Last year was the deadliest for civilians in the decade-long U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, according to a United Nations report released Saturday. The report said 3,021 civilians were killed in 2011, an 8 percent increase from 2010. It was the fifth consecutive year that the number of deaths has increased. Read full article > >

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BEIRUT — The Syrian armed forces say in a rare televised statement that six elite military pilots have been killed in an ambush. Friday’s statement said the attack happened the day before in Homs province and it marked a dangerous escalation in the conflict. Syria is the scene of the deadliest crackdown against the Arab Spring’s eruption of protests and international pressure has been mounting on President Bashar Assad to stop the bloodshed. Read full article > >

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Syrian armed forces says 6 elite military pilots killed in ambush in restive Homs province

CAIRO — Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf is pledging an investigation of violence Sunday involving Coptic Christian demonstrators, the deadliest clashes in the country since the popular revolt that toppled the country’s autocratic leader in February. “The necessary measures are being taken now to immediately investigate the event and bring the perpetrators to justice, whoever they were,” Sharaf said in a statement posted on his Facebook page . Read full article > >

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SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni government forces opened fire with anti-aircraft guns and automatic weapons on tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in the capital pushing for ouster of longtime ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh, killing at least 12 and wounding dozens. The attack was the deadliest in months against protesters, who have been massing daily in Sanaa and other cities since February to demand Saleh’s removal. The protests have swelled the past week as the movement tries to renergize, angered by Saleh’s latest decision to deputize his president to negotiate a power-transfer deal. Many believe the move is just the latest of many delaying tactics. Read full article > >

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The Pentagon on Thursday released details of 30 men who died in Saturday’s helicopter crash in Afghanistan, providing the fullest picture yet of those lost to the deadliest day for U.S. forces in the Afghan war. The group included 17 Navy SEALs and five other personnel from a Navy Special Warfare unit, as well as five Army and three Air Force personnel. Military officials had previously said 22 SEALs were among the dead. Three of the men were Army reservists based near Gardner, Kan., where dozens gathered for a vigil last weekend. They had been working in a dangerous, high-octane environment, said a fellow soldier, Sgt. 1st Class Kirk Kuykendall. Read full article > >

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German bean sprouts are likely the cause of the deadliest E. coli outbreak in modern history. After suspecting cucumbers, tomatoes, and lettuce, German authorities now believe bean sprouts grown in Lower Saxony are to blame for the infection that has…

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Beans Sprouts Likely Cause of E. coli Outbreak

The European E. coli outbreak has killed 19 people, becoming one of the deadliest E. coli outbreaks in modern history. It has also sickened thousands of people, including four suspected cases in the United States. It is unknown where and how the…

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Joplin, Missouri’s spokesman reported that the death toll from last Sunday’s tornado climbed to 139 on Saturday, prompting the National Weather Service to declare 2011 the deadliest year for twisters since 1950. A slew of other powerful storms that…

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Joplin Tornado Death Toll Now 139

Here’s a dubious distinction: It’s not even June, and 2011 is already the deadliest year for tornadoes in the United States since 1953. With recent tornadoes-especially in Joplin, Missouri, but also in Oklahoma and elsewhere-505 people have died, and…

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500 Dead in Tornadoes in 2011

What is on track to be the deadliest tornado season in the nation’s history has prompted record-breaking sales for companies that sell safe rooms and shelters.

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Three members of President Barack Obama’s administration and the heads of two federal agencies that deal with disasters and small business development are scheduled on Sunday to tour parts of Alabama and Mississippi decimated last week by one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in American history.

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Five foreign and five Afghan soldiers are killed in a Taliban suicide attack at an army base in eastern Afghanistan, one of the deadliest in months.

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In one of the deadliest attacks to strike the region recently, a suicide bomber has killed at least 33 people at an army recruiting center in northern Afghanistan. The bombing occurred at 2 p.m. Monday afternoon in the Kunduz Province where the Taliban…

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33 Killed at Afghan Army Base

The American military says three soldiers have been killed in separate incidents in one of the deadliest days for American forces in Iraq in months.

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A fire in a jail in the Chilean capital Santiago kills at least 81 inmates, the deadliest incident in the country’s prison system.

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