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<p>MILAN (AP) — Foreign ministry officials in Rome and Vienna confirm that names of two nationals listed on the manifest of the missing Malaysian airlines flight match passports reported stolen in Thailand.</p> <p>Italy's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that an Italian man whose name was listed as being aboard is traveling in Thailand and was not aboard the plane.</p>

MORE than 1.5 million Muslims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca which begins on Thursday. The official SPA news agency quoted the Hajj Commission as saying 1,526,603 people had arrived in the kingdom by yesterday to take part in this year's pilgrimage. As well as expected further arrivals from abroad, Saudis and other Muslims resident in the country will swell the number of the faithful undertaking the hajj to some two million. The Hajj Supreme Committee said 202 pilgrims have died since arriving in the kingdom, mainly the elderly or infirm and generally from...

KIRO 7 Eyewitness News has learned that two passengers arrested at Sea-Tac Airport last weekend may be linked to a suspect's deadly plunge from a high-rise balcony in Vancouver, British Columbia during a raid. Federal sources both in British Columbia and in Seattle tell KIRO Team 7 Investigators the weekend arrest at Sea-Tac of two men on the terrorist "no-fly" list may be just the tip of the iceberg. We're told the FBI is very interested in trying to connect three separate — and recent — incidents involving Pakistani illegals. Federal sources told KIRO Team 7 Investigators that about a...