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Mexican town evacuated amid fears dam will burst (AP)

July 6th, 2010

A man tries to salvage wood from a destroyed home after Hurricane Alex hit the area in what is known as Playa Bagdad, about 22 miles (37 km.) east of Matamoros, northeastern Mexico, on the border with Texas,Thursday, July 1, 2010. Hurricane Alex ripped off roofs, caused severe flooding and forced thousands of people to flee coastal fishing villages.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - More than 18,000 people were evacuated Tuesday from a town in northern Mexico that was flooded after authorities opened a dam’s floodgates for fear it would overflow from…

Brazilian mayor: Floods have flattened entire town (AP)

June 23rd, 2010

In this photo released by Agencia Brasil, flood waters surround buildings in the city of Barreiros in Pernambuco state, Brazil, Wednesday, June 23, 2010. Rescuers searched Wednesday for 600 people declared missing after torrential floods ripped through cities in northeastern Brazil. The death toll rose to 44 after three bodies were found overnight.  (AP Photo/Antonio Cruz, Agencia Brasil)AP - Torrential waters flattened a small town as floods raged through two states in northeastern Brazil and the death toll was expected to surpass 44 as rescuers searched Wednesday…

Car bomb in Shiite town near Baghdad kills 23 (AP)

May 21st, 2010

A boy sprays worshippers to keep followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr cool  as they attend open air Friday prayers in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A car bomb exploded Friday at an open-air market crowded with shoppers in a Shiite town northeast of Baghdad, killing 23 people and wounding more than 50, Iraqi…

Mercury high in Japanese town that hunts dolphins (AP)

May 9th, 2010

Dolphin sashimi, raw slices from the breast of a striped dolphin, is served during lunch at Moby Dick, a hotel run by the local government, in Taiji, southwestern Japan, Sunday, May 9, 2010. Residents of Taiji, the dolphin-hunting coastal village depicted in the Oscar-winning documentary 'The Cove,' have dangerously high mercury levels, likely because of their fondness for dolphin and whale meat, Japan's government said Sunday. The levels of mercury detected in Taiji residents were above the national average, but further tests have found no ill effects from the mercury. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - Residents of the dolphin-hunting village depicted in Oscar documentary “The Cove” have dangerously high mercury levels, likely because of their fondness for dolphin and whale meat, a government…

At least 80 gunmen terrorize Mexican town, kill 4 (AP)

April 9th, 2010

AP - Police say at least 80 gunmen terrorized a town in northern Mexico for several hours and killed four people.

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Police chief decapitated in northern Mexico town (AP)

March 27th, 2010

Forensic experts examine a police patrol car after police found the decapitated body of a town police chief and the body of his brother inside the car near the town of General Trevino, Mexico Friday March 26, 2010. The windshield and driver's door of Cerda's patrol car had 'C.D.G,' an acronym for the Gulf drug cartel, written in blood. (AP Photo)AP - The decapitated body of the police chief of a northern Mexico town and the body of his brother were found inside the chief’s patrol truck Friday, authorities said.…

Italian town commemorates World War II tragedy (AP)

March 19th, 2010

People take part  take part in a memorial ceremony in the grottos of Cisterna di Latina, near Rome where the town's population lived for monthsduring the war in 1944, Friday, March 19, 2010. On Friday, the anniversary of the roundup in 1944, this town between Anzio and Rome held its annual commemoration of the bloody events of World War II with ceremonies held beside a monument to victims of all wars and school children visiting the grottoes where their grandparents took shelter from the bombing. Felice Paliani, who was 13 at the time, said he was taken in as a mascot by the Americans when Cisterna was finally liberated. 'We survived because we were united,' he said. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - For American forces fighting their way north to Rome, it was the site of a heroic but hopeless stand, where only eight men out of two Ranger battalions…

Taliban fight in Afghan town with fear campaign (AP)

March 17th, 2010

TO GO WITH HEIDI VOGT STORY SLUGGED:  BC-AS--Afghanistan-Fear Campaign--  In this image taken on Tuesday, March 16, 2010,  in Marjah, Afghanistan, Afghans listen to a Marine officer while on patrol. Taliban insurgents are conducting a fear and intimidation campaign against residents of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, which binternational/b forces just wrested from insurgents. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - A month after losing control of their southern base in Marjah, the Taliban have begun to fight back, launching a campaign of assassination and intimidation to frighten people…

Karzai gets an earful in town seized from Taliban (AP)

March 7th, 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai talks to locals in Marjah, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 7, 2010. Afghan President Hamid Karzai heard a litany of complaints Sunday from residents of Marjah, the town in the south that thousands of U.S., NATO and Afghan troops just seized from the Taliban. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, Pool)AP - Elders in a former Taliban stronghold berated and challenged Afghanistan’s president Sunday, delivering a litany of complaints about government corruption and NATO’s military operations on the Afghan leader’s…

Afghan president visits town seized from Taliban (AP)

March 7th, 2010

During a medevac mission over Marjah at night, U.S. Army 82nd Airborne's All American Dustoff flight medic Sgt, John Collier attends to a patient, an Afghan interpreter, in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Saturday March 6, 2010.  The crews of Pegasus med and chase birds fly together on missions, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, providing the fast medical evacuation of wounded combatants and civilians from often hostile situations in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is visiting the town of Marjah and hearing complaints from residents about the actions of Afghan and international troops who recently seized it from the…