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April 29th, 2009

World Links: Coordinated Attacks in Sadr City, Trial for Murder of Jewish Man in Paris

A series of coordinated car bombs kill at least 16 people in the Sadr City section of Baghdad.

North Korea threatens to test nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistics missiles unless the United Nations lifts sanctions.

Fifty militants are killed as the Pakistani army takes control of Daggar, a key town in Buner district, just 60 miles from the capital, Islamabad.

Members of a French gang known as the “Barbarians” go on trial for the murder of a Jewish man from a Paris suburb that sparked a debate about anti-semitism after French police initially refused to call the murder a hate crime.

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