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CHICAGO – Experts are telling Chicago residents to beware of the birds. The fiercely territorial behavior of red-winged blackbirds is being blamed on several recent dive-bomb attacks. The birds peck at unsuspecting bicyclists and pedestrians and swipe their hair. Just ask Holly Grosso. The businesswoman says she was pecked in …

BAGHDAD – Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr revealed Friday that he plans to create a powerful fighting force to battle what he calls “the occupiers” in Iraq. In a statement read after Friday prayers in the holy Shitte city of Kufa, Al-Sadr called on his nearly 60,000-strong Mahdi Army militia …

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Hundreds of Taliban fighters took over several villages in southern Afghanistan on Monday just outside the region’s largest city, and NATO and Afghan forces were redeploying to meet the threat, officials said. Mohammad Farooq, the government leader in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province, said around 500 …