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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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Palestinians 'united' on Johnston (World, 6 articles)
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A senior Palestinian figure has said all factions are united in condemning the abduction of the BBC's Gaza correspondent , Alan Johnston. The parents of abducted BBC journalist Alan Johnston have said a video released by his captors has given them "renewed hope". Mr and Mrs Johnston said they hoped the recording was a sign that their "living nightmare" was coming to an end.
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Iran Counters Western Nuclear Demands (World, 6 articles)
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TEHRAN, Iran Iran said Sunday it would work to settle disputes over its atomic program if its case went back to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency a stance far from Western demands that it suspend uranium enrichment. The news comes days after an official in Spain said Iran had pledged to end years of stonewalling and provide answers about past suspicious nuclear activities to the IAEA. United Nations' sanctions and American saber-rattling reveal the US President George W Bush administration's fear of taking direct action against Iran's uranium enrichment program.
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4 Men Accused of Plot to Blow Up Kennedy Airport Terminals and Fuel Lines (World, 12 articles) [UPDATE]
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The plot as painted by law enforcement officials was cataclysmic: A home-grown Islamic terrorist had in mind detonating fuel storage tanks and pipelines and setting fire to Kennedy International Airport, not to mention a substantial swath of Queens. Police in the Caribbean state of Trinidad are searching for a fourth man charged with plotting to blow up New York's John F Kennedy Airport. NEW YORK A convicted drug dealer who agreed to pose as a wannabe terrorist among a shadowy group now accused of plotting to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport secretly fed information to federal investigators in exchange for a lighter sentence.
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German G-8 Summit Protests Turn Violent, Police And Demonstrators Clash On Eve Of Meeting By G-8 Nations' Leaders (World, 4 articles)
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Environment Minister John Baird arrived late Sunday in Europe to attend two world gatherings, including the Group of Eight summit of industrialized nations in Heiligendamm, Germany. The first order of business for the prime minister, who was accompanied by his wife Laureen, is a Canada-European Union summit in Berlin on Monday. On Tuesday, Harper will be in Paris for discussions with France's new president , Nicolas Sarkozy, and with French Prime Minister François Fillon.
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ABC News: Fighting Erupts at Second Lebanon Camp (World, 4 articles)
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Lebanon's army pounded Islamic militants hiding in a bombed-out Palestinian refugee camp Sunday for the third straight day, while fighting erupted outside another camp in the south, stoking fears of widespread violence breaking out in the country. Fierce fighting has engulfed the outskirts of the Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Lebanon since Friday, when the Lebanese army using tanks and artillery launched an offensive to drive the Fatah Islam militants from their positions inside the settlement. Near the southern city of Sidon, suspected members of the militant Islamic group Jund al-Sham fired a rocket-propelled-grenade at a Lebanese army checkpoint outside a camp Sunday, wounding at least five people, security officials said on customary condition of anonymity.
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Putin warns Europe over U.S. anti-missile plans (World, 7 articles)
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A UK request that a former KGB agent be extradited over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko is "pure foolishness", Russian President Vladimir Putin says. Is there not someone, anyone, with enough clout in the White House to tell U.S. President George Bush or whoever is overseeing this "strategic missile system" that it is pure madness? There has to be someone. Putin has raised tensions over controversial US plans to install a missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic by threatening to target Russian missiles at Europe.
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U.S. Battles Islamic Militants In Somalia, A U.S. Warship Attacks Islamic Militants, Somali Government Kills 8 Insurgents In Gun Battle (World, 5 articles)
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(AP) A U.S. warship pounded Somalia's remote coastal northeast, targeting Islamic militants hours after a gun battle with Somali government forces that left eight insurgents dead, officials said Saturday. NAIROBI, KENYA Six foreign fighters tied to Al Qaeda , including one carrying an American passport, were among the dead from Friday's U.S. missile strike in Somalia's northern Puntland region, Somali officials said today. " Al Qaeda-connected forces from southern Somalia have been killed and captured alive said Hassan Dahir Mahamoud a semi-autonomous region that has remained relatively stable in recent years.
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