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• UN authorizes `all necessary measures' in Libya
  The U.N. Security Council voted Thursday to impose a no-fly zone over Libya and authorize "all necessary measures" to protect civilians from attacks by Moammar Gadhafi's forces, hours after the Libyan leader vowed to crush the rebellion with a final assault on the opposition capital of Benghazi.March 17, 2011
• Officials: Crisis may last weeks, no danger to US
  It could take weeks to bring the crippled Japanese nuclear complex under control, U.S. officials said Thursday, but they also declared there was no danger from leaking radiation to the western United States or its Pacific territories at this time.March 17, 2011
• Official: 30 killed in fight for key Libyan city
  Libya's opposition battled to keep Moammar Gadhafi's forces at the gateway to rebel-held territory on Thursday, hoping for help from the U.N. Security Council before his tanks and troops break through the city of Ajdabiya.March 17, 2011
• 4 New York Times journalists missing in Libya
  The New York Times says it's holding out hope that four of its journalists who went missing while covering the Libyan conflict are alive and in the custody of the Libyan government.March 17, 2011
• Muhammad Ali asks Iran to free US hikers
  Boxing champ Muhammad Ali is asking Iran to release two American hikers held since 2009 on spy charges.March 16, 2011
• Mpls. aid groups send supplies, relief teams to Libya
  Two aid organizations with strong ties to Minnesota have sent supplies and relief teams to Libya over the past two weeks as violence and unrest continue nearly a month after protests against Moammar Gadhafi's regime began.March 16, 2011
• America's long and complicated history in the Middle East
  Historian and author Jeremi Suri speaks at the Minnesota History Center about America's long and complicated history in the Middle East, from Iraq in the 1920's to the present day, and how they have laid the foundation for what is happening in the region today.Midday, March 16, 2011
• Petraeus: first US cuts will include combat forces
  The initial U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan in July probably will include combat as well as non-combat forces, the top U.S. commander there told a House committee on Wednesday.March 16, 2011
• Libyan forces bombard rebels in the east and west
  Moammar Gadhafi intensified offensives in the east and the west Wednesday with relentless shelling aimed at routing holdout rebels and retaking control of the country he has ruled with an iron fist for more than four decades.March 16, 2011
• Scoring victories, Gadhafi tells rebels: surrender
  Moammar Gadhafi's forces captured the last rebel-held town west of Tripoli after a heavy barrage of tank and artillery fire Tuesday as regime forces pressed forward in the east.March 15, 2011
• Petraeus to give upbeat view of Afghan fight
  The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is facing an impatient and frustrated Congress, balancing his troops' solid progress in combat with worries about Kabul government corruption, an expected Taliban resurgence this spring and the slow development of Afghan security forces.March 15, 2011
• The search for Nepal's missing children
  When Conor Grennan went to Nepal in 2006, he thought he was just going to volunteer in an orphanage for a couple of months. Instead, as he recounts in his book "Little Princes" he found a new calling, searching for victims of child trafficking in a war-ravaged country.March 11, 2011
• News and coverage of the Japan earthquake
  A massive earthquake has hit off the coast of Japan and has triggered a tsunami. Midmorning gets the latest on the damage from the BBC.Midmorning, March 11, 2011
• Libya rebels flee oil port under regime barrage
  With fierce barrages of tank and artillery fire, Moammar Gadhafi's loyalists threw rebels into a frantic retreat from a strategic oil port Thursday, using overwhelming force in a counteroffensive that reversed the opposition's advance toward the capital Tripoli and now threatens its positions in the east.March 10, 2011
• Minnesota National Guard officials confront mental health stigma ahead of deployment
  Minnesota military officials want to use the knowledge about combat stress they've gained from almost ten years of war to help 2,400 soldiers and their families prepare for a deployment this summer.March 9, 2011

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