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A shadowy Islamist insurgency that has haunted northern Nigeria appears to be branching out and collaborating with Al Qaeda’s affiliates.
A lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission said that thousands of documents involving inquiries into Bernard L. Madoff and other matters were destroyed.
Parents caught with marijuana, even amounts too small to lead to criminal charges, are finding themselves scrutinized by child welfare officials.
Government spending cuts will be working their way through health services, but some believe this is no more than a lull in a sector that has been a jobs engine.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Standard & Poor’s rated mortgage securities improperly leading up to the financial crisis.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 17, 2011, covering August 18, 2011.
Adele
Eric Church
Trace Adkins
Mat Kearney
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2011A terrorist attack on Israel's Highway 12 near the Egyptian border kills 16 and injures 40.[†]
On August 18, 2011, a series of cross-border attacks with parallel attacks and mutual cover was carried out in southern Israel on Highway 12 near the Egyptian border by a squad of presumably twelve militants in four groups. The attacks occurred after Israel's interior security service Shin Bet had warned of an attack by militants in the region and Israeli troops had been stationed in the area. The militants first opened fire at an Egged No. 392 bus as it was traveling on Highway 12 in the Negev near Eilat. Several minutes later, a bomb was detonated next to an Israeli army patrol along Israel's border with Egypt. In a third attack, an anti-tank missile hit a private vehicle, killing four civilians. Eight Israelis – six civilians, one Yamam special unit police sniper and one Golani Brigade soldier—were killed in the multiple-stage attack. The Israel Defense Forces reported eight attackers killed, and Egyptian security forces reported killing another two.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]