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NEWS IN BRIEF Missile crashes into Iraq's information ministry BAGHDAD (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 At least one missile hit and damaged Iraq's information ministry at dawn Saturday as the capital was pounded by heavy bombardment, an AFP correspondent reported. Police approve China's first anti-war protests BEIJING (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 Police have given the go ahead for China's first domestic anti-Iraq war demonstration by a group of intellectuals but limited to 100 people inside a Beijing park, organizers said Saturday. Thai tourism suffering from war, pneumonia fears: report BANGKOK (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 Southeast Asian tourism giant Thailand saw a substantial drop in hotel occupancy in the first quarter as travellers fretted over the war in Iraq and a deadly pneumonia outbreak, a report said Saturday. |
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Renewed bombing of Baghdad outskirts BAGHDAD (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 Loud blasts rocked the Iraqi capital again on Saturday shortly after 7:00 am (0400 GMT) as the outskirts came under renewed bombardment, an AFP correspondent reported. Scores killed in Baghdad bombing, new strikes reported, Kuwait hit BAGHDAD (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 Near simultaneous US-led air strikes hit the Iraqi capital and northern city of Mosul overnight after a bombing raid demolished a bustling Baghdad market, killing and maiming scores of civilians. British soldier killed, four injured by friendly fire in Iraq LONDON (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 A British soldier was missing and presumed dead and four others were injured in an apparent friendly fire incident in Iraq, the fifth such casualty since the war began, the British ministry of defense said Saturday. A pilot's talk: of fuel, wind and war ABOARD USS KITTY HAWK (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 As pilots gather for a bombing mission over Iraq the talk is technical -- of fuel, wind speed and radio frequencies. US army avoids religious sites in bid to win Shiite support SOUTHWEST IRAQ (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 The US military must avoid damaging religious sites in the holy city of Karbala if it is to entice Iraq's Shiite majority to rise up against President Saddam Hussein, officers involved in an air assault near the city said. US warplanes target missile launchers in northern Iraq ABOARD USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 US fighter-bombers from the US aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt struck two anti-air missile launching sites in northern Iraq early Saturday, said two pilots who took part in the raid. |
Kuwait hit in Iraqi missile attack, no casualties KUWAIT CITY (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 The heart of Kuwait was hit in an Iraqi missile attack early Saturday for the first time in its history, injuring two people slightly, an AFP correspondent at the scene reported. Coalition war planes queue up to bomb Iraq's crack Republican Guard division IRAQI DESERT (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 British Royal air force pilots have told how coalition warplanes are pounding the crack Medina Division of Iraq's Republican Guard southeast of Baghdad. US says terrorists posing as beggars pose new threat in Pakistan WASHINGTON (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 Terrorists disguised as street vendors and beggars could target US citizens and other westerners in Pakistan, the US officials said Friday, warning of possible retaliation for the US-led war in Iraq. US Apaches launch night attack on Karbala amid pounding of Baghdad SOUTHWEST IRAQ (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 US Army Apache attack helicopters and airforce planes launched a night attack on Iraqi forces near the holy Shiite city of Karbala, military officials said early Saturday, as Baghdad took another heavy pounding. US casualty toll stands at 28 dead WASHINGTON (AFP) Mar 29, 2003 Since the US-led ground campaign in Iraq began March 21, the US casualty toll stood at 28 military personnel dead, according to Pentagon figures released Friday. |
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