LOS ANGELES -- A total of 34 people are unaccounted for and five crew members were rescued after a dive boat caught fire off Santa Cruz Island in Southern California early Monday morning, according to a press conference at the Coast Guard Station Chanel Islands in Oxnard, California.

Captain Monica Rochester, USCG Los Angeles-Long Beach sector commander, told reporters Monday morning that 39 people were on board the 75-foot dive boat, named Conception, when a fire engulfed it in the pre-dawn hours. (US-California-Boat Fire)

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LONDON -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday called upon members of parliament to vote against "pointless delay" of Brexit, which is being campaigned by opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and some Tory rebels, saying that "I don't want an election."

The prime minister, speaking to reporters before 10 Downing Street after an emergency cabinet meeting, said, "Let's get Brexit done by Oct. 31." (Bratain-Brexit-Boris Johnson)

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BUCHAREST -- Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, president of the Romanian Senate, announced his resignation at the Senate's plenary meeting on Monday after the party he led withdrew from the ruling coalition last week.

"I did not cling to this position ... I will continue to involve myself politically," Tariceanu told the plenary. (Romania-Senate President-Resignation)

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KABUL -- Casualties are feared after a powerful explosion near a compound frequented by foreigners in the eastern side of Afghanistan's capital of Kabul on Monday, an Interior Ministry spokesman confirmed.

"An explosion occurred roughly at 9:45 p.m. Monday night near Green Village in Police District 9 of Kabul," Nasrat Rahimi wrote on twitter. (Afghanistan-Explosion) Enditem

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