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UNDATED (AP) — A spokeswoman for the aid group Save the Children compares the scale of migrant deaths in recent shipwrecks to the death toll in the sinking of the Titanic luxury liner more than a century ago. Sarah Tyler says more than 1,000 migrants have died in the waters of the Mediterranean. Rescuers are searching the Libyan coast after hundreds of migrants are thought to have drowned when their boat overturned over the weekend. And at least three people died when a wooden boat carrying more than 80 migrants from the Turkish shore ran aground off the eastern Aegean island of Rhodes.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's oceans ministry says it's ready to start work to salvage a ferry that sank last year, killing more than 300 people. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries says the operation can begin soon after it gets formal approval. Officials have said the estimated cost of raising the ferry is about $91-137 million and that it's expected to take as long as 1 ½ years.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Authorities plan to say more today about a terror investigation into young people trying to travel to Syria to fight with the Islamic State group. The Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office says six arrests were made yesterday in Minneapolis and San Diego.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Police in the northeastern city of Barcelona are holding a boy who's accused of killing a teacher and wounding several students inside a school. A regional spokesman says the boy is younger than 14 and he allegedly used a bladed weapon to kill the male teacher. The students were slightly wounded. Spanish National Television and other media outlets had reported that the boy had a crossbow and a knife.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An animal rescue organization has a warning for whoever snatched a sea lion pup from a Los Angeles beach. Peter Wallerstein of Marine Animal Rescue says the pup may look cute, but it can deliver a vicious bite. Police say a witness saw four people on Dockweiler State Beach taunt the animal early Sunday, the wrap the sea lion in a blanket and put it in a car. Initial police reports say the animal was a small seal, but Wallerstein says a companion pup that got away and was later found on a beach is a sea lion. Sea lions are a protected species.
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