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...which was the lowest figure since 2003, according to government statistics. On Thursday a car bombing at a livestock market in Hilla, south of Baghdad, left 12 people dead. Meanwhile, American and Iraqi security forces continue to try to rout out the remnants of Al-Qaeda in the restive northern city of Mosul and in the northeastern Diyala province...
...supposed to be a thing of the past. But as Northern Ireland awoke Sunday morning to news of its worst atrocity in over a decade, terrorism, it seemed, had made an unwelcome return to life in the province...
...Real IRA' is believed to have carried out the attack. The group is one of a number of so-called dissident republicans - hardliners who oppose the power-sharing government between Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic political parties. The 'Real IRA' was also responsible for the Omagh bomb which claimed 29 lives in 1998 - the bloodiest atrocity in Northern Ireland's 30-year sectarian conflict...
...Cameron - is also divided on the issue. Simon Burns, a Tory MP, submitted the following "early day motion" to the House of Commons: "This House warmly welcomes the awarding of an honorary knighthood to Senator Edward Kennedy for services to U.S.-U.K. relations and to the peace process in Northern Ireland; recognizes the contribution he has made over 46 years in the U.S. Senate to advancing the cause of human rights, universal healthcare and a more just society; and acknowledges that his contribution to public service has established him as one of the finest and most effective U.S. senators...
That's where Mohammed's group first saw Atoor several years ago, at the Khadimiya Women's Prison in northern Baghdad. Now 18, Atoor married her 19-year-old sweetheart, a policeman called Bilal, when she was 15. Three months later he was dead, killed during one of the many bloody episodes in Iraq's brutal war. After the obligatory four-month mourning period dictated by Islamic Shari'a law, Atoor's mother and two brothers made it clear that they intended to sell her to a brothel close to their home in western Baghdad, just as they had sold...