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• Pakistan border attack 'counter-productive': foreign ministry

  - 2008-09-03

  ISLAMABAD AFP — Pakistan said Wednesday that an attack on its soil by international troops that killed at least 15 civilians was "counter-productive" to joint efforts at fighting terrorism. "Such actions are counter-productive and certainly do not help our joint efforts to fight terrorism," the foreign ministry said in...

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• Pentagon refuses comment on charges of cross-border raid in Pakistan

  - 2008-09-03

  WASHINGTON AFP — The Pentagon declined comment Wednesday on Pakistani charges that at least 15 people were killed in a cross border raid by Afghan-based international forces. "I don't have anything for you on those reports," said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman, refusing further comment. A spokesman for the...

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• Real lacking fire power, admits Schuster

  - 2008-09-01

  MADRID AFP — Real Madrid's German coach Bernd Schuster admitted Monday that his side had lacked strike power after losing their season opener 2-1 to Deportivo La Coruna at the weekend. "I didn't see any striker on the bench. I looked to my left and there was none, said...

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• Car bomb kills 4, wounds 12 in Colombia

  - 2008-09-01

  BOGOTA AFP — A car bomb exploded early Monday in Colombia's third largest city Cali, killing four people and wounding at least 12 in one of the deadliest urban attacks this year, authorities said. The explosion occurred five minutes after midnight (0505 GMT) near the Palace of Justice, where...

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• Yemen arrests wanted Jihad leader

  - 2008-08-30

  SANAA AFP — Yemeni authorities have arrested a leader of the Islamist Jihad movement in the south of the country after a five-year search, a security official said on Saturday. The arrest came after an exchange of fire between police and supporters of Khaled Abdel Nabi, who had taken...

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• Lebanon names new army chief

  - 2008-08-29

  BEIRUT AFP — General Jean Kahwaji was on Friday appointed chief of the Lebanese army to replace Michel Sleiman, who was elected president in May, Information Minister Tareq Mitri announced. "The Council of Ministers decided to appoint General Jean Kahwaji to the post of chief of the Lebanese army,"...

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• Chinese police kill six in Xinjiang clash: reports

  - 2008-08-29

  BEIJING AFP — Chinese police killed six people and arrested three others during a clash in the restive Muslim northwest region of Xinjiang, state media reported on Saturday. Police carried out an operation late Friday in Kashgar prefecture in the far west of Xinjiang against a group of people...

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• At least 10 dead in Pakistan suicide attack

  - 2008-08-27

  BANNU, Pakistan AFP — At least 10 people, including police officers and prison staff, died in a suicide attack Thursday in a garrison town in northwest Pakistan as they headed to work, a police official told AFP. The incident was the latest in a series of deadly attacks to...

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• Qatari teen dies after 'race' attack in Britain

  - 2008-08-26

  LONDON AFP — A gang of drunken youths brutally attacked a 16-year-old Qatari language student who later died of his injuries in what is being treated as a racist attack, British police said on Tuesday. Mohammed Al-Majed died at King's College hospital in London on Saturday a day after...

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• Afghanistan attack was 'legitimate' hit at Taliban: Pentagon

  - 2008-08-25

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US military said Monday that an attack by coalition forces in Afghanistan last week which allegedly killed dozens of civilians was a "legitimate" assault on Taliban forces. "We continue at this point to believe that this was a legitimate strike against the Taliban," said Pentagon...

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