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$59M contract for Bremerton boat builder
Bremerton :: WA :: USA | 11 months ago
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A Bremerton boat builder has won a Coast Guard contract worth as much as $59 million to build as many as 100 small boats. Safe Boats International is building what's called "over the horizon" boats. Each is 26 feet long with an inboard diesel engine
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Red Cross: Dozens killed after ferry capsizes
Zanzibar :: Tanzania | 11 months ago
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including 31 children -- capsized near Zanzibar on Wednesday, according to a spokesman for the agency's office in Tanzania. About 145 people have been found alive, and rescue operations are ongoing, said Raymond Kanyambo, a spokesman for the agency.
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Tackling smugglers futile while corruption flourishes, analyst says
Sydney :: Australia | 11 months ago
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Retired lieutenant colonel Bob Lowry "If you are talking about the lower ranks, they anticipate that they could survive on their official salary for about two and a bit weeks per month." 'National police needed' Media reports today also suggest the
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Nathan there to get job done
Sydney :: Australia | 11 months ago
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In a sport where it's a bad omen to finish a practice race and bananas and anything green are often banned from boats, gold-medal favourite Outteridge will neither cut his hair nor shave during the Olympics to avoid bad luck. The four-time world
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Navy intercepts another asylum seeker boat
Brisbane :: Australia | 11 months ago
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THE Australian Navy has intercepted another asylum seeker boat. Childers, operating under the control of Border Protection Command, intercepted the suspected irregular entry vessel west of Christmas Island on Wednesday night...Border Protection
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Asylum seekers arrested on Javanese beach
Malang :: Indonesia | 11 months ago
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A senior Indonesian police intelligence officer has told the ABC that 77 asylum seekers were caught on a beach in Malang in East Java as they waited to board a boat bound for Australia. They are being interrogated, but it appears those caught include
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The Olympics – not all plain Sailing
Are you ready? The London 2012 Olympics are just around the corner, the tension’s mounting, the atmosphere is buzzing, and England is set. Whilst the Games are incredibly exciting and it is an honour for any country to host this
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Govt mass arrivals Bill triggers call for inquiry (Fuseworks)
Wellington :: New Zealand | 11 months ago
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Govt mass arrivals Bill triggers call for inquiry Refugees as Survivors, Fuseworks July 18, 2012, 6:21 pm An early-warning request for an inquiry by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of the United Nations Office of the Human
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Greens propose 8-point asylum plan
Sydney :: Australia | 11 months ago
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THE Australian Greens have proposed an eight-point plan to stem the flow of asylum seeker boats. The plan which they call a "third option" is contained in the party's submission to the expert panel on asylum policy, led by former defence chief Angus
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Two sailors rescued after being caught in severe weather off B.C.
Vancouver :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Two sailors have been rescued in high winds and heavy seas off the northern B.C. coast in a dramatic operation that saw a rescuer swim to the disabled boat. The joint rescue co-ordination centre says the two men sent a mayday call Monday night after
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