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The Iraqi vice president says he will continue to defy arrest with the help of powerful Kurds in a showdown that tests the limits of Baghdad’s reach.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s embattled Sunni vice president says government charges that he ran death squads are politically motivated….

A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people and wounded 21, an Iraqi official said, ending weeks of relative quiet.

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his car Sunday as a group of police recruits left their academy in Baghdad, killing 20 in the latest strike on security officials that angry residents blamed on political feuding that is roiling Iraq….

A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb as a group of police recruits left their academy in Baghdad, killing 18 in the latest strike on Iraqi security officials by insurgents

LILLE, France (Reuters) – French far-right leader Marine Le Pen switched her presidential campaign back to immigration Sunday, saying all meat in Paris was halal, as she tries to head off President Nicolas Sarkozy’s attempts to lure her supporters.

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ABUJA (Reuters) – A bomb exploded near a church in the Nigerian town of Suleja, on the edge of the capital, Sunday, wounding five people, a spokesman for the emergency services said.

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KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan government efforts to bring the Taliban into peace talks are stumbling and bold steps were needed to ensure that a council spearheading the reconciliation process can win the trust of insurgents, said a presidential advisor Sunday.

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide car bomber killed 19 police officers and cadets Sunday in an attack on a crowd outside a Baghdad police academy, police and hospital sources said.

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