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23 Apr 2010 11:02

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World: In wake of al-Qaeda leader killings, Iraq hit with deadly attacks

  • 12improvized explosive devices were used in the attacks today
  • 50+were killed in the bombings around the war-torn country
  • 100+were injured; this is in the wake of the killing of al-Qaeda leaders source
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19 Apr 2010 11:12

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World: Kyrgyzstan has a lot of lawlessness going on right now

Here’s the problem with coups. If you coup a country, the people of that country have to deal with guys with shovels who can take advantage of the anarchy. source
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18 Apr 2010 11:48

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World: The death toll in last week’s China quake steadily rising

  • 1,706 killed in last week’s earthquake in the remote Yushu county
  • 1,000 bodies have been cremated since the quake happened source
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14 Apr 2010 22:33

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World: China quake: Bad, but not as bad as that other Chinese quake

  • 589+ people have been reported killed in this quake so far
  • 87,000 people were killed in a quake in a nearby province in 2008 source
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14 Apr 2010 11:07

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World: In India, a huge storm has left thousands of families homeless

  • 89+ people were killed in the huge storm; hundreds were injured
  • 100k number of mud hut homes that were destroyed by the storm source
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14 Apr 2010 11:00

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U.S.: Most building materials don’t have homecomings. This steel is different.

  • 1969 Large amounts of steel leave a Pennsylvania factory, to be used in a massive New York City building.
  • 2010 Those chunks of steel, remnants of the World Trade Center, return to the factory today. Sigh. source
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14 Apr 2010 10:11

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World: Rescuers in full search mode after major Chinese earthquake

  • 6.9 the magnitude
    of the quake, as reported by the USGS
  • 400+ people have been
    killed in the wake of the major quake
  • 10k+ people reported injured
    in China’s Qinghai province source
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11 Apr 2010 09:18

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World: Thailand’s escalating violence left many killed, hundreds injured

  • 20 number of people killed in Thailand’s Red Shirt-related violence yesterday
  • 834 number hurt in the attacks, which escalated the month-long, mostly peaceful, conflict
  • 48 number killed in Thailand’s last major protest violence outbreak
    in 1992 source
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10 Apr 2010 10:37

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World: Journalists nearly on board deadly Polish plane crash

  • Russia Today has totally owned this story, by the way. In this clip, one journalist notes that he barely missed being a part of this deadly, awful plane crash himself. The plane was mostly filled with Polish political elite headed to Russia; the journalists had to take another flight that didn’t crash. They totally escaped death. Scary.
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10 Apr 2010 10:26

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World: RIP Lech Kaczynski: Three fast facts about the Polish president

  • one He had a twin brother, Jaroslaw, who was also involved in Polish politics. They founded a party together.
  • two Both brothers were
    child actors who initially shot to fame in the 1962 film “Two Boys Who Stole the Moon.”
  • three After the fall of Soviet Russia, the right-winger was a political outsider who later returned to prominence. source
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