 Two bombs killed 22 people in northern Iraq on Friday as the government tried to tamp down violence and head off civil war a day after Sunni-Arab insurgents killed 215 people in an attack on Baghdad’s Sadr City slum that intensified Shiite anger at the United States. The blasts in Tal Afar, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, involved explosives hidden in a parked car and in a suicide belt worn by a pedestrian that detonated simultaneously outside a car dealership at 11 a.m., said police Brig. Khalaf al-Jubouri. He said the casualties — 22 dead, 26 wounded — were expected to rise. In Baghdad, followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened to boycott parliament and the Cabinet if Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki meets with President Bush in Jordan next week, a member of parliament said. Bush and al-Maliki were scheduled to meet Wednesday and Thursday in Amman. The al-Sadr bloc in parliament and government is the backbone of al-Maliki’s political support, and ...
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 Giant Mexican telescope launched |
Mexican President Vicente Fox has inaugurated a giant telescope that could help scientists uncover clues about the origins of the Universe. The telescope, which resembles a gigantic satellite dish, sits high in the mountains of central Puebla state. It will pick up radio waves that have been travelling through space for some 13 billion years. The telescope's antenna has a diameter of 50m (164ft) and is the largest of its kind in the world. "This telescope will allow us to make fundamental discoveries about the formation and evolution of galaxies, about the formation and evolution of stars, and about the origin of the Universe itself," National Astrophysics Institute Director Jose Guichard said during the inauguration. Scientists say it is the most important scientific and technological project in the country's history. ...
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| Wheat's lost gene helps nutrition |
Turning on a gene found in wheat could boost levels of protein, iron and zinc, scientists have discovered. The gene occurs naturally in wheat, but has largely been silenced during the evolution of domestic varieties. Researchers found evidence that turning it back on could raise levels of the nutrients in wheat grains. Writing in the journal Science, they suggest that new varieties with a fully functioning gene can be created through cross-breeding with wild wheat. "Wheat is one of the world's major crops, providing approximately one-fifth of all calories consumed by humans," said project leader Professor Jorge Dubcovsky from the University of California at Davis. "Therefore, even small increases in wheat's nutritional value may help decrease deficiencies in protein and key micronutrients." ...
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| Shiite Militants Burn 6 Sunnis Alive After Friday Prayers, Iraq Police Say |
Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left worship services Friday, doused them with kerosene, and burned them alive, Iraq police said. The militants then set three mosques on fire in a seemingly retaliatory move to Thursday's triple homicide bombing targeting Shitte that killed more than 200, sources with the Ministry of Interior told FOX News. Iraqi soldiers were nearby when the attack took place but did not intervene, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said. At least 22 died in northern Iraq after a car laden with explosives and a homicide bomber wearing with explosives hidden in a belt exploded simultaneously outside a car dealership in Tal Afar. With 26 wounded, the death toll was expected to rise, said police Brig. Khalaf al-Jubouri. As funeral processions were held in Sadr City on Friday, several mortar rounds hit the Um al-Qura mosque, headquarters of Association of Muslim Scholars in west Baghdad's Ghazaliyah neighborhood, wounding four of the guards, ...
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| Former spy poisoned by radiation, UK officials say |
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died after being poisoned by a large dose of radiation, British health officials said Friday.Litvinenko was a longtime critic of the Russian government, which he and his friends blamed for his illness. Russian authorities have denied any role in the matter. Litvinenko, who had been living in Britain, died Thursday in a London hospital after falling three weeks ago. "A large quantity of alpha radiation from polonium 210 was found in the urine of Mr. Litvinenko," said Roger Cox, director of Britain's Health Protection Agency.Cox said there was a "very small" risk to medical staff who treated the 43-year-old Litvinenko.Speaking at a news conference in London, Cox said it was too early to say whether there was a radiation risk to the public at the restaurant where Litvinenko dined the night he was apparently poisoned....
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| Clashes, mosques burned after worst Iraq bombing |
Gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab neighborhood of Baghdad and burned mosques on Friday in apparent retaliation for the bloodiest bombing in more than three years of war that killed 202 in a Shi'ite area.Two suicide bombs ripped through a Shi'ite market in northern Iraq killing 22 people earlier on Friday and mortars crashed on rival Baghdad neighborhoods, ramping up sectarian tension that threatens to push Iraq into all-out civil war. As political leaders on all sides pleaded for restraint and imposed a curfew on the capital, gunmen stormed a Sunni enclave in a largely Shi'ite area, burning four mosques and homes, an Interior Ministry official said. The official said the number of casualties was not known, but a resident of Hurriya district, Imad al-Din al-Hashemi, said at least 18 people had been killed and 24 wounded. ...
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