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...Amid reports of mounting Shi'a infighting there, officials in the Southern city of Diwaniyah, about 100 miles south of Baghdad, say that not only Iran but other neighboring countries in the Gulf may be involved in stoking the violence. Two incidents this week have ratcheted up their concern. On Wednesday, seven Iraqi police officers were killed by a bomb in the nearby village of Afak. That followed bloodshed on Monday, when at least six civilians were killed and dozens wounded in a mortar barrage on the Polish-run Coalition base in town...
...little for the Rockies, who tried to compensate by loading up on sluggers and pitchers. One colossal mistake: signing two gimpy pitchers in 2000 for $172 million. Come 2002, the Monforts were in trouble. Rumors of bankruptcy or a fire sale abounded amid a multimillion-dollar cash call from the other partners...
...faces the prospect of strike action amid claims by the broadcasting union BECTU and the National Union of Journalists that the overhaul will threaten the quality of public broadcasting in Britain. A move to outsource 6,000 jobs in 2005 was met with a one-day stoppage that blacked out several BBC stations...
...That proposal was eventually withdrawn, though the unrest it provoked played a major role in the right's ousting from power nearly 18 months later - due mostly to public support of the strikers amid sentiments that heavy-handed conservatives had sought to snatch away long-enshrined entitlements...
...Wednesday's vote comes amid rising nationalist sentiment in Turkey, fueled by the PKK attacks and also by moves in the U.S. Congress to declare the mass killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks starting in 1915 a genocide. The situation is also complicated by the desire of the Turkish military to improve its standing among ordinary Turks after its failed attempt to block the election of the moderate Islamist Abdullah Gul as the country's President earlier this year...