US President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma after a 3km-wide tornado packing winds of up to 320kph tore through the state capital killing at least 51 people, including 20 children, and injuring at least 230.
The Oklahoma medical examiner’s office said it was expecting the death toll to rise to 91 people.
Alive! Survivor found in Bangladesh factory 16 days after collapse that killed over 1,000
(Photo: Bangladeshi TV via Reuters TV)
Woman was found trapped in the basement of the building and given water and food as rescuers tried to reach her.
The eurozone crisis explained in 5 simple graphs
Governments have collapsed and bailouts have run into the hundreds of billions of euros, and still the eurozone crisis lingers. How did we get here?
Graphics by CS Monitor staff
Conversely: Austerity with a human face?
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A third of Americans had heard of the Boston bombings within half an hour after they happened and half the country knew about them within an hour
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Fayiz al-Kandari, Guantanamo Bay prisoner on hunger strike U.S. moves to crush Guantanamo hunger strikers (via dancepunksnotdead) |
[The nonpartisan report] describes in detail the ethical compromise of government lawyers who offered “acrobatic” advice to justify brutal interrogations and medical professionals who helped direct and monitor them. And it reveals an internal debate at the International Committee of the Red Cross over whether the organization should speak publicly about American abuses; advocates of going public lost the fight, delaying public exposure for months, the report finds.
