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Baghdad Blasts Kill 18

Wayne Moore - Apr 14, 2005 / 8:08 am | Story: 8540

As many as 18 people were killed and 36 others were wounded on Thursday when a pair of car bombs exploded near government offices in Baghdad. The near-simultaneous blasts went off outside the offices of the interior ministry, sending plumes of black smoke into the air and throwing passersby to the street. It blew out shop windows in the upscale area around the heavily fortified Green Zone.Full Story
A Texas businessman, along with a Bulgarian and a British citizen, have been indicted in a scheme to pay millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime as part of the United Nations' scandal-ridden oil-for-food program, federal prosecutors said Thursday.Full Story
More than 10,000 fugitives from justice have been captured in a nationwide, weeklong dragnet, law enforcement sources said. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Marshals Service Director Ben Reyna are expected to announce the results of the unprecedented coast-to-coast sweep at a news conference Thursday afternoon.Full Story
France's Senate has approved a piece of legislation to let terminally ill people refuse life-extending treatment, but chose not to heed calls from some lobby groups to allow euthanasia.Full Story
Eleven volcanoes in Indonesia are under close watch Thursday as tens of thousands of people spent a third night in temporary camps. As many as 25,000 people living around the slopes of Mount Talang on Sumatra island fled to makeshift camps after it erupted on Tuesday, spewing hot ash into the air.Full Story
Police have few leads in the murder of a 45-year-old tourist from Ottawa who was found dead in her room at a resort in Arizona. A housekeeper at the Windsor Inn in Lake Havasu City discovered Barbara Kalow's body on April 5. An autopsy showed she died of "asphyxiation by force."Full Story