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Lightning Kills Two Boys, Man in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Lightning struck and instantly killed two boys playing soccer and a man cutting fodder in separate incidents in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said. Saddam Hussain, 12, and Zain ul-Abideen, 10, died in Khar, the main town in Bajur tribal region, about 55 miles north of the …

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Bush Picks Magazine Editor to Replace Former Adviser in Shoplifting Probe

WASHINGTON – In the latest White House personnel changes, the editor of a conservative magazine will replace Claude Allen, the domestic policy adviser who left in February amid a shoplifting investigation. The White House announced the appointment Wednesday of Karl Zinsmeister, who has been editor-in-chief of The American Enterprise magazine …

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U.S. Accused in Additional Iraqi Civilian Deaths

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A third set of allegations that U.S. troops have deliberately killed civilians is fueling a furor in Iraq and drawing strong condemnations from government and human rights officials. “It looks like the killing of Iraqi civilians is becoming a daily phenomenon,” the chairman of the Iraqi Human …

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