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08/23/2017

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05/04/2017

The U.S. Army has published the final photo of a combat photographer who captured on camera the blast that killed her in an accidental mortar explosion in Afghanistan nearly four years ago. The Army's professional journal says the image illustrates how women are increasingly exposed to dangerous situations in the military.

The photograph of Spc. Hilda Clayton was published Monday in Military Review.

"Clayton's death symbolizes how female soldiers are increasingly exposed to hazardous situations in training and in combat on par with their male counterparts," Military Review wrote.

Clayton snapped the picture during a live-fire training exercise on July 2, 2013 in the Laghman Province, Afghanistan. The blast also killed four Afghan National Army soldiers. One of them was a photojournalist Clayton had partnered with to train.

Military Review noted that the explosion happened during a critical moment in the war, when it was important for U.S. and Afghan forces to work in partnership to stabilize the country.

"Not only did Clayton help document activities aimed at shaping and strengthening the partnership but she also shared in the risk by participating in the effort," the journal added.

Clayton, who was from Augusta, Georgia, was a member of the Fort Meade, Maryland-based 55th Signal Company, which is known as Combat Camera. She was 22.

A spokesman for the Network Enterprise Command, which is the higher headquarters for the 55th Combat Camera Company she served under, said Clayton's final photo was published with her family's permission. Van Vleet said the family is declining to comment.

Combat Camera honored Clayton by naming an annual award for the best combat photography after her, Military Review wrote.

Combat Camera soldiers are trained to take photos and video in any environment and accompany soldiers to document combat operations.

03/30/2017

A New Jersey family traveling through northern Indiana got a shock when a 30-pound turkey crashed through their windshield. The flying bird collided Tuesday with the family's rented SUV. The dead turkey was left lodged in the shattered windshield as the driver pulled over along U.S. 20.

03/25/2017

The French Air Force's Patrouille de France, led by an A400 Airbus support plane, performs a flyover with the New York City skyline in the background, Saturday, March 25, 2017, seen from Jersey City, N.J. The eight Alpha Jet formation is to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States entry into World War I and to reaffirm the historic ties between France and the United States

02/12/2017

Police say a 29-year-old woman plunged about 30 feet to her death off an escalator inside the famed World Trade Center Oculus.

They say she was apparently trying to retrieve a hat while on the escalator with her twin sister at about 5:30 a.m. Saturday inside the lofty transit hub. She fell to the main concourse floor & was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.

The striking $3.9 billion transportation hub was designed by architect Santiago Calatrava and provides connections between New Jersey's PATH trains and New York City's subways. It opened about a year ago and is used daily by more than 300,000 commuters. Light beams in from the windows in the dizzying, soaring platform to the shopping mall below.

01/21/2017

Traditional Russian wooden dolls called Matryoshka depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, hours before Donald Trump is to be sworn in as president of the United States, are displayed for sale at a street souvenir shop in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017

01/14/2017

A hunter in Germany has put on show a block of ice containing a fox that he says fell into the chilly Danube and drowned, in what he calls a warning of the dangers of the icy river.

Franz Stehle told news agency dpa on Friday that the block containing the fox was extracted from the ice on Jan. 2 and put on display outside his family's hotel in Fridingen. The town is on the upper reaches of the Danube, close to its source in southwestern Germany.

Stehle says it's not unusual for animals to break through the frozen surface of the river in winter. He says he's seen a frozen deer and wild boar before.

12/06/2016

Reconciliation can be tricky. It took 70 years for an American president to visit the site of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and nearly 75 for a Japanese leader to announce he would visit Pearl Harbor, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did Monday.

Abe is likely to receive a warm reception later this month at the memorial for more than 2,300 Americans who died in the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian naval base. That hasn't always been the case for other world leaders visiting similar sites, particularly when memories are fresher.
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REAGAN IN BITBURG

U.S. President Ronald Reagan and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl stirred a global outcry in May 1985 when the American leader visited a German military cemetery that included the remains of 49 members of Adolf Hitler's Waffen SS troops. Reagan stuck to his promise to visit the cemetery in Bitburg despite a torrent of criticism from Jewish groups, U.S. veterans and others. He added a stop at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to his trip. Kohl defended the invitation as a "demonstrative gesture of reconciliation."
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CLINTON IN VIETNAM

U.S. President Bill Clinton received a rock-star welcome in Vietnam in November 2000. Clinton was the first American president to visit after the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975 and claimed the lives of more than 3 million Vietnamese and 58,000 American soldiers. Clinton remains popular in Vietnam because the United States normalized relations with its former foe in 1995 while he was president. Relations were completely normalized in May with U.S. President Barack Obama announcing the lifting of a ban on weapons sales to Vietnam during his visit to the country.
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AHMADINEJAD IN IRAQ

Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Iraq in March 2008, becoming the first leader to travel there after the two bordering nations fought a bloody war that killed 1 million people in the 1980s. His visit came five years after a U.S.-led invasion toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who started the 1980s conflict. The influence of Iran in Iraq has grown in the time since, with Iranian-backed Shiite militias now leading the fight in some battlefields against the extremist Islamic State group.
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VUCIC IN SREBRENICA

Anger boiled over in July 2015 when Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic attended a commemoration 20 years after the slaughter of Muslims in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Tens of thousands came to mark the anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since World War II, the killing of 8,000 Muslims by Bosnian Serbs. Vucic, once an ultra-nationalist, came to represent Serbia at the commemoration in an apparent gesture of reconciliation. Thousands booed and whistled as he entered the cemetery to lay flowers. Protesters threw water bottles and other objects as he hastily left. His glasses were broken, but there were no serious injuries.
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OBAMA IN HIROSHIMA

U.S. President Barack Obama risked criticism at home when he decided to visit the memorial to the 140,000 killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in World War II. Japanese generally welcomed his visit and praised his speech, which called on humankind to prevent war and pursue a world without nuclear weapons. He didn't apologize for the bombing, and Japan didn't ask for an apology. Just visiting Hiroshima would have been politically difficult, if not impossible, for previous U.S. presidents to do.

09/16/2016

A 63-acre island estate that went on sale this week for the first time in over a century includes a stone mansion, a 21-stall horse stable and a natural cove that can shelter boats in stormy weather.

It also has an asking price of $175 million, which industry experts say would easily break a record for the most ever paid for a residential property in the United States.

Since around 1900 the property in Darien, Connecticut, has belonged to the family and descendants of William Ziegler, an industrialist who made his fortune in baking powder. The family decided to sell the estate, known as Great Island, as younger generations have moved on and the main house has not been occupied for some time, according to David Ogilvy, the listing agent.

The record for the most expensive American home was set by a property that sold in 2014 in New York's Hamptons for $147 million, according to Jonathan Miller, president of Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants, who also tracks luxury home sales as a hobby.

In the rarefied market of super high-end homes, Miller said there was a flurry of listings over $100 million around the country a couple years ago, but many lingered for a year or longer without selling.

"How deep or wide is wide is that pool of buyers? It's not as deep as was assumed a few years ago," he said.

The island sits in Long Island Sound & is connected to the mainland by man-made strips of land. It has a half-mile long driveway leading to the main house, several additional homes, a polo field, a private beach and dock, as well as a boathouse. It also about a mile from a commuter train station and Interstate 95.

Robyn Kammerer, a local real estate executive with Halstead Property, said she believes the asking price is reasonable considering the property's proximity to Manhattan and its expansive, secluded shoreline.

Given that the main house has been unoccupied, Ogilvy said the new owners likely will want to make renovations. But Kammerer said that probably would not be stumbling block.

"For $175 million, you're going to want it to your taste," she said.

09/04/2016

A provincial governor in Egypt has ordered changes to a sculpture honoring fallen soldiers after many on social media said it appeared to depict an unwanted advance on a woman symbolizing the country.

The sculpture, titled "Mother of the Martyr," depicts a slender peasant woman, a traditional artistic representation of Egypt, with her arms outstretched. A helmeted soldier is standing behind her, looking over her shoulder with his arms wrapped around her.

Residents of Sohag, where the sculpture stands at a public square but has not been formally unveiled, complained that it was inappropriate. Sohag and other southern provinces are more conservative than the rest of the Muslim-majority country.

The sculptor, Wagih Yani, has begun removing the soldier, who will be replaced by an olive branch and 10 white doves.

08/25/2016

This image provided Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016, by RR Auction of Boston shows the first page of an April 1934 letter from Depression-era gangsters Bonnie and Clyde to a former member of their gang they felt had betrayed them. The letter, written in Bonnie Parker's neat cursive and signed by Clyde Barrow, is going up for auction and could fetch more than $40,000 when it's sold in September.

07/09/2016

Thousands of people have stripped naked and painted themselves in four shades of blue to celebrate the English city of Hull's relationship with the sea.

Hull City Council says some 3,200 people took part in the art installation, staged by New York artist Spencer Tunick on Saturday. The work is called Sea of Hull and was commissioned by the Ferens Art Gallery to mark the city's celebration next year as the Hull UK City of Culture 2017?

Tunick says the resulting photos incorporate some of the city's unique locations including the Scale Lane footbridge, a swing bridge often compared to a pin ball flipper that is a tourist attraction in the northern English city.

The port city on the Humber River has a rich maritime past dating to the 12th Century.

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