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Al-Qaida takes credit for Green Zone blast (World, 6 articles) [UPDATE]
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The politicians' defiant words came at a harrowing time for U.S. and Iraqi officials, who appear to be having little success calming Baghdad with a much-touted security plan that is now in its third month. The U.S. military announced the deaths yesterday of three more soldiers, bringing the total to 3,297 since the U.S. invasion of March 2003, according to. The bomb that exploded in the cafeteria of the Iraqi parliament on Thursday has shaken the inner corridors of power in the country, and caused alarm in Washington, whose diplomats and officials often visit the building that was hit. Baghdad's Green Zone - officially the International Zone - is a heavily fortified area of closed-off streets in central Baghdad where most Iraqi government offices and the US embassy are located. Its land-based perimeter is surrounded by concrete blast walls - designed to stop suicide bombers penetrating the nerve centres of official power. BAGHDAD - Parliament met in an extraordinary session of "defiance" Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, and declared it would not bow to terrorism. A bouquet of red roses and a white lily sat in the place of Mohammed Awad , the lawmaker killed in the Parliament dining hall suicide bombing claimed by al-Qaeda.
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ABC News: World Bank Staff Panel Scolds Wolfowitz (World, 16 articles) [UPDATE]
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Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz remained defiant on Sunday as finance and development ministers from around the world expressed "great concern" over the turmoil at the bank. (Washington) - The controversy involving Wolfowitz and his involvement in a huge pay increase awarded to a close female friend moves to center stage Sunday as the bank's policy-steering committee meets. In an e-mail to bank staff Saturday night, some of whom have called for his resignation, Wolfowitz said he had remained largely silent as the bank's board of directors considered his future.
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Israel, Palestinians Report Progress (World, 5 articles)
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Russian National Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov raised the issue during his visit to Israel as part of a delegation of Russian officials here to engage in strategic discussions with Israeli officials. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas have met, amid pressure from the US to find a way to restart peace talks. JERUSALEM - The Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Sunday discussed the outlines of Palestinian statehood for the first time in six years, taking a modest step toward breaking the long paralysis in peacemaking.
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ABC News: Intelligence Links Iran to Iraqi Insurgent Weapons (World, 6 articles) [UPDATE]
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Fast food chelo kebab stands and souvenir shops, with wallet-size portraits of the 7th century martyr Imam Hussein, crowd outside the colossal gold and blue domes of the Hazrat Masumeh shrine. Here, in a city that is the revered seat of Iran's powerful Shiite Muslim clergy and home to 52 Islamic seminaries, women in black chadors emerge from late-model Mercedes-Benzes with tinted windows. Qom's religious leaders hope to build new links between the mother ship and the world's 150 million Shiite Muslims.
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U.S. consulate in Casablanca closed after bombing (World, 5 articles)
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With the Moroccan police tightening security around the consulate and other foreign consulates here, the closing underscored American concerns expressed here and in Algeria about further attacks and possible dangers to Americans. On Saturday, United States officials here told their employees to stay home, warning that the potential for violence against Americans " remains high. BERLIN, April 14 Suicide bombers struck in North Africa on Saturday for the third time in a week, targeting the U.S. Consulate and an American cultural center in the Moroccan port city of Casablanca.
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With Eye on Iran, Rivals Also Want Nuclear Power (World, 5 articles) [UPDATE]
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President Hugo Chavez defended Iran's "legitimate right" to develop nuclear power for peaceful uses, warning the U.S. on Sunday not to attack Venezuela's ally in the Middle East. Editor What a comprehensive analyisis by Tim Holt on the city's housing landscape Insight, " How San Francisco can keep its families from moving out April 8). Ahmad Fayyazbakhsh said the plants would be light-water reactors, each with the capacity to generate up to 1,600 megawatts of electricity.
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ABC News: Marines Announce Osprey Deployment (World, 4 articles)
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Ten V-22 Ospreys will be based at the al Assad Marine Corps air station in Anbar province after the 171-member Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263, or VMM 263, lands in Iraq next fall. Critics continue to question the Osprey's suitability for combat, but the Pentagon announcement Friday constituted an unqualified endorsement of its airworthiness after an extensive redesign and more than 19,000 hours of flight tests. Marine squadron of 10 tilt-rotor aircraft to report in September 11:06 PM CDT on Friday, April 13, 2007.
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Capsized rig support vessel sinks (World, 6 articles)
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A survivor of the Norwegian vessel which capsized off the coast of Shetland has spoken about the accident which killed eight of his colleagues. On Sunday, relatives of the dead crew members gathered at a beach in Lerwick for a memorial service before flying over the upturned ship. Three crewmen rescued from a capsized oil rig anchor handling tug in the Atlantic have died, while divers are continuing to search for five others.
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Protesters and police clash in Moscow (World, 6 articles) [UPDATE]
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MOSCOW Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov and several hundred other anti-Kremlin activists were detained yesterday after hundreds of riot police sealed off Moscow's Pushkin Square and clubbed some protesters to prevent a banned opposition rally and march. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia Riot police beat and detained dozens of anti-Kremlin demonstrators Sunday on a second day of protests that tested the weak opposition's ability to challenge widely President Vladimir Putin. Hundreds of anti-Kremlin demonstrators have held a rally in St Petersburg, a day after a protest in Moscow ended in scuffles and arrests.
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