Canary Islands Government Raises El Hierro Volcanic Alert Level / Thousands of White Bass Turn Up Dead in Arkansas River / Dozens of Dead Ducks Found in Colorado Park / Hundreds of Squid Wash Up on So. Calif. Beach / Operation Garden Plot Plan Unfolding / Palestinians Want Statehood Bid Decided in 2 Weeks / Iranian Navy Plans to Send Ships Near U.S. Waters / North Carolina Democratic Governor Bev Perdue: Suspend 2012 elections so officials can solve economic crisis

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Canary Islands Government Raises El Hierro Volcanic Alert Level
----Canary Island Prepares for Eruption

Canary Islands Government Raises El Hierro Volcanic Alert Level

The Canary Islands Government has raised the alert level for the El Hierro volcano in the Canary Islands (Spain) to ‘Yellow’, the highest alert status since an unprecedented earthquake swarm commenced in mid-July. Spanish seismologists, accompanied by the President of the Cabildo de El Hierro and the Minister of Security and Emergency Area, held a press conference on Sunday to reassure the 10,000 residents of the smallest of the Canary Islands that the raising of the alert level does not indicate that an eruption is imminent. They indicated, however, that the number of volcanic earthquakes detected beneath El Hierro continues to increase. Hierro, a shield volcano, has had a single historic eruption from the Volcan de Lomo Negro vent in 1793. The eruption lasted approximately one month and produced...
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Pounding Typhoon Floods Manila Leaving at Least 16 Dead
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Midwest Farmers Are on Alert Against Pig Thieves
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Australian Farmers Prepare for Terrible Mice Plague
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Pounding Typhoon Floods Manila Leaving at Least 16 Dead
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More Large Flares Possible with Giant Sunspot
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NASA to Announce New Asteroid Discoveries Thursday
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Piranhas Attack 100 in Brazil
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Thousands of White Bass Turn Up Dead in Arkansas River
----Dozens of Dead Ducks Found in Colorado Park
------Hundreds of Squid Wash Up on So. Calif. Beach
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Washington Reinterprets Constitutional Eligibility
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Operation Garden Plot Plan Unfolding

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UK Healthcare: Don't Give Out Cancer Drugs If It's Just to Extend Life: Treatment Costs Can't Be Justified
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Palestinians Want Statehood Bid Decided in 2 Weeks
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New Forecast: Sun's 'Superstorms' Could Doom Satellites

Magnetic storms set off by the sun could pose a bigger threat than thought to weather, communication, military and other satellites close to Earth, with a potentially devastating economic impact, scientists suggest. In the new study, researchers found that solar radiation can energize a belt of high-energy particles that surrounds Earth more dramatically than previously believed. The study focused on the possible effects of a particularly strong magnetic storm on the Van Allen radiation belts, the dangerous rings of high-energy particles...
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Iranian Navy Plans to Send Ships Near U.S. Waters

The Iranian navy plans to move naval vessels out of the Persian Gulf and into the Atlantic Ocean, "near maritime borders of the United States," the Tehran Times reported Tuesday. According to the English-language paper based in Tehran, the announcement came from a top Iranian naval officer on Tuesday. “As the global arrogance (forces of imperialism) have a (military) presence near our sea borders, we also plan to have a strong presence near the U.S. sea borders with the help of the soldiers who are loyal to the vali-e faqih (supreme...
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Michele Bachmann warns that Hezbollah could be planning missile site in Cuba

The second round of the Cuban Missile Crisis could be coming - at least in Michele Bachmann's world. The Tea Party darling told an audience in Iowa on Monday that the Middle Eastern terror group Hezbollah was planning to build missile sites in Cuba. "There's reports that have come out that Cuba has been working with another terrorist organization called Hezbollah," she said, beginning to ramble. "And Hezbollah is looking at wanting to be part of missile sites in Iran and, of course, when you are 90 miles offshore from Florida,..
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Germany: 'All Necessary' Support For Greece

Germany's leader Angela Merkel has pledged "all necessary assistance" to Greece as politicians in Athens voted for a new property tax to try to avoid a debt default. Chancellor Merkel stressed the Greek government must fully implement all its planned austerity measures. Speaking at a news conference with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, she said: "Through the euro, we are closely bound together, and the weakness of one affects us all." Mr Papandreou said: "It is of great importance to receive signals of support from our...
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North Carolina Democratic Governor Bev Perdue: Suspend 2012 elections so officials can solve economic crisis

North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D) proposed suspending congressional elections for a cycle so legislators could focus on fixing the economy. "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against...
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Christians outraged as BBC drops B.C./A.D. dating method

LONDON — British Christians are incensed after the state-funded BBC decided to jettison the terms B.C. and A.D. in favor of B.C.E. and C.E. in historical date references. The broadcaster has directed that the traditional B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Anno Domini, or Year of the Lord) be replaced by B.C.E. (Before Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era) in its television and radio...
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Ancient lost city found in the Dardanelles