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(CNN) -- Scientists in Colombia have unearthed the remains of a true prehistoric monster believed to be the biggest snake ever to have lived on Earth.

An artist's impression of what Titanoboa cerrejonensis would have looked like.

Named Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the snake would have weighed 1,140 kilograms (2,500 pounds) and measured 13 meters (42.7 feet) nose to tail tip -- dwarfing the largest modern pythons and anacondas which can grow to 6 meters (19.5 feet).

Scientists believe it slithered around the planet between 58 and 60 million years ago.

Geologist David Polly, who identified the position of the fossil vertebrae which made a size estimate possible, said in a statement Wednesday: "At its greatest width, the snake would have come up to about your hips. The size is pretty amazing.

"But our team went a step further and asked, how warm would the Earth have to be to support a body of this size?"

Titanoboa's fossilized remains were discovered at a coal mine in the tropical Cerrejon region of northern Colombia by an international team of scientists.

"Truly enormous snakes really spark people's imagination, but reality has exceeded the fantasies of Hollywood," paleontologist Jonathan Bloch, who co-led the expedition, told reporters.

"The snake that tried to eat Jennifer Lopez in the movie 'Anaconda' was not as big as the one we found."

Based on the snake's size, the team was able to calculate that the mean annual temperature in equatorial South America 60 million years ago would have been about 91 degrees Fahrenheit, about 10 degrees warmer than today, Bloch said.

"Tropical ecosystems of South America were surprisingly different 60 million years ago," said Bloch. "It was a rainforest, like today, but it was even hotter and the cold-blooded reptiles were all substantially larger.

"The result was, among other things, the largest snakes the world has ever seen...and hopefully ever will."

According to Nature.com, snakes are poikilotherms (cold-blooded) that, unlike humans, need heat from their environment to power their metabolism. Therefore research suggests that at the time the region would have had to be no less than 86 to 93 degrees Fahrenheit for the snake to have survived.

Most large snakes today live in the tropical regions of South America and south-east Asia, where the high temperatures allow them to grow to impressive sizes.

Meanwhile, Carlos Jaramillo -- who was also part of the expedition -- said the tropical rainforest at Cerrejon appeared to have thrived at these temperatures.

"This data challenges the view that tropical vegetation lives near its climatic optimum, and it has profound implications in understanding the effect of current global warming on tropical plants," he said.

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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Incident details: "Armed pirates chased, boarded and hijacked a fishing trawler underway" southeast of Mogadishu, Somalia. "Several persons armed with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and machetes attempting to climb onboard with use of rope" at Lagos anchorage, Nigeria.

The Yemeni coast guard patrols the Gulf of Aden in March.

Reading the International Maritime Bureau's Live Piracy Report a catalog of piracy reports from around the world, two names crop up with disturbing frequency: Somalia and Nigeria.

The list reads like a history book telling tales of the buccaneers of old -- daring raids, kidnappings and ransoms. But these days, Africa's pirates are using automatic weapons and grenades.

Thousands of miles apart, Somalia's and Nigeria's pirates have no communication, and their circumstances are very different.

Somalia is a barren, dusty failed state, and Somali pirates operate in the vast Gulf of Aden. Pirates in Nigeria operate from the sprawling metropolis of Lagos harbor to the riverine creeks of the Niger Delta region.

But they're after the same thing: money.  Watch how negotiations with pirates take place Â»

And to get it they seem to be feeding off each other's ideas.

"One of the interesting things about piracy offshore West Africa is that it has started to mimic piracy trends off the Horn of Africa, places like Somalia," explained Rolake Akinola, West Africa analyst at Control Risks.

"Some of the tactics used are increasingly sophisticated. Sophisticated weaponry is used by some of those pirate groups, and it's becoming much more violent."

The tactics employed often involve small speedboats pulling up alongside their target, boarding and, often resorting to violence, kidnapping the crew or cargo.  Watch a shipping company chief describe being hijacked Â»

Ransoms can run into the millions of dollars.

In Somalia last year, the hijacked Saudi oil tanker Sirius Star was released after a $3 million ransom was dropped by helicopter to the pirates.

Local governments in Nigeria's Niger Delta often keep a special fund to pay kidnappers. Hundreds have been kidnapped in the past few years, with American and British hostages in particular considered "high-value."

In countries where the majority of the population lives on less than $2 a day, the ransoms are considerable amounts of money.

And the money is often splashed out on flashy Humvees, flat-screen TVs and more weapons.

Visiting pirates in the swamps of the Niger Delta, we were taken to the commander's new home.

Surrounded by mud huts in the mangroves, a generator powered a refrigerator filled with bottles of champagne that the men drank as they played on their imported pool table.

They were all young men who complained about the lack of job opportunities and were enticed into piracy by promised riches on show at the commander's house.

Off Somalia's coast, a NATO-led task force is trying to crack down on Somali pirates. And the U.S. Navy is making frequent visits to West Africa to train local navies to combat pirates.

"The task force are doing a fantastic job, and they are very much welcome," said Michael Howlett, divisional director of the International Maritime Bureau. He pointed out that in February, for every eight attacks, there was only one hijacking.

But the bureau also says 2009 has seen a spike in pirate attacks, particularly off the east coast of Somalia. More than 15 attacks were reported by March.

With their attacks, pirates are challenging not just international shipping lanes but Africa's rule of law.

The pirates are now operating hundreds of miles from their bases.

Somali pirates operate freely along the coastlines of Kenya and Tanzania, with the potential to threaten tourists on the beaches. In March, Somalis hijacked a yacht and its crew of seven off the Seychelles.

Earlier this year, unknown Nigerian gunmen attacked the presidential palace in Equatorial Guinea. They were eventually chased away by a military helicopter.

To combat the problem, analysts like Akinola are agreed: More is needed than military force.

"Governments need to look at some of the social and underlying economic issues that allow piracy, so issues around governance and the provision of social services to populations in many of the countries affected."

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Washington (CNN) -- A key congressional committee opened its investigation Thursday into the November 5 Fort Hood shootings with a pledge to find out if authorities failed to "connect the dots" and could have prevented the attack.

The head of the committee promised the inquiry would not interfere with a separate investigation into the shootings being conducted by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Attorney General Eric Holder.

"Their investigation looks backward and is punitive. Ours looks forward and is preventive," said Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut,

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, is accused of opening fire at a military processing center at Fort Hood Army Post, killing 13 people. Dozens of others were wounded.

Hasan was shot and paralyzed during the attack and remains in a military hospital.

Lieberman said the committee will carry out its investigation "with respect for the thousands of Muslim-Americans who are serving in the American military with honor and the millions of other patriotic, law-abiding Muslims who live in our country."

But, he added, "we do no favor to all our fellow Americans who are Muslim by ignoring real evidence that a small number of their community have, in fact, become violent Islamists and extremists."

Lieberman said the committee's investigation will focus on whether concerns raised by Hasan's colleagues about his "mental stability and political extremism" were dealt with appropriately by senior Army officials.

Among other things, a memo reportedly written two years ago by Hasan's supervisor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center says Hasan demonstrated "a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism" during his residency at the hospital.

CNN could not corroborate the authenticity of the memo, which was obtained by National Public Radio.

Lieberman also said the committee will examine a lack of response by federal authorities after uncovering an exchange of e-mails between Hasan and a radical cleric accused of having ties to al Qaeda.

The FBI has said it was aware of communication between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric who has promoted jihad against the United States and other Western countries. But investigators determined that those contacts were "consistent with research being conducted by Maj. Hasan."

Also, Lieberman noted, the committee will look into whether information on Hasan gathered by a joint terrorism task force was shared with officials in the Army, the Defense Department or elsewhere.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins, the ranking Republican on the committee, said Hasan's case "raises questions about whether or not restrictive rules have a chilling effect on the legitimate dissemination of information, making it too difficult to connect the dots that would have allowed a clear picture of the threat to emerge."

But a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told CNN that when Hasan first came to the attention of investigators because of his communications with al-Awlaki, officials looked at his military personnel file and nothing was found that raised suspicion.

None of the items that have been reported since the shootings -- including the reported memo from his Walter Reed supervisor or a Power Point presentation arguing that Muslims in the Army should be given conscientious objector status -- were part of the file, the official said, but it was noted that Hasan had done research about Muslims in the military.

Thursday's hearing included testimony from former Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. John Keane, Rand Corp. consultant Brian Jenkins and New York City Police Department intelligence analyst Mitchell Silber.

"At a glance, Maj. Hasan's rampage at Fort Hood looks a lot like what used to be called 'going postal,' " Jenkins said. It was "a deepening sense of personal grievance culminating in a homicidal rampage directed against co-workers -- in this case, fellow soldiers.

"For Hasan, 'going jihad' reflects the channeling of obvious personality problems into a deadly fanaticism," he said.

The committee launched its investigation only hours before Gates announced a 45-day review of Pentagon policies to see if the Defense Department has fallen short in identifying service members "who could potentially pose credible threats to others."

The review will be led by former Army Secretary Togo West and retired Adm. Vern Clark, a former Navy chief.

At the same time, the Army will conduct its own, more detailed review of its policies and whether they could have prevented the shootings at the post in Texas. And those will be followed by a four- to six-month study of "systemic institutional shortcomings" conducted by each of the armed services.

The Fort Hood shooting has "broader implications for society ... particularly in these lone wolf cases, which are the hardest," Lieberman said.

"When people hear people saying things that seem extreme ... respecting First Amendment rights, you've got to begin to reach out and see if you can stop somebody before they do something very harmful."

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(CNN) -- The women hockey players gathered at the center of the rink and prayed. Tears wet their cheeks and most held hands. Then they lit 10 candles, the number on the jersey of the missing teammate, the one with the huge smile and even bigger heart, who died in last week's plane crash.

Madeline Loftus, 24, was killed aboard Flight 3407. She was returning to Buffalo for a reunion hockey game.

Madeline Loftus, known as Maddy, was one of 49 people to die aboard Continental Connection Flight 3407 last Thursday. She was returning to Buffalo State College to play in a reunion hockey game on Saturday, to meet up with her old classmates to play the game she loved so dearly.

"She popped into my head every time I got back to the bench," said former teammate Emma Wadsworth.

Breaking down in tears, she said the game was filled with sadness because "Maddy wasn't here." She described Loftus as an "awesome teammate, a beautiful person always smiling, and always upbeat, and ready to cheer you up if you were having a bad day."  Watch a promising life cut short Â»

"She was just amazing," Wadsworth said.

Her teammates said they decided to play the game out, because Loftus would've wanted them to play on. Loftus' No. 10 jersey hung from the bench near her friends and former players.

"It's a really hard time for her teammates, for her friends, for her family," said teammate Janelle Junior.

Loftus, 24, of Parsippany, New Jersey, played two seasons at Buffalo State from 2002 to 2004 before transferring to St. Mary's University in Minnesota after her sophomore year.

At St. Mary's, she was a marketing major who starred on the hockey team from 2004 to 2006. While there, Loftus helped form the Cardinal Athletic Council, a student-athlete outreach program to help with community service projects.

"Madeline was an important part of the university and athletic communities. Our thoughts and prayers now turn to Madeline's family, friends and teammates as they cope with this sudden loss," St. Mary's athletic director Nikki Fennern said in a statement.

"Maddy was the first senior to graduate from my program. She will always hold a special place in my heart," said Terry Mannor, St. Mary's women's hockey coach. "Everyone who knew her will remember someone full of life and compassion. She was loved by everyone and will be greatly missed."

Officials in Buffalo have said that it may take several days before all the bodies are recovered from the crash site, as investigators work through freezing temperatures and piles of wreckage.  See photos of the crash site Â»

About 1,000 people gathered at a church in western New York Monday to remember the crash victims. The community memorialized the 50 victims, with religious leaders from Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu communities offering words of sympathy to the community.

"We've gathered today because western New York has entered a season of grieving," said Pastor Karl Eastlack of the Eastern Hills Wesleyan Church.

Each speaker emphasized that everyone in the community is connected by the tragedy. One leader said we "gather in our common desire to console one another."

All 49 passengers and crew members aboard the 74-seat turboprop were killed when the plane crashed into a home in Clarence Center, New York, on Thursday night. A 61-year-old man in the house was also killed.

While investigators try to piece together the cause of the crash, portraits of those who died aboard the flight have emerged:

â¢ Alison Des Forges spent four years in Rwanda documenting the 1994 genocide and had testified about that atrocity and the current situation in central Africa before U.N. and congressional panels.

â¢ Beverly Eckert was the widow of Sean Rooney, who died in the World Trade Center in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. After Sean's death, Eckert co-founded Voices of September 11, an advocacy group for survivors of the attacks and families of those killed.

â¢ Gerry Niewood was traveling with jazz guitarist Coleman Mellett for a show with musician Chuck Mangione and the Buffalo Philharmonic at Kleinhans Music Hall.

â¢ Co-pilot Rebecca Shaw's father said she loved to fly and "couldn't believe she'd get paid" when she took the job. Learn more about the victims

On the ice rink in Buffalo Saturday, Loftus' friends played with a heavy heart. This would have been her first time on the ice with her former Buffalo State teammates since her playing days.

Jessica Aykroyd said she had spoken with Loftus right before she left for the airport. "The last thing I have is: Can't wait to see you," Aykroyd said.

Lindsay Welch said simply, "Her friends and hockey is what she was all about."

So passionate about hockey, Loftus was the first female to play on the boys' team in high school. In college, when she wasn't playing, she worked as a student assistant for the ice rink. "She was a great student, she was a great hockey player and just a great person. Everybody loved being around her," said rink manager Jim Fowler.

Those who knew her in Minnesota agreed. "Her classmates were always eager to work with her on projects," said Thomas Marpe, dean of St. Mary's School of Business. "Maddy was enthusiastic about life and especially about women's hockey."

CNN's Ines Ferre contributed to this report.

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text: York

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text: Eastern

text: Hills

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text: tragedy

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text: gather

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text: cause

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text: widow

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text: Sean

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text: ice

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text: Buffalo

text: State

text: teammates

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text: spoken

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text: airport

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text: see

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text: Welch

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text: hockey

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text: about

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text: about

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text: first

text: female

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text: on

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text: boys

text: team

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text: school

text: In

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text: playing

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text: as

text: a

text: student

text: assistant

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text: ice

text: rink

text: She

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text: great

text: student

text: she

text: was

text: a

text: great

text: hockey

text: player

text: and

text: just

text: a

text: great

text: person

text: Everybody

text: loved

text: being

text: around

text: her

text: said

text: rink

text: manager

text: Jim

text: Fowler

text: Those

text: who

text: knew

text: her

text: in

text: Minnesota

text: agreed

text: Her

text: classmates

text: were

text: always

text: eager

text: to

text: work

text: with

text: her

text: on

text: projects

text: said

text: Thomas

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text: dean

text: of

text: St.

text: Mary

text: 's

text: School

text: of

text: Business

text: Maddy

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text: enthusiastic

text: about

text: life

text: and

text: especially

text: about

text: women

text: 's

text: hockey

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Ines

text: Ferre

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What did Madeline Loftus' former team say?

answer: "It's a really hard time for her teammates, for her friends, for her family,"

text: "It's a really hard time for her teammates, for her friends, for her family,"

question: Who was returning to Buffalo?

answer: Madeline Loftus,

text: Madeline Loftus,

question: where The 24-year-old was returning to Buffalo to play?

answer: State College

text: State College

question: Where did Madeline Loftus die?

answer: aboard Continental Connection Flight 3407

text: aboard Continental Connection Flight 3407

question: Who was Madeline Loftus?

answer: one of 49 people to die aboard Continental Connection Flight 3407

text: one of 49 people to die aboard Continental Connection Flight 3407


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(CNN) -- German logistics giant Deutsche Post said Monday it was cutting 9,500 jobs as part of a major program to restructure its loss-making DHL delivery service in the United States.

DHL's restructuring is expected to result in heavy job losses.

Deutsche Post said it would discontinue its U.S. ground and air delivery operations based out of Wilmington, Ohio, following an outsourcing agreement with UPS.

DHL Express will continue to operate between the United States and other nations, the company said in a statement.

DHL's 9,500 job cuts are on top of 5,400 job cuts announced earlier this year.

The statement said DHL was shutting down all ground hubs and reducing its number of stations to 103 from 412.

The company said it was making the cuts to improve profitability and "to prepare the company for the economic challenges ahead." DHL Express is owned by the German company Deutsche Post World Net.

Officials in Ohio had been hoping to prevent layoffs.

State senator Sherrod Brown sent a letter Sunday to DHL Express Chief Executive Officer John Mullen and urged employment officials in Washington for emergency funds to assist workers and communities affected.

In May, Deutsche Post announced plans to outsource air services with UPS. Brown says the plan would mean shutting down DHL's hub in Wilmington and cutting at least 8,000 jobs. Brown testified at two congressional hearing this year that centered on the proposal.

Prior to the announcement, Wilmington Mayor David Razik said he was preparing for the worst.

"Given the state of the economy and the world wide economic collapse we know it can't be good news," he told CNN Sunday night. "Freight is down significantly, DHL is losing customers, they have laid off sales personnel in other locations. We really think it's certainly not going to be good for Wilmington."

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question: How did the officials in Ohio approach prevention of job loss?

answer: emergency funds to assist workers and communities affected.

text: emergency funds to assist workers and communities affected.

question: How many jobs are beng cut at DHL?

answer: 9,500

question: Where did most of DHL's job cuts occur?

answer: hub in Wilmington

text: hub in Wilmington

question: What state's officials hope to avoid job losses?

answer: Ohio

text: Ohio

question: What had officials in Ohio hoped?

answer: to prevent layoffs.

text: to prevent layoffs.

question: What is winding up at Deutsche Post?

answer: U.S. ground and air delivery operations based out of Wilmington, Ohio,

text: U.S. ground and air delivery operations based out of Wilmington, Ohio,

question: Who had hoped to prevent job losses?

answer: Officials in Ohio

text: Officials in Ohio

question: What did the owner of Duetsche Post say?

answer: it was cutting 9,500 jobs

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question: How many job cuts were announced?

answer: 9,500

question: What operations are going to wind up?

answer: ground and air delivery

text: ground and air delivery

question: How many job cuts are planned by German owners of DHL?

answer: 9,500


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(CNN)  -- The Texas Department of Public Safety took the unprecedented step Thursday of telling college students not to visit Mexican border cities during spring break because they are just too dangerous.

Several universities issued similar warnings last year, but this was the first time the Texas law enforcement agency had issued the specific advisory against travel, said spokeswoman Tela Mange. In the past, she said, Texas authorities had just urged students to be careful.

"Because of the increased violence, we decided to step it up a little bit and say, 'Parents, bad idea,'" Mange said.

DPS Director Steven C. McCraw said, "Parents should not allow their children to visit these Mexican cities because their safety cannot be guaranteed."

The State Department renewed a travel alert to Mexico last month, citing increased violence in the country -- border areas in particular.

"Recent violent attacks have caused the U.S. Embassy to urge U.S. citizens to delay unnecessary travel to parts of Michoacan, Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua ... and to advise U.S. citizens residing or traveling in those areas to exercise extreme caution," the alert says.

More than 16,000 people have died in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels shortly after assuming office in December 2006. Ciudad Juarez, in Chihuahua state across the border from El Paso, Texas, is the most violent city in the nation.

"The situation in the state of Chihuahua, specifically Ciudad Juarez, is of special concern," the alert says.

Two U.S. citizens were abducted and killed in Chihuahua, the State Department said.

"Mexican authorities report that more than 2,600 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez in 2009," the report states. "Additionally, this city of 1.3 million people experienced more than 16,000 car thefts and 1,900 carjackings in 2009. U.S. citizens should pay close attention to their surroundings while traveling in Ciudad Juarez, avoid isolated locations during late night and early morning hours, and remain alert to news reports."

But the problems are not limited to Juarez, the State Department says.

"Mexican drug cartels are engaged in violent conflict -- both among themselves and with Mexican security services -- for control of narcotics trafficking routes along the U.S.-Mexico border," the report says. "In order to combat violence, the government of Mexico has deployed military troops throughout the country. U.S. citizens should cooperate fully with official checkpoints when traveling on Mexican highways.

"Some recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades. Large firefights have taken place in towns and cities across Mexico, but occur mostly in northern Mexico, including Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Chihuahua City, Nogales, Matamoros, Reynosa and Monterrey. During some of these incidents, U.S. citizens have been trapped and temporarily prevented from leaving the area."

A number of areas along the border continue to experience a rapid growth in crime, with robberies, homicides, petty thefts and carjackings increasing during the past year nationwide, the alert says. The State Department reports notable spikes in Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and northern Baja California.

"Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana and Nogales are among the cities which have experienced public shootouts during daylight hours in shopping centers and other public venues," the alert says.

CNN's Arthur Brice contributed to this report.

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question: What crimes are growing?

answer: robberies, homicides, petty thefts and carjackings

text: robberies, homicides, petty thefts and carjackings

question: Where did the State Department issue a travel alert to?

answer: Mexico

text: Mexico

question: Who says it's a bad idea?

answer: The Texas Department of Public Safety

text: The Texas Department of Public Safety

question: What did the alert note?

answer: increased violence in the country

text: increased violence in the country

question: What's a bad idea?

answer: to visit Mexican border cities during spring break

text: to visit Mexican border cities during spring break

question: in that month renewed a travel alert to Mexico?

answer: The State Department

text: The State Department

question: who was given the first warning?

answer: students

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates flew into Iraq on Monday to oversee a change of command of American forces.

Robert Gates is greeted Monday at Baghdad International Airport by Army Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin.

Gen. Ray Odierno will take over command Tuesday from Gen. David Petraeus, whose 20-month term in Iraq saw a significant decline in violence with the deployment of additional U.S. troops.

U.S. forces are in "mission transition," Gates said Monday, with some troops going home and others backing up Iraqis.

"There is no question we will still be engaged, but the areas in which we are seriously engaged will continue to narrow," Gates said during his flight to Iraq.

"The challenge for Odierno is how do we work with the Iraqis to preserve the gains we've already achieved and expand on them even as the number of U.S. forces are shrinking."

Odierno is expected to set the stage for an eventual U.S. withdrawal.

Petraeus will become the new chief of U.S. Central Command, in charge of American forces in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Gates, who is making his eighth trip to Iraq, said Petraeus played a "historic role" during his tenure.

"I think he would be the first to acknowledge that he has had a brilliant strategy," he said. "But it has been the brigade commanders and company commanders and the soldiers and Marines and others on the ground who have actually made it work.

"We have lost a lot of lives, but it's really been an extraordinary effort of translations of a great strategy into a great success in a very difficult circumstance."

At a dinner on the eve of the change-of-command ceremony, Gates presented Petraeus with the Defense Superior Service Medal. He also gave Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, the Distinguished Civilian Service Award -- the highest award given by the secretary of Defense to those not in uniform.

"I have never seen a working relationship like this," Gates told the two men. "To find leaders to do what many considered impossible, you two are such men."

Odierno will receive his fourth star on Tuesday in a separate ceremony ahead of the change-of-command ceremony.

The defense secretary on Monday also met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and told the Iraqi leader that he has seen a notable improvement in security since his first visit to the country nearly two years ago, according to a statement released by the prime minister's office.

Gates said the cooperation between Iraqi security forces and coalition forces was responsible for the improvement in security, according to the statement, and al-Maliki praised the successes of the Iraqi armed forces.

The prime minister said the gains have brought about a greater sense of normalcy in the country, allowing many internally displaced Iraqis to return to their homes. They also have spurred the economy, he said.

The situation in Iraq is far different from that in past years, the prime minister noted.

As Gates arrived in Iraq, three bombings -- two in Baghdad and one in Diyala province's Balad Ruz -- provided a rude counterpoint to that message.

Two car bombs went off in central Baghdad. The blasts killed 12 people and wounded 36 in the commercial area of the Karrada district, an Interior Ministry official said. The U.S. blamed al Qaeda in Iraq, but gave a lower death toll, saying two "possible" car bombs killed six people and wounded 27.

In Balad Ruz, a female suicide bomber detonated explosives at the house of a former U.S. detainee, killing at least 22 people and wounding 33, according to a Diyala security official.

The U.S. military also blamed al Qaeda in Iraq for a car bombing Friday in Dujail, north of Baghdad. The Interior Ministry said at least 30 people were killed and 45 wounded; the U.S. said 31 were killed and 40 were wounded.

CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Mohammed Jamjoom contributed to this report.

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text: CNN

text: 's

text: Jomana

text: Karadsheh

text: and

text: Mohammed

text: Jamjoom

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What position does Robert Gates hold?

answer: U.S. Secretary of Defense

text: U.S. Secretary of Defense

question: What is Odierno supposed to be setting the stage for?

answer: an eventual U.S. withdrawal.

text: an eventual U.S. withdrawal.

question: Who is taking over command in Iraq?

answer: Gen. Ray Odierno

text: Gen. Ray Odierno

question: Who is Gen. Ray Odierno taking over command in Iraq from?

answer: David Petraeus,

text: David Petraeus,

question: Who is taking over command?

answer: Gen. Ray Odierno

text: Gen. Ray Odierno

question: Who took over for General Petraeus?

answer: Gen. Ray Odierno

text: Gen. Ray Odierno

question: What did Defense Secretary Robert Gates say about U.S. troops?

answer: forces are in "mission transition,"

text: forces are in "mission transition,"

question: What are the troops in the midst of?

answer: "mission transition,"

text: "mission transition,"

question: What will Odierno set the stage for?

answer: eventual U.S. withdrawal.

text: eventual U.S. withdrawal.

question: What did Defense Secretary Robert Gates say?

answer: U.S. forces are in "mission transition,"

text: U.S. forces are in "mission transition,"

question: What is Odierno setting the stage for?

answer: an eventual U.S. withdrawal.

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Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Sectarian rioting broke out in eastern Belfast late Monday, with leaders from both Catholic and Protestant communities reporting attacks on homes overnight.

Police reported Molotov cocktails were being thrown as a large crowd gathered on the streets that separate Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods in the area, a longstanding Northern Ireland flash point. Ambulance services reported two people injured early Tuesday, and reporters attempting to cover the disturbances were threatened.

The Irish republican party Sinn Fein said up to 100 masked men raided Catholic-owned homes in the Short Strand neighborhood after allegations by unionist politicians that Protestant homes were attacked Sunday. Police had no information on any of Sunday's reported attacks.

Sinn Fein blamed the attacks on Catholics on members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, a loyalist paramilitary group that officially disarmed in 2009. Police had no immediate comment on the assertion.

After a long period of quiet in its ongoing "Troubles" between Catholics and Protestants, Northern Ireland has seen a resurgence of violence in recent months. Tensions also are typically elevated in early summer, when Protestant groups hold commemorative marches to celebrate the 17th-century victory of England's King William III over his Catholic predecessor, James II.

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question: whats Ambulance services report two injured?

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