After a series of NATO strikes, rebels on Monday broke a siege by Qaddafi forces of the town of Yafran.

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Libyan Rebels Retake Town in West

President Obama visited Joplin, Missouri, as the town marked a week since a tornado killed more people than any other in the U.S. since record-keeping began in 1950.

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Obama in Joplin: ‘A national tragedy’

The Spanish PM and members of the royal family attend a funeral Mass for victims of the earthquakes that struck the town of Lorca.

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Spain mourns earthquake victims

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has killed at least eight people and damaged several buildings near the town of Lorca in southern Spain, officials say.

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VIDEO: Spanish quake brings down bell tower

The unincorporated town of Tunica Cutoff, Mississippi has been almost completely destroyed by flooding from the Mississippi River. All but one of the town’s 300 homes has been lost. Additionally, new housing codes have mandated raising new homes above…

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Floods Wipe Out Miss. Town

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has killed at least ten people and damaged several buildings near the town of Lorca in southern Spain, officials say.

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VIDEO: Bell tower collapses in Spanish quake

Residents of the southern Illinois town of Cairo are being told to evacuate as river water is flooding the ground behind the town levee, “kind of like Old Faithful.” Overnight thunderstorms dropped more rain on the soaked town, worrying emergency…

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IL Town Evacuated Ahead of Levee Breach

LONDON — Scottish officials said Friday that police investigating the 1988 bombing of a U.S. jetliner over the town of Lockerbie have met with Libyan defector Musa Kusa, who they believe has crucial information about Britain’s worst terrorist attack.

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Police meet with Libyan defector on Lockerbie bombing

Libyan rebels press on west to the town of Brega after recapturing the strategic oil town of Ajdabiya from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s forces.

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Libyan rebels advance westwards

Pro-government demonstrators in Syria have surrounded the Damascus bureau of Al Jazeera and are threatening to burn it to the ground after the network covered the regime’s massacre of protesters. Police fired into a crowd in the town of Sanamein on…

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Syria Protests Leave Dozens Dead

A suspected tornado rips through the town of Rayne in the US state of Loiusiana, killing one woman and injuring 11 other people.

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‘Tornado’ strikes Louisiana town

A fresh day of vicious conflict in Libya brought gains for both Gaddafi loyalists and the ragtag insurgency. Government forces made inroads in the strategic city of Zawiyah, though rebels say they were held off to the town’s outskirts. One witness said…

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Rebels Advance on Gaddafi’s Hometown

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s militia stormed the rebels controlling the town of Zawiyah on Saturday morning in what two residents described as a “massacre.”

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Qaddafi’s Militia Storms Key Town Controlled by Rebels

New air strikes are launched against the oil town of Brega a day after pro-Gaddafi forces failed to capture it from protesters, sources in the town say.

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New air strikes in Libya oil town

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been dealt a setback in his renewed campaign to win back parts of the country no longer under his control. Loyalist forces, possibly mercenaries from elsewhere in Africa, mounted a fierce assault on the town of…

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Rebels Repel Gaddafi’s Assault