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4A Daily News – Tuesday, May 24, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Death toll from Joplin tornado climbs to 116 JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that blasted much of this Mis- souri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital. At least 116 people died, making it the nation’s dead- liest single tornado in nearly 60 years and the second major tornado disaster in a month. An unknown num- ber of people were hurt. Authorities feared the toll could rise as the full scope of the destruction comes into view: House after house reduced to slabs, cars crushed like soda cans, shaken residents roaming streets in search of missing family members. And the danger was by no means over. Fires from gas leaks burned across town, and more violent weather loomed, including the threat of hail, high winds and even more tornadoes. At daybreak, the city’s south side emerged from darkness as a barren, smoky wasteland. ‘‘I’ve never seen such devastation — just block upon block upon block of homes just completely gone,’’ said former state leg- islator Gary Burton who showed up to help at a vol- unteer center at Missouri Southern State University. Obama revels in his ties to Ireland DUBLIN (AP) — He downed a pint of Guinness with a distant cousin and checked out centuries-old parish records tracing his family to Ireland. From the tiny village of Moneygall to a huge, cheering crowd in Dublin, President Barack Obama opened his four- nation trip through Europe on Monday with an unlikely homecoming far removed from the grinding politics of Washington and the world. ‘‘My name is Barack Obama, of the Moneygall Obamas, and I’ve come home to find the apostrophe we lost somewhere along the way,’’ a clearly tickled Obama — make that O’Ba- ma — told the overflow throng at Dublin’s College Green with his wife, Michelle, right by him. ‘‘We Respecting People. Impacting Business VALLEY OAK RACQUET CLUB Summer Clinic All Levels & Ages with Vern Leslie Private or Group Lessons Tennis 933-3668 Swim Lessons with Karen 200-0013 www.expresspros.com 530-527-0727 243 So. Main Street Call us. And get back to work. 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A high point was a heli- copter jaunt to Moneygall, population 350 give or take it, where the president’s great-great-great grandfa- ther, Falmouth Kearney, was born and where thousands congregated to welcome the United States’ first black president home. Obama met there with his nearest Irish relative, 26-year-old accountant Henry Healy, and they stopped in at Ollie’s Bar for a Guinness. It was a moment and a pint to savor. To the approval of the pub crowd and people all across Ireland watching on television, Obama downed the full pint in four slurps and came away with a foam mustache. Pakistan regains control of base KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani comman- dos recaptured a major naval THE base from Taliban attackers Monday after a bloody and humiliating 18-hour stand- off that raised questions about militant infiltration in the security services and the safety of the volatile coun- try’s nuclear warheads. The unusually brazen assault, which the Taliban said was to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden, was a reminder that the Pak- istanis are catching blame from both sides in the after- math of the May 2 raid by U.S. commandos. While Americans have accused elements in the Pak- istani security services of having sheltered bin Laden in the military town of Abbottabad, the Taliban and al-Qaida fault the army for its level of cooperation with the Americans. It was the third purported revenge strike in Pakistan since bin Laden’s death.After initially estimating that 15 insurgents were involved in the attack that began late Sunday in the country’s commercial capi- tal, Karachi, officials said just six heavily armed, black-clad assailants pene- trated into the heart of the Naval Station Mehran after cutting through wire in a quiet section of its eastern perimeter. The militants destroyed two U.S.-supplied surveil- lance aircraft and killed at least five navy officers, two paramilitary rangers and three firefighters. Six Amer- icans and 11 Chinese avia- tion engineers escaped unharmed, authorities said. UCI denies helped hide failed tests GENEVA (AP) — The International Cycling Union ‘‘categorically rejects’’ Tyler Ashley Phelps Financial Advisor 108 Main St., Suite B Next to Little Caesars Red Bluff, CA 96080 Bus. 530-527-9560 TF. 866-527-9560 Fax 877-898-1030 ashley.stever@edwardjones.com www.edwardjones.com Hamilton’s allegations that it helped cover up a positive drug test by Lance Arm- strong at the 2001 Tour de Suisse. The UCI insisted Mon- day that it had ‘‘never altered or hidden the results of a positive test,’’ and that seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong had never been notified of a pos- itive finding. ‘‘The UCI is deeply shocked by the seriousness of the allegations made on the ‘60 Minutes’ program aired by U.S. television net- work CBS,’’ the body said in a statement. ‘‘The allega- tions of Mr. Tyler Hamilton are completely unfounded.’’ Hamilton said in an inter- view which aired Sunday that his former teammate Armstrong used the blood- boosting hormone EPO to prepare for his third Tour win in 2001. Linda M. 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