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Civilians attack Taliban to avenge mosque bombing

An angry, armed mob attacked five villages and destroyed 20 houses suspected to belong to Taliban forces. Seven Taliban fighters were killed in the surge and the villagers now occupy three villages and are attempting to push the Taliban out of the other two.
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More bombs blast through Pakistan

More bombs exploded in Pakistan today, this time in the busy city of Peshawar. Two separate attacks were executed, one near a military checkpoint where a suicide bomber detonated himself and killed four soldiers and the other, in a busy market, where two motorcycles carrying time bombs exploded to kill six and injure 70, according to bomb disposal squad chief Shafqat Malik, BBC reports.
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Poking the Bear: Why North Korea did it and what it means for Asia-Pacific

North Korea, one of the pillars of Bush’s “axis of evil”, conducted an underground test of a nuclear bomb last night about 50 miles northwest of the northern city of Kilju. According to predictions by Russian officials, the bomb generated a blast of between 10 and 20 kilotons, which places it in the range of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”; the two atomic bombs that ravaged the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.