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  • Hunt for survivors goes on as tornado clean-up begins
    23 May 2013

    RESCUE workers with sniffer dogs and searchlights picked through the wreckage of a massive tornado to ensure no survivors remained buried in the rubble of primary schools, houses and buildings in an Oklahoma City suburb.

  • Mugabe signs new constitution
    23 May 2013

    Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has signed a new constitution into law, replacing a 33-year-old document forged in the dying days of British colonial rule and paving the way for elections later this year.

  • Iran and Hizbollah backing Assad regime, says Hague
    23 May 2013

    FOREIGN Secretary William Hague said Iran and its militant Shi'ite Lebanese ally Hizbollah were "propping up" Syrian President Bashar al Assad and giving him increasing support.

  • Marathon bomb link to FBI killing
    23 May 2013

    An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings.

  • Search for survivors after deadly Oklahoma tornado
    22 May 2013

    President Barack Obama has spoken of his gratitude to rescuers who helped some of the thousands of people caught up in the deadly storm he described as "one of the most destructive tornadoes in history".

  • Factfile Tornado terrors
    22 May 2013

    THE raging unpredictability of tornadoes means there is little anybody can do to avoid them.

  • Iraq blasts kill 12 as tensions grow
    22 May 2013

    Several bomb blasts have killed at least 12 people, a day after more than 70 died in attacks on majority Shi'ites, stoking fears of all-out sectarian war with minority Sunnis.

  • Syria reveals border clash with Israelis
    22 May 2013

    Syria said its troops destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed into its territory from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.