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United States military and the Afghan police officials announced that an American military convoy was attacked in a crowded market on Thursday. The attack came a day after the suicide bombing in Afghanistan and killed one soldier and 18 civilians. A Toyota Corolla approached the military convoy and blew off at around 8 a.m., Among the murdered civilians there... |
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German troops in Afghanistan opened fire on a vehicle which failed to stop at a checkpoint, wounding five of the occupants, the defence ministry said Monday.
A spokesman said the incident occurred on Friday evening on a main road near the northern city of Kunduz.
The troops, serving with the NATO-led International Security...
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The head of Lebanon's anti-Syrian ruling majority, Saad Hariri, has met for the first time in two years with pro-Syrian Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, it was confirmed Monday.
The meeting, which took place Sunday night, was described by close sources to both leaders as "fruitful and essential to preserve national...
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem Monday accused the US of "criminal and terrorist aggression" by launching a raid on civilians in which seven people, including three children, were killed.
Speaking at a news conference during a visit to London, al-Muallem urged the US government and the government of Iraq to...
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An Iraqi soldier was killed Monday when a bomb went off inside his car in the northern Kurdish province of Salahaddin, while four civilians were killed and 17, including a policeman, were wounded in a series of separate blasts across Baghdad, police sources said.
A bomb exploded inside the car of a soldier who was on his way to...
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The international financial crisis is unlikely to lead to a significant fall-off in foreign aid and investment in Mozambique because it is well-governed, a senior US diplomat told a press conference in the capital Maputo Monday.
Todd Chapman, business affairs officer at the US Embassy in Maputo said Mozambique stood to receive...
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Zimbabwean riot police broke up two demonstrations by hundreds of women and students Monday outside a hotel in Harare where talks were under way to salvage a crucial power-sharing deal.
The police used force to disperse at least 300 women activists, who were calling for President Robert Mugabe and prime minister-designate Morgan...
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Taiwan and China agreed Monday to hold a second round of high-level talks in Taipei next week, despite threats by pro-independence activists to disrupt the meeting.
"The Chinese mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) chairman Chen Yunlin will lead a delegation to Taiwan from November 3 to 7, the...
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Israeli President Shimon Peres gave the green light Monday for the country to hold new elections, telling parliament that consultations he has held led him to conclude that no legislator has enough backing to form a new coalition.
Peres held the consultations with political factions after Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni informed him...
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It is an open guess whether the truth will come to light beyond a shadow of doubt as to whom the US soldiers killed in their raid on a remote village in Dayr As Zawr.
Were they really only construction workers and children, as official Syrian media say, or were they possibly self-appointed Islamic "holy warriors" on their...
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Asian and European leaders plan to call for new goals to fight climate change up to 2012 to be agreed by the end of next year, according to a draft summit statement seen Friday.
"Leaders welcomed the substantial progress made at the climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007," said the draft...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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