AFP - Fierce fighting in Baghdad’s Sadr City fuelled the bloodshed in April, with at least 1,073 people killed across Iraq and the US military’s toll hitting a seven-month high.
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AP - The man believed to be the head of al-Qaida in Somalia was killed in an overnight airstrike along with eight other people, an Islamic insurgent group said Thursday.
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AP - For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners gunned down Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Alexei, the hemophiliac heir to Russia’s throne.
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AFP - A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the office of a radical Islamic group in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 10 people and wounding around a dozen, a security official said.
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AFP - Hundreds of protesters demonstrated Thursday outside stores belonging to French supermarket chain Carrefour in four cities in China, state media reported, in a new sign of anti-French sentiment.
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AFP - Senegalese Prime Minister Cheikh Hadjibou Soumare confirmed India would furnish the west African nation with its full supply of rice needs for the next six years despite a suspension of exports.
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AFP - Polls opened in key local elections Thursday amid predictions that the Labour Party could suffer heavy losses that would call Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s leadership into question.
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Reuters - Eight people were killed and 20
injured when a bus carrying Canadian, Italian, Russian and
Ukrainian tourists overturned and caught fire in Egypt’s Sinai
peninsula on Thursday, police sources said.
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Reuters - At least a dozen people were wounded
in a blast at an office of a Muslim cleric in Pakistan’s
northwestern Khyber tribal region on Thursday, officials and
witnesses said.
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Reuters - Iran complained to the United
Nations on Wednesday about U.S. presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton’s comment the United States could “totally obliterate”
Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike against Israel.
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