Hi, there, good to you Thursday afternoon, I’m Veronica De La Cruz, at the CNN center in Atlanta, let’s take a look at on what’s happening Now In The News.

/ said there has been a 41% drop in the sectarian killing through the past week. The improvement is hard / in Baghdad though. Gunmen shot the college professor and his family and five people were killed in the bombing in the S. city neighborhood. A US air strike killed a man described a terrorist leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. The US also / donkeys carrying 53 anti-/ mines near the Iranian border.

An account in the US Army General says Iraqi soldiers cut and run in dangerous situations. / and go on / wrong pages after the colleagues were killed. He also raising 30,000 additional Iraqi troops were under go training. The US military says the first 10,000 could be in the field by the end of the month.

Two days after the US troops conducted exercises in the / Gulf, Iran is staging its own games. The state controlled TV shows the / of dozens of rockets blasting in the sky. Iranian TV says the country also plans to testify the rockets with cluster bombs that could potentially reach Israel. The / should last ten days. The UN Security Council is considering sanctions against Iran for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.

Two more 9/11 victims have been identified. One of them is /, a flight tender on the American Airline Flight 11 which slammed into the World Trade Center’s north tower. And / was a passenger on that flight. The family of 9/11 victims are holding / ground zero today. They want the federal government to get the involvement in the search for victims remain in the site. New York plans to hire more / experts to help continue that search.

Some of the country were sex fenders. Violence fenders and gay members are now off the streets. The Justice Department says almost 11,000 fugitives were around up to 24 states last week, among them were 1600 sex fenders. The largest number ever captured in a single long / /. In one case, authorities say they tracked down a men in / who convicted in 1996 of a sexual assaulting an 8-year-old child.

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