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Spate of Violence Kills 6 Across Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Two car bombs exploded Wednesday in northern and eastern Baghdad. One woman was killed and 15 people, many of them schoolboys, were injured in a car bombing in a religiously mixed area of eastern Baghdad, police said. Thirteen people were injured in the other car bombing in …

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Judge: No Smoking Gun in Spector Statement

LOS ANGELES – Part of Phil Spector‘s deposition testimony in a civil court battle with his former attorney will be released to prosecutors in his murder case, even though it contains no “smoking gun,” a judge ruled Friday. The record producer’s lawyers argued that his dispute with attorney Robert Shapiro …

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U.S. Sailor Arrested for Murder in Japan

TOKYO – Japanese police arrested an American sailor Saturday on charges of robbing and beating a Japanese woman to death — a case likely to further stoke opposition to U.S. military presence in Japan. William Oliver Reese, 21, was arrested after being transferred to police from the U.S. Navy base …

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