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A fifth soldier was formally accused of "dereliction of duty" for failing to report the rape and murder of a teenage Iraqi girl and the murder of her parents and younger sister.
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AP - Masked Shiite gunmen stopped cars in western Baghdad Sunday and grabbed people off the streets, singling out the Sunni Arabs and killing at least 41 people, police said.
AP - A Russian passenger plane carrying at least 201 passengers skidded off a rain-slicked runway in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday and plowed through a concrete barrier, bursting into flames. At least 122 people were killed, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
AP - NASA could decide Sunday whether a piece of fabric filler sticking out from thermal tiles on the space shuttle Discovery's belly needs to be plucked out by astronauts during a spacewalk this week.
Gunmen roaming a Baghdad neighborhood today killed at least 40 unarmed Iraqis, including women and children, as soon as they identified them as Sunnis, Iraqi police and officials said. A spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party called the killings "one of the biggest massacres of Sunnis."
Four U.S. soldiers in Iraq are charged with participation in the "rape and murder of a young Iraqi woman and three members of her family," the U.S. military said Sunday.
At least 122 people are dead after a Sibir Airlines passenger jet with 200 people on board veered off the runway while landing at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia in wet conditions, Russian officials said. Twenty-five people are missing after the plane crashed into a concrete barrier and burst into flames. Some people are reported to have been able to jump from the wreckage to safety.
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