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Survivors tell harrowing stories
>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, KOKIMoore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Sun was hard to come by in Moore, Oklahoma, Tuesday. The sky still looked menacing, dark and ...
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Oklahoma tornado Condolences from delegates at USNZ Pacific Partnership Forum
Delegates at the USNZ Pacific Partnership Forum meeting in Washington DC have expressed sorrow at the loss of life in the Oklahoma tornado. NZUS executive director Stephen Jacobi said delegates made note of the Canterbury earthquake, which had disrupted the last forum meeting. "Now the people of Oklahoma are facing devastation and loss of extraordinary proportions. "Our hearts go out to the ...
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Happy Hour Links Conservatives Unite
Powerline : "Conservatives Unite Against Immigration Bill." Allahpundit: "U.S. officials have identified five Benghazi suspects -- but won't seize them ...
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Disqualification Of Rafsanjani Paves Way For Khamenei To Install Loyalist
The decision by Iran’s powerful Guardians Council to bar former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from running in next month's presidential election paves the way for the country’s establishment to bring a loyalist to power. It also deals another blow to the credibility of the June 14 poll, analysts say. With his potential appeal to both reformists and conservatives, ...
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Organic Cooperative Proves that Agriculture Can Prosper in Cuba
Continuous upgrading and a "vocation" for farming are two keys to the success of a cooperative that could serve as a model for boosting agriculture in ...
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Indigenous Brazilians Learn to Fight for the Right to Food
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 21 2013 (IPS) - Indigenous communities in remote areas of Brazil have begun to recognise that they have the right to not be hungry, and are learning that food security means much more than simply having food on the ...
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Stressed Ecosystems Leaving Humanity High and Dry
Global Water System Project (GWSP) , a research institute based in Bonn, Germany. ';Humans are changing the character of the world water system in significant ways with inadequate knowledge of the system and the consequences of changes being imposed,'; Bhaduri told IPS. The list of human impacts on the world’s water – of which only 0.03percent is available as freshwater ...
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Tackling Crime Takes on Import As Urban Populations Rise
At the UN Forum of Mayors on Crime Prevention and Security in Urban Settings, from left to right: Dong Min Ki, Jonathan Lucas, Cecilia Andersson, Martin Xaba, Bilal S. Hamad, and Marin Casimir Ilboudo. Credit: Silvia ...
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Seeking Justice for Dictatorship Victims – Two Continents Apart
HIJOS , the acronym for "Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Oblivion and Silence", is an Argentine rights group founded in 1995 when children of people "disappeared" by that country's 1976-1983 military regime came together to hold escraches or outings of human rights ...
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UNFPA Focuses on Contraception for 222 Million in Developing World
- When thousands of participants from around the world gather in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur next week, the primary focus will be on health and empowerment of girls and ...
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QA Guantanamo ‘Has No Right to Exist’
Robert Stefanicki interviews RAMZI KASSEM, associate professor of law at the City University of New York and a lawyer who defends prisoners at Guantanamo ...
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In India Rapists Don’t Spare Children
police inaction , triggered fresh agitation in the national capital. In the same month, another five-year-old girl in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh succumbed to her injuries after enduring similarly unspeakable horrors. Stories of rape and abuse, often involving fatalities, are pouring in every day now, with the latest figures showing that child rapes in India have risen 336 ...
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Zimbabwe’s Ruling Party Militias Spread Fear of Voting
- For the last month Gibson Severe and his wife, Merjury Severe, known opposition supporters from Hurungwe district in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland West Province, have been hiding out in the country's capital ...
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Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet
- As Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more ...
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Oklahoma tornado ‘Our hearts are broken. This is bigger than anything I’ve ever seen. It’s huge. It’s horrific’
I saw that line earlier from the sky, even on an open field close to where the tornado first touched down on Monday afternoon. It is the edge of the funnel's fist. One corner of the pasture is strafed a darker green than the rest, like the turned corner of a hanky. Suddenly all the twister's path through the subdivisions of Moore comes into view. From above, it resembles the scar of ...
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Pope performs exorcism Vatican denies video footage
Pope Francis blesses a child as he leaves in his papamobile after the Holy mass for Pentecost Sunday on May 19, 2013 at St Peter's Square at the Vatican. AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO Vatican City - The Vatican on Tuesday denied that Pope Francis had performed an exorcism after an Italian religious television channel said footage of the pontiff blessing a boy in a wheelchair showed he had. ...
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With wary eye on the U.S. China courts India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, smiling and effusive, was out to smooth ruffled feathers in India this week, promising to ease tensions and increase trade between Asia's fastest growing economies in his first trip overseas since taking ...
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Chinas bird flu outbreak cost $6.5 billion
GENEVA (Reuters) - The H7N9 virus appears to have been brought under control in China largely due to restrictions at bird markets, but caused some $6.5 billion in losses to the economy, U.N. experts said on ...
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U.S. IDs several men possibly responsible for Benghazi attack
WASHINGTON The U.S. has identified several men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, but none of them are in U.S. custody and the FBI isn't sure where they might be, a U.S. official told CBS News correspondent Bob Orr. The Associated Press reported there were five men identified. An official told CBS News that number was "in ...
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Iowa Cops Man suspected of abducting 2 girls found dead
IowaSexOffenders.com (CBS/AP) DAYTON, Iowa - Authorities say a convicted sex offender who was suspected of abducting two girls from an Iowa bus stop Monday has been found dead. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says 42-year-old Michael Klunder was found dead Monday night at a rural property northeast of Dayton, which is about 60 miles north of Des Moines. His cause of death remains ...
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Oklahoma tornados strength upgraded to rare EF5
MOORE, Okla. The National Weather Service's damage survey found that the monster tornado that wreaked havoc on an Oklahoma City suburb is the most powerful type of tornado there is: an EF5. According to the Enhanced Fujita scale and ...
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Watch NASA captures Okla. tornado from space
NASA's GOES-13 satellite captured images of the storm system that sparked tornadoes in the middle of the country. The video includes images of the twister left dozens of people dead in Moore, ...
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India offers more aid for Afghanistan
India has offered to provide more training and reconstruction aid for Afghanistan as most international troops prepare to withdraw next year.President Pranab Mukherjee told visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai that India was proud to help, a statement from Mukherjee's office said on Tuesday."India is prepared to increase bilateral contribution to institution-building, training and ...
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LZ Teachers remarkable courage
>Editor's note: LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named journalist of the year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and was a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist for commentary. He is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com. Follow him on Twitter @locs_n_laughs.(CNN) -- Each day more than 55 million students attend the ...
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Will Yahoo make Tumblr uncool
>Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff writes a regular column for CNN.com. He is a media theorist and the author of the new book "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now. "(CNN) -- So why would Yahoo -- the original king of Internet discussion groups -- pay over $1 billion for a simple little blog-publishing tool like Tumblr? Doesn't the giant Web company have the ability to create its own ...
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Trinidad rearranges infastructure spending
Trinidad and Tobago, although a small island nation less than ten times the size of the city state of Singapore, is a regional economic powerhouse and the national capital Port of Spain, is a centre of commerce in the West Indies, but with the robust development that our island has experienced comes a number of infrastructure projects all with different supporters and different objectives.
The controversial nature of the nationwide highways expansion program was seen as a reflection of the competing needs of the local population and the need to balance government spending against sustainable development. Read more
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