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Search for: Offline summarization (match summaries) Hybrid summarization Online summarization Offline summarization (match articles) U.S. World Finance Sports View Today's Images Back to Archive Index About Newsblaster About today's run Newsblaster in Press Academic Papers Article Sources: washingtonpost.com (57 articles) news.bbc.co.uk (42 articles) baltimoresun.com (41 articles) nytimes.com (25 articles) latimes.com (20 articles) abcnews.go.com (19 articles) boston.com (19 articles) seattletimes. nwsource.com (17 articles) ft.com (15 articles) dallasnews.com (13 articles) cbc.ca (12 articles) cbsnews.com (10 articles) usatoday.com (7 articles) nypost.com (7 articles) observer. guardian.co.uk (4 articles) topics.nytimes.com (3 articles) sfgate.com (3 articles) foxnews.com (3 articles) timesonline.co.uk (2 articles)	The Seattle Times: Tensions rise in Kurdish area of Iraq Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English [UPDATED] (see summary with new information since yesterday) 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. (article 7) 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. (article 7) 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. (article 3) 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. (article 6) 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. (article 1) 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. (article 4) Other summaries about this story: Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English (1 articles) [compare] Summary from United States, from articles in English (7 articles) [compare] Other stories about Baghdad, Iraqi and Iraq: Commanders Say Push in Baghdad Is Short of Goal (5 articles) Gates presses Turkey against military action in Iraq (5 articles) Event tracking: Track this story's development in time Story keywords Baghdad, Iraqi, Iraq, military, Kurdish Source articles 14 U.S. Soldiers Die in Iraq in 3 Days (baltimoresun.com, 06/03/2007, 1124 words) 14 U.S. troops die as battle deepens (L.A. Times, 06/03/2007, 961 words) Fourteen US troops killed in Iraq (BBC News, 06/03/2007, 239 words) Mortar barrages kill at least 8 in Baghdad (dallasnews.com, 06/02/2007, 873 words) The Seattle Times: Tensions rise in Kurdish area of Iraq (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 06/03/2007, 630 words) Bridge Bombing Increases Tensions in Northern Iraq (nytimes.com, 06/03/2007, 837 words) Militants bomb key bridge in north Iraq (L.A. Times, 06/03/2007, 949 words) Commanders Say Push in Baghdad Is Short of Goal (nytimes.com, 06/04/2007, 1913 words) blaster@cs.columbia.edu