Archive - Jun 14, 2005

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A suicide bomber hit an open market area in the Kurdish city of Karkuk in northern Iraq. Victims of the blast were taken to a neighboring hospital where Dr. Ali Karkuky was working.

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Kurds living in the oil rich area want the city of Karkuk to be their capital in an autonomous region of Iraq. However, there is considerable resistance to the Kurds obtaining an independent state.

Businesses and shops were shut down in Indian administered Kashmir today to protest a bomb that killed more than a dozen people yesterday. Shahnawaz Khan reports from Srinagar.