Iraqi authorities close a major Shia shrine in Baghdad to women amid security concerns as the rite of Ashura reaches its climax.
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Police killed in Pakistan blast
On January - 4 - 2009
Five police and two civilians are killed in a suspected suicide attack in north-west Pakistan, police say.
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