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26,000 sorties flown since NATO took charge of the Libya mission on April 1
9,600 strike sorties flown
5,900 targets destroyed
600 tanks or armored vehicles destroyed
400 artillery/rocket launchers destroyed
Recognition for Palestine
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Though the Palestinian bid for statehood at the U.N. Security Council is almost certain to be rebuffed, there was a warmer welcome in Paris, home of UNESCO, the U.N.'s cultural organization. Of 174 delegates, only 14--including those representing the U.S. and Israel--voted against member status for Palestine. The vote may leave UNESCO poorer, however: U.S. law requires the Obama Administration to now withhold all dues from the body.
ON TIME.COM
'All of his hair had come off in my hand. That's when I started to scream.'
MARINA LITVINENKO, speaking to TIME's William Lee Adams on the fifth anniversary of the death in London of her husband, ex--KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko. She maintains he was killed by radioactive poisons administered by agents of the Kremlin