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In the News
- A magnitude 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures on the Japanese island of Honshū.
- Flooding (rising Des Moines River pictured) continues in the Midwestern United States, leading to the evacuation of thousands of homes.
- NBC journalist Tim Russert dies suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 58.
- Irish voters reject the Treaty of Lisbon in a referendum, thus putting into question the reform program of the European Union.
- The People's Republic of China and Taiwan hold their first formal talks in a decade on improving Cross-Strait relations.
- Pakistan condemns a United States air strike near the Afghan border that killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops, along with eight Taliban militants.
- Amid an outbreak of tornadoes and derechos in central and eastern North America, a tornado hits a Boy Scout camp in Iowa, killing four.