Last Thursday, a fire at a nightclub in Rhode Island claimed the lives of 97 people.

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Banks in the Mediterranean island nation will remain closed until Thursday.

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Emergency flood barriers were installed on Osney Island, Oxford on Thursday while the Loddon Bridge Park and Ride site in Wokingham is closed.

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The South Korean military said Thursday that its drills will take place in the seas southwest of Yeonpyeong Island between December 18 and 21, but bad weather forced a delay Saturday.

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Lussier was arrested at his home in Vernon on Wednesday and waived extradition to Rhode Island on Thursday.

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After mass on Maundy Thursday before the Christian holiday of Easter, each of six villages on the Dalmatian island of Hvar in southern Croatia sends out a group that will proceed through the other villages in a circle, covering twenty-five kilometres in eight hours before returning home.

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Every day seems to bring a new heartache: On Thursday, the bodies of two missing boys, lost in the storm, were found in a Staten Island marsh.

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