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Bomb targets Iraq lawmaker from Sunni-backed list (AP)

November 20th, 2010

In this photo provided by the New York City Mayor's Office, Medal of Honor winner Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta, left, and his wife Jennifer, are welcomed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to City Hall in New York, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. Giunta, from Hiawatha, Iowa, is the first living veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to receive the award. (AP Photo/New York City Mayor's Office, Edward Reed)AP - A roadside bomb went off in the northern city of Mosul Friday, narrowly missing a member of a Sunni-backed political bloc but killing one of his bodyguards, Iraqi…

Israel planes hit Gaza targets after rocket fire (Reuters)

November 19th, 2010

A wounded Palestinian woman is carried into a hospital after Israeli warplanes struck in the central Gaza Strip November 19, 2010. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaReuters - Israeli warplanes struck four targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday in response to militant rocket and mortar fire, the Israeli army said.


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New wave of bomb attacks targets Athens embassies (Reuters)

November 2nd, 2010

Investigators arrive at the Swiss Embassy in Athens after a bomb alert November 2, 2010. REUTERS/Yiorgos KarahalisReuters - A bomb exploded at the Swiss embassy in Athens on Tuesday and police found suspect packages at two other embassies, in the latest wave of parcel bomb attacks…

After peace prize, China targets winner’s friends (AP)

October 15th, 2010

FILE - In this June 3, 2010 file photo, Chinese Ding Zilin, co-founder of the Tiananmen Mothers, a group representing families of those who died in the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations, reacts, while talking about her late son who died at 17 in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, at her apartment in Beijing, China, one day before the 21st anniversary of the incident. The latest appears to be a woman who Liu has said should win the prize: Ding Zilin, who has fought for years for China's government to recognize the hundreds killed in the military's crackdown. Liu's wife sent out an alert late Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010, that said Ding had 'disappeared' and urged people to 'pay attention' to her case. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)AP - In the week after Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of promoting democratic change in China, dozens of people who openly agreed with his…

Yemen explosion targets British diplomats (AP)

October 6th, 2010

AP - Gunmen fired a rocket against a convoy carrying a senior British diplomat in Yemen’s capital on Wednesday, damaging a car and wounding four people amid heightened fears about…

China says 4 Japanese filmed military targets (AP)

September 23rd, 2010

AP - China is investigating four Japanese suspected of illegally filming military targets and entering a military zone without authorization, state media reported amid a tense diplomatic spat between Beijing…

Violence targets police, media in Mexico massacre (AP)

August 27th, 2010

A soldier and investigators work at the site where a vehicle exploded outside the Televisa network in the northern city of Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, Friday Aug. 27, 2010. Two cars exploded early Friday, in front of the offices of a major Mexican television station and a transit police station, in a northern state where officials are investigating the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants. (AP Photo)AP - A car explodes outside a police station, another outside a television station. A drug gang is suspected of massacring 72 migrants. A prosecutor investigating those deaths suddenly disappears.


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Israeli warplanes hit Gaza targets, 15 wounded (AP)

May 26th, 2010

AP - Palestinian hospital officials say 15 people were wounded in overnight Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

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Swastika on British parliament targets far-right (AFP)

May 3rd, 2010

Protestors from the EMMA Trust project an image of a swastika onto the Houses of Parliament in London on May 3, 2010, in a bid to draw attention to the threat posed by the British National Party in the upcoming general elections on May 6.(AFP/Frantzesco Kangaris)AFP - Campaigners against the far-right in Britain Monday projected an image of a swastika on the side of parliament, amid fears extremists could be voted in at this week’s…

Car bomb targets hotel in Kandahar (AP)

April 15th, 2010

File picture shows members of a German army Bundeswehr patrol secure ground during a patrol in the area of Kunduz, April 28, 2009. Four German soldiers were killed in Afghanistan when they came under fire near the northern city of Baghlan, the German Defence Ministry said on April 15, 2010. Picture taken April 28, 2009. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY)AP - Witnesses say a car bomb has targeted a hotel in the heart of the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar, injuring at least six people.


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