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The hijacked Boeing 737 Sudanese airliner sits at the remote desert airstrip in Libya's Sahara desert oasis of Kufrah yesterday in this image from Libyan television. Inset: Passengers get off a bus after being released from the hijacked airliner.
Twin car bombs kill 25 in Iraqi city of Karbala
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BAGHDAD - Two car bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims during a religious festival in the holy city of Karbala killed 25 people on Monday, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. Sunni extremists are suspected.
Circus brings joy to Iraqis
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HILLA, Iraq — The hapless lion and snake both died in an Iraqi heat wave, but for the jugglers, clowns, fire-eater and other circus performers, the show in ancient Babylon had to go on.
With easing of blockade some Gaza factories revive
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Gaza Strip — Some of the hundreds of Gaza factories idled by Israel's blockade are cranking up rusty machines to can tomatoes, mix concrete and press pills again now that Israel is allowing in raw materials for the first time in three years.
32 injured in southern Iran quake
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TEHERAN — A 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook southern Iran early Wednesday, killing one person, injuring dozens and damaging houses in four villages near the town of Lamerd, media reports said.
Activist animal earns respect
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MONROVIA, Liberia — The unlikeliest of activists — a rampaging elephant that locals claimed was supernaturally possessed — has aired rural Liberians' frustrations with the country's profitable timber industry.
Suicide bomber kills 43
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RADWANIYAH, Iraq — A suicide bomber targeting anti-al-Qaida militiamen killed 43 people west of Baghdad on Sunday in Iraq's deadliest single attack in more than two months as four more people died in other violence.