8 Civilians Killed in 2 Disputed Attacks, Iraq Says
BAGHDAD — American soldiers fatally shot three Iraqi bank employees Wednesday as their car passed a convoy near Baghdad International Airport, according to an Interior Ministry official and Yarmouk Hospital, where the bodies were brought.
<...Olmert in Deal to Avoid Early Vote
JERUSALEM — The embattled prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, agreed Wednesday to hold a leadership vote in his centrist Kadima Party by late September, averting an imminent political crisis for his governing coalition but also paving the wa...
For Iraqi Christians, Money Bought Survival
MOSUL, Iraq — As priests do everywhere, Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, the leader of the Chaldean Catholics in this ancient city, gathered alms at Sunday Mass. But for years the money, a crumpled pile of multicolored Iraqi dinars, went into an e...
Truce Is Strained as Militants Launch Rockets and Israel Keeps Goods Out of Gaza
JERUSALEM — A barely week-old truce between Israel and the Hamas rulers of Gaza frayed further on Thursday when Palestinian militants launched two rockets against Israel, and Israel prevented goods from entering Gaza for a second day.
One ...
3 U.S. Marines and More than 30 Iraqis Die in 2 Bomb Attacks
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BAGHDAD — Two insurgent bomb blasts struck Thursday at pro-American Iraqi targets in Anbar Province just west of Baghdad and in the northern city of Mosul. The police said more than 30 Iraqis ...
Iran Fights Scourge of Addiction in Plain View, Stressing Treatment
TEHRAN — Ali blew out a candle on a small round cake. More than 200 people cheered, celebrating the first anniversary of his becoming drug-free.
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“I was in an awful condition,” said Ali, des...
Kidnappers Release Greek Industrialist After Ransom Is Paid
ATHENS — A Greek industrialist who was kidnapped at gunpoint two weeks ago has been freed unharmed after his family paid an unspecified sum in ransom.
Giorgos Mylonas, 49, is chairman of the Alumil aluminum company, a conglomerate with ope...
