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  • Firefighters look for survivors at the local headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party after a bomb attack in Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/ Emad Matti)

    String of attacks across Iraq kills at least 31

    A suicide bomber driving a vehicle packed with explosives blew himself up outside the offices of a major Kurdish party in northern Iraq early Wednesday, the deadliest in a wave of morning attacks that killed at least 31 people across the country.


  • A protester attacks ATMs amid a clash in Istanbul on Tuesday between Kurdish demonstrators and Turkish police. The main Kurdish party threatened to boycott Turkey's upcoming election because some Kurdish candidates will be barred. (Associated Press)

    World Scene

    A donors conference seeking $1.1 billion to clean up the Chernobyl disaster site fell well short of its goal Tuesday, but officials remained optimistic that money will be found to make the world's worst nuclear accident site environmentally safe.


  • Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan casts his vote in Istanbul on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010, in a referendum on changes to the Turkish Constitution, which was crafted in the wake of Turkey's 1980 military coup. His wife, Emine Erdogan, is at left. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)

    Turks approve constitutional amendments

    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that voters have approved changes to a military-era constitution in a referendum widely seen as a vote of confidence for his government.


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