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. | The governor was a key figure in the Badr Organisation, the military wing of the largest Shia Muslim party, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC).
Khalil Jalil Hamza and police chief Maj-Gen Khaled Hassan were returning to Diwaniya city after a funeral when a bomb exploded beside their convoy. |
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. | There is much genocide committed by Armenians in Azerbaijan’s history, none of them is hidden.
Unfortunately, none of them are recognised by International committees but none of them are forgotten from our hearts either. |
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. | Robert Pennington was one of seven Marines and a Navy medic who set out to kidnap and kill a suspected insurgent but instead seized Hashim Ibrahim Awad, a disabled police officer known to support the American occupation, according to defendants’ testimony.
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. | The envoys met with Serbian President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica to discuss the form in which the planned 120 days of negotiations would unfold.
Ischinger said that the talks on Friday were a good first step, and that the envoys were in Belgrade to discuss their tasks and goals in the coming negotiation process. |
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. | “Some people in the opposition ask us why we did not shoot down the Russian aircraft that violated our airspace,” Mikheil Saakashvili said at a meeting with students. “I would like to respond categorically that we are not in a state of war with Russia.”
Georgia’s Defense Ministry earlier said it had proof that a Russian Su-24 Fencer tactical bomber violated Georgia’s airspace Monday and fired a Raduga Kh-58 (NATO codename AS-11) anti-radar missile at a Georgian radar near a village 65 kilometers (about 40 miles |
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. | Osman, who is also a member of the Kurdistan Alliance Bloc, noted that the accord did not “reflect the views of the Kurdistan Regional Authority.”
Osman asserted “The signed accord in anathema to the views we had concluded on together prior to Maliki’s visit to Turkey. The PKK are not terrorists |
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. | Last month, Harper announced plans to build six to eight ice-breaking patrol ships at a cost of $7.1bn.
Canada currently has one large ice-breaker and five light-to-medium ice-breakers, “too few for the size of our Arctic,” according to Robert Huebert, an Arctic geopolitical expert at Calgary University. |