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• Insurgents blow up 2nd bridge, abduct wife, 2 kids
• Thousands of Syrians enter Homs after rebels leave
• Bombings kill 19 people in Iraq; shelling kills 11
• Islamic bloc chief: Nigeria kidnappings barbaric
• 'Over 100,000 civilians' flee jihadist clashes in Syria
• Bombings kill 14 people in Iraq; shelling kills 11
• 2 bombings kill 11 people north of capital in Iraq
• Shelling 'kills 11' in Iraq's Fallujah
• U.S. FDA approves 'Star Wars' robotic arm for amputees
• Presidential checklist: preparations in motion

Insurgents blow up 2nd bridge, abduct wife, 2 kids Posted: 10 May 2014 01:44 PM PDT YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic extremists blew up a bridge, killed an unknown number of people and abducted the wife and two children of a retired police officer in northeast Nigeria, residents said Saturday amid mounting condemnation by Muslims of the Nigerian terrorist network that abducted more than 300 schoolgirls nearly a month ago.

Thousands of Syrians enter Homs after rebels leave Posted: 10 May 2014 12:08 PM PDT HOMS, Syria (AP) — Thousands of Syrians returned to war-battered parts of the central city of Homs Saturday, many making plans to move back as opposition activists expressed bitterness over the rebels' surrender of their strongholds to pro-government forces and vowed they will return.

Bombings kill 19 people in Iraq; shelling kills 11 Posted: 10 May 2014 11:04 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of bombings in Iraq killed 19 people Saturday, a day after army shelling killed 11 civilians and gunmen in the militant-held city of Fallujah, authorities said.

Islamic bloc chief: Nigeria kidnappings barbaric Posted: 10 May 2014 09:42 AM PDT JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The secretary-general of the world's largest bloc of Islamic countries said Saturday that the kidnapping of more than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls is a "barbaric" and "inhumane" act.

'Over 100,000 civilians' flee jihadist clashes in Syria Posted: 10 May 2014 08:46 AM PDT More than 100,000 civilians have fled the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor because of fierce clashes between rival jihadist groups, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday. The British-based monitoring group also said the clashes between Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and the rival Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had killed 230 militants in the last 10 days. ISIL was initially welcomed by some of the Syrian opposition, but its abuses of civilians and rebel forces sparked the backlash that begin this year.

Bombings kill 14 people in Iraq; shelling kills 11 Posted: 10 May 2014 04:01 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of bombings in Iraq killed 14 people Saturday, as army shelling killed 11 civilians and gunmen in the militant-held city of Fallujah a day earlier, authorities said.

2 bombings kill 11 people north of capital in Iraq Posted: 10 May 2014 03:13 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Authorities in Iraq say two bombings, including a suicide attack at a security checkpoint, have killed 11 people north of the capital, Baghdad.

Shelling 'kills 11' in Iraq's Fallujah Posted: 10 May 2014 01:58 AM PDT Shelling killed 11 people on Saturday in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which has been held by anti-government fighters for more than four months, a doctor said. The bombardment and twin shootings that killed two people in Nineveh province in the north were the latest in a protracted surge of violence that has killed more than 3,100 people this year. They came with the count still under way from a April 30 general election, Iraq's first since US troops withdrew in late 2011, A further 20 people were wounded by the Fallujah bombardment, Doctor Ahmed Shami of the city's main hospital said.

U.S. FDA approves 'Star Wars' robotic arm for amputees Posted: 09 May 2014 05:59 PM PDT By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a robotic arm for amputees that is named for the \"Star Wars\" character Luke Skywalker and can perform multiple, simultaneous movements, a huge advance over the metal hook currently in use. The FDA said on Friday it allowed the sale of the DEKA Arm System after reviewing data, including a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs study in which 90 percent of people who used the device were able to perform complex tasks. The prosthetic arm was developed by New Hampshire-based DEKA Research and Development Corp, founded by Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway and other devices. The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said it provided more than $40 million in funding to DEKA to develop the robotic arm as part of a $100 million project to improve prosthetics.

Presidential checklist: preparations in motion Posted: 09 May 2014 05:57 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest prep work for a presidential campaign, Rand Paul is conspicuously courting moderate and establishment Republicans while Ted Cruz keeps up a travel schedule that has 2016 written all over it.

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