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7 children killed at China school in latest attack (AP)

May 12th, 2010

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, medical workers take an injured child to ICU at 3201 Hospital in Hanzhong City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province Wednesday, May 12, 2010. An attacker hacked seven children and one teacher to death Wednesday and wounded 20 other people in a rampage at a kindergarten in northwest China, the latest in a string of savage assaults at the country's schools. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wu Tianchang) ** NO SALES **AP - A man charged into a kindergarten in northwestern China with a cleaver Wednesday and hacked to death seven children and two adults — the fifth such rampage in…

7 children, 1 teacher killed in new China attack (AP)

May 12th, 2010

Chinese police show students how to protect themselves from attacks at a school in Linyi, east China's Shandong province, earlier this month. 7 children were hacked to death and at least 20 others were wounded in an attack at a kindergarten in northern China on Wednesday, according to state media, the fifth violent assault on school children in less than two months.(AFP/File)AP - An attacker hacked seven children and one teacher to death Wednesday and wounded 20 others in a violent rampage at a kindergarten in northwest China’s Shaanxi province.


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7 children killed in latest attack at China school (AP)

May 12th, 2010

Chinese police show students how to protect themselves from attacks at a school in Linyi, east China's Shandong province, earlier this month. 7 children were hacked to death and at least 20 others were wounded in an attack at a kindergarten in northern China on Wednesday, according to state media, the fifth violent assault on school children in less than two months.(AFP/File)AP - An attacker hacked seven children to death Wednesday and wounded 20 others in a violent rampage at a kindergarten in northwest Shaanxi province — the latest in a…

Afghan militants attack government compound (AP)

May 5th, 2010

U.S. Army Cpt. Patrick Heim from Bonn, Germany with 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment shaves during a sand storm in his base in Arghandab valley, near Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan, May 5, 2010. U.S. forces are massing on the outskirts of Kandahar for the biggest military offensive of the nearly nine-year-old war, in the hope of turning the tide against a strengthening Taliban insurgency. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - Militants attacked the provincial governor’s compound in western Afghanistan on Wednesday, sparking street battles that killed at least five would-be suicide bombers, authorities said.


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Afghan suicide attack kills 1 outside CIA base (AP)

May 3rd, 2010

An Afghan police officer stands guard near the site of a gun battle in the Shar-e Naw area in the heart of the capital Kabul. The vests of suicide bombers are packed with high-explosives and detonated by remote control, timers or by the wearers themselves once they reach their targets, killing the wearer and causing indiscriminate loss of life, particularly among civilians.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - A suicide attack outside a CIA base killed one civilian and wounded two security guards Monday in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said.


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Belfast cops warn of dissident IRA election attack (AP)

April 30th, 2010

AP - Northern Ireland police warned Friday that Irish Republican Army dissidents hope to overshadow the British election in the province with violence.

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5 preschoolers hit with hammer in new China attack (AP)

April 30th, 2010

A Chinese police officer demonstrate the use of a  'police restraint stick' long-handled poles with a hook on the end,  to subdue a man playing the role of an attacker at a middle school in Beijing Thursday, April 29, 2010. Security measures have been stepped up after a spate of attacks on schools over the past three days. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - A farmer attacked kindergarten students with a hammer, injuring five, before burning himself to death Friday in China’s third such assault in as many days and prompting the…

Chinese reports say 5 children hurt in new attack (AP)

April 30th, 2010

Drops of blood are seen at a kindergarten where a knife attack occurred in Taixing, Jiangsu province April 29, 2010. REUTERS/China DailyAP - A farmer attacked and injured five kindergarten students with a hammer in eastern China before burning himself to death Friday in the latest in a string of horrific…

Chinese media: 5 kids hurt in new school attack (AP)

April 30th, 2010

Drops of blood are seen at a kindergarten where a knife attack occurred in Taixing, Jiangsu province April 29, 2010. REUTERS/China DailyAP - A Chinese state media report says a man has killed himself after attacking five children at a kindergarten in eastern China, the latest in a string of assaults…

Pakistan Taliban chief said to survive US attack (AP)

April 29th, 2010

Pakistani soldiers keep guard on the side of a road in Mingora, Swat on April 23, 2010. REUTERS/Faisal MahmoodAP - Pakistan and U.S. intelligence wrongly reported the death of the head of the Pakistani Taliban in a CIA drone strike and the brash, ruthless commander is now believed…