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BBC News
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A suicide bomber has attacked a Nato military convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing three Nato soldiers, two of them Danish.
Police say a number of Afghan civilians were injured when the bomb went off near the convoy in Helmand province.
Earlier r..
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MSNBC
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A suicide bomber on Monday blew himself up in the southern town that houses Israel's secretive nuclear reactor, killing at least three other people and wounding five, Israeli rescue officials said.
Police said there were two attackers, though only one..
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SF Gate
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Three powerful car bombs exploded one after the other in a southern provincial capital Wednesday, killing at least 46 people and injuring 149 others, the most devastating attack in the nation since August, police said.
The attack in Amara, in Maysan pr..
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MSNBC
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Three car bombs exploded in quick succession in a southern Iraqi city on Wednesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding 100 in a Shiite region that has largely escaped the country’s sectarian bloodshed, authorities said.
Police in Amarah imposed..
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CNN
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At least 22 people are dead, and the tally is likely to rise, after three car bombs and a roadside bomb ripped through the southern Iraqi city of Amara on Wednesday, according to Iraqi Interior Ministry and state TV reports. Many of the dead and wounded a..
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CNN
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Two NATO soldiers were killed while on patrol in restive southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, while more than 20 suspected insurgents were reported to have died in coalition airstrikes and ground battles, authorities said. The fighting on Tuesday and Wednes..
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BBC News
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A powerful roadside bomb has killed the governor and police chief of the southern Iraqi province of Diwaniya.
The governor was a key figure in the Badr Organisation, the military wing of the largest Shia Muslim party, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council..
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FOX News
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A bomb hit a U.N. peacekeeping force patrol on a coastal road in southern Lebanon on Monday, a Lebanese security official said, the second such attack targeting the force in less than a month.
The bomb struck the convoy as it was driving through the vi..
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BBC News
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A US helicopter has come down in southern Iraq after apparently coming under heavy fire from insurgents, according to reports by witnesses.
They said the helicopter came under attack near Latifiya, 40km (25 miles) south of the capital, Baghdad.
Ther..
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FOX News
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Britain said Friday it would send additional troops to southern Afghanistan in response to NATO's call to bolster forces in the region. Defense Minister Des Browne confirmed the deployment in a statement late Friday — two days after Prime Minister To..
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BBC News
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Fifty-four Burmese migrants have been found dead after suffocating in a lorry smuggling them into southern Thailand.
More than 100 people were packed into a container measuring 6m by 2m. Many of the survivors are seriously ill from dehydration and lack..
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SF Gate
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In a brazen escalation of hostilities near Turkey's southern border, Kurdish rebels ambushed a Turkish army patrol Sunday, killing at least 12 soldiers and raising the specter of a major cross-border retaliation by Turkey.
Turkey was quick to issue tha..
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CNN
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A British soldier was killed and two others were wounded in a blast in southern Afghanistan, the British Defence Ministry said on Friday.
Troops were returning to their Kandahar Air Base after an operation Thursday "when a vehicle they were traveling i..
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USA Today
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday that Britain would pull 1,000 more troops out of southern Iraq by the end of the year.
"Hopefully they will be home by Christmas," Brown told reporters in Baghdad during his first trip to Iraq since becoming pri..
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USA Today
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Two NATO soldiers were killed while on patrol in restive southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, while more than 20 suspected insurgents were reported to have died in coalition airstrikes and ground battles, authorities said.
The fighting on Tuesday and Wed..
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FOX News
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Gunmen kidnapped an oil-industry worker as he traveled to work Friday in Nigeria's southern oil region, police said.
The man, an American, was snatched from his car shortly after dawn in the oil city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State Police Commissioner F..
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BBC News
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Islamic militants in the southern Philippines have killed 14 marines, beheading 10 of them, a military spokesman has said.
Nine other marines were wounded and at least four rebels were killed during the incident on Basilan island.
The clash took pla..
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CNN
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Five U.S. soldiers were killed and seven others wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their combat patrol in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military said Friday.
The patrol also was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire after Thu..
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BBC News
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Some 25 civilians have died during aerial bombing by foreign forces in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, local residents and senior police say.
The Nato-led force (Isaf) said a small number of civilians may have been killed, possibly by insurgen..
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Al Jazeera
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The casualty figure was preliminary, he added, because troops were still "mopping up" the area, located deep in the swamps of Bayelsa state in southern Nigeria.
A spokesman for Eni subsidiary Agip, which operates the oilfield station, was not immedi..
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