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Oklahoma tornado ‘Our hearts are broken. This is bigger than anything I’ve ever seen. It’s huge. It’s horrific’
I saw that line earlier from the sky, even on an open field close to where the tornado first touched down on Monday afternoon. It is the edge of the funnel's fist. One corner of the pasture is strafed a darker green than the rest, like the turned corner of a hanky. Suddenly all the twister's path through the subdivisions of Moore comes into view. From above, it resembles the scar of ...
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Pope performs exorcism Vatican denies video footage
Pope Francis blesses a child as he leaves in his papamobile after the Holy mass for Pentecost Sunday on May 19, 2013 at St Peter's Square at the Vatican. AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO Vatican City - The Vatican on Tuesday denied that Pope Francis had performed an exorcism after an Italian religious television channel said footage of the pontiff blessing a boy in a wheelchair showed he had. ...
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With wary eye on the U.S. China courts India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, smiling and effusive, was out to smooth ruffled feathers in India this week, promising to ease tensions and increase trade between Asia's fastest growing economies in his first trip overseas since taking ...
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Chinas bird flu outbreak cost $6.5 billion
GENEVA (Reuters) - The H7N9 virus appears to have been brought under control in China largely due to restrictions at bird markets, but caused some $6.5 billion in losses to the economy, U.N. experts said on ...
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Iowa Cops Man suspected of abducting 2 girls found dead
IowaSexOffenders.com (CBS/AP) DAYTON, Iowa - Authorities say a convicted sex offender who was suspected of abducting two girls from an Iowa bus stop Monday has been found dead. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says 42-year-old Michael Klunder was found dead Monday night at a rural property northeast of Dayton, which is about 60 miles north of Des Moines. His cause of death remains ...
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Oklahoma tornados strength upgraded to rare EF5
MOORE, Okla. The National Weather Service's damage survey found that the monster tornado that wreaked havoc on an Oklahoma City suburb is the most powerful type of tornado there is: an EF5. According to the Enhanced Fujita scale and ...
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Watch NASA captures Okla. tornado from space
NASA's GOES-13 satellite captured images of the storm system that sparked tornadoes in the middle of the country. The video includes images of the twister left dozens of people dead in Moore, ...
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India offers more aid for Afghanistan
India has offered to provide more training and reconstruction aid for Afghanistan as most international troops prepare to withdraw next year.President Pranab Mukherjee told visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai that India was proud to help, a statement from Mukherjee's office said on Tuesday."India is prepared to increase bilateral contribution to institution-building, training and ...
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LZ Teachers remarkable courage
>Editor's note: LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named journalist of the year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and was a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist for commentary. He is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com. Follow him on Twitter @locs_n_laughs.(CNN) -- Each day more than 55 million students attend the ...
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Will Yahoo make Tumblr uncool
>Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff writes a regular column for CNN.com. He is a media theorist and the author of the new book "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now. "(CNN) -- So why would Yahoo -- the original king of Internet discussion groups -- pay over $1 billion for a simple little blog-publishing tool like Tumblr? Doesn't the giant Web company have the ability to create its own ...
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Liberal Pundits Gather in West Wing
ezraklein & other lefty columnists headed into the West Wing as a group. POTUS coffee? Carney meeting? Anyone? - Ari Shapiro ...
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Opinion Okies love-hate relationship
>Editor's note: Nathan Gunter is the managing editor of Oklahoma Today magazine, the state's official magazine. A graduate of Westmoore High School in Moore, Oklahoma, he holds degrees from Wake Forest University and the University of Oklahoma.(CNN) -- Oklahomans have a special relationship with the sky. We know how to look up. On the prairies of western Oklahoma, the skies are so big, and so ...
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Updates Rating changed to EF5
>For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKI(CNN) -- At least 24 people -- including nine children -- were killed when a massive tornado struck an area outside Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, officials said. Read more: Heartbreaking scenes in Oklahoma City after disasterAt least seven of those children were killed at ...
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IDF soldier killed while clearing Israeli minefield
An IDF soldier was killed while taking part in the clearing of a minefield in the southern Golan Heights.The soldier was of the Engineering Corps. His family has been notified.Ground Forces Commander Maj.-Gen. Guy Tzur appointed a committee of inquiry to investigate the incident.The mine exploded for unknown reasons during an advanced training phase of the Engineering Corps, a senior army ...
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Egyptian army secures Sinai in hunt for Islamists
Rafah near the border with Gaza on Thursday in the latest setback for the Cairo government's efforts to reinstate law and order in the Sinai ...
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US envoy Hussein to combat Holocaust denial
United States Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is to travel to Poland on Wednesday to visit Jewish communities, the site of the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and other Holocaust historical ...
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24 dead including 9 kids
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH. Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Search and rescue crews with dogs went through smashed houses and crushed cars on Tuesday, looking for signs of life in the aftermath ...
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Oklahoma tornado
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH. Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Search and rescue crews with dogs went through smashed houses and crushed cars on Tuesday, looking for signs of life in the aftermath ...
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Israel warns Syria of consequences if Golan fire continues
The head of Israel's armed forces warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday of "consequences" if fire continues from Syrian territory against Israeli troops in the occupied Golan ...
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Gay marriage opponent kills himself in cathedral
PARIS - An 78-year-old French far-right activist committed suicide at the altar of the Notre Dame cathedral on Tuesday by shooting himself in the mouth, three days after a law legalising same-sex marriage came into effect. Police evacuated the cathedral, one of Paris’ biggest tourist draws, after Dominique Venner - a historian known for his hard-right political essays and a fierce ...
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Iran Bars Mashaei and Rafsanjani as Candidates
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Reformist blocked from running for Iranian presidency
The country's former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was expected to win votes from the centre ground and among Iran's moderates, was blocked along 678 other candidates who had initially put their names forward. Among the others to be told that they cannot stand is Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei - an ally of the current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is barred from taking part in ...
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Attacks in Iraq kill over 40 sectarian tensions high
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A series of bomb and gun attacks across Iraq killed more than 40 people on Tuesday, a day after over 70 died in violence targeting majority Shi'ites that has stoked fears of all-out sectarian war with minority ...
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Rescue Efforts Near End in Oklahoma
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Fed officials dampen speculation of imminent bond tapering
FRANKFURT/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two senior Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday played down chances that the U.S. central bank would signal a readiness to taper bond buying at its meeting next month, dampening speculation the Fed might soon dial back its ultra-easy ...
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Cincinnati’s streetcar named bureaucracy
Cincinnati once had a streetcar system that carried 100 million people each year, but it was scrapped in favor of the bus in the mid-twentieth century. Today, just 25 million people use the bus network in Cincinnati, which has led to a proposal for a new streetcar line, but red-tape is blocking the tracks.
Cincinnati, throughout the first half of the twentieth century, had over 200 miles of streetcar tracks and the system carried over 100 million people per year. By the 1950’s the system was deemed unfeasible and was dismantled, with the last streetcar being retired in 1951. Several decades later, the faith that everyone had in the efficiency and convenience of busses has proven unfounded. Read more
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