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Security forces stand guard outside a church in Baghdad that was bombed.
Security forces stand guard outside a church in Baghdad that was bombed.


BAGHDAD, July 12 -- A car bomb exploded near a church as worshipers left Sunday Mass, killing at least four civilians and injuring 18 in one of several attacks on Iraq's beleaguered Christian minority.


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NAWA, Afghanistan -- Most of the mud-brick stalls that line the street in this sweltering town on the Helmand River closed down a year ago when Taliban fighters began swaggering through the bazaar, levying taxes on merchants and seeding the roads with homemade bombs. Shopkeepers placed their ware...


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