Syria suicide bombers kill 55, ceasefire in tatters - 5/10/12



Two suicide car bombers killed 55 people and wounded 372 in Damascus on Thursday, state media said, the deadliest attacks in the Syrian capital since an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began 14 months ago.
The blasts further shredded a ceasefire that was declared by international mediator Kofi Annan on April 12 but that has failed to halt bloodshed pitting Assad's security forces against peaceful demonstrators and an array of armed insurgents.
Opposition leaders said Annan's peace plan was dead, while Western powers insisted it remained the best way forward.
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At least 55 killed in twin blasts at Damascus intel compound, terrorists blamed - 5/10/12



At least 55 people have been killed and 372 others injured by two powerful blasts in the Syrian capital on Thursday morning. The car bombs detonated near a military intelligence building.
The blasts happened in quick succession during the morning rush hour, just as employees were arriving to work. An initial small explosion was followed by a much larger blast allegedly targeted at paramedics and security forces arriving at the scene, AP reports.
The explosion left two craters – three and six meters wide – in front of the military compound. The two cars were stuffed with more than 1,000 kilograms of explosives, said Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi.
Makdissi also said that in addition to 55 dead – some of them already identified – and 372 injured, there were at least 15 sets of unidentified remains, implying that the death toll was likely to rise. Syrian authorities have urged people to donate blood for the injured.
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Mexican police discover at least 15 dismembered bodies near Guadalajara - 5/9/12



State prosecutor says written messages typical of gang killings were found at scene, and suggests link to earlier abductions
At least 15 dismembered bodies have been found in two vans near Lake Chapala, south of the city of Guadalajara in western Mexico, according to police.
Jalisco state prosecutor Tomas Coronado said the count is preliminary because 15 severed human heads were found, meaning that at least that many people, but possibly more, had been cut up and put in the vans.
"The bodies are dismembered," Coronado said in an interview transcript provided by his office. He said authorities received a phone call alerting them to the presence of the vehicles on a dirt access road a few miles from Lake Chapala, which is popular with tourists and American retirees.
The two vehicles were found by the side of a highway early on Wednesday and were towed to government offices to unload the bodies.
The area has been the scene of bloody turf battles between the Jalisco New Generation gang, allied with the Sinaloa cartel, and the Zetas drug cartel.
Mexican drug cartels frequently dismember the bodies of their victims or leave them stuffed into vehicles. The gangs also frequently leave handwritten messages alongside their victims' bodies, and Coronado said that such messages were found in the vans.
"They are clearly messages between rival groups that are in conflict," he said.
Coronado said the killings may be linked to the abduction of 12 people who later escaped in the same area on Tuesday. A woman who was allegedly watching the captives was detained. She told investigators that the kidnappings were "a repercussion of what happened in Tamaulipas".
That was an apparent reference to the killings of 23 people whose bodies were found last Friday in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, in northern Tamaulipas state. The bodies were found hanging from a bridge or decapitated and dumped near city hall.
Messages were found in Nuevo Laredo threatening the Gulf cartel, which has joined Sinaloa to battle the Zetas, a gang of former Mexican special-forces soldiers. The killings could therefore be part of a wide-ranging, tit-for-tat battle between Sinaloa and the Zetas, in which both sides have been known to massacre dozens of people accused of supporting the rival gang.
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Malawi devalues kwacha by 33%, leading to panic-buying - 5/7/12



Shoppers in Malawi have been scrambling to buy basic goods, fearing huge price rises after the currency was devalued by 33%.
The BBC's Raphael Tenthani in Blantyre says that many shops had run out of staple foods such as sugar, cooking oil and bread by the end of Monday.
The kwacha was devalued as part of moves by the new government to restore donor funding.
The former government had rejected IMF calls to devalue the currency.
Our reporter says that other goods such as rice, maize flour and orange squash were running short in Blantyre's Chichiri shopping centre - the main retail area in Malawi's biggest city.
He has been told that the same panic-buying is also happening in Malawi's main towns.
The scramble comes despite economists saying they did not expect the devaluation to immediately lead to higher prices, as many businesses were expecting the move and were already using the new exchange rate.
The central bank announced that one dollar would now be worth 250 kwacha, up from 168, while the peg to the US currency would be scrapped.
"The devaluation of the kwacha and the liberalisation of the foreign exchange market are expected to continue the government's efforts to reach agreement with the IMF," said Reserve Bank of Malawi Governor Charles Chuka, adding that this would hopefully lead to more donor funding in the next few months.
The International Monetary Fund has long urged Malawi to cut the value of its currency, saying this would boost exports and reduce demand for imports.
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Revelation 6:
1And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
3And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
4And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
5And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

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US adds 115,000 jobs in April, fewer than expected - 5/4/12

The US economy created 115,000 jobs during April, down on the previous month and fewer than analysts had expected, official figures have shown.
Employment has been rising for the past eight months, but the jobless rate has been stuck above 8% since early 2009.
The weak report pushed US and European shares lower, with the Dow Jones index falling 168 points to 13,038.
Both the Nasdaq and the Standard & Poor's 500 had their worst week of the year, while markets in London, Paris and Frankfurt closed almost 2% lower.
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Greek socialist leader Venizelos warns of 'mass poverty' - 5/4/12



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17966333
Speaking at his own closing rally in the city of Alexandroupolis, New Democracy leader Mr Samaras said "the Left "wants to destroy everything... The Left feeds off the crisis."
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In graphics: Eurozone crisis - 5/4/12



Annual GDP growth - percentage change from previous year
This chart shows how much GDP has grown, or contracted, every year since the launch of the euro.
It shows very clearly the damage caused to the whole of the eurozone by the financial crisis.
Notice that while Portugal did not experience a huge dip in 2009, its GDP growth was relatively low for much of the previous decade, which made the big infrastructure projects it was pursuing difficult to afford.
The chart shows data for all of the countries that officially use the euro as well as the UK, which is included to allow for comparisons.
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Mexico drugs: 23 bodies found in Nuevo Laredo - 5/4/12



At least 23 people have been killed in gruesome circumstances in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, on the US border.
Nine bodies with signs of torture were found hanging from a bridge.

Hours later, 14 decapitated bodies were discovered in a vehicle, police said. Their heads were found in ice boxes dumped outside the mayor's office.
Nuevo Laredo is the scene of a feud between two of Mexico's biggest drugs gangs, who are fighting for control of smuggling routes into the US.
A message left with the hanged bodies said they were members of the Gulf drugs cartel who had been killed by the rival Zetas gang.
Police said they believed the dead were members of a criminal gang, but could not confirm who was responsible.
Pictures showed the blood-stained bodies - some of them bound and gagged - hanged by the neck from the bridge over the main road from Nuevo Laredo to Monterrey.
Mexican media reports suggest the decapitations may have been carried out in retaliation for the hangings, but the authorities have not confirmed this.
Mexico's drugs cartels have long been engaged in bloody battles for control of smuggling routes into the US.
Around 50,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since 2006, when President Felipe Calderon began deploying troops to fight the cartels.
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'Seven dead' in blasts in Russia's Dagestan region - 5/3/12



At least seven people have been reported killed in two explosions on the outskirts of Makhachkala, capital of Russia's Dagestan region.
The explosions happened late on Thursday near a police post in the city, local media reports say.
Medical and police officials said more were injured in the blasts.
Dagestan and neighbouring Russian republics have been plagued by violence in recent years between Islamist militants and Russian security forces.
The explosions happened at a checkpoint on the road to the city of Astrakhan.
"Human body fragments are scattered at the checkpoint. There are a lot of them there," a local police source told the Russian Interfax news agency.
The explosions occurred about 15 minutes apart, but the construction of the bombs and how they were set off was still under investigation, Interior Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov told the Associated Press news agency.
Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim, multi-ethnic republic which borders Chechnya, has seen some of the worst militant violence in the North Caucasus in recent years.
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Nigeria's Potiskum cattle market raid 'kills dozens' - 5/3/12



At least 34 people have been killed in an attack on a cattle market in north-eastern Nigeria, security officials have told the BBC.
Another 29 people were injured, said Nigerian military spokesman Col Dahiru Abdussalam.
The market in Potiskum, Yobe state, was set on fire by gunmen armed with explosives.
Police say the attack may be in revenge for the killing by traders of a man who had earlier tried to steal cattle.
"A group of gunmen armed with around 20 explosives and assault rifles attacked the Potiskum cattle market," police spokesman Toyin Gbadegesin told the AFP news agency.
"They threw explosives and shot indiscriminately, setting fire to the market, killing lots of livestock and wounding many people, mostly cattle dealers," he said.
A gang of men locked the gate of Potiskum's fenced cattle market, trapping many traders and livestock inside, residents told the BBC.
The market - a bustling trading hub, with cattle on sale from neighbouring Chad, Cameroon and Niger - was razed to the ground late on Wednesday and many animals were also burned to death, residents say.
Witnesses say they saw several bodies being removed from the market.
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Mark 13:
6For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
7And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

'US to continue surrounding Russia & China claiming it's for Iran' - 5/3/12



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KR283 – Keiser Report: Mafia vs OWS (ft. Geralde Celente) - 5/3/12



We discuss Treasury Secretary Secretary Timothy Geithner is like a monkey who sees no evil, hears no evil, speaks no evil while Wall Street ‘elks’ are protected by the police from protestor ‘wolves.’
In the second half of the show Max talks to trends forecaster, Gerald Celente, about economic problems and years of heated geopolitical disputes to come.
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American CEOs enjoy 15% pay rise in second year of double-digit hikes - 5/2/12



Edward Breen of Tyco, Michael Johnson of Herbalife and Sam Palmisano of IBM received pay packages of over $60m. Photograph: AP/Getty Images
America's top bosses have handed themselves double-digit pay rises for the second year in a row, according to interim figures from the most comprehensive survey of CEO pay.
The Guardian's exclusive first look at the research by GMI Ratings reveals that rising share prices helped drive a 15% pay hike for the average US CEO in 2011, with the average compensation package hitting $5.8m.
It comes on the back of a 28% pay rise the year before. The two years of double-digit growth follow two years of decline in 2008 and 2009.
The boom time for chief executives contrasts sharply with the wider economy, where average wages have been little better than flat. A compensation survey by Mercer found US employers planned average increase in base pay of 3% in 2012. Inflation is about 2.7%.
Last year, the census bureau reported that the income of the typical American family had dropped for the third year in a row. The median family income in 2010 was $49.445, 7.1% below its 1999 peak and when adjusted for inflation roughly at levels last seen in 1996.
CEOs in the top 500 companies, enjoyed, on average, total realised compensation of $12.1m
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COMMENT: Smiling faces. ... Or are they smirking, or chuckling? ... Or even LAUGHING AT YOU...?

Hiring worries weigh on stocks - 5/2/12



May 02 - U.S. stocks closed mixed after new data revealed disappointing jobs data ahead of the government's monthly employment report. Bobbi Rebell reports
according to Yelena Shulyatyeva, US Economist, BNP Paribas: "We think that winter month hiring was slightly overestimating the underlying pace of labor market improvement and that is because we had such a record warm winter so the companies really didn't need to fire that many workers and likewise they don't really need to hire that many in spring so we now see a somewhat slower pace of employment growth". Today's payroll numbers are sparking concerns about possible weakness in the monthly jobs report from the government which is due out Friday. Today, the government reported the biggest decline in new factory orders in three years in March- though they were slightly better than forecasts.
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COMMENT: Investors (the elite) say to employed and unemployed alike: "Let them eat cake."

South Africa: A ticking time bomb



New statistics show there are 2.8 million unemployed young people in South Africa.
The country’s unemployment is now above 40 percent if you count working- age people who have given up on finding work, making it the only country in the world that has
fewer employed workers than people on welfare, according to economist Mike Schüssler. Such worrying figures have fueled speculation that the country faces the possibility of greater social upheaval in the near future. “This is a crisis. We call it a ticking bomb,” Cosatu’s general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, warned in February. “We think that one day there may be an explosion.” Bible prophecy predicts
that rioting and chaos will soon erupt in South Africa and across the Anglo-Saxon world.
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Mark 13:
7And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Two bombs detonate in Idlib, north Syria: state news - 4/30/12



Syria's state news agency said two bombs had detonated on Monday in the central districts of Idlib city, near the Turkish border, and blamed what it said were terrorists.
"Terrorist bombings in Hanano Square and Carlton Street in Idlib and news of casualties," a SANA newsflash said.
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Eurozone crisis live: Spanish crisis deepens as recession confirmed - 4/30/12



Spain suffers double-dip recession as GDP falls 0.3%
The Instituto Nacional de Estadistica has announced that the Spanish economy shrank by 0.3% in the first three months of 2012. That follows a 0.3% contraction in the final three months of 2011.
That puts Spain back into recession for the first time since it returned to growth at the start of 2010. The 0.3% contraction is actually slightly better than analysts had forecast.
On an annual basis, Spain shrank by 0.4% in the last quarter.
Britain also slipped back into a double-dip recession last week.
By my reckoning, there are now eight eurozone countries in recession.
The other six are Belgium, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Greece and Slovenia -- whose economies all shrank in the third and fourth quarters of 2011.
Looking outside the eurozone, but within the EU, we can include the UK, Denmark and the Czech Republic.
Spain and the UK are among the first countries to report data for the first three months of 2012.
8.20am: The news of Spain's recession (see 8.05am) has long been expected. This graph shows how it only managed weak economic growth through 2010 and most of 2011, before beginning to contract last autumn.
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Thou must keep Sunday



Trade unions across Europe held small protests on March 4 calling for governments to force companies and shops to shut on Sunday, with Catholic preachers supporting the campaign from the pulpit.
Religious groups and trade unions, organized under the banner of the European Sunday Alliance, helped organize protests in 12 EU countries. Much of the activity took place in Italy, where a law allowing businesses to choose their own opening hours was only passed in December. The newspaper of the Italian bishops’ conference, Avvenire, hailed a new “holy alliance” between the Catholic community and trade unions.
Watch for the Catholic Church to eventually force Sunday observance in all in Europe.
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A Day to Remember



In this intriguing lecture, the creation week is presented, emphasizing the relationship between the Creator and the creation answering question such as: Who is the creator?
What significance impact does the seventh-day of creation have on our lives today? Was the seventh day a Jewish institution or did it originate in Eden? An in-depth rediscovery of the day of rest.
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Witness: Gunmen attack Nigeria university campus - 4/29/12



Gunmen attacked Christians worshipping on a Nigerian university campus on Sunday, with witnesses reporting multiple explosions and gunfire.
The gunmen began their attack around 8:30 a.m., targeting a lecture hall normally used by Christians for Sunday services, journalist Salihu Tanko reported from the scene.
"Reports say that they came in one vehicle and they also came on the bike and started shooting sporadically and at the same time threw about four or five small locally made bombs," Tanko reported.
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Sudan and South Sudan border clashes - 4/29/12



CNN's Don Lemon and Azadeh Ansari go beyond the headlines into South Sudan, where border tensions are escalating.
The president of Sudan declared a state of emergency Sunday for cities along the hotly contested border with South Sudan, where Sudanese fighter jets launched at least one attack against their neighbor's ground forces.
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Jeremiah 6:
13For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
14They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
16Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
17Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
18Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

Bomb leaves 10 Afghan police dead - 4/28/12



A roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan has killed 10 members of the country's security forces, officials say.
Wardak province officials said the dead belonged to the Afghan local police - part of a government-sponsored militia.
Elsewhere, two suspected Taliban militants were shot dead just outside the governor's office in southern Kandahar province.
The men were killed in a 30-minute gun battle in which a guard was also injured, a spokesman told AP news agency.
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Farc rebels kill eight in Colombia attacks - 4/28/12



The authorities in Colombia say left-wing Farc rebels have killed eight people including an infant in two separate attacks.
In the first the rebels killed five soldiers in an army patrol in the south-west of the country.
Later a baby and her parents died after home-made mortars were fired at a police station in Puerto Rico in Caqueta state, also in the south.
The mortars missed their target, hitting the family's house.
The government said a sergeant and four other soldiers died in the attack against the patrol.
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Mark 13:
7And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

The History of The Jesuits by James Arrabito

The History of The Jesuits by James Arrabito

Spain's unemployment rate hits record high at 24.44 percent - 4/27/12



Newly released figures show Spain’s unemployment rate hit a new record high at the end of March, reaching 24.44 percent.
With the highest rate since 1996, the data released by Spain's National Statistics Institute indicate that some 5.6 million people are now jobless, AFP reported.
This comes hours after the New York-based Standard & Poor’s ratings agency downgraded Madrid’s long-term sovereign credit rating from A to BBB+, giving it a negative outlook.
Earlier this month, Spain’s Labor Ministry had announced a rise in the country’s jobless rate for March, saying an estimated 4.75 million people were unemployed.
In the first quarter of the year, some 37,000 jobs were lost in Spain.
The eurozone’s fourth largest economy has announced spending cuts of more than 11-billion dollars as well as tax increases to reduce the country's deficit to avoid seeking a financial bailout like Greece, Ireland, and Portugal.
Battered by the global financial downturn, the Spanish economy collapsed into recession in the second half of 2008, destroying millions of jobs.
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2 Peter 2:
1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.



2 Timothy 3
1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

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Green clouds over Moscow spark disaster fears - 4/26/12



Mysterious green clouds have been spotted over the Russian capital, sparking fears of a chemical disaster and even some doomsday theories.
Russian Twitter users have been posting alarming messages like “Moscow schools are closed because of the blast! Children are sent home,” “Sky has turned completely green in Moscow’s south!” and “The factory in Kaluga is destroyed!” -more-


Luke 21:
9But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
10Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
11And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Blast rips through building in Hama, Syria - 4/25/12



An explosion ripped through a building in Syria's central city of Hama according to this video posted to a social media website.
The blast left 12 people dead and wounded dozens more according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Violence has continued in Hama despite a two week U.N.-Arab League brokered ceasefire.
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Taliban torch two NATO fuel tankers in Afghanistan - 4/25/12



The Taliban militants have attacked a convoy of tankers transferring fuel to US-led forces in Afghanistan, setting fire two of them in the country’s Herat Province, Press TV reports.
The highway linking Herat to Kandahar has recently been turned into an insecure route for convoys carrying fuel supplies destined for US-led foreign forces in Afghanistan.
Insecurity remains persistently on the rise across Afghanistan despite the presence of tens of thousands of US-led troops.
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Bomb attack injures Bahrain policemen - 4/25/12



A bomb explosion has wounded four members of Bahrain's police force - two of them seriously - during clashes with protesters, officials have said.
Police said the injured men had been protecting firefighters investigating a blaze inside a shop in the mainly Shia village of Diraz on Tuesday night.
During the operation a "terrorist" bomb was detonated nearby, they added.
One underground group has threatened to carry out attacks on security forces in Bahrain
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Luke 21:
9But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
10Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:

Pakistan bomb kills at least two in eastern city Lahore - 4/24/12



A bomb killed at least two people and injured at least 27 others when it exploded at the main railway station in the eastern city of Lahore in Pakistan's Punjab province on Tuesday
Five of the wounded are in a critical condition in hospital, a health official told Reuters. In January 2011, a teenage suicide bomber blew himself up near a religious procession of Shi'ite Muslims in Lahore, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 50. Islamist militants have carried out bombings across Pakistan in retaliation for military operations targeting insurgent groups in recent years. In February, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest outside a mosque in a Shi'ite neighborhood in Pakistan's northwestern Kurram tribal region, killing at least 26 people.
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Matthew 24:
7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Rumbling Mexican volcano keeps residents on alert - 4/23/12



Mexico's famed Popocatepetl continued to spew columns of ash and gas into the air on Monday.
Mexico's National Center for Disaster Prevention raised the alert level for Popocatepetl to yellow phase three from yellow phase two last week, indicating possible magma expulsion and explosions of increasing intensity. It is the third-highest warning on the center's seven-step scale.
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Mark 13:
8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.