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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

As war crimes trial for Ratko Mladic begins, the former general still evokes outrage

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New Grand Prix team to learn from mistakes

BALTIMORE (AP) — The new team behind the Grand Prix of Baltimore hopes to avoid previous promoters’ mistakes and build on the event’s success with fans as they dash toward a Labor Day finish line.

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Greece gets caretaker PM until next vote in June

Newly appointed caretaker Prime Minister Panagiotis Pikramenos talks with Greece President Karolos Papoulias, not seen, during their meeting at the Presidential palace in Athens, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. The head of Greece's Council of State will take the reins of the country until it holds new elections on June 17, a meeting of party leaders decided Wednesday, a day after power-sharing talks collapsed. (AP Photo/John Kolesidis, Pool)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A senior judge was sworn in Wednesday to head Greece’s caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

As war crimes trial for Ratko Mladic begins, the former general still evokes outrage

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AP IMPACT: Evacs and drills pared near nuke plants

In a Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 file photo, Walter Lee, right, manager of Nuclear Emergency Preparedness leads the evaluation as the Tennessee Valley Authority conducts an emergency preparedness drill in the Central Emergency Control Center in Chattanooga, Tenn. The drill involved a simulated explosion releasing a small amount of radiation at TVA's Watt's Bar Unit 1 power plant near Spring City, Tenn., between Chattanooga and Knoxville. In changes which went into effect on December 2011, the U.S. government is allowing communities within 50 miles of nuclear power plants to practice less often for major accidents and is recommending that far fewer people who live nearby be evacuated immediately. Under new emergency planning rules, federal regulators also are ending a requirement that emergency personnel always practice for a release of radiation. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Dan Henry)

Without fanfare, the nation’s nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.

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