June 30, 2007

U.S. raids Baghdad slum; 26 Iraqis die (AP)

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Iraqi kids stand by their damaged house in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City Saturday, June 30, 2007. U.S. soldiers killed 26 suspected insurgents before dawn Saturday in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, the military said. Iraqi police and hospital officials said the victims were civilians killed in their homes. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - American soldiers rolled into Baghdad’s Sadr City slum on Saturday in search of Iranian-linked militants and as many as 26 Iraqis were killed in what a U.S. officer described as “an intense firefight.”


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30 Afghans killed, wounded in airstrikes (AP)

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An Afghan boy cries after his two uncles were killed as his father is detained during a U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troop raid in Khogyani district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, June 29, 2007. The troops raided three compounds in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing four suspected militants and detaining 16 others, while clashes and air strikes in the south left 17 more militants dead, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in southern Afghanistan left at least 30 people, including women and children, killed or wounded, an official said Saturday.


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Crisis talks as police thwart major double attack on London (AFP)

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Forensics officers load a car which police said contained a "potentially viable explosive device" onto a truck outside the Tiger Tiger Bar in Haymarket, central London, 29 June 2007. The British government has called fresh crisis talks after police foiled a potentially devastating double car bomb plot in central London which raised the spectre of new Al-Qaeda-inspired attacks in the capital.(AFP/Pool/File/Clara Molden)AFP - The government held fresh crisis talks Saturday after police foiled a potentially devastating double car bomb plot in London, reviving the spectre of Al-Qaeda-inspired attacks in the city.


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30 Afghan civilians killed in air strike: mayor (AFP)

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A US F-15 E from 492nd Squadron takes off from the Bagram Air base in Parwan province, some 50 kms north of Kabul, 26 June 2007. A foreign military air strike in southern Afghanistan killed 30 civilians, including women and children, a district mayor has said, citing initial investigations.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)AFP - A foreign military air strike in southern Afghanistan killed 30 civilians, including women and children, a district mayor said Saturday, citing initial investigations.


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N.Korea reactor closure date needs 6-way talks: IAEA (Reuters)

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Olli Heinonen (C), nuclear safeguards director for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), talks to reporters in Pyongyang June 29, 2007, after an inspection of the Yongbyon nuclear facility that North Korea has promised to mothball as part of an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency reported. (Kyodo/Reuters)Reuters - The date when North Korea shuts its
nuclear reactor now rests on discussions between it and five
other countries that signed a disarmament deal, a U.N. nuclear
watchdog official said on Saturday after talks in Pyongyang.


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Hamas threatens any international force in Gaza (Reuters)

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Deposed Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, center in cream jacket, from the Islamic group Hamas, looks at the uniform of the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat, during his visit to Arafat's house in Gaza City, Saturday, June 30, 2007. Haniyeh toured the house of Yasser Arafat on Saturday and said he phoned the wife of the late Palestinian leader to assure her the property was not damaged during Gaza's civil war. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)Reuters - Hamas rejected Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas's call for the deployment of international troops
in the Gaza Strip, vowing on Saturday to attack them like other
"occupation forces."


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Court to hear Guantanamo prisoners appeals (Reuters)

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Detainees sit within the grounds of Camp Delta 4 military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba June 27, 2006. The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Friday it would hear appeals by Guantanamo prisoners arguing they have the right to challenge their confinement before federal judges, a test of President George W. Bush's powers in the war on terrorism. (Brennan Linsley/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - The Supreme Court said on Friday it
would hear appeals by Guantanamo prisoners on their right to
challenge their indefinite confinement, a test of President
George W. Bush's powers in the war on terrorism.


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U.S. kills 26 militants in Baghdad (Reuters)

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A boy stands on a damaged rooftop after a raid by the U.S. military in Baghdad's Sadr City, June 30, 2007. The U.S. military said it killed about 26 militants believed to have ties to 'Iranian terror networks' in the early hours of Saturday in the Baghdad Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City. (Kareem Raheem/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. troops killed about 26 suspected
militants in Baghdad's Sadr City on Saturday in one of the
fiercest clashes in the Shi'ite stronghold since the 2003
U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.


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Over 30 Afghan civilians killed in air strike (Reuters)

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An Afghan girl lies on a hospital bed in Helmand province after being injured in an air strike by foreign forces fighting the Taliban, June 30, 2007. Provincial officials said more than 30 civilians were killed and dozens injured in the strike, but a spokesman for the NATO-led international force said the toll was much lower. (Abdul Qodus/Reuters)Reuters - More than 30 civilians were killed and
dozens wounded on Saturday in an air strike by foreign forces
fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan's southern Helmand
province, a regional official said.


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Small blast after Spain's Ibiza airport evacuated (Reuters)

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Reuters - Police detonated a suspicious parcel at
Spain's Ibiza airport after the airport was evacuated following
a bomb warning, newspaper El Pais reported on Saturday.

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