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Mississippi flood leaves hundreds homeless in Memphis

May 10, 2011 By Paul White

Hundreds of families, most of whom did not have flood insurance, have been added to the already swelling numbers of homeless in Memphis and other parts of Shelby County.

What’s going on in Haiti

April 21, 2011 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

In Haiti, where the U.S. government wages what amounts to low-intensity war, the balance of forces does not favor the people.

One year after deadly BP explosion, troubles persist

April 20, 2011 By Susan Webb

Today marks one year since 11 workers were killed in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

Libya and Japan grab Germany’s attention

March 22, 2011 By Victor Grossman

Elections in an East German state were largely overshadowed by the news from Japan and, far more, from Libya.

Feeling kinship with Japan’s tsunami victims

March 15, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

Posted prominently beside the road leading out of town at the mouth of the Dungeness River is a sign, "Tsunami Evacuation Route." In the past we paid little attention to it. But we are now.