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Iraq health official killed at his Baghdad home (AP)

April 1st, 2010

The US Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions against an Iraqi man living in London who is suspected of smuggling arms and explosives to his homeland.(US Treasury Department/Brendan Smialowski)AP - Gunmen armed with silenced pistols fatally shot a Health Ministry official at his home in Baghdad in an apparent targeting of government employees, according to Iraqi police.


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Safe at Home

March 21st, 2010

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Just before Gram Parsons cut a wide swath through American music with Sweetheart Of The Rodeo-era Byrds and the Flying Burrito Bros., he forged a new musical genre with…

British boy arrives home after Pakistan kidnap ordeal (AFP)

March 18th, 2010

Sahil Saeed (L), the five-year-old British boy kidnapped in Pakistan arrives back at the family home in Shaw, Oldham, with his mother Akila Naqqash. The boy, whose 12-day kidnap ordeal in Pakistan sparked an binternational/b police operation to recover a ransom payment in Europe, arrived home Thursday.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - A five-year-old British boy whose 12-day kidnap ordeal in Pakistan sparked an international police operation that led to arrests in Europe has arrived home.


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9th US missionary freed in Haiti, returns home (AP)

March 9th, 2010

Charisa Coulter, second from right, of Meridian, Idaho, one of two US Baptist missionaries held on kidnapping charges in Haiti, arrives to the airport, accompanied by US embassy staff, after her release from jail in Port-au-Prince, Monday, March 8, 2010.  Coulter was set free more than a month after she and nine other Americans were arrested for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti without proper documents after the Jan. 12 earthquake.  Laura Silsby, the leader of the Idaho-based missionaries, remains detained. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - A U.S. missionary held for more than a month in Haiti on kidnapping charges flew back to the United States after being released from prison, while the leader…