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Insurgents attacked a police station Wednesday for a second day in a row, but U.S. and Iraqi forces captured 50 of them after a two-hour gunbattle.
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A bomb scare shut down a commuter train station during rush hour Wednesday, causing major delays throughout the east San Francisco Bay area, authorities said.
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Attackers have killed two Shia pilgrims and wounded dozens in Baghdad, raking their vehicles with gunfire.
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Afghan troops killed at least 15 suspected Taliban members during an attack near the border with Pakistan, an army commander said on Wednesday.
The two-hour gun battle erupted late Tuesday local time near the border town of Spin Boldak in Kandahar province, officials said.
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As he and his wife Sheila drive me through downtown San Diego in the glare of midday, he suddenly exclaims, "Look at that structure!" I glance over and just across the blue expanse of the harbor is an enormous aircraft carrier. "It's the USS Ronald Reagan," he says, "the newest carrier in the fleet.It's a floating Chernobyl and it sits a proverbial six inches off the bottom with two huge atomic reactors. You make a wrong move and there goes the country's seventh-largest city."
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Police sealed off the front gates of the White House and a bomb squad was called in on Wednesday to check on what officials said was a suspicious package left outside.
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Bomb blasts that ripped through two budget hotels overnight in La Paz killed two people, and Bolivian authorities said on Wednesday they were questioning two foreigners arrested after the explosions.
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The Bath School disaster was a series of bombings in and around Bath Township, Michigan, USA, on May 18, 1927, which killed 45 people and injured 58. Most of the victims were children in second to sixth grades attending the Bath Consolidated school.
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Since last year, the city of Muqdadiya had not been considered especially vulnerable. There were shootings and bombings from time to time, but police would round up suspected rebels in nearby villages, as they did last weekend, and haul them to cells in the downtown courthouse.
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Seven men accused of planning al Qaeda-linked terrorist attacks in Britain discussed several possible targets including a nightclub in London, and one of the plotters had tried to obtain an atomic bomb, a prosecutor told a court Wednesday.
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Basque separatist group ETA on Wednesday declared a permanent cease-fire after almost four decades of bombings and shootings in Spain during its campaign for independence.
