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Anti-Taliban Afghan police chief gunned down in motorcycle attack
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A police chief who had stood up repeatedly to the Taliban was shot and killed in a drive-by attack by four insurgents on motorcycles, officials said Saturday. The police chief, Abdul Ghazi, was leaving his driveway in his car...Tags: Taliban, Armed Conflicts, Politics, Government, Hamid Karzai
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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: Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Wars and Interventions, Government, Nouri Maliki
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Bombings at 2 Pakistan mosques kill 10
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Bomb blasts tore through two village mosques in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 25, local authorities said. The bombings occurred in the village of Baz Darrah in the Malakand region,...Tags: Taliban, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Pakistan, Religion and Belief
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Afghan militants threaten more attacks after deadly bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan — A militant group said its attack Thursday on a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital marked a stepped-up campaign against the foreign presence in Afghanistan, and promised more such assaults. The suicide bombing killed six...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Taliban, Pakistan, U.S. Military, Armed Conflicts
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Six Americans among at least 15 killed in Afghanistan bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S.-military contractor DynCorp International says four American employees were killed in a suicide car bombing Thursday in the Afghan capital, Kabul, bringing the number of Americans slain to six. Nine Afghan civilians were...
Tags: Taliban, NATO, Motorvehicle Accidents, Afghanistan, Pakistan
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Afghanistan suicide attack kills 15, including at least two Americans
KABUL, Afghanistan – The death toll from a powerful suicide car bomb that shook the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday morning has increased to 15, including two American troops and four foreign civilian contractors, according to U.S. and Afghan...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Taliban, Armed Conflicts, Explosions, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Car bombings, shooting in Iraq kill at least 17
BAGHDAD — Car bombs struck Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital and a northern city Thursday, killing 16 people, while gunmen in Baghdad shot dead the brother of a Sunni lawmaker, officials said. The attacks followed a wave of bombings...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Armed Conflicts, Baghdad (Iraq), Explosions, Religious Conflicts
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12 killed as suicide car bomber hits NATO convoy in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A powerful suicide car bomb rocked Kabul on Thursday, killing six foreigners and at least six Afghan civilians, according to local officials. The attack took place around 8 a.m., a time when many people in the Afghan capital were...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Taliban, U.S. Military, Armed Conflicts, Explosions
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Counter-terrorism leak compromised an informant, sources say
WASHINGTON -- The unauthorized disclosure of a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. officials....Tags: Military Equipment, Emergency Incidents, Arabian Peninsula, Eric Holder, Terrorism
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Suffolk high school student arrested for bomb threat
Daily PressAn 11th grader at King’s Fork High School in Suffolk has been arrested for making a bomb threat at the school Tuesday. Abdul Dshawn Dixon, 20, has been charged with threat to bomb, which is a class 5 felony, according to a Suffolk police news...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Explosions
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Bad news can be bad for your health
The terrorist bombings and subsequent manhunt in Boston last month left four innocent people dead and many more injured. But the stress caused by these tragic events could adversely affect the health of a much wider population. The citywide shutdown, the...Tags: Cardiac Arrhythmia, Stress, Diseases and Illnesses, Asthma, Heart Failure
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Three coalition troops killed in Afghanistan
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three international service members were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, according to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. The soldiers were Americans, said Jawed Faisal, a spokesman...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Taliban, Explosions, Turkey, NATO
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