger of sinking as they attempted to make the crossing to Europe in stormy seas on Saturday.
Published: February 27, 2015 at 11:57PM
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MERLE-SMITH–Katherine, an artist, teacher, and humanitarian, died February 21, 2015 in Adamstown, MD. She was 92. After attending Foxcroft School, Middleburg, VA, a school founded by her aunt Charlotte Haxall Noland, Mrs. Merle-Smith received her…
Published: February 27, 2015 at 03:05PM
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By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
Television highlights.
Published: February 27, 2015 at 07:00PM
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Mexican authorities will use satellite tracking, drones, a series of naval bases and a fleet of small patrol boats to enforce a new gillnet fishing ban in the upper Sea of Cortes in a bid to save the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world’s…
Published: February 27, 2015 at 03:09PM
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By REUTERS
Somali pirates have freed four Thai nationals seized from a fishing vessel at sea in 2010, ending the longest-running hostage drama in the Horn of Africa state, the United Nations said on Friday.
Published: February 27, 2015 at 06:53AM
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By SMITH HENDERSON
An outlaw clan terrorizes a town in the Upper Peninsula, and Jim Harrison’s hapless detective is caught in the crossfire.
Published: February 28, 2015 at 07:00PM
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Somali pirates have released four Thai sailors who were held hostage for nearly five years, the longest period of captivity of hostages held by Somali pirates, a U.N. official said Friday.
Published: February 27, 2015 at 04:48AM
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By REUTERS
French President Francois Hollande on Friday met victims of the biggest-ever typhoon to make landfall and promised them he would secure an international agreement to limit climate change.
Published: February 27, 2015 at 12:42AM
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Doug McMillon
Published: February 26, 2015 at 07:14AM
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