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Suicide blast in northwest Pakistan kills 6
Dec 5th, 2008KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide car-bomb killed at least six people in northwest Pakistan Friday in an attack security officials said was apparently aimed at minority Shi’ite Muslims.
U.S. military frets over Iraqi prisoners
Dec 5th, 2008BAGHDAD (Reuters) - They have outraged Iraqis and been condemned by human rights groups, but next year the prisons in which U.S. forces hold thousands of Iraqis will be flung open under a U.S.-Iraq security pact.
Russian Orthodox Leader Dies at 79
Dec 5th, 2008Head of the Russian Orthodox Church for the past 18 years, the Estonian-born Aleksy II was an influential figure with close links to the Kremlin.
India admits security lapses in Mumbai attacks
Dec 5th, 2008NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s new home minister said on Friday last week’s Mumbai attacks had revealed security lapses and that evidence clearly showed longtime enemies from neighboring Pakistan were responsible.
World Briefing | Europe: Germany: Knut Needs Room
Dec 5th, 2008The superstar polar bear is now fully grown, at 440 pounds, and has gotten too big for his enclosure at the Berlin Zoo.
Gun club, police chief indicted in boy’s Uzi death
Dec 5th, 2008SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Three men, including a small-town police chief, were indicted Thursday on involuntary manslaughter counts in the gun-fair death of an 8-year-old who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi that a prosecutor said he never should have been allowed to handle….
