Floods Swamp Houston as Allison Remnant Rages
In Houston and Southeast Texas torrential rains from Tropical Storm Allison remnants forced thousands from homes and stranded drivers on flooded freeways. Two deaths were blamed on the floods, with another in Louisiana earlier. Emergency crews, Coast Guard helicopters, and National Guard units conducted rescues as power outages and overwhelmed 911 services strained the city. President Bush declared a 28 county disaster area to aid recovery efforts.
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Houston
Allison
Texas
Louisiana
Lee Brown
Brown
Texas Medical Center
Clarence Bradford
Coast Guard
Bush
Crawford Ranch
Oklahoma City
Daniel Hock
Rob Wyman
National Guard
Aaron Reed
Guard
Three Palestinians Die as Tanks Fire in Gaza
In Gaza three Bedouin women from the Malaha family were killed by Israeli tank shells near Netzarim as violence flared amid a U S diplomatic push to end eight months of fighting. Affected by shrapnel were Nessra, 65, Salimia, 65, and Hikmet, 25, with three others wounded. fighting has claimed 484 Palestinian and 108 Israeli lives since September.
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Yasser Arafat
Israel
CIA
George Tenet
Israel Radio
West Bank
Gaza Strip
European Union
U.N
Kofi Annan
Arafat
Middle East
Terje Reed- Larsen
Burns
Ahmed Qureia
Tel Aviv
Swiss media stunned by shooting death of Israeli rabbi
Swiss papers react with shock to the street killing of a 70-year-old Israeli rabbi in Zurich. Police name him Abraham Greenbaum, though Blick cites Abraham Gruenbaum, as investigators arrest a possible suspect. Authorities say the attack fuels fears of anti-Semitism and note prior Zurich assaults on Orthodox Jews.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Blick
Abraham Gruenbaum
Greenbaum
Recalled Eye Makeup Remover Ties Bacillus in Bottles
Azusa based Physicians Formula recalls 16300 bottles of Eye Makeup Remover Lotion after routine sampling found Pseudomonas fluorescens and Pseudomonas patida. No illnesses reported. Product sold nationwide from March 14 to May 28. Bottles labeled with 698 and batch numbers 0821 or 0601. Return for refund.
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Pierre Fabre
Physicians Formula Cosmetics
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PULSE
Baton Rouge
Bobby Simpson
East Baton Rouge Parish
Gary Rains
Comite
Kathy Smith
LaPlace
St. John the Baptist
St. Charles Parishes
Richard Roussel IV
St. John Parish
Michael Smith
I-10
Smith
Robert Hurst
George Bush Intercontinental Airport
U.S
Mideast
Nabil Shaath
George Mitchell
Palestinian Authority
Hassan Yusef
Hamas
Shaath
Tenet
Egypt
Hosni Mubarak
U.S. Mideast
William Burns
Ariel Sharon
Shimon Peres
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
International News
Azusa
Calif
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
S.A.S.E
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Grandfather Smith
Kevin
Beth
Visa
Classified
Bluefield
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