BAGHDAD (AP) — Car bombs struck mostly Shiite targets in Baghdad on Wednesday, and the bodies of three Sunni professors and a student were found days after they were seized while leaving their campus in a Shiite part of the city. At least 47 people were reported killed across the …
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German court orders arrest of Masri kidnappers
BERLIN (Reuters) — A court in Germany has ordered the arrest of 13 people suspected of being involved in the abduction of a German national who says he was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA, state prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Read More »Iran 2-3 years from atom bomb — think tank
LONDON (Reuters) — Iran is at least two to three years away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon, a leading global think tank said on Wednesday.
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SOFIA (AFP) — A Bulgarian prosecutor launched a judicial enquiry Wednesday against 11 Libyan police officers who allegedly tortured five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya in a high-profile AIDS epidemic case.
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MOGADISHU (AP) — Somali officials were imposing martial law on areas the transitional government controls, moving to strengthen a tenuous grip on power and smother rising violence. An AU official said Wednesday that help was on the way in the form of peacekeepers from Uganda and Nigeria.
Read More »Training Iraqi police essential, study group says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Training the police is as important to stabilising Iraq as building up an army there, but the United States has botched the job by assigning the wrong agencies to the task, two members of the Iraq Study Group say.
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DAMASCUS — For a while in postwar Iraq, life looked up for Ahlam Jibouri, who found a well-paid job working with the US authorities after the 2003 invasion.
Read More »Millions of dollars wasted in Iraq reconstruction aid — investigators
WASHINGTON (AP) — The US government wasted tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction aid, including scores of unaccounted-for weapons and a never-used camp for housing police trainers with an Olympic-size swimming pool, investigators say.
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Read More »Iran’s FM Meets Ethiopian Officials
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki who is currently in Ethiopia to participate in the 8th African Union (AU) summit met with the prime minister, parliament speaker and foreign minister of that country.
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