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CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 5, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- 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.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

USA Today -- Suspected al-Qaeda insurgents on Wednesday destroyed the two minarets of the Askariya Shiite shrine in Samarra, authorities reported, in a repeat of a 2006 bombing that shattered its famous Golden Dome and unleashed a wave of retaliatory sectarian violenc.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue May 29, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- Five Britons are reported to have been kidnapped from the Iraqi finance ministry in Baghdad. They included four bodyguards and a finance expert, earlier reported to be German. "We are aware of reports that a group of Westerners have been kidnapped... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jan 29, 2007 @ 1:06am neoform

Sun Times -- 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... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 8:53pm neoform

MSNBC -- Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for his role in 148 killings in 1982, will have his sentence carried out by Sunday, NBC News reported Thursday. According to a U.S. military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity, Saddam will.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Mar 31, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- Iraqi authorities have lifted a curfew in Baghdad, allowing people to leave their homes and easing most measures put in force on Thursday. Driving is still prohibited in three mainly Shia districts, including Sadr City, which saw some of the heaviest f.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Oct 11, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

MSNBC -- The U.S. Marine Corps is pressing to remove its forces from Iraq and send Marines instead to Afghanistan to take the lead in combat there, The New York Times reported in Thursday editions. Supporters argue that a realignment could allow the U.S. Army a.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 5:01pm neoform

www.newsdeskspecial.co.uk -- Reports from Rangoon suggest soldiers are mutinying. It is unclear the numbers involved. Reports cite heavy shooting in the former Burmese capital. The organisation Helfen ohne Grenzen (Help without Frontiers) is reporting that "Soldiers from the 66th.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Jul 14, 2007 @ 10:09pm neoform

CNN -- A man appeared in court in Sydney on Saturday after taking an armored personnel carrier on a rampage through the city's western suburbs in which he destroyed six mobile phone towers, Australian media reported. Suburban Mt Druitt police Chief Inspector Guy.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Wed Jul 4, 2007 @ 1:18pm neoform

Alter Net -- Three veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan share the nightmare experiences that war has brought into their lives. Statistics are one way to tell the story of the approximately 1.4 million servicemen and women who've been to Iraq and Afghanistan.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Jun 15, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

CNN -- Fatah members were fleeing Gaza Friday as Hamas began trying to round up the remaining elements of the rival faction, Hamas radio reported. According to Hamas, an unknown number of Fatah officials have left the territory and crossed into Egypt. The.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Jun 3, 2007 @ 11:38am neoform

FOX News -- As U.S. jets roared overhead, Mahdi Army militiamen on Sunday battled with Iraqi troops and local police searching for two militia leaders in the southern city of Diwaniyah. At least three people were killed and 24 wounded, official Iraqi sources reported.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

CNN -- Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took part in Friday prayers in Kufa, a holy Shiite city, after being absent from public view for more than four months, Iraq's state TV al-Iraqiya reported. An aide close to al-Sadr confirmed the appearance by the.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Apr 13, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- Police detained two men Thursday near the scene of three suicide bombings in Casablanca, Morocco's official news agency reported, and a police official said one was carrying explosives. The arrests in the working-class Hay al-Farah neighborhood came a.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Apr 9, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

FOX News -- One of the British sailors detained by Iran for nearly two weeks believed she was being measured for a coffin, a newspaper reported Monday. The Sun newspaper also reported that Faye Turney, 25, was told by her captors that her 14 male colleagues had be.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 4:21pm neoform

BBC News -- Gunmen are reported to have killed at least 70 Sunni men in the north-western Iraqi border town of Talafar. The deaths were in apparent reprisal for bombings in a Shia area on Tuesday, which left about 55 people dead. Iraqi officials said the attack.. Read More