"In one of the deadliest single attacks in Iraq this year, insurgents on Sunday targeted the Sunni militia that was crucial in turning the tide against al-Qaida in Iraq.
That bombing claimed at least 43 lives and rekindled memories of the 2006-07 peak of both Iraq's civil war and its insurgency. It is the latest in a string of recent attacks against Iraqi police and the Sunni Awakening, or Sons of Iraq.
Members of the Awakening, a collective movement recruited by the U.S. military to fight al-Qaida in Iraq, were attacked while waiting on Baghdad's southwest outskirts to receive paychecks from the Iraqi government.
Government officials and Awakening leaders blamed al-Qaida in Iraq."
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"Sudan dissent brutally suppressed, says Amnesty report"
"Amnesty International says former prisoners have reported arbitrary arrests, beatings and torture."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10679943
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