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Senior Sunni Leader Killed

Vicky Hunter - | Story: 14061
  • Gunmen dressed as Iraqi troops stormed the home of a senior Sunni leader Wednesday, killing him, his three sons and a son-in-law, Iraqi police said. CNN News

  • The father of the man most seriously wounded in a shooting rampage at a shopping mall called his son a hero for drawing a pistol and confronting the gunman before being shot. News24

  • Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was indicted and put under house arrest on Wednesday, accused of tax evasion and corruption related to the multi-million-dollar accounts he owns overseas. CNN News

  • A dozen top-ranking officials from Saddam Hussein's regime have sought asylum in Sweden since 2003 where they are being investigated for crimes against humanity, police said on Wednesday. News24

  • Angela Merkel was making her first foreign trip as Germany's new chancellor on Wednesday, stopping in Paris for talks with French President Jacques Chirac before heading to Brussels and London. CNN News

  • A federal jury in Virginia deliberated for 2 ½ days before finding a Muslim student guilty of belonging to al-Qaeda and plotting to kill U.S. President George W. Bush and hijack aircraft. CBC News

  • A Chinese city of 3.8 million people closed schools and was trucking in drinking water Wednesday after shutting down its water system following a chemical plant explosion that officials said polluted a nearby river with toxic benzene. CTV News

  • More than a dozen war protesters returned to a roadside near President Bush's ranch before dawn Wednesday, defying two new local bans on roadside camping and parking. CNN News

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