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| Afghan base is "world's busiest trauma hospital" | | Reuters South Africa - 6 Hours ago | | CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan (Reuters) - From the outside it's a prefabricated building in the midst of the desert, an unremarkable one storey white block. Inside it may be the busiest trauma hospital in | | | | Add Comment |
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| Afghan joy as medallist returns | | BBC - 10 Hours ago | | Nikpai - proud that his dream has come trueThousands of jubilant Afghans packed Kabul's national stadium to welcome home Rohullah Nikpai, the nation's first ever Olympic medallist.Nikpai, 21, who won | | | | Add Comment |
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| Local Briefing | | Washington Post - 14 Hours ago | | Satellite Firm Signs Deal With Google Maps GeoEye, the Dulles-based satellite imaging company counting down to a Sept. 4 launch of its newest satellite, said it has signed an exclusive contract to provide | | | | Add Comment |
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| Border combat with Taliban flares | | CNN - 15 Hours ago | | Pakistani troops drove off a Taliban attack on a fort and pounded another band of militants holed up in a health center, killing as many as 49 insurgents as fighting spread to a third area of the tribal | | | | Add Comment |
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| The tragic murder of a devoted young man | | Asahi.com - 19 Hours ago | | In an Afghan folk tale, a giant snake once lived for a thousand years. It transformed into a beautiful young maiden and married the lord of Kabul. In the old days, this parched region, situated at an | | | | Add Comment |
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| EDITORIAL: Ito's senseless slaying | | Asahi.com - 19 Hours ago | | Japanese aid worker Kazuya Ito, kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday by armed insurgents, was apparently killed by his captors during a gunbattle with police trying to rescue him. His body was | | | | Add Comment |
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| Aid groups pull out of Afghanistan | | Asahi.com - 19 Hours ago | | THE ASAHI SHIMBUN Print Share Article Japanese support organizations are suspending their activities in Afghanistan and evacuating members following the shooting death of an abducted aid worker there | | | | Add Comment |
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| Lost war in Afghanistan | | Arab News - 21 Hours ago | | YOU dont have to be born in the West or be a Westerner to hate the Taleban. Most of us in the Middle East and the larger Muslim world have grown sick and tired of their extremist, truly bizarre ways and | | | | Add Comment |
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| French Army: 'No Mistakes' in Ambush | | DefenseNews.com - 87 Minutes ago | | PARIS - 'No mistakes were made,' French Army Gen. Benoit Puga, head of operations at the chief of staff's office, told journalists here Aug. 28, referring to the Aug. 18 ambush in the Afghan valley of | | | | Add Comment |
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