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• Afghan Indian embassy attacked, at least seven dead

  - 2008-07-06

  KABUL AFP — A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-filled car into the gates of the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul Monday, leaving at least seven people dead, officials and a witness said. The blast destroyed about four cars outside the embassy in the heart of the city,...

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• Germany says still at odds with France over emissions

  - 2008-06-06

  BERLIN AFP — Germany and France are still at odds over EU-wide plans to reduce car emissions and will not sign an agreement at a bilateral summit next week, a German government spokesman said Friday. "There are reports in the press saying that the row has been resolved. I...

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• Bhutto party says Musharraf admission shows need for UN probe

  - 2008-01-05

  ISLAMABAD AFP — The party of murdered Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said Sunday that President Pervez Musharraf's admission she may have been killed by a gunman underscored the need for a UN probe. In an interview with the US television network CBS, Musharraf admitted for the first time...

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• DaimlerChrysler recalls Smart cars over faulty steering

  - 2007-06-22

  FRANKFURT AFP — The German-US auto giant DaimlerChrysler has recalled 1,650 of its ultra-compact Smart cars because of a steering defect, a company spokesman said on Friday. Owing to faulty assembly of one of the steering components, the cars could become unsteerable in the worst case scenario, spokesman Wolfgang...

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• EU institution tests new climate friendly cars

  - 2007-06-05

  BRUSSELS AFP — The European Commission has taken the EU's new push on climate change to heart and is testing an experimental model BMW car that runs on hydrogen, a spokesman said Tuesday. The spokesman said the EU's executive body is trying out the vehicles, provided free of charge...

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• US artillery pounds south Baghdad after Karbala carnage

  - 2007-04-28

  BAGHDAD AFP — American forces fired an artillery barrage at targets in southern Baghdad on Sunday while Iraqi rescuers scoured wreckage for the victims of another deadly car bomb that left more than 70 dead. As the sun rose over Baghdad, a series of massive detonations could be heard...

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• Five killed as UN car blown up in Afghanistan

  - 2007-04-17

  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan AFP — Four Nepalese security guards and an Afghan driver were killed Tuesday when a bomb destroyed a UN vehicle in one of the deadliest attacks on the world body in Afghanistan since 2001. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the remotely controlled blast targeting a UN convoy...

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• World Cup fans hurt after car careers through Fan Mile

  - 2006-07-02

  BERLIN AFP — Twenty people were injured, including a child, when a car careered through Berlin's Fan Mile area for football World Cup supporters, a city spokesman said. The child suffered serious injuries while 19 adults were lightly hurt, spokesman Michael Donnermeyer said. Police said they have arrested...

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• Nigerian oil city car bomb kills two

  - 2006-04-20

  LAGOS AFP — A car bomb attack on a Nigerian army barracks killed two civilians and seriously injured six more in Port Harcourt, the capital of Africa's biggest oil industry, officials said. Militants fighting to control of the Niger Delta's huge oil reserves claimed responsibility for the blast and...

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• Five killed, five injured in Kashmir violence

  - 2006-03-17

  SRINAGAR, India AFP — Indian troops have killed four Islamic militants in Kashmir while suspected rebels detonated a car bomb injuring five people and shot dead a police constable's son. A police spokesman said four members of the hardline rebel group Jaish-e-Mohammed were shot dead late Friday in southern...

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