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Bangkok battles: 16 dead in clashes, explosions (AP)

Anti-government demonstrators are arrested by Thai soldiers in downtown Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 14, 2010. Thai troops fired bullets and tear gas at anti-government protesters rioting near the U.S. and Japanese embassies Friday as an army push to clear the streets sparked deadly clashes and turned central Bangkok into a virtual war zone.  (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP – Soldiers opened fire on anti-government protesters who battled them with firebombs and homemade rockets Friday in a second straight day of escalating violence as troops tried to clear the rioters from the streets of downtown Bangkok.


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Series of explosions kill at least 58 in Iraq (AP)

A man carries an injured girl after a series of parked car bombs exploded in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 23, 2010. Triple bombings hit a Sadrist office Friday as worshippers were finishing their prayers, killing 14 and wounding an estimated 75 in a rash of attacks on Shiites across Iraq's capital.Explosions outside three other Shiite mosques in Baghdad, all timed around the end of Friday's prayers, appeared to be the work of insurgents looking anew to inflame sectarian tensions.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP – A series of bomb attacks mainly targeting Shiite worshippers killed 58 people Friday, including 25 near the main Baghdad office of an anti-U.S. Shiite cleric, officials said.


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Afghan gov. wants more troops after 12 explosions (AP)

Map locates Kandahar, Afghanistan, site of multiple suicide bombingsAP – The governor of Kandahar province demanded more security Sunday after 12 coordinated explosions in Afghanistan’s largest southern city killed dozens of people in the Taliban heartland.


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