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The Two-Way
5:48 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

Bolivia Takes Chile To Court Over Access To Sea

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Bolivian President Evo Morales speaks last month at an event in La Paz to mark Sea Day, when the country lost access to the coast in a war with Chile more than 100 years ago. On Wednesday, Bolivia filed a lawsuit against Chile at the International Court of Justice to reclaim access to the Pacific Ocean.
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Originally published on Wed April 24, 2013 6:06 pm

Landlocked Bolivia is turning to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to reclaim access to the sea that it lost to Chile in the 19th century.

The Santiago Times reports:

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Explosions At Boston Marathon
5:48 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

Boston Response Praised, But Intelligence-Sharing Questioned

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First responders aid injured people at the finish line of the Boston Marathon after the bombing on April 15.
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Originally published on Thu April 25, 2013 4:57 pm

In the days since the Boston Marathon bombings, local law enforcement officials have been given high marks for their response to the attack and the coordination among numerous federal, state and local agencies involved.

But at the same time, questions are being raised about the coordination among federal agencies handling intelligence they had about the suspects in the months before the attack.

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World
5:48 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

As Myanmar Reforms, Old Tensions Rise To The Surface

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A Myanmarese girl carries away a tin roof in Meiktila, Myanmar. Violence between Buddhists and Muslims in March destroyed large areas of the town and left thousands of Muslims homeless.
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A boy shows the torn pages of a Quran at his home after sectarian violence spread through Zeegone, about 90 miles north of Yangon, in late March. More than 100 people were killed in similar incidents in the country's west last year.
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Myanmarese look for anything to salvage from the destruction in Meiktila. Local media reports say the violence began over a dispute involving a Buddhist couple who tried to sell a hairpin to the Muslim owners of a jewelry store.
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Men wait by an officer near their destroyed home. U Win Htein, who represents Meiktila in Parliament, says armed mobs initially prevented police and firefighters from approaching burning buildings. The crowds let them pass, he says, only after Buddhist monks climbed onto the fire engines.
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A man walks through town in April. While Myanmar's president, Thein Sein, declared a state of emergency during the riots, 1,500 homes had been destroyed by the time the violence stopped.
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A Myanmarese girl carries away a burned tin roof from ruins in Meiktila, Myanmar. Sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims in March left more than 40 people dead, with large areas of the town completely destroyed by fires and looting.
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Vijay Nambiar (left), special adviser to the United Nations secretary-general, talks with a Muslim man at a temporary camp for displaced people in Meiktila in March. Muslims account for about one-third of the town's 10,000 residents; many are now homeless.
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Firefighters try to extinguish a fire during the riots in Meiktila in March. More than 40 people died during three days of violence in the town.
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Originally published on Thu April 25, 2013 4:57 pm

The town of Meiktila in central Myanmar presents a tranquil scene on a hot April day: A woman presses juice from sugar cane while customers loll around in the midday heat. The town is right in the center of the country, on a broad and arid plain where white cows graze among palm trees and pointy pagodas. It's a bustling trading post on the road between the capital, Naypyidaw, and the country's second-largest city, Mandalay.

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It's All Politics
5:33 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

Giffords Group's Radio Ads Hit McConnell, Ayotte On Gun Vote

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Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, at an April 16 ceremony naming a Capitol Hill conference room for her aide Gabe Zimmerman. Zimmerman died in the same Tucson, Ariz., shootings that Giffords wounded.
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Originally published on Wed April 24, 2013 5:58 pm

After the Senate failed to pass bipartisan legislation to expand background checks for gun purchases, the superPAC created by shooting victim and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, onetime astronaut Mark Kelly, vowed to remind voters of which lawmakers voted against the plan.

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The Two-Way
5:09 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

Redesigned $100 Bill To Go Into Circulation After Long Delay

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The new Ben Franklin.
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Originally published on Wed April 24, 2013 8:30 pm

The redesigned U.S. $100 bill will begin appearing after October with new security features that will make it "easier for the public to authenticate but more difficult for counterfeiters to replicate," the U.S. Federal Reserve said Wednesday.

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