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<title>Female suicide bombers kill 48 in Iraq</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Female suicide bombers killed at least 24 Kurdish demonstrators in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Monday, as well as 24 Shiite pilgrims marching toward a shrine in Baghdad.]]></description>
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<title>Obama visits Basra and Baghdad</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Obama met with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, the United States ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, the Iraqi national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, and other Iraqi officials.]]></description>
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<title>Bush Urges Iraqis To Pass Amendment Banning Gay Marriage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD&mdash;In a private meeting with Mohammed Bahr al-Ulloum, President Bush urged the Iraqi Governing Council president to amend the recently ratified Iraqi constitution to protect the sanctity of heterosexual marriage. "The Iraqi constitution, signed just a few short weeks ago, will usher in a new era of democratic freedom in Iraq," Bush said. "But there are some unlawful and unholy acts that the constitution's original drafters could not have possibly intended to protect." Bush then told al-Ulloum he must act quickly and decisively to preserve his country's most sacred tradition.<img src="http://feeds.theonion.com/~r/theonion/daily/~4/317821141" height="1" width="1" />]]></description>
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<title>Female suicide bomber kills 15 in Iraq</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A female suicide bomber struck near a government compound northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40, police said.]]></description>
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<title>Bomb Kills 22 at Baghdad Bus Station</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A car bomb killed 22 people Thursday in a bus station in western Baghdad, and police said 20 beheaded bodies had been discovered on the banks of the Tigris River southeast the capital. Government security officials raised doubts about the decapitation report.]]></description>
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<title>US Finds IDs of Two GIs Missing in Iraq</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The identification cards of two American soldiers missing since an attack on their unit in May were found in an al-Qaeda safe house north of Baghdad, along with video production equipment, computers and weapons. American soldiers approaching the building were wounded before air support could arrive.]]></description>
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<title>Old Problems Plague New Security Plan for Iraq</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Three months after additional US troops began pouring into Baghdad in the most recent effort to stanch violence in Iraq's capital, military observers are fretting that the same problems that torpedoed last summer's Baghdad security plan are cropping up again.]]></description>
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<title>Twin blasts hit Baghdad junction</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two car bombs go off in a busy Shia neighbourhood.]]></description>
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<title>Iraqi Women at McClatchy's Baghdad Bureau Earn Award</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Six Iraqi women who've worked in the Knight Ridder and McClatchy Baghdad bureau have won an International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award, the foundation announced Thursday.]]></description>
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<title>Blackwater Contractors Involved in Shooting Death in Baghdad</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Employees of Blackwater USA, a private security firm under contract to the State Department, opened fire on the streets of Baghdad twice in two days last week, and one of the incidents provoked a standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, US and Iraqi officials said.]]></description>
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<title>Iraq car bomb kills at least 19</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A car bomb explodes in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least 19 people and wounding 46 more.]]></description>
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<title>Muslim calligrapher killed in Iraq</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the Muslim world's leading calligraphers, Khalil al-Zahawi, has been shot dead in Baghdad.]]></description>
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<title>Securing the Iraqi Capital:  A Slow, Hard Crackdown</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Ghazaliya neighborhood of Baghdad descended into chaos last year when Sunni insurgents started "cleansing" it of Shiites. Now it's the job of American soldiers -- and their Iraqi helpers -- to clear it of insurgents.]]></description>
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<title>Rejected in the Green Zone, Accepted in Sweden:  The Tragically High Price of Helping Americans</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ameer spent years working for the Americans in Baghdad, but now he finds himself living in a tiny town in Sweden. His security was not high on the US priority list. And neither, it seems, are Iraqi refugees.]]></description>
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<title>The Dangers of Being an Electrician:  Escaping a Baghdad Death Sentence</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mahir's bad luck was doing something to help improve Iraq. The electrical engineer became a target for helping repair power substations. He left for Sweden after seeing his colleague gunned down on the streets of Baghdad.]]></description>
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