Tensions high in Baghdad as curfew lifted
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Baghdad authorities on Monday lifted a three-day curfew imposed on the city after the worst bombing since the U.S. invasion in 2003, but nerves were frayed on fears of a new wave of blood-letting.
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The Nepalese capital Kathmandu is under a curfew, which the government imposed after the city erupted in violent protests against the killing of 12 Nepalese workers in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, June 15 -- Extremists demolished a Sunni mosque in Basra early Friday, prompting the government to impose an indefinite curfew in the southern port city. The strike was an apparent retaliation for Wednesday's attack on a Shiite shrine in Samarra.
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Baghdad - Iraq&#39;s interim government on Tuesday announced that a night-time curfew will be imposed on Baghdad and surrounding areas until further notice amid escalating violence in the country.
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Myanmar's military junta lifted a curfew in the country's main city Yangon on Saturday which was imposed last month after mass protests that prompted a crackdown.
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Heavy clashes between Iraqi soldiers and gunmen in downtown Baghdad on Saturday left 11 people wounded, police said.
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KATMANDU: A shoot-on-sight curfew imposed in Kathmandu to prevent riots and violent protests over the killing of 12 Nepalese workers in Iraq entered its third day on Friday, as officials said they were trying to recover hostagesâ bodies.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 13 -- Iraqi officials on Tuesday announced the temporary closure of checkpoints at the Syrian and Iranian borders, as well as an expanded nighttime curfew in the capital, as part of the new Baghdad security plan.
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Iraq ordered a limited curfew in Baghdad on Saturday ahead of a Shi'ite pilgrimage, but the measure fell short of a ban on cars and trucks imposed at other religious ceremonies to reduce the risk of bombs.
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Six car bombs killed 160 people in a Shi'ite stronghold on Thursday in the bloodiest attack in Baghdad since the U.S. invasion and the authorities imposed an indefinite curfew on a city fearful of a sectarian civil war.
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Myanmar's military junta lifted a curfew  in the country's main city Yangon on Saturday which was imposed  last month after mass protests that prompted a crackdown.
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Iraqi forces placed Baghdad under a blanket curfew throughout Saturday after U.S. troops arrested a man suspected of plotting to attack the capital's government compound with suicide car bombings.
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Kathmandu: Nepal will briefly lift a curfew imposed on the capital on Thursday, after widespread rioting in response to the slaying of 12 Nepalese in Iraq, announcing the death toll from the unrest had risen to two.
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Iraq&#039;s government clamped a state of emergency on Baghdad and ordered everyone off the streets Friday after U.S. and Iraqi forces battled insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and rifles near the heavily fortified Green Zone.
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Hundreds of soldiers are patrolling the streets of the Nepalese capital, after the government lifted a curfew imposed after deadly anti-Muslim riots erupted last week.
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Myanmar's military junta on Saturday lifted a curfew imposed in the country's main city Yangon last month after a crackdown on mass protests.
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Civilian deaths and car bombs have fallen sharply in Baghdad since a U.S.-backed crackdown began a month ago, but attacks outside the capital were rising as militants change tactics, Iraqi officials said on Wednesday.