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Pictures capture Japan's heartbreak after tsunami

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
It has been nearly one year since a monstrous earthquake triggered a tsunami that roared across Japan's coast on March 11, 2011, transforming once-pristine and thriving towns into waterlogged wastelands and sparking the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter-century....

Pictures capture Japan's heartbreak after tsunami

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
It has been nearly one year since a monstrous earthquake triggered a tsunami that roared across Japan's coast on March 11, 2011, transforming once-pristine and thriving towns into waterlogged wastelands and sparking the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter-century....

Clegg declares Lib Dem fightback

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
Nick Clegg tells Lib Dems to go into the Scottish council elections with their "heads held high", in the wake of last year's "painful" Holyrood poll.
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Extend or end it? GOP voters torn over best route

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- To hear some weary rank-and-file Republicans tell it, the increasingly bitter fight for the party's presidential nomination can't end quickly enough....

Extend or end it? GOP voters torn over best route

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- To hear some weary rank-and-file Republicans tell it, the increasingly bitter fight for the party's presidential nomination can't end quickly enough....

Extend or end it? GOP voters torn over best route

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- To hear some weary rank-and-file Republicans tell it, the increasingly bitter fight for the party's presidential nomination can't end quickly enough....

Extend or end it? GOP voters torn over best route

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- To hear some weary rank-and-file Republicans tell it, the increasingly bitter fight for the party's presidential nomination can't end quickly enough....

Extend or end it? GOP voters torn over best route

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- To hear some weary rank-and-file Republicans tell it, the increasingly bitter fight for the party's presidential nomination can't end quickly enough....

Extend or end it? GOP voters torn over best route

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- To hear some weary rank-and-file Republicans tell it, the increasingly bitter fight for the party's presidential nomination can't end quickly enough....

After Syria escape, French reporters leave Beirut

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
BEIRUT (AP) -- Two French journalists who had been smuggled out of Syria flew to France Friday, a week after one of them suffered injuries in the restive central Syrian city of Homs, officials said....

East Africa port project launched

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
Construction begins on a multi-billion dollar port project in Kenya which will also see an oil pipeline, railway and motorway built to South Sudan and Ethiopia.
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Family of doctor in bin Laden hunt slams trial

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- The family of the Pakistani doctor sentenced to 33 years in prison for helping the United States track down Osama bin Laden said Monday the man is innocent and dismissed his trial as a sham....

2 Maine pols bow out of race for Snowe's US seat

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud and GOP state Senate President Kevin Raye are bowing out of the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Olympia Snowe....

2 Maine pols bow out of race for Snowe's US seat

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud and GOP state Senate President Kevin Raye are bowing out of the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Olympia Snowe....

Maine voters seek female senator. Enter Angus King

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) -- Independent Senate candidate Angus King of Maine has a woman problem. He's not one....

Obama: Not bluffing on Iran nukes

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
President Barack Obama says he isn't bluffing when he says Iran shouldn't have a nuclear weapon, but he cautions against a premature Israeli strike against the Islamic republic.
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AUDIO: Who is Engelbert hyperlink?

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
Predictive texts disrupt Radio 5 live Breakfast listeners' Engelbert Humperdinck reactions.
Categories: BBC, News

Murray sees off Djokovic in Dubai

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
Andy Murray becomes the first man to beat world number one Novak Djokovic in 2012 with victory in the Dubai semi-finals.
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Everest climber warns of flood risks in Himalayas

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
TATOPANI, Nepal (AP) -- Before Apa became a legendary Sherpa mountaineer, he was a humble Himalayan potato farmer who worked his fields in the Everest foothills until, without warning, raging floodwaters swallowed his farm....

Afghan clerics call on US to turn over prisons

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 01:46
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A council of Afghanistan's top religious leaders on Friday called on the U.S. to end night searches and hand over its prisons, saying that if Afghans had been in charge, Muslim holy books from a detention center library would never have been burned at an American base....
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