Saturday

UN office attacked in western Afghanistan (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Italian soldiers on guard in Herat city in 2009. The United Nations office in the western Afghan city of Herat came under armed attack on Saturday, officials said.(AFP/File/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - A United Nations office was attacked Saturday in western Afghanistan, officials said.


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Iran to release 1 of 3 jailed Americans (AP)

September 9th, 2010

A picture obtained from Iran's state-run English-language Press TV shows detained US hikers (from left) Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal in Tehran in May 2010. One of three US hikers detained in Iran for more than a year is to be freed on Saturday, the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance told AFP in a text message.(AFP/PRESS TV/File)AP - Iran’s Culture Ministry says one of the three Americans jailed for more than a year will be released Saturday.


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Teenage Dutch sailor girl to set off Saturday (AP)

August 20th, 2010

AP - A 14-year-old Dutch girl will set off Saturday on an attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, her manager said.

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Dutch crash survivor to return from Libya Saturday (AP)

May 15th, 2010

A Libyan policeman walks amid the debris of an Afriqiyah Airways passenger plane which crashed during landing at Tripoli airport on May 12. Crash investigators have said no technical problems were reported by the pilot before the jet went down.(AFP/File/Mahmud Turkia)AP - Doctors were examining the Dutch boy who is the only survivor of a plane crash in Libya to be certain he is able to fly home to the…

Official: Dutch crash survivor to go home Saturday (AP)

May 14th, 2010

9 Year-old Dutch boy Ruben van Assouw is seen in his hospital bed in Tripoli's El Khadra hospital, Libya Thusday, May 13, 2010. Ruben is the only survivor of a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane with 104 people on board that crashed on landing Wednesday, May 12 at the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - A Dutch Foreign Ministry official says that the 9-year-old boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash in Libya has been told that his parents and…

UK flight restrictions continue through Saturday (AP)

April 16th, 2010

A student tour group from Sunapee, N.H. wait in a British Airways line inside the binternational/b terminal at Logan International Airport in Boston Thursday, April 15, 2010 after their flight to London was cancelled due to a large ash cloud from a volcanic eruption in Iceland. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - British civil aviation authorities say there will be no flights over England until Saturday morning at the earliest, as a huge ash cloud from Iceland’s erupting volcano disrupts…

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