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All missing residents accounted for after Texas tornadoes

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GRANBURY, Texas - All seven people listed as missing after a monster Texas tornado that tore homes from their foundations and uprooted trees on Wednesday have now been accounted for, leaving the death toll at six, authorities said on Friday. | Video

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Monster Texas tornado kills six, seven people missing

GRANBURY, Texas - Six people were dead and seven missing after a powerful tornado ripped through a north Texas neighborhood that included housing for the poor, in the deadliest severe storm outbreak in the United States this year.

U.S., 16 May 2013

Monster Texas tornado kills six, seven people missing

GRANBURY, Texas - Six people were dead and seven missing after a powerful tornado ripped through a neighborhood that included housing for the poor in the north Texas town of Granbury, marking the deadliest severe storm outbreak in the United States so far this year. | Video

U.S., Environment 16 May 2013

Second Alaska volcano belching ash and steam

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - One of Alaska's most active volcanoes has erupted with clouds of ash and steam, and lava is flowing down its snow-covered flank, scientists said on Wednesday.

Environment, 15 May 2013

Japan takes first step to a permanent reactor shutdown after Fukushima

TOKYO - Experts judged on Wednesday that a reactor on Japan's west coast is located on ground at high risk of an earthquake, setting in motion a process that will likely lead to the first permanent shutdown of a nuclear plant since the 2011 Fukushima crisis.

Environment, Japan 15 May 2013

The growing Franco-German schism

- Occasionally a public opinion survey surfaces that signals a seismic event. That is the case with a new report from the Pew Research Center that measures the widening tremors of a political earthquake now shaking Europe.

13 May 2013

Iran says nuclear sites safe from earthquakes and cyber threat

GENEVA - Iran's nuclear and hydropower facilities are well protected from cyber attacks and even the most powerful earthquakes, Iranian environmental protection chief Mohammad-Javad Mohammadizadeh said on Friday.

World, 10 May 2013

Forest Service adds seven air tankers ahead of fire season

WASHINGTON - The Forest Service is acquiring seven advanced firefighting air tankers to help modernize its aging fleet ahead of what is expected to be a bad season for wildfires.

U.S., Environment, 06 May 2013

Alaska volcano spews ash plume near air traffic route

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A remote but long-restless Alaska volcano rumbled to life on Saturday with three explosions and started emitting a continuous plume of ash, steam and gas in an area important to air traffic, scientists said.

U.S., 05 May 2013

Florida lawmakers pass bill to limit state-run property insurance

TALLAHASSEE, Florida - The Florida Senate sent Governor Rick Scott a bill on Thursday designed to reduce the state's exposure to catastrophic financial losses from a hurricane by gradually steering homeowners away from the state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp.

Politics, U.S., 02 May 2013

Global News Journal

Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the cards?

Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this day.

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