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Palestinian protesters take cover after Israeli soldiers opened fire at them during a rally marking "nakba," or "catastrophe," the term used by Palestinians to describe the uprooting they suffered at the time of Israel's founding on May 15, 1948, in the southern border village of Maroun el-Rass, Leb(...)

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Lebanese soldiers arrest a Palestinian protester during a rally marking "nakba," or "catastrophe," the term used by Palestinians to describe the uprooting they suffered at the time of Israel's founding on May 15, 1948, in the southern border village of Maroun el-Rass, Lebanon, Sunday, May 15, 2011. (...)

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A Palestinian protester adds a tire to a burning barricade blocking the road during clashes with Israeli troops, not seen, following a demonstration to mark the 63rd anniversary of "Nakba", Arabic for "Catastrophe", the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948, in the Shuafa(...)

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Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli troops, not seen, following a demonstration to mark the 63rd anniversary of "Nakba", Arabic for "Catastrophe", the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948, in the Shuafat refugee camp, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Sunday, May 15, (...)

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A plainclothes Israeli police officer and soldiers detain a Palestinian protestor following a demonstration to mark the 63rd anniversary of "Nakba", Arabic for "Catastrophe", the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948, in the Qalandiya checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerus(...)

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A plainclothes Israeli police officer detains a Palestinian protestor following a demonstration to mark the 63rd anniversary of "Nakba", Arabic for "Catastrophe", the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948, in the Qalandiya checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, Sunday(...)

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A Palestinian protestor stands next to a burning barricade blocking the road during clashes with Israeli troops, not seen, following a demonstration to mark the 63rd anniversary of "Nakba", Arabic for "Catastrophe", the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948, in the Qalan(...)

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Palestinian protesters take cover after Israeli soldiers opened fire at them during a rally marking "nakba," or "catastrophe," the term used by Palestinians to describe the uprooting they suffered at the time of Israel's founding on May 15, 1948, in the southern border village of Maroun el-Rass, Leb(...)

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A Palestinian demonstrator stands on a burnt-out car during clashes with Israeli troops, not seen, following a demonstration to mark the 63rd anniversary of "Nakba", Arabic for "Catastrophe", the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948, in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of(...)

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Billy Hanchett stands underneath chairs that he tied to the ceiling of his garage Sunday in Krotz Springs, La., to prepare for flooding brought on by the opening of the Morganza Spillway north of town. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS HEATING UP: A Palestinian takes a stand during clashes with Israeli troops. Demonstrators were marking the 63rd anniversary of Israel's founding in 1948, what they call "al-Naqbah," or "the Catastrophe."

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Tricia Cochran packs her grandmother's belongings into a pickup truck Sunday in Krotz Springs, La., where flooding is expected after the Morgan Spillway opened. Many area towns are ordering mandatory evacuations. (Associated Press)

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A Japanese woman pats a stray dog that came into her house during a brief visit — her first since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami — to her home in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. About 100 evacuees were allowed into the exclusion zone around the troubled nuclear plant for an hour's visit to gather belongings.

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Palestinian children, one holding a cutout of the Dome of the Rock, rally to mark the 63rd anniversary of the "nakba," or catastrophe, the Arabic term used to describe the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with the 1948 creation of the state of Israel, in the West Bank city of Nablus, on Sunday, May 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

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This image provided by NASA on Saturday, May 14, 2011, and taken by an Expedition 27 crew member aboard the International Space Station on May 12, 2011, clearly shows the outlines of some heavily flooded agricultural fields on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River. The center point for this frame is just north of Caruthersville, Mo., and west of Ridgely, Tenn. North is toward the lower right corner of the image. (AP Photo/NASA)

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (right) speaks with workers Thursday while viewing levee construction work with Maj. Gen. Bennett Landreneau, adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard, in Krotz Springs, La., during a tour of areas that may be affected by flooding if the Morganza Spillway north of Baton Rouge is opened. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A carp tries to swim from the backwater flooding cornfields near Yazoo City, Miss., on Thursday. Fish displaced by the flooding of the Mississippi River and its tributaries are trying to return to their natural environment as people and animals head for higher ground.

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Matthias Eggert, Gatow Forest Ranger and Licensed Boar Hunter inspects the damage caused by wild boars (Sus scrofa) in the forest in Gatower Heide in the far western part of Berlin. Growing wild boar populations have become an increasing problem in urban parts of the city of Berlin. Attracted in part by people feeding them and by the food found in the garbage they have migrated far into the center of town where they damage and destroy gardens and parks in their search for food. (Harald Franzen/Special to The Washington Times)

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The family room has a wood-burning fireplace with a stone hearth and surround. Above the fireplace is a felevision that can be hidden from view.

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An Afghan boy with severe burns is treated in a U.S. Army medevac helicopter en route to a hospital Wednesday. Officials said the Taliban has started its spring offensive of terrorism.