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(SomaliNet) Iraqi soldiers rushed to a mainly Sunni area of west Baghdad on Monday to free 23 Iraqis who had been taken hostage at a fake checkpoint there, a government spokesman said. A roadside bomb killed three Americans and wounded two. Fresh attacks against Sunnis have raised
Zainab Osman
(SomaliNet) Police say at least 23 people are dead and more than 90 wounded by a suicide car bombing. It happened at a main square in central Baghdad Tuesday morning. A police official says the bomber appeared to be targeting day laborers applying for construction jobs. Immediatel
Zainab Osman
(SomaliNet) U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan gave a farewell address Monday that some observers called an attack on U.S. foreign policy. But he denies the accusation, countering it was instead an appeal for stronger leadership from Washington. With only a few weeks before retire
Zainab Osman
(SomaliNet) A Holocaust denial conference that the Iranian government opened in Tehran, Monday, elicited emotional reactions among Jews around the world: An Israeli legislator choked with emotion when he described his family's fate, and Israel's foreign minister accused Iran of see
Zainab Osman
(SomaliNet) British police investigating the deaths of three prostitutes whose bodies were discovered in the last nine days said on Monday a fourth sex worker was missing, as fears grow that a serial killer is on the loose. Senior officers warned prostitutes to stay off the streets
Zainab Osman
(SomaliNet) The United States is flatly denying a report that key Shiite leaders are maneuvering to oust Iraq's prime minister. Press Secretary Tony Snow tells reporters there's no move afoot to "dump" Nouri al-Maliki.
Snow adds the president has full confidence in al-Maliki. Ea
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(SomaliNet) The Fijian military said Tuesday more than 300 applications for jobs in an interim administration following last week's coup are being assessed.
The army chief Commodore Bainimarama, said the military council he has put in place is going through the applications and
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(SomaliNet) President Mahmoud Abbas ordered security forces to deploy across Gaza on Tuesday after the killing of three young sons of one of his loyalists shocked Palestinians and stoked fears of internal strife.
Tension between the moderate Abbas and the governing Hamas Islam
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(SomaliNet) German investigators have confirmed that a car used by a contact of a fatally poisoned ex-KGB agent before the two men met was contaminated with the rare radioactive substance polonium-210, police said Monday.
Still unknown is whether the Russian businessman Dmitry K
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(SomaliNet) The Central Intelligence Agency was bugging the telephone conversations of Britain's Princess Diana on the night she died, a British newspaper reported Monday. But current and former U.S. officials said that intelligence agencies never targeted the late Princess of W
