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Suicide bomb blast kills Afghan provincial leader, 12 others
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomb blast killed a top leader of a northern Afghan province and at least 12 other people Monday, the latest in a step-up of attacks by Taliban insurgents ahead of Washington’s planned troop withdrawal at the end of...
Tags: Suicide, Pakistan, NATO, Taliban, Wars and Interventions
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Syria's government presses battle in key rebel city of Qusair
BEIRUT -- Renewed clashes were reported Monday in the strategic Syrian city of Qusair, where government forces pressed an offensive aimed at chasing rebels from the supply and logistics hub. There were conflicting accounts from the government and the...
Tags: News Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lebanon, Government, Human Rights
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Explosion uncovers Lansford meth lab
]An explosion and flash fire in a house in the 100 block of E. Patterson Street in Lansford Sunday night led authorities to a suspected methamphetamine-making operation. The occupants of the home initially told police someone threw a Molotov cocktail...
Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Drug Trafficking, Emergency Incidents, Prosecution
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Car bombs in Iraq kill at least 65 people
BAGHDAD -- Car bombs around Iraq killed at least 65 people Monday as the country's worst wave of violence since U.S. troops withdrew a year and a half ago continued. The attacks that occurred by busy commercial streets in Shiite and Sunni areas followed...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religious Conflicts, Baghdad (Iraq), United Nations, Basra (Iraq)
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Gordon Gayle dies at 95; received Navy Cross for attack on Peleliu
Retired Marine Brig. Gen. Gordon Gayle, who received the Navy Cross for leadership and bravery during the assault on Peleliu, one of the bloodiest and most complex and controversial battles fought by Marines during World War II, has died. He was 95....
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, United States Naval Academy, Japan, Armed Forces, Emergency Incidents
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Man with 'Cop Killa' tattoo charged with threatening police
An ex-convict with "Cop Killa" tattooed below his left eye has been charged with making 911 calls threatening to shoot and kill police officers in the Ogden District on the West Side, authorities said. Antonio A. Hammond, 27, is also accused of calling...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Criminals, Emergency Incidents, Prosecution
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Mailbag: Another side of the man killed in explosion
Re. "Records: Man killed in bomb blast had lab equipment," (May 1): Get the facts right! The white powder was flour. He was upset with Pillsbury. We found notes he had written to them complaining about the packaging, etc. The liquid was water. He had...Tags: Abortion, Social Issues, Hospitals and Clinics, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Roman Catholicism
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Are multiple concussions driving suicides in the military?
The U.S. military has faced two epidemics over the last decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. One is suicide. The annual rate of military personnel taking their own lives has doubled to about 20 per 100,000. That translated to a record 324 suicides...
Tags: Suicide, U.S. Army, Concussion, Suicidal Behavior, Medical Research
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Explosives set up outside Wichita apartment complex
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsThey didn't cause any damage, but Wichita police are looking for whoever set chemical two bombs up outside an apartment complex on N. Market Sunday afternoon. One of those bombs went off. The department's explosives team rendered the second device...Tags: Emergency Incidents
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Feds: Drive-through Sanford bank robbers said 'All will die' in note
Robert Gordon Shaw and Matthew Anthony Cosimini had money problems. So, according to Shaw, the two devised a plan to rob a Regions bank in Sanford. They made a fake bomb , stole a pickup truck at Seminole Towne Center, and wrote a demand note. Those...Tags: Lobbying, Theft, Sanford, Politics, Emergency Incidents
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Watch: Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT
The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball. It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph. And...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Science and Technology, Weaponry, NASA, Space Programs
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Two blasts in Iraq leave at least 70 dead
BAGHDAD — Bombings in Iraq near a Sunni Muslim mosque, a busy shopping street and a funeral procession left at least 70 people dead Friday as the security situation continued to show signs of unraveling. The explosions brought the week’s...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Baghdad (Iraq), United Nations, Government, Nouri Maliki
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