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07 Jun 11

Tornadoes' Cost: $7 Billion in One May Week
Insured losses to homes, businesses and cars in the week ended May 27 will probably be $4 billion to $7 billion, the Boston-based firm said in an e-mailed statement today. More than 500 people have been killed from tornadoes this year, including at least 130 in Joplin.

Obama's rating on economy hits new low: poll
Obama's approval rating on the deficit issue hit a new low of 33 percent, down 6 points since April.

OPEC split over increasing oil production
Mideast turmoil, a faltering world economy and divisions on whether to raise crude production promise to make this week's OPEC meeting one of the more volatile in recent history

Chronic unemployment worse than Great Depression
CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy reports that the chronically unemployed face the hardest road back to recovery, and that while the jobs picture may be improving statistically on a national level, it is not for them.

E. coli confirmed in SWVA child that died, possible "outbreak" in NETN under investigation
Lab results confirm the presence of E. coli in the child that died this weekend and the presence of the bacteria in a close contact of the child, Virginia Department of Health Public Information Officer Robert Parker said. "The lab results confirm the presence of E. coli 0157:H7," Parker said. "That's a strain of E. coli that causes severe illness."

Chilean Volcano Disrupts Travel in South America
An erupting Chilean volcano sent a towering plume of ash across South America on Monday, forcing thousands from their homes, grounding airline flights in southern Argentina and coating ski resorts with a gritty layer of dust instead of snow. Booming explosions echoed across the Andes as toxic gases belched up from a three-mile-long (five-kilometer long) fissure in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic complex — a ridge between two craters just west of the Chilean-Argentine border that began erupting Saturday.

U.S. and France: Mideast peace conference useless if sides unwilling to negotiate
Hillary Clinton and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe on Monday agreed that Israeli-Palestinian peace talks must resume, but stressed that there was no point in setting up a peace conference before the parties showed a willingness to negotiate.

IDF on high alert in Golan Heights in anticipation of further protests
The Israel Defense Forces continued Tuesday to amass forces on the border between Israel and Syria, mainly in response to warnings of further protests to mark the 44th anniversary of the battles over East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War. Monday saw a lull in the riots on the Syrian border, after several protesters were killed by IDF gunfire the day before.

Syrian Soldiers Massacre 120 in Own Ranks
Syrian soldiers are killing other Syrian soldiers in the northern part of the country, according to a source who spoke with Israel National News Monday night on condition of anonymity. The source said the soldiers being massacred were being pursued by their fellow security officers because they had broken ranks and tried to escape to Turkey.

Obama Struggles against Backlash on Israel
The 2012 American presidential race is already beginning to heat up with attacks aimed at incumbent President Barack Obama's Israel-Palestinian Authority policies. Pro-Israel groups have launched television ad and telephone campaigns targeting the president's May 19 Middle East policy speech.

Iran Says Its Submarines are in the Red Sea
"Iranian military submarines entered the Red Sea waters with the goal of collecting information and identifying other countries' combat vessels," Fars said in a Tuesday report, citing an unidentified source.

Jellyfish Blooms Shunt Food Energy from Fish to Bacteria
An apparent increase in the size and frequency of jellyfish blooms in coastal and estuarine waters around the world during the last few decades means that jellies' impact on marine food webs is likely to increase into the future

China official warns on "excessive" holdings of U.S. assets
China should guard against risks from "excessive" holdings of U.S. assets as Washington could pursue a policy to weaken the dollar, a senior official at the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said in comments published on Tuesday. "We must be alert of economic and political risks in excessive holdings of U.S. dollar assets," Guan Tao, head of the international payment department at the foreign exchange regulator, said in an article.

China toxic spill knocks out water supply to 500,000
A CAUSTIC chemical has spilled into a river that supplies drinking water to the city of Hangzhou in eastern China, knocking out supplies to more than half a million people and creating a run on bottled water. A tanker truck carrying 20 tonnes of carbolic acid overturned late on Saturday night. The chemical, also known as phenol, was washed by rain into the Xin'an River about 150km southwest of Hangzhou, the city said in a report on its website.

'Flotilla running into rough waters'
Jerusalem was unfazed Tuesday by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's call on the organizers of the second Gaza flotilla to reconsider the sail, saying Israel was "gearing for any scenario." Ynet's sources said that the frequent reports suggesting changes in the flotilla's itinerary stem from more than just logistic reasons.

Report: Syria, Turkey involved in Palestinian unity deal
The Palestinian unity agreement which has disturbed both the Israeli and the American governments recently was brought upon by a complex effort that included secret meetings between Palestinian intermediaries, Egyptian intelligence officials, the Turkish foreign minister, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas Politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal – the British Independent reported Tuesday, aiming to reveal the "untold story of the deal that shocked the Middle East."

Rains send rivers dangerously higher in Caribbean
Several days of heavy rain sent rivers higher Monday across much of the Caribbean, destroying houses, setting off landslides and forcing thousands of people to leave their homes. The storm has been blamed for four deaths in the region, officials said Monday. There were reports of severe flooding in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica from a low pressure system that lingered south of Jamaica for five days before moving west.

White House trying to restart Mideast peace talks based on Obama guidelines
Israeli and Palestinian representatives have been holding separate talks in Washington, as part of an American effort to restart direct negotiations and thereby forestall a Palestinian bid to obtain unilateral UN recognition as a state in September, according to a source at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Senior American officials met with each side separately in the White House or the State Department, the source said.

Firms to cut health plans as reform starts: survey 30% of companies say they’ll stop offering coverage
Once provisions of the Affordable Care Act start to kick in during 2014, at least three of every 10 employers will probably stop offering health coverage, a survey released Monday shows. While only 7% of employees will be forced to switch to subsidized-exchange programs, at least 30% of companies say they will “definitely or probably” stop offering employer-sponsored coverage, according to the study published in McKinsey Quarterly.

Japan doubles Fukushima radiation leak estimate
Japan has more than doubled its estimate of radiation that escaped from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant in the first week after the disaster. Japan's nuclear safety agency also said meltdowns took place in three reactors more quickly than earlier believed. The assessment comes as an expert panel begins an inquiry into the crisis.

Chile volcano eruption: Alert remains for ash cloud
Authorities in southern Chile and Argentina are continuing to monitor the direction of ash clouds belched out by a chain of volcanoes over the weekend. Some 3,500 people left the region after the eruption of the Puyehue-Cordon-Caulle volcano range, about 800km (500 miles) south of the capital, Santiago.

Arizona Wallow Fire triggers more evacuations
More people are being evacuated from the path of a huge fire in the US state of Arizona as it rages out of control for a ninth day. Remaining residents in the picturesque town of Greer have been ordered to leave and the 7,000 residents of Eager and Springerville have been told to prepare to evacuate. Gale-force wind gusts are hampering some 2,300 firefighters struggling to contain the blaze.

Syrian newspaper: Naksa Day protests just the start
The events on Israel's Syrian border on "Naksa Day" are just the beginning, according to an article in the Syrian newspaper Tishreen. According to the article, Israel should be ready for more than 600,000 refugees to march across the border, ostensibly to return to their homes in the Golan. "The Palestinian refugeeswho gathered at the border were part of a mass march of progress for the right of return," the article said.

'Iran sends submarines for reconnaissance in Red Sea'
Iran has sent submarines to the Red Sea, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday, citing an unidentified source, in a move that could anger Israel. "Iranian military submarines entered the Red Sea waters with the goal of collecting information and identifying other countries' combat vessels," Fars said.