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Explosions kill more than 30 in Iraqi capital (Reuters)

November 2nd, 2010

Lebanese Christian priest and residents light candles for the victims of the attack on Our Lady of Salvation church of Baghdad, during a sit-in held in front of the Martyrs square in Beirut November 2, 2010. At least seven Iraqi Catholics died on Sunday when police stormed a Baghdad church where gunmen were holding dozens of parishioners hostage, threatening to kill them if al Qaeda prisoners were not released. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS RELIGION)Reuters - At least 10 explosions rocked mainly Shi’ite areas of the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing more than 30 people two days after al Qaeda militants caused a bloodbath…

UK spy boss: Nukes a wider threat than terrorism (Reuters)

October 28th, 2010

Former British Ambassador to the U.N. and present SIS chief John Sawers speaks at United Nations headquarters, in New York, April 13, 2009. REUTERS/Chip EastReuters - Britain’s top spy, in the first public speech by a serving UK espionage chief, said on Thursday terrorists might hit the West again “at huge human cost” but…

Indonesia’s twin disasters kill more than 300 (Reuters)

October 27th, 2010

A woman covers her baby as she runs from ash falling from an erupting volcano at Kaliurang village in Sleman, near Indonesia's ancient city of Yogyakarta, October 26, 2010. Mount Merapi erupted on Tuesday, prompting terrified villagers to flee and join the thousands already evacuated from its slopes, witnesses said. REUTERS/BeawihartaReuters - A tsunami and a volcanic eruption in Indonesia have killed more than 300 people with over 400 missing and tens of thousands displaced, authorities said on Wednesday.


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Files: Iraqi deaths higher than US count (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

US soldiers take cover behind a wall as a cloud of smoke rises from an explosion of ordinances while on patrol in the Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad in 2008. Al-Jazeera on Friday released what it called AP - Military documents laid bare in the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history suggest that far more Iraqis died than previously acknowledged during the years of sectarian…

Japan missing more than 230K listed centenarians (AP)

September 10th, 2010

AP - More than 230,000 Japanese citizens listed in government records as at least 100 years old can’t be found and may have died long ago, according to a government…

Israel: Now, More than Ever, Fascinated By Netanyahu (Time.com)

September 3rd, 2010

Time.com - No one really thinks much will come out of the direct talks with the Palestinians but, when the issue is Bibi, up come visions of Gorbachev — and…

2 days of food stretched more than 2 weeks in mine (AP)

August 25th, 2010

Alberto Segovia shows a photograph of his brother Dario Segovia, 48, one of 33 miners trapped in the collapsed San Jose mine, outside the mine in Copiapo, Chile, Tuesday Aug. 24, 2010. The miners, who have been trapped since the shaft they were working in collapsed on Aug. 5, were confirmed to be alive Sunday when they were reached by rescue teams via a small hole through which they could pass messages and see the miners with a camera. The T-shirt reads in Spanish 'We're okay in the shelter all 33,' referring to a hand written message retrieved from the miners on Sunday. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Their self-imposed rations were meager: Two spoonfuls of tuna, a sip of milk, a bite of cracker and a morsel of peach every other day.


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Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered (AP)

July 28th, 2010

FILE - This 1851 illustration shows the HMS Investigator on the north coast of Baring Island in the Arctic. Arctic archaeologists have found the ship that forged the final link in the Northwest Passage and was lost in the search for the Franklin expedition. The HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, is in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada's Western Arctic. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Public Archives of Canada)AP - Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for…

Burma’s Than Shwe Visits India to Talk Energy, Security (Time.com)

July 28th, 2010

Time.com - General Than Shwe, leader of the junta that has ruled Burma since 1988, arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday as part of a five-day state visit to discuss…

More than 20 deaths feared after blasts in Uganda (AP)

July 11th, 2010

A man attends a injured women , Sunday, July 11, 2010, after a bomb went off in a restaurant in Kampala's Kabalagala district, named Ethiopian Village. The first verbal police report on the scene speaks of two killed and several injured, including possible two western guests of the restaurant. The bomb went off shortly before the break at the world cup final match taking place in South Africa. Many people gathered at the restaurant at this time to watch the football game. (AP Photo/Marcv Hoafer)AP - Bombs exploded at two sites in Uganda’s capital late Sunday as people watched the World Cup final on TV, and officials at the scene put the death toll…

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