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Seven Afghan civilians said killed in NATO airstrike

Reuters: Top News — Sun, 27 May 2012 07:16:04 +0000

KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Seven members of an Afghan family, including a woman and six young children, were killed in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, local authorities said on Sunday.

PM seeks to heal bad blood on Myanmar visit

Reuters: Top News — Sun, 27 May 2012 06:54:49 +0000

SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - In northwest Myanmar, where the Kaladan River flows out into the Bay of Bengal, the two giant arms of a half-built wharf enfold the estuarine mud with steel and concrete.

Nepal on alert as clock ticks towards constitution deadline

Reuters: Top News — Sun, 27 May 2012 06:12:32 +0000

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal stood on the brink of fresh political turmoil on Sunday as wrangling over the young Himalayan republic's first federal constitution ground towards a midnight deadline.

U.N. says over 92 killed in Syria, 32 of them children

Reuters: Top News — Sun, 27 May 2012 02:57:14 +0000

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Saturday that more than 92 people were killed in what activists described as an artillery barrage by government forces in the worst violence since the start of a U.N. peace plan to slow the flow of blood in Syria's uprising.

World War Two battleship USS Iowa sets off on final voyage

Reuters: Top News — Sun, 27 May 2012 02:47:29 +0000

RICHMOND, California (Reuters) - The battleship USS Iowa, which served the United States through victory and tragedy during six decades at sea, set off on its final voyage on Saturday, a trip to Los Angeles to become a museum.