Iraq's Sunni vice president urged the government on Thursday to do more to purge security forces of militias after a group of Shi'ite police shot scores of men in reprisal killings in a northern town this week.Hours after truck bombs killed 85 people on Tuesday in a Shi'ite area of Tal Afar, up to 70 Sunni Arab men were shot dead in a town which only a year ago was held up by President Bush as an example of progress toward peace. The governor of Nineveh province, which includes the town of Tal Afar, said policemen who took part in the reprisal shootings were arrested but then freed again to prevent unrest. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite, has ordered an inquiry into the involvement of police in the killings. ...
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 Missing Washington Kids Spotted in Montana McDonald's With New Appearances |
Two young Washington state children abducted by their dad who has been described as having mental problems were captured by surveillance cameras at a fast-food restaurant in Missoula, Mont., according to the FBI.The video showed four-year-old Remi Baugher and her two-year-old brother, Lars, playing in an indoor jungle gym at a McDonald's Wednesday at 6:30 a.m. The footage showed the children with shorter, darker hair than when they disappeared. Remi is dressed to look like a boy. The man with them, believed to be their father, had several days' growth of beard.Federal agents also told KPAX that an unnamed woman seen in the surveillance video with the children is an "acquaintance" who is no longer traveling with the three. FBI agents said she is no longer in Missoula, and they are continuing their investigation ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262340,00.html
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| Africa leaders mull Zimbabwe amid new rights charges |
African leaders sought to hammer out a fresh approach to Zimbabwe's crisis on Thursday as President Robert Mugabe's government was hit with new charges of widespread human rights abuses.Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, the host of a special Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit, said he was confident Zimbabwe's neighbors could resolve an impasse which has spurred sharp Western demands for action. But Mugabe's spokesman struck a defiant note, saying the veteran leader would tell the West to "go hang" as long as it tried to interfere in Zimbabwe's affairs. Adding to a lengthening list of accusations against Mugabe's government, the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said police were targeting ordinary Zimbabweans suspected of backing the opposition, doling out savage beatings to keep the 83-year-old leader's opponents at bay. ...
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| Alleged brothel owner free after public apology Woman seized in anti-vice drive also ‘threatened to become a Christian’ |
A woman kidnapped by female seminary students and accused of running a brothel was freed Thursday after a hard-line cleric forced her to repent in public — an episode in vigilante justice that shows the boldness of Islamic extremists in Pakistan. Students in black burqas had seized the woman and several of her relatives from her home late Tuesday during an anti-vice campaign in the capital, taking the law into their own hands and embarrassing President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s military-dominated government. The students are disciples of Abdul Rashid Ghazi, vice principal of the Jamia Hafsa seminary and a cleric at the adjoining Lal Masjid mosque. The mosque has a reputation for preaching hard-line Islam as well as links to an outlawed militant group accused in sectarian attacks on Shiite Muslims. With no sign of police intervention to force her release, the woman, known as Aunty Shamim, was presented to reporters at the Jamia Hafsa seminary in Islamabad to ...
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| Tornado outbreak kills 3 in Plains |
An early spring storm swept across the Plains early Thursday, spinning off tornadoes that killed an Oklahoma couple in a home that was blown to pieces and a Colorado woman whose small town was nearly destroyed. A tornado as wide as two football fields carved a destructive path through Holly, Colo., late Wednesday, destroying five homes, damaging dozens more and littering the streets with broken power lines, tree limbs and debris. "Homes were there and now they're gone," county administrator Linda Fairbairn said. "Many, if not all, the structures in town suffered some degree of damage." A 28-year-old woman who suffered massive injuries during the twister died after she was airlifted to a hospital in Colorado Springs, Prowers County Coroner Joe Giadone said Thursday....
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| Arab peace plan could see detente with Israel |
Israel today described as "interesting" a land-for-peace deal agreed by Arab nations at a major summit in Saudi Arabia, promising to examine it more closely.The plan, which would see members of the Arab League recognise Israel and guarantee its security in return for the country returning to its 1967 borders, was also "the possible basis for a dialogue", a government spokeswoman, Miri Eisin, said."We're not being more specific than that because we need to really sit down and study it," she added.According to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, his own citizens are "sincere in extending the hand of peace to the Israeli people, and I call on that people and its leaders to share that dream with us"....
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