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Eight civilians
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AFGHANISTAN: Coalition troops
killed eight civilians when they opened fire on a crowd after a
suicide car bomb struck a military vehicle in eastern Afghanistan
Sunday, provincial police said.
Elsewhere, the
NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) reported
that two of its soldiers were killed Saturday in combat in the south
of the country, which sees the most violence linked to a Taliban
insurgency.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Iraqi newspaper
editor killed in Baghdad
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BAGHDAD:
Gunmen shot dead Mohan al-Dhahr, editor of the Al-Mashriq newspaper,
in front of his west Baghdad home on Sunday, the secretary general
of the Iraqi Journalists Union said on Sunday.
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Timorese rebel
escapes during raid
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EAST TIMOR:
East Timorese rebel Alfredo Reinado escaped when Australian troops
stormed his stronghold, killing four of his armed men, a defense
official said Sunday.
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US economy
suddenly appears vulnerable
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WASHINGTON:
The US economic expansion suddenly seems more fragile than thought
just weeks earlier, after a sharp downward revision to the past
quarter’s growth and renewed fears about the slump in real estate.
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INBRIEF
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BEIJING:
Millions of Chinese are unable to get enough drinking water because
of a series of droughts caused by “abnormally high”
temperatures, state media said on Sunday.
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