Hand grenades close Serbian highway toll
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Boxes of hand grenades tumbled out of a Serb Army truck on Thursday when the driver pulled up to pay his highway toll, officials in southern Serbia said.
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A feared &quot;assassination attempt&quot; on Serbian President Boris Tadic was actually a case of road rage against the behavior of his motor convoy, Serbia&#39;s interior minister said on Wednesday.
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Spain's civil guard, on national alert after Basque separatists called off a ceasefire, said on Thursday it had found a car packed with explosives near seaside resorts next to the border with Portugal.
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Serbian Interior Minister Dragan Jocic was seriously injured in a car accident, police said Saturday. He was reported in stable condition.Driver Mirko Damjanovic also was seriously hurt, police said.The driver hit a dog and lost control of the car late Friday near Velika Plana, about 40 miles southeast of Belgrade, senior police official Milorad Veljovic said. The car flipped several times before going off the road.Jocic, 48, was transferred to Belgrade for treatment at an orthopedic clinic, where he underwent an operation, and was in stable condition, Veljovic said. Read more
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BAGHDAD: Members of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr&#39;s militia began handing back their weapons yesterday under a deal with the interim Iraq Government, while two US soldiers were killed in a Baghdad rocket attack.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The military and police closed Afghanistan&#39;s main roads and cities Friday in a huge security operation in anticipation of bomb attacks or other violence during the country&#39;s first presidential election today.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s army has closed off entry points to areas controlled by Tamil Tiger rebels for the first day since a 2002 ceasefire after Red Cross officials said they feared for their safety amid sporadic violence.
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Hunting for the deadliest weapons in the insurgents' arsenal along one of the most dangerous highways in Iraq, a U.S. Army patrol rolls past the charred remnants of a suicide bomber's car. Moments later, the troops snake by a roadside pitted by an explosives-packed donkey cart that was blown up trying to hit an American convoy.
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The A-9 connects government and rebel territory. The government closed it Aug. 12 due to fighting.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands  - A top Serbian general accused of playing a role in the murder of hundreds of Kosovo-Albanians during a 1998-99 crackdown surrendered Thursday to the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague.
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Official death toll from week of violence reaches 486, the government says
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan The military and the police closed Afghanistan&#39;s main roads and cities Friday in a security operation anticipating bomb attacks or other violence during the country&#39;s first presidential election Saturday.
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Two border crossings in northern Kosovo attacked and US embassy in Belgrade shuts amid rioting
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U.S. contractor Contrack International  has pulled out of a $325 million Iraqi transportation project  due to violence, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bombing aimed at a US military convoy triggered a chaotic round of gunfire on a busy highway in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, leaving at least eight Afghan civilians dead and about three dozen others wounded, officials said.
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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo, Feb. 19 -- Serbs protesting Kosovo's declaration of independence torched two border posts manned by the United Nations along the northern border with Serbia on Tuesday as up to 2,000 protesters, some driving bulldozers, destroyed customs posts.
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Serbian Interior Minister Dragan Jocic was seriously injured in a car accident, police said Saturday. He was reported in stable condition.