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KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s government is reporting a record year for its tourism industry, with last year’s arrivals and earnings surpassing numbers set the previous year. Tourism Minister Wykeham McNeill says the island attracted 3.5 million visitors in 2014, generating gross foreign exchange earnings of $2.2 billion. That’s an increase …

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Crews from the U.S. and New Zealand are trying to rescue a damaged fishing boat with 27 people aboard that is stuck in ice near Antarctica. The U.S. Coast Guard says Australian boat Antarctic Chieftain suffered damage to three of its four propellers after getting stuck …

EL-ARISH, Egypt – Police in Egypt say they have thwarted two Islamic militant suicide car bomb attacks on a police station in the restive northern Sinai. Police officials said Saturday the attack in the town of Sheikh Zuweyid wounded two police officers. Police say guards in the police station’s towers …