On Tuesday morning at least 47 barges and other vessels idled as the river remained closed to traffic eight miles north and eight miles south of Vicksburg.

NPR: Oil Leak: Miss. River At Vicksburg Remains Closed

We were establishing police stations north of the river and he lived south of the Euphrates River, but he was watching.

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Our correspondent says the speakers of the respective state House of Assemblies will assume the governorships in Bayelsa and Cross River states in the south and Sokoto and Adamawa in the north until elections are held later in the year.

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Inspectors are working to find out whether the disintegration on Thursday of the heavily used span over the Skagit River, 60 miles north of Seattle and 40 miles south of the Canadian border, was a fluke or a sign of bigger problems.

NPR: NTSB Says Wash. Bridge Collapse Is Wake-Up Call

The railroad came in from the north, the Big Hole River came in from the west, and both left heading south, searching for brighter pastures.

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"It's so beautiful seeing the meandering Hudson River, the Adirondacks to the north, the Green Mountains in Vermont and the Catskills to the south, " says pilot Greg Livadas, a Rochester, New York pilot who has been flying in the festival for more than 30 years.

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Three Albanian boys then drowned in the River Ibar, which divides the northern town of Mitrovica into an Albanian south and a Serbian north.

ECONOMIST: Tensions boil over again in the troubled Serbian province

The Environment Agency has flood warnings in place for the Anglian, Midlands, North East, Southern, South West and Thames regions of England as well as the River Wye and Lower Dee Valley in Wales.

BBC: Flood warnings issued after heavy rain and snow thaws