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BAGHDAD, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Iraq bloodshed's abated since the U.S. troop buildup but instead of rebuilding during the lull the nation's fragmented more into tribes, parties and militias.
A weak central government is overseeing a disintegrating nation, the Los Angeles Times reported. Shiite Muslims in Basra are warring over oil in the south; Sunni tribes help police highways in the west. Arabs, Turks and Kurds are battling in the north, the paper said.
"Iraq is moving in the direction of a failed state, a highly decentralized situation -- totally unplanned, of course -- with competing centers of power run by warlords and militias," Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group told the Times.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake shook Costa Rica Monday and could be felt as far away as Panama, officials said.
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NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 13 (UPI) --
A funeral is being planned for songstress Whitney Houston in her hometown of Newark, N.J., later this week, sources close to her family told NBC New York.
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