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A dozen ancient shipwrecks have been discovered in the Baltic Sea, just east of Sweden. The well-preserved ships are hundreds of years old. The oldest wreck may date back 800 years.

Three men have been arrested over the theft of the body of former President Tassos Papadopoulos, which was found reburied in another grave three months after being dug up and held for ransom, police said.

In what appears to be a vengeance attack, hundreds of Christian villagers in Nigeria were slaughtered by a group of Muslims on Sunday. The villages were outside the city of Jos, which sits in the center of the country, along the divide between the Muslim north and the Christian south. Mannir Dan-Ali, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Trust newspaper in the Nigerian capital Abuja, talks to Renee Montagne up the renewed attacks.

UNICEF estimates that more than 20,000 children lost their parents in the Jan. 12 quake and its aftermath. Relatives or neighbors are caring for many of these children. Others, such as a group of boys in a Port-au-Prince park, are fending for themselves.

The former U.S. ambassador to Iraq says the recent spate of attacks in the country is another attempt to disrupt the political process in Iraq. But Ryan Crocker warns that the attacks are a reminder than fight is not over in Iraq.

Haiti wants to build its t-shirt manufacturing business. But t-shirts being sold by the fashion industry to support Haiti were made in Peru.

U.S. Marines and their Afghan counterparts are tightening their hold on the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, in southern Afghanistan. But hundreds of deadly homemade bombs, or IEDs, remain behind.

Haiti’s prime minister says his government is doing the best it can, six weeks after an earthquake devastated the country and its capital, Port-au-Prince. But for many on the streets of the capital, the government’s best simply isn’t good enough.

European Union officials have told the Greeks they have to get their budget deficit under control if they want help to pay off their huge debts. Greece uses the common European currency, the Euro, so its neighbors have a stake in what happens there.

Thousands of civil servants marched through the streets of Athens Wednesday — the latest sign of resistance to the Greek government’s austerity program. The Socialist government blames its predecessors for the country’s massive debts, and has launched a public inquiry to find out what went wrong.