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  • 22 killed in nine car bombings in Iraq

    At least 22 people were killed and more than 130 others injured in a string of nine car bombings Monday in the Iraqi capital and in the southern oil hub of Basra, police said. Two car bombs went off almost simultaneously in Basra, 550 km south of Baghdad, killing at least 11 people and wounding 35 others, police told Xinhua. In Baghdad, seven car bombs ripped through different parts of the ...

  • Car bombs target Iraqi Shiites killing 43

    Civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Hadi ...

  • Will U.S. Designate Egypt Pakistan Iraq and Nigeria As Religious Freedom Violators

    Pakistani Christians protest against the country's blasphemy laws and violence targeting their minority community. An independent U.S. watchdog has urged the executive branch every year since 2002 to designate Pakistan as a "country of particular concern" over religious freedom violations. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - As the State Department prepares to release its annual report on ...

  • Dubais Damac begins work on first Iraq project

    Dubai-based property developer Damac Properties has begun construction on its first residential complex in Iraq, several years after it first announced its intention to expand into the Middle East ...

  • Damac Properties announces strategic build programme in Iraq

    Damac Properties, the Middle East's leading luxury private developer, has announced a comprehensive strategic plan to expand its operations to Iraq. The company, which has completed 37 buildings and has a further 66 currently under construction across sevens countries in the Middle East and North Africa, has begun work on Princess Tower - a 26-storey, luxury furnished apartment complex in ...

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The Shootist [DVD]

The Shootist [DVD]

When, at the age of 69, the legendary John Wayne starred in The Shootist as John Bernard Books, an aging gunslinger dying of cancer at the turn of the 20th century, he himself was dying of cancer. Having already had half a lung removed to stop the spread of what he referred to as "the Big C," Wayne was in poor physical health during the shooting of the movie, constantly sick with gout, flu ... ...

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  • Baghdad car bomb kills 13 raises death toll to 70

    Shia neighborhood in Baghdad has killed 13 people. The blast pushed the day's death toll from a deadly wave of bombings and shooting attacks across Iraq to 70. The officials say the latest blast struck on Monday afternoon in a busy market in the Shaab Shia neighborhood of the Iraqi capital. A police officer says 25 people wounded in the explosion. A medical official confirmed the casualty ...

  • Iraq attacks kill at least 70 in Shia Sunni areas

    Civilians inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighbourhood, a predominantly Shia area of eastern Baghdad, on Monday, among a wave of car bombings and other attacks across Baghdad in recent days. (Hadi Mizban/Associated ...

  • Wave of violent attacks kills at least 57 in Iraq

    BAGHDAD – A string of car bombs and shootings killed at least 57 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting in the country. The attacks, some of which hit market places and crowded bus stops during the morning rush hour, pushed the death toll in Iraq since Wednesday to more than 200. The bloodshed ...

  • Dozens killed in wave of violent attacks across Iraq

    BAGHDAD – A string of car bombs and shootings killed at least 57 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting in the country. The attacks, some of which hit market places and crowded bus stops during the morning rush hour, pushed the death toll in Iraq since Wednesday to more than 200. The bloodshed ...

  • Car bomb blast kills at least 12 in Iraqi capital

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in a Shi'ite neighborhood of the Iraqi capital Baghdad killing at least 12 people on Monday, police and hospital sources said. The blast, near a crowded market in the northern Shaab district of Baghdad, wounded 26. Earlier on Monday, at least 43 people were killed in a wave of car bomb explosions targeting Shi'ite Muslims in Baghdad and the ...

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