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Car bombs, shootings kill 20 across Iraq -police, medics
ReutersBAGHDAD, June 16 (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed in car bombings and shootings across Iraq on Sunday, police and medics said. The car bombs were mainly in provinces with a high concentration of Shi'ite Muslims and one shooting took place in...Tags: Iraq
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Hospital siege, blasts new Pakistan government's first security test
ReutersQUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants in a volatile region of western Pakistan bombed a bus carrying women students on Saturday and then seized part of the hospital where survivors were taken, in the first major security test for the new prime minister,...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Armed Conflicts, Crime, Law and Justice, Explosions, Human Rights
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Three killed by explosion at Tanzanian opposition party rally
ReutersDAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - At least three people were killed and several injured on Saturday evening by an explosion at an election rally held by Tanzanian opposition party Chadema, witnesses and the state broadcaster said. Police said they were still...Tags: Politics, National Government, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Government
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In Pakistan, attackers bomb women's university bus, hospital
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Militants laid siege to a hospital and bombed a women's university bus in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta in a wave of violence that killed at least 19 people and underscored the challenge facing new Prime Minister...
Tags: Medical Specialization, Transportation Accidents, Nawaz Sharif, Armed Conflicts, Hospitals and Clinics
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Bombings, militant takeover of hospital kill at least 15 in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Militants took over sections of a hospital in the southern city of Quetta on Saturday after bombing a women’s university bus and detonating a second bomb at the hospital in what authorities said were coordinated attacks...
Tags: Asif Ali Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Politics, Emergency Incidents, Armed Conflicts
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For Afghan Scouts, 'Be prepared' takes on a new meaning
KABUL, Afghanistan –- Mohammad Aziz Ayob adjusts his Boy Scout scarf, leans over and settles a sapling into the dry Kabul soil as two NATO helicopters pass overhead, the clack-clack of their blades echoing off the neighboring mountains. Bobbing...
Tags: Taliban, Arts and Culture, Explosions, NATO, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Southwest flight searched, cleared in Phoenix after bomb threat
A Southwest Airlines plane that made an unscheduled stop Monday in Phoenix after a bomb threat was made via telephone has been cleared. Phoenix police and FBI bomb technicians searched the plane, originally bound for Austin, Texas, and found no...
Tags: Police Investigations, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, FBI, Southwest Airlines Co.
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Bomb threats: Often hoaxes, always annoying, but sometimes real
No bombs, so life will go on. Again. As it does. Princeton University exhaled after police determined that a vague phone threat made to multiple buildings on the campus turned out to be an apparent hoax. But before the campus could relax, the people...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Princeton University
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Offensive reported on key Syrian city of Aleppo
Syrian government forces backed by Hezbollah fighters have begun an offensive near the once-commercial city of Aleppo to cut off the rebels’ supply line from Turkey and attempt to regain control of the north. It comes a week after the government...
Tags: Istanbul (Turkey), Terrorism, Rebellions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief
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Suicide bombers target central Damascus, killing at least 14
BEIRUT -- A twin suicide bombing targeted a square in central Damascus on Tuesday morning, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 30 others, Syrian state media reported. The official Syrian news agency said "two terrorist suicidal bombings"...
Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), National Government, Explosions, Human Rights, Religious Conflicts
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Man sentenced for bomb threats to Newport News courthouses
Daily PressA 21-year-old man pleaded guilty to two felony bomb threat counts Tuesday in connection to threats made on February 20 that shut down all three courthouses in Newport News. Newport News Circuit Court sentenced Devon Tyrell Slaughter to 10 years on two...Tags: Punishment, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Guantanamo war court debate: When is a spiral notebook a weapon?
The Miami HeraldGUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba When is a spiral-bound notebook a possible weapon? And who gets to decide? Defense and prosecution attorneys parried with the war court's chief judge on this for about a half-hour Tuesday in a pre-trial hearing in the death...Tags: Trials, Prisoners and Detainees, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Army, Yemen
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