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VIDEO: The Olympian who never gave up September 23, 2015
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VIDEO: Football legend Pele at 75 September 23, 2015
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VIDEO: Pope Francis lands to cheers in US September 22, 2015
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VIDEO: Lesbos struggles as 4,000 arrive daily September 22, 2015
The Greek island of Lesbos is still struggling to keep up with the steady flow of migrants and refugees.
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VIDEO: How much does making a drug cost? September 22, 2015
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VIDEO: Refugee crisis: Food and phone charging September 22, 2015
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VIDEO: On the ground at refugee hotspots September 22, 2015
EU ministers have approved a controversial plan to relocate 120,000 refugees and migrants across the EU using compulsory quotas.
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VIDEO: A guide to strange initiation ceremonies September 22, 2015
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ATTACKS IN IRAQ ON THE RISE
ATTACKS IN IRAQ ON THE RISE
An explosion, on Monday 11/28/2011, in Baghdad’s Green Zone that Iraqi officials at first attributed to a rocket that landed harmlessly in a parking lot was in fact a suicide car bomb that detonated at the entrance to the parliament building and killed five people, officials revealed Tuesday.
Earlier on Monday a suicide car bomber has killed 19 people at a prison gate near Baghdad, Iraqi officials say. They say at least 22 people were injured in the attack in the town of Taji, some 25km (15 miles) north of the capital (see also – Taji 07.04.11).
The attacker detonated the bomb at about 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT) at the main entrance to the Hout prison, officials said.
Two days earlier, on Thursday 11/24/2011, bomb blasts in the southern city of Basra left at least 19 people dead and 65 injured (see also – Basra 01.14.11).
Violence in Iraq has declined from its peak in 2006-2007, but regular attacks by militants have raised concerns over whether the planned withdrawal of US troops – due to be completed by the end of this year – will lead to a worsening of the security situation.
** The suicide bombing in Green Zone on Monday may have been an attempt to kill Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki or some other senior political leader, officials said on Friday 12/02/2011. Two parliamentary guards were killed in Monday’s blast, which officials initially said was caused by a mortar round. Two other people, including the parliamentary speaker, were injured.
Major-General Qassim al-Moussawi, the Baghdad military spokesperson said on Friday that new intelligence pointed to an assassination attempt but that the investigation was still ongoing. “Intelligence shows the suicide bomber aimed to enter the building of the parliament and to stay in one of the parking lots until the prime minister … arrived at the parliament,” he said.
Moussawi said the new information was based on confessions from members of what he called a terrorist group. They revealed that the bomb was supposed to go off when Maliki visited the parliament during an upcoming session, he said.
Aidan Helmi, a media adviser to Osama al-Nujaifi, the parliament speaker who was wounded in the blast, called the attack a botched “assassination attempt” on Nujaifi.
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10/2011 –MULTIPLE CAR BOMBS KILLED 17 IN BAGHDAD
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09/2011 -THE INGREDIENTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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08/2011 –MULITIPLE BLASTS IN IRAQ KILLED DOZENS
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