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...injuring 65, nearly all of them civilians. The ear-piercing explosions sent shock waves through the city, smashing windows miles away from the bombing site and leaving broken shards of glass and mangled remains of cars strewn on the streets. Heaps of rubble and smoldering debris lay amid dozens of damaged buildings, now resembling more the ruins of an ancient civilization...
...after the blast. Just minutes after the muezzin's call to prayer was sounded, he was about to break his Ramadan fast when the explosion struck. Like scores of other victims, he was taken to the city's Mirwais Regional Hospital, where he lay in pain on a bed amid the smell of antiseptic. Gul Muhammed, his brother, who took him there, says Azam is one of the more fortunate victims. "He was pulled out of the debris alive," he says. "When I went looking for him, I found dead bodies and severed limbs scattered around the bombing site...
...Amid all the behind-the-scenes recriminations, Britain's relationship with the U.S. feels that little bit less special. Gaddafi may have boosted his domestic popularity, but the affair has done little to burnish his image abroad. "Given the original intent [to anchor Libya more firmly in the international community], it will be interesting to see how Libya's relations with the world are affected," says former special adviser Owen. The star guests at the Sept. 1 celebration in Tripoli to mark the 40th anniversary of the coup that brought Gaddafi to power were two of the world's most...
Last year, 380,000 Colombians were forced off their land amid fighting between rebels, paramilitaries and the army, a 24% increase from 2007's figure, according to the Bogotá-based human-rights group Codhes (the Spanish acronym for the Human Rights and Displacement Office). Colombian officials, in turn, put the number of displaced at 294,000 for just the first six months of last year. "It's the million-dollar question," Marie-Helene Verney, spokeswoman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Colombia, says of the perplexing trend. "Something is going on." (See pictures...
...Phoenix man toting a pistol and an AR-15 assault rifle. Carrying visible weapons is legal in both states, and the protesters were not in the high-security zone around the President. But the head of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence called the incidents "craziness," especially amid the combustible debate over health-care reform...