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CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed May 14, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Police imposed a daylong curfew in the western Indian city of Jaipur on Wednesday to prevent any retaliatory violence after a series of blasts in crowded areas left at least 80 people dead. Authorities suspect Islamic militants were behind the blasts,.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 14, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- At least 11 members of a Kenyan gang were killed Monday in a confrontation with police following protests in the capital city of Nairobi and other parts of the country, local media reported. The Mungiki gang set up roadblocks and burned cars to protest th.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Jan 4, 2008 @ 8:52am neoform

BBC News -- Turkish police have detained four people over a car bomb attack which killed five people and injured 68 in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir. The four are suspected of links to Thursday's bombing in the Kurdish-majority city, Turkish prosecutor Durdu.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Dec 12, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- Three car bombs exploded in quick succession in a southern Iraqi city on Wednesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding 100 in a Shiite region that has largely escaped the country’s sectarian bloodshed, authorities said. Police in Amarah imposed.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Dec 12, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- At least 22 people are dead, and the tally is likely to rise, after three car bombs and a roadside bomb ripped through the southern Iraqi city of Amara on Wednesday, according to Iraqi Interior Ministry and state TV reports. Many of the dead and wounded a.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- Police in Turkey's capital, Ankara, have prevented a large bomb from exploding, the city's governor said. Sniffer dogs detected a van stuffed with explosives in the centre of the city, preventing a "possible catastrophe", Governor Kemal Onal said. S.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Sep 10, 2007 @ 7:41pm neoform

afp.google.com -- Britain was prepared to withdraw its forces from the southern Iraqi city of Basra in April, but held off for five months after the United States asked it to stay, Britain's military commander in Iraq said in an interview published on Monday. Speaking t.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Sep 10, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by helicopters killed three civilians in the Shiite slum of Sadr City on Monday in a pre-dawn raid on the home of a suspected militia leader, police and residents said. Ground forces searched four houses but failed to find.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- Suicide bombers attacked an army bus and a commercial district in a city near the Pakistani capital on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people, the army and police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosions, which injured dozen.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Jun 30, 2007 @ 12:41pm neoform

USA Today -- American soldiers rolled into Baghdad's Sadr City slum on Saturday in search of Iranian-linked militants and as many as 26 Iraqis were killed in what a U.S. officer described as "an intense firefight." But residents, police and hospital officials said.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Jun 17, 2007 @ 10:41am neoform

USA Today -- The Iraqi capital sprung to life Sunday after a four-day curfew to thwart violence after a provocative attack on a Shiite shrine to the north, as a top American general acknowledged that security forces have full control in only 40% of the city. Lt. Ge.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- A strike in the Pakistani city of Karachi has closed shops and cleared transport from the roads after two days of violence left 41 people dead. The strike was called amid some of the worst street battles in recent years, triggered by the suspension of.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Apr 21, 2007 @ 10:37pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- Intra-Sunni conflict The 65-year-old Sunni sheikh was the fourth city council chairman to be killed in some 14 months as fighters target fellow Sunnis willing to co-operate with the US and its Iraqi partners. The US military confirmed the killin.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Apr 17, 2007 @ 12:29pm neoform

BBC News -- Armed members of a Nigerian Islamist group known as the Taleban have stormed a police station in the northern city of Kano, killing at least 13 people. A police source told the BBC there were between 300 and 500 people, some of whom were heavily armed... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 9:52pm neoform

Washington Post -- A day after twin truck bombings laid waste to predominantly Shiite neighborhoods in the northern Iraqi city of Tall Afar, marauding Shiite gunmen and police executed dozens of Sunnis in retaliatory attacks that many Iraqis feared might precipitate a resur.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jan 30, 2007 @ 10:18am mrmdc

Independent -- The US must draw up plans to deal with an all-out Iraqi civil war that would kill hundreds of thousands, create millions of refugees, and could spill over into a regional catastrophe, disrupting oil supplies and setting up a direct confrontation between W.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jan 9, 2007 @ 12:26pm mrmdc

Yahoo News -- A mock bumper sticker affixed to a door in the headquarters building of a U.S. outpost in eastern Baghdad proclaims "I Love Sadr City." Soldiers smile when they see it. They know the opposite is true... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Nov 24, 2006 @ 9:59am mrmdc

CNN -- A savage string of apparently coordinated bombings erupted Thursday in Sadr City, a Shiite slum of Baghdad, killing 138 people... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Nov 15, 2006 @ 6:05pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Demonstrators stormed a Wal-Mart on the outskirts of Mexico City on Tuesday, accusing the U.S.-based retailer of selling low-cost goods at the expense of workers, farmers and public markets... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed May 14, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- A curfew has been imposed in the old city in Jaipur in western India after a series of bomb blasts killed 63 and left about 200 wounded. The bombs went off near historic monuments in the crowded old city on Tuesday evening. The head of state police.. Read More