Moammar Gadhafi’s forces continued fierce shelling in the western Libyan city of Misrata Thursday destroying a cement factory and cargo containers, a resident there said.
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U.N. wants precision bombers for Libya
Moammar Gadhafi’s forces pounded the western city of Misrata again today as France and Britain called for beefed up NATO airstrikes to stop attacks on civilians.
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Gadhafi’s forces pound Misrata
Is the Alaskan Way Viaduct on the western edge of downtown just an elevated relic, or is it something more?
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Seattle Ponders (Some More) the Wisdom of Replacing a Roadway
Benghazi, Libya – Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces appeared to make little headway in a concerted assault on rebels in several cities around the country and in a sustained attack early Tuesday morning in the western city of Zawiyah. With escalating hostilities bringing Libya closer to civil war, rebels appeared to hold the city after a night of fighting, fending off tanks and artillery vehicles, special forces and regular army troops, and, rebels said, fighter jets. read more
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Gaddafi Makes Little Headway in Assault on Libyan Rebels
Ten children are killed by a fire at a home for disabled children in the western Estonian town of Haapsalu.
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Estonia blaze kills 10 children
One of India’s most famous musicians, Bhimsen Joshi, dies at a hospital in the western city of Pune, aged 89.
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Indian singer Bhimsen Joshi dead
The climate secrets of the ocean’s deepest spot – the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific Ocean – begin to be unlocked by scientists.
Mexican authorities believe that the leader of the notorious La Familia drug cartel is dead after two days of violence in the western state of Michoacan. Nazario Moreno Gonzales or “El Mas Loco” is one of at least 11 victims in the shootings, which…
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Mexican Cartel Leader Believed Dead
Mexican security forces kill a notorious drugs baron during heavy fighting in the western state of Michoacan.
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Mexican forces kill drugs baron
Mexican police battle drug traffickers, who have been blockading roads into the western city of Morelia with burning vehicles.
A tiny new species of bat is discovered in the western slopes of the Andes in northwestern Ecuador.
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New bat species found in Ecuador
Tropical Storm Tomas churned in the southern Caribbean on its way toward a possible early Friday morning landfall on the western edge of earthquake-devastated Haiti, forecasters said.
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Tomas stronger, heads toward Haiti
Fifteen people were killed Wednesday at a carwash in the western Mexican state of Nayarit, the state attorney general’s office told CNNMexico.com.
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15 shot dead at carwash in Mexico
Afghan security forces have killed four militants who attacked a UN compound in the western city of Herat, officials say.
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Afghan rebels die in attack on UN
Seattle Ponders (Some More) the Wisdom of Replacing a Roadway
Sunday, April 10th, 2011
