Rescue ends Yukon blizzard ordeal on Mount Logan
Don Jardine and two climbing partners endured three days in a Yukon blizzard after their tents were blown away. They were rescued hours later near Mount Logan, 25 miles east of the Alaska border, saying the experience felt like sticking your head out a fast car window while rice sprinkled down.
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Canada
Jardine
Mount Logan
Yukon Territory
Iraq launches massive crackdown on insurgents in Baghdad
Iraqi forces launched Operation Lighting with 40 000 troops and 675 checkpoints across Baghdad including Dora, Karkh and Risafa, raiding houses and arresting suspects while insurgents mounted coordinated ambushes and attacks, killing at least 27, including a British soldier, as U.S. forces provide air support and oversee tense street sweeps.
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Iraq
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Karkh
Tigris
Risafa
Richard Myers
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Fox News
Abu Ghraib
Amariyah
Khadra
Pope reaches out to Orthodox Church in Bari visit
Pope Benedict XVI pledged to heal the 1000 year rift with the Orthodox Church during a brief Bari trip. He urged concrete acts of ecumenism and unity while praising dialogue with Russian Orthodoxy for closer relations though cautioned some differences remain.
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Bari
Italy
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Benedict
Nicholas of
Myra
Rome
John Paul II
Christ
Moscow
Vsevolod Chaplin
Moscow Patriarchate
Chaplin
Associated Press
Spianata di Marisabella
Murakami slams knockoffs while promoting art in LA
Pop artist Takashi Murakami says thousands of Louis Vuitton style designs based on his work feel like mixed flattery and unease during a Los Angeles visit to promote Chiho Aoshima and curate New York exhibitions. He plans further international promotion of contemporary Japanese art.
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Japan
Andy Warhol
Takashi Murakami
Louis Vuitton
Murakami
Chiho Aoshima
Kaikai Kiki
Tokyo
Japan Society
New York
Chirac announces EU constitution rejection in referendum
Paris reports French voters rejected the European Union constitution with 57.26 percent against 42.74 percent as Interior Ministry counts show. Chirac urged continuation of ratification in other EU states and urged voters to approve the charter in the televised address. In Kabul Afghanistan a video shows Italian CARE International aid worker Clementina Cantoni, 32, held at gunpoint, flanked by two masked men. the tape raises questions about when it was recorded and the date Cantoni cites.
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European Union
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Chirac
Interior Ministry
Kabul
Afghanistan
Clementina Cantoni
Care International
Telo TV
Cantoni
Israel to Free 400 Palestinian Prisoners Amid Truce
Israel's Cabinet approves releasing 400 Palestinian prisoners as part of a February truce. Palestinians complain the move breaks a promise to coordinate the releases with them. violence quieted overall but Gaza incidents flare with three Palestinians killed in two blasts.
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Israel
Gaza
Ariel Sharon
Mahmoud Abbas
West Bank
Montana State Soldier Upsets UM Flag At Camp Duke
Sgt Taralyn Fisher of the Montana Army National Guard and fellow soldiers flipped a University of Montana Grizzly flag at Camp Duke in Iraq at midnight on May 10. A Montana State flag from a local minister pledges ongoing campaign. The second item notes Brett Favre house buyers bought the 7,800 square foot residence for its size and will move in this summer with six of eight children.
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University of Montana
Green Bay, Wis
Brett Favre
Green Bay Packers
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