Upsurge in Ramadan bloodshed
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added: &quot;We can&#39;t deny that there has been an increased number of attacks during Ramadan.&quot;. An Estonian soldier was killed and five were wounded in a bomb blast in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, officials said.
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At least 20 people were reportedly killed and 65 others injured as the result of weekend violence occurring in Baghdad. Broadcast sources say most casualties occurred Sunday when fierce fighting
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Today's attack in Ramadi came amid a rise in violence against Iraqi police officers throughout Iraq.
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BAQOUBA, Iraq US troops and Iraqi forces have carried out pre-Ramadan raids in the city of Baqouba. They&#39;re trying to clear out rebels before the start of the Islamic holy month.
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BAGHDAD -- A bomb killed at least 37 Shi'ites in Baghdad yesterday as they stocked up on fuel for Ramadan, just days after the U S military warned that sectarian bloodshed could worsen during the Islamic holy month.
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Six more people have been killed in Muslim-majority southern Thailand in the last 24 hours, police said on Thursday, amid outrage over the death last week of 85 Muslims, most of them in military custody.
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A quarter of a million Iraqis have fled   their homes and registered as refugees in the past seven   months, data released on Thursday showed, amid an upsurge in   violence that has accompanied the Ramadan holy month.
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Fighting between rival militias intensified Thursday in the Somali capital, with battles spread across the city and at least 38 people dead, medical sources and a militia commander said.
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At least 110 people were killed across  Iraq on Sunday in a sharp escalation of violence that saw gun  battles, car bombs and bombardments rock the capital.
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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi capital was engulfed in violence yesterday as 21 people were killed and more than 100 wounded from two car bomb attacks and from United States-led offensives on Shi&#39;ite and Sunni rebel pockets in the city.
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Violence throughout the country defied increased efforts to stanch the spread of sectarian bloodshed.
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Blasts rocked five Christian churches in four Baghdad neighborhoods early Saturday -- as a string of violent incidents marred the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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A tenacious insurgency led by Sunni Arabs kept up relentless assaults today in a string of major cities.
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Most of the world&#39;s 1.2 billion Muslims began Ramadan on Thursday, a holy month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, festivities -- and abstinence.
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Violence continues across western part of the country as rival ethnic groups face off
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Fierce clashes erupted between US forces and Iraqi fighters in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday, killing at least two Iraqi civilians, witnesses and medics said.
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Thousands of police patrolled a tense town today after street fights between members of the country&#39;s main ethnic group and a Muslim minority left seven people dead and 42 injured.