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Suicide bomber kills 22 in attack on Iraqi cafe (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

Reuters - A suicide bomber blew himself up in an Iraqi cafe usually packed with Shi’ite Kurds in a town northeast of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 22 people…

Witness: Attack at Mexico rehab center kills 13 (AP)

October 25th, 2010

Two soldiers watch 134 tonnes of marijuana burning on October 20, in the border town of Tijuana, Mexico. In the latest violence, thirteen retirees were shot and killed in an execution-style massacre at a Mexican drug rehabilitation center near the border city of Tijuana, a police official told AFP.(AFP/File/Francisco Vega)AP - A client at a drug rehab center in the Mexican border city of Tijuana says a gang of armed men gunned down 13 recovering addicts there.


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Nigeria: Sect members attack police station (AP)

October 24th, 2010

A man walks past rubble of the Islamic sect Boko Haram burnt last year by the police and military at the headquarters of the sect still being guarded by the police in Maiduguri, Borno State in July 2010. Suspected Islamist sect members on Sunday attacked a police station in northern Nigeria, leading to a gun battle with officers, authorities said, in the latest such incident in recent months.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AP - Suspected members of a Muslim sect accused of orchestrating targeted killings across northern Nigeria have attacked another police station.


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NATO: Afghanistan bomb attack kills service member (AP)

October 24th, 2010

This photograph taken with the help of a nightvision scope shows foreign soldiers preparing to take part in a patrol in Zari District of Kandahar province on October 22. A soldier with NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed Sunday in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - NATO says in a statement that one of its service members has been killed by a bomb in southern Afghanistan.


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No UN staff harmed in Afghanistan suicide attack (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Italian soldiers on guard in Herat city in 2009. Three suicide bombers wearing police uniforms and burqas on Saturday attacked the United Nations office in the western Afghan city of Herat, senior police and UN officials said.(AFP/File/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - A United Nations official says no U.N. staff members were harmed in a suicide attack on a United Nations compound in Afghanistan’s western Herat province.


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Taliban commander, 7 others killed in NATO attack (AP)

October 7th, 2010

Local residents meet with Afghan an US soldiers to discuss security at an outpost near Forward Operation Base Howz-e-Madad, Zhari district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - An airstrike and a raid by ground troops killed eight insurgents, including a senior Taliban leader who spearheaded attacks against Afghan security forces, NATO said Thursday as the…

US apologizes for attack on Pakistani soldiers (AP)

October 6th, 2010

Drivers of Afghanistan-bound NATO vehicles are parked at Pakistani border town of Torkham wait on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The U.S. apologized Wednesday for a recent helicopter attack that killed two Pakistani soldiers at an outpost near the Afghan border, saying American pilots mistook the soldiers for…

Britain’s No. 2 diplomat escapes attack in Yemen (AP)

October 6th, 2010

Yemeni policemen attend the scene where an attack took place on a convoy carrying a senior British diplomat in San'a, Yemen Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Gunmen fired a rocket against a convoy carrying a senior British diplomat in Yemen's capital on Wednesday, damaging a car and wounding people amid heightened fears about growing al-Qaida influence in the impoverished Arab nation. (AP Photo)AP - Assailants fired a rocket at a convoy carrying Britain’s No. 2 diplomat in Yemen and killed a Frenchman working for an Austrian oil company Wednesday in a pair…

Second attack on NATO convoy in Pakistan (AP)

October 1st, 2010

Pakistani flood affected residents pass by the still smoldering oil trucks in Shikarpur, southern Pakistan on Friday Oct. 1, 2010. Suspected militants set ablaze at least 27 tankers carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Friday, police said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Assailants in Pakistan launched two separate attacks Friday on vehicles carrying fuel for NATO and American forces in Afghanistan, highlighting the vulnerability of the U.S.-led mission a day…

Turkey: gallery attack ignites debate (AP)

September 26th, 2010

AP - The gang of several dozen men with sticks and pepper spray moved methodically from one art gallery to the next, assaulting overflow crowds that had spilled into the…

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