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fiery shipwreck of a fishing boat packed with 500 migrants from Eritrea.
• Financial police Maj. Leonardo Ricci said divers began the search around 10 a.m. Sunday and would continue "as long as the sea is calm and there is light."
• The search had been suspended for the last two days due to rough seas, and Ricci says they don't know yet if bodies seen before on the sea bed had been displaced by currents.
• As many as 250 people remain missing from Thursday's shipwreck. There are 155 survivors and 111 bodies recovered.
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Suicide attack on Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, other attacks kill at least 66 in Iraq

• BAGHDAD (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of Shiite pilgrims passing through a mainly Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad and another detonated his explosives inside a cafe north of the capital, the deadliest of several attacks across Iraq on Saturday that killed at least 66 people.
• The killings, which also included attacks on journalists and anti-extremist Sunni fighters, are part of the deadliest surge in violence to hit Iraq in five years. The accelerating bloodshed is raising fears that the country is falling back into the spiral of violence that brought it to the edge of civil war in the years after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
• The extent of the carnage from the evening attack on the pilgrims became clearer as midnight approached, when officials sharply revised the death toll upward to at least 42. Another 80 were reported injured.
• The bomber detonated his explosives at a checkpoint in the northern neighborhood of Azamiyah as the pilgrims en route to a prominent Shiite shrine in the nearby neighborhood of Kazimiyah, according to police officials. At least four policemen manning the checkpoint were among the dead, the officials said.
• Azamiyah and the Shiite district of Kazimiyah sit on opposite sides of the Tigris River that snakes through the Iraqi capital. Their proximity made them a key flashpoint for the widespread sectarian conflict that gripped Iraq after Saddam Hussein's ouster and peaked in 2006 and 2007. Authorities closed the bridge between the neighborhoods after hundreds of Shiite pilgrims died in a 2005 stampede sparked by fears of a suicide bomber, and reopened it in 2008.


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