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- 69 Iraqis die in wave of bombings
- Observers not a deterrent to Syria crackdown
- Tensions flare over genocide bill
- N. Korea resumes mythmaking for new leader
- Danish zoo takes in polar bear cub
| 69 Iraqis die in wave of bombings Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:17 PM PST BAGHDAD -- A wave of 16 bombings ripped across Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 69 people in the worst violence in Iraq for months. The apparently coordinated attacks struck days after the last American forces left the country and in the midst o ... |
| Observers not a deterrent to Syria crackdown Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:19 PM PST BEIRUT -- Bashar Assad's regime would appear to be setting itself on a collision course: It let in outside observers for the first time Thursday to monitor his commitment to halting the crackdown on dissent, even as his security forces unleashed a ... |
| Tensions flare over genocide bill Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST PARIS -- Ties between France and Turkey, strategic allies and trading partners, abruptly unraveled Thursday after French legislators passed a bill making it a crime to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago c ... |
| N. Korea resumes mythmaking for new leader Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:19 PM PST Just before North Korean leader Kim Jong Il died, the skies glowed red above sacred Mount Paektu and the impenetrable sheet of ice at the heart of the mystical volcano cracked with a deafening roar. At least, that's the official account of the sup ... |
| Danish zoo takes in polar bear cub Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:18 PM PST COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A Danish zoo says a month-old polar bear cub is being raised by humans after his mother failed to produce enough milk to feed him. Scandinavian Wildlife Park manager Frank Vigh-Larsen says Siku is doing "really fine." The cu ... |
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