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April 5, 2015

More than 300 slave fishermen now safe on Indonesian island

TUAL, Indonesia (AP) — The same trawlers that had enslaved countless migrant fishermen for years carried more than 300 of them to freedom Saturday, following a dramatic rescue from a

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