Oil and natural gas deposits possibly worth $400 billion are raising tension in the eastern Mediterranean with Turkey threatening to block exploration that does not include Turkish and Turkish-Cypriot interests. Banner headlines in the Greek-Cypriot press yesterday reported unexpected movement of Turkish warships along the southern coast of Cyprus and blamed Turkey for "muscle flexing" in connection with the oil and gas exploration plans. Turkish television channel NTV said the warships had been sent as a warning that Ankara "would safeguard its rights in the area." Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, chief of Turkey's General Staff, said the movement was a routine patrol in the Mediterranean. "There was no need to send new warships," the Turkish press quoted him as saying. The Greek-Cypriot government recently signed an agreement with Lebanon and Egypt for joint exploration in an area 125 miles wide between Cyprus and the Mediterranean's southern coast...
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 3 killed when small plane crashes Aircraft was cleared for landing at New Bedford, Mass. |
Three people were killed when a small plane crashed in a wooded area near New Bedford Regional Airport on Friday night, the Federal Aviation Administration said.The plane crashed at 7:45 p.m. about 1.5 miles west of the airport in the woods. It was cleared for landing at the airport.“At some point as the aircraft was on final approach, we lost communication with it,” FAA spokesman Jim Peters said.The turboprop Socata plane is owned by PK Leasing of Allentown, Pa., Peters said. It wasn’t immediately known where the plane took off, he said....
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| Ten foreign tourists die in Chilean hotel fire |
Ten tourists from Argentina, Germany and the Netherlands died in a hotel fire in the far south of Chile on Saturday, the head of the local fire service said.The fire broke out at around 3.00 a.m. (1:00 a.m. EST) in the Blue House hotel in Punta Arenas, Chile's most southerly city. "Twenty-one tourists were staying there, 11 of whom managed to get out, six with injuries," said Rene Mancilla, head of the city's fire service. "Unfortunately, once the flames had been extinguished and during the process of picking through the debris, we found 10 burned corpses of foreign tourists," he told national radio station Radio Cooperativa....
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| Suicide bombing kills 121 at Baghdad market Blast rocks predominantly Shiite area; insurgents rampage through Mosul |
A suicide truck bomber struck a market in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad on Saturday, killing 121 people among the crowd buying food for evening meals, police and hospital officials said. The death toll made the attack one of the deadliest single bombings in the capital since the 2003 U.S.-led war. The attacker was driving a truck carrying food when he detonated his explosives, destroying stores and stalls that had been set up in the busy outdoor Sadriyah market, police said, giving the casualty toll. Officials said 121 people were killed and 226 wounded as nearby hospitals were flooded with victims from the blast, Reuters reported. Many were driven to the hospitals in pickup trucks and lifted onto stretchers while several men helped overwhelmed medics by holding plastic drips. “It was a strong blow. A car exploded. I fell on the ground. It was in Sadriyah,” said one young man with a bandaged head, his face still streaked with blood....
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| Some Meth Addicts Turn to Urine to Get High |
Some hard-core methamphetamine addicts will do anything to get high, including collecting and drinking the urine of other users. Police in New Mexico recently discovered meth users running "urine extraction" labs, reported Minnesota's news station WCCO. The first indication of the new trend came when deputies opened up a smelly rented storage locker where they found 50 1-gallon jugs of urine. Police told the owners to throw away the contents, which made them physically ill. A week later, Narcotics Sgt. Becky Howell received the report on the incident. "I said, 'Oh my gosh, this is a meth lab. This is a urine extraction lab,'" Howell told WCCO. It's the newest way to access meth. Some users drink the meth-tainted urine to get high while others use the cooking process to filter the drug back out....
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| Utah Newlyweds Arrested in String of Bank Heists |
A woman charged with bank robbery was released from jail Friday while her newlywed husband, accused of three heists, will remain behind bars.U.S. Magistrate Judge David Nuffer released Kylee Rich to her parents in Orem over the objections of a federal prosecutor, The Salt Lake Tribune reported on its Web site."By her own admission, this third robbery was motivated by a lack of heroin and a need for money to buy drugs," Assistant U.S. Attorney John Huber told Nuffer. "This wasn't a 'wake up on Saturday morning and decide what to do today' plan."The Riches are charged with robbing a Wells Fargo branch in Lindon on Jan. 27. Rich, 20, is accused of providing a getaway car for her husband, Joshua, 25.Joshua Rich is also charged with robbing the same bank twice in November without his wife....
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