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A German man filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming he was held captive and tortured by U.S. government agents after being mistakenly identified as an associate of the Sept. 11 hijackers.Khaled El-Masri, who is being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, said he was arrested while attempting to enter Macedonia for a holiday trip and flown to Afghanistan. During five months in captivity he was subjected to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, says a lawsuit he f
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On June 12, 2009, Russia Sarychev Volcano erupted in spectacular fashion, issuing plumes of ash skyward in a phenomenal display of geophysical force. It was the first time Sarychev had erupted in over twenty years 鈥?and it happened, rather serendipitously, just as the International Space Station was flying overhead. View this post on Instagram There a lot going on in this brief sequence. The billowing plume cas
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