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SF Gate
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The U.S. military blamed a renegade Shiite group Wednesday for a deadly car bombing in a Baghdad Shiite neighborhood and said it was seeking to re-ignite the sort of sectarian violence that swept the area 18 months ago. Iraqi officials said the death toll..
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CNN
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The Dalai Lama will step down as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile if violence by protesters in the region worsens, the exiled spiritual leader said Tuesday as China's premier blamed his supporters for the growing unrest. "If things become out of cont..
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CNN
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice promised Tuesday to push for the resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process that was sidetracked by a new wave of violence. Rice was in Cairo, Egypt, as part of a whirlwind tour of the Middle East ahead of..
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BBC News
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The European Union has called on Serbia to protect foreign embassies following a day of violence in Belgrade.
Serbs angered by Western support for Kosovo's secession set fire to the US embassy and attacked the UK, German, Croatian, Belgian and Turkish..
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MSNBC
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Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has threatened to lift by the end of the week a six-month cease-fire widely credited with helping reduce violence in Iraq, officials said Wednesday.
Sheik Salah al-Obeidi, a spokesman for al-Sadr in the Shiite holy..
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BBC News
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The top US military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has described the recent fall in violence in Iraq as a "significant accomplishment".
Violence in the country has fallen to its lowest in two-and-a-half years, he told the BBC, but said he w..
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MSNBC
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Despite decades of problems and heavy state investments to improve housing and create jobs, the depressed projects that ring Paris are a world apart from the tourist attractions of the French capital.
Police speak of no-go zones where they and firefigh..
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USA Today
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The No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq said Thursday that a 7-month-old security operation has reduced violence by 50% in Baghdad but he acknowledged that civilians were still dying at too high a rate.
The comments came as relations between the U.S. and Iraq..
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CNN
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Iraq has failed to meet 11 of the 18 benchmarks the U.S. Congress set when it approved a war-spending bill in May, the Government Accountability Office reported Tuesday. Iraq has met three of the benchmarks and "partially met" four, the GAO said, but the..
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USA Today
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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..
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Yahoo News
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Violence in Iraq, as measured by casualties among troops and civilians, has edged higher despite the U.S.-led security push in Baghdad, the Pentagon told Congress on Wednesday.
In its required quarterly report on security, political and economic devel..
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Washington Post
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Three months into the new U.S. military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq, overall levels of violence in the country have not decreased, as attacks have shifted away from Baghdad and Anbar, where American forces are c..
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Washington Post
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More than three months into a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive designed to curtail sectarian violence in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, Health Ministry statistics show that such killings are rising again.
From the beginning of May until Tuesday, 321 uni..
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BBC News
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Iraqi children are getting caught up in a growing humanitarian tragedy as violence continues in the country, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) has warned.
Half of the four million Iraqis who have fled their homes since the conflict began are children...
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BBC News
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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..
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CNN
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An Egyptian-brokered truce ended within hours early Monday when shooting resumed between rival Hamas and Fatah militias, leaving two gunmen dead and 10 others wounded, Palestinian security sources said. Violence between the factions left four dead on Sund..
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USA Today
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A political crisis threatening President Gen. Pervez Musharraf exploded into violence Saturday when clashes between pro-government gunmen and the opposition killed at least 28 people and thwarted a major rally against military rule.
The violence in Pak..
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Al Jazeera
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On Thursday, the violence continued as a suicide car bomber rammed into a fuel truck, killing 12 people and injuring 24 others in the Jadiriya district of Baghdad according to Al Jazeera.
Three people were also killed overnight when mortars were fired..
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BBC News
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Zimbabwe's opposition says there has been a sharp escalation in violence against activists across the country.
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has accused the authorities of carrying out arbitrary arrests.
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai also..
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USA Today
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Four years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, nearly 9 of 10 Iraqis say they live in fear that the violence ravaging their country will strike themselves and the people with whom they live.
Just 5% say they worry "hardly at all" about the safety of t..
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