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CNN
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Almost 4,000 people have died and another 3,000 remain missing in Myanmar as a result of this weekend's devastating cyclone, state media reported Monday. The soaring death toll was announced as the reclusive southeast Asian country's ruling military junta..
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BBC News
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At least five people have been killed in gunfire at a rally organised by Fatah in the Gaza Strip to mark three years since the death of Yasser Arafat.
Security forces from the rival Hamas movement opened fire at crowds causing people to run for cover,..
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SF Gate
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The death toll from a suicide blast targeting a group of lawmakers and children rose to 60 on Wednesday, the deadliest attack in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.
Hundreds of mourners gathered at a mosque near the site of the bombing in the..
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Al Jazeera
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He said the court also upheld the death sentences against two other accused, Sultan Hashim, Saddam's former defence minister, and Hussein Rashid, the former deputy commander of operations for the Iraqi military.
Anfal massacre
The Anfal military camp..
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BBC News
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Greek police have clashed with African immigrants protesting over the death of a Nigerian man in the western city of Thessaloniki at the weekend.
Police fired tear gas at a stone-throwing crowd who had gathered outside the police station on Monday hold..
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Globe and Mail
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Canadian soldier Robert Costall was shot to death from behind in Afghanistan last year by American troops, who opened machine-gun fire on him and then another friendly position during an insurgent attack, a newly released U.S. army report says.
Private..
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FOX News
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Federal prosecutors filed notice Tuesday that they will seek the death penalty if former soldier Steven D. Green is convicted of killing an Iraqi family and raping a 14-year-old girl.
The notice, filed in U.S. District Court, cites 12 alleged offenses..
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USA Today
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Federal prosecutors filed notice Tuesday that they will seek the death penalty if former soldier Steven D. Green is convicted of killing an Iraqi family and raping a 14-year-old girl.
The notice, filed in U.S. District Court, cites 12 alleged offenses..
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Sky News
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A lynch mob has stoned and burned to death three women they accused of being witches in a Ugandan refugee camp, police have said.
The police chief of Kitgum district Charles Oumo said the victims were attacked after the mysterious death of a motorcycle..
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Daily Mail
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A teenage girl lies dead on the ground in a pool of her own blood.
Her once groomed hair is cast across her face like a rag doll's, her skirt pulled up to complete her humiliation.
In another image, she is seen lying on her side, her face battered a..
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Independent
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The stoning to death of a teenage girl belonging to the Yazidi religious sect because she fell in love with a Muslim man has led to a spiral of violence in northern Iraq in which 23 elderly factory workers have been shot dead and 800 Yazidi students force..
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Daily Mail
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A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion.
As a horrifying video of the stoning went out on the Internet, the British arm of Amnesty International condemned the death of Du’a Khalil Aswa..
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SF Gate
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A British coroner investigating the "friendly fire" killing of a British soldier by a U.S. warplane during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 ruled Friday that the death was a criminal act.
"I don't think this was a case of honest mistake," Oxfordshire Assis..
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BBC News
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The Sun newspaper says it has obtained the cockpit video at the centre of a row over the "friendly-fire" death of a British soldier in Iraq...
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Sun Times
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The man reported by British media to be a suspect in the murder of a former Russian agent in London hit out Saturday at ''lies, provocation and government propaganda,'' denying any role in the radiation poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko...
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CNN
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U.S. officials reportedly tried to delay last week's execution of Saddam Hussein, fearing it would fuel perceptions the death of the former Iraqi dictator was more about Shiite retribution and less about justice...
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CNN
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The FBI is warning of possible threats to Jewish targets in the United States, following the car bombing death of a Hezbollah leader in Syria, a law enforcement official said Thursday. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces nationwide have been instructed..
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BBC News
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British detectives investigating the death of ex-Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto say she died from the effect of a bomb blast, not gunfire.
Detectives from Scotland Yard were asked by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to examine the circumst..
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BBC News
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The upper house of the Afghan parliament has supported a death sentence issued against a journalist for blasphemy in northern Afghanistan.
Pervez Kambaksh, 23, was convicted last week of downloading and distributing an article insulting Islam. He has d..
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SF Gate
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Mohammed al-Dura's gut-wrenching death is running again on television screens across the world, seven years after the 12-year-old boy died in his father's arms in a hail of bullets.
An appeals court in Paris has demanded to see the exclusive footage sh..
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