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/ 3 November 2004
Visits to health clinics, kindergartens and vocational training centres run by Hamas make it hard to believe the same Palestinian group sends out teenage suicide bombers to dispense death in Israel. Human Rights Watch on Wednesday urged Palestinian armed groups to stop recruiting children to carry out anti-Israeli attacks.
At least nine people were killed when a huge car bomb exploded outside a police station in Baghdad on Monday in a near daily scene of chaos and bloodshed for the newly-sovereign Iraq. The latest attack capped a week of at least seven car bombings that have left scores of people dead and injured, throwing up a huge challenge for the government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
Two accomplished but amateur Egyptologists have run into a bureaucratic brick wall in their search for what they suspect might be a hidden corridor in the Pyramid of Cheops.