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Video: Anti-Israeli sentiment growing in 'Arab Spring'

Posted: 21 May 2011 04:17 PM PDT

May 21: The Arab street has mobilized this spring, and pent-up anti-Israeli sentiments are growing. Will the newly empowered Arab world pressure Israel to return to the 1967 borders? NBC's Richard Engel explores that question and explains those borders.  (Nightly News)The Arab street has mobilized this spring, and pent-up anti-Israeli sentiments are growing. Will the newly empowered Arab world pressure Israel to return to the 1967 borders? NBC's Richard Engel explores that question and explains those borders. (Nightly News)




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Video: Water, anxiety rising on the Mississippi

Posted: 21 May 2011 04:12 PM PDT

May 21: The bulging Mississippi River threatens to flood even more bayou towns which might sink already hurting businesses. NBC's Janet Shamlian reports.  (Nightly News)The bulging Mississippi River threatens to flood even more bayou towns which might sink already hurting businesses. NBC's Janet Shamlian reports. (Nightly News)




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Slideshow: 2011 Preakness: The People's Party

Posted: 26 May 2010 06:48 AM PDT

Images of fans and the scene during the 136th Preakness at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on May 21, 2011.Images of fans and the scene during the 136th Preakness at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on May 21, 2011.




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North Sudan takes control key town in Abyei

Posted: 21 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT

Susan Rice, center, U.S. amassador to the United Nations, arrives Saturday in Khartoum, Sudan, with a U.N. Security Council delegation discussing peace and security issues in east Africa.North Sudanese army forces took control of the main town of the disputed Abyei region on Saturday after fighting with southern forces, both sides said, in further violence ahead of southern secession.




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Posted: 21 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT

Video: Politicians play hot potato on Israel issue

Posted: 21 May 2011 04:14 PM PDT

May 21: GOP presidential contenders are criticizing the president's statement that the 1967 borders should be the basis for future boundaries between Israel and a Palestinian state. NBC's Mike Viqueira reports.  (Nightly News)GOP presidential contenders are criticizing the president's statement that the 1967 borders should be the basis for future boundaries between Israel and a Palestinian state. NBC's Mike Viqueira reports. (Nightly News)




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Shackleford plays spoiler, wins Preakness

Posted: 21 May 2011 04:57 PM PDT

Shackleford battled for the lead from the start and held off a late charge from Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom to win the Preakness Stakes. Animal Kingdom, the favorite, finished second in Saturday's race at Pimlico, followed by Astrology.




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Volcano erupts in Iceland, spurs quakes

Posted: 21 May 2011 04:14 PM PDT

A cloud of smoke and ash is seen over the Grimsvotn volcano on Iceland on Saturday. It reached 6.8 miles high within an hour.Iceland's most active volcano erupts Saturday — just over a year after another eruption on the North Atlantic island shut down European air traffic for days.




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Broadcaster silent as Judgment Day hours tick by

Posted: 21 May 2011 12:04 PM PDT

Harold Camping, 89, the California evangelical broadcaster who predicted that Judgment Day will come on May 21, 2011.With no sign his forecast of Judgment Day arriving on Saturday has come true, the 89-year-old California evangelical broadcaster and former civil engineer behind the pronouncement seemed to have gone silent.




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Yemeni leader says he'll leave, warns of al-Qaida

Posted: 21 May 2011 04:08 PM PDT

Anti-government protestors reach up to catch a youth after throwing him into the air during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, May 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)Under pressure from protesters and regional allies, Yemen's president said Saturday he will sign a deal to step down after 32 years in power. Still, he condemned the proposal as "a coup" and warned the U.S. and Europe that his departure will open the door for al-Qaida to seize control of the fragile nation on the edge of Arabia.




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Posted: 21 May 2011 04:08 PM PDT

Controversial mosque gets building permit

Posted: 21 May 2011 11:44 AM PDT

After 16 months of rallies and court hearings, construction will soon begin on a Tennessee mosque that sparked a fierce debate over religious beliefs.

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Former pizza chain CEO enters 2012 GOP presidential race

Posted: 21 May 2011 10:24 AM PDT

Herman Cain announces his run for Republican candidate for president at a rally Saturday in Atlanta. Tea party favorite, businessman Herman Cain has joined the growing GOP field of presidential contenders.




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Hotel maids: 'Customers think they can use us'

Posted: 21 May 2011 12:13 PM PDT

Hotel housekeepers say they often feel a twinge of fear when they slide the keycard, turn the door handle and step into a room to clean it. What will they find?

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A tearful Knox tells Italian court: 'I'm innocent'

Posted: 21 May 2011 09:05 AM PDT

Amanda Knox is escorted by a police officer at the Perugia court in Italy on Saturday. She was convicted in 2009 of sexually assaulting and murdering Meredith Kercher of Britain, and sentenced to 26 years in prison.Being in prison is "very frustrating and mentally exhausting," a tearful Amanda Knox said Saturday, insisting she is innocent of murdering her roommate and does not want to spend the rest of her life behind bars.




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Pope blesses astronauts in first papal call to space

Posted: 21 May 2011 02:44 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI makes a video call to the International Space Station on Saturday , commending the 12 astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on their "courage and discipline."The 12 astronauts circling Earth received a blessing from Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday in the first-ever papal call to space.




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Iran claims 30 arrests in alleged US spy ring

Posted: 21 May 2011 04:19 AM PDT

Iran's Intelligence Ministry claimed Saturday that it has arrested at least 30 people allegedly linked to a CIA-run spy network in accusations that also could spill over into the country's deepening political power struggles.

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Ouattara inaugurated as Ivory Coast president

Posted: 21 May 2011 08:19 AM PDT

French president Nicolas Sarkozy, left, stands next to Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara in front of soldiers on Saturday upon arrival at the airport in the capital Yamoussoukro.Alassane Ouattara was inaugurated as Ivory Coast's president on Saturday, in a ceremony meant to mark the return of constitutional order and the end of a political standoff that sparked a conflict that killed hundreds earlier this year.




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Slideshow: The Week in Pictures

Posted: 19 May 2011 02:45 PM PDT

Flooded farms in Mississippi, a daring high-rise window rescue in China, space shuttle Endeavour's final voyage, front-line fighting in Libya and more.Flooded farms in Mississippi, a daring high-rise window rescue in China, space shuttle Endeavour's final voyage, front-line fighting in Libya and more.




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Posted: 19 May 2011 02:45 PM PDT