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26 die, 240 rescued in Indonesia ferry sinking

Jakarta, Indonesia—Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 26 people have died, officials said. Search operations were called off after nightfall for the unknown number of passengers still missing.

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Nejad heads to Brazil, Venezuela to boost ties

Tehran—Faced with mounting pressure over his country’s atomic ambitions, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left on a five nation tour Sunday, including Brazil in a bid to boost ties with Latin America’s biggest economy and a rare backer of Tehran’s nuclear programme.

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65 world leaders agree to attend UN climate summit

Copenhagen—Sixty-five world leaders so far have said they will attend the Copenhagen climate summit in December and several more have responded positively to invitations, a Danish official said Sunday.

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Obama health drive clears Senate hurdle

Washington—President Barack Obama’s signature drive to remake US health care barely cleared a key Senate hurdle in a narrow party-line vote the White House immediately hailed as a “historic” victory.

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Book likely to sell for $0.099m found in toilet

London—An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” found in a family’s guest lavatory in southern England.

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