Bombings, protests in Iraq amid Gaza crisis erupt in Sadr City
A roadside bomb in Sadr City kills a U S soldier while a protester dies in Mosul and a bomber attacks amid Gaza demonstrations. In Fallujah a blast wounds civilians as Iraq condemns Israeli strikes and calls for stronger action. The Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party organized the Mosul rally.
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Yahiya Abid Mahjoub
Fallujah
Pakistan hotel reopens after deadly attacks amid rising tension
A man acting alone fatally injured 34 people at a polling station near Swat Valley in north west Pakistan. In Islamabad the Marriott reopens three months after a truck bombing killed 54, with renovations and a security wall in place.
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Nevsky Named Greatest Russian in State Vote
In a nationwide broadcast on Rossiya channel Stalin was edged by medieval ruler Alexander Nevsky as Russia's greatest historic figure with over 524000 votes to Stalin's 519000. Rights activists blasted the result. Meanwhile Michigan faced 60 mph winds and outages affecting about 413000 homes and businesses with 4 inches of snow.
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Seven Dead in Tijuana Weekend Shootings
Mexico reports seven people killed in a wave of weekend shootings in Tijuana as prosecutors link the violence to drug cartels. Also noted are grisly discoveries in Guerrero and Acapulco, plus a Sacramento obituary update and a nurse abduction case in London.
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Man exonerated in rape case charged with murder
In Crown Point Indiana Marlon Pendleton 51 exonerated by DNA in a 1992 rape now faces a murder charge after his girlfriend is found dead in a Hammond home Pendleton has been jailed since December 19.
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Indiana
Marlon Pendleton
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Pendleton
FBI probes disappearance of cruise passenger aboard Norwegian Pearl
FBI agents opened an inquiry into the vanishing of Jennifer Seitz a 36 year old passenger on the Norwegian Pearl Surveillance video shows a woman going overboard around 8 08 p m Friday Coast Guard and Mexican navy report no trace of Seitz in the water
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Recovery of Colorado crash victims delayed til spring
In San Luis Colorado officials said the bodies of Gerrit Maureau and his wife Sheila Malm Calgary are presumed dead in the December 20 Vermejo Peak plane crash. Severe weather and avalanche risk delay recovery until spring. Gazette news services
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Colo
Colorado Mountains
Costilla County
Gerrit Maureau
Sheila Malm
Calgary
Video Captures Afghan Schoolchildren Death Toll Dispute
Footage from a U S military camera shows a truck exploding near a police outpost as a line of Afghan students aged 8 to 10 pass by. Officials and U S forces clash over whether 14 or more children died with additional casualties and numerous injuries.
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Afghanistan
U.S
Abdul Rahman
Khost
United States
McKiernan
Abdullah Fahim
Ministry of Health
Khan
Man found in attic after days with family in Pennsylvania
In Plains Township near Wilkes-Barre a man identified as 21 year old Stanley Carter emerged from an attic wearing the homeowner's clothing. He faces burglary theft receiving stolen property and trespass charges after police found him with access through a bedroom ceiling trap door. A missing person report had been filed days earlier.
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Stanley Carter
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Philadelphia
Stacy Ferrance
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Ferrance
Forrance
Cash
Somali President to resign to aid peace efforts
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf will quit politics and address parliament to retire, a senior ally said. Yusuf aims to avoid blocking peace as Ethiopian-backed forces prepare to depart, amid clashes that left 19 dead in the long civil war.
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Somalia
Abdullahi Yusuf
Abdirashid Sed
Yusuf
Sed
Associated Press
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