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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BAGHDAD -- Officials imposed curfews, Iraqis hunkered down in their homes, and a top US commander admitted to a "sinking feeling" yesterday after bombs once again struck a Shi'ite Muslim mosque partially destroyed in an attack last year.
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Myanmar's junta on Wednesday lifted a night curfew that was imposed on the country's two main cities to stifle the biggest protests against military rule in 20 years.
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RANGOON, Burma - Burma's military junta lifted a curfew in the country's main city, Rangoon, yesterday in another sign that the generals are feeling strong enough to relax their grip after crushing last month's revolt.
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FALLUJAH: Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi on Tuesday imposed a night curfew in Baghdad as US troops with crack Iraqi soldiers surged into the heart of Fallujah in a hail of explosions and gunfire on the second day of the largest operation in Iraq since
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Businesses reopened and traffic resumed in Bangladesh's major cities Saturday as authorities relaxed a curfew imposed to quell violent anti-government protests and announced the arrests of at least 144 people.
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Iraq's government worked to come up with new security measures on Sunday as it prepared to lift a curfew imposed after car bombs killed more than 200 people on Thursday, sparking fears of outright civil war.
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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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A shoot-on-sight curfew imposed to prevent riots and violent protests over the killing of 12 Nepalese workers in Iraq entered its third day Friday, while officials said they were trying to recover the bodies of the slain hostages.
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Iraqis slowly began returning to the streets of Baghdad when a curfew was lifted on Sunday, four days after the bombing of a revered Shi'ite Muslim mosque to the south sparked fears of reprisal sectarian attacks.
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BAGHDAD -- The government clamped a 24-hour curfew on the capital yesterday shortly after US forces arrested the bodyguard of a prominent Sunni leader on suspicion of plotting a suicide attack inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.
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BAGHDAD -- Death squads move with impunity after curfew. Abductions are rampant, but kidnappers are rarely caught. Corruption has poisoned government, yet few have faced criminal charges.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 25 -- In the aftermath of one of the deadliest spasms of violence, a new level of fear and foreboding has gripped Baghdad, fueled in part by sectarian text messages and Internet sites, deepening tensions in an already divided capital.
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A shoot-on-sight curfew imposed to prevent riots and violent protests over the killing of 12 Nepalese workers in Iraq entered its third day yesterday, while officials said they were trying to recover the bodies of the slain hostages.
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Military-run Myanmar on Saturday lifted a curfew in the main city Yangon that was imposed on the eve of the junta's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests, a local official told AFP.
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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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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.