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Radical internet traffic cop NewsGuard has shown once again why its bona fides as a supposedly unbiased journalism referee are hot garbage in light of how it treats leftist outlets that peddled Hamas agitprop to attack Israel. The New York Times, TIME magazine, Politico and Reuters are just four of a number of leftist news outlets that haphazardly gobbled up the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry’s claim that an “Israeli” airstrike blew up a Gaza-based hospital, allegedly killing 500 people on Oct. 17. A U.S. intelligence assessment later concluded that Israel was not responsible for the bombing. Both the U.S. House...

A HUGE car bombing at a hospital killed 60 and wounded 120 in Afghanistan today, days after US President Barack Obama said 10,000 US forces would leave the country this year. The brazen suicide attack in Logar province, just south of the capital Kabul, killed women and children and was described as "unprecedented" in the history of the near-decade-long Afghan war by officials. "As a result of this heartbreaking incident, 60 of our countrymen including children, women, youths and men ... have been martyred and 120 others including health workers have been injured," the ministry of public health said in...

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia - Rescuers on Saturday picked through the rubble of a military hospital destroyed by a suicide attack the day before, while the death toll rose to 42 and Russian officials said they suspected Chechen rebels were behind the explosion. An unidentified attacker rammed a truck packed with explosives through the gates of the four-story red brick hospital Friday night in the city of Mozdok in the North Ossetia region, the region's Emergency Situations Minister Boris Dzgoyev said. He said 98 patients and 21 employees were inside the building at the time of the explosion. About 700 rescue workers...

<p>WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- President Bush Friday condemned the explosion at a military hospital in Russia, calling it a terrorist attack that cannot be justified.</p> <p>The explosion occurred in a truck on the grounds of a military hospital in the town of Mozdok in Southern Russia, killing at least 20 people. Mozdok is in the republic of North Ossetia, about six miles (10 kilometers) from Chechnya.</p>

Truck Bomb at Russian Military Hospital Kills 35 Fri August 1, 2003 07:33 PM ET By Yana Voitova VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (Reuters) - Rescuers combed the wreckage of a Russian military hospital near separatist Chechnya on Saturday after at least 35 people were killed in a blast triggered by what witnesses said was an explosives-packed truck. "Judging by the scale of the destruction and the number of people in the hospital -- 150 people, including 100 patients and 50 staff -- the number of victims is likely to rise," Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky told Interfax news agency. He said 35...