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TIRANA, Albania – Israeli historians are visiting Albania to study how the country rescued its tiny Jewish population from the Holocaust. The Israeli experts are attending a conference in Albania’s capital Tirana, and are being joined by historians from Germany, Italy and Albania. Some 1,200 Jewish residents and refugees from …

MELBOURNE, Australia – Australian fishermen have hauled up a 20-foot-long giant squid off the country’s southeastern coast. Skipper Rangi Pene said Monday that the 500-pound squid was already dead when it was caught in a trawler’s nets Sunday night in waters more than 1,640 feet deep. Paul McCoy, a fisheries …

DAISETTA, Texas – A company that sits near the edge of a massive sinkhole in Southeast Texas has been accused of violating permits for disposal of saltwater, which some geologists suggest may have caused the crater. Officials with the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates such permits, stressed Friday that the …