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The company’s deepening troubles threaten to further destabilize a nation facing a dire recession and unbridled crime, as well as food and medicine shortages.
At least one suicide bomber made it inside a Shiite cultural center, detonating in the middle of a student discussion. A news agency was also hit.
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