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Bomb attacks kill more than 70 Shi'ites across Iraq
ReutersBAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 70 people were killed in a series of car bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew in December...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq, Wars and Interventions, Saudi Arabia, Explosions
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Global shares grind higher, yen rebounds on minister's remarks
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets advanced on Monday, driven higher by a flurry of merger and acquisition activity, while a recent tumble in the yen against the dollar halted after Japan's economy minister suggested the currency might have...Tags: Milan (Italy), Entertainment, Moody's Corporation, Chemical Industry, Enrico Letta
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Dozens killed in wave of bombings in Iraq
A string of car bombs and shootings tore through Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting, officials said The attacks, some of which hit market places...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq, Wars and Interventions, Explosions, Baghdad (Iraq)
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Car bomb blast kills at least 12 in Iraqi capital
ReutersBAGHDAD, May 20 (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in a Shi'ite neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital Baghdad killing at least 12 people on Monday, police and hospital sources said. The blast, near a crowded market in the northern Shaab district of Baghdad,...Tags: Explosions, Baghdad (Iraq), Bombings
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Suicide bomb blast kills Afghan provincial leader, 12 others
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomb blast killed a top leader of a northern Afghan province and at least 12 other people Monday, the latest in a step-up of attacks by Taliban insurgents ahead of Washington’s planned troop withdrawal at the end of...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Landforms, Wars and Interventions, Hamid Karzai, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Reuters World News Highlights 1430 GMT, May 20
ReutersAMMAN - About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday. - - - SEOUL -...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Walmart, Explosions, European Union, Algeria
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US military praises Pakistan's steps to curb fertilizers used in Afghanistan bombs
Associated PressISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has taken a number of steps to prevent fertilizers made within its borders for agriculture from being used as explosives in roadside bombs that target American troops in Afghanistan, said a top U.S. military officer Monday....Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Chemical Industry, Wars and Interventions, Explosions, Pakistan
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Syria's government presses battle in key rebel city of Qusair
BEIRUT -- Renewed clashes were reported Monday in the strategic Syrian city of Qusair, where government forces pressed an offensive aimed at chasing rebels from the supply and logistics hub. There were conflicting accounts from the government and the...
Tags: News Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Lebanon, Politics
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Car bombs in Iraq kill at least 65 people
BAGHDAD -- Car bombs around Iraq killed at least 65 people Monday as the country's worst wave of violence since U.S. troops withdrew a year and a half ago continued. The attacks that occurred by busy commercial streets in Shiite and Sunni areas followed...
Tags: Nouri Maliki, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq, Wars and Interventions, Basra (Iraq)
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Men indicted in connection with bizarre kidnapping, bank robbery
Several men -- including a friend of a bank manager who was kidnapped and strapped with explosives as part of a bizarre bank robbery in East L.A. last fall -- have been indicted in connection with the crimes, several law enforcement sources said. Ray...
Tags: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Theft, Explosions, Kidnapping, Bank Robbery
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Reuters World News Highlights 1800 GMT May 20
ReutersTOP STORIES ----------- AMMAN/BEIRUT - About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian...Tags: Walmart, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Egypt, Russia
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Explosion uncovers Lansford meth lab
]An explosion and flash fire in a house in the 100 block of E. Patterson Street in Lansford Sunday night led authorities to a suspected methamphetamine-making operation. The occupants of the home initially told police someone threw a Molotov cocktail...
Tags: Prosecution, Explosions, Methamphetamine (drug), Drug Trafficking
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