Saturday, April 9, 2011

Libyan rebels face military surge on key outpost

Libyan rebels face military surge on key outpost


Libyan rebels face military surge on key outpost

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Government soldiers and rebel gunmen battled in the streets of a key front-line city Saturday after the Libyan military used shelling and guerrilla-style tactics to open its most serious push into opposition territory since international airstrikes began. NATO airstrikes, meanwhile, hammered at Gaddafi's ammunition stockpiles and armored forces, destroying 17 tanks.


Anger flares at Egypt army for brutal protest raid

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Thousands of demonstrators barricaded themselves in Cairo's central square with burned-out troop carriers and barbed wire Saturday and demanded the removal of the military council ruling Egypt, infuriated after soldiers stormed their protest camp overnight, killing at least one person and injuring 71 others.


Two protesters killed in Cairo's Tahrir Square

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Egypt's security forces killed two and injured dozens in a deadly predawn attempt to disperse peaceful protesters spending the night in the capital's iconic Tahrir Square, witnesses said. The crackdown in the square was the most brutal since the overthrow of former President Hosni Mubarak on February 11.


6 killed, 16 wounded in Dutch mall shooting

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A gunman opened fire with a machine gun at a crowded shopping mall outside Amsterdam on Saturday, leaving at least six people dead and wounding 16 others, officials and a witness said.


Blast hits hostel in southern Philippines

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The military has said that a powerful explosion destroyed a small lodging house in a southern Philippine province where Al-Qaida-linked militants are active. Troops later found a separate bomb near another hotel.


Deal to cut $38 billion averts US government shutdown

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Congressional leaders and President Obama headed off a shutdown of the government with less than two hours to spare Friday night under a tentative budget deal that would cut $38 billion from federal spending this year.


US: Prostitutes' killer had sophisticated understanding of police techniques

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Whoever killed four prostitutes, and possibly four other people, and then dumped their bodies in heavy underbrush along a beachfront causeway on Long Island appears to have a sophisticated understanding of police investigative techniques, according to people briefed on the case.


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