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>For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKI(CNN) -- At least 10 people were killed and a number of other people were injured when a storm with a massive tornado struck an area outside Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, officials said. At least one school in Moore, Oklahoma, appeared to have been hit by the tornado. ...
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Severe weather
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKI. Shawnee, Oklahoma (CNN) -- At least 10 people were killed Monday when a powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City, ripping roofs off ...
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>For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKI(CNN) -- At least 10 people were killed and a number of other people were injured when a storm with a massive tornado struck an area outside Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, officials said. At least one school in Moore, Oklahoma, appeared to have been hit by the tornado. ...
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Steinitz Al-Dura probe will spur honest Israel coverage
revelations in the al-Dura case will discourage the foreign press from forging stories about Israel in the future, Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday."Even if we should have looked into the incident long ago, it was important to finish the investigation so that it would deter international media organizations that ...
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Kuperwaser defends gov’t findings on al-Dura’s death
government report published Sunday that claimed that IDF fire did not kill or injure Muhammad al-Dura in 2000, the report's main author, Strategic Affairs Ministry director-general Brig.-Gen. (res) Yossi Kuperwaser, defended its findings on Monday.The 12-year-old al-Dura was allegedly killed, and his father Jamal injured, by IDF fire during the second intifada as he crouched behind his ...
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Rahat mayor seeks media apology for false report
mass murder in Beersheba on Monday to two residents of the city, and are asking for a public apology, Rahat Mayor Faiz Abu-Seheban said Monday."There is a lot of anger in the city because they blamed the city of Rahat and its residents for this despicable act that we condemn ...
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Lapid clarifies stance after NY Times interview
Yesh Atid favors an immediate return to peace talks toward a two-state solution, Finance Minister Yair Lapid clarified Monday.Lapid set off waves of opposition within his party and others, after saying settlement construction should not be frozen ahead of peace talks and Jerusalem will not be ...
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Analysis Words vs. pictures in al-Dura affair
Al-Dura says he is willing to exhume son's body After the piece - which showed favorable footage of Reagan over negative commentary - aired, Stahl did indeed receive a call from White House advisor Dick Darman. But he called to praise, not berate, her."Way to go, kiddo. What a great piece. We love it," he told the correspondent.Stahl, confused because her piece was highly ...
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US tornadoes Yet more heartbreak for Oklahoma as another massive tornado touches down in highly populated suburb
'At least five people killed - including two children' - and elementary schools flattened after terrifying TWO-MILE tornado rips through densely populated suburb of Oklahoma ...
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Newark blast Was fatal explosion caused by father trying to fit new central heating
Local Tory councillor Keith Isard, had been a friend of the older man for more than 30 years and spoke to him days before Sunday’s blast. He said: ‘Les told me he was going around to help install some new central heating radiators. There is talk of a boiler exploding but there wasn’t one at the ...
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One killed and 24 injured after two hot air balloons crash mid-air above Turkish volcanoes
Two hot air balloons collided mid-air during a sightseeing tour of volcanic rock formations in Turkey on Monday, causing one of them to crash to the ground, officials ...
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Student arrested for posing by Russian World War Two memorial with an inflatable sex doll
A university student has been jailed in Russia for posing for a photograph in front of a Second World War memorial - arm in arm with a blow-up sex ...
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Angela Merkel says she will not send in the cavalry over Hungarys constitution changes but provokes fury from their PM
'The Germans sent tanks before. It didn't work': Angela Merkel says she will not 'send in the cavalry' over Hungary's constitution changes but provokes fury from their ...
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Five dead in botched Israeli bank heist after robber takes woman hostage before shooting himself
A woman hostage is evacuated by Israeli security forces following a bank robbery that escalated into a hostage situation in the Israeli city of Beersheva. Five people, including the gunman, were ...
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Forty killed in car bombings across Iraq as new wave of sectarian violence threatens to destabilise country
The attacks, which left dozens of people injured, are the latest in a recent spike of bombings that has hit both Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the past ...
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Vast Tornado Strikes Towns Near Oklahoma City
A huge tornado, perhaps a mile wide, tore through towns near Oklahoma City on Monday, flattening homes and businesses, starting fires and sending residents scrambling to find friends and neighbors possibly buried in rubble. As reports of injuries began coming in, the authorities said some people were trapped and rescue workers were still making their way to the severely damaged suburb of ...
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Minneapolis Mediation planned in lawsuits over Wyoming plane crash
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Lawyers plan mediation sessions to try to resolve two federal lawsuits stemming from a 2010 plane crash in western Wyoming that killed a Minnesota father and three sons. Pilot Luke Bucklin, 41, of Minneapolis, 14-year-old twins Nate and Nick, and 12-year-old Noah all died when their plane went down in Wyoming's rugged Wind River Range. Bucklin's estate is pressing ...
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2-mile-wide twister hits Oklahoma
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. Shawnee, Oklahoma (CNN) -- A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City on Monday, ripping roofs off buildings, leveling homes and leaving a massive band of destruction in its wake. In the desperate seconds and minutes after the storm passed, the human ...
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Happy Hour Links Tough Nutter
Ethan Epstein : "One Tough Nutter: Philadelphia's Democratic mayor has cracked down on crime, reformed the city's finances, and spoken frankly about black family ...
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Hope in Japan That Shinzo Abes Abenomics May Be a Cure
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Myanmar Leaders Visit To Washington A Historic Occasion
The president of Myanmar, Thein Sein, met with President Obama in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Thein Sein's trip is the first state visit to the U.S. by a Burmese official in nearly 47 ...
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When It Comes to Syria Israel Frequently Redrawing Red Lines
- Israel is being drawn into Syria’s quagmire as it threatens to act further on transfers of ';game-changing'; weapons to hostile protagonists involved in Syria’s civil war, be they Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, Jihadist Sunni rebels, or loyalist forces of President Bashar al ...
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Living in Hell Iraqi Christians Dream of Paradise
- Luis Shabi nostalgically recalls his nine years of novitiate in Rome and a ';fantastic road trip through Europe'; before returning to Iraq in 1969. ';Those were the good times,'; sighs the Chaldean Archbishop of Baghdad from a bunker in the heart of the Iraqi ...
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Three Brazilians die in Turkey hot-air balloon collision
Three Brazilian tourists died on Monday and 22 other people were hurt after two hot-air balloonscollided in a beauty spot in central Turkey, officials ...
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Oklahoma braced for more storms as tornadoes kill 2
A mile- (1.6 kilometer-) wide tornado churned through the Oklahoma City suburbs, destroying homes for the second day in a row, as part of a severe weather outbreak that was expected to spread across the ...
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