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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Wave of attacks kill nearly 100 people in Iraq

    BAGHDAD (AP) — Today's wave of attacks in Iraq has now left at least 95 people dead.The worst of the violence took place in Baghdad, where 10 car bombs ripped through open-air markets and other areas of Shiite neighborhoods. Police say at least 48 people were killed and more than 150 wounded in those attacks.One bomb went off in a market in the northern Shiite neighborhood of Shaab, ...

  • At least 70 people killed in Iraq bombings as Sunni and Shiite tensions rise

    Iraq At least 70 people have been killed in a string of bombings in Iraq, as tensions increase between the Sunni minority and the Shiite dominated government.Nine people were killed in one of two car bombings in Basra, a predominantly Shiite city in the south of Baghdad, police and medics said. "I was on duty when a powerful blast shook the ground," a police officer near the site of ...

  • Bombs tear through Baghdad in Iraqs bloodiest day for months

    The worst of yesterday's violence took place in Baghdad's Shiite neighbourhoods, where 10 car bombs killed at least 48 people and wounded more than ...

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The Rules of the Game (Le Règle du jeu) [DVD]

The Rules of the Game (Le Règle du jeu) [DVD]

Franois Truffaut called Jean Renoirs The Rules of the Game (Le Rgle du jeu) the credo of film lovers, the film of films. Indeed, having been ranked as one of the 10 greatest films ever made on Sight & Sounds influential International Critics Poll list since its inception in 1952, the intensity with which this film is now admired and revered is matched only by the vitriol and ... ...

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  • A look at the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the 2011 US troop pullout

    BAGHDAD - Here is a look at the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the withdrawal of U.S. troops on Dec. 18, 2011: -- May 20, 2013: A wave of attacks, some at markets and rush hour crowds, hour killed at least 86 people in Shiite and Sunni areas. -- May 18, 2013: Shootings and bombings kill at least 16 people including an anti-terrorism police captain and his family. -- May 17, 2013: Bombs rip ...

  • How Baghdad Fuels Iraqs Sectarian Fire

    The Iraqi government has hurled the country to the brink of a new civil war. In under a month, Baghdad launched a vicious assault on a Sunni protest camp, resulting in 44 deaths; executed 21 alleged Sunni terrorists in one day, and suspended the licenses of 10 satellite channels, 9 of them deemed pro-Sunni. Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s message to his country’s extremely ...

  • 9 killed in attacks against mosques in Iraq

    /enpproperty--> BAGHDAD - At least nine people were killed and 53 others wounded in bombing attacks against two Shiite mosques in Iraq's southern city of Hilla on Monday, a police source said. A suicide bomber blew himself up at Al-Wardiyah mosque in Hilla, some 100 km south of Baghdad, while a bomb exploded in the nearby Al-Galagh mosque, the source told Xinhua on condition of ...

  • Bomb attacks kill more than 70 Shiites across Iraq

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 70 people were killed in a series of car bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew in December ...

  • Blasts and shootings claim 90 lives in Iraq as sectarian violence rises

    Iraq is edging closer to all-out sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims as a series of car bombings and shootings killed at least 90 people and left many others ...

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