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U.S., Iraqi troops sweep into Baqouba
Jun 22 2007 10:44PM (CT)
BAQOUBA, Iraq (AP) - Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops, under cover of F-16s, fought their way into three neighborhoods of besieged Baqouba on Friday to help clear Diyala province of entrenched insurgents. To the north of the city, American helicopters killed 17 al-Qaida gunmen trying to sneak past a checkpoint.
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U.S., Iraqi troops sweep into Baqouba
Jun 22 2007 10:44PM (CT)
BAQOUBA, Iraq (AP) - Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops, under cover of F-16s, fought their way into three neighborhoods of besieged Baqouba on Friday to help clear Diyala province of entrenched insurgents. To the north of the city, American helicopters killed 17 al-Qaida gunmen trying to sneak past a checkpoint.
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U.S., Iraqi troops sweep into Baqouba
Jun 22 2007 10:44PM (CT)
BAQOUBA, Iraq (AP) - Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops, under cover of F-16s, fought their way into three neighborhoods of besieged Baqouba on Friday to help clear Diyala province of entrenched insurgents. To the north of the city, American helicopters killed 17 al-Qaida gunmen trying to sneak past a checkpoint.
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Abbas signals shutdown of Hamas groups
Jun 22 2007 10:02PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas authorized a review of all private organizations in the Palestinian areas on Friday, signaling he may shut down Hamas-affiliated groups to counter the Islamic movement after it took over the Gaza Strip.
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Abbas signals shutdown of Hamas groups
Jun 22 2007 10:02PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas authorized a review of all private organizations in the Palestinian areas on Friday, signaling he may shut down Hamas-affiliated groups to counter the Islamic movement after it took over the Gaza Strip.
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Iranian dissidents face broad crackdown
Jun 22 2007 7:51PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed to be delighted when reformist students disrupted his visit to their elite university in December, burning his portrait and shouting "Death to the dictator!"
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Iranian dissidents face broad crackdown
Jun 22 2007 7:51PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed to be delighted when reformist students disrupted his visit to their elite university in December, burning his portrait and shouting "Death to the dictator!"
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Envoy: Tehran open to nuclear compromise
Jun 22 2007 7:13PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Key U.S. allies are debating the idea of a nuclear compromise with Iran that would call for only a partial freeze of Tehran's uranium enrichment program _ a stance that could put them at odds with Washington, officials said Friday.
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Envoy: Tehran open to nuclear compromise
Jun 22 2007 7:13PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Key U.S. allies are debating the idea of a nuclear compromise with Iran that would call for only a partial freeze of Tehran's uranium enrichment program _ a stance that could put them at odds with Washington, officials said Friday.
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Envoy: Tehran open to nuclear compromise
Jun 22 2007 7:13PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Key U.S. allies are debating the idea of a nuclear compromise with Iran that would call for only a partial freeze of Tehran's uranium enrichment program _ a stance that could put them at odds with Washington, officials said Friday.
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Iraqis water down the draft oil law
Jun 22 2007 4:36PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi officials said Friday that a U.S.-backed draft oil law will soon be returned to the Cabinet for approval after Kurds agreed to a compromise revenue-sharing measure. But they said many key sticking points remain unresolved _ and not even addressed _ in the watered-down legislation.
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Some Masada remains questioned by study
Jun 22 2007 1:59PM (CT)
MASADA, Israel (AP) - An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada, the desert fortress famous as the scene of a mass suicide nearly 2,000 years ago.
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Some Masada remains questioned by study
Jun 22 2007 1:59PM (CT)
MASADA, Israel (AP) - An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada, the desert fortress famous as the scene of a mass suicide nearly 2,000 years ago.
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Some Masada remains questioned by study
Jun 22 2007 1:59PM (CT)
MASADA, Israel (AP) - An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada, the desert fortress famous as the scene of a mass suicide nearly 2,000 years ago.
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Some Masada remains questioned by study
Jun 22 2007 1:59PM (CT)
MASADA, Israel (AP) - An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada, the desert fortress famous as the scene of a mass suicide nearly 2,000 years ago.
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Divided Palestine roils peacemaking
Jun 22 2007 1:58PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The West, Israel and U.S.-allied Arab states want to demonstrate to the Palestinians that moderation pays, and next week's peace summit is the first sign of the strategy.
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Divided Palestine roils peacemaking
Jun 22 2007 1:58PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - The West, Israel and U.S.-allied Arab states want to demonstrate to the Palestinians that moderation pays, and next week's peace summit is the first sign of the strategy.
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NATO blames Taliban for 25 civilian dead
Jun 22 2007 1:09PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - NATO accused Taliban fighters Friday of provoking an airstrike that reportedly killed 25 innocents, including three infants and nine women, while a Dutch general charged that insurgents executed villagers during another battle.
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NATO blames Taliban for 25 civilian dead
Jun 22 2007 1:09PM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - NATO accused Taliban fighters Friday of provoking an airstrike that reportedly killed 25 innocents, including three infants and nine women, while a Dutch general charged that insurgents executed villagers during another battle.
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PLO fighters reduced to gatekeepers
Jun 22 2007 1:09PM (CT)
EIN EL-HILWEH CAMP, Lebanon (AP) - In the 1970s, Yasser Arafat's PLO reigned supreme in Lebanon. Today, the guerrillas are confined to a dozen Palestinian refugee camps across the country.
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Iran said to retaliate against students
Jun 22 2007 1:04PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - After Iranian officials began arresting student activists involved in a rare campus protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Abbas Hakimzadeh fled 500 miles east to his home in Mashhad. On June 6, plainclothes security men caught up with him, lawyers say.
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Iran cleric: Rushdie fatwa still stands
Jun 22 2007 9:39AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An high-level Iranian cleric said Friday that the religious edict calling for the killing of Salman Rushdie cannot be revoked, and he warned Britain was defying the Islamic world by granting the author knighthood.
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Iran cleric: Rushdie fatwa still stands
Jun 22 2007 9:39AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An high-level Iranian cleric said Friday that the religious edict calling for the killing of Salman Rushdie cannot be revoked, and he warned Britain was defying the Islamic world by granting the author knighthood.
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Iran cleric: Rushdie fatwa still stands
Jun 22 2007 9:39AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An high-level Iranian cleric said Friday that the religious edict calling for the killing of Salman Rushdie cannot be revoked, and he warned Britain was defying the Islamic world by granting the author knighthood.
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Iran cleric: Rushdie fatwa still stands
Jun 22 2007 9:39AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An high-level Iranian cleric said Friday that the religious edict calling for the killing of Salman Rushdie cannot be revoked, and he warned Britain was defying the Islamic world by granting the author knighthood.
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U.S. scours Iraq's Baqouba for militants
Jun 22 2007 7:30AM (CT)
BAQOUBA, Iraq (AP) - U.S. troops are searching houses and vehicles to root out hundreds of al-Qaida militants believed holed up in western Baqouba, which has become the center of a massive military offensive, a commander said Friday.
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China forgives Iraqi debt, but how much?
Jun 22 2007 6:25AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China announced with great flourish this week that it is forgiving debt owed by Iraq. But with the Iraqi president set to hold talks Friday with the Chinese premier, it was still unclear how much debt has been written off.
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China forgives Iraqi debt, but how much?
Jun 22 2007 6:25AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China announced with great flourish this week that it is forgiving debt owed by Iraq. But with the Iraqi president set to hold talks Friday with the Chinese premier, it was still unclear how much debt has been written off.
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China forgives Iraqi debt, but how much?
Jun 22 2007 6:25AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China announced with great flourish this week that it is forgiving debt owed by Iraq. But with the Iraqi president set to hold talks Friday with the Chinese premier, it was still unclear how much debt has been written off.
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China forgives Iraqi debt, but how much?
Jun 22 2007 6:25AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - China announced with great flourish this week that it is forgiving debt owed by Iraq. But with the Iraqi president set to hold talks Friday with the Chinese premier, it was still unclear how much debt has been written off.
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Sporadic gunfire at Lebanon camp
Jun 22 2007 4:13AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Sporadic gunfire and occasional blasts were heard Friday from a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, a day after Lebanon's defense minister declared that Islamic militants inside the camp were defeated and that major combat was over.
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Iraq: U.S. soldiers detain 18
Jun 22 2007 2:53AM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. soldiers backed by attack aircraft detained 18 suspected militants and confiscated weapons and equipment in three raids targeting bomb networks around northwestern Baghdad, the military said Friday.
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Iraqi guards training in Jordan
Jun 22 2007 2:50AM (CT)
MUWAQQAR, Jordan (AP) - "Bomb, bomb," a man shouts, as a group of Iraqis dives for cover. It's all a drill _ part of six-week course to train new guards who will oversee thousands of prisoners taken into custody in the ongoing Baghdad security crackdown.
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Iraqi guards training in Jordan
Jun 22 2007 2:50AM (CT)
MUWAQQAR, Jordan (AP) - "Bomb, bomb," a man shouts, as a group of Iraqis dives for cover. It's all a drill _ part of six-week course to train new guards who will oversee thousands of prisoners taken into custody in the ongoing Baghdad security crackdown.
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Iraqi guards training in Jordan
Jun 22 2007 2:50AM (CT)
MUWAQQAR, Jordan (AP) - "Bomb, bomb," a man shouts, as a group of Iraqis dives for cover. It's all a drill _ part of six-week course to train new guards who will oversee thousands of prisoners taken into custody in the ongoing Baghdad security crackdown.
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Iraqi political talks boost al-Maliki
Jun 22 2007 1:21AM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's politicians are trying to stitch together a new majority alliance in parliament that would leave Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in power and freeze out backers of a powerful Shiite cleric who is leading a political standoff, officials said Thursday.
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