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yeezy as the Elbow and Bow rivers surged over their banks Thursday night. Three bodies have been recovered since the flooding began in southern Alberta and a fourth person was still missing. We ve turned a corner, but we are still in a state of emergency, Mayor Naheed Nenshi said. Our hearts and thought and prayers are with our colleagues downstream. People in the eastern part of the province headed for higher ground as the flood threat remained. In Medicine Hat, Alberta, thousands of people have left their homes as water levels rose on the South Saskatchewan River. The river was not expected to crest until Monday, but by Sunday morning it was lapping over its banks in low-lying areas and people were busy laying down thousands of sandb
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Israeli troops closed off a West Bank city and Palestinian militants celebrated after Hamas blew up two buses, seconds apart, in the desert town of Beersheba, killing 16 Israelis and ending a months-long lull in suicide attacks.The twin bombings shattered hopes in Israel that the period of suicide attacks mdash; more than 100 in four years mdash; was over. The nightmare is back, read the main headline in the Yediot Ahronot daily Wednesday, above a photo of a burning bus.Israel is threatening harsh retaliation, planning to resume assassinations of Hamas leaders, after the Islamic group claimed responsibility for the double bus bombing, reports CBS News Correspondent Robert Berger. Israel had suspended the assassination campaign in April after killing the two top leaders of Hamas. But now officials say every Hamas leader is a marked man.Israel is determine
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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE -- Pope Francis says he wasn t offended by the Communist crucifix given to him by Bolivian President Evo Morales during his South American pilgrimage.
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The arrests of top Taliban figures in Pakistan abruptly halted secret U.N. contacts with the insurgency at a time when the efforts were gathering momentum, the U.N. s former envoy to Afghanistan said Friday.Kai Eide, a Norwegian diplomat who just stepped down from the U.N. post here in the Afghan capital, said the discussions that he and others from the U.N. had with senior Taliban members began in the spring of 2009 and included face-to-face conversations in Dubai and elsewhere.He criticized Pakistan for arresting the Taliban s No. 2 and other members of the insurgency, say
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The outcome of Turkey s national election, which could determine whether the nation straddling the geographic divide between Europe and Asia returns to a more democratic path after what many see as two decades of eroding democracy, was left on a knife s edge Monday. A second runoff vote on May 28 will determine the winnerafter voters failed Sunday to give either current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or his main challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, more than 50% of the vote as required for an outright victory.With almost all the ballots counted, Erdogan was just shy of the 50% threshold. Preliminary results gave Erdogan 49.51% of the ballots, while Kilicdaroglu had won 44.88%. Ahmet Yener, head of Turkey s Supreme Electoral Board, said even when uncounted overseas votes were tallied, it would still be impossible for Erdogan to win the majority needed to avoid a runoff.Why the world is watching Turkey s electionsThe lack of a decisive win o
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stanley mug Irish rock star Bono threatened Tuesday to join a campaign of civil disobedience if rich countries don t do more to combat world poverty. The people I represent mdash; the activists from my community mdash; will take a very, very different tack in the next few years if these trends are to continue in Africa, the U2 frontman said at the Dublin launch of
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stanley cup rty are failing in many countries. I am ready to march with my activist friends in campaigns of civil disobedience, he added. We are about to get very noisy, we are about to bang a lot of dustbin lids. This issue is the defining issue of our time and some of us are ready to really work on it. Last year, Bono traveled to Africa with U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O Neill, bent on convincing the skeptical politico, O Neill, that Africa puts Western development aid to good use.The idea of a joint trip was hatched when the two men met in O Neill s office. Bono, who has campaigned for years to focus the attention of rich nations on the plight of Africa, asked for the session. Bono has campaigned to get the Group of Eight top industrial countries to provide greater debt relief for the world s poorest countries.The G-8 comprises the leaders of the world s seven richest countries mdash; the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada mdash; plus Russia.In an effort to learn what kind of aid really works, O Neill and B
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