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US adviser: Britain faces ugly pullout
Aug 18 2007 9:16PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - An adviser to the U.S. military said that British troops face an "ugly and embarrassing" withdrawal from southern Iraq in the coming months, a British newspaper reported.
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Shiite militia expands grip in Baghdad
Aug 18 2007 8:58PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - The street market bustles in the early mornings and late afternoons as shoppers come out to buy fruit, bread, clothes and toys. Late into the hot summer nights, whole families gather to eat grilled kebabs at tiny stalls, their small children shrieking as they play tag.
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Shiite militia expands grip in Baghdad
Aug 18 2007 8:58PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - The street market bustles in the early mornings and late afternoons as shoppers come out to buy fruit, bread, clothes and toys. Late into the hot summer nights, whole families gather to eat grilled kebabs at tiny stalls, their small children shrieking as they play tag.
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Shiite militia expands grip in Baghdad
Aug 18 2007 8:58PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - The street market bustles in the early mornings and late afternoons as shoppers come out to buy fruit, bread, clothes and toys. Late into the hot summer nights, whole families gather to eat grilled kebabs at tiny stalls, their small children shrieking as they play tag.
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Shiite militia expands grip in Baghdad
Aug 18 2007 8:58PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - The street market bustles in the early mornings and late afternoons as shoppers come out to buy fruit, bread, clothes and toys. Late into the hot summer nights, whole families gather to eat grilled kebabs at tiny stalls, their small children shrieking as they play tag.
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Ahmadinejad: Israel is bearer of Satan
Aug 18 2007 8:31PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Israel was the standard bearer of Satan and the Jewish state would soon fall apart, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
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Iraqi Sunni pledges prison improvements
Aug 18 2007 2:41PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's Sunni vice president promised better treatment and a review for the inmates crowding the country's prison system in a video released Saturday showing a boisterous welcome from prisoners jammed inside tarp-covered cages.
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Iraqi Sunni pledges prison improvements
Aug 18 2007 2:41PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's Sunni vice president promised better treatment and a review for the inmates crowding the country's prison system in a video released Saturday showing a boisterous welcome from prisoners jammed inside tarp-covered cages.
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Iraqi Sunni pledges prison improvements
Aug 18 2007 2:41PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's Sunni vice president promised better treatment and a review for the inmates crowding the country's prison system in a video released Saturday showing a boisterous welcome from prisoners jammed inside tarp-covered cages.
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Helicopter crash kills 6 Iranian troops
Aug 18 2007 1:39PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian military helicopter slammed into a mountain during a storm, killing at least six people, including five members of the country's elite Revolutionary Guards, state media reported Saturday.
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West Bank poverty spawns child beggars
Aug 18 2007 1:15PM (CT)
NAZARETH, Israel (AP) - For 15-year-old Issa, days of summer start when the sun rises over a northern Israeli hill, shining on a garbage dump, a thorny field and then the dirty mattress that is his bed.
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Turkish plane hijacking ends peacefully
Aug 18 2007 5:48AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Two men who hijacked a Turkish passenger plane in an apparent protest against the U.S. surrendered to authorities Saturday after holding some crew members and passengers hostage for more than four hours. No one was hurt.
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Turkish plane hijacking ends peacefully
Aug 18 2007 5:48AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Two men who hijacked a Turkish passenger plane in an apparent protest against the U.S. surrendered to authorities Saturday after holding some crew members and passengers hostage for more than four hours. No one was hurt.
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Turkish plane hijacking ends peacefully
Aug 18 2007 5:48AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Two men who hijacked a Turkish passenger plane in an apparent protest against the U.S. surrendered to authorities Saturday after holding some crew members and passengers hostage for more than four hours. No one was hurt.
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Iran's Guards: We'll 'punch' US
Aug 18 2007 4:41AM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said they would not bow to pressure and threatened to "punch" the U.S., in their first response to Washington's plan to list them as a terrorist organization, newspapers reported Saturday.
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