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U.S. releases filmmaker detained in Iraq
Jul 10 2005 10:46PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An aspiring Iranian-American filmmaker who has been detained by the U.S. military for nearly two months without being charged was released Sunday, officials said.
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Sudan opposition criticizes constitution
Jul 10 2005 7:18PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - The leader of Sudan's main opposition party criticized the new interim constitution as deficient on Sunday and said he was forming an alliance with a leading Islamist figure to monitor the freshly sworn-in government.
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Suicide attacks kill at least 48 in Iraq
Jul 10 2005 5:55PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A man strapped with explosives blew himself up Sunday at an Iraqi military recruiting center in Baghdad, one of a series of suicide attacks that killed at least 48 people and ended a relative lull in violence in recent days.
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Wall makes Jerusalem family consider move
Jul 10 2005 5:20PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Silvia and Tony Albina live in Jerusalem and pay municipal taxes. But they will soon be cut off from their downtown travel agency business, their daughter's kindergarten and many relatives by a concrete wall that will isolate four Arab neighborhoods, including theirs, from the rest of the city.
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Israel Cabinet endorses Jerusalem barrier
Jul 10 2005 4:30PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's Cabinet on Sunday affirmed a plan to surround Jerusalem with a barrier, despite protests by Palestinians, who say the Israelis are unilaterally redrawing the disputed city's boundaries and shifting its demographic balance in favor of Jews.
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Rebel bomb attack injures 20 in Turkey
Jul 10 2005 4:26PM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - A militant Kurdish group claimed responsibility for a bomb Sunday in a resort town on Turkey's Aegean coast that wounded 20 people, including two foreign tourists, a pro-Kurdish news agency reported.
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Anti-Shiite fervor stuns Iraqi community
Jul 10 2005 1:38PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Salwa Jabr Saihoud wanted to grant her father's dying wish that she accompany his body on its journey to burial in Najaf. It mattered little to her that the road to the Shiite holy city is one of the most dangerous in Iraq.
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Israel: Conflict not fueling terror
Jul 10 2005 12:51PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli officials on Sunday rejected British Prime Minister Tony Blair's contention that conflict in the Middle East is one of the underlying causes of terror, saying the London bombings are part of a wider terror war being waged against Western countries.
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Israel: Conflict not fueling terror
Jul 10 2005 12:23PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli officials on Sunday rejected British Prime Minister Tony Blair's contention that conflict in the Middle East is one of the underlying causes of terror, saying the London bombings are part of a wider terror war being waged against Western countries.
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Suicide bombers kill 7 Iraqis near Syria
Jul 10 2005 9:59AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Two suicide car bombers killed at least seven Iraqi customs officials Sunday along the Syrian border, the U.S. military said, forcing the temporary closure of the checkpoint.
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U.S. filmmaker to be freed from Iraq
Jul 10 2005 8:07AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An aspiring American filmmaker who has been detained by the U.S. military in Iraq for nearly two months without being charged is now being released, his lawyer said.
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Iraqi karate official's body found
Jul 10 2005 7:18AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The body of the kidnapped Iraqi karate association chief has been found floating in a river southeast of Baghdad with several gunshot wounds, police and sports officials said Sunday.
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10 Afghan soldiers beheaded by militants
Jul 10 2005 7:09AM (CT)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Suspected Taliban gunmen ambushed an Afghani government border patrol in the desert near the frontier with Pakistan, killing 10 soldiers and beheading their bodies, a provincial governor said Sunday.
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8 members of Shiite family slain in Iraq
Jul 10 2005 5:28AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Eight members of a Shiite family, including a 2-year-old, were shot to death in their sleep early Sunday, police said. The father suspected it was a sectarian crime.
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Sudan leader, ex-rebel chief join forces
Jul 10 2005 3:29AM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Two former enemies joined forces Saturday to sign into being Sudan's new constitution while pledging to promote peace and renewal in a nation scarred by two decades of civil war.
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Bomber hits Iraqi army recruiting center
Jul 10 2005 1:59AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday at an Iraqi army recruiting center in the capital, witnesses said. Early casualty reports varied, with a hospital official saying at least 14 died and a Defense Ministry employee reporting up to 25 killed.
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