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Blasts kill 15 in Shiite areas of Baghdad

BAGHDAD: A series of bombings killed at least 15 people in Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad on Sunday, officials said, the latest attacks to hit Iraq

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Russian region begins recovery from meteor fall

CHELYABINSK, Russia: As a small army of people worked to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor, many joked on Saturday about what had happened

Bomb kills 64 in Pakistan’s Quetta

QUETTA, Pakistan: Sixty-four people including school children died on Saturday in a bomb attack carried out by extremists from Pakistan’s Sunni Muslim majority, police said. A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a

Iranian leader: Iran not seeking nuclear weapons

TEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s Supreme Leader said Saturday that his country was not seeking nuclear weapons, but that if Tehranintended to build them, the U.S. couldn’t stop it. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,

Bangladeshis demand death for war crimes convict

DHAKA, Bangladesh: For many in Bangladesh, the “V” for victory sign was more than they could bear. They had waited more than four decades for justice in the mass killings

Havana restores monument to victims of USS Maine

HAVANA: It was a little before 10 p.m. that February night in 1898 when a fiery explosion roiled the normally calm waters of Havana Harbor, blowing out windows in the

Putin: NGOs mustn’t meddle in Russia’s affairs

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned foreign-funded non-government organizations against meddling in the country’s affairs. Putin also angrily lashed out at recent U.S. criticism of the Russian-led post-Soviet

Iran mourns slain senior military commander

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Prominent Iranian politicians and clerics led mourners at a funeral Thursday for a senior commander of the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guards who was killed this week

Valentine’s Day under attack in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Romance is not dead in Pakistan, but it’s under attack. Conservatives in Pakistan tacked up posters urging people to boycott Valentine’s Day on Thursday, saying it’s a western-inspired event

Clashes mark Bahrain’s second uprising anniversary

MANAMA, Bahrain: Anti-government protesters in Bahrain have set up roadblocks and clashed with security forces amid high tensions on the second anniversary of the uprising in the Gulf nation. The demonstrators on Thursday included groups