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Suicide Blast in Emergency Room Near Fallujah Kills 3

Nov. 10, 2008
BAGHDAD, Nov. 9 -- A female suicide bomber detonated explosives in the emergency room of a hospital near Fallujah on Sunday in one of several violent incidents in Iraq that left at least 10 people dead over the weekend, Iraqi officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Ten people died and 49 were injured in a suicide bombing that detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a checkpoint in northern Pakistan, police said.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed truck into an Islamabad hotel Saturday, killing at least 60 people and injuring 200, Pakistani television reported.

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BALDROUZ, Iraq, March 19 (UPI) -- At least five people died when a female suicide bomber blew herself up Wednesday in a bazaar in Iraq's troubled Diyala province, security forces said.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 14 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber killed at least eight Pakistani soldiers in an attack on a military convoy, the army said Saturday. Fifteen other soldiers were wounded in North Waziristan, near the village of Daznary, Maj-Gen Waheed Arshad told the BBC.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler