Mexico will decide whether to join the growing leftist camp in Latin America or stick with a free-market path in a presidential election on Sunday that is balanced on a knife-edge.In a country crucial to U.S. interests in border security, trade and immigration, polls show an extremely close race between leftist anti-poverty crusader and former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and conservative Felipe Calderon, a former energy minister from the ruling party.Lopez Obrador, 52, leads opinion polls by about only 2 percentage points after almost six months of bruising campaigning that split a country still finding its feet with full democracy after seven decades of one-party rule ended in 2000....
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 Blast kills 66 in Baghdad Shiite district |
A huge car bomb exploded Sat at a bustling outdoor market in a Shiite district of Baghdad, killing at least 66 people & injuring about 100. It was the deadliest attack since the new national unity government took office 6 weeks ago and one of the biggest this year. Shortly before the midmorning blast, gunmen seized a female Sunni legislator at a checkpoint in a Shiite area of the capital. Both attacks represented a major challenge to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's vow to curb sectarian violence that threatens to plunge Iraq into civil war. In an audio recording posted on the Internet, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden endorsed the successor to the slain leader of his network in Iraq and warned the country's Shiites against collaborating with the Americans in the fight against Sunni insurgents. The comments threatened to sharpen the conflict between Shiites and Sunnis even as al-Maliki and his American allies struggled to heal the breach between the country's major religious communities...
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| New car bomb shakes Baghdad |
A car bomb exploded near a police station in a central Baghdad neighborhood Sunday, wounding at least 13 people, Baghdad Emergency Police said.The attack took place at 8 a.m. (12 a.m. EDT) in the capital's Karrada section.On Saturday, a car bomb exploded in a busy Sadr City marketplace, killing 62 people and wounding 114 others. Saturday's blast destroyed food and clothing stalls and set vehicles on fire, The Associated Press reported.Ambulances carried the many victims to hospitals, where AP said men were cradling crying babies as doctors sought to treat them. ...
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Editor - 02:34:00 07-02-06
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| Two British soldiers killed in Afghan attack |
Two British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan in an attack on their base in the south of the country, the latest clash in the bloodiest phase of violence since the militants were ousted in 2001.The two were killed in the volatile Sangin district of Helmand province, where more than 3,000 British troops are based. "We can confirm that two British soldiers … were killed in action in Sangin yesterday when their base came under small-arms and RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) attack," a spokesman for Britain's Ministry of Defense in London said on Sunday. Five British soldiers have been killed since UK forces were deployed to Helmand in recent months. ...
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| Israel strike hits Palestinian PM's office |
Israeli aircraft fired missiles at the Palestinian prime minister's office early Sunday, just hours after a Palestinian official said the soldier whose abduction sent Israeli troops into Gaza is alive and in stable condition.A Hamas militant was killed in another Israeli airstrike.Palestinians witnesses said two missiles fired by attack helicopters hit the Gaza City office of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas early Sunday, slightly injuring a bystander and setting the empty building on fire.Inspecting his burning office, Haniyeh called the attack senseless."They have targeted a symbol for the Palestinian people," he said.The Israeli military confirmed the attack and said it would "employ all means at its disposal ... to secure the safe return" of 19-year-old soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit who was abducted by Palestinian militants on Sunday....
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| U.S. probes possible 'friendly fire' death |
The U.S. military on Saturday said it was investigating the death of a soldier in eastern Afghanistan as a possible "friendly fire incident."The Defense Department said Pfc. Justin R. Davis, 19, of Gaithersburg, Md., died on June 25 in eastern Kunar province when he came in contact with indirect fire - a term used for mortar shelling - while on patrol during combat operations."The circumstances of the soldier's death are under investigation as a possible friendly fire incident," the statement said.In Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition released a statement saying an investigation into the incident is under way."We are looking into Pfc. Davis' death to determine what happened. No final determination has been made and we will not release any information relating to the investigation till it is complete," the statement said....
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