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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Today is Friday, May 31, the 151st day of 2013. There are 214 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1043 – Lady Godiva rides naked through the market square in Coventry, England. 1520 – After being a hostage in Denmark, young nobleman Gustav Vasa slips back into Sweden to start a rebellion against the Danes that will establish Swedish independence. 1790 – The U.S. copyright law is enacted
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A roadside bomb killed 11 security personnel and two civilians on Thursday in southwestern Pakistan where separatist rebels have for decades been battling to control the region’s natural gas and other resources. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria’s main opposition group gathers on Thursday for a landmark conference in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss peace talks with the regime, as rebels on the ground suffer a massive army onslaught. The National Coalition’s fresh round of talks is set to run for three days. It is the opposition group’s first meeting since the United States and Russia announced a peace initiative dubbed Geneva 2 to end the two-year conflict that has killed more than 90,000 people. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said yesterday he would overhaul Iraq’s security strategy as a two-day wave of violence killed at least 75 people including 24 police, bringing the month’s death toll from unrest to 352. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say car bomb in Shiite area of Baghdad kills at least 13 civilians. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A wave of car bombings across Baghdad’s Shiite neighbourhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 34 people and wounded dozens on Monday, Iraqi officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on May 20th, 2013 A wave of car bombings across Baghdad’s Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 34 people on Monday, Iraqi officials said.
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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials: 5 car bombs strike Shiite neighborhoods across Baghdad, killing 16 people. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two bombs near a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad killed 38 people and wounded 55 on Friday, police and a doctor said, after two days of attacks targeting Iraqi Shiites in which dozens died. One bomb exploded as worshippers were departing the Saria mosque in the city of Baquba while a second detonated after people gathered at the scene of the first blast, the sources said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on May 16th, 2013 Two car bombs exploded in sprawling Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital on Thursday morning, wounding 30 people, officials said.
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By , on May 12th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Iran’s presidential race has entered a new, unpredictable phase after two game-changing politicians, both out of favour with the country’s leaders, signed up as candidates in the final minutes of a five-day registration period. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ANNE BARNARD, on May 8th, 2013 Trained to battle Israel, Hezbollah’s Lebanese Shiite guerrillas are pushing into a very different fight, against fellow Arab Muslims trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
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By , on May 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Bombs killed 17 people and wounded dozens more including an election candidate in Pakistan on Tuesday, raising to more than 100 the death toll from attacks on the campaign for Saturday’s polls. The attacks took place in the northwestern town of Hangu, a flashpoint for violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and in the northwestern district of Dir, where Pakistani troops crushed a Taliban-led insurgency in 2009. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A bomb tore through a Pakistan political rally on Monday, killing 14 people and wounding 56 in one of the deadliest attacks of the campaign for Pakistan’s historic elections on Saturday. The killings bring to 83 the number of people killed in such attacks since April 11, according to an AFP tally. The device targeted the right-wing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), a religious party in the outgoing government coalition. It exploded in Kurram, part of Pakistan’s Taliban-infested tribal belt on the Afghan border. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned against escalating a fraught situation in Syria after Israel struck targets near Damascus on Sunday, targeting what its officials said were Iranian missiles bound for Hezbollah militants. Israeli officials said the raid, the second in 48 hours, was not connected to Syria’s civil war. It was aimed, rather, at stopping Lebanon’s Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, acquiring weapons that could be used to strike Tel Aviv if Israel followed through on threats to attack Iranian nuclear facilities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Israeli warplanes have targeted a Syrian weapons shipment headed for Hezbollah in Lebanon, media quoted US officials as saying on Saturday, as Sunnis were fleeing a city for fear of a massacre. The news came as US President Barack Obama, under mounting criticism that he has allowed Bashar al-Assad’s regime to cross his own declared “red line” on using chemical weapons, came close to ruling out deploying US troops to Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Five car bombs exploded yesterday in public areas in predominantly Shiite cities and districts in central and southern Iraq, killing 26 civilians and wounding dozens. The blasts come amid a week-long spike in sectarian violence following clashes at a Sunni protest camp in the north of the country. No one has claimed responsibility, but co-ordinated bombings in civilian areas are a favourite strategy used by al-Qaeda in Iraq. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq officials say 3 car bombs rock Shiite cities in south, killing at least 16. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan police say bomb blast kills 6 at Shiite politician’s office in northwest. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The 46-year-old, one of the European Union’s youngest prime ministers, is then expected to unveil his programme in a parliamentary session on Monday, before the government is put to a confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Friday, May 31
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Today is Friday, May 31, the 151st day of 2013. There are 214 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1043 – Lady Godiva rides naked through the market square in Coventry, England. 1520 – After being a hostage in Denmark, young nobleman Gustav Vasa slips back into Sweden to start a rebellion against the Danes that will establish Swedish independence. 1790 – The U.S. copyright law is enacted
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