Rocket kills Kabul woman near peacekeepers base
A rocket hit a Kabul home near the ISAF command complex wounding no one but killing a woman in her 40s. Neighbors say shrapnel struck her neck as her family mourned outside the two story house in Shash Darak district near the U S embassy. Police and peacekeepers investigated other blasts near Kabul airport.
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Afghanistan
Shash Darak
Abdul Basir
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U.S
Hamid Karzai
ISAF
Basir
Rita LePage
NATO
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Ireland's wealth gap stark in U N report
The U N report ranks Ireland among the world’s top ten developed nations yet places it high on the poverty scale among rich countries. Critics note inequality persists with 15.3 percent in poverty versus 15.8 percent in the United States, while officials dispute the poverty measure as relative.
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Ireland
Ieland
United Nations
U.N
United States
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Justice Commission
Conference of Religious In Ireland
Tently
Europe
Comle
Irish Times
Priday
Ban McLaughlin
Bank of Ireland
Bus hijacked in Guatemala by armed robbers
A group of 13 teenagers and 4 adults from Seeds of Learning were hijacked south of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, by five gunmen while en route to El Salvador. They lost $11,200 and belongings, but were released unharmed and planned to continue building a school in El Salvador. The organization runs annual trips to Central American communities.
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Santa Rosa
Calif
Guatemala
el Salvador
Sonoma
Seeds of Learning
Katharine Hewitt
Quetzal Emunu
Annie Bacon
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Bacon
Antigua
Hewitt
Associated Press
Nicaragua
Bolivian voters weigh fate of gas reserves referendum
Voters in Bolivia faced a referendum on whether to boost government participation in gas reserves and oversight by experts. The vote follows past turmoil that ousted ex-president Sanchez de Lozada and sparked clashes near La Paz. Police probed a dynamite blast in Acachachi as OAS observers faced rocks from demonstrators in Fi Alto. President Mesa urged a timely vote to complete the late Sanchez de Lozada's term.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
South America
Ning
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
Mexico
California
Achacachi
Organization of American States
OAS
Fi Alto
Carlos Mesa
Sanchez de Lozada
Perce
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