 Masked men have detonated explosives at the American International School in Gaza, causing damage but no casualties, Palestinian security officials say. The attack happened before the start of school when the buildings were empty. Several security guards at the site were overpowered but were not harmed by the attackers. The school is part of an association of American schools in the Middle East, but US embassy officials say it has no connection with the US government. Foreign teachers at the private school, which has 150 pupils, left last year after two of them, the Dutch head teacher and an Australian teacher, were briefly kidnapped by Palestinian militants in March 2006. The school, located at the northern end of Gaza City, was attacked by the unknown militants at about 0500 (0200 GMT) on Saturday. The assailants overpowered and tied up the guards and then detonated a series of bombs in various locations around the school causing extensive damage....
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 13 people indicted in $3 million credit card fraud |
The diners didn't know it, but their credit cards were going to pay for more than their meals, prosecutors said.Waiters in about 40 restaurants, in New York and elsewhere, quietly recorded customers' credit card information and passed it on to people who used the information to make more than $3 million worth of worth of illegal purchases, according to prosecutors.Thirteen people were indicted Friday on charges stemming from their roles in the credit card fraud, prosecutors said.The credit card account information was stolen from customers who visited restaurants in Manhattan's Chinatown and other parts of the New York metropolitan area, as well eateries in Florida, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Connecticut....
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| U.S. criticized for building wall around Sunnis |
Criticism mounted Saturday over a wall U.S. troops are building around a Sunni enclave surrounded by Shiite areas in Baghdad, with residents calling it "collective punishment" and the local council leader saying the community did not approve the project before construction began.Violence continued Saturday, with at least three people killed when a bomb left on a bus exploded in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, police said. The minibus was gutted by flames and its windows shattered.Gunmen stormed a house in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, killing a mother, father and their two teenage daughters, police said. The victims were Kurds who had received death threats from al Qaeda-linked militants operating in the area, witnesses said.A U.S. soldier was also killed Saturday by a roadside bomb southwest of the capital, the military said....
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| Mortar fire kills Somali civilians |
A continuous stream of mortar bombs and Katyusha rockets slammed into markets and neighborhoods in Somalia's capital city Saturday, leaving at least six dead in its wake, witnesses on the ground told CNN.According to Somali journalist Mohamed Amiin, a civilian minibus was struck by the shelling, killing an unspecified number of passengers. One witness told Amiin the blast was so powerful body parts could be seen scattered in the street.The violence is part of an ongoing battle between Ethiopian troops and Islamic insurgents.Fighting has intensified in the past two days, as more Ethiopian troops arrived Friday in Mogadishu to suppress the insurgency....
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| Economic Talks Between North and South Korea Hit Snag Over Nuclear Weapons Issue |
South Korea's demand that North Korea renew its commitment to dismantle its nuclear weapons program forced economic aid talks between the neighbors into overtime on Saturday. The impoverished North's priority at the talks was to receive food shipments from South Korea, but Seoul has sought to use the talks to persuade the North to implement a February promise to shut down its nuclear reactor. Meetings were still under way at the economic talks in Pyongyang late Saturday more than eight hours after their scheduled end. South Korea's chief delegate, Chin Dong-soo, said the talks would likely continue into Sunday. "Differences were narrowed on some issues, but other issues need more discussion," he told reporters. ...
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| NASA explores how shooter got into center |
NASA officials who examined their security measures following the deadly shooting at Virginia Tech are trying to figure out how a contract worker sneaked a handgun into the Johnson Space Center and killed another employee before shooting himself.The gunman, armed with a snub-nosed revolver, barricaded himself in a building that houses communications and tracking systems for the space shuttle. He shot and killed a man and duct-taped a woman to a chair for hours before finally shooting and killing himself, police said. The woman hostage suffered minor injuries.NASA and police identified him as 60-year-old William Phillips. He had apparently had a dispute with the slain hostage, police said."Right now we're trying to understand why this happened, how this happened," Mike Coats, director of the Johnson Space Center, said in a news conference. He said they had reviewed their procedures earlier this week because of the Virginia Tech shootings....
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