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07/06/2008 02:47 PM
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Afghan officials: US missiles killed 27 civilians
(AP)
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 AP - Afghan officials said fighter aircraft battling militants accidentally killed up to 27 Afghans walking to a wedding ceremony in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday, the second military attack in three days with reports of civilian deaths.
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07/06/2008 02:13 PM
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Afghan president orders probe into civilian deaths
(Reuters)
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 Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered
an investigation into a U.S.-led coalition air strike that
local officials say killed 15 civilians, but the U.S. military
says killed only armed Taliban militants.
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07/06/2008 12:09 PM
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Claims of more Afghans killed in US-led strikes
(AFP)
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 AFP - An Afghan district governor accused the US-led coalition of killing nearly two dozen civilians in an air strike on a wedding party on Sunday but the force insisted only militants died.
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07/06/2008 08:04 AM
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Afghan governor says 22 civilians killed in air strike
(AFP)
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 AFP - An Afghan district governor said 22 people, most of them women and children, were killed Sunday when US-led coalition air strikes hit a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan, but the force insisted only militants were killed.
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07/05/2008 10:43 AM
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Taliban fighters free two Pakistani journalists
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Reuters - Taliban militants released
two Pakistani journalists on Saturday more than 36-hours after
they were abducted in a tribal region near the Afghan border.
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07/06/2008 01:58 PM
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Suicide bomb hits Pakistan police
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At least eight policemen are killed by a suicide bomb in Pakistan's capital, a year on from the bloody ending of a mosque siege.
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07/06/2008 01:14 PM
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Afghan strike 'hit wedding party'
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At least 20 people, said by locals to be a wedding party, die in a missile strike by coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan.
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07/06/2008 10:34 AM
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UAE waives billions of Iraqi debt
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The UAE says it is cancelling the entire debt owed to it by Iraq, a sum of almost $7bn (£3.5bn) including interest.
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07/06/2008 03:17 PM
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Top UN official killed in Somalia
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Gunmen in Mogadishu have killed the head of the UN Development Programme in Somalia, UN officials say.
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07/06/2008 12:30 PM
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Betancourt plans play on ordeal
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Ingrid Betancourt says she will write a play about spending six years as a hostage of Colombian rebels.
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07/06/2008 06:18 AM
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Bush 'concern' at N Korea issues
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US leader George Bush says there is still concern over North Korea's alleged uranium enrichment, as G8 leaders gather in Japan.
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07/06/2008 08:16 AM
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Malaysia hunts for sex claim man
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Malaysian police hunt for a missing man who claimed the deputy prime minister had sex with a murdered model.
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07/06/2008 08:29 AM
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Mugabe crisis 'infecting' Africa
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David Miliband says the situation in Zimbabwe is now a "crisis infecting the whole of southern Africa".
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07/06/2008 09:46 AM
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De Niro speaks out against strike
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Film star Robert De Niro warns Hollywood actors against taking industrial action as their wrangle with producers continues.
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07/06/2008 03:50 AM
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French set to shell out more for snails
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The price of that French delicacy the snail is set to soar because of foreign suppliers' rising wages.
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07/05/2008 07:12 PM
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Woman in India gives birth to twins 'at 70'
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A woman said to be aged 70 years of age gives birth to twins after undergoing IVF treatment.
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07/06/2008 06:03 AM
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Live - Federer v Nadal
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Rain halts play in the fifth set of a classic Wimbledon final after Roger Federer comes from two sets down against Rafael Nadal.
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07/06/2008 09:45 AM
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Hamilton surges to British GP win
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Briton Lewis Hamilton brilliantly handles the wet conditions at Silverstone to win his first British Grand Prix.
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07/05/2008 09:14 AM
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Flip-flop guide
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How Barack Obama and John McCain have changed tack
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07/05/2008 07:38 AM
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Kidnap ordeal
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Colombia's pain over those still held hostage
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