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Attacks kill 16 people in Iraq, 8 policemen kidnapped on road to Syrian, Jordanian border
Associated PressBAGHDAD (AP) — A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country. The...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Baghdad (Iraq), Shootings, Armed Conflicts, Wars and Interventions
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Feds: Drive-through Sanford bank robbers said 'All will die' in note
Robert Gordon Shaw and Matthew Anthony Cosimini had money problems. So, according to Shaw, the two devised a plan to rob a Regions bank in Sanford. They made a fake bomb , stole a pickup truck at Seminole Towne Center, and wrote a demand note. Those...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Theft, Politics, Sanford, Lobbying
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Armed groups bomb Libyan military posts in Benghazi
ReutersBENGHAZI (Reuters) - Armed groups attacked military posts in Libya's second city Benghazi with bombs and a rocket-propelled grenade, an army commander said on Saturday. Nearly two years after the uprising that ended Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule, the...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Muammar Gaddafi, Military Equipment, Libya, Benghazi
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Watch: Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT
The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball. It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph. And...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry, Science and Technology, NASA, Emergency Incidents
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Police chief who launched anti-Taliban crackdown shot dead in western Afghanistan
Associated PressKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an official said Saturday. Police Chief Abdul Ghani was leaving his driveway in his...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Wars and Interventions, Islam
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Meteoroid impact triggers bright flash on the moon
Reuters* Biggest impact since monitoring began eight years ago * Impact much smaller than February explosion over Russia * May be related to meteor shower on Earth By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 17 (Reuters) - An automated telescope monitoring...Tags: Science and Technology, NASA, Emergency Incidents, Russia, TNT (tv network)
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Dollar soars, stocks set new highs on Fed stimulus exit talk
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar soared against major currencies on Friday on growing speculation that the Federal Reserve could soon begin to rein in its bond-buying program and after data showed U.S. consumer sentiment hit an almost six-year high in...Tags: St. Petersburg (Pinellas, Florida), Machine Manufacturing, Labor Legislation, Citigroup Incorporated, MBIA Incorporated
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Two blasts in Iraq leave at least 70 dead
BAGHDAD — Bombings in Iraq near a Sunni Muslim mosque, a busy shopping street and a funeral procession left at least 70 people dead Friday as the security situation continued to show signs of unraveling. The explosions brought the week’s...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Nations, Baghdad (Iraq), Emergency Incidents, Nouri Maliki
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Student charged with writing bomb threat on wall of high school bathroom
Abdul Dshawn Dixon, a 20-year-old junior at Kings Fork High School in Suffolk, has been charged with threatening to bomb the school. Police say the bomb threat was written on the wall of a boys' bathroom at the school. We at Inside Tidewater hope...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Prosecution
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Two blasts at Iraqi Sunni mosque kill 43
ReutersBAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left Friday prayers, killing at least 43 people in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian violence. Several...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Baghdad (Iraq), United Nations, Nouri Maliki, Wars and Interventions
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Roadside bomb kills 19 in west Baghdad - police, medics
ReutersBAGHDAD, May 17 (Reuters) - Nineteen people were killed on Friday when a roadside bomb exploded near a commercial complex in the Amiriya district in the west of Baghdad, police and medics said. Earlier on Friday, two bombs went off outside a Sunni Muslim...Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), Emergency Incidents, Bombings
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Roadside bomb kills 19 in west Baghdad: police, medics
ReutersBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Nineteen people were killed on Friday when a roadside bomb exploded near a commercial complex in the Amiriya district in the west of Baghdad, police and medics said. Earlier on Friday, two bombs went off outside a Sunni Muslim...Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), Emergency Incidents, Bombings
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