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Iraq car bombings leave dozens dead
BAGHDAD — Car bombs around Iraq killed at least 65 people Monday amid the worst wave of violence in the country since U.S. troops withdrew a year and a half ago. The attacks, which occurred along busy commercial streets in Shiite and Sunni areas,...Tags: Parliament, United Nations, Iraq, Basra (Iraq), Religion and Belief
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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: Baghdad (Iraq), Bombings, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, United Nations
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Jordan premier: Arab Spring forces governments to widen press freedoms; local critics unmoved
Associated PressAMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The Arab Spring uprisings that toppled four Arab leaders have forced Mideast governments to allow more freedom of expression and of the press, Jordan's prime minister said Monday, but critics charged that Jordan itself is not...Tags: Laws, Lawyers, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, National Government
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Oakland police struggle to rebuild — using fewer resources
OAKLAND — It was a quiet evening by this city's standards, and still the police emergency lines were lighting up. As screams rang out behind her, a caller said her neighbor was being beaten. A woman reported that a front door down the street had...
Tags: William Bratton, Trials, Witnesses, Laws, University of California, Berkeley
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Khaled Hosseini on "And the Mountains Echoed"
Khaled Hosseini stormed the best-seller lists with his debut novel, “The Kite Runner,” in 2003, following it up with the even more popular “A Thousand Splendid Suns” in 2007. Both set in the author's native country of Afghanistan,...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Authors, Afghanistan, Newspaper and Magazine, Taliban
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Marshall Fundamental softball succumbs to hard-hitting Barstow
PASADENA — Perhaps the long bus ride from Barstow to Pasadena, which roughly works out to a 210-mile round trip, helped ratchet up the Barstow High softball team’s anxiousness to play in Tuesday afternoon’s CIF Southern Section...Tags: Baseball, Sports, Softball
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Mubarak back in court; retrial postponed
CAIRO — The retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak was postponed Saturday until June 8 after prosecutors told a Cairo criminal court that they intend to present new evidence of his responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of protesters during...
Tags: Trials, Defendants, Hosni Mubarak, Justice and Rights, Lawyers
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Setting Times stories to music: From the Kinks to Sugarhill Gang
Would you do a double-take if I said that that words were a recurring theme in this week’s Great Reads? Yes, beautiful language is a mainstay in these stories, but this week, two standouts focused on words. Exhibit A: The words “Los Feliz....
Tags: Preservation Hall Jazz Band (music group), Lifestyle and Leisure, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Restaurants, Entertainment
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Afghanistan arms take a twisting trail
Far from a great game, the British and American involvement in Afghanistan has been more of a case of sustained blowback. If there's one main take-away from J.T. Rogers' "Blood and Gifts," an epic, dramatic account of the allies' Afghan misadventures...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Lobbying, Philosophy, Bowling, Afghanistan
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Two men plead guilty in 2009 Hampton homicide
HAMPTON — Two men pleaded guilty Thursday to shooting a man to death during a 2009 attempted robbery. Evan Francis Stephens and Adam Abdullah Brewer pleaded guilty to murder in the March 27, 2009 death of Johnny Lee Purdie, according to the...
Tags: Trials, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Justice System, Phoebus High School, Crime, Law and Justice
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Smashed U.S. cars get second chance in Afghanistan
HERAT, Afghanistan — They sit in the sun harboring their lost histories, their forgotten dreams, their traces of funerals, graduations and stolen kisses. On dusty windshields, insurance stickers from Travelers and State Farm bear witness to wrecks...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Vehicles, Afghanistan, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, World Bank Group
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The Week Ahead: Iran and Pakistan on the stump, Mubarak on trial
D-Day for Iranian presidential race Tuesday, May 7 -- So many candidates, so few promising real change. More than a dozen Iranian lawmakers, former Cabinet ministers, revolutionary guardsmen and allies of Islamic leaders have thrown in their hats...
Tags: Africa, Trials, Political Corruption, Elections, Justice System
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May 11, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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May 9, 2013
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May 6, 2013
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May 6, 2013
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