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- U.S. policy in Israel defended
- Syria blocks Red Cross support
- Leader wants Iranians to vote
- Jamaica's coffee industry is hurting
- Pictures show progress year after Japanese tsunami
- Japanese tsunami: Then and Now
- Japanese tsunami: Then and Now
- Japanese tsunami: Then and Now
- Japanese tsunami: Then and Now
- Japanese tsunami: Then and Now
- Japaneses tsunami: Then and Now
| U.S. policy in Israel defended Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:30 PM PST WASHINGTON -- Pushing back hard, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta are rejecting Republican criticism of President Barack Obama's policy toward Israel, arguing that the election-year attacks ignore the str ... |
| Syria blocks Red Cross support Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:30 PM PST BEIRUT -- The Syrian government blocked a Red Cross convoy Friday from delivering badly needed food, medical supplies and blankets to a rebellious neighborhood of Homs cut off by a monthlong siege, and activists accused regime troops who overran the ... |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:29 PM PST TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's supreme leader told voters it was their patriotic duty to cast ballots in parliamentary elections Friday to send a message of national unity during a "sensitive period" in the showdown with the West over Tehran's nuclear progra ... |
| Jamaica's coffee industry is hurting Posted: 02 Mar 2012 04:28 PM PST BRANDON HILL, Jamaica -- A few years ago in this mist-shrouded mountain town, steep slopes were quilted with some of the world's most valuable coffee trees. Farmers scrambled to increase acreage and pickers painstakingly filled wooden boxes with ri ... |
| Pictures show progress year after Japanese tsunami Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:24 AM PST It has been nearly one year since a monstrous earthquake triggered a tsunami that roared across Japan’s coast on March 11, 2011, transforming once-pristine and thriving towns into waterlogged wastelands and sparking the world’s worst nucl ... |
| Japanese tsunami: Then and Now Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:21 AM PST In the days after the disaster, many survivors of the earthquake and tsunami wandered amid the wreckage, weeping as they searched for missing loved ones who were swept off their feet by the torrent of water that roared across the coast. Tayo ... |
| Japanese tsunami: Then and Now Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:19 AM PST In the days after the earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan’s coastal towns, the bulldozers began to arrive, clearing away the rubble that littered the roads, such as this street in Kesennuma, Japan, photographed on March 17, 2011. Those taske ... |
| Japanese tsunami: Then and Now Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:15 AM PST When the shaking eased and the water receded, everything had changed along Japan’s coastline. Many who survived the earthquake and tsunami faced misery after misery: their homes were gone, their loved ones dead. Food and water were in short s ... |
| Japanese tsunami: Then and Now Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:13 AM PST The earthquake and tsunami, which killed around 19,000 people, delivered one of their worst hits to the once-scenic, blue-collar fishing town of Minamisanriku, Japan, photographed here on March 15, 2011. The wall of water spared little in its path, ... |
| Japanese tsunami: Then and Now Posted: 02 Mar 2012 10:02 AM PST When the wave came, many residents of the fishing town of Onagawa, Japan, ran for the safest place they knew — their local nuclear power plant. Those who made it huddled inside as the tsunami roared through their town and down the coast, turn ... |
| Japaneses tsunami: Then and Now Posted: 02 Mar 2012 09:49 AM PST The tsunami that slammed into Japan’s coastline one year ago was merciless, sparing little in its path. Homes were reduced to rubble, cars tossed about like toys, and boats — such as this one photographed in Kesennuma, Japan, on March 2 ... |
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