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Snapshot: The world in 24 hours, May 18, 2011
Updated: 2011-05-19 15:33
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 Submerged buildings are seen near Lake Providence, Louisiana May 18, 2011. Floodwater released from a key Mississippi River spillway surged through the Louisiana bayou on Tuesday, and levees protecting the state's two biggest cities held as river flows neared their peak. Weeks of heavy rains and runoff from an unusually snowy winter caused the Mississippi River to rise, flooding thousands of homes and 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) of farmland in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas and evoking comparisons to historic floods in 1927 and 1937. [Photo/Agencies]
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 Britain's Queen Elizabeth passes a crowd of wellwishers during her visit to the Irish War Memorial Gardens at Islandbridge in Dublin May 18, 2011. The Queen is on the second day of a four day state visit to Ireland which is the first state visit by a British monarch since Ireland's independence. [Photo/Agencies]
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