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A severe drought is threatening Iraq’s southern marshes _ the traditional site of the biblical Garden of Eden _ just as the region was recovering from Saddam Hussein’s draining of its lakes and swamps to punish a political rebellion.
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A suicide car bomber killed four security forces and wounded passing schoolchildren Tuesday in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, where the government is under...
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AP, Seoul
North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news...
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Peshawar
A senior police official says a suicide car bomber has killed at least four paramilitary security forces in northwestern Pakistan.
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the...
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Asuncion
A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Mexico City
Mexico announced a return to “normalcy” on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,200 people in 20...
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AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Sao Paulo
The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, says 41 people have been killed and three have been wounded in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Jakarta
The chief of Indonesia’s anti-corruption watchdog was arrested Monday and named a suspect in the murder of a prominent state company official, police and his...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Mexico City
Mexico’s president says universities will reopen Thursday and all other classes will resume nationwide next week, citing an ebb in the swine flu outbreak.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, United Nations
Russia has invited Security Council ministers to a meeting next week to give “new impetus” to the Middle East peace process.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Turkish media say at least 16 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack on a wedding ceremony in the southeastern part of the country.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, despite concern that...
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AP, Kabul
President Hamid Karzai chose a powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates on Monday, hours before leaving for meetings in...
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AP, Jerusalem
Israel dispatched top officials to the U.S. and Europe on Monday in a diplomatic offensive aimed at softening the hawkish image of Prime Minister Benjamin...
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AP, Paris
The French are living up to their image as lovers of food and can add a new love to the mix, sleep, according to a survey released Monday. In fact, the French excel at...
made popular May 4 2009
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AP, Washington
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical on Monday about holding the current Iraqi government responsible in American courts for the acts of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
made popular Apr 20 2009
AP, Hagerstown
In an April 9 story about a lawsuit accusing three companies of providing chemical weapons materials to Saddam Hussein’s government, The Associated Press, relying...
made popular Apr 15 2009
Since the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein become America’s preeminent enemy. More than just the de jour face of evil for U.S. news, the tyrant become the butt of late...
made popular Apr 13 2009
AP, Baghdad
An Iraqi official says authorities believe they have found another mass grave from Saddam Hussein’s regime in southern Iraq.
made popular Mar 18 2009
AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s government on Tuesday called on the presidential council to ratify the death sentences against former officials from Saddam Hussein’s regime so that...
made popular Mar 17 2009
AP, United Nations
Iraq’s U.N. ambassador on Monday urged the United Nations to commemorate yearly the anniversary of a chemical weapons attack by Saddam Hussein’s government...
made popular Mar 16 2009
AP, London
Officials drafting an intelligence dossier that was used to help justify the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq discussed worries that Britain risked exaggerating the...
made popular Mar 12 2009
AP, London
New documents show that British officials who drafted a prewar dossier on Iraq worried that Britain risked exaggerating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s...
made popular Mar 12 2009
AP, Baghdad
For years he was the urbane, cigar-smoking face of Saddam Hussein’s regime, who argued his boss’ case in the international corridors of power.
made popular Mar 11 2009
AP, Baghdad
Saddam Hussein’s former foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for the 1992...
made popular Mar 11 2009
AP, Baghdad
An Iraqi court has sentenced Saddam Hussein’s former foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, to 15 years in prison.
made popular Mar 11 2009
Not long after Saddam’s status has toppled in Baghdad in front of the whole world and President Bush declared victory on a U.S. carrier, Iraq, regrettable for the...
made popular Mar 7 2009
AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s prime minister on Friday called for Iraqis to forgive and reconcile with those who collaborated with the former Sunni-dominated regime of Saddam Hussein.
made popular Mar 6 2009
AP, Baghdad
An Iraqi judge has given death sentences to three former officials in Saddam Hussein’s regime for slayings and abuses against Shiites a decade ago.
made popular Mar 2 2009
AP, Baghdad
Iraq took another step toward healing its rift with Kuwait on Thursday as government leaders welcomed the highest-ranking Kuwaiti envoy since Saddam Hussein’s...
made popular Feb 26 2009
AP, Baghdad
Kuwait’s deputy prime minister visited Iraq on Thursday in the highest-level visit by a Kuwaiti official since Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of the Gulf...
made popular Feb 26 2009
AP, Washington
Lebanese dancers, a Shakespeare production from Kuwait portraying Saddam Hussein as “Richard III” and incredible wedding dresses from the Arab world are...
made popular Feb 23 2009
AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s restored National Museum is reopening Tuesday, nearly six years after looters carried away antiquities and treasures as U.S. troops stood by in the chaos...
made popular Feb 23 2009
AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison reopened, with a new name and official promises Saturday of humane treatment in a lockup notorious as a center for abuse _ both...
made popular Feb 21 2009
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