Overcrowded boat sinks off Malaysia leaving 8 dead
An overcrowded wooden vessel carrying Indonesian workers sank near Kuala Lumpur while trying to illegally reach Aceh. Eight people were killed and 28 remain missing, with at least 61 survivors reported as authorities investigate the incident amid migrant labor concerns.
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Banting
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
Aceh
Indonesia
Maritime Agency
Mohamad Hambali Yaakup
Strait of
Malacca
Budget cuts force SSA to close offices nationwide
Senate hearing cites 64 field office closures since 2010 and 533 temporary mobile offices shuttered. Hours reduced at 1,245 open offices as baby boomers near retirement, boosting online services yet raising concerns among lawmakers about access for seniors and disabled beneficiaries.
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SSA
Washington
Social Security Administration
Congress
Nancy Berryhill
Berryhill
Senate Special Committee On
Sen
Susan Collins
Maine
Social Security
Sights and smells at crowded child detention facilities
Brownsville and Nogales tour details reveal thousands of unaccompanied minors held in Border Patrol cells before transfer to DHHS shelters. Descriptions include aluminum foil blankets, barbed wire fences, and crowded conditions as agencies face a surge of arrivals and capacity limits.
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Brownsville
Texas
Arizona
Barack Obama
Central America
U.S
Department of Health and Human Services
Fort Brown
Moth
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Nogales
Ariz
Stowaway Yahya Abdi Survives 35000-Foot Flight to Hawaii
Somali immigrant Yahya Abdi, 15, crawled into the wheel well of a Hawaii bound plane at San Jose airport to reach his mother in Ethiopia. He survived the freezing, low-oxygen ride and is now in temporary foster care while authorities pursue possible charges and the public defender assists. He described fleeing his Santa Clara home to find his mom, whom he hasn't seen in eight years, and plans to live with his aunt in Minneapolis.
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Calif
Hawaii
Ethiopia
Ubah Mohammed Abdule
U.S
Associated Press
Yahya Abdi
Santa Clara
Mineta San Jose International
Hawaiian Airlines
Yahya
Maui
Minneapolis
KPIX-5
Santa Clara County
the Public Defender
Ukraine’s Poroshenko seeks unilateral cease-fire
Ukraine's new president Petro Poroshenko offered a unilateral cease-fire to end two months of fighting with pro-Russian separatists in the east. He replaced his foreign minister and discussed the plan with Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel. The plan aims to allow rebel exits and the return of Ukrainian bodies from a downed plane, while Moscow signals cautious support.
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Ukraine
Moscow
Petro Poroshenko
Vladimir Putin
Putin
Russia
Poroshenko
Angela Merkel
Karlivka
Luhansk
Sova
U.N
Ivan Simonovic
Crimea
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Kalinka
Germany
Andre Bamberski
Dieter Krombach
Krombach
Bamberski
France
Kabul
Afghanistan
Abdullah Abdullah
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Abdullah
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