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Israel pullback alarms Lebanon border town (Reuters)

November 17th, 2010

A woman walks past concrete security blocks in the village of Ghajar on the Israeli-Lebanese border November 7, 2010. REUTERS/Nir EliasReuters - Israel said on Wednesday it would withdraw troops from a village straddling the Lebanese border, in a gesture to the United Nations that drew residents onto the streets…

Incoming small town Mexico mayor kidnapped, killed (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

Reuters - A mayor-elect from the Mexican state of Veracruz was kidnapped and killed along with two companions on Monday, local media reported.

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In Afghan town, insurgents vanish after battles (AP)

October 18th, 2010

In this Sept. 29, 2010 photograph, passing children watch U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Seth Little, 22, of Bremen, Georgia, as he takes temporary cover in a ditch during a patrol in Marjah, southern Afghanistan. In this southern Afghan town that coalition forces seized from Taliban fighters eight months ago and are still very much clearing, American troops don't have to go far to find the insurgency. But finding insurgents is another story altogether. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)AP - The Marines have found bloody clothes and spent bullet casings and bombs meant to kill them. They’ve heard bullets flying overhead and seen muzzle flashes in tree lines.


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Hungary town evacuated, fears of new sludge flood (AP)

October 9th, 2010

Workers inspect damage in a yard in Kolontar, Hungary, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. Government officials lowered their estimate of the size of Monday's catastrophic spill. They said the reservoir break at an alumina plant dumped up to 700,000 cubic meters (184 million gallons) of sludge onto three villages. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)AP - Officials say the Hungarian town near that toxic red sludge reservoir that flooded the area is being evacuated for fear of a new leak of the dangerous heavy…

Marines in key Afghan town face full-blown insurgency (AP)

October 7th, 2010

In this Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 photo, hospital Corpsman Matthew Heger, foreground, 24, of Seattle, Wa., fires on insurgents during a gunbattle in Marjah, Afghanistan. Heger is serving with the 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines' Echo Company, which arrived in Marjah in July. Eight months on, the Taliban are still in Marjah in force, waging a full-blown guerrilla insurgency that rages daily across a bomb-riddled landscape of agricultural fields and irrigation trenches. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)AP - The young Marine had a simple question for the farmer with the white beard: Have you seen any Taliban today?


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US helps Sudan town move past ‘hungriest place’ (AP)

October 4th, 2010

Southern Sudanese soldiers wait on Akobo landing strip during the arrival of high level US, UN and southern Sudanese officials on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. The US Consul-General in Juba, Ambassador Barrie Walkley and Leis Grande traveled to Akobo to celebrate the formal opening of several US-funded building projects, including a new county headquarters. The United States and other binternational/b donors targeted significant funds at Akobo in a bid to curtail serious intertribal fighting there in recent years. (AP Photo/Pete Muller) --AP - International officials once visited this straw-hut town to examine skeletal children and make plans to combat a brewing famine. Now six months later, fears of mass hunger are…

Mexico: Landslide in another town kills 12 people (AP)

September 29th, 2010

Soldiers, police officers and residents search for victims after a landslide Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed deaths, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)AP - Rescue efforts resumed Wednesday for 11 people missing after a huge hillside collapsed on a town in Mexico’s rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca, while a landslide in a…

Mexican mayor slain in drug-plagued state (AP)

September 24th, 2010

Army soldiers walk by the body of a man lying in the street in Acapulco, Mexico, Thursday Sept. 23, 2010. Authorities say seven people were killed in a shootout between rival drug gangs. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)AP - Authorities say gunmen have killed the mayor of a northern Mexican town — adding to a string of attacks on political figures in the drug-plagued region.


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US troops brave grenade attacks in key Afghan town (AP)

September 10th, 2010

AP - Pfc. Sean Provenzano saw it whiz by out of the corner of his eye: a dark object hurled from a rooftop as he patrolled the medieval maze of…

A Swiss Town Celebrates the Red Cross Founder It Never Much Liked (Time.com)

August 14th, 2010

Time.com - After founding the Red Cross, Henry Dunant fell into poverty and obscurity, sheltering in Heiden, where townsfolk never warmed to him. Why is it celebrating him today?

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