‘We need a miracle,’ says Coast Guard.

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Search Resumes in Shipwreck

Observers say a national propensity for dualism has led to a Coast Guard officer’s portrayal as a hero against the captain of the Costa Concordia.

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Memo From Rome: Italians Embrace a Hero After Cruise Ship Accident

Rescuers pulled more bodies from the stricken cruise liner on Tuesday, as transcripts of a screaming match between the coast guard and the ship’s captain were released.

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Rescuers Blast Holes in Stricken Liner, Five More Bodies Found

A luxury cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, gashing open the hull and taking on water, forcing some 4,200 people aboard to evacuate aboard lifeboats to a nearby island early Saturday. At least three were dead, the Italian coast guard said.

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The tanker, with help from a Coast Guard icebreaker, is carrying gasoline and diesel to the city, which cannot be reached by road or rail and is running low on fuel.

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Fuel Tanker Renda and Icebreaker Healy Are Sighted Off Nome

A Russian tanker is slogging through sea ice behind a Coast Guard icebreaker, trying to bring 1.3 million gallons of emergency gasoline and diesel to remote Alaska.

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Sink your teeth into today's top stories from around the globe. Holy hangover, Batman! If you feel like a wallaby is hopping around inside your cranium, here are some cures from the land down under. – Sydney Morning Herald The Coast Guard is having to navigate new maximum capacity regulations for the growing cargo size…of its passengers. – New York Times Four million recipe mailers in England aim to pinch the country's waistline and the size of the grocery bill. – BBC A new childhood obesity ad is sparking controversy with its tagline, “It's hard to be a little girl if you're not.” – Atlanta Journal-Constitution You either fondue or you fondon't: In search of Switzerland's best pot of ooey, gooey cheese. – Wall Street Journal

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Box lunch: Australian ‘hair of the dog’ and maritime chubbiness

The average boat passenger weighs 25 pounds more than in years past, so boat capacities need to be reconsidered, the Coast Guard says.

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Coast Guard Raises Assumed Average Weight per Person

The average boat passenger weighs 25 pounds more than in years past, so boat capacities need to be reconsidered, the Coast Guard says.

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Japan’s coast guard detains the skipper of a Chinese fishing boat accusing him of refusing to stop for an inspection.

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The Coast Guard and BP have returned to the scene of last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster after a newspaper reported numerous oily blobs rising to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico a mile from the site. BP is sending a robotic submersible to examine the blown-out well that was cemented last August and declared dead a month later. An initial search turned up no sign of oil at the surface, and BP said in a statement late Thursday that there is no indication that its Macondo well is leaking. But the report by the Press-Register in Mobile, Ala., has incited a flurry of investigatory activity around the well, which blew out on April 20, 2010, in what became the worst oil spill in U.S. history . Read full article > >

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Coast Guard helicopters intercepted a small aircraft Monday as it entered restricted airspace near the Washington region, authorities said. It was the second interception of a small aircraft near restricted airspace in the area in three days. In the Monday incident, the HH-65 Dolphin helicopters under the direction of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) intercepted the civilian aircraft about 9 a.m. The helicopters made positive visual identification of the aircraft, which was permitted to continue to its destination, NORAD said in a statement. Read full article > >

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NEW LONDON, Conn. — Air Force One with President Barack Obama aboard made an aborted landing attempt at the Windsor Locks, Conn., airport Wednesday before trying again and landing safely, officials said. The White House and Federal Aviation Administration say it was a routine maneuver where the pilot was in the process of landing, but because of weather conditions decided to circle the runway before trying again and landing safely. The sky was heavily clouded in Connecticut, where the president traveled Wednesday to deliver the commencement address at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London. Read full article > >

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The US Coast Guard re-opens a section of the swollen Mississippi River to shipping, after closing it to protect strained flood defences.

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A boat carrying nearly 200 people capsized in rough seas about 40 miles off the Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday morning. Rescuers saved 48 people from the sea, and found 20 bodies. Three Coast Guard vessels, two planes, and a helicopter are…

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