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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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Turkish war planes backed by artillery on Thursday night conducted attacks on a large group of Kurdish separatists inside northern Iraq, the Turkish military announced on Friday.
A Turkish General Staff spokesman said the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) group were attempting to cross into Turkey where they planned to carry out attacks on...
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Less than six hours after a helicopter drops a combined US and Afghan army patrol by the mountain border with Pakistan, Islamic insurgents surround and pound the unit into disarray.
The surprise attack from forested slopes around the troops' positions lasts 20 minutes, during which they are pinned down and barely able to hit back,...
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Thailand's Office of the Attorney General on Friday requested the Constitution Court accept a case seeking to dissolve the People Power Party (PPP), the lead party in the coalition government.
The case, if accepted, was expected to lead to the disbandment of the PPP because the same court already convicted former PPP deputy leader...
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Malaysian shares dropped 3.6 per cent Friday on panic selling after dips in global markets.
The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index closed at 934.01, down 34.88 points.
Losses were seen in all sectors of the economy but were particularly strong in the financial and construction industries.
Stock analysts attributed the drop to...
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NATO defence ministers reached a compromise Friday over controversial plans to help Afghanistan fight its thriving drugs industry, whose profits the Taliban rely on to fund their insurgency.
"Yes, there is an agreement," a NATO diplomat told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa during talks in Budapest.
Ministers overcame...
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Timo Glock of Germany led the way for home team Toyota in Friday's free practice for the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix.
Glock clocked 1 minute 18.383 seconds in the day's second session on the 4.563-kilometres course at the foot of Mount Fuji.
The Singapore GP winner Fernando Alonso came second in a Renault in 1:18.424, followed...
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An election run off is to take place in the Maldives, following the failure of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom to win a decisive victory in the country's first multi-party presidential election on Wednesday, officials have said.
President Gayoom, who has ruled the Maldives for the past 30 years, gained around 40 per cent of the vote,...
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Three armed terrorism suspects were shot dead Thursday by Syrian forces in a Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus, witnesses told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
One member of Syria's security forces was injured in the attack, which took place in the Yarmouk refugee camp, south of Damascus.
Terrorists recently struck at a road...
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A brawl between Arab and Jewish youths on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur in the town of Akko has led to some of the most intense inter-ethnic rioting in years, Israeli media reported.
According to the Ha'aretz daily in its Thursday edition, an Arab youth was harassed by a group of Israelis who claimed that the Arab youth was making...
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A high-ranking member of an Iraqi tribal police group died Thursday, along with his wife and two daughters, when their mini-bus was bombed, police sources told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa.
The victim was a commander of one of the tribal police groups known as "Awakening Councils." These US-backed Sunni units were formed to...
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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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