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Major offensive aimed at al-Qaeda positions |
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BAGHDAD: Around 10,000 US and Iraqi troops launched a major air and
ground assault on al-Qaeda networks in and around the restive city
of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, on Tuesday, the US military said.
“Task Force Lightning commenced Operation
Arrowhead Ripper today in a large-scale effort to eliminate al-Qaeda
in Iraq terrorists operating in Baquba and its surrounding areas,”
it said in a statement.
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Jilted lover wanted hefty sum for her silence—report
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Kuala Lumpur: A Mongolian woman demanded half a million dollars from
her ex-lover, a close associate of Malaysia’s deputy prime
minister, two days before she was murdered, a court was told on
Tuesday.
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US, EU restore aid shipments to W. Bank
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RAMALLAH: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas won the lifting of a
crippling Western aid freeze amid efforts to isolate Hamas in its
Gaza enclave, where fears are mounting of a humanitarian crisis.
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110 feared dead in N. Korea pipe blast
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SEOUL: A South Korean aid group said Tuesday that about 110 people
were killed in a gasoline pipeline blast 10 days ago in the
northwest of North Korea.
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INBRIEF
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Beijing: US
chief negotiator Christopher Hill called on North Korea Tuesday to
speed up the promised scrapping of its nuclear program as South
Korea said the process could be finished this year.
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