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LONDON - Hurricane-force gustshit Britain on Thursday as part of a powerful stormmoving across Europe, disrupting airtravel, halting trains and leaving tens of thousands of homes withoutelectricity. Accidents linked to the stormkilled three people.Authorities evacuated some 10,000homes along the eastern English coast after warning that the country could faceits worst tidal surge in 60 years.
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The fourth typhoon to whip the Philippines in a month lashed the capital and nearby provinces Saturday, leaving fresh floods and new misery before blowing out of the country. At least seven
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JERUSALEM A team of Israeli archaeologists believes it has discovered the ruins of a palace belonging to the biblical King David, but other Israeli experts dispute the claim.Archaeologists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Israel s Antiquities Authority said their find, a large fortified complex west of Jerusalem at a site called Khirbet Qeiyafa , is the first palace of the biblical king ever to be discovered. Khirbet Qeiyafa is the best example exposed to date of a fortified city from the time of King David, said Yossi Garfinkel, a Hebrew University archaeologist, suggesting that David himself would have used the site. Garfinkel led the seven-year dig with Saar Ganor of Israel s Antiquities Authority.Garfinkel said his team found cultic objects typically used by Judeans, the subjects of King David, and saw no trace of pig remains. Pork is forbidden under Jewish dietary laws. Clues like these, he said, were unequivocal evidence that David and his descendants had ruled at the site.Critics said the site could have belonged to othe
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