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DTN News: World Top Stories / Headlines - News Dated November 15, 2010

DTN News: World Top Stories / Headlines - News Dated November 15, 2010
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Guests look out from a balcony to the site of a gas explosion inside a hotel in Cancun November 14, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer

Five Canadians, two Mexicans dead in Cancun resort explosion

Reuters - Sun Nov 14, 8:18 PM

CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - At least five Canadian tourists and two workers were killed on Sunday in a gas explosion that ripped through the restaurant of a hotel on Mexico's Caribbean coast, authorities said.

    • People watch as ash billows from Mount Merapi volcano on November 14, 2010. Officials have said Indonesia's most active volcano remains a severe threat as search teams pulled more bodies from the ash that seared swathes of the central Javan countryside in a series of eruptions starting in late October. Photo:Roslan Rahman/AFP
      Indonesians ignore volcano threat to go homeAFP - 14 minutes ago

      SUKOHARJO, Indonesia (AFP) - With their belongings piled on to motorcycles and pickup trucks, thousands of Indonesian families returned home on Monday after fleeing deadly volcanic eruptions from Mount Merapi.

    • South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In-tack looks at young North Korean defectors in a classroom at Yeomyung School in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. Hyun said the number of North Koreans defecting to the South has surged in recent years because of economic suffering in the North, with more than 10,000 defections over the past three years. (AP Photo/Yonhap. Jin Sung-chul) ** KOREA OUT **
      Number of NKorean defectors to SKorea tops 20,000The Canadian Press - 23 minutes ago

      SEOUL, South Korea - The number of North Koreans defecting to South Korea has surged in recent years because of economic suffering in the North, with more than 10,000 defections over the past three years, South Korea's Unification Ministry said Monday.

    • India cricketer Harbhajan Singh celebrates his century on the fourth day of second Test match against New Zealand at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad, on November 15. Singh became the first number eight batsman in the world to score centuries in successive matches during the second Test against N.Zealand. Photo:Prakash Singh/AFP
      India's Harbhajan hits second century in a rowAFP - 27 minutes ago

      HYDERABAD, India (AFP) - India's Harbhajan Singh became the first number eight batsman in the world to score centuries in successive matches during the second Test against New Zealand.

    • Debris are seen scattered at the Grand Riviera Princess Hotel in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Sunday Nov. 14, 2010. A powerful explosion believed to have been caused by an accumulation of gas killed six people, including four Canadian tourists, and injured 15, according to Quintana Roo state Attorney General Francisco Alor. (AP Photo)
      Mexico hotel blast kills 5 Canadians, 2 MexicansThe Canadian Press - 35 minutes ago

      PLAYA DE CARMEN, Mexico - A powerful explosion that killed five Canadian tourists and two Mexican workers at a resort hotel on Mexico's posh Riviera Maya was apparently caused by build up of gas from a nearby swamp, authorities said.

    • An armed guard patrols the Taguig maximum security facility in Manila where the trial of clan leader Andal Ampatuan Jnr is taking place. The powerful chieftain is accused of spearheading the massacre of 57 people they had pushed into mass graves. Photo:Jay Directo/AFP
      Long wait for justice over Philippine massacreAFP - 45 minutes ago

      MANILA (AFP) - A Muslim clan accused of the Philippines' worst political massacre is intimidating and attempting to bribe witnesses while dragging out court proceedings, rights groups and victims' relatives say.

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