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The Iraqi military put local journalists on notice on Monday that their organizations could be shut down for misquoting officials, while the Iraqi government accused the news media of deliberately seeking to...
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AP, Peshawar
A suicide car bomber killed four security forces and wounded passing schoolchildren Tuesday in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, where the government is under...
made popular May 5 2009
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...
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, 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...
made popular May 4 2009
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...
made popular May 4 2009
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...
made popular May 4 2009
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, Karbala
Hundreds of Shiites took to the streets in one of Iraq’s holiest cities Saturday to insist that a populist candidate who won the most votes in provincial...
made popular Mar 14 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
About 2,000 Shiites staged their first significant street protests against provincial election results Sunday, marching in tense Diyala province.
made popular Mar 1 2009
AP, Baghdad
About 2,000 Shiites have staged marches to protest the results of provincial elections in tense Diyala province.
made popular Mar 1 2009
AP, Riyadh
Shiite Muslims are shouting anti-government slogans and demanding more freedoms in rare protests amid the minority’s worst confrontations in years with...
made popular Feb 25 2009
AP, Riyadh
Saudi police have clashed with Shiite pilgrims over several days near a cemetery in Islam’s second-holiest city, leading a Shiite cleric to appeal to the king to...
made popular Feb 24 2009
AP, Baghdad
A prominent Sunni politician rallied Tuesday behind a lawmaker accused of running a private terror cell and demanded full probes into Shiites and others parliament...
made popular Feb 24 2009
AP, Baghdad
A prominent Sunni politician rallied Tuesday behind a lawmaker accused of running a private terror cell and demanded full probes into Shiites and others parliament...
made popular Feb 24 2009
AP, Baghdad
A prominent Sunni politician rallied Tuesday behind a lawmaker accused of running a private terror cell and demanded probes into Shiites and others parliament members...
made popular Feb 24 2009
AP, Baghdad
The firebrand anti-American cleric whose militia battled U.S. troops for years is facing a strong challenge for leadership of Iraq’s poor, urban Shiites from a...
made popular Feb 20 2009
AP, Basra
Freed last year from the grip of militias, Basra has emerged as the main battleground for rival Shiites in elections for control of the oil-rich south _ a race that...
made popular Jan 14 2009
Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites have not been the close kin lately, to put it mildly. The two sects of Islam have fought a civil war and pursued mutual ethnic cleansing...
made popular Jan 2 2009
AP, Dera Ismail Khan
Police say gunmen have killed three Shiite Muslims in a sectarian attack in northwestern Pakistan.
made popular Oct 29 2008
AP, Baghdad
About 300 Shiites rallied Saturday in the southern city of Basra against a security pact being negotiated that allows U.S. troops to stay in Iraq for three more years....
made popular Oct 25 2008
The majority of the world’s billion-odd Muslims are Sunnis. Approximately 10 to 15 percent of all Muslims follow the Shiite branch (pronounced Shi‘ite, Shi‘a or...
made popular Oct 10 2008
AP, Baghdad
Thousands of Shiites rallied Friday against a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact, while one of Iran’s most influential politicians urged Iraq’s government...
made popular Sep 26 2008
Last night, at around 10.30 pm, the citizens of Tripoli, the second biggest city in Lebanon, started hearing gunshots, automatic weapons fire, and even rocket-propelled...
made popular Jul 9 2008
AP, Riyadh
Hardline Sunni clerics accused Shiites Sunday of destabilizing Muslim countries and humiliating Sunnis, just days before a Muslim interfaith conference called by Saudi...
made popular Jun 1 2008
AP, Baghdad
Tens of thousands of Shiites have taken to the streets in Baghdad and other cities to protest plans for a long-term security agreement with the United States.The...
made popular May 30 2008
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