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Gunmen storm Iraqi television station, kill 11

BAGHDAD (AP) — Suspected Shiite gunmen, some dressed as police, broke into a television station and gunned down 11 executives, producers and other staffers Thursday — the deadliest attack against the media in Iraq, where at least 81 journalists have been killed in the past three years.

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Britain says Guantanamo detentions unacceptable

LONDON (AP) — The detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay is unacceptable and counterproductive, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Thursday, underlining an increasingly critical British line on the US camp in Cuba.

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8 dead in Gaza as Israeli troops mount fresh incursion

GAZA CITY   (AFP) — 8 Palestinians, including a teenage boy and three Hamas fighters, were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as troops mounted a fresh incursion as part of a four-month offensive. The violence — at a time of increased tensions between rival Palestinian factions …

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