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(AP) HOUSTON – The father of American journalist Austin Tice, who went missing while working in one of Syria’s most volatile regions, said Thursday that he believed his son is alive and being detained by the Syrian government. From his home in Houston, Marc Tice said he was working with his son’s editors at The Washington Post and McClatchy Newspapers. “We have a belief that he’s in Syrian custody, but we have not heard from the only people who would know for sure. That’s the Syrians,” he told The Associated Press in a Thursday telephone interview. The father expressed gratitude to those working on his son’s behalf but declined to comment further on the situation. However, in a statement to The Post and McClatchy, the Tice family said, “Austin is our precious son, and we beseech the Syrian government to treat him well and return him safely to us as soon as possible.” Austin Tice worked as a freelance journalist for both media organizations. They reported Thursday that the Czech Republic ambassador to Syria had reported that Tice was alive. “Our sources report that he is alive and that he was detained by government forces on the outskirts of Damascus, where the rebels were fighting government troops,” Ambassador Eva Filipi was quoted as telling Czech television. The Czech embassy staff in Syria will continue to seek information about Tice,...

Updated 9:47 p.m. ET HONG KONG (AP) – A boat packed with holiday revelers collided with a ferry and sank off Hong Kong, killing 36 people and injuring dozens more, authorities said. The boat was carrying staff members of a utility company and their family members to Hong Kong’s famed Victoria Harbour to watch a fireworks display Monday night on the long holiday weekend celebrating China’s National Day and mid-autumn festival. It was carrying about 120 people when it collided with the ferry near Lamma Island off the southwestern coast of Hong Kong Island. The government said 25 bodies had been recovered by Tuesday morning and the search was continuing. More than 100 people were rescued and sent to hospitals, and nine had serious or critical injuries, the government’s statement said. “There was a boat that came in close and crashed,” said Yuen Sui-see, director of operations at Power Assets Holdings Ltd., which was using the vessel to take staff on the outing. “After the crash, the other boat continued away, it didn’t stop.” He denied the vessel was overloaded, 마카오 환전 saying it was carrying 121 passengers and three crew but had capacity for more than 200 passengers. Television channels showed the boat half submerged with the bow pointing straight up. Helicopters circled overhead with searchlights as government vessels surrounded the boat and divers prepared to enter the...

No, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not more popular among rural white Americans than President Barack Obama. Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency realizes that now. Two days after it ran a report on its website saying as much, 바카라사이트 they apologized to their readers in an online posting. Fars admitted it had been duped by an article on the Onion, a satirical news website. However, while admitting their error, the official apology also was quick to say that no less than the New York Times, the Beijing Evening News and U.S. Rep. John Fleming, R-La., had also at some point been duped by the Onion. See? It can happen to anyone. “Active and well-known media occasionally make mistakes, and no media is an exception to this rule,” the apology reads. The apology even takes this notion a step further, pointing to several factual errors or cursing blunders made by the likes of the BBC. The Iranian religious autocracy takes the flow of information in the country very seriously, to the point where it has even jailed the Iranian president’s press adviser, blocked access to YouTube, and locked up numerous human rights journalists. There has been no word yet over whether they Onion spoof landed anyone behind bars in...

No, 텍사스 포커 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not more popular among rural white Americans than President Barack Obama. Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency realizes that now. Two days after it ran a report on its website saying as much, they apologized to their readers in an online posting. Fars admitted it had been duped by an article on the Onion, a satirical news website. However, while admitting their error, the official apology also was quick to say that no less than the New York Times, the Beijing Evening News and U.S. Rep. John Fleming, R-La., had also at some point been duped by the Onion. See? It can happen to anyone. “Active and well-known media occasionally make mistakes, and no media is an exception to this rule,” the apology reads. The apology even takes this notion a step further, pointing to several factual errors or cursing blunders made by the likes of the BBC. The Iranian religious autocracy takes the flow of information in the country very seriously, to the point where it has even jailed the Iranian president’s press adviser, blocked access to YouTube, and locked up numerous human rights journalists. There has been no word yet over whether they Onion spoof landed anyone behind bars in...