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First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 16 mins ago - 228 reports

Tornadoes strike Oklahoma killing at least 51

Large, devastating tornadoes swept through Oklahoma City and neighboring towns Monday, killing at least 51 people as they laid waste to numerous buildings, including more than one elementary ... ... [Published Birmingham Star - 3 mins ago]

Entities: Tornado, Oklahoma City

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 25 mins ago - 24 reports

Dubai locks up Australian for land fraud

(57 mins ago) Foreign Minister Bob Carr has criticized as ';indefensible the length of time the legal process took in the United Arab Emirates after an Australian man was jailed for 10 years for property fraud. Businessman Matthew Joyce was sentenced ... [Published The Sydney News - 25 mins ago]

Entities: Fraud, Dubai, Bob Carr

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 25 mins ago - 56 reports

Brookings Institution

Poverty numbers in suburbs remain below those in Reading

Contrary to the findings of a national study released Monday, poverty in Reading's suburbs has not increased more quickly than it has in the city.The national study by The Brookings Institution showed that suburban poor began to outnumber urban poor over ... [Published Reading Eagle - 25 mins ago]

Entities: Census, Sprawl, Brookings Institution

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 27 mins ago - 64 reports

Manmohan Singh

China, India agree to boost peace along border

India and China agreed to explore ways to maintain peace along their long but undefined border, as visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang promised to build trust with India.Li said "amicable ties" between the two economic powers were good not just for Asia, ... [Published Asia News Network - 8 mins ago]

Entities: India, China, Manmohan Singh, Mechanic, Jawaharlal Nehru University

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 30 mins ago - 20 reports

Hizballah

Battle in Syria pulls Hezbollah further into Assad’s war

BEIRUT Fighting raged for the second day Monday in the strategic Syrian city of Qusayr, as government forces, backed by Shiite fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, unleashed new airstrikes and rebels fought back fiercely in parts of the ... [Published Boston Globe - 30 mins ago]

Entities: Hizballah, Syria, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Turning Point, Guerrilla

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 30 mins ago - 24 reports

Explosions kill 4 in Russia’s restive Dagestan

MAKHACHKALA, Russia Two bombs exploded outside a court building in Russias restive province of Dagestan on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding dozens of others, officials said.The first bomb exploded in a parked car and the second went off ... [Published Boston Globe - 30 mins ago]

Entities: Detonation, Russia, Bomb, Makhachkala, Ministry of Health

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 31 mins ago - 22 reports

Red Cross/Crescent

How to help Oklahoma tornado victims

A monstrous tornado roared through Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph.Several nonprofits are collecting donations for tornado victims. ... [Published ABC15.com - 13 mins ago]

Entities: Tornado, Red Cross/Crescent, Donations, Feed the Children

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 34 mins ago - 163 reports

98 killed in car bombings across Iraq ,Sectarian violence on the rise

A wave of attacks killed at least 95 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Tuesday,pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 240 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years.The bloodshed ... [Published Samaylive - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Iraq, Sectarian Violence, Shia Islam, Sectarianism

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 43 mins ago - 28 reports

51 killed in Oklahoma tornado; death toll to rise

WATERLOO, Iowa — Cedar Falls claimed a 7-0 victory over Waterloo East in the first round of Class 3A substate soccer action Monday at the Ceda… ... [Published Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier - 12 mins ago]

Entities: Tornado

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 44 mins ago - 38 reports

Court grants Musharraf bail in Bhutto murder

A Pakistani special Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) yesterday granted bail to former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in connection to former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination case.http://www.mid-day.com/news/2013/may/210513-court- ... [Published Mid Day - 44 mins ago]

Entities: Pervez Musharraf, Bail, Pakistan, ATC, Homicide

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 48 mins ago - 25 reports

20 children among 51 killed after twister passes through Oklahoma City suburb

Updated at 12:15 a.m. on Tuesday, May 21 Shawnee, Okla. (WSYR-TV) ? Local authorities say the lives of 51 people were taken when a powerful tornado swept through a community outside of Oklahoma City on Monday., cars, homes, buildings, and a school were ... [Published NewsChannel 9 WSYR - 48 mins ago]

Entities: Tornado, Oklahoma City, Powerful

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 54 mins ago - 73 reports

Final reading for gay marriage bill

The government's same-sex marriage bill is to receive a third and final Commons reading after surviving resistance from Tory opponents on Monday night.A proposal - which would have delayed the new law - to also allow straight couples to take up civil ... [Published BBC - 54 mins ago]

Entities: Gay, Tim Loughton, Same-Sex Marriage, Jedi

Quotes

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Five upgrading projects to ease traffic woes [Published thestar.com.my - 2 mins ago]

Diana Cameros, a psychologist who attended the Rios Montt trial, attacked the Constitutional Court over its ruling. "It's absurd," she told Reuters. "It said in a previous ruling that the process couldn't be wound back to stages that had already concluded, and now it's saying something that contradicts what they said before." The court said it had given the judges who sentenced Rios Montt 24 hours to comply with its order

Guatemala's top court annuls Rios Montt genocide conviction [Published thestar.com.my - 3 mins ago]

"There was a lot of uncertainty," said Bolden. "I had received a lot of calls from different media outlets asking me did I have any concrete information."

Canton Dems prep for mayoral runoff [Published 16 WAPT - 4 mins ago]

"The IDF views the recent incidents in the north with concern and has lodged a complaint with UNDOF" the UN Disengagement Force responsible for patrolling that area

Israeli troops in Golan return fire from Syria (AFP) [Published Yahoo!Xtra - 4 mins ago]

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Tornado survivor: I just want to cry [Published CNN.com - Video - 51 mins ago]
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