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In blow to Iraqi PM, followers of radical cleric quit cabinet

By Abdullah AlShihri · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

BAGHDAD – Cabinet ministers loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resigned on Monday to protest the prime minister’s refusal to set a timetable for an American withdrawal, raising the prospect that the Mahdi Army militia could return to the streets of Baghdad.

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By Abdullah AlShihri · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Hundreds of people were evacuated from flooded homes Monday as a fierce nor’easter drenched the Northeast with record rainfall. Nine deaths were blamed on the huge storm. Power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses was knocked out, and refrigerators and trucks floated downstream.

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Baghdad bombing kills 45 people

By Abdullah AlShihri and Hamid Ahmed · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

BAGHDAD – Six bombs exploded in predominantly Shiite sections of the capital Sunday, killing at least 45 people in a renewal of sectarian carnage that set back the U.S. push to pacify Baghdad.

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By Abdullah AlShihri · Monday, April 16,2007 12 a.m.

Airlines canceled 300 flights Sunday as a hard-blowing nor’easter gathered strength along the East Coast and threatened to deliver some of the worst shore flooding in 14 years. The storm, already blamed for five deaths on the Plains, also flooded people out of their homes in the middle of the night in West Virginia.

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Officials: Ohio man aided al-Qaida plot

By Abisalom Omolo and Matt Leingang · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A federal grand jury indicted an Ohio man on charges of joining al-Qaida and conspiring to bomb European tourist resorts and U.S. government facilities and military bases overseas, officials announced Thursday.

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Baghdad bomber strikes parliament

By Abisalom Omolo · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber blew himself up in the Iraqi parliament cafeteria Thursday, killing at least eight people – including three lawmakers – and wounding dozens in a stunning assault in the heart of the heavily fortified, U.S.-protected Green Zone.

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By Abisalom Omolo · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

A Norwegian oil rig support vessel carrying 14 people capsized off northern Scotland on Thursday, and four crew members were missing, the coast guard said. Ten crew members were rescued after the Bourbon Dolphin capsized off the Shetland Islands, said Mark Clark, a coast guard spokesman.

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Kurt Vonnegut, 84, dies in New York

By Cristian Salazar · Thursday, April 12,2007 12 a.m.

NEW YORK - Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died Wednesday. He was 84.

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Military: 2 more U.S. soldiers killed

By Abisalom Omolo · Thursday, April 12,2007 12 a.m.

BAGHDAD – Iranian intelligence operatives have been training Iraqi fighters inside Iran on how to use and assemble deadly roadside bombs known as EFPs, the U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.

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Pentagon to lengthen troop duty

By Abisalom Omolo and Pauline Jelinek · Thursday, April 12,2007 12 a.m.

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon will lengthen tours of duty for all active-duty Army units in Iraq to 15 months from the current 12 months as the military struggles to supply enough troops for the conflict, two defense officials said Wednesday.

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By Abisalom Omolo · Thursday, April 12,2007 12 a.m.

The operator of a cruise ship that struck a reef and sank off a popular Mediterranean resort, leaving two people missing, said Wednesday that human error was to blame.

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