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  • Over 60 killed in Iraq terror attacks Over 60 killed in Iraq terror attacks

    BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 60 people, including Iranian Shia pilgrims, were killed in a series of car bombings and shootings across Iraq Monday, officials said. The worst hit in Monday's violence was Baghdad where eight car bombs and a roadside bomb ripped through bus stops, marketplaces and other crowded areas in Shia neighbourhoods. The attacks left 12 people dead and 109 wounded, a senior ...

  • 4 killed 68 wounded in bomb attacks in Iraq

    Beijing, May 21 (Xinhua-ANI): At least four people were killed and 68 others wounded in deadly bomb attacks in war-torn Iraq on Tuesday, police said. At least three people were killed and more than 43 others wounded when two car bombs exploded in the Hussein district in Tuz Khormato, some 170 km north of Baghdad, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The blasts caused ...

  • Wave of Attacks Kills At Least 76 in Iraq

    A wave of car bombings and suicide attacks against Shi'ite Muslims ripped through Iraqi cities Monday, killing at least 76 people and wounding scores more, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew from the country in December 2011. The attacks increased the number of Iraqis killed in sectarian clashes over the past week to more than 200, including 70 who died Friday ...

  • 61 killed in Iraq attacks

    A series of car bombings and shootings, mainly targeting Shia Muslim areas across Iraq, Monday killed at least 61 people, including Iranian pilgrims, and wounded around 200 others, officials said. The worst violence occurred in Baghdad, when eight car bombs and a roadside bomb ripped through bus stops, marketplaces and other crowded areas in Shia neighbourhoods in the capital city, killing 12 ...

  • Jordanian anger over video of Iraqis beating lawyers Baghdad expresses regret

    A view of the protesters gathered outside the Iraqi embassy in Amman. Image courtesy of The Jordan Times The Iraqi government on Tuesday expressed regret over a recent incident that took place in the Royal Cultural Centre, during an event for the Iraqi Embassy in Amman, where a group of Jordanian lawyers where attacked by embassy staff.In a statement issued by the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, posted ...

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) [Blu-Ray]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) [Blu-Ray]

Over the past decade, at least since the Michael Bay-produced remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), we have been inundated at the multiplex with remakes of horror classics. This is not necessarily a new development, as the horror genre has ... ...

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  • Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Says Recent Violence Aimed at Dividing Iraq

    The "morale of Christians in the area is down" Sako said, adding that "it seems a step aimed at the division of Iraq."In recent months, violent attacks have increased across Iraqi cities with the worst occurring on May 20 in Baghdad. Nine explosions were detonated in mainly Shiite areas, leaving at least eight dead in one attack.The patriarch added, in an interview to ...

  • Anadolu Agency Board Chairman met with northern Iraqi regional administration premier Barzani in Erbil to introduce AA`s plans to launch Kurdish wire-service in September.

    Anadolu Agency Board Chairman met with northern Iraqi regional administration premier Barzani in Erbil to introduce AA`s plans to launch Kurdish wire-service in September. IRBIL - Kemal Ozturk, the Anadolu Agency Executive Board Chairman and Director General, met on Tuesday with Nechirvan Barzani, prime minister of the regional administration in north of Iraq, as AA plans to start Kurdish wire ...

  • Two Car Bombs and Suicidal Attacker Kill 13 in Iraq

    Baghdad, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Car bomb attacks in two northern cities and a suicidal attack against soldiers patrolling a town near the capital killed 13 people today in Iraq, caught in a whirlwind of sectarian, confessional and territorial violence. Three people died in Tuz Khurmato city after an explosive device attached to a car exploded some time before another similar device exploded near ...

  • Iraq bleeding from north to south

    22/01/2013 17:34 CET At least six people have been killed in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, after three car bombs exploded near a market on Tuesday May 21. A local resident said: ';They didn’t distinguish between Arab, Kurd and Turkmen in the market. But this is the destiny of the Iraqi people – no more bloody Tuesday or bloody Wednesday because Iraq is bleeding from ...

  • Attacks Kill 8 in Iraq

    New attacks in three Iraqi cities have killed at least eight people and wounded dozens more -- a day after more than 70 died in assaults on Shi'ite Muslims, stoking fears of all-out sectarian war with minority ...

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