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The Seattle Times: Tensions rise in Kurdish area of Iraq (World, 8 articles) [UPDATE]
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BAGHDAD - Militants blew up a key bridge Saturday on a highway connecting Iraq's oil-rich north to Baghdad, in what locals warned was part of a campaign to stoke ethnic unrest in the volatile melting pot. The attack about 110 miles north of Baghdad was viewed as a strike against Iraq's trade routes, which see large convoys traveling north to south. In Saturday's attacks, one soldier died and two others were wounded in an explosion near a vehicle in restive Diyala province, north of Baghdad, where US troops are fighting an al-Qaeda insurgency. An American tank firing at insurgents near Falluja also killed three Iraqi children on Saturday, according to a military statement, and an American helicopter was damaged by gunfire north of Baghdad and forced to land. BAGHDAD The U.S. military announced Sunday that 14 American soldiers were killed over the past three days, including four in a single roadside bombing and another who was struck by a suicide bomber while on a foot patrol. BAGHDAD - A series of mortar barrages killed eight civilians and wounded 25 others early Saturday in a Sunni neighborhood in central Baghdad, police said, while a strategic bridge was damaged by a bomb in northern Iraq.
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Bush Proposes Goals on Greenhouse Gas Emissions (World, 8 articles) [UPDATE]
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The call, in an open letter, comes as leaders of G8 most industrialised nations are to meet in Germany. Mr. Bush wants to convene a series of meetings with the Greenhouse Gas 15, the largest emitters in the world, to "set a long-term global goal for reducing greenhouse gases" that would be effective after 2012. " Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
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Amnesty: Watchdog Needed for Israel (World, 6 articles)
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NUAMAN, West Bank For generations, first in caves hollowed from hillsides, then shepherds' tents and simple stone houses, the Shawarwa and Darawi families thrived here amid pine windbreaks, olive orchards and flocks of sheep. Darawi was born here in a weathered house in June 1967, the same month Israel triumphed in the Middle East war. The Israeli government drew a larger municipal boundary around Jerusalem, annexing the lands to the Jewish state, including Darawi's home .
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CDC defends actions in TB case as lawyer starts new treatment (U.S., 12 articles) [UPDATE]
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While the federal government rarely imposes quarantines issuing its first in more than four decades last week cities and states routinely isolate TB patients to prevent them from infecting others. Since the Atlanta lawyer has been isolated in a special room at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, federal health officials lifted their quarantine order Saturday night, but it was replaced with a Denver health agency's restriction. Bob Cooksey will be investigated to see how he was involved in the case, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.
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Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine (U.S., 4 articles)
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Potentially embarrassing or compromising scenes like these are raising questions about whether the Internet's leading search engine has gone too far in its latest attempt to make the world a more accessible - and transparent - place. The Mountain View-based company already is planning to expand the service to other U.S. cities and other countries. It takes pictures of your house from outer space, copies rare Sanskrit books in India, charms its way onto Madison Avenue, picks fights with Hollywood and tries to undercut Microsoft s software dominance.
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