Brig. Gen. Perry Wiggins, the new deputy director for operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Pentagon reporters that Sunni insurgents continue to target Iraqi leaders but that the "surge" of U.S. troops in Iraq is making progress – though, he added, "it's often not flashy."
Brig. Gen. Perry Wiggins, the new deputy director for operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Pentagon reporters that Sunni insurgents continue to target Iraqi leaders but that the "surge" of U.S. troops in Iraq is making progress – though, he added, "it's often not flashy."
AP - A car bomb ripped through a wholesale food market in western Baghdad on Sunday, flattening cars and shops and killing at least 30 people in the deadliest of a wave of attacks across Iraq that killed at least 50 people.
AP - Searchers went back to work after daylight Sunday, looking for anyone who might have been trapped since a tornado wiped most of this south-central Kansas town off the map.
AP - President Bush said Sunday that Americans' "hearts are heavy" for tornado victims in devastated Greensburg, Kan., and he expressed confidence the farming town will be rebuilt.
Tornadoes tore across the nation's midsection for a second night on Saturday, 24 hours after a storm leveled Greensburg, Kansas, killing at least nine people. In the second wave, a tornado struck Sweetwater, Oklahoma, causing major damage to a high school and other buildings. More than 75 tornado touchdowns were reported on Saturday.
Bad weather, thick forest and silence from an emergency transponder are hampering efforts by rescuers to find a Kenya-bound flight that crashed in heavy rain in Cameroon with 114 people on board.
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