A man carries a young girl who was rescued after being trapped with her mother in their home after a tornado hit Joplin, Mo. on Sunday evening, May 22, 2011.
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Missouri tornado death toll could rise as severe weather continues
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JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A massive tornado that tore a 6-mile path across southwestern Missouri killed at least 89 people as it slammed into the city of Joplin, ripping into a hospital, crushing cars like soda cans and leaving a forest of splintered tree trunks behind where entire neighborhoods once stood. Authorities warned that the death toll could...
Pakistani troops drive past a wreckage of a gutted aircraft at Pakistan Navy base in Karachi, Pakistan on Monday, May 23, 2011.
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Pakistani troops retake naval base from militants
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Pakistani commandos regained control of a naval base on Monday from Taleban militants who had attacked and occupied the high-security facility for 18 hours. The incident dealt a bloody and humiliating blow to the military. The attackers destroyed at least two U.S.-supplied surveillance planes and killed 12 security officers. The Pakistani Taliban...
File - Zambian peacekeepers with the UN Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) are pictured on patrol in Sudan’s Abyei region.
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UN demands Khartoum pullout from flashpoint Abyei
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JUBA, Sudan (AFP) – The United Nations demanded that Khartoum withdraw its troops from Sudan's Abyei district after what the south branded an "invasion" by northern troops of the flashpoint border region. A visiting delegation of the UN Security Council said on Sunday they were "very, very concerned about the rapidly...
Residents begin digging through the rubble of their home after it was destroyed by a tornado that hit Joplin, Mo. on Sunday evening, May 22, 2011. The tornado tore a path a mile wide and four miles long destroying homes and businesses.
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Deadly tornado batters Joplin, Missouri
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As many as 30 people are reported killed after a tornado tore through the city of Joplin in the US state of Missouri, officials say. The town suffered a "direct hit" from the tornado and parts of the city have been devastated, local media says....
Pakistani rangers and rescue workers gather at the main gate of a naval aviation base following an attack by militants, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, May 22, 2011.
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Terrorists attack Pakistani military base; 10 killed
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KARACHI: Suspected militants have stormed an airbase in Karachi late last night, rocking one of the nation's heavily guarded military installations with fiery explosions and leaving at least 10 people, including six of them, dead just three-week after the death of Osama bin Laden . They also blew up a PC3 Orion aircraft in one of the most brazen...
Anti-government protestors chant slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, May 21, 2011.
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Yemen unrest: Doubts grow over power-transfer deal
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Doubts over a deal to end Yemen's political crisis are growing, amid dramatic scenes in the capital, Sanaa. President Ali Abdullah Saleh reportedly refused to sign the accord - brokered by Gulf nations - to...
Norwegian F-16 flying over Suda Bay as part of the enforcement of the No-Fly Zone and the protection of the Libyan civilian population under Operation Unified Protector.
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NATO widens Libya pressure amid questions on goal
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TRIPOLI, LibyaNATO widened its campaign to weaken Moammar Gadhafi's regime with airstrikes on desert command centers and sea patrols to intercept ships, the military alliance said, amid signs of growing public anger over fuel shortages in government-held territory. Early Sunday, NATO raids again targeted the sprawling, heavily fortified...
File - Peacekeepers with the UN Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) are pictured during a patrol in Sudan’s Abyei region.
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Southern Sudan: north's seizure of Abyei is 'war'
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JUBA, Sudan-Northern Sudan's seizure of a contested border region is an act of war, a spokesman for the Southern Sudanese army said Sunday, raising fears that fighting over the town could re-ignite the civil war between north and south. Northern forces with tanks occupied the disputed town of Abyei on Saturday night, scattering southern troops that...
In this Jan. 25, 2011, file photo President Barack Obama makes a point during his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington. A big laugh line in the speech was "The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they're in saltwater. I hear it gets even more complicated once they're smoked." New Commerce Secretary William Daley provided the anecdote to the White House.
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Obama says he'd repeat bin Laden raid
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LONDON - U.S. President Barack Obama says he would order another covert military raid like that which killed Osama bin...
President Barack Obama visits the Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, La., Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009.
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King, Obama, bin Laden and the Discipline of Nonviolence
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Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate:...
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama leaves Sunday on a major European tour...
Authorities detained a Saudi woman yesterday after she launched a campaign against the driving...
 
In this photo taken on Saturday, May 21, 2011, smoke plumes from the Grimsvotn volcano, which lies under the Vatnajokull glacier, about 120 miles, (200 kilometers) east of the capital, Rejkjavik, which began erupting Saturday for the first time since 2004.
Airlines and travellers are looking nervously at the progress of ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland. The Grimsvotn volcano began erupting on Saturday and forced Iceland to close its airports on Sunday. The country's aviation authority said it...
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In this Sunday May 22, 2011 photo Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pauses during a declaration at the party headquarters in Madrid.
Spain's ruling Socialist Party has suffered stinging losses in local elections, and now faces a balancing act between voter anger over sky-high unemployment and investor demands for strict austerity measures. A week of protests by Spaniards fed...
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From left, producers Luc Besson, Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner and an unidentified guest pose with the Palme d'Or for the film The Tree of Life during the awards photo call at the 64th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 22, 2011.
CANNES, France (AP): American director Terrence Malick's expansive drama "The Tree of Life" won the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival, while Kirsten Dunst took the best-actress prize for the apocalyptic saga "Melancholia." The Palme d'Or prize...
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The attempt to use super-injunctions to gag the media in the internet age reached new levels of absurdity yesterday. A Scottish newspaper became the first mainstream British publication to identify the Premier League footballer who is attempting to...
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Moroccan police officers arrest a demonstrator as they break up a demonstration organized by the 20th February, the Moroccan Arab Spring movement, in Rabat, Morocco, Sunday May 22, 2011, in a mass popular call to bring more democracy into this North African kingdom.
Police in Morocco have violently dispersed protesters who defied a ban on demonstrations, beating them up with batons and taking several into custody. Sunday’s police action in the capital, Rabat, and Casablanca seemed to suggest a tougher...
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1st death sentence for killing Egypt protesters
CAIRO-A Cairo court on Sunday imposed the first death sentence in the killing of protesters during the popular uprising that deposed President Hosni Mubarak, condemning a police officer who was...
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UMM QASR, Iraq (March 11, 2004)Royal Marine Rory Macpherson, 22, from Essex, England (l) and a member of the newly formed Iraqi Riverine Patrol Service (IRPS) assists with shipboard security aboard a 250-foot container ship suspected of oil smuggling with conflicting claims of registry while. The U.S. Coast Guard boarded and searched the vessel while the British trained IRPS, Royal Marines and Royal Navy provided security. This was the first combined operation in the Iraqi Port of Umm Qasr involving the U.S. Coast Guard, the British trained IRPS, Royal Marines and Royal Navy. USCG photo by PA1 Matthew Belson (95010) ( OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM (FOR RELEASE) )
BAGHDAD -- The last of Britain's military forces in Iraq pulled up anchor Sunday, ending more than eight years of fighting militants and training security forces since invading in 2003. Eighty-one Royal Navy sailors turned over the task of patrolling...
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German Chancellor and chairwoman of the German Christian Democrats, CDU, Angela Merkel, speaks during a news conference after the party's weekly executive committee meeting in Berlin, Germany, Monday, March 28, 2011. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party has suffered a defeat in Sunday's state election after almost six decades in power there. The opposition anti-nuclear Greens could win their first-ever governorship in Baden-Wuerttemberg.
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File - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, right and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, third right front, look at a mock compound of the Khartoum oil-refinery during his visit to the facility in the town of Jayli, 40 kilometers, 25 miles, north of Khartoum, Sudan Feb. 2, 2007.
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