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Tens of thousands of Iraqis rally against U.S

BAGHDAD – Six years after the U.S. overthrew Saddam Hussein’s government, tens of thousands of Iraqis gathered in the rain in Iraq’s capital Thursday April 9, to mark the anniversary and renew calls for an

American withdrawal

The demonstrators came in response to calls by Muqtada al-Sadr, the influential Shiite cleric who has long decried the U.S. military’s occupation, but there were also Sunni Muslims in the crowd.

Draped in Iraqi flags and chanting, protesters packed Baghdad’s Firdous Square, where six years ago a crowd cheered the destruction of a statue of Saddam.

Infant survives Baghdad car bombing that killed 8

BAGHDAD – A car bomb ripped through the Shiite district of Kadhemiyah Tuesday, April 7 killing eight people and wounding 20 just a day after a string of bombings left 32 dead and more than 130 wounded in the

Iraqi capital.

An infant survived, but no one knew its name or age, whether its mother had survived her wounds, or whether the dead driver in the black car was its father.

Abu Haider, who sells parts and accessories for motorbikes, told McClatchy Newspapers he’d rescued the child. He was in his shop when the explosion knocked him to the ground. Through the flames, haze and destruction, he spotted the crying child lying on the pavement near the baby’s mother, who was wounded and bleeding profusely. He grabbed the infant and took it to a nearby home for safety and ran back to save the mother. But Iraqi Security Forces blocked the way.

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CIA bars private contractors from questioning terror suspects

WASHINGTON – CIA Director Leon Panetta on Thursday April 9, told employees of the spy agency that private contractors will no longer be permitted to interrogate suspected terrorists and that the agency is seeking to close down what remains of its secret network of detention centers.

In an e-mail to employees, Panetta said he had notified the Senate and House intelligence committees that private contractors would no longer conduct interrogations of what he called “captured terrorists.”

Panetta’s decision follows expressions of concern by some lawmakers about the CIA’s use of contract interrogators, one of whom, David Passaro, was convicted in 2006 of abusing an Afghan detainee in 2003 at a remote U.S. base in Afghanistan. The detainee later died.

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Group says global warming could hurt corn revenues

WASHINGTON – Global warming could rob the U.S. economy of $1.4 billion a year in lost corn production alone, a national environmental group estimated in a report released Thursday April 9.

The Environment America study, based on government and university data, projects warming temperatures will reduce yields of the nation’s biggest crop by 3 percent in the Midwest and the South, compared to projected yields without further

global warming.

Iowa would be hit hardest, losing $259 million a year in corn revenues, followed by Illinois at $243 million.

California, which leads the country in agriculture but doesn’t grow much corn, would take an estimated $4.7 million hit. The study doesn’t directly address other crops, but one of its main sources, a 2008 government report on the effects of warming on agriculture and natural resources, suggests that California’s signature fruit and vegetable harvests could suffer even more than corn if temperatures rise.

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Writer Ann Cummins to read April 17 as part of Boise State University’s MFA Reading Series

Fiction writer Ann Cummins will read at 7:30 p.m. April 17 in the Student Union Grand B Ballroom at Boise State University. Cummins’ appearance is part of the Master of Fine Arts Reading Series and is free and open to the public. Cummins is the author of the novel “Yellowcake” and the short story collection “Red Ant House.” Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, “Hayden’s Ferry Review,” “A Room of One’s Own” and “Sonora Review,” among others. Her story “The Red Ant House,” originally published in “McSweeney’s,” was anthologized in “The Best American Short Stories 2002.” A graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona writing programs, Cummins now teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University. ?

Boise State University’s Diverse Perspectives Film Series wraps up season with tale of the rise of gangs in America

The Diverse Perspectives Film Series at Boise State University will wrap for the season with “Crips and Bloods: Made in America” from 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 21 in the Student Union Farnsworth Room.

Admission is free and open to the public. Following the film, detective Brian Holland of the Boise Police Department will talk about gang activity in Boise and lead a question-and-answer session. “Crips and Bloods: Made in America” contains scenes that may not be suitable for children. ?

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Daddy, where’s Fritzie?

A man in Berlin told his 6-year-old stepdaughter he was taking her pet beagle for a walk, then took the little doggie to a bar where he convinced the owner to buy the animal for $53, which the man spent on beer.

Talk about incriminating

A man was caught in the parking lot of a greenhouse in Lower Nazareth Township, Pa., with planting pots and other items he had shoplifted under his coat. Among the things he had on him was a list with the heading “things needed to grow pot.”

No good deed goes unpunished

Police set up a checkpoint in Bremen, Germany, to randomly stop drivers to see if they had been drinking.

A drunk driver pulled over on his own because he mistakenly thought a vehicle had broken down, and he wanted to help.

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