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Bombings rip Baghdad; deaths reported
(CNN) -- At least six people were killed in bombings across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Thursday, police said.
Four car bombs and two roadside devices exploded in five different areas around the city. Almost all of the neighborhoods…
Questions of preservation after ancient village found in downtown Miami
(CNN) -- At the heart of a $600 million complex of Miami condominium and office towers, a network of holes in the ground has provided new insight into the people who were there first.
The holes lay out the foundations of a prehistoric…
Iraq: Deadly car and suicide bombings rock Baghdad
(CNN) -- At least 25 people were killed and 30 others injured in three bombings that hit the Iraqi capital on Wednesday morning, Baghdad police officials said.
All three attacks struck close to checkpoints for entry to the city's Green…
Blast at Libyan school injures six children
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Six students were wounded when unknown assailants tossed a hand grenade into a school in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, hospital staff said Wednesday.
The blast occurred during break time at the Mahd…
Rwanda ex-spy chief tried in Paris on genocide charges
(BBC) -- A French court has begun hearing the landmark trial of a former Rwandan intelligence chief charged with complicity in the 1994 genocide.
Pascal Simbikangwa, who is paraplegic, was arrested in 2008 when he was living under an alias…
Syria to ship toxic agents
(CNN) -- Syria plans to send a large shipment of toxic agents out of the country this month, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told Russian state-run news agency Ria Novosti.
Syria intends to finish the process by March 1,…
Spain nets a ton of cocaine in floating backpacks
(CNN) -- Spanish authorities went fishing for backpacks full of cocaine and netted nearly a ton of the drug after uncovering what they say was a sophisticated undersea smuggling operation.
The ring used packs equipped with a flotation…
Bus blast kills 2 soldiers in Yemeni capital
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Two soldiers were killed and 14 others were injured Tuesday when a bomb planted under a military bus exploded in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, authorities said.
The soldiers were on their way to work from another…
Vladimir Putin arrives in Sochi ahead of Winter Olympics
Sochi, Russia (CNN) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Sochi on Tuesday, state media reported, as the Black Sea resort city enters the final stages of preparations for hosting the Winter Olympics.
Putin is on a "working visit"…
Reports: Small plane crashes in South Africa, killing 3
(CNN) -- A small plane crashed in South Africa early Monday, killing 3 people, local media reported.
The plane, a King Air 90, crashed at Lanseria airport, a privately owned facility situated just to the northwest of Johannesburg.
Heavy…
Two dead after gunman takes students hostage in Moscow school
Moscow (CNN) -- A Moscow high school student shot a teacher and a police officer dead and held about 20 other pupils hostage in a classroom Monday before he was disarmed and detained, Russian authorities said, just days before Russia hosts…
McDonald’s worker’s Happy Meals had a bit extra: heroin, authorities say
(CNN) -- A McDonald's employee in Pittsburgh was arrested Wednesday after undercover police officers said they discovered her selling heroin in Happy Meal boxes, according to a criminal complaint.
Shantia Dennis, 26, was arrested after…
US briefs Nato on Russian ‘nuclear treaty breach’
(BBC) -- Russia has been accused by the US of breaching a key arms control treaty banning medium-range nuclear missiles.
According to reports in the New York Times, citing US officials, Russia has been conducting flight tests since 2008 of…
Malta tightens passport sale terms under EU pressure
(BBC) -- Malta has bowed to EU pressure over its controversial new passport scheme for non-EU nationals, saying applicants will now be required to spend at least a year in Malta in order to qualify.
The new condition was announced by Malta…
Syrian government ‘demolished thousands of homes’
(BBC) -- The Syrian government has been "deliberately and unlawfully" demolishing thousands of homes, a new report by Human Rights Watch says.
Satellite images appear to show large-scale demolitions with explosives and bulldozers in…