Boy Scout Saves Maldives President
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A quick-thinking Boy Scout foiled an assassination attempt on the president of the Maldives on Tuesday, grabbing an attacker's knife as the man leapt from a crowd and lunged at the leader
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A British aid flight carries 55 tonnes of water to the Maldives to help survivors of the tsunami disaster
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India's ambassador to Washington,    Ronen Sen , said yesterday that his country was able to handle its relief effort on its own following last month's tsunami in the Indian Ocean, which hit his country and 11 others, killing more than 150,000 people.
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By Josh Hoke, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Jun. 22--One person nearly drowned this morning in the Intracoastal Waterway but was rescued and taken to the hospital.
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The Maldives will need massive amounts of aid to recover from last December's tsunami, which left damages in the Indian Ocean nation amounting to 62 percent of its gross domestic product, the World Bank said.
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Whatever happened to the president's watch? One moment President Bush was glad-handing Albanians on Sunday, proudly sporting a watch with a dark strap on his left wrist. Moments later, it was gone.
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A curfew in the capital of the Maldives was eased but parliament sessions were put off indefinitely and emergency rule continued following last week's riots, officials and residents said.
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Senior Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed is freed from house arrest.
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A tribal man lived off coconuts for about 25 days on a tsunami devastated Indian island before he was rescued by a search boat, a military officer said on Saturday.
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For the Boy Scout who dreams of becoming a policeman, grabbing the knife of a would-be assassin lunging for the president of the Maldives was a crash course in cop-like heroics
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The brother of Sri Lanka's president narrowly escaped with his life when a suspected Tamil rebel suicide bomber blew himself up in the heart of Colombo, killing at least one soldier, police said.
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When the December 26 tsunami struck Abdul Razzak's island in the Indian Ocean, he remembered what he had seen on National Geographic documentaries&#151;and helped save some 1,500 lives.
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Â· Rightwing efforts to thwart former president fail  Â· Victory lays ground for clash with supreme leader
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A rebel commander, Muharram Idris, said he knew the risk when he sent his men down from the mountains on a rescue mission after the tsunami crashed ashore.
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The Maldives said on Monday 52 people,  including two British tourists, had drowned in tsunami waves  that struck the Indian Ocean archipelago on Sunday, and has  evacuated six of its 200 inhabited islands completely.
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BHUBANESWAR, India  - Police in eastern India have   rescued a man whose parents had locked him in a room in a mud   hut for 15 years on the grounds that he was mentally unstable,   officials said on Tuesday.
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December 25 2004 1010CET - The President Edward Fenech Adami urged the Maltese citizens not to give up.