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BAGHDAD March 8 — Iraqi security forces have discovered a mass grave containing the skeletal remains of about 100 people in an area north of Baghdad once dominated by the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Saturday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, March 7 — The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela on Friday agreed to end a bitter standoff that had resulted in troop deployments, a downturn in trade and a rupture in diplomatic relations.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The Malaysian premier’s multi-racial coalition lost its crucial two-thirds majority in parliament in general elections on Saturday, the Election Commission said on Sunday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Saturday vetoed legislation passed by Congress that would have banned the CIA from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation techniques.
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Vojislav Kostunica Serbian Prime Minister
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Meanwhile, the U.S. military said that Iraqi security forces had discovered a mass grave in Diyala province containing perhaps 100 bodies. Also Saturday, two separate bombings in the province northeast of Baghdad left six people dead.
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EVERY golfer may dream of scoring a birdie, an eagle or an albatross, but one American professional is the subject of a police investigation after notching up a direct hit on a red- shouldered hawk.
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The two ringleaders of a British al-Qa’ida-style terrorist recruitment and training cell were jailed yesterday.
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ESCHWEILER, Germany (March 7) - Heinrich Boere’s first victim was a
pharmacist. Two more victims would follow on a single day, one
gunned down at point-blank range in his doorway, the other on the
road.
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But she would never make that trip. She had aroused the jealousy of one of her flatmates, even though she had been living with them for only 11 days.
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JERUSALEM - Hamas has claimed responsibility for shooting eight students at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem, the most lethal Palestinian attack on Israelis in two years and a blow to international efforts to revive peace talks.
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Renowned arms dealer Viktor Bout, a Russian whose supplying of rebel groups and feeding of international conflicts earned him the moniker “Merchant of Death,” was arrested in Bangkok on Thursday in a joint U.S.-Thai sting operation. Bout, 41, is accused of supplying arms for everyone from to the Taliban […]
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An interesting little statistical tidbit surfaced this week when I was chatting with Don Sevener, spokesman for the Illinois Board of Higher Education:
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Sky.Com News is on-air and online from 7.30pm tonight.
The most-clicked stories on Sky News Online:
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A five-year-old girl has vanished from Huelva in southern Spain, two hours’ journey from the Portuguese resort where Madeleine McCann went missing last May. Sky’s Paul Brennan reports.
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CBS has given the go-ahead to a new drama pilot from the creator of Cold Case.
Tower - set in Chicago - follows a group of journalists who “treat breaking news as cases to be both investigated and solved”.
Meanwhile, ABC has greenlit the pilot of This Might Hurt, a comedy set in a medical practice. […]
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In the first terrorist attack in Jerusalem in more than three years, a Palestinian gunman burst into a yeshiva Thursday and sprayed automatic gunfire at students studying in the library, killing eight and wounding nine before he was shot dead, stoking tensions already heightened by a spike of violence in the Gaza Strip.
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March 7, 2008 — A Palestinian gunman infiltrated a packed library at a Jerusalem yeshiva yesterday and killed at least eight people before he was shot dead by an army officer, authorities said.
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