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Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Coalition forces in Iraq have detained two Al-Jazeera employees on allegations they had prior knowledge of a car bombing in Baghdad, the editor of the Arab satellite station said Tuesday. Al-Jazeera editor Ibrahim Hilal told The Associated Press that U.S. soldiers had detained Iraqi cameraman Samer Hamza and a driver while they were covering an explosion at a police station in western Baghdad that was the site of one of several car bombings Monday that killed some three dozen people and injured more than 200. Cairo - Five surviving Egyptian sextuplets were doing well and already at home Tuesday, a day after their birth. "They look cute, but I can't distinguish them from each other," said their 30-year-old mother, Manal Salah Abdel Hakim. Two of the three boys and the two girls were identical. A baby girl died shortly after birth Monday. "This is our gift from God," their father, Abdel-Baqi Al-Sayed Abdel-Meguid, told The Associated Press. "God will provide them with their needs." Seoul - North Korea is softening its stand on the dispute over its nuclear weapons development, and momentum for another round of multilateral talks on the issue is picking up, a top South Korean official said Tuesday. Any agreement on the nuclear standoff is likely to take many rounds of tough negotiations.
