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1. Two killed in separate Newark motor vehicle incidents
(N.J./State)

... Malik Mohammad, 49, was struck and killed by an unknown assailant near South Orange Avenue and South 11th Street. Results of the preliminary investigation indicate Mohammad was hit by a stolen pick up ...

2. Navy SEAL from N.J. Denis Miranda dies in Afghanistan
(N.J./State)

...  Mohammad Jan Rasoolyar, a spokesman for the provincial governor in Zabul contradicted the Taliban's claim saying, "The Taliban was not involved in this crash." "The investigation is still going on, ...

3. CNN firing of editor Octavia Nasr fuels debate
(U.S./Nation)

... CNN senior editor of Middle East affairs Octavia Nasr celebrate July 4? By mourning the passing of Hezbollah's Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah," blogged Daniel Halper at the neoconservative Weekly Standard. ...

4. Naseem Hameed: Fastest Woman in South Asia product of a changing Pakistan
(World/International)

... five years, I was their star performer in sprinting (100 meters, 200 meters and shot put). My mother once came to the club and asked my coach, Mohammad Talib, if I was doing anything worthwhile every ...

5. Evidence contradicts perceived relationship between Taliban and Osama bin Laden
(World/International)

... Mohammad Omar imposed strict isolation on Osama bin Laden after 1998 to prevent him from carrying out any plots against the United States. The evidence contradicts the claims by top officials of the ...

6. Iran's U.N. Ambassador, Mohammad Khazaee is blind
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Iran's U.N. Ambassador, Mohammad Khazaee must be blind when he says the resolution is "full of false claims." A quick visit to Youtube will show him thousands of examples of the Iranian regime's brutality ...

7. United Nations condemns Iran for abuses after the disputed presidential election
(World/International)

... into the allegations of post-Presidential election human rights violations," and to end other abuses including stoning, flogging, amputations and public executions. Iran's U.N. Ambassador, Mohammad Khazaee, ...

8. Afghanistan's minister of mines reportedly accepted a $30 million bribe.
(World/International)

A news report published Wednesday says Afghanistan's minister of mines is accused of accepting an approximately $30 million bribe. The Washington Post newspaper says Mohammad Ibrahim Adel accepted the ...

9. United States and NATO dependent on Afghan warlords as force multipliers
(World/International)

... dollars annually — for getting two convoys from Kandahar to Tarin Kowt safely each month. Khan, now police chief in Uruzgan province, evidently got his private army from his uncle Jan Mohammad Khan, a ...

10. Four Essex County pharmacists among those charged with Medicaid fraud
(N.J./State)

... Newark. Ajari Inc. doing business as Harrison Pharmacy, 634 Martin Luther King Blvd., Newark. Nadeem Akhtar, 49, of Upper Saddle River, pharmacist and husband of owner of Orange Drugs. Omar Mohammad, ...

11. Activist involved in post-election unrest sentenced to death in Iran
(World/International)

... Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani is to be hanged for participating in unrest, last June, according to opposition websites. Several top Iranian opposition websites are reporting that Iran's Revolutionary Court ...

12. What does Nets sale to Russian billionaire mean to sports?
(Sports/Professional)

... marketers like Coke have done for years. Instead of bringing Mohammad to the mountain the mountain comes to Mohammad. So now you have a smart global brand — the NBA — who has now said it's OK for others ...

13. N.J. teens sue to sit during singing of ‘God Bless America’
(Opinion/Commentary)

... 17, and Nilkumar Patel, 17, and Shaan Mohammad, weren't protesting the song and that no one asked them to stand. "The boys weren't trying to make any political statements, they just didn't get up," he ...

14. Wind reserves provide hope as oil and gas supplies dry up
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... Fathy Ameen Mohammad, vice- chairman for projects and operations at NREA. "Our goal is to generate 7,200 MW of wind power by 2020, which is about 12 percent of total electricity production." Energy ...

15. Early results have Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai leading
(World/International)

... votes while former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah has nearly 203,000 votes. IEC spokesman Nur Mohammad Nur tells VOA News these initial results do not give any candidate a basis to declare victory. ...

16. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sworn in as Iranian President while protesters kept in control
(World/International)

... of the Islamic Republic as president despite the fact that key figures such as Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the head of the Expediency Council and the Assembly of Experts, former President Mohammad Khatami, ...

17. Carpet weaving industry in Kashmir hit hard by recession
(World/International)

... they have had to suffer economic blow after blow. "Some years back it was the aftermath of 9/11 which hit us hard, and now it is the global economic recession," says carpet dealer Mohammad Rafiq. "Before ...

18. Militants dispute Pakistan government creating Islamic courts
(World/International)

... pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Mohammad. In return, the cleric promised to persuade Taliban militants to lay down their arms and allow the government to establish its authority. After holding several rounds ...