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Archive for ‘January 7th, 2010’

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza hit weapons shop, 3 tunnels

Israel launched four airstrikes in Gaza on Thursday, targeting a weapons shop and two smuggling tunnels, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Suicide bomber at Afghan base was ‘loner,’ his mother says

The suicide bomber who killed eight people at a U.S. base in Afghanistan last week was a loner since childhood, his mother told CNN Thursday.

Iraqi films emerge from the chaos of war

Mohamed Al-Daradji has cut something of a lonely figure in Iraqi cinema over the past seven years.

Iranian report: 5 Ashura protesters could face death penalty

Five people arrested after street disturbances erupted in Tehran during the recent Ashura holy day could face the death penalty, an Iranian semi-official news agency reported Thursday.

Yemeni official: U.S. terror suspect recruited in Britain

A terror suspect in the attempted bombing of a U.S. jetliner was radicalized in Britain, but did meet with a radical Muslim Cleric in Yemen, a top government official said Thursday.

At least 7 people killed in two Iraq attacks

Bombers struck Thursday, killing seven people in two volatile locations west and north of Baghdad.

Attack on Egyptian Coptics kills six

Shooters opened fire at a gathering outside an eastern Egyptian church, killing six during the celebration of a Christian sect’s Christmas Eve, Egypt’s Interior Ministry reported.