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CNN
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The United Nations said Monday it is evacuating international police from the northern sector of the ethnically divided Kosovo town of Mitrovica after U.N. police and NATO soldiers were wounded in clashes with Serbs. "There are reports of possible gunfire..
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BBC News
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An Islamist-held town in southern Somalia has been hit by three missiles, fired by a US plane, local elders say.
A US official confirmed launching a strike against "suspected terrorists". The US bombed the area a year ago and residents say it was the s..
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BBC News
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Afghan army troops have captured the Taleban-held town of Musa Qala without meeting resistance, the Nato-led force in Afghanistan has said.
The insurgents have pulled out of what was the only major Afghan centre in Taleban hands, reportedly melting awa..
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SF Gate
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A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip exploded Monday next to a day care center in the Israeli border town of Sderot, an attack that Palestinian militants called retribution for the deaths of three Gaza children in an Israeli air strike last week.
None of..
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BBC News
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At least 45 people have been killed and dozens wounded by a suicide truck bombing in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur, police said.
The bomber crashed his truck into the offices of a leading Kurdish party, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, where a meet..
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SF Gate
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Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn was the star attraction at a town hall meeting Saturday in Oakland, where hundreds of people gathered to denounce the war in Iraq and call for an immediate withdrawal of American troops.
Neither Penn nor Rep. Barbara Lee,..
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Yahoo News
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More than 1,000 villagers have fled a southern Afghan town as Taliban fighters dig in to repel..
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BBC News
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Violence against foreigners in South Africa spread to Cape Town overnight with people assaulted and shops looted.
"Groups within the crowd started to loot shops owned by Zimbabweans and other foreigners," police spokesman Billy Jones told AFP news agen..
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BBC News
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A female suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives has killed 16 people in a town near Baghdad.
At least 20 people were wounded in the blast at 0930 local time (0630 GMT) in Muqdadiya, which is 90km (55 miles) north-east of Iraq's capital...
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Al Jazeera
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Body parts were scattered around the area and the minibus was completely destroyed by the blast, Abdul Hai, a police officer said at the scene.
Police said they believed the bomber was trying to target government or security officials in the town but..
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Al Jazeera
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Nkunda's forces had neared Sake, about 20km from Goma, earlier on Thursday but Van Den Wildenberg said they had not entered the town in Nord-Kivu province.But the general told the Associated Press news agency earlier that the town had fallen to his forces..
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USA Today
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Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters and jet fighters killed 33 Sunni insurgents who were holding back the water supply to the Shiite town of Khalis, the American command said Tuesday.
Meanwhile, south of Baghdad, at least five peopl..
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FOX News
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Ehud Olmert on Monday became the first Israeli prime minister to visit a Palestinian town since the outbreak of fighting seven years ago, meeting under heavy guard with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to talk about the creation of a Palestinian state...
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Reuters
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Suspected Palestinian fighters in Lebanon hit a northern Israeli town with two Katyusha rockets on Sunday, Lebanese and Israeli officials said. No one was hurt.
Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas, who fired thousands of Katyushas into Israel a year ago, de..
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SF Gate
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The southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah fell on Thursday to Hamas fighters, witnesses and security officials allied with the rival Fatah movement said. An explosion rocked Gaza City shortly afterward, with plumes of white smoke rising from a security post...
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BBC News
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A Palestinian man has been killed and another seriously injured by Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Nablus.
The Israeli military said its troops were carrying out routine activities in the centre of the town when they identified and then shot a..
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USA Today
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Gunmen in two cars attacked a minibus heading to Baghdad from a Shiite town north of the capital Monday, killing seven passengers, including a child, police said.
A mortar shell hit the roof of the parliament building inside the heavily guarded Green Z..
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USA Today
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Police and Mexican army troops arrested four members of a criminal assault force that overran a town near the Arizona border and set off gunbattles and executions that left at least 22 dead in violence linked to drug cartels.
Luis Pena Molina, town sec..
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FOX News
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Thousands of survivors huddled on a hilltop refuge as terrifying aftershocks rumbled beneath them and bodies were left unrecovered in waters off a remote Solomon Islands town hours after a deadly tsunami struck on Monday.
The surging waters that plowed..
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BBC News
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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..
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