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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Do you know your "futtock" from your "baggywrinkle?"

A sailor stands on the "widow-maker" -- or bowsprit of his yacht.

Don't be concerned if you don't, as they are both relatively obscure terms used in sailing.

It is a sport littered with odd words and phrases and MainSail has put together a list of 10 of the weirdest below.

They are bound to raise a smile and will certainly make you more knowledgeable on the water -- who knows, you could even impress friends and colleagues with your mastery of obscure nautical terminology.

Scuttlebutt The scuttlebutt is a cask on a ship containing the vessel's drinking water. It was named this as the container was traditionally a small barrel, the so-called "butt," which had been "scuttled" -- had a hole made in it -- so water could be accessed. As sailors would often gather around the scuttlebutt to chat, the word has also taken on a slang meaning of rumor or gossip.

Rollocks A commonly used spelling for "rowlocks." These are the spaces cut into the vessel or small clasps raised up from the side of smaller boats that are used to rest oars when the boat is under paddle.

Are there any other nautical words you'd like to add? Tell us in the Sound Off box below.

Poop deck A poop deck is a deck at the rear of a ship, generally formed by the roof of a cabin. If a wave washes over this deck from behind the vessel, it is said to be "pooped."

Widow-maker This is a colloquial term for a boat's bowsprit -- the long pole, or "spar," extending from the bow used by sailors to tend to sails. The treacherous bowsprit earned its name and reputation from of the number of sailors who have lost their lives falling from the it.

Baggywrinkle This strange-sounding gem is simply a soft covering for ropes aboard yachts that prevent chafing of the sails. Where ropes and lines come into contact with sails there is serious potential for damage to the sail due to the abrasive nature of most rigging.

Mainsheet The mainsheet is a rope or line attached to the boom that allows the sailor to control the speed of a boat by adjusting the main sail.

Bilge The bilge is the lowest part of the interior of a ship. It marks the spot at the inside-bottom of the hull, below any floorboards, and it sits below the water-line.

Futtock Futtocks are the curved timbers used to form the interior ribs on the hulls of wooden ships.

Cat-head The cat-head is a large wooden beam that extends from vessels at a 45 degree angle and is used to assist in raising and lowering the anchor. Many cat-heads have had the faces of lions or other large cats carved into them -- however, it's not known if this gave the cat-head its name, or came as a result of the name.

Escutcheon The place on the stern of a ship where the boat's name is written is known as the escutcheon.

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(CNN) -- Kids dig in the sand at the beach all the time, but the fun nearly turned fatal for an 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy this week.

The 11-year-old was given CPR and revived before being taken to a local hospital.

The boy was digging a tunnel with friends on a beach in Ocean City, Maryland, on Tuesday when part of it collapsed on top of him, authorities said.

Lifeguards rushed to pull him out, but it first appeared that they were too late. The boy was not breathing, and he had no pulse, Beach Patrol Capt. Butch Arbin told CNN on Wednesday.

But rescue crews revived the boy by performing CPR, said Arbin, who was at the scene.

There was a lot of emotion on the beach when the boy's pulse came back, he said.

"He basically went from dead to life," Arbin said, adding that the boy's mother called the rescue a "miracle."

As he was being rolled into an ambulance on a stretcher, the boy -- perhaps not realizing the trauma he had just survived -- complained to his mother that he had sand in his eyes, Arbin said.

The child, whose family did not want to be identified, was initially taken to Atlantic General Hospital and later flown to the A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Delaware, he said.

He's recovering there and probably will be released later Wednesday, Arbin said.

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HERMOSILLO, Mexico (CNN)  -- Thirty-one children were killed and more than 100 others were injured Friday when their day-care center caught fire in the northwestern state of Sonora, a spokesman for the state's governor said.

A crib and baby seats lie outside a day-care center where the deadly fire broke out Friday.

The victims were from 1 to 5 years old, said Jose Larrinaga, the spokesman.

The fire appeared to have started at 3 p.m. in a warehouse next door to the one-story concrete building that housed the state-run ABC Daycare and spread to the state-run institution, news reports said.  By then, many children had already been picked up by their parents from the one-story building. But others came after the blaze had been put out, with parents screaming their children's names as others fainted.

In a message of condolence, President Felipe Calderon wished a quick recovery for the injured, who were taken to several area hospitals. He also called on the nation's attorney general to investigate the fire.

Authorities dispatched 15 specialists in reconstruction and three air ambulances to the area along with respirators and specialized medicines, and a U.S. hospital will help treat some of the victims.  Watch chaos in aftermath of tragedy Â»

Admissions will begin Saturday, said Catherine Curran, a spokeswoman for Shriners Hospitals for Children in Sacramento, California.

Shriners Hospitals is a health care system that gives children free treatment for burns, spinal cord injuries, orthopedic conditions, and cleft lip and palate, according to its Web site. It admits children under 18.

The first hospital opened in 1922. The system has burn units in Boston, Massachusetts; Cincinnati Ohio; and Sacramento, California.

Journalist Guadelupe Gutierrez contributed to this story.

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(CNN)  -- Like thousands of other Iranian women, Parisa took to Tehran's streets this week, her heart brimming with hope. "Change," said the placards around her.

Iranian women demonstrate Thursday in the streets of Tehran, the capital city.

The young Iranian woman eyed the crowd and pondered the possibility that the rest of her life might be different from her mother's. She could see glimmers of a future free from discrimination -- and all the symbols of it, including the head-covering the government requires her to wear every day.

Women, regarded as second-class citizens under Iranian law, have been noticeably front and center of the massive demonstrations that have unfolded since the presidential election a week ago. Iranians are protesting what they consider a fraudulent vote count favoring hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but for many women like Parisa, the demonstrations are just as much about taking Iran one step closer to democracy.

"Women have become primary agents of change in Iran," said Nayereh Tohidi, chairwoman of the Gender and Women's Studies Department at California State University, Northridge.

The remarkable images show women with uncovered heads who are unafraid to speak their minds and crowds that are not segregated -- both the opposite of the norm in Iran, Tohidi said.

She said a long-brewing women's movement may finally be manifesting itself on the streets and empowering women like Parisa.

"This regime is against all humanity, more specifically against all women," said Parisa, whom CNN is not fully identifying for security reasons.

"I see lots of girls and women in these demonstrations," she said. "They are all angry, ready to explode, scream out and let the world hear their voice. I want the world to know that as a woman in this country, I have no freedom."

Though 63 percent of all Iranian college students are women, the law of the land does not see men and women as equal. In cases of divorce, child custody, inheritance and crime, women do not have the same legal rights as men.

In the past four years, Ahmadinejad has made it easier for men to practice polygamy and harder for women to access public sector jobs, according to CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour.

Amanpour, who has reported extensively from Iran, describes Iranian women as "very strong." In 1997, it was women who came out along with young people to put reformist candidate Mohammed Khatami into the presidency, Amanpour said.

Increasingly, women's voices are gaining power as their numbers rise and their demands grow louder.

Even the granddaughter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the architect of the Islamic republic, voiced frustration at the way women are treated.

"Women are just living things," Zahra Eshraghi told Amanpour. "A woman is there to fill her husband's stomach and raise children."

For the first time, women were allowed to register for the presidential race, though none, including Eshraghi, were deemed fit to run by the religious body that vets candidates. But women's issues surfaced in the campaign.

That was partly the result of a women's movement comprised of educated, urban, middle-class women that has grown in recent years with the addition of more conservative and poorer women, said Tohidi, a longtime observer of women's rights in Iran. Ironically, traditional women first gained voice under the clerics.

"Khomeini needed their votes, so he encouraged them to be publicly active," Tohidi said.

The middle-class women who enjoyed certain freedoms in prerevolutionary days refused to turn back, while a new generation of conservatives were awakened to feminism.

In 2003, lawyer and women's rights activist Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize, providing a "big boost" for Iranian women, Tohidi said.

At the same time, private organizations and charities that deal with women's issues blossomed under the presidency of reformist Mohammed Khatami, growing by as much as 700 percent, Tohidi said.

Marriage age increased as more women opted to marry for love, instead of entering arranged marriages. The One Million Signatures Campaign officially launched in 2006 sprouted new discourse and attention with a petition that asks the parliament to reform gender discriminatory laws.

In this year's presidential campaign, Iranian women pressured candidates to agree to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The 1979 treaty has been ratified by 186 nations, including several Islamic states.

Two opposition candidates, Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karrubi, vowed to look into parts of the Iranian constitution that defer women's rights to what is regarded as an outdated version of sharia, or Islamic, law. Moussavi had even promised to appoint women as cabinet ministers for the first time.

Some women in Iran looked to Moussavi to carry their banner, perhaps because they were inspired by his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, a much-admired academic who told CNN's Amanpour that Iran's 34 million women want civil laws and family laws revised.

Author and journalist Azadeh Moaveni, who spent several years working in Iran, said Ahmadinejad's fundamentalism has pushed Iranian women to the edge.

"He has been a catastrophe for women," said Moaveni, who wrote "Lipstick Jihad" and co-authored "Iran Awakening" with Nobel laureate Ebadi.

The weight of discrimination against women is felt most profoundly through Iran's legal system, but Moaveni said Ahmadinejad added to the hardship by clamping down on women's lifestyles. He mandated the way women dress and even censored Web sites that dealt with women's health, Moaveni said. A woman would be hard-pressed to conduct a Google search for something as simple as breast cancer.

Moaveni was almost arrested because her coat sleeves were too short and exposed too much skin. In that setting, she said, it's striking to see women protesting, especially without their hijabs, or head coverings.

"While it's not at the top of women's grievances, the hijab is symbolic. Taking it off is like waving a red flag," Moaveni said. "Women are saying they are a force to be reckoned with."

Azar Nafisi, a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran," said she has been watching the footage from Iran with "inordinate pride."

She marched on the streets during the 1979 revolution because she believed in greater freedoms for her people, only to see her dreams shattered as hardline clerics took hold of Iran. "Reading Lolita" is largely a memoir of her harrowing days in Iran until 1997, when she immigrated to the United States.

"The way I walked down the street became a political statement," Nafisi said.

She recalled her own mother being a devout Muslim who chose not to wear a veil. Her grandmother, like more traditional women in Iran, wore a veil but resented the government ordering her to do so. Covering up, Nafisi said, was a matter of faith, not politics.

Nafisi believes that women have become a symbolic statement of the power of the Islamic state. She called Iranian women canaries of the mind -- barometers of how free society is.

It's impossible to predict what will transpire in Iran in the coming days.

Nafisi believes a regime change will not be enough; that only a change in mindset can lead to greater freedoms for women.

Moaveni said the sheer scale of the demonstrations assures her that the political and social climate will never again be the same in Iran.

Tohidi is keeping her fingers crossed that the protests won't prompt Iran's hardliners to clamp down and rule by repression.

But all of them shared the hopes of the women -- like Parisa -- who are marching on the streets.

"Today, we were wearing black," Parisa said, referring to the day of mourning to remember those who have died in post-election violence.

"We were holding signs. We said, 'We are not sheep. We are human beings,'" she said.

Parisa was thankful for all the images being transmitted out of Iran despite the government's crackdown on international journalists. She was thankful, too, that the world cared.

"Today," she said, "I had this feeling of hope that things will finally change."

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text: added

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text: hardship

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text: clamping

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text: women

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text: way

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text: day

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text: are

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text: Parisa

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text: Iran

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text: government

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text: crackdown

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text: the

text: world

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text: had

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text: feeling

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text: hope

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text: things

text: will

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question: Who has been noticeable?

answer: Women,

text: Women,

question: What might the protests change?

answer: greater freedoms for women.

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Washington (CNN) -- Several veterans and conservative bloggers are taking issue with President Barack Obama choosing not to attend the Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Vice President Joe Biden is attending in his place.

"Arlington is a place of tremendous symbolism," said Paul Rieckhoff, founder of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

"On Monday, it's where the eyes of our entire nation will be focused," said Rieckhoff, "and unfortunately, the president and his family won't be there to stand with us."

After his Friday trip to the Louisiana coast to check on the oil spill, the president will go to Chicago, Illinois, with his family to spend time with friends. Obama will mark the Monday holiday with remarks at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, about an hour outside of Chicago.

"President Obama has a deep respect and appreciation for our service members and veterans, clearly seen in his administration's policies, priorities and actions," said Nick Shapiro, White House assistant press secretary.

A conservative blogger disagrees.

On Redstate.com, Erick Erickson writes, "going to Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns has ... everything to do with a Commander in Chief who seems to not like the military showing some basic respect to the men and women, alive and dead, who have actually kept us free." Erickson is also an analyst for CNN.

But some vets groups say it's all right if the president misses this one, noting that he attended wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington last year.

Jay Agg, communications director for AMVETS, a veterans service organization, said "this really is a nonissue," calling a lot of the outrage "politically motivated."

"It really does seem odd to me that such a big deal is being made out of this because he is going to a national cemetery to observe the holiday in Illinois. Bush sent Cheney to a Veterans Day event in DC," Agg said.

Obama's absence from Memorial Day services at Arlington will not be unprecedented, but in recent years, it has been a common practice to attend. President Bill Clinton went every year of his presidency, and President George W. Bush went each year except for the year he was in Europe to commemorate the D-Day anniversary. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush did not attend regularly.

"AMVETS recognizes and appreciates the fact that the president has done a lot for veterans," Agg said. "He's behind the largest increase to the VA budget in history and has signed a number of critical pieces of legislation that benefit vets, including the post-9/11 GI bill, and more recently, caregiver legislation," he said.

"We're in middle of two wars," argues Rieckhoff, of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. "There will be hundreds of children there who have lost parents. Every major veterans group will be there. He should be there with his family."

"We understand that President Obama is a very busy man. He has things like the oil spill and the economy to worry about," American Legion spokesman Marty Callaghan told CNN.

"Obviously, it is always a good thing for our commander in chief to be in the nation's capital for Memorial Day," he said. "But other presidents have not always been here, including the first President Bush and President Reagan."

"We feel like he is going to be here in spirit," Callaghan said. "He is our commander in chief."

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TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- A U.S. Marine pleaded guilty Friday to abusive sexual contact with a child under 16, bringing to a close a criminal case that stoked outrage in Japan, a Marine spokesman said.

Protesters turned out in March after the rape allegations surfaced. The Marine pleaded guilty to charges Friday.

Staff. Sgt. Tyrone L. Hadnott was sentenced to four years of confinement, said First Lt. Judd Wilson, a Marine spokesman in Okinawa, Japan.

The Marine Corps withdrew several other charges, including rape of a child, kidnapping and making a false official statement, Wilson said.

Japanese police arrested Hadnott in February on charges alleging that he raped a 14-year-old junior-high school student. He saw her while riding his motorcycle, offered to give her a ride and later assaulted her at a park, the police said then.

The case stirred outrage at the highest levels of the Japanese government.

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda deplored the incident as "unforgivable." The Japanese Foreign Ministry lodged an official protest with the U.S. government. And Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima said the offense "violates the rights of women" and that "this is a crime that we should not accept."

The Japanese authorities released Hadnott after the girl withdrew her allegations, but the Marine Corps conducted its own investigation. The Marines charged Hadnott with rape of a child, abusive sexual contact, making a false official statement, adultery and kidnapping.

More than 40,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Japan, most of them on Okinawa.

The U.S. military presence has at times bred resentment among locals, who have long complained about crime, noise and accidents. Anti-American sentiments boiled over in 1995, after three American servicemen kidnapped and gang-raped a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl. Two years ago, a U.S. civilian military employee was jailed for nine years for raping two women.

The Marine Corps said in a statement on Friday that it does not tolerate sexual assault.

"We remain committed to maintaining an environment that rejects sexual assault and attitudes that promote such behaviors," the statement said.

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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- The U.N. Security Council failed to reach a consensus when it met to consider condemning an attack that killed eight people at a prominent Jewish seminary as an act of terrorism.

Ambulance workers put one of the casualties from the seminary attack into an ambulance.

The council said Libya -- a new, nonpermanent member -- blocked the statement on Thursday night. Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, said the attack on the school was no different than Israeli military offensives against militants in Gaza.

But Dan Gillerman, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, said he saw no connection between Thursday's shooting and Israel's operations in Gaza.

"This is not a story of retaliation," he said. "These people have been terrorizing Israel for years, have been carrying out suicide bombings and indiscriminate attacks for years."

A gunman broke into the Jewish seminary about 8:30 p.m., spraying automatic-weapons fire, authorities said. Most of the victims were students in their teens and 20s, medical officials said.

At least nine others were wounded before an off-duty Israel Defense Forces officer fatally shot the gunman, Jerusalem District Police commander Aharon Franko said.

The gunman was carrying an AK-47 and a pistol -- and had time to swap weapons during the massacre.

Police are trying to identify the gunman and figure out how he managed, while drawing little notice, to enter the large three-story school in a bustling residential neighborhood.

"There was no alert or warning about this attack," Franko said.  Watch the immediate aftermath of the attack Â»

A first responder said the bodies were on the floor of the study hall surrounded by holy books.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Video from Thursday's scene showed a frantic crowd of rescue workers carrying bloodied victims into ambulances. Dozens of police officers were scouring the campus and streets around the yeshiva in case there were other gunmen.

Outside the school, scores of Israeli men gathered from surrounding neighborhoods, demanding justice for the attack.

Authorities are calling the incident at west Jerusalem's Merkaz Harav yeshiva an act of terrorism. The school is one of the largest seminaries in Israel, with about 500 students in the yeshiva and 200 in an advanced graduate program.

"Israel is at the forefront of the struggle against terrorism and will continue to defend its citizens, who are exposed to this threat on a daily basis," Israel's Foreign Ministry said in a written statement.

"Israel expects the nations of the world to support it in its war against those who murder students, women and children, by any means and with respect for neither place nor target."

President Bush backed Israeli leaders in a statement issued Thursday, saying, "I condemn in the strongest possible terms the terrorist attack in Jerusalem that targeted innocent students at the Merkaz Harav yeshiva. This barbaric and vicious attack on innocent civilians deserves the condemnation of every nation."

But Libya's Dabbashi compared the attack with "bloodshed in the Palestinian territory."

"For us, the human lives are the same. We judge the incident itself," Dabbashi told reporters after the Security Council meeting. "When we have to condemn the killing of the Israeli civilians, we also have to look at what's happening in Gaza."

Jerusalem security increased

Security was bolstered, with thousands of additional officers across Jerusalem and the rest of Israel, authorities said.

Meanwhile, celebratory shooting took place in Gaza City after the news of the attack, with hundreds chanting and clapping in the streets. But Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas criticized the killings.

"The Palestinian Authority condemns any attack on innocent civilians," Abbas' office said in a written statement.

The shootings came just a day after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who met with both Israelis and Palestinians, announced that peace talks will resume between the two sides.

Abbas suspended peace negotiations last week after fierce fighting broke out between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, but he agreed to resume negotiations after meeting with Rice.

Israel will continue peace talks with the Palestinians regardless of the attack in Jerusalem, Foreign Ministry spokesman Aryeh Mekel said Thursday.

Israel conducted a large-scale operation in Gaza to hunt down Palestinian militants who have been firing dozens of rockets into Israel. At least 70 Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed during the operation, Israeli and Palestinian sources said. Militants also fired at least 25 rockets toward Israel, wounding at least two civilians.

"This operation came directly after the attack committed inside Gaza. This operation is a normal response," said Fawzi Barhoom, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza.  Watch Barhoom's reaction to the attack Â»

Gillerman said the Security Council should condemn the attack. "They are so, so quick sometimes to criticize Israel for defending itself. I would like to see those members convene as we speak in order to condemn this in the strongest possible terms."

Thursday's attack was the worst inside Israel since April 17, 2006, when a suicide bombing outside a falafel restaurant in Tel Aviv killed nine people. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for that attack.

Attacks in Jerusalem are rare. Eight people were wounded August 10 in the Old City when a Palestinian resident grabbed a security guard's gun and fired; and four Israeli security guards were wounded May 26 when two Palestinian gunmen began firing in east Jerusalem. All three of the assailants were killed. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Ben Wedeman and Atika Shubert contributed to this report.

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text: ambassador

text: to

text: the

text: United

text: Nations

text: said

text: he

text: saw

text: no

text: connection

text: between

text: Thursday

text: 's

text: shooting

text: and

text: Israel

text: 's

text: operations

text: in

text: Gaza

text: This

text: is

text: not

text: a

text: story

text: of

text: retaliation

text: he

text: said

text: These

text: people

text: have

text: been

text: terrorizing

text: Israel

text: for

text: years

text: have

text: been

text: carrying

text: out

text: suicide

text: bombings

text: and

text: indiscriminate

text: attacks

text: for

text: years

text: A

text: gunman

text: broke

text: into

text: the

text: Jewish

text: seminary

text: about

text: p.m.

text: spraying

text: automatic

text: weapons

text: fire

text: authorities

text: said

text: Most

text: of

text: the

text: victims

text: were

text: students

text: in

text: their

text: teens

text: and

text: medical

text: officials

text: said

text: At

text: least

text: nine

text: others

text: were

text: wounded

text: before

text: an

text: off

text: duty

text: Israel

text: Defense

text: Forces

text: officer

text: fatally

text: shot

text: the

text: gunman

text: Jerusalem

text: District

text: Police

text: commander

text: Aharon

text: Franko

text: said

text: The

text: gunman

text: was

text: carrying

text: an

text: and

text: a

text: pistol

text: and

text: had

text: time

text: to

text: swap

text: weapons

text: during

text: the

text: massacre

text: Police

text: are

text: trying

text: to

text: identify

text: the

text: gunman

text: and

text: figure

text: out

text: how

text: he

text: managed

text: while

text: drawing

text: little

text: notice

text: to

text: enter

text: the

text: large

text: three

text: story

text: school

text: in

text: a

text: bustling

text: residential

text: neighborhood

text: There

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text: no

text: alert

text: or

text: warning

text: about

text: this

text: attack

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text: said

text: Watch

text: the

text: immediate

text: aftermath

text: of

text: the

text: attack

text: Â

text: A

text: first

text: responder

text: said

text: the

text: bodies

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text: on

text: the

text: floor

text: of

text: the

text: study

text: hall

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text: by

text: holy

text: books

text: No

text: group

text: has

text: claimed

text: responsibility

text: for

text: the

text: attack

text: Video

text: from

text: Thursday

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text: scene

text: showed

text: a

text: frantic

text: crowd

text: of

text: rescue

text: workers

text: carrying

text: bloodied

text: victims

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text: police

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text: campus

text: and

text: streets

text: around

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text: yeshiva

text: in

text: case

text: there

text: were

text: other

text: gunmen

text: Outside

text: the

text: school

text: scores

text: of

text: Israeli

text: men

text: gathered

text: from

text: surrounding

text: neighborhoods

text: demanding

text: justice

text: for

text: the

text: attack

text: Authorities

text: are

text: calling

text: the

text: incident

text: at

text: west

text: Jerusalem

text: 's

text: Merkaz

text: Harav

text: yeshiva

text: an

text: act

text: of

text: terrorism

text: The

text: school

text: is

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: largest

text: seminaries

text: in

text: Israel

text: with

text: about

text: students

text: in

text: the

text: yeshiva

text: and

text: in

text: an

text: advanced

text: graduate

text: program

text: Israel

text: is

text: at

text: the

text: forefront

text: of

text: the

text: struggle

text: against

text: terrorism

text: and

text: will

text: continue

text: to

text: defend

text: its

text: citizens

text: who

text: are

text: exposed

text: to

text: this

text: threat

text: on

text: a

text: daily

text: basis

text: Israel

text: 's

text: Foreign

text: Ministry

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: written

text: statement

text: Israel

text: expects

text: the

text: nations

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: to

text: support

text: it

text: in

text: its

text: war

text: against

text: those

text: who

text: murder

text: students

text: women

text: and

text: children

text: by

text: any

text: means

text: and

text: with

text: respect

text: for

text: neither

text: place

text: nor

text: target

text: President

text: Bush

text: backed

text: Israeli

text: leaders

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: issued

text: Thursday

text: saying

text: I

text: condemn

text: in

text: the

text: strongest

text: possible

text: terms

text: the

text: terrorist

text: attack

text: in

text: Jerusalem

text: that

text: targeted

text: innocent

text: students

text: at

text: the

text: Merkaz

text: Harav

text: yeshiva

text: This

text: barbaric

text: and

text: vicious

text: attack

text: on

text: innocent

text: civilians

text: deserves

text: the

text: condemnation

text: of

text: every

text: nation

text: But

text: Libya

text: 's

text: Dabbashi

text: compared

text: the

text: attack

text: with

text: bloodshed

text: in

text: the

text: Palestinian

text: territory

text: For

text: us

text: the

text: human

text: lives

text: are

text: the

text: same

text: We

text: judge

text: the

text: incident

text: itself

text: Dabbashi

text: told

text: reporters

text: after

text: the

text: Security

text: Council

text: meeting

text: When

text: we

text: have

text: to

text: condemn

text: the

text: killing

text: of

text: the

text: Israeli

text: civilians

text: we

text: also

text: have

text: to

text: look

text: at

text: what

text: 's

text: happening

text: in

text: Gaza

text: Jerusalem

text: security

text: increased

text: Security

text: was

text: bolstered

text: with

text: thousands

text: of

text: additional

text: officers

text: across

text: Jerusalem

text: and

text: the

text: rest

text: of

text: Israel

text: authorities

text: said

text: Meanwhile

text: celebratory

text: shooting

text: took

text: place

text: in

text: Gaza

text: City

text: after

text: the

text: news

text: of

text: the

text: attack

text: with

text: hundreds

text: chanting

text: and

text: clapping

text: in

text: the

text: streets

text: But

text: Palestinian

text: Authority

text: President

text: Mahmoud

text: Abbas

text: criticized

text: the

text: killings

text: The

text: Palestinian

text: Authority

text: condemns

text: any

text: attack

text: on

text: innocent

text: civilians

text: Abbas

text: office

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: written

text: statement

text: The

text: shootings

text: came

text: just

text: a

text: day

text: after

text: U.S.

text: Secretary

text: of

text: State

text: Condoleezza

text: Rice

text: who

text: met

text: with

text: both

text: Israelis

text: and

text: Palestinians

text: announced

text: that

text: peace

text: talks

text: will

text: resume

text: between

text: the

text: two

text: sides

text: Abbas

text: suspended

text: peace

text: negotiations

text: last

text: week

text: after

text: fierce

text: fighting

text: broke

text: out

text: between

text: Israel

text: and

text: Palestinian

text: militants

text: in

text: Gaza

text: but

text: he

text: agreed

text: to

text: resume

text: negotiations

text: after

text: meeting

text: with

text: Rice

text: Israel

text: will

text: continue

text: peace

text: talks

text: with

text: the

text: Palestinians

text: regardless

text: of

text: the

text: attack

text: in

text: Jerusalem

text: Foreign

text: Ministry

text: spokesman

text: Aryeh

text: Mekel

text: said

text: Thursday

text: Israel

text: conducted

text: a

text: large

text: scale

text: operation

text: in

text: Gaza

text: to

text: hunt

text: down

text: Palestinian

text: militants

text: who

text: have

text: been

text: firing

text: dozens

text: of

text: rockets

text: into

text: Israel

text: At

text: least

text: Palestinians

text: and

text: two

text: Israeli

text: soldiers

text: were

text: killed

text: during

text: the

text: operation

text: Israeli

text: and

text: Palestinian

text: sources

text: said

text: Militants

text: also

text: fired

text: at

text: least

text: rockets

text: toward

text: Israel

text: wounding

text: at

text: least

text: two

text: civilians

text: This

text: operation

text: came

text: directly

text: after

text: the

text: attack

text: committed

text: inside

text: Gaza

text: This

text: operation

text: is

text: a

text: normal

text: response

text: said

text: Fawzi

text: Barhoom

text: a

text: Hamas

text: spokesman

text: in

text: Gaza

text: Watch

text: Barhoom

text: 's

text: reaction

text: to

text: the

text: attack

text: Â

text: Gillerman

text: said

text: the

text: Security

text: Council

text: should

text: condemn

text: the

text: attack

text: They

text: are

text: so

text: so

text: quick

text: sometimes

text: to

text: criticize

text: Israel

text: for

text: defending

text: itself

text: I

text: would

text: like

text: to

text: see

text: those

text: members

text: convene

text: as

text: we

text: speak

text: in

text: order

text: to

text: condemn

text: this

text: in

text: the

text: strongest

text: possible

text: terms

text: Thursday

text: 's

text: attack

text: was

text: the

text: worst

text: inside

text: Israel

text: since

text: April

text: when

text: a

text: suicide

text: bombing

text: outside

text: a

text: falafel

text: restaurant

text: in

text: Tel

text: Aviv

text: killed

text: nine

text: people

text: Islamic

text: Jihad

text: claimed

text: responsibility

text: for

text: that

text: attack

text: Attacks

text: in

text: Jerusalem

text: are

text: rare

text: Eight

text: people

text: were

text: wounded

text: August

text: in

text: the

text: Old

text: City

text: when

text: a

text: Palestinian

text: resident

text: grabbed

text: a

text: security

text: guard

text: 's

text: gun

text: and

text: fired

text: and

text: four

text: Israeli

text: security

text: guards

text: were

text: wounded

text: May

text: when

text: two

text: Palestinian

text: gunmen

text: began

text: firing

text: in

text: east

text: Jerusalem

text: All

text: three

text: of

text: the

text: assailants

text: were

text: killed

text: E

text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Ben

text: Wedeman

text: and

text: Atika

text: Shubert

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Where did the gunman go?

answer: Jewish seminary

text: Jewish seminary

question: what comes after annoucement?

answer: negotiations

text: negotiations

question: Did the gunman go into the Jewish seminary in Jerusalem?

answer: broke

text: broke

question: When was the violence happened?

answer: about 8:30 p.m.,

text: about 8:30 p.m.,

question: Who shot the attacker?

answer: off-duty Israel Defense Forces officer

text: off-duty Israel Defense Forces officer

question: Was an Israeli off-duty defense force officer killed in the attack?

answer: No

text: No

question: where the gunman went?

answer: Jewish seminary

text: Jewish seminary


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(CNN) -- Iceland and Sweden plan to take in about 200 Palestinian refugees from Iraq who have been living in refugee camps along the Iraqi-Syrian border, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.

More than two dozen refugees stranded at the Al Waleed refugee camp for the last two years will be headed to Iceland in the next few weeks, the agency said. In addition, 155 Palestinians in the Al Tanf refugee camp have been accepted for resettlement in Sweden, it said.

Many Palestinians living in Iraq have gotten caught up in the violence that has engulfed the country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and have had to flee their homes. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said that out of the estimated 34,000 Palestinians who lived in Iraq since 2003, about 10,000 to 15,000 remain.

The UNHCR says about 2,300 Palestinians "are living in desperate conditions along the Iraq-Syria border." They are, the UNHCR says, "unable to return to Iraq or to cross the borders to neighboring countries." It says the Al Waleed camp has 1,400 people and Al Tanf about 900.

"UNHCR has repeatedly called for international support for the Palestinians but with few results. Few Palestinians in the border camps have been accepted for resettlement or offered shelter in third countries; 223 Palestinians left to non-traditional resettlement countries such as Brazil and Chile.

"Some urgent medical cases were taken by a few European countries, but this is a very small number out of the 2,300 Palestinians stranded in the desert," the UNHCR said in a statement.

It noted that Sudan has made an offer to take in some of those Palestinians, and said "UNHCR and Palestinian representatives are finalizing an operations plan that will enable this to take place."

Refugees International recently asked the United States government to intervene and resettle the Palestinians in the United States instead of Sudan, which itself is engulfed in sectarian fighting and whose government has been condemned for atrocities.

"The Palestinians being resettled in Sudan is obviously not an ideal or preferred solution," State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper told CNN last month. "But we accept the judgment of the UNHCR that it is preferable to the Palestinians continuing to be stranded in the border area in extremely dire circumstances."

text: CNN

text: Iceland

text: and

text: Sweden

text: plan

text: to

text: take

text: in

text: about

text: Palestinian

text: refugees

text: from

text: Iraq

text: who

text: have

text: been

text: living

text: in

text: refugee

text: camps

text: along

text: the

text: Iraqi

text: Syrian

text: border

text: the

text: U.N.

text: refugee

text: agency

text: said

text: Tuesday

text: More

text: than

text: two

text: dozen

text: refugees

text: stranded

text: at

text: the

text: Al

text: Waleed

text: refugee

text: camp

text: for

text: the

text: last

text: two

text: years

text: will

text: be

text: headed

text: to

text: Iceland

text: in

text: the

text: next

text: few

text: weeks

text: the

text: agency

text: said

text: In

text: addition

text: Palestinians

text: in

text: the

text: Al

text: Tanf

text: refugee

text: camp

text: have

text: been

text: accepted

text: for

text: resettlement

text: in

text: Sweden

text: it

text: said

text: Many

text: Palestinians

text: living

text: in

text: Iraq

text: have

text: gotten

text: caught

text: up

text: in

text: the

text: violence

text: that

text: has

text: engulfed

text: the

text: country

text: since

text: the

text: U.S

text: led

text: invasion

text: in

text: and

text: have

text: had

text: to

text: flee

text: their

text: homes

text: The

text: U.N.

text: High

text: Commissioner

text: for

text: Refugees

text: said

text: that

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: estimated

text: Palestinians

text: who

text: lived

text: in

text: Iraq

text: since

text: about

text: to

text: remain

text: The

text: UNHCR

text: says

text: about

text: Palestinians

text: are

text: living

text: in

text: desperate

text: conditions

text: along

text: the

text: Iraq

text: Syria

text: border

text: They

text: are

text: the

text: UNHCR

text: says

text: unable

text: to

text: return

text: to

text: Iraq

text: or

text: to

text: cross

text: the

text: borders

text: to

text: neighboring

text: countries

text: It

text: says

text: the

text: Al

text: Waleed

text: camp

text: has

text: people

text: and

text: Al

text: Tanf

text: about

text: UNHCR

text: has

text: repeatedly

text: called

text: for

text: international

text: support

text: for

text: the

text: Palestinians

text: but

text: with

text: few

text: results

text: Few

text: Palestinians

text: in

text: the

text: border

text: camps

text: have

text: been

text: accepted

text: for

text: resettlement

text: or

text: offered

text: shelter

text: in

text: third

text: countries

text: Palestinians

text: left

text: to

text: non

text: traditional

text: resettlement

text: countries

text: such

text: as

text: Brazil

text: and

text: Chile

text: Some

text: urgent

text: medical

text: cases

text: were

text: taken

text: by

text: a

text: few

text: European

text: countries

text: but

text: this

text: is

text: a

text: very

text: small

text: number

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: Palestinians

text: stranded

text: in

text: the

text: desert

text: the

text: UNHCR

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: It

text: noted

text: that

text: Sudan

text: has

text: made

text: an

text: offer

text: to

text: take

text: in

text: some

text: of

text: those

text: Palestinians

text: and

text: said

text: UNHCR

text: and

text: Palestinian

text: representatives

text: are

text: finalizing

text: an

text: operations

text: plan

text: that

text: will

text: enable

text: this

text: to

text: take

text: place

text: Refugees

text: International

text: recently

text: asked

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: government

text: to

text: intervene

text: and

text: resettle

text: the

text: Palestinians

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: instead

text: of

text: Sudan

text: which

text: itself

text: is

text: engulfed

text: in

text: sectarian

text: fighting

text: and

text: whose

text: government

text: has

text: been

text: condemned

text: for

text: atrocities

text: The

text: Palestinians

text: being

text: resettled

text: in

text: Sudan

text: is

text: obviously

text: not

text: an

text: ideal

text: or

text: preferred

text: solution

text: State

text: Department

text: spokesman

text: Kurtis

text: Cooper

text: told

text: CNN

text: last

text: month

text: But

text: we

text: accept

text: the

text: judgment

text: of

text: the

text: UNHCR

text: that

text: it

text: is

text: preferable

text: to

text: the

text: Palestinians

text: continuing

text: to

text: be

text: stranded

text: in

text: the

text: border

text: area

text: in

text: extremely

text: dire

text: circumstances

question: What is under way?

answer: 200 Palestinian refugees from Iraq

text: 200 Palestinian refugees from Iraq

question: What are 2,300 palestinians?

answer: The UNHCR says about

text: The UNHCR says about

question: Who is living in desperate conditions along the Iraq-Syria border?

answer: 200 Palestinian refugees

text: 200 Palestinian refugees

question: What number of  Palestinian refugees will go to Iceland?

answer: More than two dozen

text: More than two dozen