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About najaf, people, iraqi city, baghdad, death, iraq city, killed

At least 15 people have been killed and 80 others injured in a series of bomb blasts in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf. Three explosive devices were detonated in two different places of the sacred city on Thursday. Two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ...http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116150&sectionid=351020201BAGHDAD, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, his re-election prospects seriously damaged by a wave of suicide bombings in Baghdad that killed 400 people, is fightin...

About najaf, people, iraqi city, baghdad, death, iraq city, killed

At least 14 people were killed and 22 injured in fresh attacks across Iraq, police said Thursday. The attacks, the worst in weeks, shattered a brief period of relative calm. Three bomb blasts rocked the southern city of Najaf, home to some of Shiite ...http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article80560.eceNAJAF, Iraq — As many as 15 people were killed and dozens more were wounded on Thursday when three bombs exploded simultaneously in the Shiite Muslim shrine city of Najaf, officials said....

About drone strike killed, pakistan drone attack, pakistani taliban leader

The Pakistani Taliban have denied their leader Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a US missile attack in the north-west. At least 10 suspected militants died when missiles were fired at a target in the North Waziristan region near the Afghan border, ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8458354.stmTwelve people were killed in a drone attack on the border of Pakistan's troubled North Waziristan area on Thursday but Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who is beli...

About afghanistan market, people killed, suicide bomber, taliban, afghan civilians

Taliban fighters lay down their weapons as they surrender to the government of Herat Province in Western Afghanistan. Photograph: Majid/Getty Images Taliban fighters who lay down their arms will be offered money from an international trust fund under a ...http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/14/taliban-trust-fund-british-governmenKABUL (Reuters) - Western and government troops killed fewer civilians in Afghanistan in 2009 but far more died at the hands of insurgents, making it the deadliest ...

About arns, brazil killed, haiti earthquake, brazilian

BRASILIA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian troops participating in the peacekeeping mission in Haiti have turned to rescue work after the strong earthquake that heavily damaged the country. Working through the early hours of Wednesday, Brazilian troops ...http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/13/content_12804648.htmBRASILIA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will send 10 million US dollars in humanitarian aid to Haiti to help reconstruct the country after the dev...

About death, people, iraqi city, baghdad bombings, iraq city, killed

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A court sentenced 11 Iraqis on Thursday to death by hanging for planning and carrying out massive truck bombings in Baghdad last August that killed 95 people and wounded more than 1000. The bombs targeted Iraq's foreign and finance ...http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60D16T20100114NAJAF: Three bombs exploded simultaneously on Thursday in Iraq's Shia-Muslim shrine city of Najaf, leaving 15 dead and 25 injured, officials said. A security official said a car bomb exploded n...

About afghanistan market, suicide bomber, taliban, afghan civilians, killed

(Kandahar) -- A crowded bazaar in southern Afghanistan was ripped apart today by a suicide attack that left at least 16 people dead. Government officials in Uruzgan province say the blast wounded 13 others just before lunchtime. ...http://mystateline.com/content/fulltext/?cid=129352Civilian casualties in the Afghan war have risen significantly in 2009, compared with the previous year, to 2412, the highest number since the ouster of the Taliban regime in late 2001. According to a statement releas...

About sentenced, death, people, iraqi, baghdad bombings, najaf bombings, killed

A fresh bombing attack in Iraq has targeted law enforcement officers near a police station in the western province of al-Anbar, killing at least seven people. Police said the incident happened on Wednesday when a bomber blew himself up in the center of ...http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116032&sectionid=351020201An Iraqi court sentenced to death by hanging 11 men accused of plotting bombings in Baghdad. Eleven men have been sentenced to death by hanging over a series of truck bombings i...

About waziristan, pakistan taliban leader, pakistan drone attack, drone strike killed

Islamabad - A suspected US missile strike on Thursday killed at least 10 militants, including two al-Qaeda terrorists, in Pakistan's restive tribal region, intelligence officials said. Pakistan television channels aired unconfirmed reports that ...http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/southasia/news/article_1525446.php/US-airRabiya, 6, fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan, waits with her father at a distribution point for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Dera Ismail Khan, loca...

About pakistani taliban, drone strike killed, missile attack, pakistan drone attack

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Intensified US drone aircraft attacks or ground operations against Islamist militants in Pakistan could endanger relations between the two allies, Pakistan's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Tension over pilot less drone ...http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60C38S20100113PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was in the area of northwest Pakistan where a US drone strike killed 10 people Thursday but left before the missiles hit, a militant sp...