GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Searchers found a body on an island near where Hurricane Ike barreled ashore last month, pushing the national death toll from the storm to 71.
The Galveston County Medical Examiner's Office said Monday that the body was found under debris on Goat Island, off the devastated Bolivar Peninsula.
The unidentified body was found Sunday. It pushed Ike's toll in Texas to 36 deaths.
expel Syrian envoys
Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats against President Bashar Assad's regime killing more than 100.
Europeans dislike the euro
The debt crisis that has ravaged Europe has exposed a dislike of the single currency but little desire to abandon it.
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