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Lone bomber sought in Italy blast

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

A bomb that killed a girl outside a school in southern Italy was probably planted by a single person rather than the mafia, a prosecutor says.

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Sudan releases foreign nationals

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

Sudan releases four foreigners detained last month near in the disputed area near the border with South Sudan, officials say.

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S.C. coast under tropical storm watch

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

A large swath of coastal South Carolina is under a tropical storm watch due to Alberto, the first named tropical storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season.

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VIDEO: First theatre opens in SA’s Soweto

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

South Africa is to opens its first theatre in a township – Soweto – once home to former President Nelson Mandela.

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French rally car crash kills two

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

A rally car ploughs into spectators in the Var region of southern France, killing a marshal and one other person, and injuring 17.

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VIDEO: Bomb explosion at Italy school

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

A bomb explodes in front of a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi killing at least one girl and injuring seven others.

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Bomb explosion hits Italy school

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

A bomb explodes in front of a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi killing a girl and injuring six others, reports say.

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Burlington Journal: Vermont’s Refugees Rebuild After Irene Floods

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

Refugees from Africa and South Asia are rebuilding their livelihoods after last summer’s devastating flood that ruined 10,000 acres of land.

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Burlington Journal: Vermont’s Refugees Rebuild After Irene Floods

Blast at School in Southern Italy Kills One and Injures Six

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

A bomb exploded in front of a school in southern Italy on Saturday, killing a 16 year-old girl and wounding at least six others, two seriously, authorities said on Saturday.

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Blast at School in Southern Italy Kills One and Injures Six

South Africa targets rainbow tourists

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Can South Africa overcome prejudice to attract gay tourists?

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Police in stations shake-up plan

Friday, May 18th, 2012

The front counters at seven small police stations in mid and south west Wales could shut to the public under plans by Dyfed-Powys Police.

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Police in stations shake-up plan

ANC to sue over painting of Zuma

Friday, May 18th, 2012

A painting showing President Jacob Zuma with his genitals hanging out sparks the anger of South Africa’s ANC, which says it will go to court.

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49 headless bodies normal in Mexico?

Friday, May 18th, 2012

On Sunday, 49 decapitated bodies were found on a major highway outside Monterrey, Mexico, which is about 80 miles southwest of the U.S. border.

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Two groups of lawmakers are Asia-bound over the House break

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

The House is off next week, and that means, even in an election year, members will be required to travel in search of elusive facts. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) is leading a group taking off Friday for a week in Taiwan and South Korea, looking at three days in Seoul and three in Taipei. Read full article > >

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Southwest waterfront’s River Park community turns 50

Monday, May 14th, 2012

The barrel-roof townhouses of River Park are Campbell’s soup cans, halved the long way, balanced on top of metal cubes two blocks from Southwest Washington’s Waterfront Metro station. They are called “houses” — because people live in them, and really, what else could they be called? — but they are architectural punch lines, visual acid trips, the left-behind parts of the secret UFO that docked down by the waterfront half a century ago and then flew away before anyone caught it on camera. The barrel-roof townhouses of River Park were — Read full article > >

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