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Disasters An explosion at an oil storage tank in Gibraltar closes the port and injures workers and cruise ship passengers. (Gibraltar Chronicle) Haitian officials stand by their own death and homeless toll figures as the U.S. government claims fewer people were affected by last year's earthquake than previously believed. (BBC) A United Nations nuclear safety team looking into the Fukushima ...
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Disasters Evacuations are ordered in town of Hamburg in the US state of Iowa as the Missouri River partially breaches levee banks. (AP via Google), (CNN) At least one person is dead and 29 are injured after an underground fuel pipe explodes in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP via Atlanta Journal Constitution) International relations Hundreds of people in Vietnam take part in a rare demonstration against ...
Disasters More than 16,000 people remain isolated and 3,350 are waiting to return to their homes due to continued flooding on the Mid North Coast of the Australian state of New South Wales. (Sydney Morning Herald) International relations The U.N. Human Rights Council issues its first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people. (AP via Forbes) Law and crime An ...
Business and economy Greek economic crisis: The Parliament of Greece begins debate on unpopular austerity measures designed to avert the threat of bankruptcy through a 78-billion- euro rescue package. (Reuters via Yahoo News) (Bloomberg) The governor of the central bank of Greece, George Provopoulos, criticizes the government's latest austerity measures, saying it does not emphasize cutting ...
The tornado outbreak of June 18–22, 2011 was a large and damaging tornado outbreak that produced widespread tornado activity across much of the Midwest and Central U.S. The most intense activity occurred on June 20, when multiple supercell thunderstorms produced numerous tornadoes across the Great Plains. Some of these tornadoes were large ...
List of confirmed tornadoes – Friday, June 3, 2011 [nb 1] EF# Location County / Parish State Start Coord. Time Path length Max width EF1: WSW of Park River to E of Crystal to ESE of Hensel: Walsh, Pembina: ND: 08:40–09:06 25.32 mi (40.75 km)