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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: U.S. Congress, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Algeria, Human Rights, Bashar Assad
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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, Fertilizer, Afghanistan, Emergency Incidents, Wars and Interventions
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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: Baghdad (Iraq), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Basra (Iraq), Religious Conflicts, Iraq
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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: Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Baghdad (Iraq), Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Nations, Basra (Iraq)
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Dagestan bombs kill four, two dead in shootout near Moscow
ReutersMAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed at least four people and wounded dozens of others on Monday in one of the bloodiest attacks this year in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia's North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an...Tags: Vladimir Putin, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Shootings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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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: Baghdad (Iraq), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq, Religious Conflicts, Explosions
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Two bombs kill 11 in Iraq's southern city of Basra -police, medics
ReutersBASRA, Iraq, May 20 (Reuters) - Two car bomb blasts in Iraq's predominantly Shi'ite southern oil hub of Basra killed at least 11 people early on Monday, police and medics said. (Reporting by Aref Mohammed; Editing by Catherine Evans)Tags: Basra (Iraq), Iraq, Explosions, Emergency Incidents
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Bombs kill at least 20 in mainly Shi'ite areas of Iraq capital-police, medics
ReutersBAGHDAD, May 20 (Reuters) - Eight car bomb blasts in mainly Shi'ite districts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed at least 20 people on Monday, police and medics said. Earlier, at least 10 people were killed in two car bomb explosions in the...Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), Explosions, Emergency Incidents
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Suicide bomber kills senior official, 14 others in Afghan north
ReutersPOL-E-KHOMRI, Afghanistan, May 20 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew up a senior official and 14 others outside a government office in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan on Monday, police said. The bomber targeted Mohammad Rasoul Mohseni, head of the...Tags: Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government, Suicide, Armed Conflicts
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Anti-Taliban Afghan police chief gunned down in motorcycle attack
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan -- A police chief who had stood up repeatedly to the Taliban was shot and killed in a drive-by attack by four insurgents on motorcycles, officials said Saturday. The police chief, Abdul Ghani, was leaving his driveway in his car...Tags: Kabul (Afghanistan), Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Shootings, Government
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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: Murder, Baghdad (Iraq), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Terrorism, Shootings
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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: Ahmed Wali Karzai, Kabul (Afghanistan), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan
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