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Syria yesterday condemned the US for launching "criminal and terrorist aggression" on its soil while the Iraqi government defended action against foreign jihadis amid warnings it might complicate plans for a controversial security agreement between Baghdad and Washington.Walid al-Muallem, Syria's foreign minister, used a visit to...(more)
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AP - The Pakistani army's chief spokesman says a suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a group of paramilitary officers in a volatile region near the Afghan border, killing at least eight troops.
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AFP - Thousands of people attacked Chinese police in the southern city of Shenzhen from Friday afternoon to early Saturday morning, state media reported.
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MUMBAI, Nov. 27 -- With her slain husband's body covered in marigolds and draped with the Indian flag, Mansi Shinde pushed away the pallbearers, refusing to let him go. "My baby, my baby," she shrieked, as the wives of other police officers tried to comfort...(more)
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Indian commandoes killed the last three gunman at a landmark hotel late Thursday and were sweeping another luxury hotel in search of hostages and trapped people after suspected Muslim militants stormed targets across Mumbai, leaving 119 people dead.
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Hundreds of thousands flee their homes as rebels take over an army base and the headquarters of a mountain-gorilla park. Rebels overran an army base and seized the headquarters office of a nearby gorilla park in intensified fighting today in the northeastern corner of the Democratic...(more)
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Pakistan has reached a critical new phase in its long-deteriorating financial situation, as investor flight and bleeding of national reserves force the country to scramble for international funds to shore up its economy. With the global financial crisis draining coffers in the United States and...(more)
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They came wearing black hoods, firing automatic weapons and throwing grenades. They took hostages, attacked two hotels, a movie theater a café, a train station and other popular and undefended “soft targets.”
Who are they? The answer to that question remained in dispute Thursday as security...(more)
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Hours after a truck bomber slew 53 people last weekend at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, the country’s interior minister laid responsibility for the attack on Taliban militants holed up in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, or FATA, the remote, wild region that straddles the...(more)
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Shells are fired at the presidential palace and the venue for peace talks in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
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A brief description of the Kurds -- warning, some of the photos of Saddam's chemical attacks are ugly.
However, while the Kurds get crushed between different factions, it's important to realize these people have just wanted to be left alone and in peace.
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