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Tornado recovery needs housing, hospital and jobs
Full Article The News & Observer
03 May 2014

LOUISVILLE, Miss. — Rescuers were still looking for people missing after Monday's tornado when Louisville and Winston County officials started thinking about long-term recovery. The county of 19,000 people in east Mississippi faces three major challenges — housing for hundreds left homeless, rebuilding its health care system after the...

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Tornado recovery needs housing, hospital and jobs
photo: US Army / Jessi McCormick

updated 21 May 2013; published 21 May 2013
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Deadly Oklahoma Tornado Aftermath - May 21, 2013
updated 20 Jan 2011; published 20 Jan 2011
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Tornado Recovery
updated 21 May 2013; published 21 May 2013
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President Obama Speaks on the Tornadoes and Severe Weather in Oklahoma
updated 21 May 2013; published 21 May 2013
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7 children among 24 people confirmed dead from devastating Oklahoma tornado
updated 23 May 2013; published 23 May 2013
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OKLAHOMA TORNADO Devastates: Dozens Dead With Homes Destroyed
updated 21 May 2013; published 21 May 2013
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Monstrous tornado strikes Oklahoma City 20/05/2013
Afghanistan landslide: Rescuers end search for survivors
Full Article BBC News
03 May 2014

Rescuers in Afghanistan have given up hope of finding any more survivors in a double landslide that is feared to have killed more than 2,500 people. They have stopped digging through the earth and mud that swamped a whole village in the remote north-east province of Badakhshan on Friday. Officials now say the site has become a mass grave for the...

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Afghans search for survivors after Friday's landslide buried in Abi-Barik village in Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan, Saturday, May 3, 2014.
photo: AP / Sayed Ibrahim

updated 03 May 2014; published 03 May 2014
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Thousands reported dead in Afghan landslide
updated 03 May 2014; published 03 May 2014
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Afghanistan landslide: Rescuers end search for survivors
updated 03 May 2014; published 03 May 2014
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Search For Survivors In Afghan Landslide Ended
updated 03 May 2014; published 03 May 2014
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Afghanistan Landslide Kills At Least 350 - Landslide Declared Mass Grave - 3 May 2014
updated 03 May 2014; published 03 May 2014
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Raw: Rescue Effort for Afghans Hit by Landslide NEW
updated 03 May 2014; published 03 May 2014
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Afghanistan Landslide Kills At Least 350 - 3 May 2014
Everyone is under surveillance now, says whistleblower Edward Snowden
Full Article The Guardian
03 May 2014

People's privacy is violated without any suspicion of wrongdoing, former National Security Agency contractor claims Edward Snowden joined a debate on surveillance, by video link from Russia. Photograph: Sunshinepress/Getty Images The US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that entire populations, rather than just individuals, now...

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File - Edward Snowden talks during a simulcast conversation during the SXSW Interactive Festival on Monday, March 10, 2014, in Austin, Texas.
photo: AP / Jack Plunkett/Invision

updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Alternative Christmas Message: End Mass Surveillance
updated 10 Jun 2013; published 10 Jun 2013
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The whole interview... Edward Snowden: the whistleblower on NSA surveillance
updated 10 Jun 2013; published 10 Jun 2013
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NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden - "My Greatest Fear" - NSA Surveillance
updated 10 Jun 2013; published 10 Jun 2013
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Massive NSA spying program revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden - Truthloader
updated 10 Jun 2013; published 10 Jun 2013
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US surveillance: PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals his identity
updated 23 Jun 2013; published 23 Jun 2013
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Obama Surveillance Scandal: US whistleblower Edward Snowden asks Ecuador for asylum
Obama troubled by botched US execution
Full Article The Times of India
03 May 2014

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama, in his first public comments on the case, called the botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate "deeply troubling" and announced that he's going to ask the attorney general to analyze problems surrounding the application of the death penalty in the US. In his comments on the case of convicted murderer Clayton...

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File - Vice President Joe Biden confers with Rob Nabors, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, left, as President Barack Obama talks on the phone with French President François Hollande to discuss Syria, in the Oval Office, Saturday, August 31, 2013.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 02 May 2014; published 02 May 2014
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Obama: Botched execution raises questions about death penalty
updated 03 May 2014; published 03 May 2014
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President Obama Orders The Review Of The Death Penalty
updated 02 May 2014; published 02 May 2014
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Obama: There Have Been 'Significant' Problems With The Death Penalty
updated 30 Apr 2014; published 30 Apr 2014
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Oklahoma Inmate Dies from Heart Attack After Botched Execution - Clayton Lockett
updated 01 May 2014; published 01 May 2014
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Lethal Injection Gone Wrong Halts Death Penalty In Oklahoma
updated 30 Apr 2014; published 30 Apr 2014
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Execution 'botched' in Oklahoma as lethal injection fails to work as expected
Russia, Ukraine agree on normal gas transit until May end
Full Article The Siasat Daily
03 May 2014

Warsaw, May 02: EU energy commissioner, energy ministers from Russia and Ukraine agreed that gas transit to Ukraine would not suffer in any way until the end of May. EU's Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, Russia's Energy Minister Alexander Novak and Ukraine's Energy Minister Jurij Prodan met here Friday to discuss the Russia-Ukraine gas...

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Russia, Ukraine agree on normal gas transit until May end
photo: European Community / Adam Chelstowski

updated 10 Apr 2014; published 10 Apr 2014
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Putin: Ukraine's gas debt critical, transit to Europe threatened
updated 11 Apr 2014; published 11 Apr 2014
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Ukraine stops Russian gas transit
updated 05 Apr 2014; published 05 Apr 2014
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Russia nearly doubles Ukraine gas price in a week
updated 10 Apr 2014; published 10 Apr 2014
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Putin Ukraine's gas debt critical transit to Europe threatened 1
updated 05 Sep 2011; published 05 Sep 2011
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Gas talks fail between Russia and Ukraine
updated 16 Apr 2014; published 16 Apr 2014
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Nato Will Block Ukrainian Gas Pipelines To Start War with Russia
Rite Aid Foundation Donates $40,000 to American Red Cross to Assist with Relief Efforts in Southeast
Full Article Stockhouse
02 May 2014

Rite Aid today announced that The Rite Aid Foundation is making a $40,000 donation to the American Red Cross to help the victims, families and communities affected by the severe weather that occurred in the southeast earlier this week. The Rite Aid Foundation is donating $25,000 to the American Red Cross...

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Rite Aid Foundation Donates $40,000 to American Red Cross to Assist with Relief Efforts in Southeast
photo: US Army / Jessi McCormick

updated 25 Apr 2011; published 25 Apr 2011
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Dr Singh's Speech Canadian Red Cross
updated 19 Feb 2014; published 19 Feb 2014
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Haul: Valentine's Day and Myrtle Beach
updated 13 Aug 2010; published 13 Aug 2010
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Alison McCrary: Regulating Culture in New Orleans
updated 30 Jan 2012; published 30 Jan 2012
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2011 Citizens Finalist: Hormel
updated 09 Sep 2013; published 09 Sep 2013
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"Adam Green" Adores Overton (dot com) Products for Distributors in Richfield, and Washington Utah
updated 20 Feb 2014; published 20 Feb 2014
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Tutorial: Sunlit Cactus Pigment (Jesse's Girl Cosmetics)
China Won't Swallow Bitter Pills of Humiliation, Containment or Imperialism
Full Article WorldNews.com
02 May 2014

Article by Wn.com Correspondent Dallas Darling By 1900, the "Middle Kingdom" which had long been the most important power in the world with a tradition of excellence in philosophy, science, literature, art and innovation had become the crossroads of global ambitions. Foreign Powers had exploited and dominated China's vast markets, raw materials,...

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File - The motorcade carrying U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry passes the main gate of China's Forbidden City while driving between high-level government meetings in Beijing, China on February 14, 2014.
photo: US DoS

updated 18 Feb 2013; published 18 Feb 2013
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North Korea's Nuclear Test: Bitter Pill for Chinese People
updated 16 Jul 2012; published 16 Jul 2012
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History of China: American Views on Anti-Western Sentiment - Cold War Documentary Film (1967)
updated 04 Sep 2013; published 04 Sep 2013
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Complete News - Calls to boycott Sochi stir media frenzy over gay law misinformation
updated 28 Apr 2014; published 28 Apr 2014
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AstraZeneca finds Pfizer bid a bitter pill to swallow
updated 12 Aug 2011; published 12 Aug 2011
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Truth is a Bitter Pill That Must Be Swallowed Before Change Happens
updated 07 Mar 2011; published 07 Mar 2011
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The Lychee Plantation - Swallows and Amazons
Syria crisis: At least 18 people killed in car bombings as ceasefire deal reached in Homs
Full Article The Independent
02 May 2014

At least 18 people, including 11 children, have been killed in car bomb attacks in two villages in Syria, according to state-run television reports. The explosions are said to have occurred on Friday in Jabreen and Humayri, both of which are in the central province of Hama and under government control. Rami Abdurrahman, of the Britain-based Syrian...

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This file photo released on Monday, June 18, 2012 by the anti-government activist group Rebels Battalion of Baba Amro, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian rebels holding their weapons as they prepare to fight against Syrian troops, in Homs province, Syria. Syria's government and rebels agreed to a ceasefire on Friday, May 2, 2014.
photo: AP / Rebels Battalion of Baba Amro

updated 29 Oct 2012; published 29 Oct 2012
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Syria: Damascus car bombing kills at least 10
updated 26 Oct 2012; published 26 Oct 2012
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No Eid ceasefire for Syria: Car bomb rocks
updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
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Syria crisis Car bombings 'kill 25' in Homs | BREAKING NEWS - 09 APRIL 2014
updated 08 Apr 2013; published 08 Apr 2013
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DEADLY Explosion: Suicide Car Bomb Rocks Damascus killing 15 people wounded 53 - Syria
updated 21 Oct 2012; published 21 Oct 2012
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DEATHS in DAMASCUS As Car BOMB EXPLOSION Kills 13. UN Envoy Meets ASSAD For EID Ceasefire
updated 21 Feb 2013; published 21 Feb 2013
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Damascus car bomb kill 53 wounded 200, Daraa airstrike 18 dead
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: Message on World Press Freedom Day (UNOV - United Nations Office at Wien)
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras

updated 29 Apr 2011; published 29 Apr 2011
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Press Freedom Day Notes Impact of 'Citizen Journalists'
updated 02 May 2014; published 02 May 2014
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Journalists' Convention kick off at the KICC
updated 03 May 2014; published 03 May 2014
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Join ICFJ's 25th Anniversary World Press Freedom Day Campaign
updated 03 May 2014; published 03 May 2014
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World Press Freedom Day 2011 Observed in Pakistan by UNESCO, National Press Club and MISHA
updated 10 May 2011; published 10 May 2011
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World Press Freedom Day 2011 Observed in Pakistan by UNESCO, National Press Club and MISHAL Pakistan
updated 03 May 2014; published 03 May 2014
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World Press Freedom Day 2013- Journalists killed animation
Toll up to 19 dead in car bomb in Nigerian capital
Full Article New Straits/Business Times
02 May 2014

ABUJA: The death toll from a car bomb that exploded on a busy road in Nigeria’s capital rose to at least 19 overnight, police said Friday from the city that within days hosts an international conference. The bomb was driven near a checkpoint where traffic built up, located across the road from a busy bus station where a massive explosion on April...

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A car burns following a bomb explosion in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, May 1, 2014.
photo: AP / Gbemiga Olamikan

updated 02 May 2014; published 02 May 2014
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Toll Up To 19 Dead In Car Bomb In Nigerian Capital
updated 02 May 2014; published 02 May 2014
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Toll from Nigeria capital bombing rises to 19 dead, 80 wounded
updated 03 May 2014; published 03 May 2014
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Nigeria's Car bomb Death toll Rises
updated 02 May 2014; published 02 May 2014
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Toll From Nigeria Capital Bombing Rises to 18 Dead, 80 Wounded-2th may 2014
updated 15 Apr 2014; published 15 Apr 2014
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At least 70 dead in Nigeria bomb blast
updated 15 Apr 2014; published 15 Apr 2014
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Aftermath of Car Bomb Blast in Nigeria 71 killed

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WorldNews.com
Article by Wn.com Correspondent Dallas Darling After his death, Josef Stalin's autopsy showed he suffered from extensive sclerosis of the cerebral arteries. Cerebral sclerosis...
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San Francisco Chronicle
MADRID (AP) — Madrid is the capital of soccer these days: Atletico Madrid vs. Real Madrid in the Champions League final. Atletico defeated Chelsea 3-1 to advance to its first...
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CounterPunch
For years, Palestinian factions have strived for unity, and for years unity has evaded them. But is it possible that following several failed attempts, Fatah and Hamas have finally...

Ban welcomes release of abducted military observers, urges calm as violence spreads to Odessa
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Print 3 May 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the release earlier today of European military monitors and accompanying Ukrainian staff abducted a week ago in the country's crisis-torn eastern region, even as he expressed...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
Afghan rescuers search for survivors under threat of third landslide
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Kabul: Afghan police and villagers began a dangerous search for more than 2,000 people buried under a massive landslide in a remote mountainous region in the northeast on Saturday, amid concern the unstable hillside may cave in again. The United...
photo: US Army / Nikayla Shodeen
India 3rd on list of 'green buildings' countries outside US
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WASHINGTON: India has been ranked third on the list of top 10 countries in leadership in energy and environmental design outside America, according to the latest US Green Building Council report. Canada followed by China occupy the top two slots in...
photo: WN / Geeta
GJA Bemoans Poor Remunerations Of Journalists
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Low wages and salaries paid journalists and other media practitioners took centre stage at this year's flag raising ceremony to mark World Press Freedom Day in Accra on Friday. Present at the event which was held alongside a news conference at the...
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras
UN agencies call for safe access to vulnerable people
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Tweet United Nations, May 3 (IANS) UN high commissioner for refugees and the World Food Programme (WFP) urged all conflicting parties in South Sudan to provide safe access to reach vulnerable people, official said Friday. The vulnerable people in...
photo: UN / Isaac Billy
Afghanistan landslides kill hundreds, many more missing
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Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan— Hundreds of people were dead or missing after landslides in remote northeast Afghanistan buried a village under as much as 60 feet of mud and rocks, officials said Friday. The United Nations said that at least...
photo: US Army / Nikayla Shodeen
Never again, vows Press Club
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Johannesburg - South African media will never be gagged again, the National Press Club said on Friday ahead of the UN's World Press Freedom day. “South Africa's hard-fought for media freedom and freedom of expression will never be taken away...
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras