May, 2008

• 29 May

  Suicide bomber kills 16 police, recruits in Iraq

  MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed 14 police recruits and two policemen in northern Iraq on Thursday, police and military sources said. An attacker wearing a military uniform detonated an explosive vest near a police recruiting centre where about 200 applicants queued at Sinjar, near Mosul, police said.

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• 29 May

  Iraq’s Maliki calls for debt cancellation

  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on the international community on Thursday to cancel the country’s debt and end sanctions imposed during Saddam Hussein’s rule.

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• 29 May

  Gunman kills six people in Bosnia village: police

  SARAJEVO (Reuters) – A man shot and killed six people in a village near the northern Bosnian town of Tuzla on Thursday, gunning down three in their homes and three aboard a bus, police and witnesses at the scene said.

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• 28 May

  Russia scraps arrest warrant for media campaigner

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian investigators on Monday scrapped an arrest warrant for the head of a media charity, effectively ending a prosecution that rights campaigners said was a Kremlin attack on civil society.

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• 28 May

  More Sunni engagement in Iraq needed-Sweden’s Bildt

  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sunni-led Arab states need to offer more support to the Shi’ite-led Iraqi government to give reconstruction efforts a chance to succeed, Sweden’s foreign minister said on Wednesday ahead of a conference on Iraq.

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• 28 May

  Two suicide blasts in Afghanistan

  KABUL (Reuters) – Two suicide attacks took place in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing one civilian, officials said, amid a period of renewed violence in the country.

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• 28 May

  Israeli air strike kills two Gaza militants

  GAZA (Reuters) – An Israeli air strike on Wednesday killed two Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical workers said.

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• 28 May

  Iraq’s main Sunni bloc suspends government talks

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s main Sunni Arab political bloc said on Wednesday it had suspended talks to rejoin the Shi’ite-led government after a disagreement with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki over a cabinet post.

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• 26 May

  Motorcycle bomber kills six near Baghdad

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed at least six members of a U.S.-backed neighborhood patrol and wounded 18 others on Monday, police said.

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• 26 May

  FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

  (Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Monday: *denotes new or updated item * BAGHDAD – A roadside bomb wounded five people on the airport highway, in western Baghdad, police said. * BAGHDAD – A bomb blast wounded two people in Shaab district, northern …

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