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this city into a battle zone.
• With 2013 showing greater promise, people were in the mood to celebrate on New Year's Eve. Families brought children and they watched the rockets burst in the nighttime sky. But only an hour into the new year, as the crowds poured onto the Boulevard de la Republic after the show, something caused a stampede, said Col. Issa Sako of the fire department rescue team. How so many deaths occurred on the broad boulevard and how the tragedy started is likely to be the subject of an investigation.
• Many of the younger ones in the crowd went down, trampled underfoot. Most of those killed were between 8 and 15 years old
• "The flood of people leaving the stadium became a stampede which led to the deaths of more than 60 and injured more than 200," Sako told Ivory Coast state TV.
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Storm impeding probe, salvage of Shell oil drilling ship that grounded off Alaskan island
• ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- High seas and strong winds prevented crews from boarding an oil drilling ship to check for any damage after the large vessel went aground off an uninhabited island in the Gulf of Alaska.
• A Coast Guard plane and a helicopter flew over the Kulluk on Tuesday, but severe weather did not permit putting marine experts on board the drilling rig, which had grounded on a sand and gravel beach in stormy seas.
• Federal on-scene response coordinator Capt. Paul Mehler said the Royal Dutch Shell drilling rig is carrying about 143,000 gallons of diesel and about 12,000 gallons of lube oil and hydraulic fluid, and appeared stable.
• "There is no sign of a release of any product," Mehler said during a news conference.
• A team of company, Coast Guard and local officials said they were mobilizing spill response equipment and preparing a plan in the event of a spill in the Partition Cove and Ocean Bay areas of the island. The area is home to at least two endangered species, as well as harbor seals, salmon, and sea lions.
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Doctors using blood thinners in effort to dissolve clot in Hillary Rodham Clinton's head
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to recover in a New York hospital where she's being treated for a blood clot in her (Continued on page 21)
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