Reuters: International News:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a busy market on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding many, police said.
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GretaWire:
Washington Post reports today that most of the outrage over the market bomb in Peshawar, Pakistan two weeks ago that murdered more than 100 is directed not at the Islamic extremist groups the Pakistan government said did this...but rather at countries many Pakistanis say are their true enemies: Israel, India and United Stat (Read More)
The Guardian:
Vote marks significant step towards administration's plans to extend health coverage to millions of people lacking itBarack Obama's landmark healthcare legislation was narrowly passed by the US House of Representatives late last night.The vote marks a significant step towards the Obama administration's plans to extend healt (Read More)
The Guardian:
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The Guardian:
Although Muslims are some of the US's most loyal citizens, this terrible shooting will be used as evidence that they are innately un-AmericanThe Fort Hood shootings will likely reverberate across the media for weeks to come. In all likelihood, it will be logged as yet further evidence that the Muslims are a dangerous fifth (Read More)
The Guardian:
CIA officer tasked with finding a sunken Soviet nuclear submarineChristopher Fitzgerald, who has died aged 88, was the CIA agent responsible for building the ship the Hughes Glomar Explorer, designed to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the Pacific Ocean floor in a secret operation in 1974. In February 1968 the (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
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The Guardian:
It is still too early for concrete results, though. And those responsible for electing him are hurting the mostFollowing a spate of hate crimes against gays in Dallas and Houston in 2000, the late Molly Ivins asked the Texas Civil Liberties Union board representative from Midland if there had been any gay-bashing in her hom (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Channel 4 screens a drama about the hanging of Paul Gadd tonight, but we learn more from trying to understand criminals than from killing themChannel 4 stages a televisual hanging tonight in The Execution of Gary Glitter. Here, a lawyer who has represented paedophiles explains why it is better to seek understanding.One of m (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Timothy Garton Ash covers a broad canvas of post-1989 issues (Comment, 5 November), but the key failure was to leave Mikhail Gorbachev without economic support at the crucial moment.In 1989, unlike in 1945, the west lacked a George Marshall with a plan to pay for transition and stability in Europe. The Soviet Union implode (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
MPs attacked the Press Complaints Commission last night after the regulator said there was "no new evidence" of widespread phone hacking at the News of the World.Its report was described as a "whitewash" and there was a promise that another inquiry, from the Commons culture, media and sport select committee, would be more r (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Think of the opprobrium heaped by the press on the regulators who slept while the banks overheated and crashed. And then read the report of the industry's own "regulator" into the recent developments concerning phone-hacking by private detectives on behalf of newspapers and resist the instinct to laugh. After the most curso (Read More)
Reuters:
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A blast ripped through a busy market on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Sunday, causing several casualties, police said.
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MSNBC:
A suicide bomber apparently targeting an anti-Taliban mayor struck a crowded market in northwest Pakistan, killing the mayor and 11 other people and injuring dozens, police said.
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