Baghdad’s boredom and danger frame city life in cinema and streets
In Baghdad along the Tigris a despondent young man longs for death while others seek escape in cinema. Renters and workers describe daily heat outages, outages, and scarce jobs as bomb threats loom, with a line of men drinking near the river and a cinema offering brief respite amid chaos and violence.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Tigris
Hussein Ali
Nazar Flayieh
Sheherazade
Cinema Atlas
Sandoun Street
Flayieh
Ahmed Sattar
Six officials and engineer charged over Kumbakonam school fire
In Tamil Nadu, six government officials and a private engineer were charged with falsifying records after a school fire in Kumbakonam killed 90 children. The engineer certified the building as sound for licensing, while five officials faced scrutiny as police questioned 23 teachers and over a dozen others were arrested in the hours after the blaze. The fire began in the kitchen and spread to a thatched roof, causing panic and deadly crush injuries.
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Bangalore
India
Kumbakonam
Tamil Nadu
P. Kalyanasundaram
Madras
Taliban leader’s brother in law among detainees in Afghanistan
Afghan and US forces killed one militant and captured five others on Tuesday including Mullah Omar’s brother in law Amanullah, detained near Deh Rawood after gunfire during a roadside stop. Authorities reported three remote bombs, a satellite phone and AK-47 in the car. A separate attack wounded an American soldier.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Taliban
Mullah Omar
Baba Jan
Karzai
Hamid Karzai
Mullah Amanullah
Deh Rawood
Omar
Uruzgan
Razi
Khan
Associated Press
Sangar
Amanullah
German leader honors Hitler coup plotters on 60th anniversary
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder marked the 60th anniversary of the July 20 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler by honoring the small Nazi resistance. He spoke at Berlin’s former Nazi HQ praising Col. Claus Graf Stauffenberg and recalling other resisters while noting German memory and European unity. He acknowledged resistance never gained full popular support despite Nazis’ vast atrocities across Europe.
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Berlin
Gerhard Schroeder
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Hitler
Schroeder
Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg
Europe
English Channel
Moscow
Rescuers flood fiery Ukrainian mine after deadly blast
In eastern Ukraine the Krasnoliman skaya mine, 3180 feet underground, faced a raging fire after a blast killed 31 miners. Rescue teams flooded shafts with water and nitrogen while searching for five missing colleagues as temperatures spiked and gases hampered operations.
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Kiev
Ukraine
Krasnolimanskaya
Andrey Klyuyev
Volodymyr Fadeyev
ICTV
Donetsk Region
Luhansk
State Labor Protection Committee
Oleksiy Tolpygo
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