Morning Brief, Tuesday, April 10
STR/AFP Middle East A female suicide bomber killed 17 outside of Baghdad, and heavy fighting broke out in Baghdad between helicopter-backed U.S. forces and Iraqi insurgents. Russia is skeptical of Iran’s claims regarding uranium enrichment. Turkey’s prime minister warned a top leader of the Kurdistan region of Iraq not to issue threats against Turkey. Europe ...
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Middle East
A female suicide bomber killed 17 outside of Baghdad, and heavy fighting broke out in Baghdad between helicopter-backed U.S. forces and Iraqi insurgents.
Russia is skeptical of Iran’s claims regarding uranium enrichment.
Turkey’s prime minister warned a top leader of the Kurdistan region of Iraq not to issue threats against Turkey.
Europe
No more selling stories to the media, the British military has told the “Tehran 15.”
Russia’s energy minister said a gas pricing group is in the works, though the Iranians and Qataris deny that it would be a “cartel” per se.
A Serbian court has, shockingly, convicted Serbians of war crimes against Bosnian Muslims.
Asia
A prominent Chinese dissident says his confession was forced.
U.S. delegation to Pyongyang: Mr. Kim, shut down that reactor!
Bangladesh’s military-backed caretaker government accused former Prime Minister and Awami Party leader Sheikh Hasina of massive extortion.
Elsewhere
Ethiopia admitted to holding 41 “terror suspects” from 17 different countries. Neighboring Eritrea denied interfering in Somalia and labeled the U.S. State Department’s top Africa official an “amateur diplomat.”
Some immigrant families to the United States who take DNA tests to prove their identities are learning things they didn’t want to know.
A man in the southwestern U.S. state of Nevada says he’s sold $9 million worth of real estate … on the moon.
Hugo Chávez’s showdown with U.S. and European oil companies is heating up.
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