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IAEA fact-finding team leader Mike Weightman of Britain answers to questions from reporters after meeting Goshi Hosono, special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, on June 1, 2011. The meeting came after the IAEA nuclear experts wrapped up an onsite investigation at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A congressional study revealed that 7,283 federal employees in Maryland made more than Gov. Martin O'Malley's $150,000 salary in 2009. (Associated Press)
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Adnkronos news agency via Associated Press Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad had told Human Rights Watch that he was afraid he would be killed for his reporting.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Soprano Anna Netrebko, who said she had friends who died of cancer after the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in 1986, has dropped out of the Metropolitan Opera tour of Japan that begins June 4. Tenor Joseph Calleja (below) also cited concerns about radiation from the stricken nuclear power station north of Tokyo for not making the trip.
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A farm worker throws away cucumbers outside a greenhouse in Algarrobo, near Malaga, Spain, on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Cucumbers from the region have been implicated in a deadly outbreak of E. Coli that has killed 16 people in Europe. (AP Photo/Sergio Torres)
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has backed away from his earlier embrace of "cap-and-trade" programs to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and his earlier support of abortion rights, gun control and gay rights. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A view from Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain toward the Mississippi River shows water from the river flowing through the Bonnet Carre Spillway in St. Charles Parrish on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. (AP Photo/The Times Picayune, David Grunfeld)
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** FILE ** The nuclear plant in Neckarwestheim, Germany, will be shut down by 2022 in a plan announced by Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government on Monday, May 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)
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An image made from NASA Television shows the space shuttle Endeavour as it does its fly-around of the International Space Station on Monday, May 30, 2011, before returning home from NASA's penultimate shuttle mission. The shuttle is viewed from the space station as it passes over Australia. (AP Photo/National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
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Residents hold up signs as President Barack Obama views damage from the tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 29, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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DAVID TULLIS/ATHENS BANNER HERALD Billy Hurley, shown during a practice round for the Athens Stadion Classic at the University of Georgia, will qualify for the U.S. Open with a top-10 finish at the sectionals June 6 at Woodmont Country Club.
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Homesteads continue to burn in the center of Abyei, a Sudanese border town, on Saturday. Tens of thousands of Sudanese are fleeing from the contested north-south border region of Abyei, and the top U.S. official in the region warned Friday of a humanitarian crisis over the north's invasion. (Associated Press)
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In this May 26, 2011 photo, Randy Matthews, background, carries a piece of tornado debris in Piedmont, Okla., past the door of the tornado shelter where his mother, Betty Matthews, not pictured, stayed in safely during Tuesday's deadly tornado. The old-fashioned storm shelters that once dotted yards across the Plains have become relics of the past as home buyers invest in other features or try to save money. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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The crews of the space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station gather for a joint news conference from the space station on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/NASA)
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An environmental activist sits atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Sunday, May 29, 2011, after Greenpeace activists fixed a radioactive sign to the gate's Quadriga sculpture to protest the nuclear power policy of the German government. (AP Photo/dapd/Michael Gottschalk)
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Greenpeace activists on Sunday, May 29, 2011, attached an arctic survival pod to the Leiv Eiriksson oil rig off Greenland's coast. The three activists have enough food and water to stay in the pod for 10 days. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Steve Morgan)
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Greenpeace activists secure an arctic survival pod on the underside of the Leiv Eiriksson oil rig off Greenland's coast on Sunday, May 29, 2011, in an attempt to stop a Scottish oil company from starting deepwater drilling in the arctic waters. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Steve Morgan)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses the media Thursday, May 26, 2011, in Trenton, N.J., as he announces that New Jersey will withdraw from a 10-state regional greenhouse gas reduction program by the end of the year, saying the program is ineffective at combating global warming. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, says he has documented proof of $3 billion worth of waste and mismanagement by the National Science Foundation. The 73-page report to taxpayers by researchers is annotated with more than 350 footnotes. (Associated Press)
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Sony Corp., Japan's largest exporter of consumer electronics, has felt the effects of the recent earthquake and tsunami. The company reported a $3.2 billion loss for the year that ended March 31 the company's biggest net loss in 16 years. (Associated Press)
