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Attack in Algeria kills as many as 16
Sep 6 2007 11:24PM (CT)
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - A bomb ripped through a crowd waiting for the Algerian president to arrive in an eastern town on Thursday, killing as many as 16 people and injuring more than 70, officials said.
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Group: Tunisia breaks Guantanamo pledge
Sep 6 2007 10:30PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - Tunisian authorities have broken a pledge not to mistreat two former detainees at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay who were sent home nearly three months ago, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
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Groups: Bin Laden plans video on 9/11
Sep 6 2007 10:03PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Osama bin Laden will release a new video in the coming days ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in what would be the first new images of the terror mastermind in nearly three years, al-Qaida's media arm announced Thursday.
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Groups: Bin Laden plans video on 9/11
Sep 6 2007 10:03PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Osama bin Laden will release a new video in the coming days ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in what would be the first new images of the terror mastermind in nearly three years, al-Qaida's media arm announced Thursday.
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Academic detained in Iran returns to US
Sep 6 2007 8:43PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An Iranian-American academic returned to the United States on Thursday after being detained for eight months _ nearly half that time in Tehran's notorious Evin prison _ on charges that she had endangered national security.
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U.S. troops battle suspected militiamen
Sep 6 2007 4:10PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen before dawn Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on rooftops. Residents and police said at least 14 people were killed.
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U.S. troops battle suspected militiamen
Sep 6 2007 4:10PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen before dawn Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on rooftops. Residents and police said at least 14 people were killed.
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U.S. troops battle suspected militiamen
Sep 6 2007 4:10PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen before dawn Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on rooftops. Residents and police said at least 14 people were killed.
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U.S. troops battle suspected militiamen
Sep 6 2007 4:10PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen before dawn Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on rooftops. Residents and police said at least 14 people were killed.
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U.S. troops battle suspected militiamen
Sep 6 2007 4:10PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen before dawn Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on rooftops. Residents and police said at least 14 people were killed.
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U.S. troops battle suspected militiamen
Sep 6 2007 4:10PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen before dawn Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on rooftops. Residents and police said at least 14 people were killed.
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U.S. troops battle suspected militiamen
Sep 6 2007 4:10PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen before dawn Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on rooftops. Residents and police said at least 14 people were killed.
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U.S. troops battle suspected militiamen
Sep 6 2007 4:10PM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen before dawn Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on rooftops. Residents and police said at least 14 people were killed.
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10 Palestinian militants killed in Gaza
Sep 6 2007 3:53PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli troops backed by tanks and bulldozers crossed into southern Gaza to strike at Palestinian militants on Thursday, killing 10, a day after Israeli leaders ruled out a large-scale offensive to stop daily rocket salvos from Gaza.
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10 Palestinian militants killed in Gaza
Sep 6 2007 3:53PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli troops backed by tanks and bulldozers crossed into southern Gaza to strike at Palestinian militants on Thursday, killing 10, a day after Israeli leaders ruled out a large-scale offensive to stop daily rocket salvos from Gaza.
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Syria says it shot at Israeli aircraft
Sep 6 2007 3:41PM (CT)
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - The Syrian government charged Thursday that Israeli aircraft dropped "munitions" inside Syria overnight and said its air defenses opened fire in a new escalation of tensions between the decades-old foes.
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Syria says it shot at Israeli aircraft
Sep 6 2007 3:41PM (CT)
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - The Syrian government charged Thursday that Israeli aircraft dropped "munitions" inside Syria overnight and said its air defenses opened fire in a new escalation of tensions between the decades-old foes.
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Syria says it shot at Israeli aircraft
Sep 6 2007 3:41PM (CT)
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - The Syrian government charged Thursday that Israeli aircraft dropped "munitions" inside Syria overnight and said its air defenses opened fire in a new escalation of tensions between the decades-old foes.
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Syria says it shot at Israeli aircraft
Sep 6 2007 3:41PM (CT)
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - The Syrian government charged Thursday that Israeli aircraft dropped "munitions" inside Syria overnight and said its air defenses opened fire in a new escalation of tensions between the decades-old foes.
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Rights group accuses Israel on Lebanon
Sep 6 2007 2:52PM (CT)
SELAA, Lebanon (AP) - Ahmed Ayoub still shakes with anger when he recounts the night Israeli warplanes struck his neighborhood more than a year ago, killing eight of his relatives and neighbors as they slept.
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Rights group accuses Israel on Lebanon
Sep 6 2007 2:52PM (CT)
SELAA, Lebanon (AP) - Ahmed Ayoub still shakes with anger when he recounts the night Israeli warplanes struck his neighborhood more than a year ago, killing eight of his relatives and neighbors as they slept.
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Rights group accuses Israel on Lebanon
Sep 6 2007 2:52PM (CT)
SELAA, Lebanon (AP) - Ahmed Ayoub still shakes with anger when he recounts the night Israeli warplanes struck his neighborhood more than a year ago, killing eight of his relatives and neighbors as they slept.
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Islamic party set for Moroccan victory
Sep 6 2007 12:49PM (CT)
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) - The Islamic party dominating Morocco's electoral season has many faces _ among them bareheaded young women in jeans, marketing students preaching the gospel of global markets and legions of the poor and disenfranchised.
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Islamic party set for Moroccan victory
Sep 6 2007 12:49PM (CT)
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) - The Islamic party dominating Morocco's electoral season has many faces _ among them bareheaded young women in jeans, marketing students preaching the gospel of global markets and legions of the poor and disenfranchised.
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Islamic party set for Moroccan victory
Sep 6 2007 12:49PM (CT)
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) - The Islamic party dominating Morocco's electoral season has many faces _ among them bareheaded young women in jeans, marketing students preaching the gospel of global markets and legions of the poor and disenfranchised.
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Islamic party set for Moroccan victory
Sep 6 2007 12:49PM (CT)
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) - The Islamic party dominating Morocco's electoral season has many faces _ among them bareheaded young women in jeans, marketing students preaching the gospel of global markets and legions of the poor and disenfranchised.
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New Iraqi corruption fighter named
Sep 6 2007 11:42AM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - The Iraqi government has named the deputy head of the country's anti-corruption body to replace his boss, who is accused by a parliamentary committee of corruption himself, officials said Thursday.
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Iraq disputes new U.S. report
Sep 6 2007 11:04AM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - An Iraqi government adviser on Thursday disputed a new U.S. report critical of the country's security forces, saying the independent assessment was unacceptable interference in internal affairs.
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U.N. chief, Sudanese leader set talks
Sep 6 2007 9:39AM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Thursday that new peace talks to end the four-year conflict in Darfur will start Oct. 27 in Libya.
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Militants claim attack on Israeli post
Sep 6 2007 8:27AM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian militants said fighters in a pickup truck and jeep crashed through a fence on the Gaza-Israel border on Thursday and attacked an Israeli army post.
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Rights group accuses Israel on Lebanon
Sep 6 2007 6:24AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - In its harshest condemnation of Israel since last summer's war, Human Rights Watch charged that most of the Lebanese civilian casualties came from "indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes," according to a report to be released Thursday.
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Basra pullout will test Iraqi forces
Sep 6 2007 6:08AM (CT)
BAGHDAD (AP) - The aftermath of this week's British pullout from Basra will demonstrate whether Iraq's nascent security forces have what it takes to keep the peace in a major city where Shiite militias and gangs have held sway.
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