In Taba, Freeze Frames of Horror
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In the aftermath of the apparent car bombing that killed at least 30 people, the ruined hotel looked like a freeze frame from a macabre movie.
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There was steam on the windows. Outside, the town was in the grip of a freeze. It was time for a break, and this looked like a good place to thaw out. It was all red and chrome, a meatloaf-shaped building on a side street off Burlington's main drag. A neon sign said &quot;Oasis,&quot; and that's exactly ...
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The sign in the city center warns women that they'd better adhere to Muslim teachings or face the penalty. And all around the Iraqi city of Basra, women are showing up dead -- many beaten and beheaded. Some have been strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture.
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In a movie culture filled with fake death and callous killing, âDying at Graceâ is not just a shock to the system; itâs an accusation.
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QANDIL MOUNTAIN RANGE, Iraq -- Sunrise came to the women's camp in shafts of white light through woven roofs, but Aristan Manzur slept past 10. She had a fever again, and fluid blocked the air in her lungs.
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I had just tucked into one of my favorite Star Trek episodes recently when William Shatner's face, his lips pursed, froze on the screen. Pixel by pixel, the picture crumbled before my eyes.
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It's an odd choice for Egyptian popular entertainment: a bleak movie about corruption, torture and political stagnation in a country where cinematic happy endings are the norm. But audiences are packing the theaters.
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Few sane people want to visit a storm-tossed Bering Sea, the sizzling Sahara Desert and Canada's Northwest Territories in January. Experiencing them from a comfortable chair in front of a flat-screen television, however, is all the rage.
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Agra, Nov. 28 (PTI): The idea is right. But the timing is wrong. Being undertaken on an experimental basis for three months, night-viewing of the Taj Mahal may well be spoiled by an unwanted winter visitor -- the fog.
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DA ANTOU, China -- Chen Xiao'e was home alone and fast asleep, she recalled, when the windows started to shatter for no apparent reason, like a scene out of a horror movie. "I was frightened out of my wits," Chen said.
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They kneel before the camera. They are rigid with fear. Or they are crying, clearly unhinged, begging for their lives. They are hostages, flanked by masked men who carry swords or AK-47s -- the grim reapers of this age of televised terror.
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Blood-splotches on walls, chains hanging from a ceiling and swords on the killing floor &mdash; the artifacts left a disturbing tale of brutalities inside a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq torture chamber. But there was yet another chilling fact outside the dirt-floor dungeon.
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Haunting images of the tsunami's aftermath attracted both aid and criticism.
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The attack sent shudders through a region where anger toward the U.S. has surged in recent weeks.
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Desperate times require desperate measures, which is why there are a dozen photographs of bruised and battered corpses pinned up on a noticeboard outside Wachira public hospital in central Phuket.
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An explosion occurred at the Hilton hotel in Taba, on the Egypt-Israel border, causing numerous casualties. The blast at around 10 PM apparently originated in the hotel lobby, causing the ceiling of the lobby to collaspse.
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Last Thursday&#39;s horrendous terrorist attacks on tourist facilities in the Egyptian Sinai resort at Taba has targeted three distinctive targets.