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Officials: Bomb blast at funeral in northwestern Pakistan kills 12 people
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A Pakistani spokesman says a bomb blast at a funeral in northwestern Pakistan has killed 12 people. The spokesman for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Shaukat Yousufzai, says the bombing in the city of Mardan on Tuesday also wounded 50 people. A police officer, Tahir Ayub, says a provincial lawmaker was among those wounded.
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Bombardier reveals VistaJet orders, options worth up to US$1.035 billion
PARIS – Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B) has announced several orders at the Paris Air Show that could be worth up to US$2 billion if all options are exercised. The biggest of the deals was with VistaJet, which has ordered up to 40 Challenger 350s that would be worth US$1.035 billion if all options are exercised. Bombardier
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Suicide bombers hit inside, near Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing 26, Iraqi officials say
BAGHDAD – Two suicide bombers blew themselves up inside and near a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 26 people and wounding 55, Iraqi officials said. The co-ordinated blasts were the latest in a string of attacks that has hit Iraq, reviving fears the country is headed back toward the widespread sectarian bloodshed that
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Man standing silently inspires new form of protest in Turkey
ISTANBUL – After weeks of sometimes violent confrontation with police, Turkish protesters have found a new form of resistance: standing still and silent. The first such protest was carried out late Monday by performance artist Erdem Gunduz, who stood for hours at Istanbul’s central Taksim Square, in passive defiance of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Mooing 4-legged deposits at Zimbabwe’s unique ‘Cattle Bank,’ the first account for rural poor
MARONDERA, Zimbabwe – William Mukurazita’s deposit at the bank has four legs and moos. Zimbabwe’s first “Cattle Bank” has just opened its books in a unique kind of banking where owners bring in their animals as collateral against cash loans. For many rural poor in this southern African country once wracked by world-record inflation, it’s
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Art collector Charles Saatchi cautioned over assault on wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson
LONDON – Prominent art collector Charles Saatchi has accepted a police caution for assault after grasping the throat of his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson. Tabloid newspapers this week published photos of the incident, which happened more than a week ago in a posh London restaurant. In British law, police can issue a caution in
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Wet, wintry, wild: Meteorologists and climate scientists meet to discuss weird British weather
LONDON – Come rain, wind or sunshine, weather has long been one of Britain’s main topics of conversation. Now it has also become a mystery. Meteorologists and climate scientists are meeting Tuesday to discuss why this traditionally temperate country has recently experienced icy winters, washed-out summers and the coldest spring in a half-century. Scientist Stephen
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Mozambique: 5 troops killed, 2 wounded, in fighting with opposition group
MAPUTO, Mozambique – Media in Mozambique say at least five government troops were killed and two others were wounded in fighting with alleged members of an opposition group. State radio and television say the clashes happened Monday in Sofala province in central Mozambique. There were no immediate reports on any casualties among opposition fighters from
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Hungary indicts 98-year-old accused of beating Jews, assisting in WWII deportations
BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungarian prosecutors indicted a 98-year-old former police officer Tuesday for abusing Jews and assisting in their deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II. They said Laszlo Csatary was the chief of an internment camp for 12,000 Jews at a brick factory in Kosice — a Slovak city then part of
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Syrian fighter jets hit rebels near air base as army tries to reclaim territory in north
BEIRUT – Syrian warplanes bombed rebel positions near a contested military air base in the north on Tuesday, activists said, while President Bashar Assad’s forces nearby pressed ahead with an offensive against opposition fighters in the country’s largest city Aleppo. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that fighter jets struck near the Kweiras
