Posts Tagged ‘blasts’

Amy Winehouse’s dad blasts ‘bad taste’ fashion show

Mitch Winehouse dubbed French designer Jean Paul Gaultier’s Paris Fashion Week show, an obvious homage to singer who died last year at age 27, to be “in bad taste.”

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Panetta blasts video of Marines urinating on dead (AP)

AP – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta phoned Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai Thursday and promised full investigation of a video that purports to depict four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters — a video both men condemned as deplorable.

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Al-Qaida in Iraq says it was behind Baghdad blasts (AP)

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announces a new new home financing package for Illinois veterans in military families at a news conference in Chicago. As younger military veterans stream back into Illinois from Iraq and Afghanistan, Illinois faces a challenge as it tries to make them more of a priority in a time of desperately tight budgets. The state has been increasing the amount it spends on veterans services in recent years. But the bulk of that money is spent on older veterans while many younger soldiers and National Guard troops are returning to a difficult economy looking for help with jobs and training. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)AP – An al-Qaida front group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the wave of attacks that rocked Baghdad last Thursday and killed 69 people.


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Nigerian blasts mar pope’s Christmas peace appeal (AP)

Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing as he leaves after celebrating Christmas Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP – Pope Benedict XVI’s Christmas plea for peace around the world has been brutally ignored in Nigeria, where an explosion claimed by Muslim radicals ripped through a Catholic church during Mass.


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Suicide bomb blasts rock Syrian capital, killing at least 40 

Twin suicide car bomb blasts ripped through an upscale Damascus district Friday, targeting heavily guarded intelligence buildings and killing at least 40 people, Syrian authorities said.

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Rolle blasts mates who miss practice 

ANTREL ROLLE is tired of looking over at the sidelines during practice and seeing far too many of his teammates.

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Blasts kill 15 in Iraq as US troops pull out (AP)

Army soldiers gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. A series of blasts in central Iraq killed and wounded scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP – A string of explosions hit a Baghdad market and the capital’s western outskirts on Saturday, killing at least 15 people and exposing the challenges still facing Iraqi security forces just over a month before all American troops leave the country.


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