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WORLD / NEWS Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- A top prosecutor ordered an investigation Monday into whether this summer's arson attacks in Greek forests could be considered terrorism, the Public Order Ministry said. Meanwhile, a fire broke out on the fringes of Athens a day after a massive effort pre.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 9:59am neoform

SF Gate -- Year after year, beach season brings accounts of harrowing shark attacks as people around the world plunge into the surf to escape summer's heat. But the reality is that these fearsome predators kill an average of four people worldwide every year, whil.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Apr 23, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

Times Online -- AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first “large-scale” terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report. Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 3, 2006 @ 11:27pm neoform

BBC News -- Militias backing Sudan's government have killed at least 63 people in attacks in Darfur in the past week, African peacekeepers say... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Nov 1, 2006 @ 2:43pm mrmdc

Reuters -- Up to 200,000 people could still be displaced in Lebanon nearly three months after the Israel-Hezbollah conflict ended, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Oct 26, 2006 @ 8:20pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- 60 civilians have been killed during NATO raids in S. Afghanistan, the highest civilian death toll in a single operation since 2001 U.S.-led invasion of the country, local officials and civilians said Thursday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Oct 18, 2006 @ 9:42am neoform

CNN -- Early in the Iraq conflict, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed insurgents as "dead-enders." In 2004, President Bush said the battle against these fighters was "turning a corner." In 2005, he described a "turning point," and Vice President D.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

CBS News -- A top prosecutor ordered an investigation Monday into whether this summer's arson attacks in Greek forests could be considered terrorism, the Public Order Ministry said. Dimitris Papangelopoulos, who is responsible for prosecuting terrorism and organiz.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

USA Today -- A top prosecutor ordered an investigation Monday into whether this summer's arson attacks in Greek forests could be considered terrorism, the Public Order Ministry said. Meanwhile, a fire broke out on the fringes of Athens a day after a massive effort.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- A court in Australia has overturned a government decision to cancel the visa of an Indian doctor briefly charged over failed bomb attacks in the UK. The court ruled that the government had erred when it cancelled Mohamed Haneef's visa on character grou.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu May 17, 2007 @ 9:01pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- Wednesday's explosions in the eastern city of Constatine continued the violent run-up to the vote after three suicide bomb attacks killed 33 people in the capital, Algiers, on April 11. A police officer was killed and five other people were injured in.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu May 17, 2007 @ 9:18am neoform

Al Jazeera -- Wednesday's explosions in the eastern city of Constatine continued the violent run-up to the vote after three suicide bomb attacks killed 33 people in the capital Algiers on April 11. A police officer was killed and five other people were injured in th.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 8:34pm neoform

CNN -- The widow of the alleged ringleader of the 2005 London bombings was freed without charge Tuesday after being questioned by police investigating the attacks, police said. Hasina Patel, 29, wife of Mohammad Sidique Khan -- the head of the group that stru.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Mar 22, 2007 @ 7:54pm neoform

CNN -- Three men have been arrested in connection with the July 7, 2005, terrorist attacks on the London transport network, British police said in a statement. Two men, aged 23 and 30, were arrested at Manchester airport in northern England shortly before 1 p.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 1:12pm mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- Armed men burst into a boy's bedroom in the fourth south London murder in as many days.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Jan 14, 2007 @ 10:22am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- The 7 July bombers who killed 52 people in terrorist attacks in London in 2005 were once described by Britain's security service as 'clean skins'... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Oct 29, 2006 @ 1:11pm neoform

Telegraph -- Iraqi insurgents have formed a special sniper brigade which is drawing its inspiration from a US training manual by one of America's most revered snipers... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 9:52am neoform

CNN -- Eight Palestinians have been killed in two separate attacks on Saturday, Palestinian sources said... Read More