Global Security Index - 2007-01-18 (Friday)
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Iraq |
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2008-01-18 (Friday) |
Shiite doomsday cultists, wearing yellow headbands sporting the Star of David, attacked police simultaneously early afternoon in the southern port city of Basra and in Nasiriyah, about 350 kilometres (220 miles) south of Baghdad. |
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Kenya |
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2008-01-18 (Friday) |
In Narok town, gateway to the Maasai Mara game park, six people died and homes were torched as hundreds of members of Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe armed with machetes faced pro-opposition Maasais with bows and arrows. |
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Nepal |
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2008-01-18 (Friday) |
A bus fire killed seven people and wounded more than 20 in the volatile southern region bordering India. The Terai Army claimed responsibility for the blaze, saying the bus was defying a strike in the region. |
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Pakistan |
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2008-01-18 (Friday) |
In Dera Ismail Khan, police arrested 15-year-old Aitezaz Shah who was allegedly part of a five-man squad assigned to kill opposition leader Benazir Bhutto last month. |
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